I’m considering letting in a trades who use those tube sites or long videos because I figure that if they don’t want sales and quality bookmark traffic, at least I still get them.  But I wonder about these few things:

1. If I associate my site with the sites who promote long videos and tube sites, am I harming the industry by being a secondary promoter? And if so, by how much, and how will it affect my business?

2. Will my conversion ratios decline, but ppc/dating/cams ad revenue increase? And how much time do I have before my ppc/dating/cams rates/conversions decline due to everyone else promoting them even more?

3.  AAW once paid a pretty penny, but now pays a much less because A) it’s been abused by webmasters who place ads in poor places which don’t convert for the advertiser and it also takes 100k daily to earn decent cash with AAW.

4. If I do succomb to the changing market and associate with websites who provide long videos, how long until this industry dies due to affiliate programs closing because they’re no longer making money because we’re no longer converting for them?

5. Am I trapped in a case of “if you don’t do it, someone else will?”

6. What are the benefits of associating with tube/long video websites, and do the benefits outweigh the harm possibly caused in the long run to the industry?

7. How do affiliate programs feel about this? I see one lawsuit from Teen Revenue against Red Tube, but I don’t see any other actions against the tube movement, so is it secretly embraced?

8. What are some creative ways to generate additional income if sales decline due to the user getting off on a poor quality and buffering long video?

Today a guy messages me stating he used ICQ rather than forum PM, then copy/pastes the message from the forum that I left him. Ok. I get it. You want to trade traffic. My response? “What do you want to do?” He responds with asking me if it’s ok to ask me questions. I reply, yes, let’s speed this up…get to the point and just ask the questions.

He responds by saying he will contact me later when I have more time.

I didn’t ever say I don’t have time, I just want you to ask the questions already.

The ten minutes I spent talking to this guy accomplished nothing because he couldn’t even ask the questions he wanted to ask.  Just ask away…it’s that easy.

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You can do one of two things at this point – 1) continue to read to learn the basics of how to start your own porn site, or 2) contract me for a fixed price to build the site for you and show you how it works.

You could spend the next month trying to figure it out on your own, or you could invest in professional to build it for you – why waste your time trying to learn on your own when you can get a tax deduction by hiring me?

If you’ve made it this far and still want to learn on your own, then here’s the steps you need to follow.

Chose a niche. What do you like? Anal sex, babes, pornstars, blowjobs, hardcore, big tits? Everything? Chose the content that you will enjoy working with. If you like it all, that’s ok.

Chose a domain. Your domain should be relative to your niche, easy to remember for branding, spelled correctly, without hyphens, etc. If your surfers can’t remember how to spell your domain because it’s spelled incorrectly, or its a stupid made up word that makes no sense, then I can’t promise you that your domain will be worth buying. You can try, but you may lose some traffic. Finding a domain may be the hardest uphill battle because there’s not many good domains left without looking. I’ve spent up to three hours just searching for a domain that was less than two words, relevant, without hyphens, and spelled correctly – but it’s worth the time in the long run. Domains cost about $9.99. Domains that are already owned, but for sale, can be sold by any price the seller is willing to sell them for. I’ve spent $2,000 on a domain that was well worth the psychological research put into it.

Chose a type of site. Your options are tube site, blog, plug trade site, paysite, review site, tgp/mgp, or something else that you think of on your own. Think about what you will enjoy working on every day and the type of updating you won’t mind doing…or outsourcing.

Chose your software. The type of site you run depends on the software you will need. Some software is cheaper than others, while some will cost you $500. WordPress for blogs are free. KatCMS for plug trade sites is $500. TGP scripts range from $89 to $250 depending on which you use. I can refer you to scripts that are well worth using. My main advice about script chosing is to not ever use a free traffic trading script that takes 1-2% of your traffic as you will lose much more money and traffic in the long run and it is very worth it to purchase the paid versions of the scripts.

Chose a host. Check your scripts for server requirements and make sure your host can provide that. Most hosts that I’ve encountered have been able to provide everything I need. Chances are you can start on a small shared hosting account that costs about $20 per month. Right now I spend over $1,000.00 to host about 30 websites spread out on six servers. You shouldn’t need to spend that much unless you’re running this many websites and hosting your own videos.

Design your website. Your design depends on the type of site you’re running. Look at similar style sites and follow the current trends. If you’re not able to design, slice in photoshop, and code html/css, then you should hire a designer/coder who is capable. Some designers cannot code, and some html/css specialists cannot design. It’s ok if you need to hire someone different for each job. Every designer and coder will range in their abilities. Sometimes you have to mix and match to get the perfect fit. I have different people for different tasks who all specialize in what I hire/outsource them for.

Install your software and apply your layout to your scripts.

Register for sponsor programs who offer content in the niche you’ve chosen.

Add content from your sponsor. If you’re a tgp/mgp, then import galleries and run your gallery scanner to crop thumbs and fix the bad thumbs manually. If you’re a plug trade site, then add 30 hosted videos using sponsor embedded videos. If you’re a tube site or a blog, then add 30 videos or blog entries. You want to have enough content for a month so that your site looks established and webmasters you trade with (if you trade) have content to chose from. If you try presenting a site with 2 videos, then the surfer probably won’t come back to your site,  and the webmasters you trade with will likely tell you that your site is incomplete and you need more content before they send to you.

Add other ads. Banners, pay per click, cpm – whatever you think matches well with your site to generate extra income from other programs.

Search for trades. Look for sites of similar style, niche, and availability. You want to match your content and thumbs/text to your trade partners so that quality is good. You certainly don’t want to trade with any site that has more than one popunder or illegal material. Look for quality sites only.

Manage your trades. You should be able to manage trades via your trade script or cms if you’re a trade site, or Google Analytics if you’re a tube site. If you see a site sends you 1000 hits per day to your plug trade site, but it only generates 300 clicks to trades, then that site is only 30% productive and NOT worth keeping. You want your productivity on trade sites to remain over 100% (pending all links on your site are trackable; if not, you’ll have an overall average to go by). You want your tube site to generate several pageviews per user. If the surfers from a site aren’t making it past page one, then they aren’t worth keeping.

Find link trades. Trade links with similar sites.

Talk with other adult webmasters. Webmasters generally chat about web stuff and work together to customize trades to make trades more productive for each other.

• Sales to sponsor fhg’s and/or banner ads.
• Sell partner accounts.
• Sell banner space.
• Sell paid listings.
• Sell traffic per click.
• Sell exits and 404 traffic.

How much will you make? That all depends on how well you organize your site and if you put any effort into it at all. If you put no effort into the content and marketing, then don’t expect to earn much money.

If you strategically place your ads and generate traffic via various marketing methods, then you’re likely to earn a pretty penny.

Sponsors pay anywhere from $9.99-$200.00 per sale pending your choice of pay per sale or revshare and if there’s a promotion period active.

Partner accounts sell for $10-$50 from my experience. You can charge what you like and you don’t have to approve anything you don’t like.

Banner space sells for whatever you wish as well, but if your asking price isn’t reasonable in relation to current trends and banner space prices, then you won’t get a sale. For example, if your site gets 100 visits per day and you ask for $1000.00 for a monthly banner spot, then you will not find a buyer unless your buyer has no idea what they’ve just been suckered into buying. I sell my banner space for approximately what I earn in each space and I provide generous discounts to people who purchase network advertising space.

Paid listings sell for $50 to a f ew thousand depending on how much traffic they send the buyer. I’ve purchased listings for $500 a month to $2000.00 a month. The key is to be able to provide a sufficient amount of traffic to make the purchase worthy for the buyer.

Traffic sales per click can generate anywhere from half cent per click to $5.00 per thousand clicks sent. If you’re having trouble converting your sponsors and you have no other buyers, then selling pay per click traffic to a traffic broker is a last resort to generating at least some income to your site.

Selling exit traffic is when you send someone to a site after they leave your site.

Selling 404 traffic is when you send the buyer to pages that conjure a 404 error. For example, someone types in your domain.com/something-here but that page doesn’t exist. Your 404 page will either have the buyers advertisement or your 404 page can redirect to the buyers own page via .htaccess redirect code.

Or how about today’s weather. It’s in the mid 50′s in late January. Snow and ice are melting. Skies are blue and the least cloudy I’ve seen them in weeks. And of course – what happens on sunny days and nice weather?

Carwash.

I went out for lunch around 1:30 and decided to wash the snow remnants off my own mobile, and of course there’s a line at the carwash. A line. Yes. A line. Are you kidding me? No. I can understand a four car line in the middle of the normal work day, but a ten car line is preposterous.

It went fast and I turned down the magic hand wax; it’s just going to be unsunny later in the week and probably snow again – no point going all out; I just want this white horseshit off my car.

After my trip to the carwash I stopped in Acme for my new favorite lunch. A bed of macaroni and cheese topped with chicken fingers and three containers of bbq sauce for dipping pleasure and an energy drink. Then I noticed they had massive cooked shrimp and added those to the list.

I left Acme, cashed almost a grand in adult webmastering checks, and stopped at the movie theatre to purchase two tickets for My Bloody Valentine. $24. What. The. F**k. For a movie? Really? I can buy the damn movie and show it to everyone I wish in my own home, but for $24 we get to sit in your seat and watch it? Jesus p.o.w.-torturing Christ. At least it came with two pairs of official 3d glasses, maybe I’ll wear them out on special occasions.

Speaking of movies, I saw that Dark Knight was basically snubbed of any respectable award nominations in the Oscars. When Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, two guys I don’t know are nominees (Brat Pitt is only respectable nominee) over guys who acted in the better movies of 2008, that’s when I know the Oscars are a pathetic joke.

Heath Ledger should be considered the main actor of Dark Knight because without him there is no story. It would be just another senseless crime fighting movie. If you think about it, Batman (Bale) is really the supporting actor. Or better yet, why can’t there be two main actors? Or no main actor but two equal supporting actors. Those characters were nothing without each other. Where’s the justice in handing Heath a deserving reward for portraying the same character that Nicholson couldn’t come close to nailing and he’s one of the best actors of our time. Oscars are a huge joke and the crew from Dark Knight will be cashing massive paychecks. You guys winning your shiny little trophy can sulk in line knowing your movie didn’t generate income close to that of Dark Knight. People running the Oscars are just as stupid. You’d think they’d at least nominate Dark Knight for awards just to get viewership and ratings. Nope. Pure idiocy. No wonder ratings for the useless award show drop every year. I hope Dark Knight surpasses Titanic in all times sales. Titanic was dreadful and only people with a penis who saw that movie were gay males and guys forced by their girlfriends in hopes they’ll get popcorn bag hand-jobs in the theater.

I drove by another carwash on the way home from purchasing tickets for My Bloody Valentine. The lack of brains people have does not shock me. Lines for this carwash extended into main street traffic. It’s a do-it-your-self station and people are actually ignorant and stupid enough to wait in line in the middle of the street and stop traffic for a long country block. I would’ve thrown something at this fat middle aged woman in a minivan if I had to wait on a street for her obese self with 90′s haircut to get off the damn street.

Did she not see the 100 cars waiting angrily in traffic because she stuck out into the street? Go to another damn carwash – there’s about fifty of them within a five mile radius.

Welcome the webmasters shrimp cocktail.

Seeking pr2-pr4 link trades. Almost every niche needed/accepted. Show me what you have via PM or ICQ and I’ll respond with something that’s relevant and helpful to us both.”

Someone like you isn’t supposed to ICQ me like this:

Rachel: hi link trades?

Me: what’s the pr and what are the sites?

Rachel: what niche are you looking for?

STOP!

You already know I that I requested all niches and will have something for you. You already know what I am looking for. Don’t read my request and then ask me what I just asked you for. It wastes both of our time and itt shows you’re just hunting every link trade you can capture and aren’t paying attention to who you’re talking to or what thread you read. You just want every little link trade like a greedy spammer. You’re basically a link savage who probably doesn’t offer any quality links on quality websites. You probably run a pr1 site with 50 hits per day and 127 link trades in your footer and 4 pieces of content on a default Word Press template. At least get a free template like I did.

Not happening.

This is how Rachel should’ve responded:

Rachel: hi link trades?

Me: what’s the pr and what are the sites?

Rachel: domain.com/pr3, domain.com/pr5, domain.com/pr2…etc.

Me:  Sure, I can set you up with…

It’s called getting down to business and skipping the chit chat. For a guy (me) who runs 30 websites on their own, this saves extremely precious time that can be used for important stuff like vacuuming and changing cat litter, or eating lunch in my underwear while setting up a new homepage trade with a milf site. All things more productive than answering my own questions to a girl who didn’t read the thread I wrote or at least pay attention to the person responding when she’s spamming every ICQ number on a forum. How do I know she’s just a scavenger? It’s because forums are the only place I request link trades and post my ICQ address. You won’t find me requesting link trades with ICQ information on any of my websites.

Sorry Rachel, but I had to block you.

I managed to find content for three websites and now I move onto the editing and uploading to the desired sites.

Looks like its going to be a busy few hours as I sort the items into groups of similar content to make uploading easier.

I’m thinking about buffalo chicken pizza for dinner – quick, fast, and less than a minute down the street.

I had shrimp with lobster sauce in white rice and a spicy salmon roll for breakfast/lunch – it’s totally a fast food day. I’ll do extra pull-ups and drink green tea to spike my metabolism to make up for it.

Lesson for today – backing up content is a good idea, but it’s even better six years later to see your old work and random saved items.

While updating numerous sites, gaining new link trades, and updating some .htaccess files and washing my cats ass, I couldn’t help but laugh at the really old black man who could barely mutter words out during his speech.

I seriously think he may be as old as the first slave. He definitely gave the best and most humorous speech of the day and if I were there I would’ve given him a standing ovation. Unfortunately, two other old guys had seizures. One of them was Ted Kennedy. The other I do not know.

One part of today’s events that bored the piss out of me was the poetry woman who could’ve put a crying baby to sleep out of boredom.

As the Presedential Limo leaves Capitol Hill to begin the parade, I can’t help but notice that the cameramen on top of the White House resemble snipers. Well…snipers with massive cannons who can’t hide too well.

After this I’ll update the database on my stats program to check conversion rates. Then perhaps I’ll grab lunch. I’ve eaten nothing but a bowl of high fiber cereal today. I should probably eat.

These are the three main payment types that adult sponsors use to determine your payout.  Some sponsors may offer a choice to use one, another, or more than one, while other sponsors offer one, the other, or simply just one.

Let’s examine each payment option.

Pay Per Sale

• Has larger up front pay amount than PPC,  Revshare, and CPM. Sale amounts range from $20-$200, with $200 being on bonus days.
• No rebills. You get credit for one sale and that’s it. Not every sale is a surfer, and not every sponsor will convert for every website.
• Once you find a pay per sale program that does convert, the payouts can be much larger up front than any of the other options.
• Use this option if you know a program cannot retain members for more than two months. Otherwise, use Revshare.

CPM

• If you have tons of traffic but can’t convert anything to a sale, then running CPM ads are for you.
• These pay per thousand impressions, regardless of how many sales you do or do not convert for whatever is advertised.
• I can only assume that payouts will be higher for quality traffic, and lower payouts for low productivity traffic.
• This is easy money, but you need a lot of traffic to make it worth it.
• If your traffic is of great quality, I don’t advise on using CPM ads in prime locations.

Revshare

• Works like Pay Per Sale except you split the profit with the sponsor.
• Payments per revshare sale can be between $5.00 and $100+ depending on if you sell $10.00 memberships or a live web cam show for $200.
• You earn a sale each month the member renews their membership.
• Less money up front, but possibly more money in the long term.  If a surfer remains a member for three months, then you’ve probably made more money than if you did Pay Per Sale.
• Do this option if you’re sure that a program is able to retain members for at least three months.

Pay Per Click

• Your job is to make surfers click on these text or banner ads and in return you get paid a few cents per click.
• Rack up thousands of clicks and you can earn decent cash.
• Some PPC programs pay on first click, others pay on second click.
• Second click programs sometimes pay more money per click.
• Some programs also pay more for high quality traffic. For example, a person sending 1000 clicks from USA will be paid more than someone sending 1000 clicks from a country considered third world.
• It’s always a good idea to have at least one PPC sponsor on your site to generate extra cash. If you’re having a bad week with conversions, then at least you’re generating cash via PPC.

(Roman Numeral M = 1,000)