Does Being Sociable Make You Money When You Market Porn?
Working as an affiliate selling membership to online sex sites can make you lots of money if you do it well and work out good marketing strategies.
In an earlier post I suggested several ways to get a new adult blog up and running, so that it brings in the cash for you as quickly as possible. Of course, I suggested submitting your blog to the search engines, and I also mentioned ‘burning’ your feed in Feedburner and bookmarking your site at del.icio.us and other social bookmarking sites, as well as posting to adult bookmarking sites.
These are all good marketing strategies. For example, I have received a couple of sign ups which I can trace from Yahoo’s MyWeb and some of my blogs have been ‘added’ to other subscribers’ accounts at del.icio.us. As to adult bookmarking strategies, these won’t get you many sales, but some of them will provide nice backlinks for your porn blogs and sites.
With Feedburner, I have found that by using their ‘Buzz Boost’ tool on some of my blog feeds, I have been able to run excerpts from them on other sites as html. I have also found Feedburner’s ‘Optimize’, smart feed tool very useful for making XML feeds compatible with most feed readers.
Adding a ’subscribe to my feed’ button on your blog and (if permitted by your sponsor) an email subscription box or link (together with the ‘bookmark’ reminder) will make your blog a friendlier place for your readers and will get you loyalty and trust (if your blog is reader friendly with no pop unders or other devices to scare the porn surfer off).
However, I personally feel that when you want to make money by selling sex site membership, you have to consider exactly what you want your surfers to do. As I said before, when I was sharing my thoughts on splogs and the pros and cons of using these to market porn effectively, do you want a loyal reader who reads every post in your porn blog (if he has the energy … 
), or do you want a sale? You most likely won’t get both.
Furthermore, is it any good if your site is ‘Stumbled Upon’ ?( I haven’t even tried this one for porn yet, so I haven’t checked their TOS by the way) Do you get extra sales from that high number of readers of your RSS feed you have posted proudly in your sidebar? To my mind (and not everyone, by far, agrees with me on this), loyal readers give your porn blog credibility, but I have to question how effective they are in bringing you sales and thus making you some cash.
Incidentally, I think this applies to the mainstream online market too. Unless your loyal readers also link to you from their blogs and sites (which is very unlikely in the porn business, as each backlink has to be reciprocated) , are they really doing you much good in SEO and money making terms?
I’ll give you an example. One of my older porn blogs has 200+ RSS readers. Have any of those readers signed up with the sponsor for that particular blog? I doubt it, or else why would they still be subscribed to my RSS feed? They can get all the ‘info’ they want from the site itself. It could be that some of the readers have simply forgotten to cancel the feed subscription (or they just like my writing style 
), But this cannot apply to all of them.
When that blog was riding high in Google, it made quite a few sales. When Google ’sandboxed’ it, the sales stopped until I tried alternate strategies. But the RSS feed subscriptions remained the same, then went up again as soon as I gave readers alternate ways of finding the blog. But it was several weeks before I made another sale from this blog, and that was via a search from Yahoo.
What I am saying here is that your blog can be a bookmarker’s dream, but that won’t make you a cent unless the blog is also doing well in the search engines and attracting surfers looking to spend money on porn, rather than simply collecting your link or your RSS feed to view later.
Okay, when you market porn you have to use every legal strategy in the book, but the more I learn in this online money making business, points me to one conclusion. All the things you do to sell as an affiliate have to have one thing in mind, and that is to get that blog or site as high as you can in the search engines and when those porn surfers land on your site, you need to have good content in place to get them to link away from your blog to your sponsor, and sign up.
Regular readers may give your ego a nice boost and keep you producing content at times you would much rather be doing something else. It could be that a few of those regulars may get so sick of watching the ‘teaser video clips’ that you link to, that their frustration gets the better of them and they go and sign up with one of your sponsors, and that’s great. But while you are waiting for them to make up their minds, you could have missed a few search engine sales by concentrating your porn marketing in the wrong direction.
These are my thoughts, not advice. The only way to market porn effectively is to do your homework and test, test and test again (and be prepared to change your strategies if they begin to fail).
You will make money from selling porn online, but only if you are committed to doing your homework
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