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3.7.2002 no.235 News Tips Trix This is the almost weekly SexSwap News-Tips-Trix and it goes to all members of SexSwap and SexSwap2 and AsianSwap and GaySexSwap and SexSwap2000 Banner Exchanges. It contains information on SexSwap, Porn, Tips'n'Trix, and software reviews for the adult webmaster. I perform all literary stunts without the use of nets, safety-cables, spell checkers, or grammar fixers, and this tends to leave the reader in a state of bewilderment...you will get used to it. REMOVAL INSTRUCTIONS ->
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newsletter advertising rates ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| IF YOUR WEBSITE IS NOT INCORPORATED ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| I want to get something out of the way here that is important. Lately I have been getting continuous complaints regarding an old sexswap contributor named "Asher". You old time readers will remember him as "Asher the Java Master". I have added a warning to the 15 sexswap newletters in which he contributed. Here is what that warning says: WARNING Sexswap is not associated with TRIXSCRIPTS.COM . Trixscripts is a site owned by Asher aka Asher the Java Master. Asher was once a frequent contributor to SexSwap news from 1999-2001. He donated 10-15 scripts over a 2 year period. In return he got plugs for his site 'trixscripts'. In mid 2001, I started receiving complaints from friends and colleagues with regards to Asher's scripts and his business practices. Asher then sent in a script for the newsletter that a sexswap member decompiled, and inside was a type of trojan virus that advertised his sites. He argued that the script was an honest mistake. This was the beginning of the end. Since june of 2001, I have received numorous complaints regarding Asher and trixscripts. I have asked Asher to remove all links and references to sexswap on his site but he has refused to do so. I felt compelled to add this warning on the 10-15 issues in which he is mentioned. It seems that Asher has followed the path of Anakin Skywalker and turned to the dark side. I find this very disappointing since he had personally written me some excellent scripts in the early years. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Now that I got that warning out of the way, back to the hella stories. =) I'd say the biggest thing happening this week is the huge amount of good economy stories. GDP up, record Xmas sales, huge drop in dot com Feb layoffs, Consumer confidence good, and venture capital flying once again. In california, home sales are fierce...it is not rare to hear of 1 and 2 day home sales and multiple offers. Prices are on fire. Just one great story after another and I think this is finally the end of the low stock bottom. Time will tell. I am expecting a solid summer in the market and a great fall. It really seems to be a week full of news and the MORE NEWS section is overflowing today =) This week seems to be the week that everyone and his dog figured out how to beat Google. Lots of links to these stories. Google will have to re write some of its code now and play the spy vs spy game that we all play every day :) They gotta write a few more filters and get up a little earlier in the morning. Jill and I were babbling on ICQ this week and I thought for sure we had hit Texas T...black gold. Jill told me about a way to buy browser hits for a low yearly fee. We pursued the idea as far as we could and it ended up being fools golds....more on this below. A few webmasters wrote in with great comments on paysite math and granting access to multiple sites. This is a curious concept. I don't have any hard data on it but pretend for a moment that you have bought a paysite membership and you can either have a) a giant vat of pics in every niche in one great site or b) a smaller site BUT you have the secret password to now enter the other 7 sites that the umbrella company owns. When I get tired of blonde babes, I can go after lesbo lover, and then naught house wives. I personally tend to think that I would like b). Even though the content is exactly the same! It just feels like you are getting a better deal. Am I right or wrong on this? And therefore this might be one way to keep people longer. One more interesting thing just came up. Please email me if you have ideas on this issue. Greg wrote in asking about java and cookies on sites. There seem to be a few people posting that these are money robbers...I have to agree and have always felt that the plainest and simplest code wins in the end. I have no exact testing proof on this but I have just have always felt that way. More on this below. The other story that keeps catching my eye this week is the "We Hate PayPal". PayPal is doing like NS and locking accounts if there is a dispute. People are losing their revenue streams and there is a classaction lawsuit quickly building huge steam. get out the India Pale Ale Albert...its time for the show :D ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| US RECOVERY STRONG - CONTRARY
TO EXPECTATIONS from Richard ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| INTERESTING LEGAL CASE OVER
FAKE ID AND ADULT WEBMSTER from Emma ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| In next newsletter, can you talk about gammaxtreme.com and the $75 payout day on March 22nd?
THE SECRETS OF SPAMMING GOOGLE
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GAMMA EXTREME Here are the nitty gritty details 1. Four hardcore niche sites!
-> HELLA 2. International Traffic -> OK 3. TGP Gallery Builder -> YES 4. $35 PER TRIAL MEMBERSHIP -> SWEET now get this...King Karl
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with more details Gamma President, Karl Bernard: "The bottom line for webmasters is always make the most money possible." "This attitude is what the market wants.... solid programs that payout $35 for every signup, and that is exactly what we are doing... paying out more." The new program launches with four very solid niche sites, with many more on the way. The first four include Assbreakers (an anal site), Jizzcatchers (cumshot site), Kinky Lesbos (young lesbians), and Sweet Black (softcore Ebony). As always, the design of these new sites are beyond reproach. Gamma's in-house design team has raised the bar once again. Furthermore, webmasters will find all new marketing tools and material to promote the new program, from free content to a "pic of the hour". Join Gamma Xtreme NOW and take advantage of our $75 per signup day on the 22nd of March, 2002! Rake in the CASH! It's NEW... It's Xtreme! GammaXtreme! For more information, visit www.gammaxtreme.com or write to info@gammaxtreme.com ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| BAG OF SALT TABLE O' TRIX CONTENT GIVING ACCESS TO MULTIPLE
PAYSITES from John MORE NEWS THE FIRST COMPUTER VIDEO
GAME WAS IN MADE 1962 from Richard BeOS SUES MS PALM TO POST $50M BOND OF
HAND WRITING PATENT CASE from Richard AMD'S NEW 64BIT HAMMER CHIP
from SignGuy LINUX ATTACKD DESKTOP from
SIgnGuy PHP REMOTE VULNERABILITIES PAYPAL SUED OVER FROZEN FUNDS PAYPAL SUED from poshspice INTERNET GOES FROM DAZZLING
TO PURPOSEFUL from Richard WHAT SELLS BEST ONLINE from
Richard FRAUD LEVELS HIGHER ONLINE
THAN OFFLINE from Dan ONLINE LOSSES 19 TIMES HIGHER
from Anxious SERVICE SECTOR REBOUNDS SHARPLY
from Richard BBC MAKING UK SEARCH ENGINE
from Juicy Jill MORE SHOPPERS WITH LESS MONEY
AS E BIZ GROWS from Richard NEW VIRUS FOR MARCH 6 from
SignGuy ONLINE SHOPPING BOOST FROM
EXPERIENCED BUYER from Richard SOFTWARE HARDWARE ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| FREE SCRIPTS from Stu ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| CLICK ME MEDIA IS THE NICHE
TRAFFIC CONVERTER ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| TRIX ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| REAL WORLD NUMBERS ON RECURRING
BILLING from Joe 44% of memberships are cancelled
after the intial purchase. Of the 56% who are rebilled, 73% are rebilled 2 or more times total. The average member pays for an initial signup and then is rebilled 2.5 times before cancelling for a total of 3.5 sales. In our case the monthly membership is $9.95 and the average total amount spent by each member before cancelling is $35.27. Just our personal experience. Hope it provides some insight for you. Joe ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| FINDING 3RD PARTY CREDIT
CARD PROCESSORS by Joel Abdy writes Several adult sites use them
regular sites to and there are many shopping carts written just for
them. Here is an example of simple PayPal set up on Bad Kitty's site.
Paypal can charge a high fee but I consider their stuff very slick there is a company like ibill
that many use call ccBill. you might give them a try as well ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| GIVING ACCESS TO MULTIPLE
PAYSITES from Bill As far as giving them away with a sign up to one site, I say don't do it. In my members section I would try and sell them my other sites or resell them an elite upgrade. I would say 50% of my members were eventually members of elite or of more than one site. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| SOME PAYPAL HORROR STORIES
from Lanus I would really like to hear the views of other webmasters on their experieces with paypal. I have been using paypal for 2 years+, never had a real problem. Only once when i got a chargeback, they asked me to verify the transaction by sending them shipping evidences. I was selling intangible products so obviously they don't accept my explaination. I admit i'm at fault too for selling to an unverified member although i must say their customer support suck ass. They give you slow BS emails most notably, refer to our Terms & Agreement blah blah. I'm still using them for selling though i'm considering if i should continue after i saw all the BS in the link above. Will really like to hear everyone's views on this. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| CALYPSO EMAIL SAVE TO ARCHIVE
from Big Steve This has been a lifesaver for handling remove requests as well. I am using emext32.exe to extract the addresses and it works well. You will also get the addresses from the headers like blahblah@localhost or machine names or whatever but not that many and they are easily edited out. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| CALYPSO EMAIL ATTACHMENT
SIZE from Hollis guru-O-gif writes ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| DEBATING PAYSITE MATH - RECURRING
VS PER SIGNUP from Michael Michael writes Which certainly goes a long way towards explaining why the conversion rate is so crappy for most $35 per signup programs - they are forced to shave to survive and profit. I'm not alone in believing this to be the state of things. I mean, how many per-signup programs don't use their own merchant account and custom affiliate program? I can't think of any off the top of my head because if they exist they are a rare animal. CCBill has been proven recently to be happy to look the other way but you can't control the shave the way you can with a proprietary affiliate script. The percentage programs are simpler and are less likely to cheat because it's a simple split. A sale is made and everyone knows how much they make. There's no projecting how much you think you are going to earn per membership, no risk at all because each actual transaction is split. So the paysite has less incentive or need to cheat. Recently Bangbus said their best day was 1,000 trials, so I did a little math to see if they could make money off a $35 per signup (mostly trials). Figure 1,000 trials equals $35,000 paid out up front and that is the amount they are in the hole to start. Now they pick up the trial purchase immediately. Let's say that's $5 or $5,000 total and now they are in the hole $30k. I think they convert trials at $40 and that is pretty common so if 30% of the trials convert (ambitious numbers really) they make $12k per month and times 2.5 average stay (your number and again pretty generous most of these crappy, generic paysites) they would in fact clear $3,000 at the end. Wow, a whole $3 profit per trial. Of course, that'd still be $3k. one day and I wouldn't mind that but look at how thin that profit is and easily it disappears if the average stay is closer to 2 months or even less or if the number of trials to convert is less than 30%. Razor thin path to profitability... But one of the main points I want to make is that I think that your theory covers up the basic truth that webmasters don't trust many - if any - affiliate programs. Everyone suspects strongly or just plain -knows- they are being cheated (but what can you do?). I think it is safer and probably more profitable to go percentage over per signup simply because the program is more likely to be on the level, your conversions are going to be stronger. That's all for now...gotta get some real work done : )
Re: Conversion of free trials Re Percent Recurring programs
are less likely to cheat Re: Math of bangbus and 1000
signups in a day One problem with per sign up that I am not sure that I have stated lately is that FRAUD for the site owner is very dangerous. If Jimmy the Hacker steals a credit card database, then send 500 sign-ups to you under his account #, you then pay out and he skips town. You then in 2-4 weeks find out all the CCs were stolen and just lost a huge chunk of change. There are a few ways to fight this: 1. allow only members from what country you live in so you can persue legal remedies. If you are an american site owner, sad as it is, only allow US based webmasters to join. If you are a European based site, allow only europeans to join. etc. This is why so many sites already do this 2. watch your stats every day and see who is getting all the sign-ups. If it is someone new that you don't know. Check out his/her site and do some foot work. Does his site get a lot of traffic? Does anyone know him? What other banners does he have on the site? email other sponsors and ask his history etc. Re: Main points Michael makes is that my math theory covers up the basic truth that webmasters don't trust many - if any - affiliate programs Again, this is where we disagree. All I have to do is send traffic for 2 days to 2 programs and TEST. Let's assume everyone cheats. I only care about my math results at the end of the day. Where am I making the biggest check from. I have said this same thing same thing 100 times over the years. I don't care if a program pays 4 cents a raw click, 15 cents a filtered click, $20 per free trial, $50 per active member, or $35 per sign up.....none of this means ANYTHING at the end of the day because it is all smoke and mirrors due to the facts that affiliate programs use: 1. different filters Therefore, I only care about my testing AND I since I want to insure getting paid since I am as paranoid as the next guy, I much prefer to be paid EARLY aka "per sign up". When you go to shared recurring, you are gambling with 1-2 months income if the affiliate program bites the dust. Michael raises some great points above and I have tried to provide some counter arguements. I like to present all viewpoints on an issue so you can determine where you stand and it might be a third viewpoint or somewhere in the middle. Got something to add? email andy@lips.com and I will put it in next weeks letter. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| FUN SEARCHES ON GOTO SUGGESTION
TOOL from Steve inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ 11980327 yahoo (!) 4101379 porn Hehe...now we know that cars beat out sex, but not porn. And cats beat out dogs, which both top the IRS. Kind of hard to find a one word term with over a million searches. Oh well...kind of a useless exercise, since I guess most searches are two terms or more...time for some beer ;-) 72913 sex tracker
gives you a ratio of 18:1 webmasters to adult webmasters...maybe ;-) 598739 linux means 1/2 million searches for linux and only 69k for unix??! ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| SECRETS OF GOOGLE SPAMMING
REVEALED PART2 from Juciy Jill ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| SALES LOST TO JAVA AND COOKIES
from Greg Ran across the above thread regarding lost sales due to 'cookies' and 'java' disabled with IE6. It's quite the startling thread with stats and a resolution to handle the problem to boot! Scotty from Star Trek couldn't have done better. Just wonderin' if you or the SexSwap crew ever ran into this issue. guur-O-gif writes I consider cookies the lesser of the two evils. I know craig the programmer does everything in his power not to design sites with cookies. At sexswap we track the overall cookie error rate and currently it is running from 31% to 72% on the various swaps. This number is HUGE! :) I take it back...I know think cookies are worse. The error rate used to be around 10% but I fidn it again rises as people paste more and more and more code onto a page and you have java, mixed with cookies, mixed with everything else. Again I say "simpler makes more money". Google is simple. DO you use google? I do. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| WHERE TO FIND A GOOD STOCK
OR CASINO AFFILIATE from Sean and Denise andy writes: They rate their programs
here Lots of casino's listed here
as well Ah Ha! Here are some stock
related affiliate programs Hey! how about IBD or investors
business daily for a $2 lead. I love this newspaper and get it every
day. I think they are listed here hope this info is useful. I have not tried any of these progams so I can't say if any are great or crud. If anyone knows of any good ones that they have promoted and liked, please email me and I can add your comments to next weeks letter andy@lips.com INTERESTING SITES ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| SEARCH ENGINE GORILLA WARFARE
JOKE from Jucy Jill ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| NEAT FLASH THING from Steve ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| HACKER HUMOR from Steve What else? How about cult
of the dead cow? or the haxor brothers? (real
nasty stuff...!) hehe....hey, I read this stuff so long ago, I forgot
what was in ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ADBILITY.COM MAINSTREAM AD
PORTALS from Steve Another which is from then
and is still around is ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| LIFE AS A GUY from SleazyDream ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| INTERNET LICENSE PLATE GALLERY
from Charles GURU OF GIF They use a sales pitch like
"type Mickey Mouse in the IE browser and end up at Disney's website".
This was all too fun and my mind was spinning. For $49 a year, this
would be browser type in craziness. Jill and I began frantically typing
in key words. They were all gone! Jill got on the horn and called tech
support while I continued to try and find any word. I used the GOTO
search tool to come up with ideas Jill then learnt that they
are just a front end for REAL NAMES. I checked and I had written about
them a long time ago. I think I read in Wired that they were selling
names in browsers to businesses and had actually rejected Amazon since
it was too generic. Well it looks like they were now going for volume
at $49 a year. Jill and I were drooling.
If this worked...it would be amazing. Then all the trouble started.
We could find some words for $49 and others they asked $199 AND $299
review fee. After a while it looks clear to me that they make money
reviewing sites and turning them down. Just try typing all the words
that are gone in your browser and you will see almost nothing comes
up the way you would expect. I still might try the $49 test but I don't
give it much chance of success. If the site worked more like they say...it
would be wild. Here are their policies that better explain things Here is a FAQ but seems like
it still does not work like as stated RealNames says they just
started this new service Feb 12 but that was 2 weeks ago and I am not
seeing anything like they say in an IE window...maybe in 6? If we test more I will try to have some result data :) ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| MAD.COM ON EBAY SOLD FOR
BUYOUT OR BETTER ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| MOVE OVER SURVIVOR - HERE
COMES ULTIMATE FIGHTING from Bruce Bruce sent in that link and I had also read about this on the fight forums. This could be great for no holds barred! :) I worry that they will taint it and pick fighters who are charismatic rather than the best. It will be interesting to see if they are able to pull this off. Did you see Survivor last week? Like Mr Bowling alley was just a little too into yoga and whackines =] ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| FREECLICKSTATS ->DYNAMIC
REDIRECT AND COUNTER The lads at Nasty Dollars
have done it again with their latest sites aimed at adult webmasters.
Let me steal the explanation from their FAQ "What exactly is Freeclickstats.com?
" I was ICQing with "Ernesto"
on Friday and here is some of the info he had to add: I signed up and had code
in my hot little hands in less than 2 minutes. Here is the rest of the
FAQ ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| I LIKE BIG TITS AND I CANNOT
LIE - THESE REASONS I'LL TELL YOU WHY For years I spammed the engines
under the term "big tits". I just had always felt that this
was the term. Sure "sex" and "porn" at the two KINGS
but they were impossible to target. Last week, Juicy Jill and I were
on a hunt for internet gold. During our ICQ chat search, I stumbled
onto the truth behind BIG TITS and why they are the greatest niche of
all time. First you need to go to the overature suggestion tool Now try any adult niche you
can think of. You will get the result hit count from last month on goto and the winner is
579820 lesbian sex What happened to my TITS???
I am not about to give up that easily. Try just the word 'tit' and I
will be back on top Oh Ya! I am the king! UPDATE -> ONE WORD BEATS
TIT ya, but that is almost same
as porn and sex. There are some pussy niche sites but not as many as
tit niche I don't think. Interestingly enough, at Nasty they do have but I still find that babes with jugs seems to take the cake. Well Tits are #2 in the world
of niche searches..And I think this is why I have the best luck sending
my traffic to big tit style sites. If you are looking for a big tit
site to send traffic to, then I highly suggest giving NastyDollars a
try With Nasty I send ALL my
traffic to BIG NATURALS and I am only pleased with the conversions. I dig Nasty for 3 reasons ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| more water for the horses and wine for my women chow mein wayne
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