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."
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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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