How to turn junk traffic into CASH!
404 and other "error" traffic can be a headache. Let us worry about it.
This is a long standing question that MANY adult webmasters have asked themselves and even asked other webmasters. "What can I do with my 404 traffic?"
First let's start with where this traffic comes from:
1. A gallery on your domain. For example you submit www.bobsgalleriesz.com/Lisa/lisa.html . Surfers are getting smarter these days, and many surfers will go into the address bar and change the URL to: www.bobsgalleriesz.com/lisa/lisa2.html hoping to get new images. They will even do this with the .jpg or .gif.
2. Old links. These can be listed on search engines still, they can be linked on your site without you knowing it- or can be from other sites out on the net linking to a page that does not exist on your domains.
There's a lot of other places error traffic can come from, but the bulk of it will be from these methods.
You'd be amazed at how much 404 traffic your site actually gets. I thought I may get 50 uniques a day to 404. Turns out I was getting more like 2,000. This is just from galleries I may have removed, links that were old and removed but still semi cached on a users machine and more.
404 traffic is some of the hardest to convert. You can ask anyone. Unless you're a resident expert and have been doing it for years, you're not going to have much luck getting those users to click.
I tried a lot of methods of converting this traffic. I sent it to a hub, I sent it to a "general niche" tgp- and anything else I could think of. All this traffic did was eat at my bandwidth bill because the users either clicked around and started the cycle all over again, or they just LEFT my site and I lost a surfer. The problem also was it just was not enough traffic to really concern myself with on a daily basis. But if someone told me they could take that traffic and start converting it the same day I would be all over it!
The problem with sending 404 to other TGP, MGP, Link Lists etc is that once they find a gallery they like they will pull the same stunts and try to get the freebies. However if you use a 404 trap, you're going to force them into a decision. Chances are they will signup for SOMETHING.
Now don't forget, there are other types of traffic like this.
How about 403, 401 or 400 error documents? If someone goes to www.bobsgalleriesz.com/lisa/ and there is no index file, what happens? Most of the time a host is setup by default to show a "403 Forbidden" document that tells them they can not view the directory listing. That again is a WASTE! Why not send them to a 404 trap and get something for your time?
So really we have come down to ONE simple question: How can I make 404 type traffic turn into sales?
Answer: Use a 404 trap!
What is a 404 trap you ask? Simple. It is a landing page you can send 404, or any other type of "error document" traffic to. It is designed to grab the surfer and their attention, and have them signup to some sort of a program.
If you know you are not currently sending traffic to a 404 trap, or you are unsure - edit your .htaccess file and add the following: (or create a file called ".htaccess" and upload it to your main site directory)
ErrorDocument 400 http://www.epicgals.com/epic404/?YOUREPICID
ErrorDocument 401 http://www.epicgals.com/epic404/?YOUREPICID
ErrorDocument 403 http://www.epicgals.com/epic404/?YOUREPICID
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.epicgals.com/epic404/?YOUREPICID
ErrorDocument 500 http://www.epicgals.com/epic404/?YOUREPICID
You will very soon find out what kind of traffic you were getting- and start seeing some money out of what you were THROWING AWAY before now.
Give it a try and see what you have been missing out on. Even if you currently have a 404 strategy, it never hurts to try something new. Change your links for a couple of days and see if Epic Cash can increase your sales.
Now you're probably wondering if there are any other uses for this dandy convert-o-matic page here. And the answer is YES there is. Launch the page as an exit popup. When a surfer leaves your site, launch this window. If they haven't bought anything from you- why not give it one last shot? It doesn't hurt and you could find yourself with an extra sale or 2 a day. Are you opposed to an extra $1,000 a month? Didn't think so!
Here's another idea:
- Put a link up offering access to porn for only $1
All of the sites advertised are $1 to join sites. So why not push that to surfers? $1 discount porn is a HUGE seller.
Note: Don't forget to mention that they will get a FREE DVD every month that they are a member.
Bottom Line: Stop throwing away your traffic. Send it to the Epic Cash 404 Trap and convert it!
wether you use Epic Cash or not, this will work with any program that is willing to setup and give you credit on your 404 traffic
404 and other "error" traffic can be a headache. Let us worry about it.
This is a long standing question that MANY adult webmasters have asked themselves and even asked other webmasters. "What can I do with my 404 traffic?"
First let's start with where this traffic comes from:
1. A gallery on your domain. For example you submit www.bobsgalleriesz.com/Lisa/lisa.html . Surfers are getting smarter these days, and many surfers will go into the address bar and change the URL to: www.bobsgalleriesz.com/lisa/lisa2.html hoping to get new images. They will even do this with the .jpg or .gif.
2. Old links. These can be listed on search engines still, they can be linked on your site without you knowing it- or can be from other sites out on the net linking to a page that does not exist on your domains.
There's a lot of other places error traffic can come from, but the bulk of it will be from these methods.
You'd be amazed at how much 404 traffic your site actually gets. I thought I may get 50 uniques a day to 404. Turns out I was getting more like 2,000. This is just from galleries I may have removed, links that were old and removed but still semi cached on a users machine and more.
404 traffic is some of the hardest to convert. You can ask anyone. Unless you're a resident expert and have been doing it for years, you're not going to have much luck getting those users to click.
I tried a lot of methods of converting this traffic. I sent it to a hub, I sent it to a "general niche" tgp- and anything else I could think of. All this traffic did was eat at my bandwidth bill because the users either clicked around and started the cycle all over again, or they just LEFT my site and I lost a surfer. The problem also was it just was not enough traffic to really concern myself with on a daily basis. But if someone told me they could take that traffic and start converting it the same day I would be all over it!
The problem with sending 404 to other TGP, MGP, Link Lists etc is that once they find a gallery they like they will pull the same stunts and try to get the freebies. However if you use a 404 trap, you're going to force them into a decision. Chances are they will signup for SOMETHING.
Now don't forget, there are other types of traffic like this.
How about 403, 401 or 400 error documents? If someone goes to www.bobsgalleriesz.com/lisa/ and there is no index file, what happens? Most of the time a host is setup by default to show a "403 Forbidden" document that tells them they can not view the directory listing. That again is a WASTE! Why not send them to a 404 trap and get something for your time?
So really we have come down to ONE simple question: How can I make 404 type traffic turn into sales?
Answer: Use a 404 trap!
What is a 404 trap you ask? Simple. It is a landing page you can send 404, or any other type of "error document" traffic to. It is designed to grab the surfer and their attention, and have them signup to some sort of a program.
If you know you are not currently sending traffic to a 404 trap, or you are unsure - edit your .htaccess file and add the following: (or create a file called ".htaccess" and upload it to your main site directory)
ErrorDocument 400 http://www.epicgals.com/epic404/?YOUREPICID
ErrorDocument 401 http://www.epicgals.com/epic404/?YOUREPICID
ErrorDocument 403 http://www.epicgals.com/epic404/?YOUREPICID
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.epicgals.com/epic404/?YOUREPICID
ErrorDocument 500 http://www.epicgals.com/epic404/?YOUREPICID
You will very soon find out what kind of traffic you were getting- and start seeing some money out of what you were THROWING AWAY before now.
Give it a try and see what you have been missing out on. Even if you currently have a 404 strategy, it never hurts to try something new. Change your links for a couple of days and see if Epic Cash can increase your sales.
Now you're probably wondering if there are any other uses for this dandy convert-o-matic page here. And the answer is YES there is. Launch the page as an exit popup. When a surfer leaves your site, launch this window. If they haven't bought anything from you- why not give it one last shot? It doesn't hurt and you could find yourself with an extra sale or 2 a day. Are you opposed to an extra $1,000 a month? Didn't think so!
Here's another idea:
- Put a link up offering access to porn for only $1
All of the sites advertised are $1 to join sites. So why not push that to surfers? $1 discount porn is a HUGE seller.
Note: Don't forget to mention that they will get a FREE DVD every month that they are a member.
Bottom Line: Stop throwing away your traffic. Send it to the Epic Cash 404 Trap and convert it!
wether you use Epic Cash or not, this will work with any program that is willing to setup and give you credit on your 404 traffic
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