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I was chatting with an affiliate who is just getting into blogging and he asked: How do I get more traffic to my new adult sites?
I thought it would be a good subject for a post, maybe we can all learn something.
So, you’ve installed WordPress, you’ve loaded up some posts, you’re open and ready for business. What is your next few steps to get and build traffic?
Work on SEO. Improve your post/page titles, write more text. Search engines need text. Shoot for about 150 words per post. Since your pic collages are just one full width image on top of another, split them up and write unique descriptions for each image – it’ll improve your Google Images traffic. (If you were doing more sophisticated collages I might not say that).
And since I know your real goal is conversions – be more aggressive about marketing sponsors on your non-porn sites (the bathhouse ones). Many of your prominent links are for link trades – they should be secondary to sponsors.
Check also this link for some more tips:
The first thing I do is submitting to adult porn list sites. Try to get your site listed on as many of them as possible. Then I start trading hardlinks which brings in smaller amounts of direct traffic and bigger amounts of SE traffic in the long run.
Additionally I’m checking other sites and try to figure out which trades send them the most traffic. Try to trade with those sites! You should already have some traffic when you do that step because otherwise nobody will trade with you
Furthermore you should get your surfers to share your blogs/sites via social networking sites.If you have a bigger budget buy yourself some traffic from adwords, brokers or other sites. You can also buy some content, watermark it with your domain and get it listed on tubes for typeins.
Furthermore use twitter and other social services to spread your stuff.
I think if you do all that you should be doing good already.
Good question unfortunately one that’s difficult to answer. And it’s also difficult to get much traffic to a new adult site.
You should probably do all the most obvious things first, some might be more suitable than others depending on the type of site you have. But you could:
Submitting it to link lists and directories (the few that still exists)
Maybe find people to trade some links with (that wont get you much traffic though, see it as a long term investment)
Make sure the site can be seen properly by Google, to help it along maybe use a sitemap that you submit.
Use social media like twitter and tumblr (no point trying facebook or others as they dont allow porn).
I’ve also noticed a few things that make a big difference with Google…
1. A Google XML Sitemap with a link to it in the footer
2. Original text (goes without saying)
3. Heavy internal linking
4. Limiting Categories
5. Not calling Categories “Categories”
6. Recent posts in sidebar
7. Limiting links out from posts to 2 links per 300 words.That last one is relatively new. But with the introduction of Google obliterating blogger blogs for “spammy” content and the theory that this relates to the number of links out in the posts, there is a real chance that Google are using the same process to judge all blogs. I had several blogger blogs, and all of those with sponsor links heavy in the posts were blocked, while those with only one or two in text heavy posts were not.
I believe this applies to text links and image links. So it’s worth considering. At the moment I write most of my own posts with 300 words and two links out, one text and one image. They are always crawled and getting Google traffic within three days at the most, then it’s a steady climb with regular posting.
Twitter seems to be still good for getting Google to index your sites. It’s not great for clicks though. I wouldn’t necessarily start a Twitter for each blog, but maybe one account where you tweet for all your blogs.
Start a tumblr.
Cross-link between your existing blogs. Not just on the sidebar, but in posts as well. If you’ve got some performer on one blog, maybe put a link in that post to tell surfers there’s another post of that performer on another blog.
I wouldn’t go crazy with link trades with other blogs. Not very productive and not very valuable with links.
Try starting off updating it a lot, like many times a day. Google seems to like sites that update a lot, so it may help with your traffic from there.
Traffic will grow over time.
Whatever you do, do not buy any traffic from anyone, it’s junk and they are ripping you off – the only exception to this is if you were advertising, but then you need an existing site with great content to make that a viable option, especially for a blog.Create a Twitter account and a Tumblr too. Every time you post share that content on those platforms with images that draw people in. Make those two accounts fun in their own right. Don’t just be the guy standing in the corner of the room with a megaphone screaming at people to come and buy stuff. Engage with other users, engage with performers you just featured, create content that is actually interesting and compelling rather than just trying to sell a membership to a site. The buyer knows the game and they have little interest in just being sold to.
Link building!
I spend the first 2 years building up link exchanges and submitting my adult site to all kinds of sites, links lists and directories. The more links that you have pointing to your site the more traffic you will get. Both directly from those links but also indirectly from search engines who judge how “important” your site is based on incoming links.
There are lots of blogs, just surf around and find any that you like and that are releated to your own subject, then just email them asking to exchange links.
I think that if you speak to any of the webmasters and program owners on this (or any other) board, they will all tell you that this industry is not “fast”.
It takes time to create quality content, to learn how to build marketing materials, to learn how to build traffic and to market content properly.
7 years ago, fast may have been possible, but in the time I have worked in this industry I have watched everything slow down dramatically.
I know WMs who spend 2 hours creating a blog post. Who constantly tweak and change their layouts, looking for that perfect mix.
The best advice anyone can give you is to slow down and really look at what you are doing. You’ll also have to learn a lot about SEO/SEM if you want to drive free traffic – without that knowledge your only recourse is paid.
I think noone can really answer the question what works best; original text or frequent updates. I think the best would be to do both, which is very time consuming of course.
If I had to choose one, I would say frequent updates are more important. But it’s not just frequent updates, it’s also incoming links, use of keywords, time on site and bounce rates and probably a lot more factors combined.
I started a new blog myself in early October and I am trying to do everything right: unique text, multiple updates per day, having a Twitter account, using a Tumblr blog, submitting posts to the blog sharing sites and I did only a few link trades. Traffic is slowly growing. The blog gets 2000 hits per day with approx 500 hits from Google every day. It’s still possible to get traffic on a new blog, but it’s a little more work compared to a couple of years ago.
