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 - 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)
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!
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