The Porn Pushers Diary

What Is It About Porn Pushers?

Why Are Adult Webmasters Seen As Undesireables?

I said I would not be writing here much any more.  As this is my personal Porn Pushers Diary, I found the posts were getting mixed up between those where I gave my personal views on making money selling porn on the Internet and those where I actually offered advice to newbie adult webmasters.  So, as I said in my previous post, I moved everything to my Make Money Market Porn blog, which continues to offer help and advice, and left this site open purely for personal rants and such like :)

And recently I have been so busy building new adult blogs and sites, that I gave little thought to personal writings in here.  But for a while something has been really getting to me and I just have to let off steam somewhere, so here it is!

As I have said several times in the posts here.  I may be an adult webmistress, but I am honest and consider myself to be a moral human being.  Those who have certain (shall we say...) 'right wing tendencies' may not agree with that statement, but to be honest, I don't really care what they think, as long as they do not get the complete upper hand on society, then they can take their bigotted opinions and stick them where the sun don't shine for all I care :)

But what really gets to me, is the fact that, because I make porn blogs and sites, I am seen as some kind of 'untouchable' by many quite normal people online.

For example, I run a number of mainstream blogs as well as adult, and people come along and comment as friends (or at least it begins that way...), but as soon as any mention is made of the fact that I make most of my money from adult online work, about 50% of these 'new friends' beat a hasty retreat.

Now that's fine.  If they are that bothered about my work, then I guess they would not be very good friends in the real world anyway, and so I realise I am better off without their kind of 'friendship'.

But the thing which really does annoy me is the hypocrisy I have found among the 'make money online' community.

Some of these guys are the biggest scammers and spammers you would ever wish (not) to  meet.  And yet many of them claim to be  'Christians' (and some even  state this 'fact' ad nausium on their blogs 'about me' pages).  And yet these are often the same people who will rob you of the last few dollars on your credit card to sell you their latest crappy and completely worthless ebook!  They honestly have no shame.

At the same time, these guys will tell you that they will only accept comments on their blogs if you do not link to any 'undesirable neighbourhoods'.  Of course, porn is always at the top of their 'undesirable' lists...

Well, forgive me for stating the obvious here, but when I sell membership to pornsites, I am selling the surfer something of value to him or her.  That is what they want and that is precisely what they get.  Not so if they signed up for any of the 'great help guides' the 'Christians' are displaying on their sites and blogs.  In that case, they would very soon be left with an empty bank account and a computer full of absolutely worthless junk which they would never be able to do anything useful with.

Now you tell me who is 'undesirable' here.  Because from where I'm coming from it sure isn't me!

That is the worst case of hypocrisy as far as I am concerned, but there are others which rankle a little too.

Because I try to keep up to date with all the latest SEO news and site building tools, I belong to a number of online communities, both adult and mainstream.  The adult forums can be scary for newbies, as no one holds back on their opinions.  But for the most part, there is no hypocrisy.  There may be the odd bit of bad advice, but no one is going to turn you into an 'undesirable' for stating your opinions (unless they are illegal of course, but that is not desirable by anyone's standards on adult webmaster boards).

Not so mainstream webmaster forums.

Even among those who treat you kindly, you will find they will shy away from any mention of your adult work.  And even among the non-scammers, there appears to be underlying acceptance that 'adult may be okay, but it's best not to mention it here or link to it in any way'.

Yesterday I was browsing a very helpful mainstream forum, which is set up precisely to help people make money with all sorts of different sites (not porn of course...).  These people try their luck making money in everything from electrical goods to weight loss and anything else around or in between.  They use adsense, affiliate sales, direct slaes... in fact, whatever they think may make them money.  And to do this, they try to game the search engines, by making their blogs and sites as SEO friendly as possible in many different ways.....

Some of the blogs and sites they produce are absolute crap.  Purely  there to get adsnese clicks  or affiliate sales or, of course, the most important thing, backlinks.

Now I make plenty of adult splogs (as well as some very good sites and blogs I hasten to add).  I use sponsor RSS feeds or gallery posts to generate them.  Blogs like this are often seen as 'spam' by mainstream webmasters, who argue that the 'duplicate content' used is of no value to surfers.

Yet, while stating this, these same mainstream webmasters are producing  posts which do not even make sense.  They are generated from  tools which 'mix'  articles already written (often scraped) or worse, are generated by 'tools' which produce a load of garbled text sprinkled with relevant keywords.

Now you tell me (again, lol!), which site is of more value to the surfer, the one with the well-written RSS (or gallery) feed which provides free pictures and/or videos, or the one which contains a load of garbage and the only 'click' of interest is the back button or the adsense link?

At the end of the day, I would rather be associated with making money from something which provides value in the form of what the surfer is actually looking for, than something which provides nothing for the surfer at all, just some revenue or backlink 'juice' for the site/blog producer.

I rest my case...   

The Porn Pushers Diary Has Moved

If anyone is wondering why there have been no posts here for a while, the truth is that I have moved many of the posts from The Porn Pushers Diary over to a new blog called:
Make Money Market Porn.

The reason I moved the posts there was that this blog began as a diary - my view of life as an adult webmistrees, but it then became something else.
As my career in adult marketing progressed, I looked at my posts here and found that many of them would be helpful to a 'newbie' starting out trying to make money as an adult webmaster, but to do that, I needed a new blog - one specifically aimed at Helping Adult Webmasters.

The result was Make Money Market Porn, which now has loads of new posts all aimed at helping new Adult Webmasters, including Make Money Market Porn For Newbies - in 5 separate and complete parts, a long list of Porn Marketing Terms to help you out, a discussion of the best ways to get paid as an adult webmaster in a post on PPS or Revshare , links to help you find templates for adult blogs and loads more.

I will keep The Porn Pushers Diary open as somewhere I share my thoughts on the adult webmaster business, but only for 'diary type' posts and general rants about the online adult world.

But if you are interested in working as an Adult Webmaster, or just want to find out more information abut what I do, then you are very welcome to head on over to Make Money Market Porn and I will be pleased to see you there.

And thank you for reading The Porn Pushers Diary too.  I've enjoyed your company here (even though you didn't comment I knew you were there...) and when I have more diary type stuff to post here, I'll be back here too.

Can we really escape 'the force'?

April is never a good month for sales for almost any online profession.  Folk in the US are preparing to pay their taxes and then recovering from the ordeal.  The UK is pretty much the same for the self-employed (only a little earlier) and, in any case, people in the UK are still recovering from the 'January and February big bill' syndrome.  Mainland Europe has its own tax collection times, according to country, but let's face it, many prospective European customers never make it past the 'payment gateway' anyhow.

So April is the month when smart webmasters tend to search for 'out of the box' ways to sell their products.  This happened to me recently and it was not helped by 'the Google force'.

One of my 'best blogs' (in turns of hits and returning readers) had been on the first page of Google for months.  It had been joined more recently by two more of my blogs from the same niche.  Between them, these blogs were good sellers (not the best, thank goodness, but good enough).  That is, until Google decided to pull the plug on all of them.  (I have my suspicions as to why this occurred, but a public blog [or any online communication device] is not the place to discuss them).

Smart webmasters have strategies in place for just such an occurrence.  I consider myself smart.  However, I was still annoyed and this annoyance led me to something which could have interested me if I was not such a cynic.

I follow a mixture of different blogs and news sites for my daily reading.  Most of these are not adult.  Within this general list are a very small number of 'make money online' blogs.  They are often repetitive (how often can you tell people the same thing?) and they tend to copy one another, rephrasing what has already been written.  Nevertheless, there are a small number of writers in this niche who command my attention, if only for their style of presentation and their personality.  Recently, a very well-written and prominent advert on one of these blogs intrigued me.  I clicked and signed up for the Email subscription.

As I had suspected, the emails contained the usual formula which goes a bit like this:

'Hook yourself into what they think they need, make them believe they need it even more, empathise with them with a tale of your own and then show them what worked for you ... then plunge in for the hard sell, enforcing the idea that they simply cannot do without this product.'

No problem.  I have seen this so many times before that, like many surfers, I scroll down to the bottom of the page first to check out the bottom line - the point of sale.  It wasn't a pleasant one.  It went something like this:

'Sign up for (this product) now and get it at a knock down price which is only available until (fill in a date a few days ahead).  This is what you will get: (long list ) and then you may want to go on and stay within our community and help take part in the next step....'

That last part is where the 'small print' came in.  Your initial payment included the product you 'needed so badly' ... and a monthly subscription payable by direct debit. That 'product' would probably be another piece of bait, to move you on to what the advert was really all about - getting you to sign up indefinitely.  In the online sales business, unless you cancel that direct debit pretty quickly (and it is often not that easy to do), your bank account will be billed continuously month by month.

Okay, that is recognised practice in the adult industry and most porn surfers know that when they sign up for a '1 Dollar Trial', unless they are pretty quick in cancelling the direct debit which they had to sign to get their 'trial', they will be stuck with regular payments.  But so-called 'respectable blogs' have, until recently anyway, kept away from this practice, relying instead on a massive reader base, Google Adsense and other textual advertising, and affiliate programs enabled by banners and written product-based 'reports'.

So, if I knew all of this (and by this time had lost a great deal of respect for the blogger in question), why did I continue to read the sales blurb?  Because, like all good sales text, it hit a nerve with me.  It promised to show me how I could make a living online without relying on the 'good nature' of Google (the article was phrased differently to this of course). To someone still smarting a little from a 'Google bashing' (which all online sales people get from time to time), the 'promise' acted like a wriggling worm on the end of a line to a starving fish.... except that I didn't sign up. I thought about the 'promise' and what it could possibly entail.

When my blogs lost out in Google, I made more effort to promote them via Yahoo, MSN, other smaller search engines, social bookmarking networks, new blogs in the same niche, promoting them hard in my directories, etc.  They are now beginning to convert for me again.  They are still nowhere to be seen in Google, but they are doing ok.  In fact, what I was forced to do to promote those blogs was something I have been telling others to do in the first place, but these, being older blogs, had somehow managed to slip through the net.

If I had been selling my own product when Google pulled the plug, this could have been a disaster (especially if this was my only product).  What I would have done then would have been to sign up affiliates to sell my product for me.  Okay, the affiliates would receive a proportion of the sale, but the product would be moving again, and back in Google, on another person's blog or site.

Suspicion and experience tells me that these are the kind of 'techniques' being sold under the 'escape the force' (or similar :) ) catchphrase.  So I will not be signing up for a paid-for, never-ending session of the same 'advice' being thrown at me monthly from different angles.

This blog post began as a question on 'can we really escape the force' of Google.  Well I'm sorry, but no we cannot.  We can do some pretty good things to get around it though, just by standing back and asking ourselves what else we could be doing and then acting upon this.

But we do not need to pay out exhorbitant amounts of our hard earned cash to find out that we knew these tactics already.

Thoughts on Splogs

As my little 'Blog Empire' gets bigger, it becomes more and more difficult to make hand written posts, even to my usual hand written blogs.  These blogs are still important to me.  They are my 'babies' and they have regular readers, so I will never abandon them.  However, this situation has made me have a rethink on the benefits of 'splogs'.

As I've said before, I have a  number of splogs and they are increasing daily.  Splogs serve the purpose of being able to get my sponsors' latest galleries online, without endless hours of writing handwritten posts.  After all, if I spent time doing that, the new content would be very old before I got it all 'out there'.

So let's have a think about 'splogs'.
Against Splogs:
a) Splogs are not 'true blogs', but advertising outlets for porn sponsors.
b) Splogs are not giving the blog reader what he/she wants.  He/she was obviously looking for blogs, or else would have gone somewhere else. The reader wants to read a blog.
For Splogs:
a) Why is the surfer on your blog?  He/she knows it is a porn blog, therefore the answer has to be that he/she is looking for porn.
b) What do you want your blog reader to do?:
i) Stay on your blog and read it from 'cover to cover', or
ii) Read a little from your blog and decide that what he/she is reading is enticing enough for them to visit your sponsor?

Therefore, speaking as an adult webmaster:
If we :
a) Assume the reader of our blog has arrived there looking for porn and is amenable to signing up with a sponsor, if the content is appealing enough.
b) Admit that we are in this game for the money and we want our readers to sign up with our sponsors.
Isn't a well-produced and frequently updated Splog just as efficient (and probably more so) in doing our job as a hand written porn blog?

As they say on the boards - just my two cents...

Setting Up An Adult Blog

I am setting up a 'check list' here of  What you need to do when you set up an Adult Blog.  The following list is an amalgamation of info I have found at the Adult Webmasters Group (particularly from Randy and Garcia), Netpond, and various other Adult Webmaster Forums (thanks guys - I would credit all posts if I could, but there are so many!), and quite a bit of info taken from my own experience. I will, no doubt, be adding to this list over time.

Steps in Setting up an Adult Blog:

1. Have your content ready.  Ensure you have enough good content for continual blog posts.  If you are setting up an RSS-fed blog on Thumblogger, or Sexusblog using RSS2Anywhere, you will need at least 3 separate RSS feeds. If you are setting up an RSS-fed blog on your own host (possibly a Wordpress blog, using Feedwordpress) or a blog on a free host using Feedwordpress or a similar feed manager, one or more feeds will do. If your blog is handwritten or relying on gallery scripts (for Thumblogger, Sensual Writer, Sexus Blog or your own G2B-imported blog - Gallery2 Blog) only one or two feeds will do, but wherever your feeds come from, they have to have enough content for months in advance.

2. Give your new blog a good, keyword-rich name.  Using tools like WordTracker will help you with this (click on the drop down menu for the option which allows adult results).  The blog name should be three or four keywords long.  The actual url for your blog will depend (if on a free host) on what is already taken, but if you have your own domain (using a subdomain for the blog) the choice is usually yours.  Choose a url that is (if possible - although this is still a debated point) no more than 10 characters long , but contains at least 2 of the keywords used in your blog title.

3.  Give your blog a good, keyword rich description. It will depend upon the template used how long that description will be, but make it a good and appropriate one.

4.  Choose your blog template.  If your blog contains entries from a number of sponsors/sites I would recommend using a three column template, because you will be adding info (and probably banners) about all those sites you are promoting in your side bars, plus links to your other blogs/sites and blog directories (if you use them) and at the top (or near the top), you will have details about bookmarking your blog and reading the blog feed, and you don't want your sidebar scrolling endlessly down the page, way past the end of your blog posts.

Your Adult Blog Is Now Set Up.

Next:

5. Choose your Adult Blog Options:

(a) You may well wish to set your Comments for 'No Comments'.  and whether or not you allow trackbacks is up to you...

(b) Choose the number of posts you have on the main page (you don't want to offer too much all at once, but you do have to ensure that you are offering enough to tell your reader what the sponsor(s) is offering.  I would say 8-10 posts maximum, depending on the size of your posts and how they look on the page (posts with large pictures will probably look better on a 6-entry page).

(c) Choose how many 'recent posts' you show in your side bar.  This is up to you.  This depends on whether you want your reader to check out further posts, or you would rather they just went straight to your sponsor.... There is, of course, also the fact that more text in your sidebars might help with the search engines.

(d) Choose how long your archive will be.

(options (c) and (d) obviously rely on how your side bar looks, so see what works best).

If you are using Thumblogger, you can set up all these options in the 'Options' panel by ticking the various boxes (although the recent posts option has a 5 minimum or has to be turned off altogether).  And while you are there, click the 'disable comments' (unless you want a heap of spam), then  scroll to the bottom and tick all three boxes under 'RSS', plus give your RSS feed a name (the name of your blog) and a description (usually the description you have under your blog title), then click 'change' to set it up.

6. Get your Posts/RSS feeds/Gallery feeds prepared.

(a) If you are using RSS feeds, put them in your feed manager (Feedwordpress [under 'syndication' in your dashboard] usually if on Wordpress blogs or RSS2Anywhere if using Thumblogger/Sensual Writer/Sexusblog). Ensure the feeds work correctly.  If using RSS2Anywhere you will need to import your blog and then feed the blog with at least 3 feeds and enable it.

Then post some RSS feeds to your blog (at least 3 entries).

(b) Gallery Feeds. If you are using a gallery scraper or Gallery2Blog for sponsor free-hosted galleries, set up your feeds for this.  Make sure the titles of each entry are keyword rich and stimulating to the surfer (and varied, of course).  Then make sure that each post has a working image and some text.  Text should be at least 4 sentences long, keyword rich and interesting to read.  Text should also contain (i) a link to the gallery (many surfers don't realise they can get to the gallery by clicking on the picture) and (ii) a link to the site's main page.

In Gallery2Blog you can change the titles of each post and add text to your posts in the 'Manage' page of each feed (for title, click on 'title'and for blog entry click on 'description' on the drop-down bar in the 'Manage' section).  The post entry ('description') block works like Notepad, so you will need to add html codes for links and for new line/paragraphs, or else you will just be left with one block of text and no paragraphs or links.

When all this is done, you can choose the way the entry looks by going to 'start' and 'templates' and choosing from a variety of template styles.  Experiment with this to see which looks best on your blog.

Configure your posts - decide which blog you want to post the feed to (in this case, your new, recently imported blog [although you could choose to post the feed to another of your blogs as well]).  Choose which days you want to posts the feed(s) (for G2B see note below).

Post at least 3 gallery feeds to your blog by clicking 'direct add' (Note: if using Gallery2Blog, you will need to configure the post for today [whatever day it is you are doing this], or else, although you press 'direct add', this will not work.

(c)  Of course, if you are hand posting your first entries, then just post them - about 3 to begin with.

Now You Have An Adult Blog With Some Posts.

7. Add something to the side bars:

(a) Add banners/links to the sites you are promoting.  To make these more SEO friendly (and much more interesting for the reader), don't just place banners there - add some text above and below (or just below) each banner, giving more info about the site, plus another link to the site (Banners may say 'click here', but people don't allways follow this...).  You will need to mess around with the html for this, depending on your blog template options, but it's worth it.

(b) Add Links To Your Other Blogs/Sites  - most important.  If the reader doesn't like what you are offering on this blog, he/she will be looking for somewhere else to go...  If you have an overwhelming number of blogs/sites (too long to have in your side bar), put the most relevant blog links (relevant to the blog subject/niche) in the sidebar, plus a selection of others by category, plus a link to a page where all of your other blogs/sites are listed according to category (with a good, enticing, name on the link).

(c) Add Links to Your New Blog On Your Existing Blogs - most important.  This way your blog has outgoing and incoming links for SEO purposes and a ready field of readers who may well click through to you from  your more established blogs/sites.

You now have an Adult Blog with some posts and outgoing and incoming links (hopefully, outgoing links are only to your sponsors and to your other blogs/sites - don't give links away if you can help it) and it is looking much more interesting and Search Engine Friendly.

8. Set Up Your Adult Blog for The Search Engines - First Steps.

(a) Feedburner: Click on the 'RSS' link on your blog and see the RSS feed.  Copy the feed url.

(i) Login to Feedburner (or register if this is the first time).  Burn your feed.  Make sure that the name Feedburner gives to your feed is the one you want (if a name is already taken, you will get some obscure title come up in the link, so you will need to experiment a little until you find a name you and Feedburner are happy with).  Save your feed. Tick All Boxes (including 'Pro' - it is free).

(Open a new file in Notepad.  Type in there '(My blog name) - feedburner record' or something similar, and then save this in an appropriate folder, with a title you will recognise again (probably the one you just put in the heading).  Leave this file open on your desktop.)

(ii) In Feedburner - Analyze - (take no notice of the message 'your feed is still bubble-wrapped', you can carry on anyway).  Scroll down to the left and click on 'Feedburner Stats'. In the page which opens, tick all the boxes and 'activate', then at the bottom of the page you will find 'Get the HTML code to collect stats on your site'. Click on the scroll down box and choose whatever is appropriate for your blog.  If in doubt (or on Thumblogger et al) choose 'others'.  A small screen will open with your stats code on. Copy this code into your Notepad file (giving it the header 'stats').

(iii) Publicize - Choose a Chicklet.  I would suggest that most adult blogs only need one of these - the 'standard', orange icon in big or small -  but you can choose as many as you would like, or just a link if you prefer.  Copy the code(s) into notepad (giving it the header 'feed chicklets/rss icon or whatever else you will recognise next time).

Click on 'Email subscriptions'.  Choose who you want to provide your RSS feed by email (Feedburner is fine for this) and click on 'Activate'.  You will now be given two different codes to post to your blog - the large 'email box' or a single link.  Copy them both into your Notepad file (under appropriate headings).  You can choose which of these you  use when you try them out in your blog sidebar.

Click on 'Ping Shots' - Tick all boxes ('Google' etc...) and choose another 5 ping services to ping from the drop down list.  Activate and Save.

Click on 'Headline Animator'.  You will be offered a choice of animated 'headline' feeds from your blog to place in another of your blogs.  I usually choose a number of these:  the wide white (468x60) animator (for the bottom of other blogs/sites); the small 'box' (180x100) in both black and white.  Activate each one at a time.  A page will open, offering you a choice of where your Headline Animator will be placed.  If in doubt (or on Thumblogger et al), on the drop-down menu click 'other - just give me the code'.  A small window will open with the code you need.  Choose whether or not to let the 'grab this link' (default) part remain (I unclick this optiion).  Copy and paste this code into Notepad.

At this point I Must Stress - Do Not Place This Headline Animator On Your New Blog.  Paste It On Another Of  Your Blogs/Sites.  It is a great way of cross-linking them.

You now have all the Feedburner stuff you need to begin with (you can play with very useful tools  like BuzzBoost later...) and it's all in your Notepad file open on your desk top.

(iv) Set up a box or widget for your blog sidebar.  Give it a title - 'Subscribe to My Blog/Blog Name' or something similar. Put in the 'bookmark' text (usually 'Bookmark (CTRL-D)'.  Copy the Chicklet from Notepad and place it in the box/widget underneath the Bookmark text.  Copy the Email Subscription code (box or link, not both) and paste underneath the chicklet code (I usually add 'or subscribe by email' (with a br following) above the email box - if used - but that is up to you. Copy the stats code and paste below this (it won't show) - or you could put this in the head of your blog - it doesn't matter, as long as wherever you place the stat code it will be on every page of your blog.

(You may also wish to place a suitable Headline Animator from your blog into a box/widget/at the bottom of one of your other blogs, just to get things moving..  You should also consider posting a Headline Animator from one of your other blogs in the side bar/at the bottom of this blog as another useful way of cross-linking.)

You are now set up with Feedburner.  Your blog will be pinged every time there is a new entry and you will be able to check your blog's stats in your Feedburner account.

At this point you have only a few posts, but you can still advertise them:

8. Post Single entries from your Adult Blog to Adult Bookmarking Sites (if you go to the Adult Webmaster group and search 'Adult Bookmarking' or 'Bookmarking', you will find loads of links to these, plus many forum members have links to them in their signatures).  Make sure the titles are catchy and keyword friendly and that the tags and short description you post are also keyword rich for the specific niche/subject.  Post to the correct category and away you go!  You may not have any results for a few days as some bookmarking sites are slow to publish, but your blog entry is still in the 'upcoming posts' list and still spidered by the search engines...

9.  Add some more posts to your blog.  Make sure you have at least 8-10 good posts there. The new ones will now get pinged, plus (in my opinion) you need to add more posts before you begin the next step.

10.  Submit Your Blog to the Search Engines.

Here are a few links to help you with this:

Google - Add Your Url.

Google - Submit and Verify Your Site  (You will need to be logged into your google account, but very useful).

Google - Add Your Url to Google Blog Search.(although Feedburner should already do this for you)

Register All Your Blogs and Sites with Google Analytics - takes time, but well worth it.

Yahoo - submit Your site. (You will need a Yahoo Account)

Yahoo - Submit Your Feed. (again you need a Yahoo acount and submit the url of your blog's RSS feed, not your blog url)

Submit Your Site To MSN.

Alexa - Submit Your Site.

Get a del.icio.us account and submit your blog. (you may well wish to have a separate del.icio.us account for this one...)

Get a Bloglines account and bookmark your blog feed (same may apply ...)

Bookmark your blog through Yahoo - My Web (again - same applies...)

Bookmark your blog with Windows Live Favourites  (you need an account...)

Bookmark Your Blog at your Google Bookmarks (may help with search engine spiders)

Add all your blogs Feed to Google Reader. (helps with search engine spiders)

Add your blogs to Technorati (See my previous posts on this.. it's still worth a try though!)

Submit your blog url to Gigaboost.

Set Up Automatic Pinging with Weblogalot (This is not one of the automatic Feedburner pinging services, but if this is your own blog you can add this to your ping list once your url is submitted).

Submit for pinging to IceRocker (on the Feedburner list, but if you do this one and set it up for pinging separately you have more choice on Feedburner ;) )

(The above URL Submissions/Bookmarkig/Feed Reading sites are for Everyone (and therefore get a lot of input/reading), so please put 'adult' or similar in your tags if submitting to any of the bookmarking sites above.  However, you don't need to (or have the facility to) do this for simple 'add your url/feed' sites or pinging sites).

Here is a further ping list you can add to your Adult Blog ping list (if you can access the 'pinging' window of your blog).  These are specifically for Adult blogs:

Blogs List -  http://www.blogs-list.com/xmlrpc.php
Pud Cat -  http://www.pudcat.com/ping/
Free Porn Sex Log -  http://www.freepornsexlog.com/xmlrpc
Euro Porn Links -  http://www.europornlinks.com/xmlrpc
Sex Oasis -  http://sexoasis.biz/xmlrpc.php
Mad Blogs -  http://www.mad-blogs.com/xmlrpc.php
Empire of Porn -  http://www.empire-of-porn.com/xmlrpc
All 4 Porn -  http://www.all-4porn.com/xmlrpc
Adult Dream Links -  http://www.adultdreamlinks.com/xmlrpc
Dr Porner -  http://www.drporner.com/xmlrpc
Sex Blogs -  http://www.sexblogs.name/ping.php
HD Adult Porn -  http://www.hdadultporn.com/xmlrpc
Z Blog List  - http://zbloglist.com/ping/
Big Choice -  http://www.big-choice.org/xmlrpc

You now have a Fully Running and reasonably Search Engine Friendly Adult Blog which  is registered for SEO, bookmarked, and which also has automatic pinging set up for new entries.

Is there anything else you can do?

Well, you could:

Submit your blog to Adult Blog Directories.  Useful for the new adult blog owner, but perhaps not as useful (in terms of traffic leaks) to more established ones.

and Link Trade. This will involve a fair amount of traffic leakage and opinions are split on the usefulness of this, but it's up to you.

You could also use Picrush - a block of avatars in your blog's niche at the top of your blog - again basically a link trade source, but some say it's very useful.

From time to time you need to submit new posts from your blog to the Adult Bookmarking Sites.

You could also try submitting odd entries to Link Dumps.  If you look on Adult Webmaster Forums, you will always find an endless list of link dumps somewhere (search 'link dumps'). These provide a relatively small amount of traffic (and even fewer sales) and very much depend upon the time of day you post and how long the link stays on the front page (at some dumps it could be literally seconds), but Link dumps can provide the odd sale, and those incoming links are boosting your blog in the search engines.

Well, after you have done all those things with Your New Adult Blog, you should begin to see results.  Perhaps slow at first (or in peaks and troughs), but all the above is worth the effort.

Of course, all of this takes a lot of time and dedication, but if you are serious about being an adult webmaster using Adult Blogs, then, in my humble opinion, it is the best way forward.

Good Luck!

Ooooooops!

I posted this to one of my other blogs yesterday, but what the hell, this is a good story:

It's so great when you get the human element in porn. Yes, obviously it is humans (hopefully!) who are getting it on in the first place, but when their characters really shine through, it makes porn like that little bit special.

The owner of British Slags sent me a video clip today. It's an out-take from some porn footage he was shooting on a hillside somewhere in England. I'll let him explain about the clip:

"This is an out-take of one of my shoots. I was filming this chubby cute babe outside, but did not notice the lady in the background. A bit embarrasing....."

Yes, you can say that again! I wonder if the woman guessed what was going on ....?

Here's a link to the clip.

And if you want to check out British Slags then follow this link to their tour page. They really have some never-seen-before footage of Amateur British Babes there. It's well worth a look.

Using Free Hosted Blogs - part two

In my recent posts on free hosting, I spoke about some of the ways this can be helpful and some of the ways it isn't.  I also stressed "beware of free stuff which appears to be helpful."  I should add here that this means, don't expect anything for nothing.

All free blog hosts (and free web hosts in general) will only offer you the use of their service if you carry advertisements which benefit them.  In terms of free blog hosting, this has varied effects.

The first of these the jury is still out on, but some SEO followers say that free hosted blogs do not get so many clicks via the search engines as those hosted under your own domain on a paid host.  This is difficult to assess, because Google, for one, keeps its search criteria close to its chest and is constantly changing the rules.  I think that, on the one hand it depends on the quality and age of your blog, but on the other hand, having browsed different search engine ranking systems, it appears that several click to the host rather than to individual blogs.  As I said, the jury is still out on that one ....

But what about the different free blogging hosts; how do they compare for access and  intrusive advertising?

By far the biggest adult blog host is Thumblogger.  Owned by Twan, a friendly guy with some great ideas.  When you sign up to Thumblogger (and/or its younger sister, Sensual Writer) you are given free access to several of Twan's other tools, such as RSS2Anywhere, Gallery2Blog and My Feed List, plus (of course...) the ability to use the Blog Submitter, which sends your new blog to 15 adult blog directories. There is also an Adult Webmaster Group, which is one of the most helpful and friendly adult webmaster forums on the scene.

In the case of  why  Thumblogger is free yet has so much on offer, it is because Twan uses advertising on your blogs.  This consists of a bar across the top of the blog which contains adverts and links to Adult Friend Finder, plus a very small link at the bottom of the blog which offers Thumblogger's free blog hosting service.  The top bar is reasonably unobtrusive and the colour can be altered to match the colour of your blog (colours are limited though). When your reader scrolls down the page, the top bar is soon out of site, so it isn't really much of an issue. The same applies to Twan's other free hosted adult blog service - Sensual Writer, which is based on the Wordpress theme.

On the other hand, my searches via numerous search engines have found a large majority linking straight to Thumblogger/Sensual Writer rather than to individual blogs.  For my part, I find Thumblogger a very useful service, with many quite sophisticated tools for the adult webmaster, but my Thumblogger blogs do not bring me many sales (and vary greatly in the number of clicks they receive), while my Sensual Writer blogs bring me thousands of clicks, but again, limited sales.  Could just be me though ...

Twan does have a relatively new free blog host called Sexus Blogs.  Being new and fairly undersubscribed (as yet), Sexus has the advantage of loading quicker and the only advertising it carries (at the moment) is a small advert at the bottom for Sexus Blogs.  Sexus doesn't have all the 'bells and whistles' of Thumblogger, and enables access to only some of the tools available to users of Thumblogger and Sensual Writer, but it does seem to bring me many clicks and quite a few sales on the one blog I have there. However, getting a Sexus blog listed in Technorati seems to provide problems yet to be sorted...

Other adult blog hosts vary in the way they advertise on your blog. Some, like  XLOGZ, put a fairly noticeable banner across the top of your blog, advertising sites the owners of XLOGZ work for as affiliates themselves. To have this banner removed, you would have to allow the hosts to use your blog for a post of their own each week, not an option I think many bloggers take up.  In any case, once you scroll down the advertising is gone, and there is nothing on the bottom at all.  However, you do have to look carefully at your blogroll when you start up a new XLOGZ blog, as it will contain links to the owners' sites and, as XLOGZ uses Wordpress themes, their links, beginning with an 'A' will be at the top of your blogroll.  You do not have to remove them, but again, many bloggers do.

As a blogging host, apart from the aforementioned 'things to look for', XLOGZ is pretty good.  They use Wordpress RSS, so you are able to use feeds on your blogs and, as with most other free blog hosts, they give you so much free image space for your banners and blog pictures.  They also have their own forum.  As a place to promote your sponsors, however, I personally have found little benefit in the way of sales, apart from the fact that the blogs that I have there send surfers to my other blogs and that is why I continue to use them. Scanning of search engines revealed a similar tale to those relating to Thumblogger blogs.  XLOGZ gets the clicks in the vast majority of cases  - not individual blogs.  What I have also found with my blogs on XLOGZ, is that, although some of them have been going as long as my Thumblogger blogs, and have comparable content, their Google Ranking is much lower.  Whether this means anything in the long term I wait to see.

Going back to the use of host advertising on your free adult blogs, some services, like Blogtur (which also hosts more 'general' blogs), have a fairly thick advertising bar at the top and bottom of the blog which appears to stand out quite a lot.  The only way around this is to pay 50 dollars per month for each blog you host on Blogtur, which, to me, seems like a pretty expensive option!  I haven't tried Blogtur, so I cannot say much more than that, apart from the fact that the servers seem quite fast and the blogs are Wordpress based, so pretty easy to use, but it does appear to be limited in any extra tools you may wish to utilise.

Blogbugs is another free blog host I have yet to try. This time mainly because the templates there seem pretty awful and the thick advertising borders top and bottom (I think personally) give the blogs a 'tatty' look.  I have yet to find a blog on Blogbugs which I find appealing to look at.  This could, of course, be the result of people trying to adjust the blog html without giving much thought to how things look, but there are an awful lot of blogs on Blogbugs which look pretty tacky. I know that many people associate tackiness with porn, but I find that some of the blogs actually hurt my eyes to look at, what with the very bright advertising borders and the poorly displayed content .... Having said all that, however, Blogbugs does offer RSS feed posting, which is an advantage  Blogtur (which has better looking templates) appears not to have.  If I get really desperate for new hosting, I suppose I could try them out ...

On the subject of obtrusive advertising, one little blog hosting company I use has so much advertising on your blog (mainly in the form of pictures from their own sites), that it must be impossible for the surfer to know where the line is drawn between your blog posts and the sponsor's advertsing.  This little company is niche specific (Big Boobs).  It is called The Breast Files.  I host a blog at this site, purely because it is somewhere I know people looking for big breast blogs are going to go, and I post there to my blog, reasonably regularly and have had a few sales from this source.  But I wouldn't recommend it as somewhere to post your only adult blog.  Certainly not if you are trying to make a living from adult blogging anyway.  You blog has no individual identity whatsoever.  It just disappears in a sea of sponsor's theme and sponsor's boob pictures.  Even if you click on the title you are likely to miss the actual blog and end up at the host's pages instead, as my blog title is over one side, masked in the constant blue background.

But there is one advantage that I have from posting a blog at the Breast Files, and this applies, in a limited sense as far as I can see, to having a blog at Blogtur and Blogbugs.  These hosts all have a directory and list of recently updated blogs.  The 'biggies' - Thumblogger, Sensual Writer and XLOGZ do not.  At the latter you can post your blog entries in a sea of silence and just hope they get picked up by surfers on blog directories (as we know, they won't get picked up by technorati, even if you do ping them).

This brings me on to the last free blog host I am going to discuss here and that is Porn Live News.

Porn Live News offers a Front Page, where surfers can find all the blogs on the site, via the directory (allotted by category), by a list of recently updated blogs and via the 'top blogs' section in the centre of the page which has pictures from each 'top post' that day.  At one time, it seemed as if the 'picture' bit was reserved for particular members, but just lately I have found my blogs up there in glorious technicolour porn along with all the others on the 'top list'. The result - my blogs literally got thousands of extra clicks and a few more sales too.  I like Porn Live News!

The layout of blogs on Porn Live News is simplicity itself.  There are only three themes to choose from and all look pretty similar!  The effect is to make every blog posted there look as if it belongs to a group, rather than being an individual.  This could be seen as a disadvantage, but it seems to work out very well.  There are no 'fancy themes', but neither are there any horrible clashing ones either.  The interface is pretty basic and you need to know a little html to use it effectively, but it isn't hard.  The site owners are very generous with their image uploading limits, so most sites have loads of banners and very big pictures, in contrast to other sites, but no garish clashing colours. There is advertising on your blogs, but it is fairly subtle and easily missed when a banner is stuck in front of it.

Porn Live News looks like somewhere you would go to search for porn, and after all, that is what it is all about.  It is fairly cheap looking, but it isn't crass.  There are no 'bells and whistles', but there is the ability to feed your blogs with RSS and this works reasonably well. Overall, Porn Live News does what it says it is going to do - it hosts your blogs for free and it promotes them at the same time and, in my humble opinion, it does the job better than anyone else.

But when all's said and done (and I've said a heck of a lot here!), It is not an easy solution to use free blog hosting (or free website hosting) only.  At some time you will probably think about buying a couple of domain names and getting some paid hosting. It's something which has worked best for me and I am in the majority.

Free hosts are free because they use your creativity to help them sell their goods.  It's not a bad system, but it is far from perfect.

Using Free Hosted Blogs - part one

The last time I talked about using free hosting, I discussed it mainly in relation to making tgp's and free sites, now it's the turn of the Free Blog Hosts.

As is the case with all free hosting, free blog hosting comes at a price.  So if that's the case, why do I use some of them myself? That's easy to answer.  Free blog hosts are places where you can post your 'splogs' and some of them are good enough to also post your 'good blogs' to as well. 

Some of them also have their own directories, where you can submit your blogs to promote them.  Of course, as I said in my entry on blog directories, in order for this to work long term, you have to get friends and family to click on the directory links in your blogs, otherwise they soon disappear off the directory lists. The other way to keep promoting your blogs via this system is to cross link them all, then keep making new blogs to submit to the directories.  With a little luck, your traffic from the directory will filter out to your other blogs ..... and so it goes on. 

The other problem (among several) with free blog hosts is that, of those that run blog directories, these hosts will not list blogs hosted at other free blog sites.  So, for each free blog host you use, you need to keep on building new blogs to submit to their directories...

And this is one of the reasons why there are so many porn blogs out there on the net, many of them 'splogs'.  Good adult webmasters are not lazy, we simply do not have the time to run all of our blogs with handwritten content, but we need to promote them. A 'Catch 22' situation.

 There are a minority of adult webmasters who do very well with free hosted blogs and using no other hosting at all, but these are very few and far between.  They have either been very lucky, caught the blog market in its infancy, or, more likely, have found a niche so specific and so unique that they have developed a loyal following and a grapevine to match.  These webmasters will know their subject inside out and maybe even live it themselves. Their blogs will have very good, frequently updated, knowledgeable content which, along with the constant visits from the blog's fans, will push it high in the search engines.

Of course, this method takes a lot of hard work over quite a long time and is definitely not for the faint hearted or for those who want to see the results of their labours coming in relatively quickly.  In this case free hosted blogs require the earlier methods to work best.

There is a long term upside to this, however.  If you make good blogs (even your 'splogs'), they will build up traffic and followers, because people realise that you have put effort in there and eventually the search engines will start hitting them without the help of those wretched directories.  It just takes time ....

Next time I'll talk about particular free blog hosts.

Just another entry on discrimination...

I found another sponsor today - or at least I thought I had.  This one had some content which would have fitted very well into one or more of my blogs and, I'm sure, would have been very successful.

Nowadays, as you know, I check the 'Terms and Conditions' issued by any porn sponsor very thoroughly.  So I got my glasses on and off I went.

It all seemed okay.  No problems about payment and no problems with where a webmaster could come from.  I read on ....

Then I found this:

You AGREE that any of the following will result in ALL of your accounts being terminated without pay, ALL of your unpaid commissions being FORFEITED to Company, and will further result in you being precluded from ever participating in any of our Programs:

SPAM

Promoting or dealing in content such as: Warez, passwords, MP3, bestiality, rape, child pornography, violence, or any other illegal activity.

Attempt to mislead or defraud Company in any way....

etc, etc .......

And then, on this same list (and remember, this list refers to all sorts of heinous crimes):

"New accounts from Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Egypt, Estonia, Georgia, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kaliningrad, Kazakhstan, Korea (North and South), Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Moldova, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Trinidad, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia."

_______

To (a) discriminate against particular countries without giving a fair reason is bad enough (especially as, it appears anyway, although I come from one of these 'banned countries', the sponsor would be quite happy for me to sell their porn - but not to my own countrymen).

But

To (b) lump all these countries together on a list which includes obvious criminals is inexcusable.

Nothing more to say really (apart from the fact that of course I didn't sign up for them).  I'm just very angry to be treated this way.

Ways to prevent content theft

I'm late referring to the article below; I've been a bit busy with other things, but I thought I would mention it anyway, especially considering my recent (and continuing - he's filching from another of my blogs now) problems with my 'content stalker'.

I'll just give you a very small extract (don't want to plagiarise) from the article.  Incidentally, it is written by Jonathan Bailey, who owns the site Plagiarism Today which I mentioned earlier.  This is it:

The 6 Steps to Stop Content Theft
Blog Herald November 26, 2007
By Jonathan Bailey

"With spammers and plagiarists becoming more prolific and more aggressive than ever, content theft is no longer a matter of “if”, but “when”......

...... Fortunately, the steps for fighting plagiarism are easy to follow and, for the most part, the tools are free and readily available......."

The article includes details on:

How to find out who is copying your content (with a host of free tools you can use), plus advice and links to free ways of preserving the evidence for your next step.

It then provides advice on the best way to go about: contacting the plagiarist; contacting the plagiarist's advertisers; the plagiarist's hosts; and (especially important to my plagiarist and most others out there, I reckon) the search engines.

This is a really helpful article and one which I may just follow myself.

Are you reading this, stalker?