It’s September and Time to go Back to (Porn Website) School

I don’t know what it is, but I find that it’s just harder to work in the summer. I had a great summer off here, but it’s time to get back to school. Porn website school that is. Time to:

  • brush the dust off of our porn affiliate accounts
  • start building up adult links again and
  • get our traffic in to our sites and out to convert

I’m planning a number of new posts to help you get back on track and motivated to make some money this fall! Hey if anything we should all have a few extra bucks to spend by Christmas time.

Patience vs. Persistence

I think that the biggest roadblock that people face when trying to make a go of it as an adult internet marketer is what I call the patience vs. persistence factor.

For a lot of us, it can be frustrating to build up our rankings in Google only to watch them drop off, then rise again and continue on this roller coaster. It can also be frustrating to watch the clicks come through our adult affiliate accounts but see little or no sales during the initial phases of our launch. The fact is that this is normal. It takes time to get traffic flowing to your site. AND, if you’ve chosen a good niche for your porn site, you will start to see sales in your affiliate accounts.

The key is to:

  1. Understand that this won’t be an overnight success
  2. Be persistent with your efforts

By Being persistent I mean that your should:

  • Continue to build links
  • Continue to add content
  • Continue to try out different ads and affiliate programs
  • Continue to try different methods to convert your traffic
  • Continue to watch your stats and look for ways to increase your rankings

And we both know that this doesn’t take that that much time to do. If you only have one site you’re working with you only need to dedicate an hour or two a week to this. If you keep this up during your growing pains you’ll be a lot further ahead than most and you’ll be rewarded.

Your Homework

So as your first homework assignment of the school year how about we get organized with our marketing efforts. Put together a weekly schedule of all the tasks that you’re going to perform to get you past this hurdle and start making some real money. If yo u like post  your plans here as a comment! I’d love to see what you’ve come up with.

And for those of you that are still trying to decide whether or not you want to try and build an adult website at all, your homework is to get off the pot and get started! What else are you going to do over those long cold wither months ahead?

How Can I Get More Traffic to My Adult Website

The old “Build it and they will come.” line does not even come close to working on the web.

It’s not easy to get thousands of visitors looking at your porn site, but that is exactly what you need to do. So here’s a quick list of the different ways to get traffic to your site!

  1. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  2. Banner ads through an ad network
  3. Link partners
  4. Social media
  5. Referrals from visitors
  6. Pay per click advertising
  7. Buy it from a traffic company

More to come! Give me a comment if you think of any I missed.

MofosCash – Free Adult Affiliate Content

Today, I have another option for getting some top quality adult affiliate videos on your site! If you’ve completed the building your adult web site, you can start getting hooked up with some adult content providers around the web. The one we’re talking about today is MofosCash. These guys have some great teens over 18 and “first time” content that might fill your niche (if you know what i mean lol)!

Just like JuggCash though, you need to have a working site in place with some content already set up. So if you don’t have any content yet, sign up as an AEBN adult webmaster and get your site filled up with adult videos first!

Just like any other adult affiliate program mentioned on this website MofosCash sets you up with an array of tools to help youget some high quality porn on your site and start making money from it. Mofos, is actually very similar to Juggcash in it’s setup, as you’ll soon find out (and they really do have some rocking content)!

Get Approved with MofosCash the First Time

Mofos is looking established sites so if you don’t have a functioning website, including some content, yet check out AEBN first! Some things to do before applying:

  • Finish building your porn site completely
  • Become an AEBN Adult Webmaster and fill up the site with some nice affiliate content
  • Make sure your site is clean, free of errors
  • Correct all spelling mistakes(seriously, spelling always counts)
  • Get an ICQ account setup

How to Create an Account with MofosCash

  1. Go to MofosCash.com
  2. Click on the “Click Here Signup Today Link”
  3. Fill in the form correctly including ICQ #
  4. Complete the Payment Information and submit
  5. You’ll have to use ICQ to contact one of their staff to get your account confirmed.
  6. Sign into your ICQ account and send them the following message:
  7. “Hi there, just wanted to confirm my new MofosCash account. My user name is [enter your username here]”

That’s all folks!  If you’ve got an “acceptable” site you’ll get a message saying your account has been activated in the next day or so. If you don’t get activated, look at your site and figure out why…Could be for any of these reasons (and if you have any of these problems you’ll want to take care of them lickity split just for seo reasons too)

  • No Content
  • Technical Errors
  • Poorly formatted content like overlapping elements
  • Spelling mistakes
  • Etc.

Just take a look, you should be able to tell. And if all else fails, ask MofosCash through icq what you need to do to your site to get it approved next time. They’ll tell ya.

Step 2: Register your Domain Name

Once you’ve decided on a name you need to register that name with a domain registrar. The registrar is what gives you ownership of your domain name. You can register for as little as 1 year at a time all the way up to a 10 year registration.

If you’re not sure where to register your porn site domain name try GoDaddy (If you buy today you pay only $5.99 for a .COM). They’ve got the best prices and best service if you ever need it!

Domain registration is  inexpensive and I usually only register for 1 year at a time with an automatic renewal. Be careful with this though, because if your credit card expires your domain will not renew at the end of the year and your domain will expire as well.

 Let's Get Back to Business. Start with a $1.99 .COM from GoDaddy.

Steps to register:

  1. Type in your desired domain name and TLD here (a tld is the suffix at the end of your domain name: .com, .net, .tv etc)
  2. If your name isn’t available, you can change the TLD or modify the name slightly to something that is available.
  3. Once you’ve found the name you want, set up an account follow the steps to complete the registration.
  4. Do not choose any hosting options at this stage, just register the domain name and nothing else. If you don’t want your name to show up in any public records about this domain, be sure to choose the private registration option.
  5. Keep all emails you get from the registrar and put your login and password in a place where you can find it, even if it’s a year down the road. If you lose this information it will be hard to get it back again later.


 Let's Get Back to Business. Start with a $1.99 .COM from GoDaddy.

You’re all set. Now you just need to set up some porn friendly hosting.

UPDATE: Check out the new screen cast video tutorial for registering your domain at godaddy.

Step 4 – Install WordPress the Backbone of your Adult Porn Site

So you have your web hosting set up, you have your domain name, and you have your domain pointing to your web site. You’re ready to install the software that is going to serve as the framework of your soon to be launched porn web site!

WordPress

WordPress is a versatile open source blog engine that is being used for everything from standard content management, to management of blogs like Perez Hilton, to managing adult websites likeBig Boob Tube!  This software is perfect for our new porn site for a couple of reasons:

  1. It’s free
  2. There are a million free plugins available for it. There are even wordpress plugins made fro adult webmasters
  3. It’s stable, reliable and easy to use
  4. It’s free

To install WordPress, you have a couple of options.

If you set up your hosting account with Citrex, or some other hosts that use the Cpanel control panel you can install wordpress directly from the control panel.

Check out a video tutorial of this here.

  1. Login to your control panel
  2. Click on Fantastico de Lux
  3. Then Click on WordPress in the menu on the left
  4. Now follow the instructions to complete your installation
  5. Leave the field “Install in directory” blank
  6. Don’t forget the admin username and password you choose
  7. When this finishes loading, open a new browser window and type in your domain name. If you see a screen that looks like this you’ve successfully installed WordPress!

That should do it. If you don’t have the Fantasico option you might need a little knowledge about FTP to get the job done. The WordPress install file can be found here:

http://wordpress.org/download/

And some instructions for a manual install can be found here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

Installing this way should give you the same result and with that you’re halfway there!

 

Must Do On Site Search Engine Optimization

Adult Website SEOThese may be common knowledge for some, but it’s always good to have a bit of a checklist to make sure you don’t miss out on any easy rankings!

If you want to get to the top of the rankings in Google, Yahoo, Bing etc you need to start with 2 things:

  1. Keyword or Key Phrase
    This is the search term that you want your adult website to hit number 1 under.
  2. Essential On-Site Optimization for that Phrase
    These are some simple things that your need to do on your website to make sure the search engines think that you deserve to be number 1 under your chosen key phrase.

After you have chosen your Key Phrase do these first:

  1. Incorporate your key phrase <title> Tags
  2. Incorporate your key phrase in your H1 Tags
  3. Include it in the first bit of regular content on your page (after the H1 tags), within the first 50 words
  4. Include your key phrase regularly throughout the rest of your page. Every 100 words or so
  5. Include it in links to other pages on your site (internal links)
    Make sure these pages have your key phrase on them as well
  6. Don’t over due it. Make sure your content is still natural to read
  7. Don’t steal your content, search engines have algorithms to tell when they see duplicate content.

Next you need to start getting some inbound links. We’ll cover this in an upcoming article.

How to Get Inbound Backlinks to Your Porn Site

When I started doing SEO in 2001 it was a relatively new science. There weren’t many people doing it, there was no automation and it was relatively easy to find link partners. And you didn’t even need all that many to destroy your competition, simply because your competition usually wasn’t aware of such a thing as SEO.

Nowadays, there are a number of factors that make this a far more competitive and difficult environment to work in. Automated tools have been developed that create thousands of spam like inbound links across the web in a matter of days, which means:

  • Search engines are changing their algorithms regularly to try and weed these guys out
  • Site owners are annoyed by all the spam and less likely to allow outbound links on their sites
  • This influx of inbound links from all the people using these software packages have increased the curve on the sheer number of inbound links that you need to get noticed

Don’t let this dissuade you though. If you picked a good niche and you keep at it you can get rankings  under the terms you want. Besides, the inbound link options for adult websites have always been limited due to the nature of the content we provide. Because of this, we need to rely on adult link exchange to get our links. This means that we add a link to someone’s site in exchange for a link back from one of their sites. There are two types of link exchange:

  1. One Way Links – this is where one porn site links to your site and you DON’T link directly back to that same site. You link to one of that persons other adult sites likely. This looks more natural to Google and gives you better link juice, as it’s called.
  2. Reciprocal Links – A reciprocal link is where one porn site links to your porn site and you link directly back to that same site. This is not as strong as one way adult links but it’s still a link.

So Who do I Trade Links With and How do I Get Those Links?!
Start with link exchange sites.

Here are some of the link exchange sites that I use to get links my porn sites:

Sign up with these, read the rules for each and start trading!

There are more out there for sure. if you know any exchange sites that I missed leave a comment and let us know!

 

 

 

I want to Start a Porn Site – How do I Start??

Start a porn web siteYou want to start a porn site? I want to start a porn site!

So you love porn and want to have a go at making a living from it. In my opinion the easiest way to break into the porn industry is with a porn web site. Let’s talk about how we can start a porn website!

Some people start with a name, some people start by deciding on a particular category or niche that they want to specialize in. Some people don’t know where to start.

A porn site is no different than any other project. If you want to be successful you should start with a plan. A good way to begin any plan is to start with a bit of a brainstorming session. Use the following list as a worksheet to get some ideas about the direction that you’d like to see your porn site go in.

Download the PDF version of this brainstorming worksheet here

  1. What type of content are you going to include on your website?
    1. Will your website show videos, images, or all of the above?
    2. Will you specialize in a particular category of porn (anal, teen, etc)
  2. Do you want to offer content for free or do you want only members to see it
    1. Will there be a membership fee? If so how much?
  3. Are you going to create your own content use a provider?
  4. What do you want to call your website?
  5. What will make your adult website better than the next?
    1. How are you planning to keep users looking at your content the longest.
  6. How will you make money from your new pornsite?
  7. What kind of budget do I have to get this thing started?
    1. Yes, you do need some money (not very much) to get a porn site started.

I will help you find the answers to these questions in the articles to come, but sit down and try to answer them your self as an initial step. This will help to get you thinking about this.

Building a successful porn site isn’t done by flicking a switch. You have to treat it as a real start up business. Haha, who am I kidding. A porn site should work for you like a business, but it’s porn. It should also be a lot of fun. That’s why you want to start a porn site in the first place right? However you treat it, make wise, well-informed decisions in the beginning and you will see better results down the road!

Click here to get started at step 1: Choosing a Name for you Site.

Any questions? Leave me a comment!!

Design Matters Part 2 – Planning Your Adult Website Design

Planning… In the world of adult website production and design this step is  often overlooked. When you sit in front of your computer, and jump straight into working on your adult website it’s easy to lose site about what the big picture is and how the one piece that you’re concentrating on either contributes to or fights against your end goal. That’s why this adult website how to article is dedicated strictly to planning a porno tube website.

I noticed that I have a few problems with my Big Boob Tube website.

  1. I’m not getting high rankings under the key phrases I want
  2. The traffic that does come to my site quickly leaves, as I can see by my high bounce rate in my Analytics Account
  3. I haven’t made any money… no one is clicking my affiliate links

This is why I sat down, away from the computer, with a pen and paper and drew up some wire frames that I think will solve these problems. A wireframe, by the way, is a simple sketch of the generalized areas of your website design. It’s used to illustrate how areas are going to work and to help webmasters, like you and me, to look at the big picture without getting hung up on content and capabilities.

I have 3 types of pages on my site, so I only needed 3 wireframes. You likely only have 3 types of pages too AND most of the stuff on these pages is the same, so this is easy!

  1. Home page
  2. Category video listing page
  3. Video Details page – the page the video plays on

Wireframe of porn site home

Home Page

This is where most visitors are going to land AND the page that search engines will pay the most attention to. So 2 goals here:

  1. Get visitors to click and move into the site
  2. Optimize the crap out of this page

Wireframe of porn site video tube listing page

Listing Page

The listing page is like a vehicle to get the visitor to his next video as painlessly as possible. It’s one job is to show the visitor something he likes ans make it easy to get there.

Wireframe of porn site video watching page

Details / Video Viewing Page

This is where most conversions happen. Our hope is that the visitor will finish a video, be looking for something more and click on one of our ads.

So these are the sketches, we’ll see how it plays out in sometime down the road!

New Sample Porno Tube Launched

I’ve done a fresh WordPress and Adultere install to help me illustrate some of the techniques I’ve been describing better. It’s my plan to user this site to show live examples of how adult affiliate content and advertising works. AND how to make money from your adult site of course!

I’ve picked my niche and am ready to go. Check it out at:

http://istartapornsite.com/big-boob-tube/

This is a tube feeder feed with “Big Tits” and “High Definition” as keywords, which gave me 77 videos that should suit my theme!