I was browsing a few sponsor directories recently, looking for new niche sites to promote, preferrably via CCBill, since I hate signing up to a program and finding out the promo material sucks afterwards. With CCBill, it's quick and easy.
What I found is a program covering loads of niches: real public sex, gangbang, femdom, latex, huge objects, extreme anal, humiliation, machine fucking, some really heavy and hard stuff over there, content mostly from europe and/or germany. 25 sites total if I counted correctly.
Galleries are available as flash, downloadable movies and pics, even better, you can add your own recips or links to your own sites on all galleries. Plus, they have configurable RSS feeds to easily feed blogs.
Never heard of it before, it's called NBBcash (Natural Born Bangers), looks like the hell of a program. I'll report when I get the first results, but it looks more than promising, rarely seen CCBill programs with that much variety. Certainly not oversaturated so far, so be quick ;)
Oh, did I mention 70% revenue share (CCBill charges are deducted from that, but still awesome).
Friday, December 4, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
The free blog host clusterfuck
Everything is fine in adult? If you have a look at the new free blog hosts that emerged in the last month, it isn't, they barely last for more than a few weeks till they disappear or redirect. The only ones staying strong are those around for ages.
The worst one in my opinion is Smut.com, yep, the one I even recommended some time ago. They kept their service online, but started deleting what they call "inactive blogs". In my case, it was 10 blogs averaging a nice $800+ total a month together, two PR4 and a few lower ones. Deleted without notice and on their forum they tell people "Pick up the subdomain and put a real blog on it". Hello, it's about ranking, not about posting, any half decent SEO around in their company? The fact that the 404 page even makes them money makes it look like they intentionally delete "inactive" high traffic blogs... Good job, that's really serious business.
Our lesson: When a new blog host enters the stage, make sure you don't feed them with valuable links until they are around for a few years. Use them to feed your own domains with links, get them indexed via free link resources like social bookmarking and if the crap is exploding, you won't have to pull hundreds of links like me.
The worst one in my opinion is Smut.com, yep, the one I even recommended some time ago. They kept their service online, but started deleting what they call "inactive blogs". In my case, it was 10 blogs averaging a nice $800+ total a month together, two PR4 and a few lower ones. Deleted without notice and on their forum they tell people "Pick up the subdomain and put a real blog on it". Hello, it's about ranking, not about posting, any half decent SEO around in their company? The fact that the 404 page even makes them money makes it look like they intentionally delete "inactive" high traffic blogs... Good job, that's really serious business.
Our lesson: When a new blog host enters the stage, make sure you don't feed them with valuable links until they are around for a few years. Use them to feed your own domains with links, get them indexed via free link resources like social bookmarking and if the crap is exploding, you won't have to pull hundreds of links like me.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Are you wasting your mobile traffic?
It's not a joke, but a serious question. More and more people are using their Iphone, Blackberry, Playstation Portable or similar to surf the web for porn, the problem is: The average website looks really bad in the tiny display and most videos have the wrong size. So, you are losing visitors, simply because your site doesn't display correctly.
Even worse, some sponsors won't pay you for mobile traffic, they'll redirect it to their or third party mobile sites and make money from your traffic without paying you a dime.
So, what to do? Build a mobile version for each and every site you run? That's perfect, but it requires alot of time and effort. So, here is the easy solution:
1. Signup for Juggcash
2. Click the "Mobile" Tab and scroll down to the "Generate Your Mobile Site Script" generator.
3. Enter your domain name, select the payout and site/niche you want your mobile traffic sent to.
4. As script type, select the most effective and easy to install one which is ".htaccess"
5. Select colors, optionally upload your banner.
6. Hit generate and copy the code in a text editor, save as .htaccess (the dot is important) and upload via ftp to your domains/sites root directory. In case you already have a .htaccess file, e.g. when using wordpress, just add the code.
Works with almost all hosts, including virtual accounts, as long as they are running on Apache which the vast majority does.
What is going to happen? Every time a visitors comes to your site, the server compares the browser used to the list of mobile browsers in the Juggcash code you added. If it's a mobile browser, the visitor is redirected to the Brazzers Mobile or X Mobile Pass site with your referral code. If it isn't a mobile browser, your site loads normally. This way, you are making money from the mobile traffic that would be useless for you anyway without your surfers with non-mobile browsers noticing anything. Even Google won't care. Basically, it's some extra income that doesn't interfere with your other sponsors.
In case this is too complicated for you, you can generate PHP or Javascript code to copy and paste to your html code as well, the big advantage of .htaccess is that you don't have to add any code to individual pages, it's valid for all files and even subdirectories of the directory you upload it to.
The .htaccess is useful for many other things, such as search engine friendly redirects, password protection of sites/directories and much more. A very powerful little file, so if you have no clue about it, it would be a good time to grab some tutorials!
Even worse, some sponsors won't pay you for mobile traffic, they'll redirect it to their or third party mobile sites and make money from your traffic without paying you a dime.
So, what to do? Build a mobile version for each and every site you run? That's perfect, but it requires alot of time and effort. So, here is the easy solution:
1. Signup for Juggcash
2. Click the "Mobile" Tab and scroll down to the "Generate Your Mobile Site Script" generator.
3. Enter your domain name, select the payout and site/niche you want your mobile traffic sent to.
4. As script type, select the most effective and easy to install one which is ".htaccess"
5. Select colors, optionally upload your banner.
6. Hit generate and copy the code in a text editor, save as .htaccess (the dot is important) and upload via ftp to your domains/sites root directory. In case you already have a .htaccess file, e.g. when using wordpress, just add the code.
Works with almost all hosts, including virtual accounts, as long as they are running on Apache which the vast majority does.
What is going to happen? Every time a visitors comes to your site, the server compares the browser used to the list of mobile browsers in the Juggcash code you added. If it's a mobile browser, the visitor is redirected to the Brazzers Mobile or X Mobile Pass site with your referral code. If it isn't a mobile browser, your site loads normally. This way, you are making money from the mobile traffic that would be useless for you anyway without your surfers with non-mobile browsers noticing anything. Even Google won't care. Basically, it's some extra income that doesn't interfere with your other sponsors.
In case this is too complicated for you, you can generate PHP or Javascript code to copy and paste to your html code as well, the big advantage of .htaccess is that you don't have to add any code to individual pages, it's valid for all files and even subdirectories of the directory you upload it to.
The .htaccess is useful for many other things, such as search engine friendly redirects, password protection of sites/directories and much more. A very powerful little file, so if you have no clue about it, it would be a good time to grab some tutorials!
Saturday, February 14, 2009
The final curtain for ranking affiliate links
The death of ranking affilite links was decided by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. It's called "canonical tag" and while it has some great advantages for bloggers to get rid of duplicate content, it's an affiliate's nightmare.
The canonical tag was designed to get rid of duplicate content. You can define a standard URL in the header of a page, if the page is reachable under any different URL, it isn't indexed at all, just the canonical one.
For affiliates this means search engine friendly sponsor URLs are obsolete, since the moment a sponsor defines a canonical URL, probably the URL without any affiliate ID, all affiliate URLs will disappear from Google, Yahoo and MSN for this page and never have a chance to rank.
I'm curious how sponsors will react, but since duplicate content is a huge problem for many affiliate programs, it's just a matter of time till the cononical tag will be implemented by most of them.
RIP ranking affiliate URLs, those lucky shots were fun while they lasted.
The canonical tag was designed to get rid of duplicate content. You can define a standard URL in the header of a page, if the page is reachable under any different URL, it isn't indexed at all, just the canonical one.
For affiliates this means search engine friendly sponsor URLs are obsolete, since the moment a sponsor defines a canonical URL, probably the URL without any affiliate ID, all affiliate URLs will disappear from Google, Yahoo and MSN for this page and never have a chance to rank.
I'm curious how sponsors will react, but since duplicate content is a huge problem for many affiliate programs, it's just a matter of time till the cononical tag will be implemented by most of them.
RIP ranking affiliate URLs, those lucky shots were fun while they lasted.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Free blog host Thumblogger was hacked
Sometimes things go wrong, this one went very wrong. Just a few days ago, the industries leading free adult blog host was hacked and all blogs, including backups, were deleted in the attack.
Fortunately, Twan, the owner of Thumblogger, was able to put some older backup from June online again, but the harddrives with the more up to date backups could be lost. A data recovery company is working on it according to the latest news on the forum, but it's still unclear if this attempt will be successful
All the best to the Thumblogger team, we all hope you'll be able to recover the data lost during the attack.
In case you have blogs there, re-register all URLs you have registered after the beginning of June, so noone else can grab them. Looks like some high traffic blogs were already "stolen". In case someone else already was faster, drop Twan a line and he'll put the blog back to your account. In case you want to restore links from the sidebar or posts yourself without waiting for a possible more recent backup, try google or yahoo cache by using the "site:" search of the respective searchengine and clicking on "cache".
This drastically shows what I always preached: Spread out and use other freehosts and your own hosting as well.
Fortunately, Twan, the owner of Thumblogger, was able to put some older backup from June online again, but the harddrives with the more up to date backups could be lost. A data recovery company is working on it according to the latest news on the forum, but it's still unclear if this attempt will be successful
All the best to the Thumblogger team, we all hope you'll be able to recover the data lost during the attack.
In case you have blogs there, re-register all URLs you have registered after the beginning of June, so noone else can grab them. Looks like some high traffic blogs were already "stolen". In case someone else already was faster, drop Twan a line and he'll put the blog back to your account. In case you want to restore links from the sidebar or posts yourself without waiting for a possible more recent backup, try google or yahoo cache by using the "site:" search of the respective searchengine and clicking on "cache".
This drastically shows what I always preached: Spread out and use other freehosts and your own hosting as well.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
More free blog host before christmas
Christmas is coming soon, so now is a good time to give your blog networks a last boost before the holiday traffic hits in, conversions were terrible the last weeks, but christmas holidays were always great for me.
I found some fresh adult blog hosts, still testing how they'll rank, all are wordpress based:
Porn Arm (gone), the next strong arm in porn? Anyway, the site looks professional, loads fast and the latest 4 posts are featured on the mainpage. Just one thing: Don't put a "support" link on the site that links to a 404 page ;) All blogs are ad-free.
Pornodile (gone), the crocodile in porn. The mainpage navigation is a bit confusing, but once you managed to create a blog, it's fast. No ads.
Pussy Blog, now, that's a good name, decent domain! Looks professional, all recently updated blogs linked from the mainpage. The Wordpress MU installation they use differs a bit from what you are normally used to, but works perfectly fine. No ads, but small 4 textlinks in the footer. My top pick this time!
Pornblogz, it started nicely but you fucked it up. Yes, I won't link them here, simply because they thought deleting an "inactive" blog with 1k+ incoming links is a smart idea. It isn't and although the host belongs to a reputable network and it's buried in the TOS, I won't recommend a host that deletes your stuff because they think your well linked blog is worse than someone feeding it with nonsense daily. Good idea to fight spam and orphan blogs, bad idea not to send out mails and just delete without warning.
I found some fresh adult blog hosts, still testing how they'll rank, all are wordpress based:
Porn Arm (gone), the next strong arm in porn? Anyway, the site looks professional, loads fast and the latest 4 posts are featured on the mainpage. Just one thing: Don't put a "support" link on the site that links to a 404 page ;) All blogs are ad-free.
Pornodile (gone), the crocodile in porn. The mainpage navigation is a bit confusing, but once you managed to create a blog, it's fast. No ads.
Pussy Blog, now, that's a good name, decent domain! Looks professional, all recently updated blogs linked from the mainpage. The Wordpress MU installation they use differs a bit from what you are normally used to, but works perfectly fine. No ads, but small 4 textlinks in the footer. My top pick this time!
Pornblogz, it started nicely but you fucked it up. Yes, I won't link them here, simply because they thought deleting an "inactive" blog with 1k+ incoming links is a smart idea. It isn't and although the host belongs to a reputable network and it's buried in the TOS, I won't recommend a host that deletes your stuff because they think your well linked blog is worse than someone feeding it with nonsense daily. Good idea to fight spam and orphan blogs, bad idea not to send out mails and just delete without warning.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Do I need paid hosting ?
The short answer is: Yes, you do. If you have read some older posts here, you know I'm a big fan of using free blog hosts to build small authority networks, but at the end of the day, it's your own domains and sites on paid hosting that secure a long term income.
Even if a freehost is around for 5 years, they could close shop one day. Maybe they'll last 10 years, but if you are doing this fulltime, without an additional 9 to 5 job, that's nothing you want to rely on too much.
There are many good hosts around, e.g. Webair, Dreamhost, but my real favourite is Hostgator, the best deal in my opinion. Even the small virtual accounts are running extremely stable, support is fast and friendly and even better: They are damn cheap!
If you are just starting, I'd recommend the $7.95 a month account, enough for a few blogs. Why not the cheapest package, the "Hatchling" for $4.95? Because it doesn't have an option for your own unique IP. With the $7.95 baby plan, you optionally get a unique for $2 a month, that's a decent SEO starter hosting for under 10 bucks a month. With 52+ one click install scripts you can setup wordpress blogs in no time. Click, configure, go, no uploading, no hassles.
Remember, you can always upgrade if you need more power, no need to buy your own server instantly, although it's the best solution long term for sure, maximum flexibility, speed and reliability for running CPU intensive scripts, etc..
Want more flexibility than on shared hosting, but you don't need the power of your own server? You want to register a bunch of domains cheap? Check out the reseller plans starting at $24.95 a month. cPanel, free Enom domain reseller account (hint: that means domains at low reseller prices) and more.
At the moment they have a special promo running, since Hostgator has gone green, which means all of their shared and reseller servers are now 130% wind powered! Looks at the homepage, you'll get a 20% discount on initial orders by using the coupon code "GREEN".
So, keep building and boosting your blog networks with freehosts, but don't forget to build sites on your own hosting as well.
Even if a freehost is around for 5 years, they could close shop one day. Maybe they'll last 10 years, but if you are doing this fulltime, without an additional 9 to 5 job, that's nothing you want to rely on too much.
There are many good hosts around, e.g. Webair, Dreamhost, but my real favourite is Hostgator, the best deal in my opinion. Even the small virtual accounts are running extremely stable, support is fast and friendly and even better: They are damn cheap!
If you are just starting, I'd recommend the $7.95 a month account, enough for a few blogs. Why not the cheapest package, the "Hatchling" for $4.95? Because it doesn't have an option for your own unique IP. With the $7.95 baby plan, you optionally get a unique for $2 a month, that's a decent SEO starter hosting for under 10 bucks a month. With 52+ one click install scripts you can setup wordpress blogs in no time. Click, configure, go, no uploading, no hassles.
Remember, you can always upgrade if you need more power, no need to buy your own server instantly, although it's the best solution long term for sure, maximum flexibility, speed and reliability for running CPU intensive scripts, etc..
Want more flexibility than on shared hosting, but you don't need the power of your own server? You want to register a bunch of domains cheap? Check out the reseller plans starting at $24.95 a month. cPanel, free Enom domain reseller account (hint: that means domains at low reseller prices) and more.
At the moment they have a special promo running, since Hostgator has gone green, which means all of their shared and reseller servers are now 130% wind powered! Looks at the homepage, you'll get a 20% discount on initial orders by using the coupon code "GREEN".
So, keep building and boosting your blog networks with freehosts, but don't forget to build sites on your own hosting as well.
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