FAQ


ALL YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED ABOUT ADULT AFFILIATE MARKETING

Affiliate Marketing is a dynamic and fast moving activity where a lot of money is being made by the serious and professional Internet marketeers.

The mixture of marketing techniques, new technology, high quality services and content makes it possible for affiliates to convert their valuable traffic into money.

Here in this section you will find answers on some common and frequently asked questions.

AFFILIATE MARKETING

Yes there is still money to be made by promoting Adult websites but it’s less as before and you have to make more efforts to be successful.

This is mainly caused by the world wide economic recession and the large amount of websites offering free pirated porn.

When you decide to start promoting Adult sites the best way is to focus on one or a few niches and concentrate on organic SEO traffic generation and improving your SERP (Search Engine Results Page) results.

With the upcoming wave where internet, mobile and television will be emerged there is still enough money to be earned by the early adaptors who are fully prepared.

This fully depends on a few factors. For example the early movers (adult affiliates who are already busy for 6-8 years) are still making great revenues with their high ranked domains.

By testing, experimenting and being active on a daily base with updating your websites you will make in time progress.

When you decide to start with affiliate marketing also try to be active within mainstream segment and try to combine your experiences.

I time you can make some good bucks with your affiliate activities and continue to work on your conversion ratios.

To start, try to find one or just a more niches which have your interest and find yourself some matching domain names.

Decide what type of websites you would like to deploy and start to design some identity (catching logos).

The next step is to find yourself a solid and reliable Internet hosting provider who can host your websites.

Additional you will need to sign up at various Adult Cash programs offering the niche(s) you would like to promote.

The better Cash Programs offers complete toolkits, free-to-use content, detailed real-time statistics, a functional campaign manager, appealing and flexible rewards.

You will have unlimited access to use FHG Galleries, FLV Video clips, downloadable content sets, diversity of promotional banners and much more promotional tools.

In general most of the Cash programs update their promotional content and toolkits frequently to provide their affiliates with new up-to-date assets and new added websites.

Most of the Cash Programs pay their affiliates bi-weekly per bank wire, cheque or virtual banking account like Payoneer, Paxum or CashX.

In your affiliate account settings you can select a minimum amount and most of the Cash Programs offer a payout history feature.

Each Adult Cash program is offering you real-time statistics dashboard where you can see the raw/unique visitors, number of signups and the revenues you have made.

You can select a date/time span to retrieve all the data.

If you will promote various Adult Cash Programs we suggest you to use a statistics Affiliate Account checking program. In these handy programs you can define all your affiliate accounts so you will have insight information about all your statistics.

The best statistic Affiliate Account checking programs are StatsRemote and Fifty Stats.

Affiliate marketing is an online activity where you promote other websites by using an affiliate referral ID.

After joining one of the many Affiliate or Cash Programs you have a range of links and tools at your disposal to start to monetize your traffic into money.

Each Affiliate or Cash program offers a range of rewarding methods like, pay-per-click, pay-per-signup, revenue share or a combination.

Active affiliates who generate sales for Affiliate or Cash Programs can see all their results about traffic, ratios and earnings in the statistic area.

Most of the Affiliate or Cash Programs payout bi-weekly per cheque, bank wire or virtual bank accounts like Payoneer, Paxum or CashX.


DESIGN AND PROGRAMMING

You can choose for using services offered by companies or you could use to work with freelancers who can offer you the same level of professional services.

Another way to find the perfect match is to use one of the many Webmaster Q/A boards or Industry hubs like GFY, YNOT or Xbiz.net

You could also use our special Freelancers page where offer a categorized listing of the best available freelancers.

When you want to outsource certain elements of your project the best is to do some research and ask for pricing quotations at companies and freelances.

To get a realistic and honest quotation it's important to provide as much detailed information.

Publish some Q/A postings on webmaster boards to ask what others experiences are with a certain company or freelancer.

Once you know for sure who might be the right company or individual with whom you would like to work, make sure that all the agreements in terms of pricing and time framing is contracted.


TRAFFIC

To benefit and optimize organic SEO traffic for your websites you should to change some things on your websites.

The 1st step is to embed Google Analytics within your HTML code so you can measure and monitor the traffic on website.

The 2nd step is to embed the Google site of ownership meta tag in your code. You can download a meta tag at Google Webmaster Tools.

The next step is to create a sitemap for your website which normally is located at www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml. After creating a sitemap you need to register it in Google Webmaster Tools.

Also try to follow Google guidelines like the usage of H2 tags, meta keyword usage, avoid publishing duplicated content and frequently update your websites.

Interesting references:
Google Bot new insight
Search Engine Optimalization Starter Guide by Google
SEOracle, tip, tricks and guidelines

There are several methods to generate traffic to your site(s). Some methods are free and others require a small investment.

Here in this section we will make a listing of all the methods which you could use to optimize your traffic.

  • Organic SEO (see previous FAQ entry)
  • Use good keywords
  • Media buying (see our Traffic page)
  • Contract a SEO specialist
  • Backlink trading (we recommend Linkspun.com)
  • Social Media networks (usage of Twitter and Facebook to promote your sites)

Media market places where you can buy or sell traffic are definitely worth trying. Here at this type of market places you can experiment to buy traffic for your own sites.

You can test with different kinds of traffic, using various promotional tools and trying traffic from different countries to see what converts the best on your website.

When you have enough traffic you could use a Market place site to sell some zones in your sites where other site owners could advertise.

This way you could make some money with promoting other websites all managed by a market place.

For more information about websites where you can buy and/or sell media (traffic) please checkout our Traffic page to have an update overview about the better Media Buying platforms.

You can only increase your rankings on Search Engines once you follow all the SEO guidelines.

If you follow these important guidelines, update your site frequently with new content and also have a back linking strategy you can improve your Google Page Rank.

You can find more detailed and useful information on our Traffic page and if you really would like professional advise the best is to consult a SEO specialist.

When you are active with Affiliate Marketing activities any experience about HTML and PHP programming will come in handy.

This way you can do a lot yourself and don't have to depend on others.

Of course there are companies and individuals (freelancers) who you can consult if you are in need for technical and programming solutions.


TYPES OF SITES

An Adult Cash Programs, Affiliate or Webmaster programs is is a profit-sharing arrangement between a webmaster and a merchant.

The webmaster/affiliates promotes the merchant's business on their web site, and is paid by the latter when visitors perform certain actions. Promotion is done by displaying ads or products with links to the merchant's online store.

Adult Cash Programs mostly offer: free-to-use content, effective promotional toolkit, campaign managers, in-depth revenue and traffic statistics.

Here at CashYourTraffic.com we offer a listing of the better Adult Cash Programs divided in 59 niches.

If you would like to have your own Adult Cash Program site and would like to start with a turnkey software solution we recommend you to visit Too Much Media or Mansion Productions.

These companies are leading in offering Affiliate tracking software with tons of features.

Adult Webcam sites are websites where the visitor or consumer can interact live with a webcam performer or a performing couple.

The webcam performer broadcasts his/her audio, video and text chat signals live over the internet and is published live on an Adult Webcam site(s).

During their live performances the members from an Adult Webcam site can tip the webcam performer or start a nude, private (1:1) or 2-way private (cam-to-cam) live video chat session.

Most Adult Webcam sites are using an e/wallet based business model where the member is being charged per second when using the nude, private or 2-way private live video chat session.

In general each Adult Webcam site has their own Adult Cash Program with very interesting revenue rewarding programs.

Now a days webcam performers mostly all work multi chat where they broadcast their live video, audio and text signals to various webcam sites.

Here at CashYourTraffic.com we have listed the best Adult Cash Programs offering Adult Webcams.

A blog (aka weblog or web log) is a Web page that is frequently updated, usually with personal insights and Web links. Each blog entry is typically short and to the point, sometimes with a link to a longer, extended entry.

Traditionally, blogs were used as something like an online diary. They included links that the author had found interesting that day as well as life stories.

But as blogs became more and more popular, businesses started to use them. The first industry to really embrace blogs was the news media.

Journalists post their stories to the blog and readers subscribe to the blog news feeds to receive up-to-the-minute information on a variety of topics. Now, blogs are used for many different purposes.

For Adult Affiliate Marketing running blogs are essential for organic SEO and to promoting sites that belong to Adult Cash Programs.

The most popular blog publishing software is "Wordpress" which can be downloaded as a GNU General Public License.

For "Wordpress" there are many free Themes and Plug-ins available and with basic PHP programming knowledge your can customize almost everything. You can use "Wordpress" for many purposes and can make also make Review or Tube sites.

For example CashYourTraffic.com and Naughty4Nature.com are both based on the "Wordpress" framework.

Online dating sites provide a great way to meet people you may never meet in the normal course of your life.

It is extremely easy to get started and you can be much more thorough in your search for a partner as you can search through thousands of profiles to find the one you want.

While you still need to put effort in to get to know people it doesn't have the fear factor of going up to someone in a bar or club. You can get to know them quite well online before meeting and your first date will have a head start as you'll already know plenty about each other.

Do dating sites work? The simple answer is yes. Millions of people use dating sites nowadays as a way to meet new people and maybe find their perfect match.

You only have to look at the success stories nearly all sites have on their websites to see that it can and does work. However don't think that by sticking up a profile on one you're guaranteed to meet someone, it still takes a little work to make a good profile and contact people.

Here at CashYourTraffic.com we have listed the best Adult Cash Programs offering Adult Webcams.

The adoption mobile Internet is experiencing rapid growth! Everyday more and more users are surfing this exciting new medium while on the go.

New devices, low data plans, more applications and services from well-known internet companies have helped to raise interest in new mobile possibilities, the exposure of the potential opportunities in the mobile sector.

This outpour of interest and investment is helping to generating a very lucrative market – especially for the adult webmasters.

At this moment between 5%-10% of your adult website users are surfing over your site using mobile phones/handhelds and this percentage will only increase.

According to a recent study conducted by Juniper Research the total revenue generated by adult content in the mobile internet will reach 4.9 billion US dollars by 2013.

The largest portion of this revenue will be generated by mobile webcam live chat services.

For more information about Mobile sites please check out our Mobile section.

Media buying sites are the best sites to feed your websites with traffic. At Media Buying sites you can buy and/or sell traffic.

Once you have registered at a Media Buying site you get an overview of their network of sites, locations to place different kind of ads and the pricing for CPC (Cost Per Click) or CPM (Cost Per Thousand impressions) per country.

You can find more information about Media Buying sites on our Traffic page.

Pay sites are member subscription based websites where the member pays for a day, week, month or year to get access to photo and/or video archives.

Once the subscription ends the member is automatically billed to extend his subscription.

There are Pay sites who offer one or multiple niches where the registered member have unlimited access to all the offered content.

You can think of Pay sites about an individual like a Solo Girl or Porn star but also about the niche "Glory holes".

Here at CashYourTraffic.com we have listed the better Adult Cash Programs offering any kind of niche you can think of.

Review sites are websites who list Adult sites by a honest review.

Each site is being highlighted where the pricing structure, quality and quantity of content is being discussed and published. Also each site will get an overal ranking index.

This way the consumer will have a good impression about available sites.

Normally the persons or companies running a Review sites review the Adult sites by using affiliate referral IDs so when a consumer joins they will get a commission payout.

Naughty4Nature.com is for example our own Review site where we donate all the generated affiliate commissions and advertisement sales to various Charity programs.

Tube sites are very popular on Internet among surfers. Using one of the many Tube sites surfers can find and watch free porn in any kind of niche.

Most of these Tube sites offer a free membership so the members can also upload porn (user generated content). This is a bit controversial because this way lots of full length pirated video content ends up Tube sites.

Each Tube site is a staging platform to promote other Adult sites by using banners, text links and of course the offered free porn videos.

Many Adult Cash Programs offer 1-3 minute video clips of their content for affiliating webmasters so they can freely use it on their Tube sites.

These video clips all have a watermark and it's a bit of a gentlemen agreement to promote the associated site using an webmaster referral ID.

At Webshops sites consumers can buy several goods. Within the online adult entertainment industry its about toys, DVDs, lingerie and lubricants.

Most Adult Webshop sites have their own affiliate program where you will receive a commission once you generate a sale for them.

Here at CashYourTraffic.com we have listed a few Adult Cash Programs offering the webshop niche for their affiliating webmasters.