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Does anyone actually know or checked what sells best on an adult blog?
The options really are:
Picture only blog
Plog + text
Text only
Video
Are there for example any point in actually writting text for sponsor blogs other than for SEO reasons?
Good question! I think the pictures are the ones that catches the surfers attention. Once you have their attention, I think the text does the job in the end. I rarely use videos.
I feel this works best for me, but I think it also depends on the type of blog as well as the type of sponsor.
Putting my tin hat on here.
I think in all honesty it is a combination of all of the above. I believe that pictures used ‘within’ a text post will help sell, that the picture grabs the eye, the attention, the text around it does the selling job.
Video is good, when used sparingly, with text, with pictures even. I also think that video clips need to be thought out more from the sponsor end.
By that, I mean to begin with, blogs should use it where the ‘surfer’ gets to turn it on, not have it running immediately. Second, the stationary first clip needs to be eye catching, just like a photo, so the surfer will WANT to turn on the video player.
And the text has to be relevant to what is shown. Not just stuffed with keywords.
I also think you need to develop a ‘trust’ factor with your reader, so they will click, so they will want to explore what you offer, which is why I think a lot of just ‘fed blogs’ are not my way of doing it.
my 2 cents.
the text is really important for search engines too!
Yes, definilty text for SEO / Search engines. But if I “study” myself when I go to a porn blog, i look at the pictures and thats about it. IF its of interest (in my case stricly business ofcouse ) i might look for a reference to where the picture is from.
I did a study / Poll on my site and asking for what they liked the most, 70-80% prefered videos before anything else. But does videos sell better than pictures?
Not really. Affiliates that make the most sales on blogs that we have spend as much time creating a collage of photos as they do writing the text. Maybe 3 – 4 sentences does the job.
It’s hard to create a “personality” on a blog that an audience will find captivating enough to read. The attention span of a surfer is way down. Some countries I believe have lower attention spans than other countries. From more than one person I have heard that US surfers have a low attention span than UK.
A collage of ten pics and a few sentences of text seem to do best.
I was looking at buying a couple established blogs a while back and noticed that some of the most googled words were the site name and a keyword. For example, “hung seancody men” etc. Those you can get in the title of the post.
Properly edited 3+ min embed traile sell very well. In fact, one blogger in the gay niche I know is actually doing his own videos and they are 3+ min each. Well edited. He mentioned that his sales did a huge jump after he did that.
Search engine traffic is only as good as you can get it to convert. What is better a 20% increase in SE traffic or a 20% increase in your conversion? it’s a balancing act.
A well edited video or a 10 pic collage will make the sale.
In my experience it’s a mix. Some people want pics, others want stories. Some want fiction, others want reality… I divide things up and have a section that’s real and honest (mostly textual), another that’s textual fiction, and another section that’s pictures and videos with a little bit of text. When I was thinking about doing more video I did a poll and there was definite demand for it.
I share Google Analytics stats with some other bloggers and one in particular has been pretty successful. I think I’m more successful in sales, but he’s go an avid following of people who visit several times a day. All he does is repost videos from places like XTube, JizzFlixxx and some of the ning.com sites… So he proves there’s definite demand for video. However, repeat visitors don’t convert nearly as well as new ones, which is why I think I’m doing better financially than he is – all his repeat visitors just don’t buy as much.
The other thing I’d throw in is that one program in particular has been feeding me really high quality videos and every time I put up a post with those high quality videos plus a few pics and text I get sales. In fact the last post I did with their videos resulted in the best sales I’ve ever seen off a single post (by far).
Well I can see why you’re making sales off those videos RawTOP. LOL. They are probably awesome and the quality is sensational.
There’s definitely something there with videos as far as sales if the quality is good. Not too good though if they are just previews of course. But look at the size of the videos at some top adult blogs. Coupled with some good text it’s no wonder they sell.
As a guy that does a lot of surfing and writing blogs for people, I see an awful lot of content and methods. Hence my to link to galleries or not to link to galleries thread. I am by no means a successful adult webmaster as I only have a few sites up and am just happy right now sitting back and learning from all of you.
