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My Blog Empire, phase III

Howling Wulf — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:17:54 +0000

Okay so I’ve been paying more attention to my blog stats since I broke down the numbers in the phase II post. My adult blog sales have increased from $1188 in April to $1809.78 in May, so it’s becoming a significant portion of my adult income. I’ve decided to buckle down and write more posts and add more adult blogs to my network and see if I can beat the income I get from TGP gallery submitting by the end of the year. I currently have 40 adult blogs and most are updated once every 23 days, though some do have frequent updates.

My Blog Empire, phase II

Howling Wulf — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:36:50 +0000

As I mentioned in ‘my blog empire, phase I‘ back in October of 2009, my initial foray into blogs was not too successful. I came to the decision that unique hand written posts targeting certain keywords were essential to getting good search engine placements. With RSS and morph feeds you just cannot control the keywords you want. It’s a total crap shoot. While RSS fed blogs are build and forget, I just don’t think they can compete against a well written blog that knows how to target adult search terms.

So I ended up writing 6-10 unique posts for each adult blog and setting them to auto update about once a month, because I was skeptical and didn’t want to work too hard. I also centralized my niche blog posts into one central porn blog. I didn’t make up any stories or backgrounds, I mostly just wrote what I thought about when I saw the gallery or page I was linking to, and made sure my main key phrase was in the title and used several times in the post itself. I also made sure whenever I had a noun in my niche I had an adjective(s) for it. So not just ‘milf’ but ‘busty milf’ or ‘horny blonde milf’ etc. These came out to usually 100 sometimes 200 words or so. I don’t claim to be an expert, but it’s time to report the changes I see on my adult blogs.

It’s mostly encouraging news. It took a couple months, but many of them now have top ten Google spots, and some have #1 spots. That’s quite a jump. For my top blog, Google Analytics reports ‘Search sent 278,296 total visits via 11,347 keywords’ for the previous 30 days. Unfortunately, some still don’t rank well. Still, I’m happy with the results so far, considering I rarely update the blogs and they’re now ranking better than ever. What should I do next? Build more adult blogs? Write posts more frequently? Get more incoming hard links? Better monetize the ads? Probably some combination of the four. I wondered how they fit into my monthly sales figures, and ended up breaking my sales down for April.

These numbers are new sales and does not include rebills from previous months.

TGP Galleries	$4395	62%	Still my bread and butter money source. I submit 2 or 3 TGP galleries every day, sometimes more, but I do this EVERY day unless I’m on vacation. It generally takes about two hours.
Adult Blogs	$1188	17%	Rather surprised it was this high. Makes me want to work on this aspect some more and get this percentage higher.
Unknown Source	$984	14%	Damn affiliate tracking! Who knows?
Legal Tubes	$248	3%	After initial set up these are left on auto pilot. They are not updated like blogs but I did buy TEV scripts. Overall they seem okay for the small amount of work to set them up.
Bookmarks	$146	2%	Surfers who bookmark a tour and adult affiliate programs that actually report its sale.
Linklist Freesites	$95	1%	This is misleading, since half the available links on the freesite point back to my network, so those sales from this traffic source would show in those categories instead.
Landing Pages	$90	1%	Simple pages with lists of niche sites for the surfer to choose from. I link to these sometimes from TGP galleries or linklist freesites depending on niche.

I may ramble a bit but writing this stuff down helps me sort it out. Maybe someone finds this info useful?

Adult affiliate stats for 2009

Howling Wulf — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:15:04 +0000

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.

TGP gallery stats for October 2009

Howling Wulf — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:10:51 +0000

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.

Stats Remote figures for July 2009

Howling Wulf — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:52:27 +0000

CCBill breakdown

Expenses
Two dedicated servers ~$400
Paid partner accounts ~$550
Submit Tools, etc ~$50