Porn Blogging 4 Dollars

While updating my adult blogs, I’ve decided to add a couple of new features and steps. I mean it was already a slow process so why not add a couple of hours for some potential bigger returns, right? Take a look at Monster Dicks, which I just finished so you can see what I’m talking about. In the top right box I now have:

1. A new Feedburner chicklet,
2. FeedCount counter via feedburner,
3. Google Translate widget (which I was already adding),
4. Addthis bookmark widget (which I was already adding).

I’ve removed the addthis rss widget as that is now accomplished via feedburner, and the old bookmark/rss widget as well.

Additionally, I’m now submitting my blogs to various sites which give me free one way backlinks. I’m not talking about spamming blogs or forums, or writing articles. This is a small list of sites I’ve accumulated which have indexed adult blogs for me in the past without requiring reciprocal backlinks. I’m also submitting to a couple of free directory and search engine submitter sites, and finally a directory ping service. I’m holding out on posting any links here to see what happens - the no recip sites worked for me in the past, but it may take weeks to get my sites listed - the directory submitters may hurt my ranking if the search engines consider the submissions from them to be spammy - and the ping service is just one of many that are easily found, so why waste the outgoing link.

In fact, feedburner has a built in pinger (PingShot) to notify weblogs when your feed is updated. I’m new to feedburner, having resisted it because I saw no good reason why to promote my feed using a third party. What changed my mind is my non and semi-adult blogs on blogger which I can get away with using AdSense on. Since Google now owns blogger and feedburner they now offer the oportunity to put AdSense ads into your feeds. As surfers become more tech savvy, they’re reading blogs more and more through RSS aggregators. Plus, it seems that a lot of directories are more likely to index feedburner feeds for the browsing surfer than other feeds. I’m guessing I’m onto a good strategy because I just finished that blog yesterday evening and by last night I already had three subscribers.

While speaking of success, I’ve noticed a significant increase in sales.  While I’d like to believe this is due to my reconfabulations, it may simply be due to summer.  This annual bump, I think, is due to college students rewarding themselves for 8 months of hard work with a little porn, as do high-schoolers (what can you do?) who now find themselves at home all day without adult supervision.

As I said before, I’m updating all my adult blogs making them 2257 compliant as well as applying new SEO techniques.  I just finished this one at Licking Lesbians and will get started in a moment at MILFs Movies, but wanted to take a break and fire off a couple of posts to other blogs.  I mentioned before how these updates are mind numbing especially the repetitive actions required to delete each old post - and when you’re deleting hundreds of old posts per blog it can get quite dull.

For this reason, I’ve decided to break up the chore with updating my adult and non-adult blogs at blogger and blogspot between the adult blogs I’m currently updating at thumblogger.  Yup, you read that right, I have adult blogs at blogger.  You’ll hear a lot of people say to not post adult content to blogger and they’re absolutely right.  Confused yet?  Let me clarify:  I have blogs at blogger targeted for adult niche traffic, that point to adult content sites, but do not have actual adult content to get them flagged as adult.  If they do happen to get flagged, blogger will put up a warning page to the blog - which is bad from an SEO stand point but at least all your posts aren’t lost. Take a look at these and see what I mean:

Web Cam Girls - Nothing special, just another web cam blog.  I had this set up on auto-pilot to get posted to from adultcams (a pseudo-free cam site - it’s free with membership to the TopBucks network of sites) but decided I would be better served posting recent screen captures from Streamate - a truly free cam site.  These are quick posts, the top pic is the most recent screen capture from the girls feed, the bottom is from her photo album, and in between is some of her bio stuff that I run through a re-writer.

Adult Movie Stars - I start with pornstars at PornstarDollars and pull info from various sources, do a little rewording and link the movie titles to their corresponding pages on various adult DVD sites like Vixeo, VideosZ, AEBN, and Porn.

Erotiq Comix - This one I just started a couple of days ago.  Basically I’m pushing Amazon and AdSense at the Hentai, Manga, Anime, and adult comics crowd.  The posts are to adult comics and graphic novels sold on Amazon, but I imagine I’ll make more from the AdSense ads once I start getting some targeted ads.

I’ve got a few more that I want to make, but that’s it for what I actually have right now at blogger and blogspot.  You’ll notice that there isn’t any truly adult content on those sites - maybe a few bare breasts but nothing overtly sexual.  This is intentional, as I’m trying to monetize adult traffic from blogger and blogspot while technically remaining a non-adult blog.

I haven’t been posting much recently and here’s why:  2257.  For those of you who don’t know US code 2257 is a federal regulation that requires producers of porn to keep on hand documentation that any performer appearing in their content is of legal age.  You SHOULD see a link to a 2257 statement on any gallery or porn site you visit.  Well, recently the scope of 2257 has been broadened to include any content posted online, including blogs, TGPs, and MGPs.  If you’re pushing adult content, then the law defines you as a secondary producer.  This means that your garden variety adult blogger must obtain the 2257 documents from the affiliates they are promoting if they are posting any sexually explicit images of their content, as well as post their own 2257 statement about who is keeping the documents and where they are being kept.  Note:  this applies to sexually explicit images or images designed to incite a “sexual response” in the viewer. That’s pretty vague.

Well, most adult content producers are resistant to provide their affiliates with that information.  In fact, there has been a lot of talk about how putting that info in the hands of practical strangers will constitute a threat to the performers safety as untold thousands of citizens will have their personal info such as their home addresses.  Even when requesting the doc’s, you’ll be lucky if 1 in 10 of the affiliates you’re promoting will even respond to the inquiry, much less provide the documents requested.  Another option is that if the affiliate program you are promoting has agreed to act as your third-party manager of the documents you can a) post a link to their 2257 statement for each of the images of theirs you use or b) post their 2257 statement once on a page that uses their content exclusively.

Personally, I don’t want the hassle of getting them, keeping them, or having the fed’s come knocking to see them.  So what I’ve been doing is going through my blogs, feedlists, forums, etc and either substituting the hardcore images with softer substitutes, or text links when no softer images are readily available.  Also, this means removing a lot of auto-generated iframe and javascript banners and ads as I have no direct control of what images they show on my sites.  Kind of like the banner image at the top of this page - I’ll have to keep an eye on that and delete these blogs if I see any shift to harder ads. At the moment this is the easiest approach until I’m certain all of my pages are 2257 compliant, at which time I will try to figure out which of my sponsors do indeed act as my third-party manager.

I guess all those adult blog hosts disappearing was a blessing, as those are blogs I have not had to re-edit.  Incidentally, BoardAdult has joined the list of defunct adult blog hosts, as is one other whose name I have already forgotten.

Off to a late start today.  Friday is usually the day I update my Blogtur blogs, and found myself making the same changes to them that I did my Thumblogger blogs.  While in there, I realized they weren’t as optimized as they could be, specifically the blog titles.  For the newbies an important bit of advice:  titles are THE most important part of any webpage. So, in the template I appended the title field to plug a few more keywords, which is especially usefull on the index page which before just had the blog title.  Again, there were links to be added or removed and again I added the CashTraffic banners in prominent spots.

For the newbie or even the experienced webmaster or blogger I whole-heartedly encourage using Thumblogger.  It’s an excellent platform with loads of features built in and great support by the platform team.  But I also take to heart the old adage about putting all of one’s eggs in one basket.  I think it’s a good idea to spread your blogs around to other adult blog free hosts such as Blogtur.

One feature Blogtur offers is a feed aggregator where you plug in RSS addresses, pick which of your blogs you want them to post to, and then whenever you log on you just click a single button and all the new feed items are added to their specified blogs.  Pretty handy to make a lot of posts on multiple blogs with a single click of the mouse.  However, there are drawbacks:

1. ALL items are added, you can’t specify just one blog or one feed without disabling the others first.
2. The categories sometimes have a mind of their own, so even after the items are added you may want to re-specify what category they should be under.
3. These items are verbatim from the RSS feeds - so either you want to edit them afterwards, or use morphing feeds if available.

Another drawback to this platform is that there aren’t widget tools for creating or editing entries, it’s all raw html.  This isn’t a big deal for the experienced blogger/webmaster, but if you’re new to the game you may want to stick with other platforms until you become more adept at reading and writing code.  Also Blogtur doesn’t work well with javascript, but it handles objects just fine - I’m not sure about embedded videos, I’ll check that out and post it as a comment on this entry once I try it.  And finally, there are no widgets or boxes to easily add or remove elements.  If you want to add or subtract something from the layout, you’ve got to do it in the template html - again, not terribly inconvenient for the experienced blogger, but daunting to the newbie.

While Blogtur is best suited for creating doorway pages (splogs, or spam blogs, that offer little to no original content and are used to funnel traffic to one particular site), I found it ideal to use for Adult Site Review Network in order to promote a hosted review site that contained a nofollow, noindex tag.  I’m using their RSS feeds, so I mostly leave the feed content alone and have created a blog whose content IS indexed and IS followed, directing most of the traffic back to them while also providing links to some other sponsor sites.

Allright, enough about all of that, now it’s time to get back to what I said I would do today.