Lets play with ChatGPT

[longhairfish]

Hi everyone!

Every once in a while the question comes up "How can my galleries get more exposure and views?"

A few times over the years I have made a FAQ for that. It's somewhere burried in the forum. But let's not look for that now.

Instead we can all add to this post the ideas you would use to make your galleries more visible and get more views.

When we have a page or two of suggestions I will add them al to ChatGPT and see what kind of report can be generated.

If you are an SEO expert (or pretend to be one) then this will be easy for you. But anyone can add just one suggestion if they want to.

Looking forward to see what you guys can come up with and the final result. Lets do this for 2 pages or a month.

Thanks!

[cumback2018]

I’m not an expert on search engine optimization (SEO), but I look forward to following the process and seeing the final results.

Let me begin with an obvious suggestion for increasing exposure and views on imagefap:
Join clubs focused on relevant themes and share your galleries with other club members.

[zCaption]

Since you mention SEO, is this just about site-internal exposure, so exposure to users that are already on the site, or external exposure on other search engines like Google's?

If it's about site-internal exposure, I actually wrote a blog post back in January that covers a few tips for uploaders that also covers some SEO on Imagefap. The big takeaways from that are basically:

• Uploading new images to old galleries is normally a bad idea, as it's not going to push those galleries up in the search results and your followers are not going to be informed about it and even in the case that you inform them per status update, a lot of them are not going to do the 3+ clicks required to get to the new images.
• Since ImageFap's search engine does not look at the tags & categories when searching for search terms, it's a good idea to also try to weave the most important ones into the title or description.
• To still actually give your galleries tags, as some people are still going to use them. Though you should usually keep them as individual/separated as possible, so e.g. "mature" & "wife" instead of just "mature wife", though if haven't reached the limit of 10 tags then "mature wife" can also be good one to add.

As for external SEO, I only now the basics of the technical site of SEO, but I don't think there is much a user can do on-site other than choose an appropriate title. The tags are used for the metadata keywords, but those have been obsolete for Google's SEO for quite a while afaik and the metadata description is an auto generated one by IF, which is also a bit broken as it has the placeholder text "%listoftags%" in it's text that is probably supposed to be replaced by the actual tags or categories of the gallery.
When it comes to general site SEO there would also be the fact that for gallery results the <title> html tag's text is currently so long and in cases also irrelevant, that Google actually prefers to use the large, bold “Free porn pictures”/”Free [Category] porn pictures” text on top of the gallery results instead for its own search result title, though sadly this and the %listoftags% issue can't be changed without touching the codebase.

[longhairfish]

I will give a little bit of a jump start. I used to type this all out manually, but that got old real fast.

You want people to check our your gallery. And possibly get views and stars (ratings). Honestly, most people are sloppy in what they do. It's a wonder anyone looks at their galleries period.

1. Organize your gallery. Everyone can do this. Take your best 4 pictures in the gallery. Move them to positions 1-4. A tough one. Not many people know how to do that.
Go to your home page. Click one of your galleries. Up top find Reorder Images.. Slide or drag your best pictures in the 1-4 slots. When done click on I Am Finished Reordering

IMPORTANT! When reordering your pictures you MUST NOT have any type of advertising blockers, script, add-ons or extensions running in your browser. If you do you will mess up your gallery. The changes you made should happen right away. If not give the site 10 minutes or so to re index your gallery. This does work. I just did it to my gallery.

2. Boring gallery title. Stop doing that. OK, not everyone is a web page designer, I get it. Imagine you own your own store. And you need to sell something. "My Pictures" Certainly isn't going to cut it. Give the gallery a clever or interesting title.

3. Gallery description. This is where most people fail. Imagine you sell cars. But none of the stickers on the cars tell you what is inside the car. You would be out of business pretty fast. So describe your gallery as best you can to get users to "look inside" to see what is going on.

4. Too many pictures. You have seen it. Galleries with 500 - 1000 pictures. The attention span of many people is short. They won't hang around your gallery too long looking for things they like. Maybe page 1 or 2. Then they are out of there. And probably mad as it wasted their time. A gallery of 100 is fine, unless it is a "good" set of the same themed pictures.

5. Too little pictures. Have you seen those guys who post just 1 picture and call it a gallery? All right, maybe they did the best they could and don't have any more pictures. The thing is many people will not click that single picture because the thumb nail is good enough. Back on topic, nobody will vote on the picture if they don't open the full picture.

6. Your galleries are not in the right category. This is another tough one. Realizing that not everyone can read English, they will choose a category that has nothing to do with the pictures they post. If you post the wrong type of category you will have double trouble. People will DOWN VOTE your pictures. Or they will report to our staff that a user has used the wrong category on their gallery. Then your gallery will be flagged or deleted. Choosing the correct gallery only benefits you and your ratings as well as the entire site.

If you do only what I mentioned above then you are on your way to more stars / ratings.

Who else has some ideas?

[longhairfish]

I’m not an expert on search engine optimization (SEO), but I look forward to following the process and seeing the final results.

Let me begin with an obvious suggestion for increasing exposure and views on imagefap:
Join clubs focused on relevant themes and share your galleries with other club members.

Excellent idea!

[HighlandBull18]

Join clubs focused on relevant themes and share your galleries with other club members.

As someone who's primary use of the site is mobile, Clubs, anything under My Fap, or the newsfeed are virtually unusable. I don't know what the ratio between mobile and desktop users is, but in this day and age a site that makes a lot of it's features inaccessible to the former is asking for trouble.

Giving users advice on how to make their content more discoverable is all well and good, but the site needs to make those tools accessible and easy to use.

[theunrealfolks]

Crowdsource Feedback via Polls: Engage viewers by asking for their input directly in the comments. Add a question to the description: “Which pic is your fave—#3 or #7? Comment on the one you like best and why!” This boosts interaction, prioritizes engagement, and gives insights to refine future galleries.

[longhairfish]

Join clubs focused on relevant themes and share your galleries with other club members.

As someone who's primary use of the site is mobile, Clubs, anything under My Fap, or the newsfeed are virtually unusable. I don't know what the ratio between mobile and desktop users is, but in this day and age a site that makes a lot of it's features inaccessible to the former is asking for trouble.

Giving users advice on how to make their content more discoverable is all well and good, but the site needs to make those tools accessible and easy to use.

You are off topic for the most part. This is not the place to make complaints.