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...
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