Yahoo Groups

[NumptyNuts]

Anyone here use them or have Yahoo groups currently?

If so I am curious to hook up and trade ideas on marketing, to date they have been a good source of revenue and a way to filter traffic to niche specific sites.

Who else uses this approach?

[JT]

Anyone here use them or have Yahoo groups currently?

If so I am curious to hook up and trade ideas on marketing, to date they have been a good source of revenue and a way to filter traffic to niche specific sites.

Who else uses this approach?

No but im looking to build some of these fuckers

[Cardinal_Sin]

Anyone here use them or have Yahoo groups currently?

If so I am curious to hook up and trade ideas on marketing, to date they have been a good source of revenue and a way to filter traffic to niche specific sites.

Who else uses this approach?

I have a full time member of staff running several yahoo groups. We use this to feed free sites as well as pay sites. (Which means we cash in both ways). It is well worth spending some time looking at this form of marketing - It pays very well.

[NumptyNuts]

I have a full time member of staff running several yahoo groups. We use this to feed free sites as well as pay sites. (Which means we cash in both ways). It is well worth spending some time looking at this form of marketing - It pays very well.

I have a number of places i run which drive group traffic, what niches do you work in?

[Cardinal_Sin]

I have a number of places i run which drive group traffic, what niches do you work in?

foot/leg/panty/hose/nylon/retro/balloon

[andymike]

I actively post to 800+ yahoo groups. It is a good way to filter traffic into your free sites, but it is also very easy to get your site(s) urls blacklisted from AOL/Yahoo/MSN and the likes.

[JT]

I actively post to 800+ yahoo groups. It is a good way to filter traffic into your free sites, but it is also very easy to get your site(s) urls blacklisted from AOL/Yahoo/MSN and the likes.

wow 800, do you use a script?

[Cardinal_Sin]

I actively post to 800+ yahoo groups. It is a good way to filter traffic into your free sites, but it is also very easy to get your site(s) urls blacklisted from AOL/Yahoo/MSN and the likes.

I agree - We have found that by running the groups as "genuine" groups - ie more image updates than spam, we have kept ourselves very clean and have not been blacklisted - And we do get loads of traffic - Push that extra bit with spam and it is easy to lose everything.

[NumptyNuts]

As long as you keep your group clean from commercial links ie ref codes - its not so bad.

You should list your groups here -

http://www.smithslookup.co.uk/forum/index.php

[andymike]

I have a desktop application that handles sending the emails for me. I used to use it a long while ago to send out newsletters when I ran a few free sites. Now I just use it for that. It’s a handy program because it lets me send out HTML or plain text. :)

wow 800, do you use a script?

[andymike]

What I mean by being blacklisted is not being able to send emails that contain your URL in them. If you use hosted tools (galleries, free sites, etc) that are on the same domain as your program or membership site it can easily make it so AOL will refuse them, or yahoo will automatically junk folder them.

If you are going to use any hosted tools in groups you should use a junk domain that you don’t care about. So when it’s blacklisted it’s not an issue that hurts your membership/program support.

I agree - We have found that by running the groups as "genuine" groups - ie more image updates than spam, we have kept ourselves very clean and have not been blacklisted - And we do get loads of traffic - Push that extra bit with spam and it is easy to lose everything.

[NumptyNuts]

What I mean by being blacklisted is not being able to send emails that contain your URL in them. If you use hosted tools (galleries, free sites, etc) that are on the same domain as your program or membership site it can easily make it so AOL will refuse them, or yahoo will automatically junk folder them.

If you are going to use any hosted tools in groups you should use a junk domain that you don’t care about. So when it’s blacklisted it’s not an issue that hurts your membership/program support.


I used to sendmailers from the desktop to groups, it was very 'productive' though my isp kicked off

[JT]

I used to sendmailers from the desktop to groups, it was very 'productive' though my isp kicked off

Paul you fancy doing me some more Yahoo Groups, I want to get on this gravey train. :kebab:

[Rosie]

I've kind of given up with Yahoo Groups at the moment. We had a couple of really huge BDSM groups that we used mainly to promote Shadowslaves. However every couple of weeks Yahoo seem to do a sweep on the Bondage and BDSM keywords and kill the groups and our IDs - bloody American far right :rambo:

[NumptyNuts]

you still have the URL's? Are they still there?

[andymike]

I don't know that I would call it a gravy train. I do make enough sales to make me want to continue. The last group mailer I sent out to yahoo groups made earned me a few $100 that weekend. Which is nice, but not enough to make me want to stop my other projects that make sales for me.

Paul you fancy doing me some more Yahoo Groups, I want to get on this gravey train. :kebab: