Starting and Running Adult Websites For Free

Cybernet Expo

2009-05-07T14:23:00.000-07:00

I will be attending my first industry, Cybernet Expo, this June 25th-28th.

When I first started learning about the adult industry, the advice I received was to attend a convention. This is the first time I have been able to do so.

One of the reasons I decided on this event was that two of my most profitable sponsors will be there:
Movie Dollars
Kinky Dollars

I'll also be going to San Francisco for the first time; hell, this is the first trip I've made (other then family vacations) since 2001, when I road tripped to Houston for a stock options trading seminar.

I am looking forward to meeting people in the industry and learning from those at the forefront!

Keeping your eyes open on a Part Time basis

2009-02-14T14:32:00.000-08:00

The problem with doing adult webmastering on a part time basis is that things change. As an example, I had not worked on my sites in 5 months. In the meantime, the Thumblogger free blogging platform went down for almost a month, and the server on which some of my personally owned sites physically changed, which messed up some of my automated tasks.

So what can happen while your focused on the dayjob?

Sponsors can drop out of sight
Sponsors can get bought out and change all sorts of info (login, password, etc)
Your free blogging platform can shutdown or experience a hiccup
Your supporting sites can disapear or experience a hiccup - Example, Zipped sites , which I had reccomended previously, is no longer with us.
Another example, Feedburner, like Blogger before it, has been taken over by Google. An event such as requires work on your part to adjust to the current situation.

The point is not that you can't count on these sites. The point is that you have to keep enough of a weather eye out for these issues so that one of two problems doesn't kill all your cash flow. Make sure to use a lot of free blogging platforms, use a few different sponsors whom youhave found to be reliable, and to maintain a database of posts that you can re-use if some of your blogs go down for the count .

Also, not all problems are permanent. Twan, of Thumblogger, could have let his site, and all the wonderful support tools and advice, just go away after the problems that Thumblogger experienced. Instead, he dug down and brought this platform back up, with additional tools for webmasters to recover lost posts.

Resumption of blogging for this site

2008-03-29T09:59:00.000-07:00

About a year ago, I took up a fulltime job that has demanded most of my time - in fact, it ate up most of the time I used on the adult web business. We have done a lot of hard work at that job to get to the point where the time consumption does not kill us down there.
What that means as far as this site goes, is that I have some additional time to continue with the lesson plan.
Today, there is no lesson plan - I need to do some cleanup and reorganization.

Lesson Resumption

2007-06-23T12:53:00.000-07:00

A few quick notes on this site.

It's way past December, so this is the first update in a while. Here's the next few things on the agenda.

First, Lesson 5 needs to be updated; it was reformatted, and I lost the HTML coding I wanted to show you. That will be the first fix.

Second, I will post a list of sponsors that I KNOW pay well, and pay on time.

Third, I will post a NEW set of tools that will help you out. I really want to single out the Thumblogger set of tools. Twan does an outstanding job of providing tools and support for the freesite webmaster.

Fourth, I will discuss linking, and why it's important that you link all your sites to your others, but not every last one of your others.

I will go back through the older lessons, and see what needs to be caught up with.

You should be expecting a post on Saturdays and Sundays, at least one per weekend; hopefully, I'll be getting in at least one more post in during the workweek.

I do have a favor to ask of those using the advice on this site:
Start a blogger site in which you log your experiences in getting started. I'm not asking for a blow by blow ;> description, but major experiences, roadblocks, and help you've received, and insights you've had to make the job go easier.

OK, I meant two favors:
Comment on this blog - A. It will help me in site rankings and SE - and B. Feedback is very kind to my soul!

Thanks for reading :>

Lesson 6 in starting your Adult biz for free - RSS

2007-01-02T10:18:00.000-08:00

What is RSS and how does it help you?

There are a couple of explanations running around on the web, but for now the one I like to use is "Rich Site Syndication".

Syndication.

That means that content from another site has been copied for you to use on your site. RSS mostly started for use with newssites which didn't mind allowing other websites to pass along their news feeds (FEEDS are another name for RSS type syndications). Also, by making a link to the original page, not only does the original site get inbound links, but allows surfers to get a feel for the site. By publishing RSS feeds for other sites, the publisher is getting free advertising.

Other uses for feeds have developed. By taking a subscription to a feed using a news reader application, a surfer doesn't even have to load the webpage into his browser, he gets the content delivered directly to him.

On this page, for example, if you look at the sidebar section entitled "Website Info", you can see that as of today, I have 4 people subscribed to this site. You can click on that graphic, and be taken to my feed, which shows copies of my posts, as well as links to suscribe to various newreaders.

The next link down is to the same page, but I have used a simple text link, to allow web newbies to get to the feed page without having to recognize the feedreader symbol. If you ever see that orange square in the top of a site, it usually indicates that a feed is available for that site.

There are several types of feeds; RSS, XML, ATOM. For our purposes, and also because I haven't taken the time to learn them, it doesn't really matter. We are going to use a service called feedburner, at www.feedburner.co m to regenerate our feeds from whatever original source we have to retrieve them from.

So WHY are feeds useful to us?

In the first place, as we set up our blogs, we are going to use RSS feeds to publicize our sites.

In the second place, we are going to retrieve content from our sponsors by using RSS feeds they provide for us, OR we are going to create RSS feeds for our use from their content.

And in the third place, we are going to make updating our blogs as easy and automated as possible by using RSS feeds.

So strap in for the next set of lessons;
the first of which will be
A list of RSS tools to use in setting up your Adult Site

No, I haven't forgotten this site

2006-12-21T11:37:00.000-08:00

No, this site will be regularly updated after Xmas.

Some of the free tools aren't working as they had in the past; there are others that I am testing to see if they work better then the ones I had used previously.

I can give you an update of where we're at.

First of all, use Thumblogger to start with. It's tools are more easily learned, and the site customization is much easier then with redlight blogs. In addition, it is much easier to add your PPC adds here.

There is a downloadable app for Thumblogger, Thumblogger Client, which you should download and begin to play with. Basically, it is an editor that allows you to add FHG galleries to your Thumblogger blog with a preview pic. I'll go into a tutorial in a later post.

Cash Maniac's policy is to allow hotlinking, and I have tested out Thumblogger Client with a Cash Maniac's FHG
(see http://bondagewhores.thumblogger.com/home/log/2006/50/strict-mistress-whipping-a.html
for an example of how this looks).

Once you get the hang of this, add a few galleries to your blog, then go back and change the dates on the posts until you have at least one post a day for at least a month going back.

I am still having problems with a free hosting service which will serve our needs, but I'm still looking.

We'll get to RSS and building traffic soon enuff :)

New Tools and New Hosts Lead to Strategy Change.

2006-12-11T19:38:00.000-08:00

When I started this lesson plan, I was going to show you the ways that I had been using the free blogs, services, hosts, etc that are available for you to start doing this quickly. As I began going through the sites, I have noticed an explosion of available services that you can use.

So instead of preparing a lesson for today's blog, I have been playing with quite a few of the new toys. Thumblogger in paticular has been outstanding in coming up with tools for use with it's sites; altough I have been unsatisfied with it's free image hosting service, Image Turtle. I have been playing with a free image hosting service that PAYS YOU per view, as well as a new Thumblogger miniapp that let's you post galleries with minimal effort. There is also a service that allows you to update your blog in an automatic fashion with sponsor content.

In addition, for experienced webmasters, I have not provided enough information to make this site overly useful so far. You may have noticed that we have not even used the Zipped Sites account we have set up, for example. One reason for that is that I have been unable to get the code to work for me as I have in the past.

So tonight, I am announcing a strategy shift in the way this course is going to be handled. I am going to add a couple of webmaster board links in the sidebar. These are valuable resources, and the people on these boards are friendly and helpful. OTOH, don't barge in there and make a post where you want to know how much everybody makes, or the board's favorite dumb question "How do I get rich in porn?". This should provide a lot of information (maybe too much) for the newbie, but give webmasters new to the adult biz some background.

The reason I bring up the boards is that due to our approach, we are going to be doing things differently from the conventional wisdom on how to start things off. That's not to say you can't try their approach as well as this approach, depending on the time you have to commit to the business.

The conventional wisdom is that you start by building free sites and free galleries for submittal to link lists, and to TGP pages. There is a minimal investment required for this approach ( at the minimum, ownership of a domain name, and a hosting service you deliver your product from). In general, for those that get it, that is the way to start the biz.

Our strategy is different; we are going to do this with NO investment other then time and work. We are going to be using the power of blogs, and especially of syndication services, of our own creativity, and of free services in order to compete with other webmasters USING THE SAME material we have, and we're going to make money that way. Once we've started making money, you can always invest it and your time back into the approaches used in conventional wisdom.

Our goal is to win traffic by build a blog with better formatting, choice of niche, choice of content for the niche and linking. Once we have a strong blog, we will hit every syndication feed with it and MAINTAIN IT on a religious basis. We are going to provide our surfers with everything they want, so that they either remain on our pages, or buy something from our sponsors. In addition, we are going to be taking advantage of every PPC opportunity that fits our niche.

I want you to have the best available information at hand, so instead of doing things the same way I have been doing, I need to look at these new tools. Which means I have bit off more then I can chew, and need to chew a little more thoroughly. Lessons will come a little more slowly then I have planned, but I do plan on posting at least something of value each and every day.

So here are your webmaster boards; surf em, but don't get overwhelmed. I want to stress this. You aint gonna get rich by tomorrow. Look at blog information in paticular.

http://www.awtalk.com/index.php

http://www.cozycampus.com/

Lesson 5 on starting your Adult site - Putting some things together

2006-12-10T11:59:00.000-08:00

Today, we're going to go ahead and put some of the earlier things together, and get some content on your blog.

First thought of the day. If you want to add PPC clicks on your blog, you can't use the redlightblog free blog. They aren't allowing adding HTML code to the sidebar. You CAN still add PPC ads in the posts themselves, but these ads work best when left in a permanent place on your blog. I don't advocate dropping this blog, becaquse they do a good job of driving traffic to your new blog, and you can still add sponsor content to individual posts.
SO - from here on out we are going to be focusing on Thumblogger techniques.

So let's start by adding material from Movie Dollars MHG's to your site, because I have already discussed this with their support, and it's allowable. Open up a tab (remember, you are using Firefox at this point, so CTL + T) for your blog admin, and another for your Movie Dollars account.

In the blog window, make sure you go to the blog you want to use (Thumblogger allows you to have several blogs) and create a new post.

In your Movie Dollars tab, click the "Webmasters" button at the top menubar, 3rd from left, then the "Galleries" link on the second side bar. For now, ignore all the other options, and select the "Category" choice halfway down the page on the left. Choose the selection closest to your niche. The choice of galleries will change. Use the "preview" buttons to pick a gallery you like. Highlight and copy the link in the left section.

Go back to the create post window and copy the link into your post. Now you're going to add

after the link,
then you're going to describe the link in ten to twenty words,
then your going to add
< /a >
after the link.

Congratulations, you are now a web programmer, and all you did was to tell the blog to start looking like a link
where to go
href
how to display
between the first set brackets,
and to go back to regular typing
< /a >

Now type out a longer description of the scene. You need to make the surfer WANT to go to the gallery.
Add a title, and in redlightblogs a short summary.
Add or create post at the bottom.
Then go to your site, and see if it worked.
If it didn't, leave a comment on this post with your weblog address, and I'll take a look. (see HINTS, on the sidebar)

But wait, weren't we going to put up a pic, too?
That's for tomorow. I want you to understand exactly what your doing, and not just to mimic a script. You can make your own script for doing things once we get going.

In fact, you can even do it again with a new post, and do a Cash maniacs gallery. Practice as much as you want, because we can go back and change dates on your blog to make it look like you are updating once a day, instead of 10 posts 1/day. That is something else we'll be looking at in future lessons.

Now, let's add some some ads. (Thumblogger only - in redlight blogs, you can add ads as a new post)

Open up one or another of your ad sponsors in a new tab. Find and copy the code for the ad you want to use.

Go back to the blog admin window and choose "Options", black menubar, 3rd from left.
Choose "Boxes", 4th from the left on the next toolbar down
There is a list of open lines with "edit" to the right
"edit" one of the lines
A new window opens.
Name your box Ads
Click to enable it
If you want a box to show up around it when it shows up on your blog, go ahead and click that box.

Move it on up to Lesson Six

Industry Glossary

2006-12-09T15:58:00.000-08:00

My allergies are marching through my sinuses; I'm afraid they have taken the field today.

So I cut and paste the Glossary fromMovie Dollars support board on MySpace.

I hope this helps
..............................................................................
For everyone just starting out we've decided to compile and post a glossary of webmaster terms.

This way we're all speaking the same language.

AFFILIATE - A website owner who makes money by linking to (advertising) another company's sites or services. Affiliates typically operate free adult sites (Blogs, TGP/MGP, adult link directories, etc.)

AFFILIATE PROGRAM - An affiliate program (similar to a traditional reseller program). pays other website owners (it's affiliates) a commission based on referred sales. The most common type of affiliate programs are membership based sites (pay-sites), VOD sites and retail sites that enlist adult website owners to advertise their sites or products. Affiliate programs also provide affiliates with promotional materials such as banner ads, "teaser" photo sets and video clips.

BANNER - Any piece of web art that is used to advertise a site, product or service. Banners come in a variety of sizes and orientations (horizontal, vertical, square, etc.)

BLOG - A Blog is a regularly updated personal website. Most Blogs are written in a casual, first person style and have a general point of view. In the adult world, a blog can be as simple as a site that publishes news bits and photos. Blog sites often are affiliates and make money by advertising sites or products.

FREE HOSTED GALLERY- Also known as an FHG, it is a single web page featuring "teaser" photos or video clips, usually organized around a particular content niche. FHGs are used to "tease" users into joining a site or buying a product. Most affiliate programs design (and host for free) premade FHGs for their affiliates.

LIVE FEED (AKA LIVE CAMS) - A live feed is a "Live" video that is run through a computer and broadcast on the internet, Live feeds feature models who interact with internet users and are available for private one-on-one session (for a fee).

PAY-PER SALE (PPS) - Pay-per-sale is a type of affiliate program that pays affiliates a one-time commission for a referred subscriber. Typically PPS programs pay a large one-time commission up front and make back the commission (plus profits) through monthly subscriber billings.

PAY SITE - Any website that charges for access to content. Most pay sites offer several membership options, from the nonrecurring, one month memberships to an open-ended recurring subscription where the member is automatically billed every month.

RETAIL SITE - A site that sells tangible goods such as DVDs or Sex Toys.

REVSHARE - Revshare is a type of affiliate program that pays for affiliates based on a percentage split. For example it could be a 50/50 "revshare," in which the affiliate program pays the affiliate 50% of all monthly subscription fees collected from a referred subscriber.

THIRD-PARTY PROCESSOR (3P) - Also known as an internet payment service provider (IPSP), 3Ps collect money from subscribers/customers on behald of adult companies (Pay site, VOD/PPV, and retail companies). Most 3Ps offer multiple payment options, such as credit card or online check. Most adult companies work with more than one 3P to ensure their users have multiple options.

THUMBNAIL GALLERY POST/MOVIE GALLERY POST - Also known as TGP and MGP, are free adult websites that link to galleries (web pages) containing "teaser" content. TGPs and MGPs often receive their content from affiliate programs. The teaser content gives users a taste of what they will get if they visit a gallery's advertised site. The TGP/MPG website owner gets paid by the affiliate program is the user joins/buys.

VIDEO ON DEMAND/PAY-PER-VIEW - Rather than charging a monthly subscription, these sites charge users only for the content they view, usually on a per-minute or per-video basis. Also known as VOD/PPV sites.

Lesson 4 in Setting up - "Monetization" and Promotion

2006-12-08T18:52:00.000-08:00

While we are waiting on an answer re: the TOS question, let's move on to a couple of things we can do right now.
There is also a possible free host that pays you to send them traffic, but I want to check them out before I recommend them.

The first issue is what is called "monetization". Basically that's making money from your blog. Obviously, that's what we're here for. But there are other ways to make money from website traffic then pushing sales to our sponsors.

The term PPC (Web industry term - Pay Per Click) can be used to mean you are buying traffic from a vendor on a PPC basis, or that you are selling traffic to a sponsor on a PPC basis. We're going to be doing the second. We don't want to be spending money on our sites. The good thing here is we don't even have to make sales; all we have to do is provide the link on our site, and if someone clicks it, we make a penny or two or three.

At this time, I'm going to recommend two programs:

ALT.com is a subprogram of Adult Friend Finders; you are signing up to promote those two plus any number of niche "personals". They have a lot of different ways to promote all these sites as well.

An example of this kind of ad can be found in the sidebar at
http://bondagewhores.thumblogger.com
This is a new bondage blog I'm putting together

So what you'll do is to sign up from the button link above, and then choose the program that fits your niche - they have latina, asian,gay etc etc.

The next program I will recommend is AVN Ads
You'll notice there is no affiliate code for them; that's how much I like this program.
You can see these ads on this site in both the sidebar, and on the bottom of the page.

Go ahead and click one.
Waiting for the ...
-click-

Ahhhhh, another penny in the jar. Thank you, kind gentleperson.

AVN is aka adbrite, and you'll be getting email under the adbrite URL from them. Another good thing about this program is that they eventually start keeping pretty good stats on your site, so you'll be able to keep a running count of how many people are visiting your sites.

Don't forget to log this information into your spreadsheet when you sign up, and that's the last time I'll remind you about that ;) I will go into more detail about implementing these onto your site, but right now we'll begin the promotion of your site.

Start by setting up an account at:

This is a "buddy review" system of websites. You get traffic by logging on and reviewing other's sites. I'm not really all that thrilled about the amount of traffic I recieved, but I believe it helped me get indexed a lot quicker (I have since sold the site I signed up for this program).

I do not recommend paying $50 for the advanced membership; I did, and that made me an affiliate of their's, so if you decide to do that go ahead and put money in my wallet, but realize we're not supposed to be spending money on this website. Just get the traffic, and yourself indexed.

Another benefit is the possibility of networking you can find on link referral. I had been looking for someone to write bondage stories for me, and found two people via the linkreferral sytem through reviews of my site.

In addition, sign up with bloglinker on the sidebar, and with masterstats at the bottom of the page.
I'm starting to fade here, so I'm going to wrap up for tonight.

Let's see, what do I owe you at this point?
1- How to set up a pic on your blog that points to a sponsor gallery
2- Integrating your PPC ads onto your blog
3- Adding links via bloglinker (and it's pitfalls)

And let's add
4- Using the webmaster boards for knowledge and profit

Cool, see ya next time!

Lesson 3 in setting up your Adult site

2006-12-07T19:14:00.000-08:00

Today's teaching plan was supposed to be about creating a post linking to a Free Hosted Gallery (Industry Jargon - FHG, Free Hosted Gallery, HG; also FMG, HMG, Free or Hosted Movie Gallery) using a Cash Maniacs gallery, but I wanted to know for certain if this approach was within TOS for Cash Maniacs. I've done it before, but before I tell YOU to do it, I wanted to make sure it was kosher.

You don't want to get kicked out of a program 3 days after signing up, lol.

So I fired off an email to webmaster support. So we'll wait for an answer on that. Now this is a good opportunity for you to go into your spreadsheets, and to your email applications, and add the email contacts for your sponsors and other programs. Just add them on the same line, unless you DB folks want to add a linked table.

You can also email your sponsors, and introduce yourself.

And it's a good time to talk about Firefox. This is a browser app like IE, but oh so much better. One of the things we're going to do is to TELL you to download FF, and install some extensions. Extensions are "little" programs that add to Firefox's capability, and will make a lot of the repetitive tasks easier, or combine the function of another program into your browser.

Go to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/. Download and install FF. Then open up FF and come straight back here, and book mark this page again.

Now we'll share a useful function of FF. Tabs: tabs allow you to open a new "window" in your browser. Try CTRL+T, and tell me that having that there isn't easier then having two IE windows open.

With your new open tab, go back to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/extensions/

and search for, then install

Restart Tabbed
AutoFormer
Copy Plain Text
FireFTP
InFormEnter
SearchStatus
Snapper
Copy As HTML Link

You don't have to do this in order, but it will go faster if you install the Restart Tabbed extension first, as you should restart the FF application everytime you install a new extension.

We'll use other extensions (we are going to have a collection of RSS readers!), but we'll get there.
Take some time to read over and understand these extensions, and play with them to get an understanding of how they're used. We won't use FTP or SearchStatus too soon, but have them handy for when we do. Over time, we'll be adding more extensions.

Now you might be saying, "Hey I don't even have my first post up yet". Don't worry Grasshoppa, you aren't going to make a dime offa that first post anyway. Now if you tell good dirty stories, or has a friend that wants to write a transvestite midget story for you, bang that sucker out and post it (actually, whatever you do, make sure it stays close to your niche). SE's love posts about 400-600 words long, in my understanding. You can also make a online poll, or something like that, if you find it necessary to HAVE a first post today (you lucky thumbloggers are grinning here, rite?)

Don't worry, be happy. The race goes to the slow and steady here. Soon we'll even start formatting our blogs so they actually look good, and we'll begin promoting them. It's never too early to start promoting your site, so if you want to start emailing people about your site, go rite ahead.

DO NOT put up any cheesy "under construction", or "coming soon" graphics or text. Hell, look at this site, it's not done yet, and you'll see as I add lessons, that I'm adding content to the site in other ways. The point I'm trying to make is that your site doesn't have to be perfect before you "launch" it. But, the sooner it gets indexed, the sooner you'll see traffic.

BTW, don't worry about traffic yet, either.

See ya soon and we'll set up free hosting for your Cash Maniacs material on the Cash Maniacs site, and as soon as I get the scoop, we'll do our authorized gallery post. We'll also take our first couple of steps towards promoting your site.

FOURWARD HARCH- Lesson 4

Lesson 2 in setting up an Adult site

2006-12-06T18:07:00.000-08:00

Welcome back.

Right now you should have an account with Zipped Sites, Cash Maniacs, Movie Dollars, and with either or both Thumblogger and Redlightblogs.

Holy Smokes Batman! That's an awful lot of info to keep track of!

So we're going to do a spreadsheet right away, and introduce you to a new toy. Now if you DON'T have a spreadsheet or a DB application on your computer, or if you don't know what one is, leave a comment on this post, and we'll put up a lesson on how to use software to keep track of what we're doing. Don't be shy about asking, because most people don't have these skills, and it will take just one lesson to get you where you need to be. For now I assume that you can follow along with me.
(And yes, you can whip up a quick DB if that's easier for you then a spreadsheet)

Open and save a spreadsheet with the title "Getrichin3hourswithnoworkatall".

Hmmmm, OK skip that name and save it as something you won't lose in your documents folder, or your desktop, or projects folder; just keep it handy. In fact, create a folder to keep this spreadsheet, and the other files we'll start collecting.

Now you're going to label columns as follows:
Site
Purpose
Location
Username
Password

Now come down vertically and list the above sites. You'll record the Zipped Sites purpose as webmaster aid; Cash Maniacs and Movie Dollars as sponsors, and the last two as weblog freehost. You'll record their respective URL's (web addresses) as locations, and most important the login info.

Trust me on this; I have used over 200 sponsors, and you don't want to be digging through emails to find the info when you want it quick.

You can even label a column for Notes if you want to keep track of something special.

If this is confusing, remember to leave a comment, and I'll address it in a post.

Now we take our first big step into pornography- our first post.

Do you know what kind of adult material you want to sell, or feel "good" about, or find most interesting?

Hopefully so, and that will be your "niche". Industry jargon for an area of pornography. Hopefully you created your blog with a name that fits your niche. If not, put that one aside, and sign up for another blog you'll name for something that fits your niche.

If you have signed up for the Thumblogger free hosting, then we'll start with a movie console from Movie Dollars.

Login to Thumblogger, and open another tab (or window) that you will open your Movie Dollars account in.

In the Movie Dollars window,
go to Webmasters (3rd link from the left)
go to Video Console (last link on the page)
play around with the options til you find something you find interesting, then click submit.
There will be some code there to copy.
Take and copy the code from the first box

Now go to the other tab/window you have Thumblogger in.
Click on Manage
Click on your blog name
Click on Looks (4th link from left in menubar)
you'll open in the "Full HTML template"
Find a piece of this where it says (can be in lower case, too) -
{OPEN BRACKET SLASH "HEAD" CLOSE BRACKET}
For open and close brackt look for the <> symbols

Paste the Movie Dollars code right above that
Go to the bottom of the web page, and click "save changes"
Go back to the Manage button
Click the green cross to add a new post
Go back to the Movie Dollars window and copy the code from the bottom box
Go back to the Thumblogger window and click the HTML button, 2nd row, 2nd from right
Paste the code in
Click the Update button
Make up a story to go with the movie, or just write a couple of generic lines after that
Go further up and add a subject ( a title for the post)
Go to the bottom of the page and click Add
Use the preview button at the top of the page to see what you get.
You can delete the post and try again if it doesn't work.
Don't let yourself get frustrated.
Ask a question here on the comments.

Tomorrow, we'll cover first post on redlightblog with a Cash Maniacs set. Also, we'll go into why you should be using Firefox from Mozilla, and all it's shiny extensions to make your job easier. Finally, here's the tool I promised you.
http://www.winguides.com/security/password.php

It's a online password generator. You're going to start changing passwords as you get them.

Go to Lesson 3

Lesson 1 in setting up your free adult site

2006-12-05T20:06:00.000-08:00

Who am I, and why am I doing this?

I won't use my name, but I spent two years running adult websites. Personal reasons made me quit doing this full time; but I am able to spend a little time every so often helping others. And myself, of course, as I'll explain in a moment.

I'm going on the basis of starting out for free - content, hosting, the whole kit and kaboodle. Later, as you learn the industry a little more, you should be able to apply this knowledge to starting your own websites, maybe even creating your own product, which is fun!

And I'm not doing it for free either. No, I'm not charging for this. But the links I will provide will be set up with my affiliate code in them; this code ID's me to the sponsor when you sign up with them. And every time you make a sale, I get a commision based upon the sale. You get a big commision, I get a small commision. A typical cut often is 50% commision to you, a 5-10% commision to me, and the sponsor keeps the rest.

So why then is the sponsor giving up so much of their profit? In essence, by providing you with material to work with, the sponsor is hiring you as a salesman for their product. If you reach a customer, and make the sale they don't have the resource to make, you are making them money. I play a role in this by recruiting you for the sponsor and by "training" you. I mean training in the sense that I will show you how to promote these products.

Sound like Amway, or a scam like that? Well, I promise you that you're not going to be making high pressure sales pitches to your friends and family. I promise you that you can do this with NO money out of your pocket.

And there are plenty of services that are out there to help you in the same fashion (along with several scams, so we'll walk sharp); they will set up things that run easy, in order that you will sign up with a sponsor under their downline. There are also a LOT of webmaster sites in which webmasters share information and help. In fact, the use of these boards will be an early lesson. I will go into upline/downline considerations later, because you will be recruiting folks down the line later, if you wish. As an added benefit, you are going to be finding that you can apply these methods to mainstream products as well.

The last things I want to MAKE VERY CLEAR to you. You will not get rich quick. You will have to work hard at this for it to work for you. Don't expect to see sales for at least three months. There is a lot of free material out there, and that makes competition rough.

Another thing I want to cover quickly, you don't need to start a corporation, or a business to do this. You won't be making enough money at first to justify that expense. You will want to see a business lawyer (most cities have a consultaion service which will set you up with a lawyer for a short meeting at minimal cost - I paid $20 for an hour's worth of questions) and an accountant if you are serious about this, but you don't have to do that tonight. If you already have business set up for this, all the better. But as far as this lesson goes, you will be using your own info.

So are you ready to get started?

OK, lets begin with a service that will help automate the process for you. They are called ZippedSites, and they do a great job with some advanced techniques. You won't be using many of their functions at first (KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid), but as you develop talent and resources, their automation will become very handy.

Sign up here:

Next, you're going to sign up with these two sponsors:
The first is CashManiacs. They are NOT my best seller, but they have material in all niches, and they offer free hosting:

http://www.cashmaniacs.com/signup.php?wm=fatboy1

The second is MovieDollars; they are my second best seller; they also cover all niches, they have a lot of movies to promote, and they offer you customized theatres to promote. As an added bonus, if you work in a place where you meet a lot of people with open minds, MovieDollars has a card program where you can get preloaded cards with movie minutes for free. You hand these cards out. Customers use the minutes, and if they like the site, tend to spend a lot of money there.

Finally, you're going to need a place to post the content. To start out with, you're going to open a weblog. Trust me, this is easy as falling off a log. You've seen these websites before (sports blogs, personal blogs, etc.).

And now you're going to start one - or two. And let's be very clear again here as well. You are NOT going to use blogger.com as one of your free blogs. Blogger's terms of service are very clear. Maybe you see someone has gotten away with it. For a while. You're going to waste a lot of time and effort if you go with Blogger, because sooner or later, they're just going to shut you down.

Why blogs? Search engines just love blogs, and you'll be indexed in no time. In addition, blogs were made for RSS feeds, and that is a big source of traffic.

So, you're going to sign up with:
Thumblogger

or

redlightblog.com
redlightblog.com
I've had problems setting up logs here recently, so if the signup doesn't allow you to signup under the "redlightblog" name, go ahead and sign up, and email their support you're running an adult blog.

OK now, that should take up the rest of your evening. If not, typing this up has taken mine ;>

See you back here in the next couple of days.

On to Lesson Two!

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