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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My account interface still shows 2/15 as the last check date but there should have been something since then. Is anyone else having an issue or just me?
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CrackWhore Theme Song<—–(click to hear)
Lyrics, Beats, Production - ytcracker
the name cracker jack - the crack ho magnet
pass out some crack and they let him tag it
they hit off the pipe and then he shag it
get a couple magnums and double bag it
hoes know that we like em cheap
i like to bust a nut then go to sleep
but sometimes they tell him stories
they are interesting and never boring
if a ho spits good gaaaaaame
we pass her some crack and we ask her naaaaaame
then she tell us how fucked up her life is
how her husband beats her cuz how cracked out his wife is
this is the real world - minus austin
dawsons creek - minus dawson
bitch got no teeth so you know she aint flossing
a rock and a half is all this ass costin
crackwhoreconfessions ( dot com )
let me tell you bout a whore named trisha
20 years old and a snatch thatll get ya
starting using H when she hit her teens
got busted for hooking in a vice sting
this sara girl pussy looks like roast beef
she could kill a fly with the smell of her queef
the bad and the ugly like lee van cleef
cracker jack is their pimp bitch thats a belief
then this bitch jeri shell let you bust in her
so her husband can eat it for dinner
laura shes a three hole hooker
seven years later and shes still a crack cooker
lindas on the crack whore diet
rock and dick all you do is supply it
20 bucks what it cost you to buy it
pretty cheap i suggest that you try it
crackwhoreconfessions ( dot com )
Enjoy this tune and enjoy a tour of some crack houses courtesy of CrackWhoreConfessions.com
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Looks like they added some trash to bring out the orange in the Condemned sign
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This one comes fully furnished
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I’ll take my sub on white, extra roaches, hold the mayo
If you want to scar your mind more, be sure to check out the site CrackWhoreConfessions
With stories like the America’s Most Wanted Crackwhore
You can see why these insane confessions convert like crazy!!!!!
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With the unfortunate passing of Mike aka Compdoctor I don’t know what the right thing to do with his contacts and links.
Is it proper to remove his icq, email and links from his profile incase anyone tries to contact him and doesn’t know he has passed away?
Is it best to not touch his links?
I’m asking because I don’t want to do anything wrong and incase his loved ones might be reading his emails/icq and get hurt by people trying to contact him.
What would be the right thing to do to respect his memory and his family?
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I like the "hands on" approach so sometimes I really don’t automate like I should. My spreadsheet system for keeping track of posts to my blogs is one example. It’s simple, requires very little actual work once set up, and gives me the date of the last post that is set up for each blog so I can add new posts before they run dry.
Below is the spreadsheet section for the blogs I have under GarciasBlogs. The first column is the blog name and the last column is the date that the last post is scheduled. I know there is software that would do this easier but I think it is good to force myself to look at the list once a month at least so that the blogs remain real to me.
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Just a quick one! Do you use corner peel ads from your sponsors on your sites? If you do have you found they helped your conversions? If not is it because you found them too difficult to add to your site, you don’t use a sponsor who provides them or you just think they are nasty and don’t want to use them.
I’m asking because we are thinking about introducing them and just wanted a bit of feedback.
Cheers.
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