Top 10 Newbie mistakes
 

1. Forget to replace/insert affiliate ID.
2. Link cash program instead of paysites.
3. Use 'bannerfree' freehost.
4. Start asking for trades with a half-finished or non-working website.
5. Submit FHGs to other TGPs.
6. Use image resize instead of creating thumbs, and wonder why site loads slow.
7. Start a TGP without links to paysites, and wonder why you don't make money.
8. Trust everyone.
9. Spam without using whois protection.
10. Believe Google PR is a measure for success.

Any more? :pimp

11. kiss people's ass with high post counts hoping they will give you something

12. Register and post here non stop.

13. No ability to think for themselfs

most people i meet?

haha might be, you hanging out with n00bs a lot?


;)))

14.Buy into that jargon of "read everything you can" on all the resource sites before starting something.

total n00bs to life it seems. ;)

15. Put all their eggs in one basket.

Posting the thread: How much are you making with porn per mo/yr on the boards :)

15. Being lazy and expecting money to start rolling in within days of starting in the biz.
16. Sitting down and thinking "Why am I not making a lot of money?" instead of finding ways to do so.

16. Drink Amstel light ;)

hey, watch it! :winkwink:

Thinking that they are owed anything right away and not realizing they have to earn it

hahahaha :upsidedow

haha
If you ever get a chance try this one, the closest thing to perfection:

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1- Have yet to do it

2- Check

3- Check

4- Check

5- Wouldn't be caught dead doing it

6- Check

7- Shemp once said that if you wanted to start a tgp to look at the calendar and to proceed only if it said 1998 or before. My calendar didn't say that. So Nope.

8- Nope

9- Spam? You mean multiple email deployment? It's okay, just make sure your whois email address is [email protected]

10- What's a google?

17: Flood all the adult forums with a 50 strong list of free hosted galleries daily then wonder why conversions are 0:30,000.

i'll check for that the next time i go out. there's a great place around here that has over 120 beers on tap, not counting their bottles. so i'm sure they will have it.

biggest mistake anyone can make.

I once sent a FHG to the hun :1orglaugh

Things I learned (and am still learning) about Online traffic and being a webmaster....

1. Confuse "pretty" or "neat" designs with ability to convert

2. Neglect the power of an overall coherent ad strategy

3. Neglect to factor in the referrer URL of traffic in positiong the product or formulating the landing page

4. Shy away from spending $ on custom-built software

5. Fail to think long-term.

6. Fail to look at my marketing materials from the perspective of an actual consumer.

7. Hit an ad strategy that converts and STOP innovating.

8. Wait for traffic crashes or sponsor crashes to push my ass in gear to actually fine tune my traffic strategy so that I make more $ with less traffic or newer sponsors.

9. Being afraid to try new approaches

10. Being afraid to look at traffic from FIRST PRINCIPLES (ie., ask yourself, 'what is traffic?' 'where does it come from?' 'why does it go to my site?' "who are my customers" etc. etc) -- seems silly but sometimes taking a fresh look at things we take for granted may yield new opportunities and open doors to higher levels...

11. Being cocky and not realizing that I am constantly learning and will never "know everything."

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#1 criteria for success :thumbsup
If you think like the surfers, only creativity and ability limits you.

I'm guilty of number 5. One of the first galleries I ever submitted was a FHG :1orglaugh

haha i made myself quilty of a couple of those

Me to, he listed it....



:glugglug

:1orglaugh I know what place you are talking about.... hit me up on the eye sea queue... 111914 or aim: da orgasms

Havent' hung with you in like a year and a half man.

You are the king of creative spam. If I ever see you at a show, I will buy you a drink or 3.

Uhm, I'll take that as a compliment. Would love to have a drink with ya, uno. :thumbsup

Cheers!

god aint that the truth LOL

Lucky you that you hang out with experts :winkwink:

surely to find new ways to make money you would need to analyse what your good/not good at....?

and the "what car do you drive" thread

#1. not realizing that 85% of the people on GFY are full of shit and they are really just surfers

buying the domain bighugetittyboobs4free4everyonetosee.com and bragging about it on gfy

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Great list - guilty on a few.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Been their, done that and sent the post card.

++[last number]: Failure to originate and innovate and instead rip off something that's already been done.

go after small keywords and not fucken big ones.. man i can so get viagra-ed

heh ... I bought one of those programs that submit your website to thousands of search engines :)

You need google to think and spell for you.

18- Promote something they don't know or like just because they THINK they'll make money (I made this mistake in the past)

"Location: You want to know where i am? Im making money. Something you arent doing. Instead of bitching about fake nicks, or people on gfy, or about leagal 18 year old models looking young. Try getting some work down and make mad bling like me."

leagal? Try to Google up the word: legal.

Buy the cheapest hosting posssible from hosts with hyphens in their domain names.

eg: super-porn-hosting.com

that is just too lazy and eats time isn't it?

:1orglaugh

Google PR is a measure of my success? i think have all 0's

you pretty much covered it