This is worth mentioning. Big Dot Media is having a sale of it’s legal tube script TEVS.

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Buy 1 license, get 2 free!

Buy any TEVS license and get 2 to the same value free!
You can add your second and third license at any time.

Starts: Wed 14th April, 2010
Ends: Wed 21st April (midnight), 2010
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If you’re thinking of making a legal tube site, TEVS is something I can recommend, and it’s fully customizable. If you’re a first time buyer, a TEVS license is $125 and you get two free, for an average cost of $41.67. What really shines, is if you already have a TEVS license. Further purchases are $60, and with two free, that’s an average cost of only $20. Just 1 sale on each site will give you a profit, so it’s hard to go wrong if you want a legal tube site. If you decide to go this route and want a custom site you can do yourself check out my post Skinning your TEVS tube site with WordPress themes.

Getting ideas from websites is well and good, but if you’re unscrupulous enough to copy/paste web pages and try to pass it off as your own, at least be smart enough to change the adult affiliate codes. This poor bastard submitted one of my TGP galleries as his own, and I ended up getting the sales. That makes me feel a little better LOL.

TGP Alliance is a network of adult oriented sites which specializes is thumbnail gallery posts. TGP Alliance has been online for over 5 years and has acquired a huge amount of traffic of all types, which includes bookmark traffic, Search Engine traffic, normal traffic from trades and also a lot of niche traffic. Although there is a large number of TGP sites to submit to with this pass, the only two that sends big traffic is Sun Porno and Twilight Sex. However, recently the website owner has switched the index page of Sun Porno into a tube. TGP galleries can still be found in the archives, but how many surfers would use that when tube videos are all over the main page? Traffic sent from Sun Porno immediately dropped 90%, and I’m wondering if more network sites will become tubes. Attempted contacts to owner have gone unanswered.

TGP Alliance Submit Pass: $150 allows 5 submits per day for 2 months. This comes out to $75 per month. Traffic received: 216k hits over a 30 day period. This is still after the Sun Porno tube change.

Estimated pass value with performance on 216k hits to TGP galleries for a $35 per sale site.

Summary Value: Very good, down from Excellent before Sun Porno switched to tube format.

March 9th update: Got this email, making this partner account better since I submit primarily picture galleries anyway.

“Dear Partners,

Due to high demand from webmasters, we decided to create picture-only accounts,
which will let you submit picture galleries only. It’s price will be lower than accounts which allow to submit both pictures and movies, and it will be $50 per month with 3 months required prepayment. Picture accounts will be available
starting 1st of april.

Thank you for your support and continued business.”

Dec update: Twilight Sex is now also a tube site. Traffic for submitters is way down. I do not recommended this partner account any more.

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.