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There’s a writer over on Cozy Frog that has been writing some amazing articles and tutorials for Adult Entertainment Webmasters for I don’t even know how many years, but they’re packed with good info and basic how-to wisdom that any webmaster can reap the benefits from by just giving them a read.

Her name is Titmowse, and below is just an excerpt from a not to long ago article that talks about old pages, and the benefits of just leaving them alone. The article goes hand in hand with some advice I received from one of my first Porn Industry bosses: “Learn from your mistakes and keep moving forward. Don’t waste my time, or yours, going backwards to “fix” stuff”. This of course meant don’t waste time rebuilding a freesite or perhaps a gallery, an AVS site, or a banner design. Just do it right the next time!

In that same vein of thought Titmowse reminds us that it is indeed appropriate to leave old pages where they lie … because inevitably, you’ll see passive revenue arrive on your doorstep in the form of a check in the mail from that sponsor. So just what is passive revenue? Titmowse explains:

Ultimately, most sponsor revenue is passive. When a surfer signs up under your affiliate ID, it’s not like you were physically in their house, closing the sale. Passive sales are the very nature of the affiliate/sponsor model. You create a mini free site and submit it to a top list. You build a gallery of video clips and get it listed on various MGPs. You post a blog entry that lives on via permalinks and a serendipitous use of keywords and subject matter. Weeks (or even months) later that old bit of marketing renders a return. You make sales when you aren’t actively trying. This is passive income. This is the magic promise of the Internet – making money while you sleep.

There’s also passive income to be made from recurring memberships or webmaster signup programs. Out of those ten or twenty signups you got from that awesome TGP listing last year, one or two members continue to pay for their accounts and you reap the benefits because you chose a recurring payout program from that particular sponsor. That barely-coded webmaster referral page you made and linked to at the bottom of some ancient free site is suddenly showing up in search engines and garnering you some green. You don’t question it. You probably have no idea why it’s happening, but it’s happening and you now realize the wisdom behind that adult webmaster saying: Build it and forget it.

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By Titmowse | Writer @ CozyFrog
Titmowse has a special lily pad as the head writer for CozyFrog and it’s family of webmaster resources. She also writes text content for several websites and is the owner of her very own MowseBytes Newsletter.

If you aren’t creating a favorite icon for your website urls, you should! The icon is saved to the surfer’s bookmarks and it’s a fact that people do become familiar with a site’s “icon/name brand” and will often click on it over a site that they don’t remember.

A favicon (short for “favorites icon”) is an icon associated with a website or webpage intended to be used when you bookmark the web page. Web browsers use them in the URL bar, on tabs, and elsewhere to help identify a website visually.

A favicon is a graphic 16 x 16 pixels square and needs to be saved as favicon.ico and uploaded into the root directory of your server. You can use a favicon with any WordPress blog where you have ftp access to the root directory.

Easity create a favicon with a graphics program that will allow the saving of .ico graphic files, such as The GIMP. There are also online services that will allow you to create a favicon for free, such as  favicon.co.uk or Dynamic Drive, or HtmlKit.  Just follow the instructions provided by the site, save your creation and then download the image file  of the favicon.ico to your computer..

The image should be clear and is usually designed to match your blog image and/or content, a big task for something so small.

To prepare the image to be saved as favicon.ico:

1. By cropping or adding space around the image, make the image square.
2. Resize the image to 16 x 16 pixels.
3. Save the file as favicon.ico.

Installing a Favicon in WordPress

If there is already an old favicon.ico file in your current theme’s main folder, delete it using FTP Clients.

1. With an FTP Client, upload the new favicon.ico file into your current theme’s main folder.
2. Upload another copy of your favicon.ico file to the main directory of your site (ie. http://example.com/favicon.ico). This will display the favicon in your subscribers’ feedreaders.

To see your new favicon, clear your browser’s cache. You may need to restart your browser in order to see the new favicon.

In an article by Othar Hansson he talks about Google experimenting with an Authorship Markup Tag:

“to support authorship markup—a way to connect authors with their content on the web. We’re experimenting with using this data to help people find content from great authors in our search results.

We now support markup that enables websites to publicly link within their site from content to author pages. For example, if an author at The New York Times has written dozens of articles, using this markup, the webmaster can connect these articles with a New York Times author page. An author page describes and identifies the author, and can include things like the author’s bio, photo, articles and other links.

We know that great content comes from great authors, and we’re looking closely at ways this markup could help us highlight authors and rank search results.”

Essentially, this translates as a move to alleviate the amount of duplicate content and spamming currently on the internet and allows people to become expert authors in their particular niche.

A video interview with Hansson has Matt Cutts asking, “Will people get higher rankings? Is there a rankings boost for rel=’author’?” Hansson then replies, “It’s obviously early days, so we hope to use this information and any information as a ranking signal at Google. In this case, we want to get information on credibility of authors from all kinds of sources, and eventually use it in ranking. We’re only experimenting with that now. Who knows where it will go?”

Given Google’s recent emphasis on ‘trustworthy content’ in their Panda update, it seems highly possible that this will become a SIGNIFICANT ranking factor in the future. Add to that the fact that you will need a Google Profile to use this new tag.

Here’s a guide on how to use this new tag:
1. On every post, add a link somewhere pointing to your Google Profile
2. On that link, add an attribute rel=”author”

The link can go anywhere in the article, in the header, footer or anywhere in the body text. You can wrap it around an image if you want to as well.

You can also watch this video about implementing the authorship tag within WordPress. It is a step by step tutorial on how to EASILY set up rel=author on your WordPress site. Please visit Devon Web Designers for the full written instructions that go with this video.

From Gay Wide Webmasters comes this excellent piece of advice from forum member PFLJayden regarding how to “talk” about your content set in a blog post or social site post.

“When you post, make the posts look and sound as if you – a person – wrote them… as in you are hot and heavy over this guy or these guys. Think of yourself I guess as a pirater would. They share their porn because they like it, not because they profit from it. You have to use that mind set. If you do that, you’ll do well.”

This is definitely an excellent way to take your reader to the sexual excitement level and move the reader to wanting to see more, and ideally, purchasing a site membership!

If you have been searching for some new handwriting fonts, there’s a great collection you can choose from in a recent post on www.line25.com by Corey Kliewer, a site devoted to web design.

Or you can just head on over to DaFont or Font Squirrel or Simply The Best Fonts and browse the hundreds and hundreds of free fonts that are available for download. Just remember that loading up your hard drive with a huge fonts collection does slow down your OS load time, as well as the load time for the design program you’re using them in.

Important Upgrade to Trade Pulse

Due to an external problem the guys can’t fix there is a file in Script Pulse’s Trade Pulse script that, if you don’t have the very newest installation, you’ll need to do a manual “fix” to the code.

All users must update ASAP their scripts by doing the following:
1) Download this file
http://www.scriptpulse.com/tpupdater.zip
2) Extract and upload file to “tp” folder
3) Run updater in your script or run file directly calling url http://www.yoursite.com/tp/tpupdater.php

New installations are not affected since the new installer from new location is already out.

If there are any issues please contact info@scriptpulse.com or kildoozer@scriptpulse.com (kildoozer). If you are in need of assistance they will even do update for you just send them ftp and tp logins.

UUGallery creates fully customizable photo/video galleries in just three easy steps. In no time you’ll be creating the best looking galleries around with absolute ease, right from your wordpress dashboard! UUGallery auto-crops thumbs, resizes original images to fit your layout, and displays them in a fully customizable image viewer.

There are no complex settings, and the gallery templates are easily customized in any html editor. Just upload your gallery pics via FTP, click to insert your customized template, and publish! UUGallery generator does the rest! Save yourself hours of dirty work, this is as easy as 1-2-3!

Step1: Select and Insert your customized template to the WordPress writer.
Step2: Specify a URL to grab images from any FHG, or upload photos in a ZIP file.
Step3: Click Publish!

New Video features:
1. Grabs videos from FHGs
2. Converts video to FLV automatically (or to AVI, MPG, WMV, etc).
3. Builds Embedded/Non-embedded video galleries.
4. Creates classic galleries (thumbs linked to videos)
5. Manual frame cropper (pic)
6. Builds Photo Galleries as well as Video galleries

Plus All of These General Features:
7. Automatic/Manual photo cropping
8. NEW Different thumb sizes within a gallery, adjustable image dimensions + quality
9. Built-in sharpening
10. Built-in template manager (pic inside)
11. Easily customizable gallery templates
12. Customizable thumb linker

You can select from 5 different gallery sources:
13. Grab galleries/videos from FHG’s and TGP’s
14. Grab a ZIP file from internet.
15. Fusker style
16. Upload galleries in a ZIP file though your browser.
17. Build a gallery from a folder uploaded to your server

Full-sized Image/Video Viewer:
18. Fully customizable, open-source Full-Sized image viewer
19. Set different banners for different galleries
20. Redirect a percentage of clicks to sponsor URL instead of showning next image ($$$)

It’s SEO Friendly:
21. Randomized alt tags for SEO purposes
22. Customizable thumbs and image files names
23. SEO friendly URL’s
24. Support for all WordPress versions

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1. Once you have a week or so of good posts on your new blog submit it to blog directories and blog link lists. Also submit the blog url to paid directories with categories for blogs – Yahoo, BOTW, bCentral, WOW, JoeAnt.

2. Optimize your blog for good search engine ranking by using keyword meta tags, meta descriptions, alt tags on all imagery, font treatments of specific keywords: H1, H2, H3 or bold, underlined, or italic, etc.  Also: Install and learn to use the All in One SEO plugin. You should also install and configure a Google Sitemap plugin.

3. Initiate an ongoing link building campaign. Do free blogroll trades with other bloggers (find some similiar niche bloggers to trade with at places like www.linkspun.com) Get some A/B/C links happening with these trades as well as A/B style links. Also do some paid listings with sites that have a PR2 or higher ranking. Be sure to request feedback or reviews of your blog in relevant forums, blogs and discussion threads. If you have a resource post that will help others, point to it. Monitor inbound links, traffic, comments and mentions of your blog at sites like Google Alerts, Technorati, Blogpulse, and Yahoo News.

4. Assign tags to each post (in the area where you’re writing the new post on the right hand column you’ll see an area to put some into your post)

5. Show a tag cloud on your sidebar or in the footer (easily done with your widgets). This cloud is created from the tags you put onto your posts, so use good niche keywords and don’t forget to mention model’s by name, sites by name, or a product by name. A search for a particular model could get you in the top ten search engine results!

6. Go do comments on similiar niche blogs: it gets you a free inbound link and traffic to your blog’s url. Always respond to comments on your blog and when you detect a mention of your blog on another blog, thank that blogger in the comments section of the post.

7. Enable automatic trackback and ping functionality and then add additional sites to the ping list in Settings -> Writing -> Update Services *Note: Be sure to delete the one ping site url that is there before copy/pasting in a new list and each url MUST be on its own line or it won’t save or work properly. Install the CBNet Ping Optimizer plugin that prevents over pinging of the services if you need to do some after posting edits to your articles.

8. Create a Feedburner Pro account and enable feed tracking. Install and use the Feedburner Plugin. Learn more about Using Feedburner from an article on the WordPress.org.

9. Using a link cloaking plugin like Ninja Affiliate will stop surfers and link thieves from changing or removing your affiliate code and also removes the reluctance of a lot of surfers from clicking an affiliate link.

10. Upload and configure a Social Sharing plugin for surfers to quickly spread the word about a post they like. Also use the Social Networking to your own advantage on forums and discussion threads to connect with other bloggers. If they like your stuff, they will link to you.