Mistakes on my sections some should learn by,,,

[sunfunbill]

I have been surprised by the number of people that have been PM'ing me for advice about blogs and my new sections I'm making.

Normally I'm the guy that people point to and say "see him, whatever you do, DON'T do what he does"!

So now that I know at least a few watch what I do, I think I should explain one minor mistake I have found in my sections I am making for my big-ass site, so they don't follow my mistake.

A very generous webmaster actually informed me of this error, and I am very grateful for that. Now, nothing is wrong with the technical part of it. I put 10 blogs together on one domain, with each blog a different section. 8 blogs share one database. Everything works fine.

My domain name is crossdresser playground. I am pushing my site as a huge transgender niche site. However, two niches that fall inside transgender look down on the label as crossdresser.

Those are shemales and ladyboys. Calling my section the "ladyboy section of crossdresser playground" is a big blunder. True ladyboy lovers will get turned off by that and assume I know nothing about ladyboys. They want nothing to do with crossdressers.

So, what I will do is use a ladyboy domain for that niche. It will still look almost the same. The main page will show ladyboy stuff, with the other sections there and the main pages to browse around in. But it will look like the ladyboy stuff is the main thing, with the other sections there if they want to browse them.

Each section looks like that, as if that section is the main one. I will do this to shemales also. The others are just sub-niches within crossdresser, so those will be fine.

So if you do what I'm doing, make sure your sub niches can match the domain name. Now, I also will do this with a lesbian site. With that, since all sub-niches are still lesbian, the main domain is fine for them all. So let this be a lesson to you, and thanks for the person who brought this to my attention!!

[ikabodsbadgirl]

This is a little off topic- I'm finally brave enough to change my theme and css files, but I'm not sure how to back up the current version of my blog. What files do I need to save, and do I use ftp to save them to my hard drive?


Thanks

[sunfunbill]

Hey there. Well, you say your going to change your theme and css files. Do you mean your going to alter code in your theme pages, and css file?

If so just make a copy of each file your going to change first and put it away in a folder on your hard drive. Or make a whole copy of your theme, which includes the css file, and store it on your hard drive.

Then when you make the changes you can do one of two things, change the file permission you want to change to 777, and use the editor right in wp.

Design>theme editor.

Make sure you change the permission back after. Or just alter the file you have on your hard drive and ftp it, I like that way the best. Just keep that page open on your browser and push refresh to see the changes.

Make sure you check it out in both IE and FF.

[Think Big]

Bill got a question about your set up. on the main index page of your blog do you put the individual posts from each section on the main front page of your blog. im thinking about doing something like you. i want to put any update for whatever sections on the main index page so people see whats new as soon as they hit the page(index page). i'll have the read more link take you to the post in whatever section it is in which like be a different install of wp . also with the sections each being different sites on different folders of a domain will i have problems with duplicate content as far as the search engines are concerned for having them appear on the main index page. hope im clear

[sunfunbill]

Hey there Think Big. Well the more I work on this the more I find out new things! Not bad, just different, and I'm very excited to see how it all turns out.

What I do right now is make a post on the main page, then just copy it to the correct section. The problem with a short post and then a "read more" link is, if you do a short FHG post with just a picture and 2 sentences, there's not much left for the "read more" part.

Yes you are duplicating it. You can have a no follow rule in each section so google does not count it as duplicate. But one of the things you want is for each section to have a good ranking in the SE for that niche. Putting in a no follow rules kills that.

Personally I don't think 2 post the same makes much difference to google. The damn news sites all print the same world news on hundreds of sites and they don't get banned.

Think of all the store sites that have almost identical products with the same words on dozens of pages. So I really don't think it matters much. However I do change the title of the post when I copy it.

Hope that helps!

[Think Big]

yeah it helps quite a bit. I assume for the read more link you are not using the <!--more--> but using a HTML link pointing off the main site, right?

and what do you mean by FHG post?

I would plan on having a short post on the index page and having the long or full post on the page in the category. is that what you are doing. a taste on the main page and the full meal in the category site.

Note: Viking change the word meal to cake, there is alot of spoon licking in the making of cake, r u turned on yet?

[housekeeper]

Originally posted by sunfunbill
Those are [color=sky blue]shemales and ladyboys[/color]. Calling my section the "ladyboy section of crossdresser playground" is a big blunder. True ladyboy lovers will get turned off by that and assume I know nothing about ladyboys. They want nothing to do with crossdressers.

To my knowledge ladyboys are shemales but simply of Asian or eastern descent, i.e. Bangkok, Thailand, etc. They're fully transitioned and certainly fall under the shemale/transsexual category.

[sunfunbill]

Well that is true, physically they are the same. But most fans of ladyboys don't like shemales, and most that like shemales don't like ladyboys.

That is why most have ladyboy sites and shemale sites and don't mix them up. So I will have both, they can see I have both sections so can pick one or both.

[sunfunbill]

yeah it helps quite a bit. I assume for the read more link you are not using the <!--more--> but using a HTML link pointing off the main site, right? and what do you mean by FHG post?

Well like I said, I'm not using a "more" link at all. If I do have it, it's just a normal more break for that same post. I make a full post in the main section, then copy it to the sub section it fits.

FHG means those free hosted gallery post. Most adult blogs, or splogs, are nothing more than just all FHG post. They have a picture from the gallery and a sentence or two, that's it.

So it's so short it does not seem practical to break it into a "more" link.

[housekeeper]

Originally posted by sunfunbill
Well that is true, physically they are the same. But most fans of ladyboys don't like shemales, and most that like shemales don't like ladyboys.

That is why most have ladyboy sites and shemale sites and don't mix them up. So I will have both, they can see I have both sections so can pick one or both.

You're right, there are several ladyboy sites, there are several black tranny sites, and several have a broad mixture. Ladyboy's do seem to have a certain following, I don't know how dissattached those people are with regard to other t-girl ethnicities, but I agree in that there is a seperation.

I don't know what the relationship is, I don't personally promote asian or ladyboy's, but I do know that's a big market and in the overall scheme of things, they're all trannies.

Similarly and for the most part, transsexuals are predominately Hispanic, though there is only one site to my knowledge dedicated soley to Puerto Rican trannies. And of course Brazil has their sect within' the industry, but well, they're in Brazil and can't come to America as easily as others, Visa issues.

Anyhow, it's too exhausting for me to labor over these things, I applaud you sunfunbill for your do-diligence. In the long run they all get implants, take hormones, and have to deliver the money shot when the director says pop...

[KatieAnn]

Wow, TGs are so fickle . . . you're right though Bill, "crossdresser" is a stigma to any gurl with boobs. I sort of doubt most other niches are as self-conscious though. I think the issue might be that many surfers also associate with a particular group, or are uncomfortable with the social status of a particular group.

For example, while I'm sure some "chubby" or "big natural tit" *models* would be offended by appearing on a "BBW" site, I don't think most surfers really care. Same goes for bondage niches, etc, etc. Not to say that specificity is bad, just that the surfer doesn't expect (ie require) things to be differentiated that much.

Housekeeper, I think some people are specifically into ladyboys because they tend to be more feminine or "young-boy" looking. Plus there is a whole culture thing to go along with it. These people don't want to be associated with (or look at) "regular" shemales . . . but I think any shemale admirer who is ok with asians would be happy to see a ladyboy. Just my 2 cents.