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It has been an interesting week. Do you think we are headed into the third oil crisis? I sure hope not. I have some oil stop and would make out like a bandit but it would hammer the rest of the ecomony and everything else would suffer. I hope things stabilize in the middle east. Time will tell. Want a hot stock tip? WARNING: rule # 1 of investing...never take hot stock tips =) That being said, there is a sector that is on fire right now and that is clothing. Do you ever go to the mall? I don't but once a year I am dragged there for some ungodly reason and I have seen this like what I thought was a 'head shop' as they used to be called when these are the clothing stores of today's youth! I am talking about "Hot Topic". This little stock is on fire.
bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?symb=hott

here are two others..again clothing
bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?symb=chs
bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?symb=chbs

not sure why but these companies are doing well and their bottom lines look nice
moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/results/hilite.asp?Symbol=hott
moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/results/hilite.asp?Symbol=chs
moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/results/hilite.asp?Symbol=chbs

Right now I have a pocketfull of chbs and can't complain. I hope the rest of the economy follows suit and I think this shows that people are still shopping and spending coin. Enough stock talk...let's see what's below...how about a Java redirect based on referrer from Mortan. Here is a cool little script that people were asking about a week or two ago. Very slick.

Lots of comments on how to use more than one thrid party processor on a join form.

Some code for the programmers or server admins...a slick and rare authentication patch for mod_auth_mysql.c from young Craig.

I also have an interesting story on the financials of an actual money making paysite. Normally I turn away people wanting to sell a site since it is a plug...but Kurt send me in a ton of info on his site that he is interested in selling. What caught my eye was that he had tons of figures AND the site has SUPER net margins. I thought it would be fun for folks to see what a nicely run site is doing with stable and growing traffic. AND, if you have every considered buying a site, this looks like a sweet package and you might drop Kurt an email and try and cut a deal. He is asking in the 250-300k range.

all this and a few tricks more below

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INTERNET HAMMERS PORN MAG SALES from Richard and Greg and Steve
PENTHOUSE MAY GO UNDER
www.nytimes.com/2002/04/08/business/media/08PENT.html?todaysheadlines
www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=546190&in_rev
www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-10319706,00.html
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1917000/1917688.stm

What has been continually shocking about the porn mags and there attempts to go online is that most of them have failed. What does this mean? Well these are my opinions but

1. CONTENT does not automatically make you a successful paysite
I have been arguing this until I am blue in the face. I am not saying that I do not know some very successful content sellers. What I am saying is that content is a very small portion of the online porn game. Nobody has more content than Playboy and Penhouse and both are having a very hard time online with paysites. What should they have done differently? As funny as it seems, they should of LICNESED CONTENT and avoided trying to start paysites. They could of done $50M+ a year with content licensing but I am sure they were too proud and guarded of their pictures to even conceive of such a business model.

2. BRICK AND MORTAR are not as big of a competitive threat as once was thought
I hear so many people say "just wait until the vegas casinos go online...they will kill all competition and have a monopoly". And I say to that "bullshit". The exact same story would play out. Online is a very different game than brick and mortar and these old companies are not very net saavy...from the CEOs down to the janitors...most are behind the times in terms of computer acceptance.

3. ONLINE is changing how we interact, shop, and get entertained.
Television is very nervous, and they should be. They are in a ton of trouble and it is going to get worse as we all watch less and less TV from here on in. There will be major network bankrupcies. I also think Radio will suffer as well. The written world is one of the fastest ways for us to get info and we control what we read where with TV and radio, we are fed data. The internet is going to get bigger, and other media is goingto shrink. Books and magazine...all going to suffer as well and not just porn. Porn leads the way...this is going to occur in every niche.

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GOOGLE NEWS
I always like keeping an eye on google and this week it was all over the news. Google was sued by Overture. This should be a very interesting case. Google launched a beta news search. I find it to be excellent. Google is also slowly working toward an IPO.

GOOGLE SUED BY OVERATURE ON SEARCH PATENT from Richard
news.com.com/2100-1023-876861.html

GOOGLE WINNING THE SEARCH ENGINE WARS from Richard
www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/17105.html

GOOGLE NEWS SEARCH IN BETA
news.google.com/

GOOGLE PREPARES FOR IPO from Richard
www.nytimes.com/2002/04/08/technology/ebusiness/08GOOG.html?homepageinsidebox

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DOZENS BUSTED IN FTC SPAM SCAN CHAINLETTER CRACKDOWN
ah ha! all those spammer that love telling me...this is totally legal....this is not an MLM money pyramid - Ya Right!
msn.com.com/2100-1105-874265.html

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AOL SOLD $6BILLION IN BONDS LAST WEDNESDAY
these were just gobbled up.
www.msnbc.com/news/733014.asp?cp1=1

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WIRED MAG ARTICLE ON FUTURE from guru-O-gif
www.wired.com
I don't subscribe but they seem to send me a copy free...maybe because I have lied so much to get free mags that they think I really do run that $2B a year Bio Tech firm =) hee hee hee. Well I read this month's copy and it was really much better than I remembered it. I think they are adapting to the times. It is more of a sci fi journal now. They had this neat section of POSSIBLE future events and then two big wigs would take the YES or NO side of the story. Here are some of the interesting and provocative points and my votes and arguments. Please feel free to send in your thoughts on any of these ideas if you wish. andy@lips.com

PILOTLESS PLANES BY 2020
YES - CTO Microsoft
NO - CEO Google
NO - Guru-O-Gif

there is no way this will happen by 2020 if you ask me. Simple logic says...look at subways and trains. Why do we still have drivers. It is just safer. If we don't have pilotless trains and subways now, we will not be doing planes in 2020.

HALF OF BOOKS WILL BE PRINTED ON DEMAND ON 2010
YES - Former Editor Randomhouse
NO - VP Worldcom
NO - Guru-O-Gif

it will happen, but not in 8 years. The machines are just hitting the market now and costs will take time to go down. I think it will occur, but maybe 25% by 2010

COMPUTER PASSES TURING TEST 2029
cogsci.ucsd.edu/~asaygin/tt/ttest.html
www.turing.org.uk/turing/scrapbook/test.html

the Turing test seems to be like the test in "BladeRunner" where they asked the cyborg what he would do if a turtle was flipped on its shell in the middle of a road. The test is basically a test to see if a scientest can tell human responses from that of a computer.

YES - Entrepenuer
NO - Founder Lotus
NO - Guru-O-Gif

2029 is still too close. I think the test will be passed but my guess is 2050

UNIVERSE WILL STOP EXPANDING
YES - CTO Applied Minds
NO - Cofounder Intellectual Ventures
YES - Guru-O-Gif

changed my vote after chatting with Richard. Seems that at some point, the bang could run out fo steam and than gravity works its relentless magic

RUSSIA WILL BE WORLD LEADER OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT 2012
YES - ChairEDventure
NO - Chair Intuit
NO - Guru-O-Gif

In my opinion, Russia's problem is that it currently is still in a "WILD WEST" phase, like america was in the early 1900's when Chicago mob bosses ruled. You cannot become a world software developer when there is such a strong mafia presence.

WEBLOGS WILL OUTRANK NEW YORK TIMES SITE BY 2007
(based on a Google search of five keywords or phrases reflecting top five news stories)
YES - CEO Userland
NO - CEO New ork Times
YES - Guu-O-Gif

Easily. People search for news and NY times does not have a monopoly on it. I would think this is close to happening already.

US MEN'S SOCCER TEAM WILL WIN WORLD CUP BEFORE REDSOX WIN WORLD SERIES
YES - Editor Time
NO - Ted Danson

I see this as a tie and the weakest question in the poll

BIO TERROR WILL KILL 1MILLION IN A SINGLE EVENT BY 2020
YES - Astrophysicist
NO - Guru-O-Gif

History has shown us time and time again that it is very difficult to kill mass amounts of people with bio terror. I don't think there has been a bio terror event of 10,000 and therefore I cannot see one of 1M in such a short time span. Bombs are much more efficient as sad as that may be. Bio Terror just makes great headlines.

Here is perhaps one of the most interesting questions

AT LEAST ONE PERSON BORN IN 2000 WILL BE ALIVE IN 2150
YES - Cofounder Gloabl Business Netowork

this is a tough call. I am going to say
YES - Guru-O-Gif

In 1900, that average lifespan was 45 and we are close to 85 as the cofounder argues. I also think technology is growing at a explonential rate. I would also argue we most likely have a cure for cancer by that time. I think one or two people have lived to 110 in our world so I think we could see a 150 year old person in 2150....as completely shocking as that seems today.

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BAG OF SALT TABLE O' TRIX CONTENT

JAVA REDIRECT BASED ON REFERRER from Morton
RE: CCBILL AND IBILL ON SAME JOIN FORM from Allen
RE: RUNNING TWO FULFILLMENT COMPANIES SIMULTANEOUSLY from Franz
COMMENTS ON DUAL THIRD PARTY BILLING from John
SMALL FLASH BANNERS CAN WORK WELL from Niggle
ADULT SITE FOR SALE from Kurt
AMAZONSCAN.COM ARTICLE ON $70 MOST LIKELY A PUBLICITY STUNT from Anonymous
SEARCH ENGINE SUBMISSIONS REVISITED from Kevin
RE: YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A PAYSITE from jspr
VIDEO PLAYER SKINS FOR HITS from Doug
AUTHENTICATION PATCH FOR APACHE MOD_AUTH_MYSQL.C from Craig

MORE NEWS
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STRUGGLING YAHOO TESTS FEES FOR PHONE HELP from Tara
news.com.com/2100-1023-879144.html

ANTI MICROSOFT SCANDAL REVEALED from Smell
www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20020401.shtml

SUING MICROSOFT FOR POCKET PC from Juicy Jill
news.com.com/2100-1023-805115.html?legacy=cnet
news.com.com/2100-1040-874987.html

CCNOW BOUGHT BY DIGITAL RIVER AND YANKING ALL ADULT from Emma
www.theamateurvoice.com/anews/ccnow_digitalr.html

ADVERTISERS TAKING OVER BROWSERS from Jill
www.msnbc.com/news/732865.asp?cp1=1

YAHOO SERVICE CHANGES BAFFLE USERS from Tara
news.com.com/2100-1023-875322.html

USED BASEBALL PLAYER GUM UP FOR BID from SignGuy
espn.go.com/sportsbusiness/news/2002/0404/1363118.html

LPZIP.COM MAN HELD IN CHILD-PORN OPERATION From Anon and Steve
www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%257E511929,00.html?search=filter
www.9news.com/storyfull.asp?id=1870

THE BATTLE BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND THE MARKETPLACE
THAT IS REMAKING THE MODERN WORLD from Mike
www.angelfire.com/mi/libertyinstitute/st8of2.html
www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights_live/shared/minitextlo/tr_show01.html

JUDGES END PORN TRIAL ON SKEPTICAL NOTE from Greg
Greg writes
Above is a link to a CNN story on the Child Internet Protection Act. As usual the govt. can't figure out how to solve the problem. Perhaps we webmasters can figure something out.
www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/04/05/internet.porn.reut/index.html

AOL DECLARES VICTORY IN PORN SPAM SUIT
www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,51507,00.html

FREE SPEECH AND THE INTERNET - YOU CAN BE SUED FOR YOUR OPINION from Craig
salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/04/aquatic_plants/index.html

DANGERS OF THE THIRD OIL CRISIS from Richard
www.nytimes.com/2002/04/09/opinion/09KRUG.html?todaysheadlines

YAHOO TO COMPETE WITH bCENTRAL from Tara
news.com.com/2100-1033-879245.html

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JAVA REDIRECT BASED ON REFERRER from Morton
Morton writes
You asked for at javascript redirect script for Brien.. I have a simple one here that you can use if you want.. here it is..
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<script language="Javascript">
<!--

var referrers = new Array();
var locations = new Array();

referrers[0] = "yahoo.com"; // the referrer
locations[0] = "www.domain.com/yahoosite.html"; //where to send the user

referrers[1] = "altavista.com"; // the referrer
locations[1] = "www.domain.com/altavistasite.html"; //where to send the user

referrers[2] = "google.com"; // the referrer
locations[2] = "www.domain.com/googlesite.html"; //where to send the user

// more addys can be added.. just remember to increment the number by one..

var i;
for(i=0;i<referrers.length;i++) {
if(document.referrer.indexOf(referrers[i])!=-1) {
location.href=locations[i];
}
}

//-->
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RE: CCBILL AND IBILL ON SAME JOIN FORM from Allen
Allen writes
To answer the questions:

1. Can you use the two programs on one sign up form?
Yes, CCbill, Ibill, Epoch etc,etc.you can use them all if you wish.

2. What are some of the ways of doing it?
The .htpasswd part is easy, just have their(or your) scripts point to the same file. If you need to track affiliate sales as well, you either need to buy an affiliate script, or do a little programming to track variables through the forms.

3. What are the things you need to watch out for?
Depends on how and what you're doing.

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RE: RUNNING TWO FULFILLMENT COMPANIES SIMULTANEOUSLY from Franz
Franz writes
Regarding the question as to how to deal with 2 fullfillment companies using one .htaccess file.

In year 1999 I got a company known as OCC as a fullfillment company for my website They were good enough to set up a data file of members using my .htaccess file. In year 2000 I also got a secondary company, Verotel, as a fullfillment company because they offered payment options that OCC did not. Verotel had to set up their own script for members joining thru them. I told Verotel that I already had a members data base for the site set up by OCC. Verotel told me that they would use the same data base for members joining thru THEIR company. I don't know how they scripted it but they used the .htaccess that I already had set up. Subsequently I stopped using OCC and now only use Verotel but the same scripting is probably still up there.

I took a look at the .htaccess file in place on the server to see if there might be anything relevant that would help your readers, but it just seems to be a straight forward simple script that accepts members. There is no action that tells about where the members come from.

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COMMENTS ON DUAL THIRD PARTY BILLING from John
John writes
I think it is possible to use both processors if you use the Ibill password management system rather than pincodes. We are currently in the process of setting up this very thing and I will know for sure by the end of next week. Many people are going for secondary processors along with Ibill because of the problems there.

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SMALL FLASH BANNERS CAN WORK WELL from Niggle
Niggle writes
re:468x60 is now to small and you have to HAMMER surfers in the head to get them to click and porn folks know this.

It can be done in 468 * 80. Below is the URL of a Flash banner slighty bigger in size - but still a banner. I created this to promote my favorite sponsor and it's getting massive click-through rates when used with music as a popup or without sound on a TGP page.

www.xxxcompetitions.com/misc-articles/wasteland.html

But yes, it takes the hammering approach! I think a well designed, high-impact Flash animation can still make use of small amounts of page real estate and obtain good click-through rates. It's all got to do with the design - and most new Flash Animators are clueless as to how to maximize what little space they have or how make an animation stream well enough to get people's attention right from the start. It takes more than using Swish to create powerful ads.

Hee,hee, my other ad along that line can be found at - Sorry for the long URL, but that's the raw address.

www.xxxcompetitions.com/banner_farm/xxxcompetitions/flash-banners/come-home-generic.swf

As biased as I am, I rarely see many good ads done in Flash still. Streamability and low-bandwidth, but high impact elements are
the key to making it clickable.

All I know is that this particular site has the highest clickthru of any of my sponsors and that the banner has rated highly in focus-testing - everyone wanted to click it - so it's doing something right is all I know... but yes, would prefer solid stats...

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ADULT SITE FOR SALE from Kurt
Andy writes
Kurt sent me in this email asking on how he might be able to sell his site. Now normally I don't publish such letters, but this one is kind of interesting and I asked Kurt for permission to publish it. Normally I would ask a seller to buy an add but Kurt has some very nice numbers in here and I thought it would be more interesting to talk about this and the art of selling an adult site. It is never easy to sell an online entity (especially adult). Kurt has solid numbers and really nice NET profits of $3000 a week! Here is a fine example of a successfull adult site that is being run very well. If anyone is interesting in more info on the sites..please email Kurt directly at webmaster@safebase.com

Kurt writes
I am in a situation where I need to get rid my 'on-line activities'
due to familiarly circumstances and I have several not important sites
and one very good one. The stuff in circulation from that site provide
all the publicity I need - have not used spam, tgp, etc. For more than a
year and still there is a steady weekly income (less expenses) of
average more than 3000$ (documented) this have been so for the past
years. My problem is that I will not be able to keep the site updated.

My question is - where do I go to get a fair price for the site ?

Have tried one day to go to a webmasters discussion forum for advice,
only to get laughed of by the guys there (ok I have not spend a second
on the signup pages for two years, but they do ok, a potential buyer
should only be happy to know he/her can double or triple the income by
making better signup pages)

The payouts received for about the past year is included below, and you
can add to that a little more than 6000 for the past 3-4 months for this
site also from pay pal signups.

My expenses for the service is 1000$ month for colo bandwidth and 550$
for holio (stroke a good deal with them)

I will not give it away, as I know the buyer is having a real money
machine, my only problem is that even a money machine have to be greased
from time to time :-)

2001-04-01 $2,792.04 Breakdown
2001-04-08 $1,886.71 Breakdown
2001-04-15 $2,883.76 Breakdown
2001-04-22 $1,828.93 Breakdown
2001-04-29 $2,041.83 Breakdown
2001-05-06 $2,200.29 Breakdown
2001-05-13 $2,865.58 Breakdown
2001-05-20 $2,532.92 Breakdown
2001-05-27 $3,063.46 Breakdown
2001-06-03 $2,950.82 Breakdown
2001-06-10 $2,821.53 Breakdown
2001-06-17 $3,269.13 Breakdown
2001-06-24 $3,023.17 Breakdown
2001-07-01 $3,411.84 Breakdown
2001-07-08 $3,173.08 Breakdown
2001-07-15 $2,947.37 Breakdown
2001-07-22 $5,404.57 Breakdown
2001-07-29 $4,225.02 Breakdown
2001-08-05 $3,748.18 Breakdown
2001-08-12 $3,523.49 Breakdown
2001-08-19 $3,498.07 Breakdown
2001-08-26 $4,820.29 Breakdown
2001-09-02 $3,419.44 Breakdown
2001-09-09 $3,448.73 Breakdown
2001-09-16 $3,861.95 Breakdown
2001-09-23 $3,602.86 Breakdown
2001-09-30 $3,578.06 Breakdown
2001-10-07 $3,843.35 Breakdown
2001-10-14 $3,727.42 Breakdown
2001-10-21 $3,662.21 Breakdown
2001-10-28 $3,876.59 Breakdown
2001-11-04 $3,241.12 Breakdown
2001-11-11 $3,215.99 Breakdown
2001-11-18 $3,804.54 Breakdown
2001-11-25 $2,853.31 Breakdown
2001-12-02 $3,893.56 Breakdown
2001-12-09 $3,135.35 Breakdown
2001-12-16 $3,067.73 Breakdown
2001-12-23 $2,963.63 Breakdown
2001-12-30 $3,844.39 Breakdown
2002-01-06 $3,239.91 Breakdown
2002-01-13 $3,148.17 Breakdown
2002-01-20 $3,864.28 Breakdown
2002-01-27 $3,371.43 Breakdown
2002-02-03 $3,412.92 Breakdown
2002-02-10 $3,162.34 Breakdown
2002-02-17 $3,527.02 Breakdown
2002-02-24 $3,564.26 Breakdown
2002-03-03 $3,517.30 Breakdown
2002-03-10 $3,412.88 Breakdown
2002-03-17 $3,281.44 Breakdown
2002-03-24 $3,405.00 Breakdown

Totals $172,859.26

Andy writes
here are some ideas Kurt and I tossed around on ways to sell an adult site or perhaps keep it but make it less work

1. contact sponsors and affiliates you have worked with in the past
I find it is a lot easier to cut a deal with people you know and trust and have worked with in the past

2. could you hire young Johnny to run the site
pay him a salary and thereby keep most of the profits.

3. run sites into ground (not pretty but can work in some cases)
sometimes the math of certain paysites warrants running them into the ground if you want out. In this case it does NOT work, but let me give you a case that might just to entertain the idea. Let's say you run a large pay site and have an affiliate program that is all "per signup". You want to find a buyer but can't and you still want to cash out and you are tired of buying content. Sometimes the math is better running the site into the ground. Here is why.

a. stop buying content. your content will be old and people will quit but you are trying maximize NET as fast as possible
b. warn all webmasters you are stopping all signups on a given day. This way they have time to pull links etc. The wierd thing is that if you are big, there will still be tons of links floating around and you will still get signup from these links and old cookies.
c. one rare thing that I have not talked about at the end of a paysites life is that you tend to get all the lazy people that never read their credit card bills and they are with you for a long time...so you get very long average stays at the end of a Pay Sites life. I saw this experience first hand when I sold my site SIXCHICKS.COM to Karl in 97. I was sure Karl would close the site in 3 months and he would of made money. Well Karl used to joke that he was still billing some people after 18 months! He ran it into the ground and there were tons of people that just never quit

so because of these wierd things, you can sometimes make a case for cutting costs to a minimum, stopping all payouts, cancelling all new content, cut staff to one, and run a site into the ground and make bank in the last months of its life...again this would only work in certain circumstances and when you really wanted out and it is not pretty.

4. find a partner to run 50/50
this is always an option but I always say "I HATE PARTNERS". The most common reason people take partners is insecurity. I have seen it countless times. I ask people...why do you need him as a partner "well he is good at A and I am good at B" ...well that is bullshit...guess what...A can be bought and B can be bought so forget that and go it alone and buy the thing they offer..it is always cheaper in the end and partnerships are highly volatile always. If you do do one...make sure you really know the person have have worked with them in the past in regular business. Also try to make them so they have a limited lifespan..so there is an end point within X years. I know you don't believe me and I know you think you will loev each other...but personalilties and human nature make it so everyone feels ripped off and the partnership implodes 9 time out of 10.

5. just keep the site but try to make your life happier
I sold a sign store to my employee a few years back and he comes and chats with me every few weeks. It is hard work but the money is good. A couple of week ago he hated getting up in the morning and going to work. Why? The answer is always "Employees and Customers". =) He was working himself to death and was hating life. I gave him three simple ideas that could make the store a lot more fun. He was just too busy to think of them on his own

a. raise the minimum order. it was $20 and they bumped it to $25. They are already swamped...this chases people away OR you make more money and do not hate things as much

b. close saturdays. he had worked 6 days a week for ten years and it was killing him. Some people can do it and others need a brake. He closed saturdays for the first time. he might make a touch less money but he will keep his sanity

c. say no. too often he was saying yes to jobs he should not of been quoting.

he started these three simple things and now he has that skip in his step once again and he loves going back into work. How does this relate to selling an adult site? Well many times we want out of a business when it becomes no fun. By tweaking little things...we might have more fun and there there is no need to sell. Here is an example. I HATE the sexswap HELP FORM emails =) I want to scream when I get some of them. You would not believe some of them. "when do you pay me a check?" "how do I paste code" . Now I know we all were beginners once, but I am shocked that people are starting sites and are so lost. I don't even know where to begin with some of these folks...I want to send then a tutorial on basic html or something. Well to keep my sanity, I get "Sanchy" the wife to answer them now and just send me the hard ones. We sit right beside each other so she can yell out anytime she is stuck. By giving her that task, it makes my day tons more fun.

Kurt adds
It's a teenage sex site (off cause 100% legal) with everyday girls. I have made 50% of the material myself and the rest I got from a good friend (we swapped rights) All traffic is coming from people who have stumbled over our videos by people sharing, kazaa, edonkey, Usenet etc. (our site name is on all vids.) So it spreads like rings in the water so to say.

INTERESTED IN BUYING?
anyways, if you are interested in talking to Kurt more about his site, drop him an email at
webmaster@safebase.com

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AMAZONSCAN.COM ARTICLE ON $70k MOST LIKELY A PUBLICITY STUNT from Anonymous
Anonymous writes
I don't want to "accuse" pud of anything, because I love his site and he's a funny guy, but I would bet good money that those numbers are total bullshit. He is a great publicity hound. When I read that article on the Wired site a little while ago, the first thing I did was to go check Goto's search tool to see how many people were searching for "Amazon Scan" - the number of people searching for it, the month I checked, was ZERO. Then I checked the Alexa traffic stats for AmazonScan.com and FuckedCompany.com and there is no way in the world he's doing what he says he's doing.

inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
(Down right now, so I can't confirm the search numbers, last time I checked it was zero)

www.alexa.com/partners/site_stats_signup.html?url=www.amazonscan.com&second=true&c1=tn&c2=ua&c3=l
(one traffic star, ranked 152,555)

www.alexa.com/partners/site_stats_signup.html?url=www.fuckedcompany.com&second=true&c1=tn&c2=ua&c3=l
(three traffic stars, ranked number 3709)

Our site is Alexa ranked in the top 1000 with 4 traffic stars, and I can tell you right now that there is no way we could sell that many books. We have tried, with both Amazon and BN, and there is no way. Alexa stats are squirrelly as hell, and strange, but they give you a very very rough idea of what's going on. Again, I don't have access to pud's Amazon stats, so a miracle is, in theory, possible, but I say it's bull.

andy writes
I have to agree. When I saw the number $70k, I was shocked since I have sold about $3k of amazon crud in 3 years and used to spam heavily for it and it is so hard to sell and you make such low commissions that $70k would take HUGE traffic. I don't think any amazon affiliate is doing giant numbers like these in that story. If it was a publicity stunt, it worked and fooled me :)

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SEARCH ENGINE SUBMISSIONS REVISITED from Kevin
Kevin writes
Quick question for you regarding search engines... I have about 50 feeder sites on 8 different domains, so about 400 sites total that have never been submitted to search engines... Now, I was thinking of getting a program such as
www.trafficbuilder.com/

to submit them for me... Firs,t is that program any good?

Andy writes
it looks good and is well reviewed. I have not heard of it but I trust two cows reviews

Kevin writes
If not, any others you suggest?

Andy writes
I haven't spammed engines in so long that the ones used to use are old. Two that come to mind are

Submission Wizard
www.exploit.net/wizard/

AdWeb Pro
www.cyberspacehq.com/products/AddWeb/home.shtm

these both served me well in the old days. At the end I used none of those and had a programmer design me one that was completely custom. It was perl based and I could schedule events to submit any amount of url to any amount of engine at any time in the day. I called it Super Submitter by Randy The Unix Robot. But it is long gone

Kevin writes
And second, How many sites per day can i submit per domain without getting red flagged by the search engines?

Andy writes
this is a question I don't really know the answer to anymore. My guess is one per domain. The key engine now is google and it usually finds your pages anyways...most engines have a way to search them with something like a link: to see if you are already in there...you might check that before submitting.

example at google

link: www.foo.com
www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=link%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foo.com

Sometimes with google if you submit one page that is linked to all the others...google will find the otehr pages...you might try that...create a single page or two with all your pages in html links and submit that one page and then see if the spider finds all the pages within a month and this way you avoid being red flagged.

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RE: YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A PAYSITE from jspr
jspr writes:
Just came across this article that back up our YOU DON'T HAVE TO OWN A PAYSITE talk.
www.paysiteowners.com/articles/afflprog_enforc_01.html

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VIDEO PLAYER SKINS FOR HITS from DOug
Doug writes
www.designpage.com/BURNOUT.wmz
Thanks for the mention in your newsletter for videolator.com I noticed that google picked it up. I am writing to show you another skin that you might like. btw videolator.com is doing well on the new google index for free sex movies etc.. I hope to get alot of downloads. What I am thinking is that I could plug in video commercials so the whole stream the user gets is ads

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Douglas Haynes
301-689-5806
DESIGNPAGE.COM
Space Shuttle Media Player Skin www.designpage.com/shuttle.wmz

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AUTHENTICATION PATCH FOR APACHE MOD_AUTH_MYSQL.C from Craig the Programmer
Craig writes
I developed a tiny patch that your readers may be interested in. Like myself many people use database authentication for their websites...basically a nice and more efficient approach than using .htpasswd files. However I noticed a slight race condition in the reigning MySQL/Apache authentication module (named mod_auth_mysql). Basically if you have multiple sites using this authentication method under the same apache server and mysql daemon however each site uses a different database within the mysql daemon...you run the risk of mod_auth_mysql not checking the correct database for the username/password. The end result is potentially rejected username/passwords and depending on the db architecture possible 500 errors. This was beginning to plague one of my clients who routinely gets about 20-30 authentication requests a second.

--patch begin
457c457
< query = (char *) pstrcat(r->pool, "select ", auth_password_field, "
from ", sec->db_name, ".", auth_table,
---
> query = (char *) pstrcat(r->pool, "select ", auth_password_field, "
from ", auth_table,
523c523,524
< query = pstrcat(r->pool,"select count(*) from
",sec->db_name,".",auth_table,
---
>
> query = pstrcat(r->pool,"select count(*) from ",auth_table,
525a527
>
--patch end

if the above patch is applied to the mod_auth_mysql.c file prior to
compiling it into apache, it should aleviate this race condition. A simple
patch but effective =)

INTERESTING SITES
/******************************************
YOU NOW KNOW JACK SCHITT from SleazyDream
www.sparklet.com/~royce/trams/KnowJackSchitt.swf

BIKES WITH NO CHAINS (way too much flash)
www.biomega.dk/html/default.asp

GURU OF GIF
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CRAIG-THE-PROGRAMMER AVAILABLE FOR SERVER ADMIN AND PROGRAMMING
Did you see that tip in the trix section called "authentication path for apache mod_auth_mysql.c"? Well that is the fine work of none other than Craig. I had a migraine looking at the patch...WOW...and that is why I hire Craig since to him, this sort of thing is strawberry short cake. He is the apache, mysql, and php machine. Craig-the-Prgammer and I are old friends at this point and have worked on many adult and mainstream projects together. Normally I try to horde all his time and keep him hidden from public view since he often can get swamped with code requests and server set up projects. Craig just sent me a note and I thought would pass it along

Craig writes
I have a couple spots in my schedule to take on both emergency and flat rate server administration as well as some website programming.

Andy writes
Craig is a master of php and mysql and excels in such projects. If you need php4, mysql, apache, sendmail. firewalls and other programs loaded on your linux and unix servers, he can generally do this sort of thing blindfolded. He has worked for large porn operations in the past and knows what it means to make both code and servers perform under heavy load. Craig and I someday hope to release unto the world, the greatest gamer portal ever! (all mysql and php based by the way)

If you need a programmer for a custom project, or need server setup and administration, please drop Craig an email
Craig Vincent
2bunnyhop@rogers.com

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COBRA PICS
ya, I am still fiddling away with the money pit. Here are some pics of the latest garage adventures
www.cobralads.com/corrugated/

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WILL THE TYSON FIGHT EVER TAKE PLACE?
www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0408tyson08.html

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$99 BUYS YOU THIS SPOT IN NEXT WEEKS NEWSLETTER
Well last week we have a pile of people email Dangerous Dan with "we want that ad! Give me that ad! I need that ad!". Then they all disappeared when we asked for the cash. Let me give you a little more info to try and entice people about this lower spot. First, 150 webmasters clicked the test ad I made a week ago. Now I would think that these numbers are inflated since I was joking and having fun and asked people to click so I would think a regular ad will not get as many clicks but let's say for a minute that a regular ad gets 1/3 those clicks or 50 clicks. I would figure you would get once sale from 50 clicks. If you sell content...it is not hard to sell $99 worth of content and that buyer most likely will become a repeat buyer. If you have an affiliate program, and get 2 signups...those webmasters need to send you approximately 4-6 signups ever to pay for that ad...this does not seem like a hefty target.

SexSwap news, I believe, is the longest running weekly webmaster newsletter.

240 ISSUES - It all started back in 1997. Here is Issue #1 for those who have never read this classic. It is about 4 lines long...hee hee haaa
trix.sexswap.com/SWAP1.HTM

Now read by 4100+ WEBMASTERS WEEKLY via email
another 750+ WEBMASTERS WEEKLY via online site

Will this spot work for you? I don't know and I don't think Cleo knows either =) TEST TEST TEST. There are not many opportunites to test advertising in the webmaster world for $99. If you are interested in buying this spot and giving it a try, please drop Dan or I am email. Dan's email is daniel@gammae.com Dan and I certainly want to make money but we also want the people that purchase ads to do well too and that is why we reduced this lower spot to half price. We don't want 100 people to try the ad and say "that ad sucked and burnt my coin"...instead we want a couple people to try the ad and say "hey, this works for me, let me buy a month or two". This way we enter into a longer term relationship where it is WIN WIN.

Here is tha test page I ran again so you can see =)
trix.sexswap.com/justatest.html

147 clicks first week...even though counter was goofed up and did not read uniques properly
www.simplecounter.net/simple/stats.php?countername=99-dollar-ad

here are the stats of just the online readers of sexswap news. 700-850 unique webmasters a week and almost 1000 page views reading weekly
www.simplecounter.net/simple/stats.php?countername=trix

Email stats as of today...haven't cleaned bounces out this week so maybe 100 high
TOTAL EMAILS ........6231
ACTIVE ...................4191 (67.26%)
CANCELLED............219 (3.51%)
UNDELIVERABLE....1821 (29.22%)

HOW TO GET YOUR MESSAGE TO 5000 WEBMASTERS FOR LESS THAN $100
email daniel@gammae.com

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those are my stories

chow mein wayne

Andy
andy@lips.com

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