IMHO The whole 3rd party custodian was a very progressive move by Big Brother. The beauty is that it makes it easier for freesite owners to comply with 2257… Even if it does take a little work on the part of us smalltime webmasters, it is a good thing because it actually makes it possible for freesite owners to specify their sponsors’ custodians as their 3rd party custodians. Hell… It should even make sponsors breath a sigh of relief due to not having to release to model ids to 1000′s of webmasters… Some who may not actually be real webmasters. 
This system would work, as long as the sponsors have an actual custodian and are not trying to use the regs to their own advantage and passing the buck onto their content providers or the primary producers as their own 3rd party custodians… and I’ve noticed that alot of them are doing this.
This is where I get pissed off. Why would a sponsor not have his own custodian of records? I can understand having a 3rd party custodian who knows your sites, content used on each site, your affiliate ids and websites, but passing the buck to content providers or primary producers is rediculous. The content provider has already given up the the required docs when the content was purchased. If he didn’t then you shouldn’t use the content.
This practice leaves affiliates bare assed when it comes to compliance and any sponsors who have compliance pages that pass the buck to primary producers and content providers need their asses kicked. What happens when a content provider or primary producer refuses to provide inspectors document for images on a site owned by someone he never sold content to and has no idea who owns? Simple answer… A small-time webmaster gets a knock on the door from pissed off inspectors and ends up going to prison.
I don’t know how many sponsors I have dropped recently due to this idiotic policy and anyone who doesn’t do the same is gonna get caught with their drawers down when an inspector visits their sites.
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I like to look at referrers for two reasons.
First of all I spend a bit of time moving traffic from one point of my network to another and it makes me feel good to see my own urls in the referring list. It lets me know that the filtering system at least looks like it is working.
Secondly I want to make certain that my own "in house" traffic is just part of the incoming. Fresh traffic is always needed and it helps to see where that traffic is coming from. It also gives me a chance to see what directories are being productive, what social sites are working for me, and what SEs, if any, are sending traffic.
So I looked at an Asian blog at 3 this afternoon and grabbed the latest 20 referring urls (NOT including mine). The list included the following:
10 Directories (Mad Blogs, Yobt, Quality Adult Blogs, SexBlogs, ZBlogList, Adult Blog Spider, Sexblogle, Sex Blog Hunter, Porn Blog Catalog, SeoulKoreaSex)
5 Social sites (SoSo, Garamoff, Pureazn, teenthaisex, seymourtotti)
4 search engines (Google, Yahoo, AOL, and NetZero)
1 PicRush (NaughtyPrince.thumblogger)
I have 16 directories on the blog (3 are mine). So out of the 13 possible directories to send hits 10 did. Not a bad percentage but i will now have to check the other blogs I have the three unproductive directories on to see if they are producing there. I usually try to hit 25 to 30 social sites once a week for each blog so only 5 sendng hits just shows me that the Social thing isn’t working for me (at least in the Asian niche). The 4 SEs sending traffic is good but I would like to see MSN on the list too. The one PicRush hit is about average.
Does this mean anything to or for anybody? Not really. The point is that it helps sometimes to get a grip on "where" your traffic is coming from in order to decide what to do with that traffic. It also lets you judge how effective your linking system is and gives you clues on whether you need to refocus your efforts. For instance—I will stop using the social sites on this blog and invest that 15 to 20 minutes a week into improving posistion on MSN. Referring urls are just one of many things you can look at to get another piece of the puzzle.
There is no set % of what is good or bad written down anywhere. Most agree the higher the SE numbers the better. A lot feel that directory traffic is marginal at best. So knowing where your traffic is coming from is just a small part of the equation. But for stats nuts it is interesting and it also keeps you from checking your sales stats for a few hours.
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I like to look at referrers for two reasons.
First of all I spend a bit of time moving traffic from one point of my network to another and it makes me feel good to see my own urls in the referring list. It lets me know that the filtering system at least looks like it is working.
Secondly I want to make certain that my own "in house" traffic is just part of the incoming. Fresh traffic is always needed and it helps to see where that traffic is coming from. It also gives me a chance to see what directories are being productive, what social sites are working for me, and what SEs, if any, are sending traffic.
So I looked at an Asian blog at 3 this afternoon and grabbed the latest 20 referring urls (NOT including mine). The list included the following:
10 Directories (Mad Blogs, Yobt, Quality Adult Blogs, SexBlogs, ZBlogList, Adult Blog Spider, Sexblogle, Sex Blog Hunter, Porn Blog Catalog, SeoulKoreaSex)
5 Social sites (SoSo, Garamoff, Pureazn, teenthaisex, seymourtotti)
4 search engines (Google, Yahoo, AOL, and NetZero)
1 PicRush (NaughtyPrince.thumblogger)
I have 16 directories on the blog (3 are mine). So out of the 13 possible directories to send hits 10 did. Not a bad percentage but i will now have to check the other blogs I have the three unproductive directories on to see if they are producing there. I usually try to hit 25 to 30 social sites once a week for each blog so only 5 sendng hits just shows me that the Social thing isn’t working for me (at least in the Asian niche). The 4 SEs sending traffic is good but I would like to see MSN on the list too. The one PicRush hit is about average.
Does this mean anything to or for anybody? Not really. The point is that it helps sometimes to get a grip on "where" your traffic is coming from in order to decide what to do with that traffic. It also lets you judge how effective your linking system is and gives you clues on whether you need to refocus your efforts. For instance—I will stop using the social sites on this blog and invest that 15 to 20 minutes a week into improving posistion on MSN. Referring urls are just one of many things you can look at to get another piece of the puzzle.
There is no set % of what is good or bad written down anywhere. Most agree the higher the SE numbers the better. A lot feel that directory traffic is marginal at best. So knowing where your traffic is coming from is just a small part of the equation. But for stats nuts it is interesting and it also keeps you from checking your sales stats for a few hours.
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I had a thought and well just didn’t know the answer so I reckoned I would ask.
All these blogs out there that many of you own. You write stories everyday and post them.
Do you ever sell site links mentioned in your stories. Your story could still be all about what ever it is about. But includes a sentence with a sold ad/link in it.
Is this ever done?
John
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Everybody talks about the secrets that webmasters have that they are never willing to let go of. There are not that many secrets involved in this unless you consider working hard for long hours with little sleep a secret.
But there are a few little things that some of us do. Little things that very few others do. By themselves they do not make a lot of difference but when added to the hard work mentioned above they help some.
One of mine is a list that I have been using for about 4 years now. It is non-recip. It has always sent me decent traffic. NOT decent in mumber of hits but quality of hits. It’s not a big thing by itself but it is part of my traffic formula. It is at The List (MTL 1.2) .
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