Yes I’m still kicking. As you all probably know, ratios are down and it’s getter tougher by the day in the adult online business. For September my sales ratio from all sources was a sad 1:2425. Traffic to TGP sites is still dropping, and some have switched to tube layouts altogether. However they still charge the same amounts for premium submit passes, so I’ve dropped quite a few. I’ve been concentrating on building adult blogs to capture my own traffic and need to get a link building campaign going.

I stumbled upon this pod cast on adult sites and link building from Linkspun owner Jdoughs, and it gave me a few new ideas. I recommend listening to it for anyone who wants search engine love with their adult sites.

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.

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.

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

This is from the people over at Signbucks Daily, the first and only adult chronicle. They have lots of resources for adult affiliates, and one I saw today should get out there so everybody can see it. It is the list of blacklisted adult programs and there’s probably quite a few you’ve heard of or even use. Seems like they keep it undated regularly. Why promote programs that screw over surfers and/or adult affiliates?

Pinkworld is one of the old school text TGPs, online since 15-Apr-1999.

Submit Passes states that Pinkworld is currently receiving 351,866 unique visitors and 1,748,827 page views a day, but no date is listed. Pinkworld’s Alexa rating is still very good. The bad news is it shows 50% of Pinkworld’s traffic is from India. That traffic is very dismal, even for TGP.

Pinkworld submit pass: $59 per month allows 1 submit each day. Approval time is about 3-4 days. Traffic received: 300k over the last 30 day period, but because of the India traffic, I’m going to estimate it as 150k of ‘good’ traffic.

Estimated pass value with performance on 150k hits to TGP galleries for a $35 per sale site.

Summary Value: Still seems good, but with so much foreign traffic, it’s a toss up.