Porn Blogging 4 Dollars

OK, I’ve been thinking a long time about making this post, but have been tied up with other things so today I’m making the time.  A common question I see on a lot of the adult boards and forums is “who is your best sponsor” or put another way “what affiliate program makes you the most money.” Invariably, someone will answer with “well, that depends on where your traffic is coming from, how you promote, etc.” which is all true.  Mostly, though, it is an opportunity for a lot of folks to just start plugging their webmaster referral links.

In order of importance to me, the first things I look at are:

The Link Codes

Preferably, I don’t want to see any boolean characters, the most common being ‘?’, ‘&’, and ‘=’. I’ve heard that search engines have gotten smart about stripping these from the pages they index in their effort to reduce duplicate content, and I tend to believe it. Unfortunately for the person promoting these links, that usually means that their webmaster ID in the link to credit them with any sale generated is removed from the page that is actually indexed.  I’ll use porn.com as an example, but keep in mind that what I’m detailing here is the industry norm. The link they give me to use is http://links.porn.com/?r=pimp26155&p=pt&c=1&j=11&mr=y&src=codes. As you can see, it’s absolutely loaded with boolean characters, and if you strip them away, the way the search engines are said to do, you get essentially the same page, just without my webmaster ID.

Redirects

Now, if you follow the link I’ve given above, you’ll notice that the page actually redirects to something like http://www.porn.com/?t_link=pimp26155:pt::028d9b19:11:1 , the 028d9b19 is a random string that get’s generated every time the page loads. What this means is that there is no consistent link that can be linked directly to, to facilitate indexing.  If I post that same link in a thousand different places, it may get indexed, but it’s just as likely it won’t.

Code

Looking at the page the link points to, open ‘Page Source’ under the ‘View’ tab in your browser window to get a look at the pages source code.  You’ll see that the page I’m given the link to has a nofollow attribute in the robots meta tag. What that means is that even if this page gets indexed by the search engines, the robots and spiders are restricted from leaving this page in search of other pages to possibly index.

So, why would the affiliate give me this link that couldn’t possibly get indexed as is, get’s redirected to a page that is equally unlikely to get indexed, and places restrictions on the robots and spiders from possibly searching for a page that might get indexed?  It’s really simple: money! If you do a search for them, you’ll easily find their pages without the boolean characters first. Now look at the source code of those pages and you’ll see that the robots meta tag now allows the robots and spiders to follow the links in the page in search of new pages to index. They have guaranteed that the vast majority of joins from search engine traffic will belong 100% to them.

So you’re probably asking yourself if adult webmasters are fully aware of this chicanery why would they continue to promote them?  It’s a great site!  They’ve got loads of content, it’s constantly updating, and they’ve got great hand-written descriptive text on every page!  As an adult blogger, they’ve got everything you want to provide you with content for your blogs.  The bottom line is this: You’re counting on your blogs to bring in the surfers who will either join right then, or bookmark one of your pages for now and hopefully join later.

Is There An Alternative?

As I stated above, what I’ve detailed so far is the industry norm. Nearly every affiliate program does at least one of these things.  However, I would much prefer to make money from search engine traffic that will find and index all the various pages in a given site.  So, how do I accomplish that?  White labels such as German Porn Movies.  This particular white label is from Vixeo, by far my very best affiliate program.  You’ll notice that every single page from the main page down to even the 2257 statement all belong to the white label - there are no “leaks” to pages that are exclusively the sponsors.  Nearly every page is a good solid hard link without boolean characters.  The code instructs the spiders to index and follow the pages and links.  The only thing that could be better are the descriptions.  The DVD descriptions come from the box covers like 90% of similar sites, and the scene descriptions are often short and poorly written.

In fact, you don’t even need to create a new white label.  Simply by joining you are given a link to their complete site which is essentially a white label in itself and you can customize it to some small degree.  Additionally they offer hosted galleries, and free content and hosting to host your own galleries if you like.  Honestly, if they closed shop It would be so detrimental to my adult blogging income I would get out of it altogether.

What I recommend

I recommend using them both.  Find a good sponsor like PimpRoll that has a good looking site and good content you can use in your adult blog posts.  These posts will bring search engines and surfers alike to your blogs. For every blog have at least one white label you’re also linking to, to be found and indexed by the search engines.  Now promote your blog and your white label is sure to also be found!

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.

All right, I haven’t done too much with those blogs I told you about last time.  While I was making them, I also decided to make others elsewhere as well.  Remember what I said about putting all your blogging eggs in one basket?  Well, I also made a handful of blogs at AdultBlogPress.  Guess what?  They’re already gone.  I don’t mean the blogs have been removed, I’m saying you can’t access AdultBlogPress any more.  That’s not as bad as another blog host I used that after about six months of regular posting redirected all traffic to their own sponsor page - that was really black hat!  So my suggestion is this:  use alternative blog hosts, but don’t invest too much time in them for about 6 months.  Create one blog with them and work with that in that period.  After that time, if you’re happy with the service and up-time, then by all means expand the blogs you have with them.

What I’ve mostly been pre-occupied with is creating a couple of adult gallery forums:

• The Boob Zone Forum - exclusively for big tit galleries.
• The Porn Dump Forum - niched porn categories.

My way of thinking is that they will give adult webmasters a free place (no recip required) to list or dump their galleries, and surfers will have a place to find a diversity of niched porn galleries to browse.  Everybody’s happy!  What prompted this endeaver was that I regularly posted to a big tit forum, but I noticed that it wasn’t optimized at all, but hey, it was a free place  to post my galleries.  Unfortunately, the guy behind it set it up then walked away.  With zero moderation, once the spammers found it, it pretty much became a worthless place to any self-respecting blogger.  So I looked into creating my own forums - but forums optimized for search engines, and regularly moderated to keep it attractive to posters and surfers alike.

So, with the rest of the day I’m going to make posts to my blogs that I’ve some what ignored recently - kinda like this one.

Alright, this is my first post.  So let me start by talking a bit about why I chose to create this blog.  This blog is to serve two primary purposes:

1. As a journal for myself so I can look back at what I did and when (I’m thinking this will prove useful as it generally takes a couple of weeks for any changes to impact the search engines), and
2. As a place for other adult webmasters to learn from my successes and mistakes.   And to a lesser degree
3. A place to find tips, tricks, and advice to the newbie looking to get started.

Alright, so on to what I did today to warrant the name for the post.  Recently thumblogger got hacked and everything from the past six months disappeared.  Bummer because it was all changes that had been made to the blogs and not just the posts and I had invested some serious hours in all the blogs I have there in that time.  So I went in got to work and made them even better than before.  Well, wouldn’t you know when everything gor straightened out, my OLD changes were back and my NEW changes were undone.  So, I’m at it again.

Yesterday I started by removing some old links that seem to me to be kinda scammy by the sponsors.  By this I mean that your affiliate code is in the link, fine, but not in the links from that page.  Meaning so long as someone follows the link from your page, you’ll get credit for the sale, but your affiliate code will NOT be attached to any of the other pages for the spiders to find and index.  I just don’t have the traffic to justify that type of linking scheme.  For me, these sites were mostly VOD sites anyway, and of those I prefer AEBN and Yappo, as your affiliate code is included on every single link!

Well, thumblogger has a great feature that I like to take advantage of, and that’s the random box.  You can place a box anywere on your blog to rotate through up to 20 different bits of html - great for rotating banners, pics of the day, video walls from VideosZ, that sort of thing, and that’s where I spent a lot of those hours I was talking about.  So I found myself overhauling these boxes - and it occurred to me that instead of using this potentially valuable web space to promote sites that would be just as served by a single text link, I would be better served by placing banners to under-optimized for SEO sites that pay $25-$40 for every signup to their ‘free to join’ sites.  Namely being CashTraffic, CECash and WEGCash.  Ordinarily, I think banners have little effect but to add some visual interest to a page that might possibly one day get clicked.  But when placing a niche flash banner on a niche site with words like ‘Free to Join’ or ‘Free Lifetime Access’ while also using title fields to hover that ‘Free’ emphasis, I think I should see a lot of conversions.  An example of these banners in action on a thumblogger page can be seen at my Free Porn Passes blog.

Tomorrow, I plan to finish filling out those random boxes, adding deep links to my niche Vixeo and AdultBouncer sites wherever I have remaining slots, followed by working on the layout of my custom Adultbouncer site, Daily Porn Movies.