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Originally Posted by robwod
Why are you using free image hosts instead of a real host?
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The site started as a sister site of another one, which it shared the database with. All the images one that site were on free image hosts, so the easiest option was to do the same for Babepedia.
It always looked like a better option to me: a lot less bandwidth, less work, free traffic from the image hosts that are linking back, ...
The trade off is less control. In the beginning, the free hosts only had some banners. Now most of them have intermission ads/popunders as well. Since that change, I've thought about hosting the galleries myself, but never went through with it because of lack of time.
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The free hosts wrap tons of ads for everyone else around the pics and not a single link for the sponsor. By doing it this way, aren't you violating most affiliate program's rules by using the content to promote other sites and services?
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I'm not sure. I did get one complaint, but that was handled ok. I try to put up links and banners on every of the profiles and the gallery pages.
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There's not a single link to the sponsor on the big pics on any of those free hosted image sites you use. Are the free sites paying you to upload someone else's content so they put ads on them?
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Indeed, there are no links on the image hosts. They're not paying me, no.
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That makes me wonder. Wouldn't the buyer who wanted to run the site legitimately have to first strip off all those free image galleries and then host it themselves?
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I don't see why he/she would have to do that. New galleries can be hosted by the buyer.
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I'm curious, do you ever receive DMCAs or C&aD notices from people noticing the use of their content to promote someone elses ads (the free image hosts ads)?
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As I said above, I did get one complaint.
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I asked her if she made this comment and she verified she did.
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True, there are no links in that specific gallery. But her profile page has 3 links to her website.
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Given the above, I think if you found someone to give you $6,000 who is willing to do all the extra work and buy a script that is not yet finished (you said so in an earlier posts), then I say take the money and run.
So my question is this... what exactly are you selling?
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I never said the site wasn't finished. I only said the administrative backend is lacking because I always used PhpMyAdmin. Since that first post, I've improved the administrative backend and now you can do most things from it.
I'm selling:
- the domain
- full rights to the script
- database of posts, comments, links and over 8000 registered users (with email!)