SEO Backyard

Adult blog directories

Bratza — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:46:46 +0000

Traffic increase from adult blog directories

I tried to make a comprehensive list of adult blog directories. The following blog directories accept user submissions and will bring you more visitors and inbound links.

SEO Backyard Forums now online

Nathan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:21:42 +0000

SEO Backyard Forums

We are proud to announce the launch of the new SEO Backyard forum. This Adult SEO forum focuses primarily on putting SEO techniques honed for the Adult industry into practice, but is useful for discussion of all types of Search Engine Optimization. Discussions on Google, Yahoo, MSN/Live and other search engines are already taking off. Sign up, learn something new and, most importantly, get involved!

Blog Management Software

Bratza — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:56:00 +0000

Zoundry Raven - How to manage all of your blogs with one application

Earlier this week Nathan and I were talking about how difficult it is to manage blog and site networks and update daily. Nathan did some research and found a very neat application called Zoundry Raven. On his recommendation, I decided to check it out. After playing with the program for a while and testing the features, here’s my opinion on it.

Zoundry Raven is standalone WYSIWYG blog editor which stores all of your blogs login information. Because it allows you to login and post to your blogs from one program window, it makes posting or editing easier and faster. It features an easy to use as a word processor and it has all the simple tools needed to add links, tags, pictures, videos and more.

In addition, it has a very powerful indexer which allows you to browse all of the posts you have ever published by tags, links or images and edit or cross post them.

Another neat feature is that you can put it on a flash drive and use it as a Portable Application. It won’t add a thing to your registry and will let you take your blogging with you.

Zoundry Raven supports: Blogger, Movable Type & TypePad, Windows Live Spaces, WordPress, and many more…

Feel free to check it out here: Zoundry Raven

Get your pages indexed in 5 minutes

Bratza — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:39:36 +0000

Make Google index your website in less than 5 minutes

How to make your webpages appear in Google index in less than 5 minutes? Just use social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon or Delicious to add a review of your website (or a blog post).

Google Adwords down

Bratza — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:03:44 +0000

Google Adwords Down

I tried to create a new Google Adword campaign couple of minutes ago, and guess what: it’s down! Not a big deal, except it changed my schedule.

The best Wordpress plugins

Bratza — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:56:05 +0000

The best Wordpress Plugins

I found a very nice resource page about Wordpress plugins. This is the complete list of 450+plugins to solve your common blogging problems.

List of 450+ Wordpress plugins

Google PageRank Update in Progress

Bratza — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:32:41 +0000

Google PR update running

Just a short notice that Google Page Rank export is still in progress. Did you notice any changes in your PR?

Experimental Learning

Nathan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:16:12 +0000

Trends in Adult Business - Experimental Learning

When I started this blog, I had in mind to make it educational and much more interactive that any other SEO website. Instead of writing tutorials no one was reading and quoting some outdated ones, I’d like to start a series of experiments to find out what’s working today and what’s not.

Since I’ve been in online business since the end of 1999, I feel qualified to call myself an old school webmaster. However, I was flat broke due to some bad circumstances (a death in the family, ending a long term relationship, quitting the university, getting fired from my job, etc.), and my personal online business was failing. I had to come up quick with an idea to make for living by doing something else.

I didn’t want to do anything I need to learn from the ground up, so I returned to online business. However, I had to make a small adjustment. Instead of mainstream I made the transition to adult business. That was back in 2005 and yes, I did celebrate 3 years of being an adult webmaster in June this year.

Let me tell you a short story about my previous life. Let’s go back to 2005 for a moment.

Due to my previous experience, it took me only six months to build a stable income. I had an idea in mind, a premise which was my guide: I had to take the first steps in adult biz with only $100 of investments, all the spare cash I had.

I bought a new domain, opened Moneybookers and Epassporte accounts, funded them with money from the first job I took (which was building a small 10 page free site, cropping thumbs and interlinking pages).

I was thinking about building a TGP on my new domain, but built a fake TGP instead. What was the difference? This fake TGP was a simple static website with a simple template; two 5×5 tables full of thumbnails surrounded with couple of banners.

This site earned me around $1,000 in less than six months. Getting partner accounts for TGP/MGPs was the best lession I learned. It was pointless to buy an account for $200/month, to submit up to two galleries per day and to hope to get listed and to make some sales. To be honest, for the two months of submitting, I only made 5 sales and $175 PPS out of this.

Anyway, I learned two very important things:

How to crop thumbnails.
TGP/MGP model was outdated.

Someone might have given up at this point, but for me, this was very positive feedback. In the first three months I learned that the model was not productive. Instead I decided to use my mainstream experience. I forgot the whole TGP model and started building a website that will get it’s traffic from the search engines only.

It was a revelation. A month or two later I started getting traffic from the search engines (especially from Yahoo) and sales began to flow. At that point I had enough money to start a new website. Let’s stop for a minute. I need to remind you of the Internet history at this point.

Did I mentioned the old school somewhere above? Where’s the border between the old and the new school? Which moment denotes the end of the old school? If you guessed anything related with tube sites and social networks you are completely correct. It was the rise of Web 2.0.

Web 2.0 mania started with blogging, where anyone could make a site grow and get readers. However, not everyone was successful. Why is that? They had no knowledge of marketing and promoting their own websites.

What was the point of my story? I was very lucky to enter the business at the moment of revolutionary change. This caused me to skip the process of building TGPs and submitting galleries. Instead, I focused on one thing: blogging! And you know what? It became my main source of income.

That’s why I’m going to share my experience of the previous 3 years with you. I’d like to start a little SEO experiment: a series of real life trial and error articles. With your help, I’m going to start an adult oriented blog that we are going to build together from the ground up. Then we are going to track it’s statistics, traffic and income, and find out what’s working and what not.

All I need is for you to answer to this simple question: what niche to choose and why? The deadline for your suggestions is August 25th.

If you are interested in Adult Blogging or SEO in general, I strongly encourage you to sign up to this blog and add your comments and suggestions.

Let the games begin!

Adult SEO

Bratza — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:56:21 +0000

Adult SEO

The search traffic that we converts is very well, but our problem is that we want more. Will you do any optimization for our affiliate program? Do you have any information about adult SEO?

Targeted search engine traffic is the most desirable traffic you can send to your adult sites. That’s due to 3 reasons:

You don’t have to pay an affiliate or a referral when you get your traffic from MSN, Yahoo or Google, so you keep 100% of the search engine traffic sales.
This traffic is continuous - it keeps flowing long time after you’ve reached your goal and calculated the cost of your investment in search engine optimization.
Conversion ratios with a targeted search term are better than 1:100, unlike TGP/MGP traffic, where your conversion ratio is often 1 in 1500, a high-ranking, than 1 in 100.

Adult site owners need to employ a portfolio of “SEO best practices” because it so competitive.

Many of the more reputable SEO experts will not do Adult SEO (Search Engine Optimization for Adult Sites). Porn is considered evil, together with drugs (pills) and gambling.

Majority of the better SEO’s who do consulting don’t want to risk destroying their image by working in these fields.

That’s the problem of the most adult webmasters, no matter if they were affiliate program owners or just affiliates, there is a lack of true optimization experts. You need to know what SEO techniques work, so you don’t do something risky.

That’s the main reason I wanted to start this blog. Feel free to visit it regularly, because I’ll give my best to update the content as often as possible. I’m looking forward to publishing a short tutorial of Adult SEO I’m working on for a while. I’m sure it will go live during the next week.

So, adult webmaster fellows, see you very soon!