// Methodology

How we analyze creator promotion

Our guides say things like "patterns from analyzing how thousands of creators promote." This page explains exactly what that means, where the patterns come from, and, just as importantly, what they cannot tell you. We would rather be precise than impressive.

What we look at

FanPull is a promotion tool, so the raw material is public promotion itself: how creators across OnlyFans, Fansly and Fanvue present their pages and route traffic on public feeds like Reddit, X, TikTok, Instagram, RedGifs and Bluesky. We study public posts, titles and captions, the structure of link-in-bio funnels, subreddit rules and flair conventions, posting cadence, and the formats that repeat among creators who clearly have traction.

We only ever use information that is already public. We do not scrape private data, buy leaked datasets, or use session cookies, that is the same compliance-first line we hold in the product itself.

How we turn it into advice

A single creator's success can be luck. A pattern that shows up again and again across very different creators is a signal worth acting on. When we write a guide, we are looking for those repeated patterns, the title style a niche keeps rewarding, the loop length that keeps outperforming, the funnel step creators keep getting wrong, and then pressure-testing them against how each platform's rules and algorithms actually behave.

Where our advice is opinionated (for example, "own 8 to 12 mid-size subreddits instead of chasing the giants"), it is because the pattern is consistent enough that we are willing to stake a recommendation on it, not because it sounds good.

What this is not

• It is not a peer-reviewed study. It is applied pattern analysis meant to help you promote better, not an academic claim.
• It is not a guarantee. Platforms change their rules and algorithms constantly, and what works shifts with them. Treat every guide as a strong starting point to test, not gospel.
• It is not a promise about your results. Niche, content quality, consistency and timing all matter, and they are yours, not ours.

Why we keep it updated

Because promotion changes, our guides carry an "updated" date and we revise them as platform behavior shifts and as the patterns we see change. If something in a guide stops matching reality, that is a bug to us, and you can always browse the latest guides or tell us.