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The Future of Free Porn

Ultimately, that's what it comes down to – the mainstream and the crusaders calling us jerks and us harping about our and our consumers' right of free speech.

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A Free Site Model

For any business, planning – and more importantly, following the plan – is the key to a smooth ride. In the case of adult websites, which are mostly one-man operations, it is highly important to know where you're heading. With a new trend coming up every day and a fast-changing business landscape, you have to work toward a systematic operation, where growth and returns are accompanied by a coherent strategy.

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Traffic Without Trading

In this article I will outline how to build traffic to your website without trading blind traffic by making use of a trade script and signing up with multiple top lists. If you do as outlined below, you should soon have a steady stream of growing clicked traffic from various top lists.

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Serenading The Bots

Everybody has their own way of dealing with search engine bots, and while I'm not saying that the following is God's own truth, these techniques might be effective, if used properly. Having said that, let's get on with my newest tips for SEO'ing your website: Order and recognizing the behavioral patterns of each individual SE spider.

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Paysite Problems

The first and foremost problem with running a paysite is obtaining exclusive adult content. Then follows a small list of woes including affiliate management, chargebacks, hosting and bandwidth problems, to name a few. These problems are not uncommon with any business, and can be surmounted. The one problem, which I fear has no "exit strategy," is the "rolling snowball" factor: You start a paysite and very soon it resembles a snowball rolling down the hill, getting bigger and bigger, and unstoppable – but soon to crash and break up. Sounds pessimistic? I'd say realistic...

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Psychology Of Selling Porn

When you click on to a website, what makes you click on a link or picture or video?

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Bookmarking And Favicons

With the number of websites on the net growing by leaps and bounds, it is increasingly difficult for a visitor to remember your website's URL. This is where bookmarking and "Favicons" come in.

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To Pop Or Not To Pop

Consoles offer a way of making sure you get paid for every visitor to your web site.

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Google Gallery #1

Getting your Web pages listed high up in the Search Engine rankings is difficult enough, but getting a thumbnail gallery right up there is even more difficult. Here's a short list of tips to help your galleries climb the SERP ladders:

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The Benefits Of DRM

With a river of free porn available to surfers, it may not seem advisable to protect your content using Digital Rights Management (DRM), but today I will discuss a few reasons why DRM is important – and a necessary part of the future – as well as provide a closer look at Digital Rights Management.

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Turn Content Into Traffic

In a previous article, I outlined how to maximize the traffic coming to your TGP. But, how can you actually get the surfer from the gallery to your site or wherever you want him to go?

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Ad Management

You can have a great site, you can be listed on all the search engines, and you still may not be realizing the full potential of your web site. Identifying the needs of your visitors and directing them to the proper place to fulfill those needs is a cornerstone of a successful ad campaign.

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TGP Traffic Optimization

TGPs are like women: you can't live with them, and you can't do without them. Assuming you've pressed all the right buttons, you should have a decent amount of traffic from trades, link-backs and gallery submissions. Let's say you have 30K traffic daily. Considering that TGP traffic converts at an average of 1:10,000, that's 3 sales. What's to be done with the other 27,997 visitors? They're costing you a pretty penny in bandwidth, and even if you are sending a lot of them to trades, there's still a massive amount of unused potential here.

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Multimedia Search Engines

For an industry which literally lives off both the display of images and videos, and traffic from search engines, we're all very complacent about the buzz around image and video search engines. In this article, we'll take a look at the developments in this area, and what effect it's likely to have on the adult industry.

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Buying Adult Traffic

There are two parts to this article: "Bulk Adult Traffic" and "Pay Per Click Traffic." We will look at the costs, conversion rates, gross and net profits, plus other factors involved in each separately.

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Elements of a Killer Website

What are the ingredients that make up a successful website? Is it a standard formula, or are there more ways to hit the jackpot? Let's take a look at some of the possible equations:

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Namespace Vs. Domain Names

While you are busy optimizing your pages for Google, there's a raging controversy over the future of search and browser usage. Microsoft has put in a patent for "Flexible Keyword Searching." What does this mean, and what effect is its application likely to have?

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Traffic Trading: Taking Surfers For A Ride

One of the best ways to build your traffic is to trade traffic. Simply put, you send a visitor to someone's site, and he sends you one back. The question is, how ethical is it? Let's take a look at the pros and cons of traffic trading:

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More to the Biz Than Adult Biz

How many of you are into something which falls outside the scope of adult related products or services? For that matter, how many people in this business use their resources and knowledge

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Search Engines and RSS Feeds

The level of interaction between sites and spiders is limited, making it hard to get across to search engine users the exact message you want to convey. Let's see what can be done to influence this

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