Edge up with your MGP

[chemicaleyes]

Gone are the days of making easy money with online porn. Surfers nowadays cannot be content with your usual kind of porn - they need more, and they want quality. Pictures don?t make them click as much anymore. Videos do attract them, but you still have to sell them. Nothing gets bought that easily anymore.

With the advent of broadband internet connections, people are rapidly discovering the joys of online erotic movies. Now, they can download full DVD?s within a few minutes, so why would they settle with just pictures? MGP (Movie Gallery Post) has been a big trend in online erotica for some time now. They tend to sell better than picture galleries, and people get more excited about them. MGP?s are pages with small thumbnails that you can click on which link to video clips. You can enjoy minutes of porn viewing with short download time.

In the MGP business, you can either be the MGP owner, or the MGP Submitter or both. I have listed down a few pointers to help you keep track of and grow your business.

MGP Owner

Tip 1: Build a relationship with your surfers. Know what kind of content they prefer and their clicks will surely turn into dollars. This will make sure that they will come back again and again. Regularly update your content and make sure that your pages will be appreciated by your surfers. Think of yourself as the surfer ? what would you want to see on a site?

Tip 2: Make your traffic grow.

Search Engines:
Stay visible in Search Engines. Have a lot of exposure by making a lot of pages with text triggered Search Engine keywords. You will have more chances of getting a purchase since you will be having more clicks from the surfers.

Blog Marketing:
Use blog marketing and syndication to get as much exposure as you can. Be careful, though. Make sure you use secondary/tertiary lead pages. Getting exposed is the key in having permanent incoming traffic.

Trading Traffic with other MGP?s:
Get new traffic through traffic trades, but be careful, a lot of surfers get turned off by that method. Instead, you can aim for them to bookmark your site. You have to make an impression to earn that, so they will most likely to come back to you at another time. This surfer now becomes valuable to you.

Tip 3: Give value to your surfers. Don?t just give them any kind of videos that you can just pick up anywhere. Show them that in your site, they have variation, quality and quantity in one.

Tip 4: Have an identity and build a good brand identity. Make a logo and build your character in that, this is something that is going to be unique to your site. Show your traffic that you?re not just one of those sites that just give out plain porn videos. You have to be unique so that your surfers will come back for what you only have. You have to know what kind of porn they like to be able to give that to them. Naked young women won?t cut it. Know their specific needs.

Tip 5: Use FHGs responsibly
Thanks to Free Hosted Galleries (FHGs) MGP owners do not have to rely on Submitters as much as before. Using FHGs is an advantage as you can cut costs because you go direct to the sponsor and skip the middle men. But of course, using FHG also has its downside.

The upside of FHGs

You get to cut down your cost by going directly to the sponsors who pay for the content and the hosting. You also minimize the trouble of dealing with legal matters, the provenance of content ownership and 2257 regulation is highly observed. This also saves you more time because you are able obtain large files faster and work on more content at a given time.

The downside of FHGs

Simply put, FHG has reached or is nearly reaching its saturation point. The same content is being used over and over again, by everybody else. You aim to be exclusive, but being exclusive here is nearly impossible. You also have no control of the kind of material that they have, and the content may be inconsistent. You are now dependent on how good they are in making video galleries for you, and this will greatly affect the amount of your sales. MGP owners may also grow lazy because they can just order whatever they need form an outsourcing company like webmasterlabor.com and sit back. Somehow, the effort in improving the site and content dies.

You risk losing a personal relationship with your surfers when you depend on FHG too much. You have to remember to take care of your surfers to gain their loyalty, because keeping them with you is a great advantage to your business. You?re taking the risk of losing a beneficial relationship with them.

MGP Submitter

Tip 1: Know who your traffic is. Don?t load them up with content that they are not interested in. It?s a waste of time, money and effort. You have to discriminate and know their tastes in porn. A good way of gauging this is studying your server log?s click out rates. Notice a pattern re the type of galleries that are being clicked the most?

Tip 2: Once you have identified the types of galleries that get clicked the most, study the common traits they share. Does your traffic focus on a certain content niche? How about a particular text wording? How about layout? The smart MGP webmaster will keep playing with these elements until you arrive at the right ?formula? for your traffic.

Tip 3: Don?t give away too much. There?s an old saying ?Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free?? This applies to MGPs. Don?t give away so much content that you end up discouraging the surfer from signing up at your sponsor. Long video clips make the surfer contented with just the preview and thus, they do not need to buy anymore. You gave away too much already ? you edited the video and showed too much ?milk? they don?t feel the need to be a member anymore.

Tip 4: Master the art of teasing. Never give away too much action or you?ll just turn potential subscribers into LEECHES. Coming up with these kinds of clips may be labor intensive, but the tease will make them click on a membership in a few seconds. You can make a bio about the girl, make her talk about how she wants to be treated in bed, show some skin, and a bit of action.

Tip 5: Go back to the basics. It?s a cliché, and you already know it ? Less is more. You have to sell the look and the personality of the girl. Make your surfers fantasize about something. You are in a competitive business and you have to work harder to sell your content. You?re up against thousands of sites so you better have something better.

Tip 6: Craft your trailers well. Giving away the ?milk? is actually worse than using FHG?s too much. Your laziness can kill your business. If they say that pictures are worth a thousand words, and then videos are worth thousands of pictures ? take advantage of that. It is ideal to post 2 video clips, 15- 30 seconds each. You give them something worth seeing without giving away too much.

Tip 7: Create an experience for your traffic. Have sites and videos that tell a story. Pay attention to well written text, and well edited previews. Their visit to your page will not be easily forgotten.

Succeeding in the adult industry requires time, effort, talent and strategic thinking. You have to be wise in making your moves, or else you just might lose money. Build a relationship with your traffic and their loyalty will surely pay. Value them and they will keep coming back to you.

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[Mr. Marks]

Great article on MGPs, man!

[tranza]

I'll bump this great thread...

[digifan]

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[$5 submissions]

Great information, Chemicaleyes.

Definitely a MUST have for most chatboards since these spell out solid steps/processes for greater success.