Tips, Tools and Tutorials for Making Money with Adult Blogs | Adult Blog Builder

Think of the websites you visit the most — chances are they are clean, professional, and easy to navigate. This is no coincidence: the human mind takes just a millisecond to make a definitive decision as to a site’s credibility, and this initial judgment is based entirely on aesthetics which means a good web design is critical for retaining visitors.

This month we consulted with Netfirms’s very own Director of Web and UI, he shared with us the best tips and tricks for designing the most visually appealing website:

1) Plan Your Site: Before turning on your computer, consider the layout, page structure and how users will move from one page to another (navigation). Then, sketch out your site on paper.

2) Understand Your Audience: Knowing your audience will help set the tone for your content and layout, as you identify what visitors will be looking for on your site. It’s also important to consider popular web browsers and your visitor’s screen resolution size so that they see your site the way you intended; you can find this data in most site analytics tools. If you’re not sure how wide to make your site, 960px is a great place to start.

3) Allow for Easy Navigation: Since people often read from left to right and top to bottom, the upper left-hand corner of your site is the first place your visitors will look. Place your navigation buttons here and keep them consistent, along with font and color choices, for easy reading and fluid movement from page to page.

4) Choose a Color Scheme: If you’re designing your site around an image, try uploading it to a color palette tool, like DeGraeve.com’s, for example, for complementary color suggestions. Be sure to remain consistent with your design patterns, and stick to no more than three font types and colors.

5) Use High Quality Photos: In order to give your site a more professional appearance, all images should be clear, focused, and of high resolution. An alternative to taking your own photos is buying them from Big Stock Photo; at about three-dollars an image it’s an inexpensive way to visually take your website to the next level. (Editor’s Note: You can get stock ADULT images for your blog headers at Big Stock Photo. Next to the huge search box at top of page is an All Files dropdown menu. At the bottom of that is Advanced Options. Click that and “unhide” mature content.)

6) Test Your Site, Then Test Again: When you’ve created or redesigned your site, ask friends and family to test it for you. They may find things you’ve missed, or point out areas of confusion.

When paired with quality content, executing these tips appropriately will help retain first-time visitors and transform them into yourdomain.com regulars.

Best wishes,

The Netfirms Team

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.

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!

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.

I’m sure there are many of you that aren’t designers or coders and therefore find it difficult to customize your WordPress themes.  Well I came across a wonderful tutorial that you can download in pdf format and save it to use as a reference when you want to edit some part of a WordPress theme, be it the header, a widget, sidebar column or the footer. I found the tutorial on a site named appropriately enough: How To Customize WordPress! You can click here for the free pdf download. And a big thanks and a tip of the hat to the author, Dan Deceuster.

I found a wonderful article by Kimi on her blog.web6.org website that explains in exquisite detail, along with photos, of how to add the Google Analytics code to WordPress blogs and avoid installing another plugin that could slow down your blogs’ response time. Use Google Analytics to learn which online marketing initiatives are cost effective and see how visitors actually interact with your site. It can help you make informed site design improvements, drive targeted traffic, and increase your conversions and profits.

Easy to follow tutorial how to insert or put Google analytics code in your wordpress blog theme file.

Google analytics is one of several ways to track your blog’s visitors, like, where they come from, which search engine brings you the most traffics, or which referral websites your visitors come from, and many more.
The most useful is you will know how many visitors you receive a day or some specific period of times. I added my blog to Google Analytics right after submitting my sites to search engines, like Google,Yahoo, Bing, and Ask. The result will usually show after a few days.

I have decided not to use any Google analytics plugins for this, because we can easily do it without plugin. Do remember, using too much plugins can slow down your page load, and sometimes buggy while upgrading your blog.

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This video tutorial on how to edit or remove your blogroll, and create new link categories works for version 3.0.1 and above. The tutorial was made by kimi who owns and runs Blog.Web6.org