Sex.com is going on auction
If anyone here buys it in a few weeks, do you want to trade links? lol
How much do you think it will sell for?
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16 Sponsors that are crap
I was owed payment from 26 sponsors in Spetember. That’s about average. However–16 of the sponsors have yet to pay.
I contacted each of them by email and ICQ to ask for payment (well–seven of them answered their ICQ). All I did was give them my account name and ID and a recap of what they owed me for September and asked for the late payment to be made.
Nine of the 16 did not answer at all. Just treated me like I was not there. The seven that I did get ahold of were all reading from the same script. I heard everything from "it went out with the wrong address" to "the zip code got put on it wrong" to "I don’t know why you have not received it but I will send you a replacement right away". And, of course, "it’s in the mail". One even swore to me, SWORE to me, that he had personally put it in the mail that morning. The fact that he pays me by EPass must have just slipped by him.
I am tired of the bullshit. Sponsors make it hard enough to do business as it is and then to haveto fight them for money owed on top of it is too much. The 16 in question are history. Their links are coming down. And if I do not get payment within 7 days I will hit the boards with their names and correspondence.
The 16 know who they are and know what games they are playing. But I want each of them to understand—even if they pay me within the next 7 days they are fucking out. And I will still, even if finally paid, take every opportunity I get to let everyone know that they cannot do business honesty.
So if you want to pay me then pay me. All you will get for paying me is keeping your name out of the public. The only way any of you will ever get traffic from me again is if you pay for it in advance.
I am tired of being fucked over by amateur assholes who can’t run their own business. Go screw with someone else.
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What Do You Think Of These Traffic Stats For Submitting One Blog A Day Since Jan 1st?
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This is submitting one sensualwriter blog every day to twans two sets of directories minus sexblogdemon and goldblogs.
Generally they just have 10 posts each. I did this so I could see what I needed to do to get traffic growth.
This is not all my traffic together but I wanted to post this to see what you think. Is this a success or am I patting myself on the back to much?
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Patience
Someone told me a few years back that this is one of a few businesses where you can do and worry too much. One of those businesses where you can actually fine tune yourself right out of business. There are usually two things that cause this to happen. A drive for perfection and no patience.
A drive for perfection can be very dangerous when doing what we do. Most of our surfers could care less about whether or not our blogs are "perfect". They tend instead to care about the content quality and quanity. For the most part the more "bells and whistles" you add to your blog the less productive it will become. The design and the functions become more important than the posts. The special gadgets and places to visit in the sidebar pull the surfers away from what you WANT them to see in the sidebar (your ads).
Perfection makes an appearence in other forms too. The constant quest for the correct keywords and SEO and the perfect trades can be just as damaging as all the gadgets. A perfection nut will tend to spend more time trying to SEO his blog than he pays in putting good content and links on his blog. It is common to see some people spend three or four times more time on the looks and SEO of their blog than they spend on actual posts (which are what the surfers are there to see). It takes an aquired mindset to look at your blog and tell yourself "this is as good as it is going to be" ad then leave it alone.
But more dangerous than a continuous drive for perfection is the lack of patience. I remember this business when all you had to do was get a sloppy gallery listed at the right site and you could expect 10 or more sales a day from it. This business started as one of those where you could make a lot of money real fast. It has not been that way for a long time now.
The adult business in numbers to the extreme. But most newer webmasters forget that numbers over a short term mean nothing. If your blog has only been up a month then you really don’t have the numbers you need to get an idea how you are doing or even what you are doing. You need long term numbers that allow you to get a guage over an extended period. How long? A year. Sometimes more–but a year is a good stopping and looking point. With a year’s worth of numbers you can look at all the averages and ratios and compare them to the "industry" norms. And over the year you will be surprised just how close to the industry norms your numbers actually are.
In general–between 35 and 55% of your visitors will end up clicking through to your sponsor. 50% of THOSE will be "qualified" click-thrus (actually interested and not just curious). Your sales ratio is going to be somewhere between 1:1000 and 1:1500 qualified click-thrus. (If you have 100 unique visitors a day then betwen 35 and 50 of them will click your sponsor links and between 17 and 25 of those will be "qualified". You SHOULD have a sale between 40 and 59 days.)
But you have to be patient enough to wait and see the numbers develop. Some blog owners get lucky and make 3 or 4 sales in the first week on no traffic at all. Some can go 6 months without a sale. But in the end the numbers will show that both those webmasters are surprisingly close numbers wise (one sale for every 4000 to 5900 unique clicks to the blog). Sometimes a webmaster will get lucky and his numbers will be much better–this year. Next year when he averages the two years out he will be close to the industry norm. And some webmasters, usually the perfectionalists, will see numbers much worse but, again, over the long term the averages tend to play out.
This business requires the ability to work at a frantic pace and the patience to wait for results. In that way this business is just like every other business. You will find that you can survive your constant drive for perfection but your lack of patience will drive you slowly insane.
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Q for Twan: What’s next?
You and yours have done a great job filling needs in the adult arena for various services. All of your tools and platforms are simply outstanding! I plug em every chance I get.
I was curious if there was the chance of a tube site platform in the future. Personally, I’m curious but wary of getting into them, but wouldn’t hesitate if you all were the ones behind it!
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Advice for a new blogger but experienced panty seller
I’ve had my little blog up for a few months now, and it seems to be going well. I’m certainly having fun. I originally built it to serve a couple of purposes:
1. First and foremost I sell my used panties, and I wanted to build a website that would allow me to give some information about me, what I do, what I won’t do LOL, and about how to buy from me. Of course I also wanted to use it to showcase my panties for sale.
2. Secondly I’ve been into the panty fetish for several years and selling for nearly three, and I’m excited by panties and everything about them. In this regard I’m using my site as an actual blog, although I have been neglecting it somewhat lately. But it’s so much fun
But lately since I’ve been more involved in these forums I’m seeing that I may be able to use my blog more in the fashion that most of you guys seem to, that is, as a revenue center in its own right through referral, affiliate business with pay porn sites etc.
I wouldn’t want my site to be overrun with promos for other sites, as I’d still like it to be primarily for me and my interests. So maybe just one of two that I particularly like. I’d only want to build relationships with sites that I like to visit, and are kind of related to what I do, so apart from some panty sites, others like Abby Winters, Inthecrack, Ishotmyself, Ron Harris etc
So at the risk of possibly creating more competition in the "industry", my questions are:
1. Are there any threads or resources here in this forum or otherwise that explain how a newbie blogger, like yours truly, could go about it?
2. What sort of money is there to be made by it?
3. What level of monthly traffic does my site need to have to make it worthwhile? I’m happy with what I’m generating, but I don’t know what’s good, and what’s not, after only being up for three months. I’m certainly not lacking for business though LOL. BTW Google Analytics is awesome!
So any advice from all of you old-heads?
Thanks so much. Mwuahh xxx
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Why I dont handwrite posts
Just finished a handwritten post for AV Idols. It took almost an hour to reaearch it and do it. Just too damn much time. Yes i get sales off of it but I get sales off of rss posts too.
The Post
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I officially give up on google
After working on learning all I can about SEO for the last year, dutifully applying it to the best of my abilities and getting marginal, at best, results, I quit!
Tonight, I was messing with some so-called keyword research and I googled a certain keyphrase for which I would like to rank well for. Out of 1.6 million results, one of my blogs popped up on the first page with the following results (edited to protect what little dignity I have left):
My blog title
Greetings XXXXXXXXXXXX porn lovers! Due to some douchebag that hacked into the servers at thumblogger, this blog is currently down. …
XXXXXXXXXXXX.thumblogger.com/ - 17k - Cached - Similar pages
After many beers and much reflection on this topic, the only logical conclusion I can come to is that google is more fucked up than garcia’s first wife.
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Traffic sources
Ok,
The following link lists all the top social bookmarking sites
http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social30
Now it seems to me on alot of these sites we can create a profile and within our profile add links to our blogs. Although we cannot really participate in these social sites as we are promoting porn and this is usually against the TOS.
So i assume the purpose is via our profiles being present on all these high ranked sites we add backlinks to our blogs in the hope that SEO will pick them up.
So we are not expecting traffic to come from these sites themselves, just that we have scattered more backlinks to our blogs across the internet?
Is this correct? And is it worth it?
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Linking to blog posts - duplicate content
Probably an unnecessary question, but I still wonder whether it won’t be rated as duplicate content if a link uses the same phrase as the blog post you link to? As it is with myfeedlist or feedburner for example.
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