I use the Tube Embed Video System (TEVS) script from Big Dot Media because it not only does it have a low price point, but the front end is completely customizable. Those are the two qualities I wanted most. I didn’t want my tube sites to look the same, which is the case when I tried some other scripts that didn’t let you customize. Also it has a friendly SEO linking structure.

There are already tutorials at Big Dot Media to set up the basic legal tube site and import videos from adult sponsors. They provide a basic template you can use, but I found an easy way to use ready made designs – Wordpress Themes. You can replace the Wordpress specific code and replace it with TEVS code, all it takes is a little copy and paste.

For instance the first screen shot (Bbw Tube Vids) uses the Diversity theme by Eve. If you don’t want to keep footer links you can offer the author a few bucks to remove them. I first took out the Wordpress code from the Diversity theme so it just displayed the design itself, then made a copy for each page I wanted to use in the TEVS site structure (index.php,videos.php,vid.php in my case). Then for each of those pages I inserted the TEVS code from the default TEVS template and presto I have a skinned tube site.

I hope this gives you some ideas.

Well, I made it through another year. I hope you did too. However, a lot of adult webmasters left the biz after the recession monster reared it’s ugly head early in the year. Like many, I panicked, so I did what I thought was best. I buckled down, quit World of Warcraft, and started putting in some full days. I doubled my daily submits, tried more paid TGP partner accounts, and opened new sites/blogs. The end result was more traffic and higher ratios, but in the end my sales grew 2.69% over 2008. Considering the economic climate I think that’s pretty good. Here’s a breakdown of what’s what.

As you can see, Stats Remote shows my traffic to sponsors (blue bars) go up during the year. *Please note* the Y axis is off by a factor of 10, and should show 400,000 and not 40,000. The $$$ sales (green bars) takes a dip early but somewhat recovers for a total of $92,379. The vast majority of traffic and income comes from submitting TGP galleries. Tough year, and lots of extra work involved. I think there’s lots more to come as well.

Now here is my actual $$$ received and expenses. The difference between sales reported in the first graph and the income in this graph is essentially check fees in the amount of $9234, mostly from CCbill which is the biggie.

My overall expenses were $8364, which I get to write off on my taxes. The four biggest categories were Advertising (TGP partner accounts), Dedicated Hosting (I now have 2 servers), Domains (have 100+ now), and Subscriptions (Stats Remote, Chameleon Submitters, Thunderball Network, and a Corel graphics program).

That pretty much does it. Hours are flexible, but I probably average just under 40 hours a week. I guess I’ve been spoiled by the easy years.

Easypic used to be a big mover when text TGPs were king. Then one day the owner decided to list only free hosted galleries, paid spots, and paid partner accounts. He also put in a background javascript redirect to his other site Movie Post and added a ton of sponsor links on the main page, all to maximize it’s income with minimal management. All submitted galleries will be only listed on category pages, and not on the index page. It may sound bad, but Easypic still has a fair Alexa rating and a decent amount of traffic. A $100 Easypic partner account is good for 6 months, and allows 10 submissions per day with very loose guidelines, including sponsor hosted galleries.

I usually submit 3-5 galleries a day, and the last 30 day snapshot shows 44939 hits from Easypic to my galleries. No accept or decline emails are sent.

Easypic Monthly Pass: $100 allows 10 submits per day for 6 months. This comes out to just over $16 per month. Traffic received: 44939 hits over a 30 day period.

Estimated pass value with performance on 44939 hits to TGP galleries for a $35 per sale site.

Summary Value: Fair to Good depending on how many submits per day.

For anyone interested in numbers like myself, the number of surfers sent to my submitted TGP galleries in the month of October.

Results of analyzing log files
Start date: 01/Oct/2009 at 04:02:42
End date: 31/Oct/2009 at 04:02:32
Pageviews: 4,581,014 (hits minus graphics)
Transferred: 1.50483e+10 bytes

The twenty most popular pages were:
138888 /dors/big-tits-round-ass/hun.htm
86386 /ftv/victoria-glasses/hun.htm
61284 /gals/cm/interracial-sex/worldsex.htm (sent 2233 sponsor clicks for a 3.64% CTR)
55616 /gals/tms/interracial-indian/worldsex.htm
54593 /gals/cm/milf-sex/worldsex.htm (sent 2526 sponsor clicks for a 4.63% CTR)
50021 /gals/ah/latina-anal/worldsex.htm (sent 1396 sponsor clicks for a 2.79% CTR)
48228 /ellie/huge-boobs/worldsex.htm
46209 /ellie/table-tits/worldsex.htm
44576 /vids/at/andi-anderson/worldsex.htm (sent 1341 sponsor clicks for a 3% CTR)
44366 /gals/kimber/oral-cocks/hun.htm (sent 2770 sponsor clicks for a 6.24% CTR)
42064 /gals/sa/sexy-tits/worldsex.htm (sent 1760 sponsor clicks for a 4.18% CTR)
41555 /gals/lbg/thai-beauty/worldsex.htm (sent 2048 sponsor clicks for a 4.92% CTR)
40665 /vids/at/bobby-star/worldsex.htm (sent 1466 sponsor clicks for a 3.6% CTR)
32964 /vids/at/aurora-jolie-kelly-devine/worldsex.htm (sent 725 sponsor clicks for a 2.2% CTR)
30067 /ftv/victoria-glasses/al4a.htm
25958 /gals/sj/silk-kimono/hun.htm (sent 311 sponsor clicks for a 1.2% CTR)
25173 /danielle/boobs-pussy/al4a.htm
24751 /vids/at/katja-kassin/shemp.htm
24680 /vids/us/foursome/worldsex.htm (sent 1288 sponsor clicks for a 5.22% CTR)
24640 /ftv/brianne-bikini/al4a.htm

Well you can see right off Worldsex had 12 spots, The Hun 4, Al4a had 3, and one on Shemp. Also 18 of the galleries were picture galleries, and 4 were movies.

The twenty most common referrer URLs were:
460938 http://www.worldsex.com
233426 http://www.asktiava.com
216390 http://www.al4a.com
198690 http://www.shemp.com
195853 http://www.sunporno.com
174303 http://www.pinkworld.com
144091 http://www.thehun.net
115062 http://www.twilightsex.com
93164 http://www.elephantlist.com
90528 http://worldsex.com
88003 http://www.mrsexe.com
78883 http://www.thehun.com
67388 http://www.cvsbizarresex.com
63925 http://www.freeones.com
59532 http://www.google.com
42852 http://www.richards-realm.com
40939 http://www.boneme.com
37750 http://www.easypic.com
37680 http://www.pichunter.com
36052 http://al4a.com

The top 20 here represent 16 different TGP sites which require 9 paid partner accounts and 2 free partner accounts. Both thehun.net and freeones.com do not require partner accounts to submit. I do not submit to asktiava.com or mrsexe.com, they both scrape my galleries from the other top TGPs. It’s worth noting the google.com number is mostly fake referrer requests from the TGPX script when a gallery is submitted. Also pichunter.com whitelists (i.e. hotlinks) gallery content for normal listings, and the requests above are from searches on pichunter.com only. The actual pichunter.com traffic must be much higher, but difficult to determine.

After hearing about blogs here, there, and everywhere, I took the learning steps with Wordpress and set up a series of 17 blogs in August 2008. I used a mix of paid and free templates, and added 20-50 posts for each. Some were 100% unique, but most were hand morphed from gallery descriptions, replacing and mixing sentences and keywords to match the blog niche. I added all the good plugins, including one that automatically posts drafts every X hours. I set mine to update every 1-3 days, and I figured I’d revisit the blogs in a month or two to see how much Google loved them, and tweak accordingly.

Dumb.

I made a lot of common mistakes. I come from a TGP gallery background, so you’ll have to cut me some slack. I wasn’t familiar with Wordpress or even adult SEO much back then. The first blunder was registering keyword domains (with hyphens) thinking that would practically guarantee top spots for that search term. That was wrong, as the domain name is only 1 of about 80 things Google looks at in it’s mystic formula.

The biggest mistake was I targeted too many key phrases, and much too wide. New blogs with no PR/authority are not going to rank well, if at all, for ‘teen sex’, ‘milf pussy’, ‘hot blondes’, etc. It’s best to start with 3-5 ‘long tail’ key phrases with less competition so ranking is easier. Once more PR/authority is established, I believe shorter key phrases can be targeted with better results.

Another mistake was updating too often. I think every time the spider bots visited each blog they had a completely different site to digest because all the blog posts were new. Some blog posts probably cycled off the main page before they were even seen by a spider bot. Since my key phrases were all over the place I didn’t get much juice for any of them. From what I understand, the higher the site PR, the more often and more deep the site is crawled. I’ve seen many blogs with top search terms that haven’t been updated in over 6 months.

I also made my titles WAY too descriptive, like a TGP gallery or LL freesite description. Each title should only be the 3-5 key phrases you’re targeting, if possible, and repeated several times in the blog post itself depending on length. My original ones were like 10+ words long.

Last but probably not least, I morphed text from various different gallerie descriptions, making different writing styles which made it more difficult to target the keywords I wanted, and probably turned off potential readers.

Basically, my first experience with adult blogs turned out to be what NOT to do, with few search results and none of those in the top 20. They only made sales because I had my own traffic source, linking back from TGP galleries and LL freesites. At least they all received PR 1 or 2 to help with link trades. I’ve taken my mistakes and avoided them on my new blogs, giving my ‘phase II’ blogs a much better success rate so far, with many of them getting top search terms. The best keyword so far brings in 10k SE hits/day. More on that next time.