| SexSwap 05.16.2003
no.297 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 ->To
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start receiving this newsletter, add your email here ----------------------------------------------- $35 PER SIGNUP.http://www.gammaxtreme.com ADVERTISE.........daniel@gammae.com ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| HOW ADULTREVIEWS.NET GREW
FROM NOTHING TO WHERE IT IS NOW Do you still remember your first signup or the first time you was listed at The Hun? This is the story about how Adult Reviews .net was born…. The story about how it evolved into being more than just a spare time project. How we crawled through the
mud in our business and ended up where we are now. I think we are some
place in the middle of the hierarchy at the moment. If you want to know,
then read this story which will continue in the next 2 editions of Sexswap
in the top and middle ad spot. And there might actually be an economic
interest in it for you…We have chosen to do it this way because
it also adds some value to Sexswap – it’s not just advertisement,
it’s also an interesting story. To read from the beginning go to We are still considering our self newbies in many ways, especially of course regarding the things we haven’t played much with, but who isn’t a newbie in some ways? We can and should learn something new every day. Now to the story: Hi all, this is Jeppe taking
over from Thomas. I want my 15 minutes of fame too ;-) Well moving right along, we were of course more than happy with the success so far, but we kept thinking “If we can get this far by doing this, why not set some higher goals and aim to go even further?”. Every time you reach a goal, you need to set a new one to have something to motivate you. It was about this time we got contacted by another site wanting to do some business with us. The site was http://www.adultmonkey.com run by DynaMite (DynaSpain on GFY). He wanted to make a site similar to ours with real reviews of pay sites. He already had an extensive directory of sites in assorted categories, but without much description. So we agreed to share our reviews with him. In exchange he was going to start hire people to write more reviews in the same style as ours. That way our review database was going to grow at twice the speed. It worked out all right in the beginning, even though we did experience some coordination problems. But we never quite took full advantage of the deal. At least it got us some new contacts, which is very important in this business as well as any other business. We wanted more publicity; we believed that we had a good product, so why not get as many people as possible to know it? And inspired by the way other webmasters get their product known; we came up with an innovative idea if we are to describe it ourselves. The idea was to get webmasters to link to our site and send as much traffic as possible. Yeah what is so special about that!? You might ask. Webmasters like to make money on their traffic and we had the tool for converting traffic into $$$ - our site. So we (i.e. Thomas) wrote some code enabling webmasters to send visitors to us, AND when these visitors found a site they liked, and clicked the link to it, their own referral codes for the reviewed sites would be in the link. So most likely they would make more than by sending all the traffic directly to just one sponsor. …Scroll to the middle of this newsletter to read the continuation… |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PAYCOM / EPOCH SUES MASTERCARD
the other interesting story
this week is Steve Jobbs hits one out of the park. He signed up all
the major music labels on itunes.com This is a P2P music sharing system
for apple users and no one thought it would fly. 99 cents a track. Something
like a million downloads the first week!!!! And that is just mac users
since it is not available for the PC yet! That's freaking HUGE on with the shoe... ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| VISA'S PORN CRACKDOWN from
Legendary Lars ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| PRINCE OF POPUPS EYES PATENTS
from Legendary Lars ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| BAG OF SALT TABLE O' TRIX CONTENT WHY ARE SEXTOYS ILLEGAL IN
ALABAMA from Greg MORE NEWS EARTHLINK ADOPTS SPAM FIGHTER
from Legendary Lars CHILD PORN REPORTERS GOT
FIRED from Charles IF YOU THINK OBSENITY LAWS
ARE CRAZY HERE ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Continued from the top ad spot…Despite all our efforts, we didn’t experience any success marketing the idea at all, maybe we were too bad at explaining the advantages or maybe we just didn’t contact the right people. And maybe many adult webmasters hesitate do try something too different, which is very understandable – especially if they depend on the money earned from the traffic, then it is often a question of having to choose the safe solution which might pay less, rather than taking risking it all. Perhaps we were scared to rely entirely on other people doing our job because of our traffic manager experience as we described in the previous issue. But what we should have done was probably to contact an agency specialized in promoting products to adult webmasters, after all we only had experience convincing surfers whether or not to sign up to a site. Webmasters and especially adult webmasters is something completely different. So what we were able to learn from this experience was that you should stick to what you are good at, and then outsource the rest – just be sure you can trust the ones you outsource the job to. You might save some money by doing it yourself, but in the long run it more than makes up for it if you get professionals to do the job. Often it is just about convincing a few well-known and respected people of the idea, and then others are more willing to try it out for themselves. Something as Bangbus was also something completely new and different when it first appeared on the net. The reality concept wasn’t seen before, but as more and more webmasters saw others promoting them, they gave it a shot too. It even ended up reaching a point where the market was over saturated and signup ratios went rock bottom. Anyway the fact was that our program didn’t bring us much further at that time, but we still had developed a new feature for our site, which we could always return to develop further which we have done by now as explained here: http://adultreviews.net/webmasters/ Another threat became apparent to us at that point; competitors. Even though we can’t claim our site to be neither unique nor revolutionary, we think we were part of the inspiration to some of the new review sites appearing at that time. We of course started to worry if there would be enough demand for several review sites on the net and if we could maintain our share of the market. But as we have later discovered, that is yet to become a problem. And actually we don’t see other review sites as competitors any more, but rather as partners or colleagues. In order to give our visitors the best possible advice before joining a pay site we have even made link exchanges to a few review partners. Both the reader and the webmaster of any reviewed site, deserves to be able to compare reviews of the same site on multiple review sites to minimize the risk of a single person taking a certain site apart for personal reasons or something similar. So we welcome all our new
colleagues and might even occasionally use each others’ sites as
inspiration to improve. We believe in the idea that if someone copies your ideas you should take it as a compliment. The saying is true in many cases, but there are some sites we don’t welcome… Those are the ones that completely rip off a design or certain characteristics that are unique to a site and then claim to have invented it all themselves. At least we have experienced that 2 times to our knowledge. Some people even feel free to use a number of reviews from our site or other review sites for their own review section without asking. Too bad they don’t want to play by the rules, since they would have been able to take advantage of all our reviews and not having to do the job copying the text, by teaming up with us instead - and getting a review plugin for their site. But hey, that’s their problem and I don’t feel sorry for them. As the time went by, we continued doing what we knew worked and were always on the lookout for new sources of traffic. Many things have been tried, and much money has been wasted. Most of the things we have tried haven't been too good. …Scroll to the bottom of this newsletter to read the continuation… ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| TRIX What's a sex toy in Alabama? Anything with 'Black and Decker' on it. How come women in Alabama can't have sex toys? Because their kinfolk get jealous. Why are sex toys illegal in Alabama? Because they think a dildo will get you pregnant and you'll have half-plastic babies. Why are sex toys illegal in Alabama? Cause you can't refit em' to work with a still. How come sex toys were banned in Alabama? Cause they saw 'made in China' on the dildos and they figured they were communist secret weapons. I read the article about
new legislation about obscenity. That's why I use Andy write ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| RE: SINGLE LETTER DOMAINS
from Stephen The majority of one letter domains are not used and are registered under "Reserved Domain." If at all possible how does one acquire one of these domains? And got back the response: Dear Stephen, The single-letter domains
in .com, .net, .org, and .edu Thank you, ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| PAY PER CLICK from sign bldr ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| RE: NEW PORN DOMAIN LAW from
Monica ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| MAKING WEB ADS WORK from
David ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| GOOGLE AND AMAZON DEVELOPER
KITS from Steve I've been looking with no luck for more xml type sites. Do you know of any other sites doing this? andy writes Steve writes "RSS is a Web content
syndication format. Its name is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication.
RSS is dialect of XML. All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| LIKE SPAMMING IN REVERSE
from Steve here it is (referer page
spamming) in action...people are nuts: ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| INTERESTING DIGITALLY IMPORTED ELECTRONIC
DANCE MUSIC from Tracy GURU OF GIF ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| KING OF THE CAGE ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| SURVIVOR DEBRIEFING Here are the survivor rumors....Matt
and Jenna looked all Lovey Dovey the bumped and non secure
buff in the maze what is heidi's IQ and one
man answers 36DD. I guess it is 205. If you know me...you know I believe
IQ is nothing but a math test....Heidi must be very strong at math.
She needs a little more street saavy. I like Heidi, I just feel she
does not know what she is saying LOL. this had to be a learning experience
for her. She did not look happy the last show and took heat. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ZEITGEIST ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Continued from the middle ad spot... The trick is to pick up the surfer at the right moment where he is ready to look at new things. For instance 404 traffic. Most of the surfers expected to get one thing but end up with a completely different thing. They will most likely be annoyed instead of interested in buying something. Of course a little fraction of the traffic will find it interesting, but usually not that big a share. Therefore the traffic should be targeted in some way. But targeted traffic isn’t something you just order 100k of per day. It takes time to make new contacts and try traffic out. And people controlling good sources of traffic are hard to convince to try other things - they know that what they are doing now works, why risk anything because a small newcomer starts bragging about their exceptional new brilliant concept... And especially when nobody else are using it… But rule number one; everything has to start somewhere... As our number of contacts grew, our traffic also went up. But it takes time, and it can be hard to keep being patient... We have learned that you can easily burn your fingers rushing things... By that I mean money out the window... So the strategy most of the time is patience (to a certain limit)... it will pick up...Hopefully it will be like when you are waiting to go and take a piss... The longer you wait the better it will be when you are able to let the stream flow... I think most guys know that feeling :-) We got through the summer... without noticing the infamous summer slowdown we might add, and realized that it was time for a new design for AR, it might help the situation... and we were getting tired of the original design. Nothing was wrong with the old design, it was really functional but it was kind of old and didn’t really reflect any relation to the adult world...We asked our friend who designed the old site, to make a template for a new design... We waited.... We asked again, but it seemed like he didn't get the impression that it was important... That was the time where we decided to end the deal with him and move on. Until that point the agreement was that he should be paid 2% of the gross income... This had started to become a decent amount too. Somewhere Orchid Designs
- http://www.orchiddesigns.com/ - came up, I contacted Spycam and we
agreed on a price. After the new layout had
replaced the old, we didn't see any direct improvements in conversion
wise, but it wasn't a thorn in our side anymore and something we felt
needed to be done under all circumstances. That was august 2002. Looking
back in the history using Revstats’ useful revenue tracking history
function things started to take off even more. The site this is all about
is http://www.adultreviews.net - if you don't know it take a look -
it might interest you one way or another. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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