Making Money With Adult Blogs
How To Use Handwritten Porn Blogs To Make Sex Site Sales.
No matter what anyone tells you, handwritten adult blogs work better than splogs as sales tools when you want to make money from porn.
The reasons for this are simple:
- A Handwritten adult blog is somewhere to send your surfer to make that sale.
- You control the content on your adult blog.
- You decide where to send your reader to (fhg, tour page, join page, or one of your other blogs/galleries/sales pages/sites).
- You control what pictures/video clips you post (so you can ‘tease’ your reader; rather than giving them something to jerk off to right there, they need to go to your sponsor).
- You decide the ‘voice’ you use to communicate with your readers (rather than some moron employed by a paysite who, in many cases, hasn’t a clue what to say or how best to say it).
- The search engines love unique text.
- A handwritten porn blog is both a communication tool and a series of mini sales pages. Even though your readers know you are selling to them, they still feel your blog is worth bookmarking, because you have taken time to consider them, rather than churning out the same old crap they have found on thousands of splogs out there.
However…
A good, handwritten adult blog takes an awful lot of hard work.
Even well-established blogs need updating at least once a month (and more frequently if readers have signed up for your RSS feed, or you want to make special promotion posts).
If you use Wordpress (as most people do) to make your porn blog, it will become heavy and lagging over time. All those text-rich posts, large pictures, niche specific pages, categories and tags, review pages, etc, may take ages to load. WP Super Cache is one answer to this, but it is not foolproof and can cause server issues. Nevertheless, it can be a useful tool.
Another way around the ‘heavy blog’ issue, is to use a different blogging platform. Many adult webmasters use Blogs Organizer for their handwritten porn blogs as well as for their splogs (I use this myself on some of my handwritten blogs). The blogs are light, the (purchased) themes are well-SEO’d and you can post to all your blogs from one central platform. But you cannot use tags and you need reasonably good html and css skills to get pages up and running, or to ‘tweak’ your themes to look professional. Plus you have to pay for the full version.
There are, however, many other blogging platforms out there, well-suited to handwritten porn blogs (and many not as ‘hackable’ as Wordpress, which requirres constant updating to secure it), which are well worth a try.
But, these issues aside, are there any other problems you may face when making handwritten adult blogs?
Adult Blog Content Must Be Relevant:
The many benefits of producing a handwritten porn blog will be lost if your content is not relevant. You can write reams and reams of ‘wordy text’, but if it is not relevant to your blog title/niche, you will be wasting your time.
Blogs, by their very nature, are personal and ‘chatty’, but you are writing adult blogs to make money so….
Your blog must be focused:
By all means (now and again) tell your readers about your day, but only if the text you uses says something about the picture/video you are showing. For example:
Poorly Written Adult Blog Text:
“Today I had an argument with my boss. The man’s a fucking idiot. Do you know what he said to me? yada yada…more ranting…yada yada…..and here is a picture of (name your babe) showing her pussy.”
More Focused Adult Blog Text:
“Man, I’m glad to be here with my sexy babes after the shitty day I had at work! Just as well I had this huge picture of (name your babe) showing her pussy to take to the john. Feasting my eyes on her lovely wet snatch was enough to raise my spirits! 
“Fuck! I feel so much better now. Wouldn’t you?”
You get the general idea….
However….
Your adult blog can be as relevant to the SEs and as enticing to your readers as you can possible make it, but, if no one reads your hard-crafted work, then it has all been a gigantic waste of time.
The days of ‘build and they will come’ are long gone. Every day, thousands upon thousands of new adult blogs, galleries, free sites, etc are produced (not to mention the tubes…). How on earth can a porn surfer find your adult blog?
The following will help a lot:
On Site SEO:
- Have a keyword-relevant url (three words are usually best).
- Have a good (preferably longtail) keyworded title for your blog.
- Have a good keyword-relevant description.
- Use keywords, long tail keywords and synonyms in your posts (without making them too ’spammy’).
- Always ask yourself “What would a porn surfer be likely to type in to find this post?” And use that as your post title. Make it relevant and keyword/synonym rich.
- Have a Sub-Title In Bold (which is also relevant, but different keywords/synonyms) at the top of each post (have a look at the top of this post - see what I mean?).
- When you make a post about a subject you have mentioned before, link to it from the post you are making now. It not only provides the se spiders a relevant path to follow, it provides you with a second chance to sell this particular ’subject’ to your readers.
- Give your images good title tags and alt tags without making them spammy.
- Give your links good title tags.
- Use relevant keyword categories and tags for each post.
- End each blog entry with a relevant phrase (probably re-hashing, perhaps in a different format, the title) also in bold.
If you are making adult blogs on Wordpress, you can use these:
Wordpress On Site SEO Plugins:
- All In One SEO which makes your titles ’seo friendly’, plus you can manually and/or automatically assign meta tags to your blog and to individual posts and pages. (you can also use the ‘Title Tags’ plugin which some people prefer).
- Meta Robots Wordpress Plugin (helps you ‘nofollow’ duplicate posts made automatically by wordpress, and nofollows links to your admin pages etc) - As of 13th February 2009, the major search engines have (sort of…) agreed on a new system for assigning rank to duplicated content - the ‘canonical tag’. Yoast has produced a Canonical URL Links Plugin for this, which may eventually make Robots Meta obsolete - we can only wait and see…
- Google XML Sitemaps Generator. Gives you blog an xml sitemap for the spiders to follow (but best not to submit this to Google - wait until the spiders find you - they will). Other blogging platforms (Blogs Organizer for example) usually provide you with a Google XML sitemap as well).
- Dagon Design Sitemap Generator. One of the plugins I totally recommend, especially if you are blogging on your own version of Wordpress MU, where you cannot use the Google sitemap plugin. The sitemap produced by this plugin, not only makes it easy for your blog to be spidered by the search engines, it also provides a real sitemap for you readers to look at to find posts in particular categories.
- Simple Tags. Provides the ability to tag pages as well as posts, plus mass editting of tags and many more time saving, seo-friendly features.
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. Gives your posts inbound links - post to post - (via related titles, tags and categories), thus providing a helpful linking structure, not only for se spiders, but for your readers too. (you can also do this with Simple Tags also, but YARPP does appear to have more options).
- RSS Footer. When you make handwritten adult blogs (or mainstream blogs for that matter), however much you try to stop it, your RSS feeds are going to be scraped and put on other blogs. This plugin at least helps you get some backlinks, by adding a link to your blog and to your post, with the blog and post titles.
- Akismet. Un-moderated spam comments will not only make link juice leaks on your blog, they could even get you penalised for linking to ‘bad neighbourhoods’ (and no - Porn, if promoted correctly is not a bad neighbourhood). Akismet is the anti-spam plugin made by the wordpress people and still one of the best. It usually comes ready-installed in single packages of Wordpress, but you need to download it from the site if using WP MU.
There are other useful Wordpress plugins you can use, but this section is about On Site SEO. Too many plugins will make your wordpress blog ‘heavy’ and most of the plugins mentioned are not necessary if you are someone who is very good at ‘tweaking wordpress’, but for most of us they are a must have.
Off Site SEO:
You need Backlinks.
If you are making an adult blog which you want to rank high in the search engines for it’s particular niche terms, you must have backlinks.
People will tell you that ‘content is king’. It is certainly something Google promotes. They are right. But without good backlinks to your content it will be a long, long time before a large number of people find it.
One of the ways the search engines use to judge a site’s ‘popularity’ is on the number of good, relevant, incoming, one-way links it receives. Yes, you will get ranked for your content, but in the competitive world of SE traffic, you need those backlinks to stay ahead of those competing with you on the same search terms.
There is much more I can say about backlinks (and traffic in general), but that’s for another post. But for now, just think about:
- Social Bookmarking.
- Linking And Deep Linking from your other niche specific blogs/adult sites.
- Trading links for backlinks (not for traffic - for backlinks).
- Submitting your blog to adult porn directories.
- Building your own ‘network’.
- Even blog commenting (but be very careful here - this is a very new concept in the adult blogging world).
- Making sure you have ‘pinging’ turned on so that, with each new post, your blog pings the blog search directories.
- Submitting your blog’s RSS feed to feed directories (and even putting it on your own Yahoo and Google feed readers should help).
That’s quite a limited list, but there will be much more on Traffic and Backlinks soon.
But, what if you have tried all of these methods (and more) and you are still unable to make money from your adult blog?
Handwritten porn blogs take time, hard work, and patience (you can sometimes wait several months before they even begin to get the hits you think they deserve) and you need to get it right.
However, sometimes, you will do ‘all the right things’ and get traffic, but you will still not be able to sell sign ups from that particular blog. what do you do then?
You have to ask yourself a few questions:
- Are the sponsors you are promoting really any good, or is their content crap?
- Are there too many leaks on your sponsors’ tours (it happens quite a lot).
- Are your links working correctly? Check them out at the source and, if you think there is a problem, contact your affilliate rep.
- In fact, you should contact your affiliate reps in any case, to see if they can help you get more sales.
- Is the niche you are promoting not that appealing to your readers? Or is it (more likely) swamped with sites promoting the same stuff?
You could (and should) try:
- Looking at your stats. What are your surfers searching for? If you are not providing it (and it’s legal) go and get some content to sell.
- Promoting a different sponsor or two (which may well follow on from looking at your stats…).
- Looking at the set up of your blog - perhaps something simple like a new theme would help? Or perhaps you can get more interested visitors with a little more focused on site SEO.
If your handwritten adult blog is not selling as well as it should be (or at all), then there is really no harm in making changes, is there?
However, if none of these things work and your porn blog still doesn’t provide you with sales, Move On.
You can update now and again, no harm in that, and, in any case, it may be that eventually you will discover you are making sales from that blog. In that case, you can gently add a few more posts along the same lines (best not to disturb things too much 
).
After all, if handwritten adult blogs are done right (and with luck, which is always a factor in making money online), you should have other porn blogs which do make you money.
Because, no matter what you may hear, making money from handwritten adult blogs can be very profitable.
Making Money From Porn - Free Sites
Another Excellent Long Term Way To Sell Sex Site Sign Ups.
Many adult webmasters will tell you to ‘choose a niche to market that you like and know something about’ and this can be good advice. However, things do not always work out this way.
I recently found myself in the situation where some of my ’splogs’ had produced remarkably good sales (considering they are splogs) for a niche I know very little about. The niche in question is very good, and has a very loyal following, but even if I researched it via forums, blogs, sponsors, etc, for months on end (which is to be recommended), I probably never could get into the mindset (or the gender) to make constant blog posts about it.
But that niche is making porn site sales for me, and I figure it would make me a lot more money if I promoted it more effectively…
I could certainly Make some TGP2s, but there is another, very effective, way I have noticed which works well with this particular porn niche. And that is Building Freesites.
What Are Freesites?
If you look at my Porn Marketing Terms post, you will see that a Freesite consists of an index (warning) page (with some ‘adults only’ text), a page which introduces your galleries and has links to each one, and (usually) two gallery pages. Each gallery page will have thumbnails which link to around 12 (or more) full size images which are not on html.
Although the term ‘Freesite’ contains the word ‘free’ (and will contain a fairly large number of free porn pictures or videos), the basic premise behind the Freesite is to convince the porn surfer to go to your sponsor long before he/she opens those pictures or looks at the video clips.
This is why you will find (softcore) sponsor banners and ‘click here for free porn pictures’ type links above the fold on the warning page long before you find the link to the actual gallery pages.
A similarity between Freesites and TGP2s is the need for (and SEO value of) good, keyword rich and enticing text.
So the Free Site, like the TGP2, can remain in the search engines for a long time and is a long term measure for making money from porn.
There are many link lists where you can (and should) submit your Freesites. However, although I have built a couple of these, I have not submitted them, because, basically, the rules are very strict and can be quite complex.
In fact, building and submitting Free Sites is not (yet) something I have any real experience in.
But all is not lost!
Excellent Information On Building And Submitting Free Sites:
I have found an excellent article on How To Build Adult Freesites which goes into great detail about how to build a Freesite and make it acceptable to most major link lists. There is also a follow up article on How To Submit Your Freesite which takes you through the important steps and gives you a list of Free Site Directories to submit to.
These articles are so good, I will be following their instructions myself and, hopefully be able to post the results here (eventually….all this hard work takes time ).
I found the posts about Building And Submitting Free Sites on another adult webmaster blog. This one is called XXX Webmaster Help And Information. It is written by an adult webmaster who has quite a few years experience in making money from porn and contains loads of good information and links. I guess it might be kicking myself in the teeth to post his link here, but hey, it’s good stuff, and he appears to work in different niches than me (usually), so why not?
What I will say is, you may come across many people saying that Free Sites are finished as a way for making money from porn. Personally, I don’t believe it. I think there are certain types of site building that work for some adult webmasters (and some niches) where others do not.
We will soon see anyway…
That’s all I have to say for now about Making Money with Free Sites. This has been another post in my series about making money from porn - updates, and there are more coming soon