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From ComputerWorld comes this security warning about hosting giant, Network Solutions:

As many as five million Web sites hosted by Network Solutions have been serving up malware, probably for several months, a security expert said today.

“This is one of the biggest infections for drive-by download attacks that I’ve seen,” said Wayne Huang, co-founder and CTO of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Armorize Technologies, a Web application security company.

Network Solutions disputed Huang’s estimate of between 500,000 and 5 million infected sites, but was unable to provide its own count.

Huang said his firm’s researchers initially tracked the infection to a widget installed by Network Solutions on its GrowSmartBusiness.com site, then later discovered that the same widget was installed by default on all “parked” domains hosted by the Herndon, Va. hosting giant.

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If, like me, you’re wondering just what allowing someone to register on your blog means exactly, read on. It took me awhile to finally phrase my search question in such a way that I was able to obtain the correct answer I was seeking. Search Engine returns for “What, exactly, are the benefits of registering on a blog site?” didn’t prove at all useful, but that’s the basic answer I was wanting to obtain. Eventually I figured out I needed to be asking about the “subscriber role” which resulted in my getting a link on WordPress.org that discusses all of the user roles and their respective capabilities. This is one of those times that knowing the proper keywords to use was absolutely necessary to obtain useful links!

According to the Codex WordPress article: “WordPress has five pre-defined Roles: Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor and Subscriber. Each Role is allowed to perform a set of tasks called Capabilities. There are many Capabilities including publish_posts, moderate_comments, and edit_users. The default Capabilities are pre-assigned to each Role.”

The article then proceeds to describe each of the five pre-defined Roles and lists exactly what each role allows the user to do on your blog. Scrolling on down to the Subscriber Role capabilities offers one word: Read.  OK, so they are capable of reading the blog if they sign up as a subscriber, but so can anyone who doesn’t register (providing you don’t have a registration requirement for blog access that is).  Originally I thought it might notify them of new posts, but subscribing doesn’t send them any emails, as it’s not an opt-in newsletter type of registration. It also has nothing to do with adding the RSS feed to their reader.

Working my way down the article and I’m eventually rewarded with a description of Read Capability.  Short version explanation: they are allowed access to the administration panel/user profile/ page only. They can setup their profile page and that’s the extent of what registering permits them to do as a subscriber to your blog.  So what’s the purpose of that?  Well,  if you so choose, registering can be a requirement before a reader is allowed to add a comment.  Legit readers will find it faster and easier to add comments if they have registered. But, depending on your discussion page settings, it could allow a spammer to sneak in under your spam controls.

I’d personally be careful about allowing comments from anyone with a previously approved comment to bypass your personal inspection before appearing live on your blog.  I prefer to either disallow subscriber abilities altogether if it really isn’t a blog needing or wanting reader contribution, or at the very minimum, that no comment appears without my approval.

Another excellent article you might want to reference is Gary Cao’s Ultimate Guide to Roles and Capabilities that he posted to his  WPHardcore blog in April, 2010.  Lots of additional information there about capability plugins and adding custom abilities to the various role levels.

From Mainstream Webmasters comes this article by Karen Kirby

You may have seen on eBay and other auctions high pagerank (PR) domains for sale. You may have even considered purchasing one of these domains. How do you ascertain the value of such a domain?

First of all, you must verify the PR by using a free tool such as http://www.seologs.com/pr-check/pagerank.html. You just enter the domain name that you are thinking of purchasing. This site will tell you whether or not the domain actually has the PR that the seller claims.

Then, even if the site has a high PR, it still may NOT be indexed by Google, and if a site is not indexed, that’s sort of like a word not being in the dictionary. Google may think it’s a great word based on the PR, but if they don’t index it, it won’t be found in Google’s “dictionary.”

It may seem inconceivable that Google will give PR to a site they don’t index, but I’ve seen it happen many times. Google explains it’s because the algorithms that index sites are constantly updating, but the algorithms that calculate PR update less frequently, and sometimes the two processes are not in synch.

Be that as it may, I’ve seen high PR domains for sale that are NOT indexed in Google. What you can do to find out whether the domain is indexed in Google is to type site:www.nameofthedomain.com into the search bar. If Google comes back with a page that says, “Your search – site:www.nameofthedomain.com – did not match any documents” — well, the site is not indexed in Google.

You can try the same thing in Yahoo and MSN and see if any pages are indexed in those search engines. If the domain is well-indexed in Yahoo and MSN, and getting a lot of traffic, it may not matter if the domain is not indexed by Google.

However, another important factor in purchasing a domain is how many backlinks, or links from other sites, the domain has. You can type link:www.nameofthedomain.com into Google, and it will tell you which sites are linking to the domain. Once again, I’ve seen sites with high PR that only had one or even no backlinks!

If you are considering purchasing a domain with a high PR that is not well indexed or doesn’t have many backlinks, you’ve got to stop and think for a minute. Google has made it well known that it considers relevant backlinks, among many other criteria, in assessing PR. Now if the domain has no or few backlinks, how long do you think it will keep its PR?

So when considering the purchase of a high PR domain, be sure to perform your due diligence. Two other free tools that will help you are http://reladvance.com/metrix/find_metrics_results.php and http://www.linkpopularity.com. Always check out every aspect of the domain — PR, indexing, and backlinks — using several independent tools. None of the tools are 100% accurate at any given moment, and so it’s to your advantage to use them all and compare results.

by Martin Malden on Mainstream Webmasters

Q. Host your own blog? Why would anyone want to do that when there are plenty of well established blogging platforms that will let you set one up and operate it for free?

A: Better SEO, total control, more traffic and more sales – although those reasons won’t apply if you’re not blogging for business!

When I started out blogging I opened a blogger.com account. That worked fine for me at the time because I was new to blogging. In fact, I knew so little about it at the time that I didn’t even realize that I could host my own.

Even if I had realised that, it’s not something I would have given a moment’s thought to. I was too new to working online. I was (still am) totally non-techie and it would have been too daunting a task.

So I happily blogged away on my blogger account until I logged on one day to find that Google had translated all the admin pages into Chinese. I live in Hong Kong so Google, thinking they were being smart, used my IP address as the basis on which to make the decision to translate it.

Not being able to find the help link (because I can’t read Chinese) I logged into my Google account (Adwords, Gmail, etc,) to raise a request for them to translate my blog back to English.

After a week nothing had happened. I’d got no reply and still couldn’t read my admin screens. So I simply decided to transfer my blog to WordPress.com.

By this time I had learned enough about blogging to have heard that WordPress was the place to be. So I imported all my old Blogger posts and started to learn WordPress. Given what I’d heard I was looking forward to great things.

One thing I noticed immediately was that my posts were suddenly figuring much more quickly in the natural search results, so it looked as though at least some of what I’d heard was correct.

And I happily blogged away until…

…one day I tried to log on to be met with a notice telling me my blog had been suspended for infringing WordPress’ terms and conditions.

Damn!! Twice inside a month I’d been blind-sided by my blogging platform and the second occasion was even more damaging than the first. (It doesn’t look too professional when your visitors are told that your blog has been suspended for infringing terms and conditions).

So, finally, I was pushed into the realization that I had no option but to set up my own blog and (pay to) host it myself.

So off I clicked to WordPress.org to see what I could find out. And I was pleasantly surprised.

Firstly – the instructions they’ve set out for downloading and installing a WP blog are delightfully clear and easy to follow.

There are a few minimum requirements set out, which pretty much every hosting provider meets. You can always check with your provider if you’re not sure. Mine did, so I printed off the instructions and got going.

First step is to set up the database. Easy to do – the instructions are very clear, include screen shots for every step of the way and are written in simple, non-techie language.

I then downloaded and unzipped the blog files, entered my newly created database details into the config file, (just followed the instructions), uploaded the files and accessed the installation screen via my browser (the URL is provided in the instructions). That kicked off the installation script and I was all done.

It was, literally, a 5-minute exercise.

However, the majority of (adult) hosting providers now give you an even easier method than that: One click installation.

I’ve never done a 1-click installation so I can’t confirm whether it really is one click or whether a few more are involved – but it’s definitely very easy and it doesn’t involve any downloading, unzipping and uploading of files.

So what are the benefits of running your own blog on your own server?

You have total control. You can write what you like, you can drive traffic to affiliate programs, no one is going to translate it into Chinese, and no one is going to lose your database.

You can customize it as much as you like. Customization is done through plug-ins, and there are plug-ins for just about anything you can think of. You decide what you want to do with your blog, then you can either go to the WordPress plug-in directory or do a Google search for a plug-in for the function you want.

Download the plug-in, unzip it, upload it and activate it through the blog admin screens. It’s that simple. Really.

But of all the sexy things you can do with your self-hosted blog, probably the biggest benefit of all comes from the SEO elements.

This really turns your blog into an incredibly effective way of figuring strongly in the natural search results.

Optimizing your blog for the search engines is simply a question of installing and activating the appropriate SEO related plug-ins. And you can find probably the best list of these in Jack Humphrey’s Authority Blackbook.

If you’ve gone to the trouble of setting up your own, self-hosted blog then you should absolutely download this book and follow the guidelines in there for optimizing it properly for the search engines. Firstly, it’s free and secondly, if you don’t set up your blog properly you’re wasting an enormous portion of its SEO potential. It would be like buying a Ferrari but never taking it out of the city centre.

I’m now using my blog as my primary means of drawing in traffic. I haven’t spent a dime on promoting it – and I don’t have any intention of doing so going forwards. And yet my blog is now attracting a little over 50% of the total traffic I’m getting on a weekly basis – that’s traffic to my blog plus traffic to all my other sites – and that’s almost totally due to the SEO effectiveness of my plugin-rich, self-hosted blog.

Within the next year I’m aiming for that to be well over 80%.

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If you’re noticing a major increase in your bandwidth usage, you may have others hotlinking to your picture files, which is theft of your bandwidth and is called bandwidth leeching. A simple way to stop hotlinking is by adding this to your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ – [F]

Replace mydomain.com with your actual domain name. With this code in place, your images will only display when the visitor is browsing http://mydomain.com. Images linked from other domains will appear as broken images.

If you’re feeling particularly nasty, you can even provide an alternative image to display on the hot linked pages — for example, an image that says “Stealing is Bad … visit http://mydomain.com to see the real picture that belongs here.” Use this code to accomplish that:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ http://www.mydomain.com/dontsteal.gif [R,L]

This time, replace mydomain.com with your domain name, and replace dontsteal.gif with the file name of the image you’ve created to discourage hot linking.

Be sure to upload your .htaccess in ASCII mode, and once it’s up there, chmod it to 644.

If you’re needing a step by step tutorial for setting up adult blogs on the adult free host websites, then check out this article at Adult-Blogging.com.  PromProm has written a how to article, complete with screen grabs to help you get started with your first adult blog on Sex Biro.

Just received this timely notice from the Video Secrets Sales Team:

Greg Grothaus,  Software Engineer in Google’s Search Quality team, has posted a video to discuss the duplicate content myth that many webmasters worry about. (The duplicate content issue is one that comes up often on the webmaster boards, usually in conjunction with the pros and cons of using RSS feeds on multiple websites. The general belief is that sites are penalized by Google for having the same exact post as another website, and penalized for having the same content within the site itself.)

What Google wants is diversity in their search results, so they will omit certain results to get the most unique results. The only penalty in place is for spam sites that do a disservice to the searcher (i.e. a site strictly to manipulate rankings). When Google talks about duplicate content as an issue, they are really referring to sites with multiple URLs to the same page, that just get repeated, such as:

site.com/
site.com/?
site.com/index.html
site.com/Home.aspx

There is no penalty for this, but you do lose your link popularity, your most popular link will show up in search results while the other versions of your URLs will not, and it also makes it less efficient to crawl your site thoroughly.

How to fix the issue -

- Reduce your canonical to the simplest form possible.
- Make a permanent (301) HTTP redirect to your preferred canonical.
- Use Google’s webmaster tools to specify your preferred canonical.
- Use the rel=canonical HTML tag, that you put in the HEAD of your site to specify your preferred link.

Taking some of these measures to optimize your links, and get better search results, will help bring in more SE traffic to your sites.

Sincerely,

Video Secrets Sales Team

More Information

Specify your canonical:  Google now supports a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL. If your site has identical or vastly similar content that’s accessible through multiple URLs, this format provides you with more control over the URL returned in search results. It also helps to make sure that properties such as link popularity are consolidated to your preferred version.

Read More about the video at WebProNews

Backlinks Basics: and How Good Websites Go Bad with Backlinks

Topic: Traffic

by Jean Asta from Mainstream Webmasters

If you have a website of your own, it won’t take long before you learn about backlinks. They are an incredibly important marketing tool for websites – and one that is often either underused or misused! Knowing how to get backlinks, how they work, and how building backlinks the wrong way can trash your website’s rankings are all vital topics any website owner should know. What are backlinks? They are simply links to your website from another website. A visitor on a website is looking for information, they click on a link on that website, and it is actually a ‘backlink’ to your website, bringing the visitor to view the linked page. The more quality, relevant, natural backlinks that lead to your site, the higher your site will be ranked by search engines, and the more likely you are to get the traffic you are targeting to arrive at your site.

This all sounds straightforward enough, but you have to be sure that you understand how to get backlinks that will help you – not hurt you. We said in the last paragraph that backlinks have to be quality, relevant and natural. Let’s look at these three requirements a bit more closely.

Quality backlinks are those that connect from a site of quality content. You only want backlinks from reliable, reputable sites – hopefully that also have high search rankings in the related topic area. You do not want backlinks from ‘backlink farm’ sites – automatically generated web pages that simply list link after link to other websites. This once popular ‘trick’ was used to try to fool search engines. But, as usual, the search engines eventually learned this trick too, and now they disregard these sites.

A backlink won’t be quality if it isn’t relevant. For example, if your website is about yoga for pregnant women, you would want backlinks from yoga sites, pregnancy sites, women’s health sites, or sites with other relevant topics. Search engines look to see that backlinks make sense – having a backlink from an office supply store to your yoga site wouldn’t be relevant and the search engine would either ignore the link or knock your ranking down.

Finally, backlinks should be natural. This means that they were built over time and by a process that makes sense. You do not want to suddenly create dozens of backlinks all in the same time frame – these will be flagged as suspicious. But you do want to slowly build a network of quality backlinks that will help the right visitors to get to your site.

You can start building backlinks by looking for sites that are relevant to your own website. Reciprocal links – where you agree to link to a page if they agree to link to yours – are a popular tool that used to work very well. However, search engines are getting more astute all the time, and if you reciprocally link to a site that is irrelevant or of poor quality, that will hurt you more than help you. So you can certainly establish reciprocal links, but do it selectively – only if it makes sense for the targeted audience of both sites.

Another trick website owners once used was to link to their own website from another one of their websites. The problem is that search engines now check to see if your backlinks come from the same IP address as your site. If you attempt to network all your sites together just to get backlinks, you’re going to hurt your rankings. But again, if you have one or two that are logical, that are natural, and that would make sense to your visitors, you can establish a few backlinks between your own sites.

Free for Bloggers and Webmasters! Oh how I love free stuff. But beware! Some free stuff can cost you big time! I’m all for people getting and retaining credit for their hard work, especially for themes that are freely shared amongst the masses … BUT I also want to know just what is being served up off of my server. Themes and shareware that comes with a disclaimer stating I can only use the them so long as I  “don’t touch this encrypted code” giving so-and-so credit that is loaded into the footer.php file of my possible new theme is going to be de-coded before it ever graces one of my sites. I’m not going to be happy to find out I’m throwing around ads to casinos, launching popups, relaying hacking / tracking information, or installing malware viruses just because I want to use the pretty free theme.  And it should concern you as well.

Not sure yet what I’m talking about? Read on.

After you download a batch of free template themes, or even some shareware files are doing this too, go into them one by one, and open the footer.php with something like Wordpad, Notepad or Dreamweaver.  If you see encoded files or rather scripts where you can’t see or modify the source then you’ll want to get that decoded. These encrypted files can be identified by the starting line which is like: eval(gzinflate(str_rot13(base64_decode. Then it goes on with a mass of random numbers, letters and characters like ‘FZi3ksTWEVJ/hZnITwDvV’ and so on.

You can use the method outlined here on Proxyutza.com to create a little script in three steps that will let you decode and actually see what has been included in that free theme or shareware file before you upload it to your site.

I haven’t always checked what’s in some of the themes I’ve mentioned in the past, but I will be diligent about doing so from here on out. Be especially cautious about downloads on sites that aren’t the “original” site for the theme. It is easy enough to setup a “free template” site and host a bunch of themes that the guy has added his nasty encoded scripts into.  Just one theme tonight we looked at using contained a multiple scenario of malicious malware installs, casino popups, and other timed ads. What a load of rubbish! So protect yourself, your clients and your server … find out what’s in those encoded footers before installing them!

The following is an outline of how to squeeze the most mileage (and profits) from your weekly routine of gallery production.

On Monday decide what niche you’re going to build for this week. IE: amateur, Asian, bareback, gay for pay, Latino, group sex, Jocks, solo babes, etc.  Pick just one to use for the entire week. For this tutorial let’s do Jocks.

Now build 2 galleries that fit the Jock niche. This can be one gallery of one sponsor and then another gallery of another sponsor, or both galleries can feature the same sponsor site. Be sure the banners/links you use are for the site you got the content from.

Add your recips to the galleries and submit them to the tgp sites.

Put links to the 2 galleries on your hubsite  (or a text gallery page on your blog) Be sure to use clean copies, not showing recips, for these listings.

Add them into your tgp system if you have a tgp. (Real or fake tgp, doesn’t matter, and you can manage and build those types of sites with the Sites Organizer as well).

Now take the 2 clean galleries and make a 4 page style freesite.
pg.1 Warning page with good descriptive keyword title (Jocks Fuck in Lockerroom) and text, banners and link list recips, and keyword/title hyperlinked to the main page. (Enter for Jocks Fucking in Lockerroom)

pg.2 Main page with thumbs to the galleries, and footer circlejerk links.

pg 3. and 4. the 2 Jock galleries.

(How to structure your free site circle jerk and naming method is a different tutorial)

Submit the freesite to the link lists you’ve chosen to use.

Blog about the content you used and link out to your galleries.

Lunch Time

Either repeat the above after lunch, or work on other projects. For this tutorial I’ll assume you just make 2 galleries and 1 freesite per Monday, Tues and Wed.

Tuesday – repeat above.

Wednesday – repeat above, except after lunch we’ll do an AEN (also known as an AVS)  site.

Wed. afternoon — take 5 of the 6 galleries and bundle them into an AEN site.
Submit it to the AEN, and to the link lists that take the AVS site submits. (once you understand what you’re doing and how to set these up, you can submit the same material to more than one AEN)

Add the AEN link onto your hubsite. Go blog about the AEN on your blog using your refer link for them to join whatever AEN you’re using.

Thurs. – repeat the 2 galleries and 1 free site routine.

Friday – in the morning do the 2 galleries and freesite routine, and in the afternoon, gather up the remaining gallery from Wed and combine with Thurs and Fri and do up another AEN site.

In 5 days you have created and submitted 10 galleries.

Added 10 galleries to your hubsites and your own real or fake tgp sites.

Blogged about 10 different sets of content

5 Niche specific Free Sites created and sent to the link lists. (these get built into a circle jerk — a different tutorial)

Five free sites that you can add links out to on your hubsites.

Two AEN sites at the minimum. You will have more if you understand how to submit them to more than one AEN. Plus you’ve blogged about the Jock AEN sites with a link out to each of them.

Are you the site owner/sponsor? Then follow this system and the following week you’ll add those 10 galleries into your affiliate tools, and add those gallery blog posts to the affiliate coded rss feeds. (This works if you’ve put the original clean gallery into your fhg system and used that link in the posts). And you can probably affiliate code the freesites for tools usage as well. Only thing you can’t get extra mileage out of for the affiliate is the 2 AVS sites and their posts.

A juggling act for sure … but a tried and true method for getting the best overall mileage out of those tgp galleries you’re making everyday. And to make the job even more streamlined, check out the Sites Organizer to handle each of the above types of site production, with the exception of the galleries.  For gallery production I recommend Arylia.

Arylia Gallery Builder is a full-featured picture and video gallery creation tool. Many webmasters build their galleries by hand.  They visit a sponsor’s website, download a bunch of images, pick 12 of them, create thumbnails of all 12 by hand, place each thumbnail in their gallery template, link them to full-size pages containing each image, add banners, check linkcodes… etcetera. This process can take an hour per gallery, or longer! Arylia does all of this for you in about 30 seconds, so you can get back to more important things. Check out all of the specs here: Arylia Gallery Builder.

I’m pretty sure we’ve all done it… or will. We hit publish and then see some silly typo or error. But, alas, the feed has flashed out over the internet and into your reader’s view, with the errors front and center. If you’d like to be able to delay your feed from publishing by a few minutes so that minor errors could be caught and fixed, you’ll find the following code hack from WP Engineering a real blessing. If you put the following syntax in the functions.php of your theme, then your feed will be published always 5 minutes later. Of course you can adjust the time, and the units, if you need to.

Note: if your theme doesn’t have a functions.php, then create one.

/**
* puplish the content in the feed later
* $where ist default-var in WordPress (wp-includes/query.php)
* This function an a SQL-syntax
*/
function publish_later_on_feed($where) {
global $wpdb;

add_filter('posts_where', 'publish_later_on_feed');

Thanks to WP Engineering for this sweet little hack to delay the feed publishing time!

I occasionally get emails that ask blogging questions that have answers I think others would benefit from, so this week I’m going to try to tackle most of the questions posed by Michael H. in the email below. I realize a lot of my posts assume an above average knowledge about blogging and about working in Adult in general, and Michael’s email made me realize that not all of my readers fit that profile.

Hi, I am looking into creating a blog somewhat similar to blog.waybig.com or  randyblueboys.com.  By no means will I copy, I will certainly mix it up a bit in order to seperate it from the pack, but I am using it as a learning tool. Anyway, I have never created a website before. I am young and knowledgeable with the computer. I am 26 so I guess I should be.  I want to apply to sites like randyblue.com, corbinfisher.com, seancody.com etc, to get referrals and then advertise with some of the remaining free space. I was wondering if you think those affiliates are good for making money? Is this a route that will make me somewhere around $100-$150 a day?

I have a lot of time (out on back surgery) and I enjoy porn. I know that sounds weird, but if you use it responsibly, porn can provide a “clean” fun way to enjoy ones self. Others see it different I guess. Also, if I purchase a domain and then wordpress.org to transfer, (i think thats how it goes), how do I get my site in the top of google and yahoo.com?

I have to admit, I almost sent off a quick reply referring Michael to a couple of the gay adult webmaster boards that have blog forums, (Gaydemon, GayWideWebmasters, GayMainStreet). While it will certainly help him learn more about the business and meet other webmasters working in Adult, the information given by other ‘helpful webmasters’ also usually assumes a level of knowledge that most newbies don’t have. If you don’t know just what to ask the answers on forums can lead to frustration, confusion and ultimately to a newbie possibly giving up on a project. Therefore, I’m going to attempt to present some information on how to get started in Adult  from the point of view of one who will start out by creating an Adult blog as the sales tool.

First off let me say that I am also working in porn because of physical disabilities and family illness. Many who enter this field do so out of the need for a way to generate money from home. There is no shame in it, and so long as you stay on the legal side of the business, no jail time either. Trust me, you’re not alone in why you’re here, and I do understand the “stigma” others will attach to what you do. But I will caution you, this is not a ‘field of dreams’ solution. If you build it, they may, or may not, come. This is a JOB, and it takes time and commitment (and a good dose of Luck) to be even remotely successful. A few years ago you could put up a sexy picture and a link for a porn site and be rich overnight (literally), unfortunately, those days are gone and it takes a lot of hard work and learning about how to interest a surfer enough in about 5 seconds to look at whatever it is you’re selling.

Let’s start off by defining a few of the basic terms used in the Adult business. Note: I’ll use gay site examples since that is the marketing venue Michael is interested in.

Adult Affiliate: any webmaster who builds sites that contain referral links to a variety of porn sites that require a membership fee. These sites could be any combination of  the 4 page free sites, blogs, review sites (TabooReviews – in progress), tgps, link lists (BentLinks), avs sites, free communities (JustUsBoys), hub sites (offers a combination of galleries, link lists, blog area, and/or site reviews, etc on same domain: Gaydemon), simple directories (GayBlogFinder), legal tube sites (RocketTube) and so on.

Adult Sponsor: any webmaster that produces a site for adults (18+) requiring a fee to join so as to view its content or participate in the site’s offerings, and who has an affiliate program whereby others can promote said site and earn a commission from any sales. Examples of Gay site sponsors would be Hunk Money, Blue Loot, Pridebucks, Intense Cash, KJ Cash, and Zbuckz to name a few. There are of course paysites out there that do not have an affiliate program, with the owner/producer choosing to promote the site without affiliate help. Most sponsors provide affiliates with an assortment of “sales tools” to help them sell the sites. These can include free hosted galleries, RSS feeds, video clips, photos, banners, full page ads and more.

So where does one start?

First off I’d figure out what niche within gay porn interests you the most. If you personally enjoy a specific type of guy, chances are you’ll find they’re easier to sell. From Michael’s email, I can pretty much deduce that he’s into the Straight Guys and the Gay for Pay niche. Before registering as an affiliate with various sponsors that have the sites he likes, he’ll find it easier to get an account if  he has a “porn” domain and email. Knowing the niche you wish to sell beforehand makes it easier to start hunting for a domain name that fits it.

Head over to Godaddy and start trying out various names to see what’s available. Without going into long explanations on why — do buy a dot com for your first domain. When you find one y0u like, ignore the dozen or so pages of other stuff they try to sell you, you don’t need their email or hosting service, and get to the cart page. Now look to see that you are paying for ONE year, and in the code box at the bottom try goxt3004c to get your domain for $7.49. 

Next choose a hosting company that allows adult content and get a starter account and an email set up. (I have a pretty good list of hosts on the sidebar).  Some of the hosts have cpanels for you to login to where you can create your emails, install various programs with a click or two (including wordpress), check your stats, and so on. Otherwise, create a database for the blog to use, jot down your database name, database password, and user name  and fetch a current version of WordPress. Unpack the zip into a folder on your hard drive and follow the upload and install directions available on the WordPress website.

If you’re new to uploading files, you’ll need an FTP program. I use Filezilla, it’s easy and free. Your host will provide you with the information you need to put in for the host, user and password so you can connect to your website’s server files.

Be sure to go back to Godaddy, login to your account, and set your DNS (Domain Name Servers) to your new host once your account is setup or you won’t see your site. (Note, if you see an index.html page when you open your site via ftp, delete it, as it will over-ride your index.php that comes with the blog. This is assuming you’re setting up the blog in the root of the domain, and not into a sub-folder.)

Are the sites he names good ones?

Yes, absolutely. They’ve been around awhile, the content is constantly being updated, the models “fit” what each site proclaims to have available to its membership, and you rarely hear any bitching on the boards about not getting paid by them.  The downside to those sites? Everybody promotes them. Finding a balance of well known and little known sites that fit his niche will be crucial to his success. The main thing though is to select sponsors that have sites in the niche he wishes to promote. Having links out to Bear sites or Hairy Daddy sites on “my hot twink blog” just isn’t going to generate much traffic or sales to guys wanting to see Twinks.

Will he make 100-150 dollars per day selling these (or other) sites?

There is no solid answer to that question. Straight guy/gayforpay sponsors I promote on my blog sites could be a total bust for Michael. A lot depends on his traffic, link trades, where he lists his site once it’s built and has some posts, the quality of his posts, and the conversion ability of the sites he promotes once he gets a surfer to it. I know guys that it took a year for them to pull down their first sale, while others grasp the whole marketing picture and are off and running with decent sales in a month or two. Chubbs is one webmaster that I know of that actually discusses his sales, and how he’s doing with various sponsors. He’s taking a bit of a break right now, but his site, Blast Report, is worthy of some study.

To Be Continued