$10347.07 epass are teasing me
i shit myself.. obviously a bug
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WARNING- SCAMMING SPONSOR : Suicide Girls.com
OK - I wasn’t going to post this, but these guys have been 100% arseholes to deal with from the word go. If you promote them, you WILL get scammed.
For those who don’t want to read everything - after one week of signing up:
Note - the site I created works purely off new SE terms.
Quote: Simon,
I want to thank you for trying to increase SuicideGirls.com traffic with cutegoths.com and joining our affiliate program, however we no longer wish to have you as an affiliate, your site is just not bringing any results (only one sign-up).
I have closed your affiliate account and would appreciate it if you remove SuicideGirls content from your site.
Thank you,
Victoria (ViquiV) Suicide
V.P. Production & Traffic
SuicideGirls.com I’m going to do this by a blow blow blow, just so you can see what type of idiots they are.
#1 - I register. I’m using text only from their site, and buttons only from their site.
Quote: We thank you for signing up for our affiliate program, however, your site is breaking some of the rules:
1. Please REMOVE the text "goth teen culture" "newest teen goths" and any other mention of teens. Our Girls are NOT for teens, you must be over 18 to enjoy them. This is fair enough, but stupid. I remove the text teens.
Quote: Also, on each girls page, the sentence: "We have the pleasure of bringing you the latest nude pic set from our very sexy OTOK" should be taken off, or corrected. it should not read "from our very sexy", they are NOT your girls, they are Suicide Girls (and that needs to be capitalized).
3. As an affiliate, you are only authorized to use the preview images and banners. You may NOT use profile information, journal entries or anything else that is not a pre-approved image. 2 is fair enough, but stupid, 3 is just stupid.
Anyhow, I go ahead and make the changes.
Next round - suddnely they change their minds.
Quote: Simon, thanks for your cooperation.
I’ve double checked with Missy, and she said that as long as you take out any mention of Teens, and clearly state that these are Suicidegirls and NOT your girls, then she’s okay with you keeping the profile information on your site.
Thanks again,
ViquiV Quote: It’s fixed now.
Thank you! 2 hours later:
Quote: Hey Simon,
We are still perfecting our affiliate program, and adding to the "terms and conditions." Yesterday, your affiliate account was closed, and I apologize for that, as you were very accommodating with the changes we asked you to make.
We appreciate your interest in the site and your efforts to increase our traffic. The one thing we’d like you to change, however, is the comments that you’re posting on your site. We’ve decided to only allow 5 journal entries per girl and five comments on each set to be displayed on a site other than ours.
We’d also like to know your future plans for your site. You advertise it as a goth myspace. If you’re eventually going to have your own members, who can login and post on your site…and post comments on our pictures, that’s going to be a problem. The affiliate program is meant to be a way for others to advertise our site by linking to it, once you start incorporating your own community it gets complicated.
I make more senseless changes:
Quote: Thank you so much for your understanding and cooperation.
I hope your site is successful and we can send you lots of cash! 
-ViquiV oh, no wait:
Quote: At the top of the column on the right side…can you change it to say Recent SuicideGirl pics…instead of Cute Goth pics…this way it’s clear that these are SuicideGirls.
Thanks! 10 minutes later:
Quote: You rock and Roll! Then nothing, until 1 week later:
Quote: Simon,
I want to thank you for trying to increase SuicideGirls.com traffic with cutegoths.com and joining our affiliate program, however we no longer wish to have you as an affiliate, your site is just not bringing any results (only one sign-up).
I have closed your affiliate account and would appreciate it if you remove SuicideGirls content from your site.
Thank you,
Victoria (ViquiV) Suicide
V.P. Production & Traffic
SuicideGirls.com Judge for yourselves.
All I can say is - fuck you. You might have got some press in some newspapers recently, but if you think this is how you can fraud affiliates, get fucked.
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Good stats system for blogs and other sites
I know there is threads that used this exact topic, but I just wanted to use a fresh one. I think that this would be good info for at least quite a few webmasters out there and better info than other stats threads that I searched though.
Anyway, I was looking for a good stats system for my wordpress blogs and I could not find any.
Wordpress plugins stats systems:
- cystats
very disorganized and confusing, but does ok, definetly not great
- google-analyticator
i think this one just made it easy to add that google analytics code to your pages, that’s all it did
- google-analytics-for-wordpress
i think this one just counted outgoing hits, not bad
- statpress-reloaded
this is supposed to be the new version of old statpress, i didn’t see much difference
- wassup
gives indebth info on visitors, not what i was looking for
- wp-statpress
just another stats script
There were I think few more stats plugins, the short stats I was not able to install even, anyway, none of them were really good enough.
The world famous google analytics:
- Yes, pretty fancy, lots of information but, what a second, where the hell is yahoo hits? I never saw mine and I saw them with other stats sytems, so my conclusion is that there is something wrong with them. Someone on netpond said that "why would they give you such great stats system for free" and I think they were right. They screw up other search engines stats and I’m gonna leave it at that.
Propably the best free hosted stats sytem:
statcounter.com - again not what I was looking for
Popular and good install script stats system:
awstats - very good system, only one problem, why the hell wouldn’t they enable an option where I could select specific time range like october 10 to october 15 for example, that’s the only thing i didn’t like, other than that, it’s a great script.
Finally after shit load of searching, I fould this one:
Free web statistics, phpMyVisites web analytics
Check it out, I think it’s gold. As far as I know, it counts visits using java script, but most people have that enabled anyways. It kind of seems like the google one and it has all the options that you can imagine.
There is my netpond contribution
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How are paysite sales going for everyone? not cam or dating
I have seen a decline not sure how much but shit aint converting across the board with us and traffic we send to others.
thank god Getrichinporn is making up the differance for us.
what do you think is the reason lets create a list. as an industry we should start targeting the problems and try to fix them slowly.
I personaly think its the free sites thats show to much. from tgp’s to tubes. we should have guide lines as to whats exceptable free porn to show.
even with the economy in the shitter people will stay pay if they can get jack off free
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Google adwords - adult friendly again??
Is it just me, or are there more adult ads at the right hand side of the SERPS at google.com?
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Webmastering - the numbers game ..
There are few other industries where armed with a little knowledge and a tiny investment you can go on to make a very hefty income. Things aren’t anywhere near like they were many years ago, but you can still make a decent living being a webmaster depending on how hard and smart you work.
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Webmastering and creating sites will produce a residual income, you wont see lots of $ up front but after months and years of building you will enjoy the fruits of your labor over a long period of time, usually with very little maintenance necessary.
The first step is to work out how to make a site that makes money. I usually aim for the $1 a day site .. in that I like to aim to make a site that will earn on average $1 per day. Though for this thread lets take a more realistic target of 100 visits a day. Any site should be able to hit 100 visits a day just with a little content, some se traffic and a few link trades.
1 - Lets assume you get a pretty low 10% ctr overall on your site, and convert a pretty average 1:2000. Thats pretty poor figures but anyone should be able to achieve them. You spend half a day 7 days a week creating your site and getting linking up etc .. easy as pie. Lets also assume a sale if the average of $30 each.
After 1 month you are getting 3000 visits to your site a day, 300 clicks to sponsor and around 1 sale a week. Congrats you are on around $1500 a year!
though after a year you are getting 36000 visits a day, 3600 clicks to your sponsor a day and 1.8 sales a day. You would be on 18,000 a year. Not a fortune but a pretty handy residual income. Do it another year and it all doubles.
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Now lets be a little more realistic. Firstly 100 visits a day is piddly, and an average ratio of 1:2000 is bad. With some learning, and some extra work plus more of a full time approach we can play with those numbers.
Lets say you are building a site a day that will generate 200 (still low) visits a day on average, you are working 7 days a week, and you can convert 1:800 plus you are earning on average $40 a sale (more than doable with good revshare sponsors and some higher payout programs), and you are generating a more reasonable 20% ctr.
After a month you are generating 6000 visits a day to your sites, 1200 clicks to sponsor a day, 1.5 sales a day, and an ok 21,900 a year.
After a year of hard work and grind you have hit the jackpot. you are getting 72000 visits a day, 14400 clicks to sponsor a day, 18 sales a day, $720 a day, which equates to a whopping $262,800 a year…. thats right over $250k a year. Spend another year building considering the 2 year site rule and you should be able to sustain a $500k a year income.
Sounds easy right? Well heres the catch….
Can you avoid distractions and build and work every day?
Can you keep it up 7 days a week? 6? even 5?
Can you be your own boss and avoid temptations to surf the net and chat on all the boards all day?
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At the very least with a little determination and some hard work everyone is capable of financial freedom to some degree!
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Facebook Wins $873 Million Judgment Against Spammer
November 24, 2008 03:22 PM
Facebook on Friday won $873 million in damages from a spammer, the largest award to date under the 2003 Can-Spam Act.
The penalty for illegal spamming appears to be rising. Facebook’s award tops the $234 million judgment won by MySpace in May against Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines. It also exceeds the $177,500 fine and $1.1 million ill-gotten-gain forfeiture that Jeffrey Kilbride and James Schaffer were ordered to pay in October 2007 for the pair’s porn spam operation.
"We’ve all experienced spam — those unwanted and, sometimes, inappropriate marketing messages," said Facebook director of security Max Kelly and deputy general counsel Mark Howitson in an e-mailed statement. "The bad guys behind those messages are always looking to find new ways to annoy people and Facebook’s users have been among those targeted. We don’t take this affront to our users lying down."
U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel handed down the award last week following four months of litigation. In addition to the monetary judgment, the ruling prohibits the defendants, Adam Guerbuez and his company, Atlantis Blue Capital, from accessing Facebook for any reason or assisting others in doing so.
Kelly and Howitson acknowledge that it’s doubtful Facebook will be able to collect the full judgment. "It’s unlikely that Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital could ever honor the judgment rendered against them (though we will certainly collect everything we can)," their joint statement says. "But we are confident that this award represents a powerful deterrent to anyone and everyone who would seek to abuse Facebook and its users."
Like Wallace and Rines in the MySpace spam case, Guerbuez didn’t show up in court. "We are going to go after him," said Sam O’Rourke, senior corporate counsel for Facebook, in a phone interview. "We know where he is and we’re in the process of executing the judgment."
According to the complaint that Facebook filed in August, Guerbuez, a Canadian citizen and resident of Montreal, is the sole owner of Atlantis Capital Blue, a business entity listed in Internet domain registration data to be in Panama City, Panama.
The complaint names 25 unknown defendants, or "John Does." But O’Rourke said that this is a standard practice, in case additional people are implicated. In this instance, he said that Facebook doesn’t expect to charge additional people.
Between March and April, Guerbuez sent more than 4 million spam messages to Facebook users, the complaint states. He allegedly did so by stealing Facebook users’ logon details using phishing messages and through data obtained from third parties. He then allegedly used botnets to spam Facebook users’ message posting pages, or Walls, with messages from the hijacked accounts of spam recipients’ Facebook friends.
Unlike e-mail spam, which is generally viewed and/or deleted in private, social networking spam may have social repercussions. The Wall-post spam was visible to anyone viewing an affected Facebook profile, and appeared to be endorsed by the account owner and the friend who posted it.
People may believe spam messages on Facebook are more credible when they appear to come from a friend, O’Rourke acknowledged. "In that sense, just because Facebook does provide for interaction, it can be more damaging," he said.
"The spam promoted numerous products and Web sites that, on information and belief, are offensive and embarrassing to [spam recipients and the owners of hijacked accounts that sent the spam]," the complaint explains. "The products marketed by these spam messages included marijuana, male enhancement pills, and sexually oriented material."
http://www.informationweek.com/news/…on=All+Stories
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100% proof why tubes aren’t killing this industry
The fact that they exist.
Where does the money come for the shitloads of bw they have to pay? From the shitloads of sales they do.
So far the only person who has a clue about this whole tube thing is Tam…and me ofcourse.
Originally Posted by Tam View Post
Yeah I get that, but the poor bastards that are going after the free thing, they have always been able to find it and chances are wouldn’t be joining anything anyway.
I am not going to mention any sites by name or anything like that here. But as a Rep for a few programs, I can see the stats of people who run some of these tube sites everyone is freaking about, and with some of them, the sales ratios are better than any tgp I have seen. And I am not just saying this, I see it with my own two eyes. They ARE buying the porn, but these are the ones that would buy it anyway I think. The freeloaders are NOT going to pay for it whether it is a tube site, a tgp or hijacking password files and getting into it that way…. they just aren’t going to pay for it at ALL.
Please don’t ask me to post urls of this, I can’t do it out of respect for privacy, I’ll just tell you that I have plenty of tube site owners that do extremely well with the sales ratios on these sites.
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How do keywords like this convert? Good or Bad?
Lets say I want to promote Nastydollars Bignaturals.com and I target the keyword: Bignaturals
How would this convert?
Or singlegirls sites, for example inbedwithfaith.com
If I target inbedwithfaith or In bed with faith
Would it convert better than keywords like "Big Tits Teen"?
I’ve always assumed keywords like this are converting bad since the person that searching for that keyword obviously already know what he’s looking for and do probably only want to find more free content.
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