Free Site School

The Picture Pages

The picture pages are what the surfers really want to see. By this stage, they've bypassed our very best adverts and made it to the freebies. OK, so we've got enough bandwidth to cover this, but the chances of this surfer now becoming a cash-paying customer are dwindling. That said, EVERY part of an adult site has to do it's part. Even if there's a slim chance that we can still get his or her ass of to a sponsor, we've got to go for it.

The picture pages are simple pages - but there's still some interesting points we need to think about...

On pages or not?

One of the big questions these days is, should you put pictures on HTML pages, or just link to the JPGs? Here's an example of what I mean:

1) Go to http://www.classy-boobs.com/lesbian-love/gallery-1.html
2) Click the thumb in the top left of the page. This links to the pic ON AN HTML PAGE.
3) Go back and click the one to the right of it. This links to the JPG.

The only reason that you wouldn't want to link to the pic on an html page would be to get listed somewhere that listed that as a requirement in the rules. (Some places don't like pics on HTML pages). Wherever possible, always put the pics on HTML pages - it lets you do MUCH more... as we'll see today!

Naming them...

What you call your picture pages is totally up to you. The BEST thing that you could do would be to name them each something like, "free-fetish-pics.html" - all relative to the niche you're working in. This would help a little if you were going to be shooting for some serious search engine traffic. Having said that, this method of naming is VERY laborious - and you'd have to link to each of these pages by going through the gallery pages and putting the correct name in there.

The easiest and most common method of naming pic pages is calling them 01.html up to 24.html - or however many pictures you have.

Picture SIZES...

At this stage, there's 2 things to think about.

1) The FILE size of the pictures on a free site.
2) The WIDTH and HEIGHT of the pictures on a free site.

With both, each picture will vary slightly.

As a guide, for the finished file size, aim for between 20kb and 40kb.

For the width and height, make the longest side around 450 pixels.

This isn't a strict thing, and no-one's going to track you down and shoot you if you've got a picture that's 41kb or 451 pixels wide. Just remember - larger pics = larger bandwidth bill at the end of the month.

QUICK TIP: Tables as borders!

Here's something that I use a lot of the time. If you want to add a nice 3D border around a picture - just use a table. Set the cellpadding to 0, the cellspacing to the same, and the border to around 5 pixels.

EXAMPLE:

http://www.classy-boobs.com/lesbian-love/03.html

Looks pretty cool huh? And remember - it will load INSTANTLY!

Another useful tip is not to add the sizes in to the picture's width and height. This means that in Internet Explorer - the picture will start off as a tiny spot on the page, rather than the full size place-holder that would appear if you'd specified the html width and height in the image source tag. This means that whatever you have under the picture (like an AD!) will initially start out at the TOP of the picture pages - in the first viewable screen.

EXAMPLE:

http://www.classy-boobs.com/lesbian-love/04.html

Another cool thing about this is that you'll not have to add in EVERY image's individual width and height in the image source tag if you use this site as a template in the future. This is one of the most time consuming tasks in building new sites. So for free sites, FORGET the image width and height on the html page.

Pic pages as DOORWAY pages...

Don't think to much of a picture page as JUST that. I mean this is a webpage - a REAL important content page on your site. Who says that this page can't get ranked in the top ten for one of your important phrases? The only limitation or RULE here is that you have to put a picture on it. Other than that - the sky's the limit. You could add in everything else that you would have put on a good doorway page for the search engines. Optimize this page fully if search engine traffic is your goal. Think of this page as a PART and an INDIVIDUAL too.

FACT: Picture pages, if made correctly, can get traffic and make sales!

Basic SEO

Even if you're not going to be doing a lot of search engine optimization on each of the picture pages (which IS admittedly very time consuming) then don't forget to at least do the basics:

• Good TITLE tag.
• Strong H1 tag
• MAYBE a little body text?
• Be focused and pick ONE phrase...

Remember that you're going to get through a LOT of picture pages so you can get super-focused here and pick really obscure phrases. While it wouldn't be worth building a whole site for such phrases, it IS worth adding 'em to the pic pages.

Ads...

The simplest (and one of the most effective methods) of adding ads to the pic pages is with a nice fat TEXT link above and below the picture.

http://www.classy-boobs.com/lesbian-love/05.html

Here's an example:

http://www.classy-boobs.com/lesbian-love/05.html

It's nice and simple - just a big, juicy text link under and above the picture... Let your imagination run wild, check out the tour for more text links, and start typin'. It shouldn't take too long to write out 50 or so text links. If you get stuck or bored - double up. Chances are that no surfer will look at ALL your pic pages anyways - so they don't all HAVE to be different...

Other tips and ideas...

• Test links - pic pages are NOTORIOUS for broken links. Upload and check them all.
• Get a good BATCH image compressor. You're going to have to compress lots of pics.
• Use CHEEKY link wherever you can like:

"MORE"
"NEXT"
"MORE FORM THIS SEQUENCE"
"MORE OF THIS GIRL..."

... remember that this surfer is not responding to kind link - use some of these and some WAY more dirty ones, wherever you can from here on in...
• Put the pic on the left of the page (using tables) and a nice odd-shaped banner on the left.
• Do the same but with a HUGE text ad.
• Remember the same logic as the rest of the site - WAKE the surfer up.
• If it's not a link list type site, then make the PIC itself link to a sponsor.
• Stuck for an ad, or some SE text? Describe what's happening in the picture!

OK, we've only got one part left in FREE SITE SCHOOL, and that's tomorrow morning. We'll be looking at some more free site tips, and other important ideas, as well as reviewing the free site as a whole!!!

TOM ^"^

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Email tom@tomsnewbiebooster.com