These are sites that are either free forever, they will give you a period of free advertising, or they may only charge you to make updates to your site. They make money off you by selling advertising space on your website - you have NO choice on who advertiser's on your site, the designer has complete control over this. Girls HATE these sites and have all sorts of problems with them. Many International Directories will not allow you to advertise with a free site and many ladies and directories will not swap links/banners with free sites because they are so problematic. It is a valid option for your first site if you can't afford to buy one though eg. http://rare-escorts.com

The rare-escorts example just given is one of many different forms of free sites. You may also choose to use WebLogs/Blogspots etc - an example can be found here: https://www.blogger.com/start or a lady who is using one now can be found here: http://www.gabriellesydneyescort.blogspot.com/

There are lots of other blog based sites available, although be sure to read the fine print carefully because on some of them you may be able to put up a certain amount of content then have to pay for more storage area. This can still be a cheaper option than buying a site up front however. For example one of the places I have a Blog site is: www.wordpress.com and my direct link is http://lucyblake.wordpress.com/about/ . This blog I have created as a Search Engine Optimisation exercise and is not my main site, however if you look at the features available, you can see you could quite easily set your entire website up using this site. It allows for you to create seperate information pages (FAQs page, rates page, touring page, calendar etc), allows you to load a gallery, video feature, blogrolls, syndication, links etc

These sites are generally sites you need to upload all the information onto yourself. Maintenance of the site is also up to you (you have to do your own linking, load all new information including text and pictures yourself). There is usually limited IT support if something goes wrong or you need assistance.

Static sites

These sites are generally written by designers who either use Templates or write in code/HTML or programs that can be difficult to make changes to or access unless you've been trained to know how to do it. We call these static sites because they rarely change. This is the most current form of website used in the adult community in Australia. An example of a static site is here http://www.lucy-sydney-escort.com

Templates are used by designers and may include using programs such as iWeb (a Mac based user system). You can use one template to design anywhere from 1 - 100 sites and by manipulating the color, borders, look & feel of the design, you can make them all look completely different.

To make changes to these sites, unless you are a programmer or are interested in learning about website design, you will need to pay someone to make changes to these sites for you. These are the most common types of sites being used in Australia, however in the overseas market, ladies are moving away from these sites, to using software they are able to maintain themselves.

The benefits of a Static site include they can be quick and easy to put together (for a professional designer you should be able to get a complete site designed within 24 - 48 hours) and they are cache friendly which means they can be shown to lots of people.

The bad things about a static site is they can be difficult to keep up to date because you may not be able to make changes to the site yourself, you can not personalise them to each visitor and if a site gets to large, they can be difficult to maintain. If you choose a site designer and they can not gaurantee you a 24 hour turn around time, I would not go with that designer. The main horror story you here is of ladies having to wait 1 - 9 months for a change to be made to their sites. If your site designer doesn't know anything Search Engine Optimisation, I would also not advise you use that designer.

For a basic adult site, they can be an ideal and simple way to advertise yourself.

Forums/directories

These are sites you can pay to advertise on and can actually use them as a personal website depending on the features the site has. For example on http://www.australian-escorts.com.au the advertiser's are provided with all the features you would have on a personal website including:

FAQs page, Gallery, Blog, Tours Page, Reviews Page, Update Page etc.

On some of the major international directories like http://openadultdirectory.com you are unable to advertise on this site unless you have a personal website, so it does vary from one forum/directory to another. Some ladies will use a forum as their website and then refer gents to it when advertising on places like Cracker or in the newspapers.

Weblogs

These are sites written using webBlog software - more commonly known as Blogs. Many people think a blog is just an online journal, however this is a very limited view of what a blog is. Blogs are maintained by the individual they belong to and allow for text based information like a static site does, but also allows you to easily upload pictures, music (MP3), videos (vlog), audio (podcasting)... basically EVERYTHING you can think of - basically a multimedia site you can manage and maintain without needing the assistance of a designer.

They are easy to work with and easy for people to read. Even for someone with NO IT experience who is a technophobe, they are very easy to interact with and maintain. They work on templates so you choose what your site/blog will look like, you choose the layout, the color scheme and the pages you will have on it. They will give you lots of different options (skins) on what you want your site to look like and then you can go thru and try all of the options until you find the one you like best.

An example of a blog can be found in one of the examples I gave above in free sites here: http://lucyblake.wordpress.com/about/

Using blogs for a site is highly recommended for an easy cheap option. Most guys also understand blogs and are able to relate to this type of advertising. Technorati tracks over 112million blogs, so they are getting to be the most popular ways to convery information.

written by Sydney Escort Lucy Blake; site design and maintenance by Lucy Blake; Copyright Lucy Blake www.lucy-blake.com 2009 - 2011