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Click on an image to read the text. Arrows = links. Do not build deeper than three levels including the domains root. Link to the root index on every page.
Grey stuff is optional but useful.
A spider will see the whole domain as your site. You have a lot of content (galleries and links) so you should show the spider that you have a content rich site. Make it
easy for the spider to find your content. That does not mean make it easy for the surfer. But avoid tricky (hidden, invisible) links.
Think twice with every page you create:
1) Your design is for the surfers eye.
2) Your (directory- and link-) structure must fit the spiders POV.
Your domains root index page:
Make a nice design:
• Site logo
• Key word optimized description of your site
• Enter link to your main page
• Warning text (link “exit” to Google and click it once a day)
• Links to all your category pages
• Not so prominent link to the links list
NO outgoing links!
Your main page:
The main page is a link and traffic hub (seen as a site map by the spider) and your money maker. Try to optimize this page for both the surfer and the spider. The spider dislikes outgoing
links and rewards inbound links. Due to the nature of a TGP2 you have lots of outgoing links, but you can reduce them:
• Use ad management scripts to mask sponsor links, e.g. link
banners to yourdomain.com/handleads.html?ad# instead of yoursponsor.com/tour.html?id#. Make sure the script redirects to a page on your domain when it’s called without parameters (some spiders ignore the question
mark and everything behind). AFAIK this kind of ad management is not considered as harmfully redirect by the engines but to stay safe you can use a cgi script instead of an URL looking like a content page.
• List your galleries first.
• Put a menu with
links to all category pages above and below the gallery listings and a link to the category page at the end of each listing.
• Don’t list too much galleries on the main page, better lead the surfer after a short
gallery listing per category to the category page (where you’ve a better chance to catch him with ads matching his fetish and it saves lots of BW too). This helps also to increase keyword relevance.
You should be
fair to your gallery makers, so don’t prefix the gallery links. Most spiders will not follow prefixed links to the galleries.
Trade links (and traffic) here, you don’t need many links to your domains root. A
spider following a link to your main page will crawl the domains root too, even when you don’t link back to the root (what you really should do).
Don’t forget to write some rich text, readable sentences for the
surfer carrying keywords for the spider.
Category pages:
Here goes the same as for the main page but you cannot avoid more outgoing links because you list more galleries
here. But that’s not too bad, the gallery descriptions carry tons of keywords and that’s good for you as long as this keywords belong to the same niche/theme. You should allow long descriptions to increase your
content weight, do not restrict the description length less than 40 characters.
However, don’t list too many galleries, better split the listing between category page and archive.
If you can get votes from
specialized sites and you operate a TGP2 with many categories you should consider to trade votes on category pages too. E.g. when you trade links with a black porn site use your ebony category page (only or additional to the main page).
Category archives:
When
you provide archives they must be categorized. Don’t make the link to the category archive prominent and when you shave here do it in a way the spider can eat the links. Generally archives are great spider food,
especially they can be used for your own galleries - the spider will never forget them even if they’re outdated.
Category traffic hubs:
This is the page all ads
on your galleries of one niche are linking to. It reduces the amount of outgoing links counted on your domain dramatically. Here you can use pop ups which are forbidden on galleries before you send the surfer away
to the sponsor (mask this links too).
That’s a great technique to funnel outgoing traffic to maximize your profits (but that’s a marketing issue and not my theme). The traffic hub links to a gallery index in the same hierarchy level as the galleries
(see below). You can use this page as link target of ads on category pages too (this possible link is not shown on the graphic above).
Niched gallery index pages:
This index is useful to loop back the spider coming from the traffic hub to your galleries what gives them more importance. If you don’t want surfers going to this page from the search engines index implement a
robots META tag “NOINDEX,FOLLOW,ALL” and the spider will follow the links but will not include that page in the SE index. Also post this URL (or a separate index page with links to all your gallery index
pages) on the boards under gallery requests and use it in your signature.
Links List:
This page links to all free sites and AVS sites on your domain and only on your domain (again: avoid outgoing links). Making some free sites and AVS sites on your
TGP2 domain is useful to get more listings in DMOZ and other sources of link popularity and traffic as well. Also the spiders will find more content on the domain which increases the importance of your site (content
weight).
Free sites:
Reuse
your TGP2 galleries. Create a warning page, instead of an ENTER button link to a few galleries and submit the free site to the links lists. Here goes the same as for galleries, don’t forget to make an index.html in the free sites directory.
You’ll get more traffic and you increase your link popularity (at least from a few links lists). Before you submit to a links list install the Google Toolbar and check its ranking. Do not submit (link) to sites which are zero ranked or banned for cheating.
Gallery Submissions
You link to many domains, some of them may be considered as “bad” or at least “poor” by the search engines (cheaters, most free hosts ...). Remember, outgoing links to such kind
of sites are penalized. Therefore:
• Do not accept free hosted galleries.
• Let your script create a monthly list of domains found in the gallery table, then check the page ranking of this domains with the Google Toolbar as described here. Remove all
galleries on zero ranked or banned domains and ban the submitter if he cheats with the engines.
The best advice is to accept only partner submissions of trusted webmasters and to check their domains at least
monthly. That’s a quality issue too, you’ll lose visitors when you link to crap.
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