May 23rd, 2009 by admin
How many times have you come across an adult blog only to find nothing but images and no text describing the scene or even a prevelant link to the sponsor? I see it all the time. I have to wonder how well they do for sales, and if they make any at all. Porn is, for the most part, a visual medium sure. But like promoting any product which you believe in, you have to sell it. Not putting up any text describing what’s going on in the video and/or images defeats the purpose of closing a deal if you ask me. Imagine walking into a car dealership shopping for a car and all the salesperson does is show you a bunch of pictures of vehicles for sale, but doesn’t say a word to you. Are going to buy one? Probably not.
Now…some folks use the descriptions provided by the site they’re promoting. Ok, so it’s better than nothing. The problem I find with this though is – how many other affiliates put that same description up on their own blogs? If the search engines pick them up more than your blog for some reason chances are you’ll be left in the dust due to the lack of originality of your blog entry text.
Keyword rich descriptions are the ticket in my experience. Words like “hardcore”, “cock”, “ass”, and “pussy” may have been used more times than any of us could ever imagine, but they still get attention from the engines. They’re all still words used by surfers looking for porn – regardless of their overuse. I find being original in your keywork phrases can help a lot. Instead of just using “cock”, try “chubby slut sucks huge dick” or something similar. Search engines like phrases as much as they do just one word. 5 words in the phrase seems to be the unofficial limit. This is a great tactic to use, as even if the surfer only puts in one of the words from your phrase, chances are your entry wil pop up somewhere in their search. That is what you’re trying to do after all.
Write some good text with your blog entries folks. Try experimenting with certain words and see what surfers are looking for. In the end your really will get more traffic, and more traffic equals one thing – more sales!
Happy Blogging!
– RDude
May 6th, 2009 by admin
Ok, so you’ve got WordPress installed and your theme is looking pretty much the way you want it to. Your content is all taken care of and you’re prepared to write a few blogs and get your first post up. But wait! What about the spam you’ll be getting through your comments once your blog goes live? How about SEO? Will the search engines pick you up properly and know what your blog is all about? And lastly, how will you know how many people visit your blog each day? As an Adult Webmaster, that’s a very important factor to know.
Askimet more often than not comes with the latest versions of WordPress. However, whether you’re running and older version or not, you need it in order to control the spam coming through your comments database. Believe me when I say that if you don’t do this, you will be hit and hit hard with all kinds of crap. Trying to keep up with it is humanly impossible. Askimet intuitively sorts out what is spam and what isn’t for you. Sometimes it’s wrong, but when you tell it something isn’t spam, it will learn from that. Quite an amazing application when you think about it.
In order to get Askimet set up, you will need to get an API key. It’s free of course and easy to get. You must sign up for a WordPress account to get one. It works for each time you set up Askimet and for as many blogs as you want. Go here for your API key…..
All-In-One-SEO-Pack – This is one amazing Plugin! Although blogs get picked up quite well by search engines all on their own, in order to optimize this fact and get even more organic traffic, All-In-One-SEO-Pack provides some sensational tools in order to help you along. Just like you would a regular web site, this application lets you fill in keywords for all your posts, as well as for the entire blog itself. As anyone knows, these are all important factors when it comes to getting your blogs and sites seen by 100’s, if not 1000’s of people. Get the All-In-One-SEO-Pack here….
Stats is what you’re looking for when it comes to keeping track of the hits to your blogs. This is a pretty basic version, but in my opinion, it’s pretty much all you need. See where the hits are coming from, see what links your surfers are clicking on, and see how much traffic you’re sending out to your link trade partners. It also lists keywords and search terms that people used in order to get to your blog from search engines. How cool is that?! Get the Stats Plugin here… You will need an API key for this as well.
So there you have the Three Must Have Plugins for WordPress folks. There are so many Plugins out there and some are great while some just slow your blog down from my experience. When it comes to running an adult blog, keep things as simple as possible, while still keeping track of the most important things – controlling spam, Search Engine Optimization, and Statistics.
I will cover more Plugins as time goes on. But these will get you started on the right path. According to RDude anyway.
Happy Blogging!
April 29th, 2009 by admin
Yes, that seems to be the question I hear a lot on the message boards these days. What works best? Free Sites? Blogs? TGPs? Well, I can’t really answer those questions because there are many factors involved with success. Let’s take a good look at them shall we?
1. Traffic – It is the key to our success as Webmasters and salespeople. Just like you need a lot of folks coming into your store in the “real world” in order to be successful, so do you need lots of surfers hitting your sites and hopefully….signing up for memberships under your affiliate links.
2. The way you present your content – Yes, this is a very misunderstood part of this industry. Most sites I visit I see content just thrown up in the form of really bad, stuttering videos, or really large videos which take forever to stream. I’m on a very fast internet connection. How does a surfer feel if they go to that site and their connection is only half or a quarter as good as mine? Not everyone lives in North America or Europe and has a wicked fast surfing speed. Keep them in mind. However, nor do you want to skimp on content and put up total crap that no one is remotely interested in looking at. Make sure the images are clear, the video streams well, and there is some good text to go along with it all.
3. Text – Oh yes. Don’t think it’s important? You are sadly mistaken my friend. Text is what closes your sales or at least gets the surfer over to the Tour for the final round. You MUST provide descriptions of the content you put up. It MUST be informative and take the surfer on a journey into that erotic part of their brain. After all, it is what you’re trying to do right?
These are the major issues I see with a lot of sites I go to when surfing around to see what’s new in Adult. I do it all the time. Try it some time. You may pick up some things you never knew or suddenly realize how over exposed your galleries and niches are.
Ok, so back to the original question – To blog or not to blog? Do Free Sites sell better than blogs do? Well for one thing, unless you’re linked up with some pretty huge directories, chances are you’re not getting an immense amount of traffic to your Free Sites. A blog gets published and the search engines pick it up within minutes. Next time you put up a blog entry, do a search for it on Google the next day. Chances are you’ll find it.
TGPs are a whole other monster and can be more of a headache than anything if not done right. This is not to say that they don’t sell. On the contrary. A good TGP with major link trades can be a monster of a seller. Just getting it so can be a lot of work. So be prepared to take that on.
The bottom line here is all of these platforms make money if done right. However, blogs have brought the Adult Industry to the forefront of the search engines and get “spidered” all the time. I bet you’ve got links coming into your blogs you never even knew existed. Think of your blog as a Newsletter or even a Magazine. On the world wide web, that’s exactly what they are. So yes, blog my friends. Blog until you can’t blog anymore and watch that traffic hit you more and more each day. Then the $$$ should come trickling in once your audience loves what you offer and know you’re there to provide them with good, quality porn.
Happy Blogging!
– RDude
