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You?re in the adult business and you just can?t wait to have the money flowing in. You thought that you can just play around in this business? Well, think again. Making money in the adult business requires more work, persistence, and analytical thinking than you thought. You?re not playing a game here; you?re dealing with real business.

Many webmasters begin (and sadly, many end) their online adult business careers with TGPs (Thumbnail Gallery Posts). The TGP content format is one of the primary ways to view adult material online. It is a page of links that lead to a gallery of thumbnails which in turn link to larger pictures. There are two sides of the coin in the TGP business, you can either be the TGP owner, or you can be the Submitter. Here is some useful information to help you grow your business.

TGP Owner

Tip 1: Remember that you need more than just clicks to make money. The surfer has to be loyal to your site so that he would come back again and again. You need to build a relationship with your reader base in order for your business to grow. Always update your content. Make sure you look at your pages from the eyes of a surfer.

Tip 2: Focus on making your traffic grow.

Search Engines:
Be sure that you are always visible in search engines; you have to get as much exposure as you can. How? Build a lot of pages with text triggered Search Engine keywords. Be sure that each text page is written differently from each other, but keeping the keywords in mind at all times. This should increase your traffic since the more the surfer clicks on your pages, the more chances you have in getting a purchase.

Blog Marketing:
Stay visible by making blog and guestbook entries, don?t just mention your URL, make sure you post some mini-story or review type of content. Mass exposure is the key to getting a permanent base of incoming traffic

Traffic Trading with other TGPs:
Swap traffic so that you can get new surfers, but you are risking losing some surfers who gets turned off by the fact that when they click on a thumb they get sent to another TGP. This is unavoidable and a risk you take. Devote an area of your site for ?skimmed? (ie., traded) traffic. Have an area of your site that is not skimmed which should allow for retention. These are the areas (blog, story of the day, jokes, etc) that add IDENTITY to your TGP. Create and enhance your identity so your users will bookmark and, better yet, refer their friends.

Tip 3: Take care of your surfers. Getting a large volume of traffic is an advantage, but giving them value is better. Give them quality content; offer your surfers variety and distinction in your pages.

Tip 4: Build a good brand identity. Find a good logo or funny character, and have something unique to your site so that your traffic will stay loyal to you. The key here is you have to specialize in your products. People are not just happy seeing pictures of naked women; you have to know what kind of content your traffic prefers to be able to cater to their specific needs.

Tip 5: Use FHGs wisely
There was a time that TGP owners were at the mercy of the Submitters. Today, TGP owners have the option to use FHG (Free Hosted Galleries). You can take advantage of cutting cost by cutting out the middle men, however, as advantageous as it may seem you still have to watch out for the downside.

FHG Pros:
You go direct to the sponsors who pay for the content and the hosting, and thus cut down your cost. Moreover, the provenance of content ownership and 2257 regulation is intact so you?ll have less trouble dealing with legal matters. You can have large files faster and be able to work on more content at a time.

FHG Cons:
It?s so easy and that is why everybody is doing it. Everybody has the same stuff being used over and over again. The overall quality of your content suffers because FHG quality can be very inconsistent. You are now dependent on sponsors? gallery making skills. If they are inadequate, so will your sales. FHG?s also makes webmasters lazy. Some TGP owners just place FHGs with thumbs and descriptions and let their scripts go on auto-pilot. This system is so easy that they end up not paying attention to improving their TGP.

Depending on FHG?s too much is risky. There is a chance that you?ll have an attitude of not caring about your relationships with your surfers. Bear in mind that success relies on the loyalty of the people. You might get too complacent and sacrifice the quality of relationship you have with your surfers.

TGP Submitter

Tip 1: Take time to get to know your traffic as well. People are now very discriminating and you have to know their specifications in porn. Generic looking girls with big boobs won?t always cut it. You have to know what they like to be able to give them their preferred content. For example, if you have Asian traffic, let?s say men from Japan. They usually go for teens, young, anime looking girls with big eyes. On the other hand, black viewers prefer women who have fuller bodies. They like thick bodies and big asses. Once you have discovered the porn specification that they want, give your surfers the type of porn they desire. This is your sure-fire way of generating income.

Tip 2: Pay attention to what clicks. Pretty does not always make money. For a start, you can try doing four kinds of layouts.
? Pretty layout- everything here looks sleek and the page was neatly made with both text and pictures.
? Ugly layout- The focus is more on the quality of the pictures, and is basically black and white and there is quite a bit of text on the page.
? Colour fields- where the pictures are inside boxes together with the link.
? Unusual arrangement- these are filled with different pictures in various arrangements.

Tip 3: See which layout had the most clicks, once you find out which layout won the race, then it?s now time for you to improve it. Do more styles and variations of the layout and be creative. Keep on evolving until you get a profit margin that you are comfortable with.

Being in the adult industry requires a lot of time and effort. This is a really tough business for the real players. Don?t even try to get into it of you?re not serious about it. The ones who succeed are the people who are willing to invest their time and money into their business. Value your relationships with your Clients, and don?t just bombard them with content. Give them what they want, the way they want it so that they will keep on coming back.

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