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