The real way to make money with a 404 trap.
 

Surfers are snoopy bastards. If you have any sort of numbered directories on your server, surfers are going to try and find more free shit. Be smart about it.

Don't have a bunch of directories like...

jane/1/index.html
jane/2/index.html
jane/3/index.html
jane/4/index.html
jane/5/index.html
jane/6/index.html

Instead, try something like this:


jane/3/index.html
jane/6/index.html
jane/8/index.html
jane/12/index.html
jane/16/index.html
jane/40/index.html

Snoopy surfers are always going to check out the other options. Thing is, they're going to meet a 404 trap. Biggest problem with 404 traffic seems to be that people don't target it well. They setup one 404 page for their entire domain, which is just wasting money unless everything on that domain is of one particular niche, but even then you're better off 404'ing a microniche or a particular model, etc.

So, in the above case, you'd set the 404 for the jane directory, and all sub-directories, to a 404 page relating to jane, or the niche/site she belongs to. Targetted 404 traffic. Space the numbers out like that, and the snoopy surfer is going to keep running into the 404. The majority of even the most persistent snoopers are going to click through eventually.

Yes, i know this is obvious advice, so spare me the welcome to last century bullshit. Lots of people don't use this simple technique, and they're missing out on an extra source of income.

Now, having read this, you owe me a blowjob.

41 views and not a single blowjob to show for it. Not happy Jan.

Snoopy surfers deserve a hidden activex autodialer :2 cents:

There, I rationalized it. Feel free to do that now.

All surfers deserver autodialers, snoopy ones get the highest rates lol

Well, yeah. Parents should have been watching their kids when they downloaded a dialer and surfed porn. I say if they complain about the charges we report them for negligence, allowing a child to use his home computer to view pornography, etc.

OK it's all thought out time to launch CluckDialer. :321GFY

Surfers looking in your folders for free porn isn't much worth anyway .. not even the time naming the folders with numbers missing..

:2 cents:

you just might be surprised

I'm inclined to agree with you. Perhaps if someone uses this technique it would be best to send them to free signup or e-mail catchers...

Currently i'm getting about 6 to 10k daily of this worthless traffic. I'm selling it and making about $600 extra every month. Not bad for worthless traffic :)

You assume too much. It's like saying you shouldn't even bother with tgp surfers, 'cause they're just looking for free porn. Market anything properly and aggressively, and even some of the biggest free loading fuckers will whip out a credit card.

I think that you didn't have many replies because this has been posted at least 10 times before here at GFY....


It's still a great advise tough, I have raised 5 times my 404 traffic by doing this and I'm collecting some nice sign ups after all! :thumbsup

Another good idea to hide your 404 pages , is to em</b>bed a smal 1 pixel by 1 pixel flash file that opens

http://newurl.com target="_top"

This way NOTHING can catch you.. no spider yet crawls into flash files for popup code.