Smut Peddler

Check it out

2004-03-08T19:43:00.000-08:00

Not Work Safe!

You've been warned ;-)

Rattle Rattle

2004-03-02T14:51:00.000-08:00

I've mentioned the Adult Webmaster School(AWS) here before, and the way that they indoctrinate you into the porn biz is to have you build and submit galleries to submit them to TGP's. I wrote an article the other day (you can find a link off the main page) about how I was VERY uncomfortable submitting to TGP's because I was in effect leaving my money making opportunity up to the artbitrary decision of a complete stranger. So I decided to pull back on the frequency of my gallery submissions to 2 or 3 per week.

It made me uncomfortable to know that just because someone didn't like the colors I was using, didn't like a banner I used, didn't like the model, or whatever reason, that they could just squash any opportunity I had to make any money with them.

Let me make this clear: TGP owners need good submitters. There's plenty of (sometimes shitty) sponsor hosted galleries, but the majority of good stuff that you're going to find is going to come from Joe Blow the Gallery Submitter. TGP owners need good submitters because good submitters increases surfer retention rate, which increases exposure to the TGP's ads, which means that the TGP gets paid. EVERYBODY gets paid in this game, but I was pretty pissed that some of the high traffic TGP's didn't include me in their updates, despite some pretty boring, standard, cookie cutter galleries. And I know damn well that my content was good because personally I would have gotten aroused if I was a surfer. THAT'S HOW I MAKE A DECISION ON WHETHER OR NOT TO BUY CONTENT! "Would I jack off to these pics?"

Adult Webmaster School becoming stale?

2004-02-23T12:40:00.000-08:00

I may have mentioned that I signed up with the Adult Webmaster School (AWS) a couple of months ago to learn how to play this online adult game. It IS worth the money they charge you to get in it. BUT, I'm wondering if the AWS has jumped the shark.

Back when it started people were very active on the in-house message board, the instructors were very active, posting "newsletters" and bulletins on a regular basis. But now... now ARS is virtually turning into a wasteland.

A bunch of newbies signed up from the publicity ARS got from an article on CNN.com, but no one hardly speaks up. The instructors, while very good about answering questions on the message board, post newsletters/bulletins when they feel like it (which isn't often). Basically instead of the changing, dynamic environment that I think it used to be ARS is becoming stale and static.

TGP a good idea

2004-02-23T12:38:00.000-08:00

I have just now been convinced that starting a TGP was a good decision.

I just checked my clickthru stats at ARS and right now I have 43 clickthrus. Granted, I do currently have two galleries up at Richard's Realm, but I checked and the vast majority of clickthrus are coming from galleries posted on my TGP. 43 clicks is really a piddly amount, but compared to what I've been getting for the past month, 43 clicks is very surpising.

Now obviously to make any money I need more than people just randomnly clicking on a banner, but I believe (maybe erroneously) that the clickthru deal is a game of numbers. A certain number of people have to click b4 someone will buy. And getting click thrus to my sponsor only off of 100 hits from my Google ad is very promising.

I made some money

2004-02-23T08:48:00.000-08:00

Back to the grind, back to the grind.

Over the weekend I saw my first "real" sale. By real I mean I earned an amount of money that I'm not embarssed to discuss :-).

So far I've made two sales with Kara Davis's affiliate program. One for $3.50 and another for approx. $24. Then I a $30 with ARS (thanks to Richard's Realm). So *drumroll* I have earned approx. $58 in my porn venture. Now that I've earned some mony my appetite is whet :-)

Over the weekend I also decided to sign up with Google Adwords to get some hits to my TGP. So far it's worked. I guess the label of "Looking for free porn?" attracts a lot of visitors, eh? :-) Hopefully I can get some bookmarks out of that deal and get some regular traffic.

Site Re-design

2004-02-19T19:40:00.000-08:00

So I just did a major design overhaul at Sablelinks.Com, and I just wrote an article about becoming an adult webmaster. Check it out!

Musing

2004-02-19T07:38:00.000-08:00

It's been awhile since I wrote more than one or two lines on this blog so let's give it a go.

Like I mentioned in the last post I recently started my own TGP or "Thumbnail Gallery Post". Why? Well, to make money of course, but the main reason is because after 3 weeks I'm somewhat convinced that on the EFFORT/REWARD scale submitting galleries to other people's TGP's is a waste of time.

Everybody has different rules and runs their site like a little fifedom. Everyone thinks that they're going to be the next Hun and try to act accordingly. Sorry, but if you send me dick in terms of traffic I'm a little less likely to try and follow your draconian rules.
Most of the "big" sites that have the ability to send you tons of traffic don't tell you if you're site has been accepted or denied. Yeah, yeah, "I get thousands of submissions a day." So what? This violates Customer Service 101, and even if you try and say "They're not a customer," then it's just bad business. Because if someone is constantly submitting shitty galleries to you and you just ban them you may have lost out on a potential superstar gallery maker because you didn't take the time to try and point him in the right direction.
I'm very uncomfortable with placing my ability to make money in the hands of anonymous TGP owners. If they don't list my site, I don't make money. At least if I make my own site, with my own rules and list my own sites, EVEN IF I FAIL, I know I failed on my own accord.

I found a site a while back by a guy named Eric Wolfram. Besides his handy tips on how to score higher in Google he brings up an interesting point about websites having to be useful to score high in search engines.

What are TGP's? Big links of lists to free pics of porn. But can't the website be something else? Something more useful than just links to porn?

Am I Stupid?

2004-02-18T05:45:00.000-08:00

I started a TGP at http://www.sablelinks.com. Am I stupid or something. *shakehead*

Yo Yo

2004-02-13T17:58:00.000-08:00

The ol' smut peddler suffered a household injury that prevented him from typing, but I'm back now.

Tomorrow (Saturday) will usher in week # 4 of my adult webmaster career, and to date I have made a grand total of........ (drum roll) .......... $3.50. Yeah...

AVS sites

2004-02-06T11:38:00.000-08:00

So my major affiliate sponsor is Advertising Revenue Service. Actually, they're my only sponsor.

I was looking thru their sponsoring options and was looking at their AVS (adult verification service) options and I remembered something that the Adult Webmaster School said about AVS sites--BUILD ONE! :-) Actually it was build a lot.

I have at least 7-800 pictures in my possession so meeting the minimum requirements (20 pics for free sites, 50 for Regular sites) shouldn't be a problem.

Actually...the only problem should be the design...because I suck at it :-) haha

Yahoo! loves me

2004-02-05T08:11:00.000-08:00

I just checked my referrer log and found that Yahoo! finally posted my request to be added to the database. So for all of you here that came via that link, Welcome!

You may want to scroll down to the end of the page to find my first post which serves as sort of a mission statement. Bascially this blog is here for one reason: to chronicle my experiences as an adult webmaster.

Since I occassionally post to this blog from my day job it's imperative that I keep this blog "work safe" so there will be no nude chicks shown here, but there will be plenty of links to sites that feature plenty of them.

I wish I could offer you an RSS feed to put into your newsreaders but the one that Blogger claims to offer is pretty jacked up. My newsreader won't even read it.

Anyways, don't be a stranger 'round here.

A question of employment

2004-02-04T14:05:00.000-08:00

I was thinking of posting this on my regular, personal blog but I'll post it here.

I've read accounts of bloggers being fired for things that they've said on their blogs. I've heard of gvt. agencies using blogs as public source information for investigating people. And we all know about the powerful Google cache. So I wonder...

CAN BEING AN ADULT WEBMASTER DAMAGE YOUR CREDIBILITY AND HINDER YOU FROM GETTING A "MAINSTREAM" JOB IF/WHEN YOU DECIDE TO LEAVE THE ADULT INDUSTRY?

A lot of people have a problem with porn. Some think it's campy. Some think it's trashy. Some think it's exploitive. Some think it sinfully corrupts. Some think it's a danger to our children. I think that you can make a case for any of these. And while everyone is entitled to their own opinion, when someone is in a position to hire/fire you or help you along in your career that person's personal opinions can affect you greatly.

The fact that some people do have serious issues with pornography is one worth noting, but what I have learned in my TWO WHOLE WEEKS (wow!) as an adult webmaster is that if you stay in it long enough you can build such a resume of "mainstream" skillsets that even if some ass clown doesn't want to hire you because you used to peddle smut that there are plenty of people who WILL because of your talents.

Web design, database management, server administration, software skills, networking, marketing, budgeting, forecasting, etc. All that goes into being a successful long term adult webmaster. Shit, I'd smeddle smut just to learn how to use Photoshop better :-)

Kara Davis

2004-02-01T06:45:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I signed up with the affiliate for Kara Davis.Com. The great thing about her affiliate program is that she supplies all the material you need to promote her site in TGP/MGP's.

All the stuff that she told me I can use to promote are MPEG movies, which I think is great because so far I've only had a presence on TGP (thumbnail [picture] gallery posts) and not on MGPs (movie gallery posts).

I used Advanced Submitter to submit my first Kara Davis page out to around 40 MGPs. Here it is. hardcore black girls getting fucked.

Advanced Submitter

2004-01-31T07:32:00.000-08:00

So 404 host fixed the link to Advanced Submitter last night.

MOTHERFREAKING GODSEND!!!

I created a gallery like I normally do and had Advanced Submitter create individual .html files with recip buttons on the top for about 100 sites. It took like 3 or 4 seconds. I was like "Holy Shit!" The same thing would have taken me at least an hour to find all the buttons, find the correct hotlink, etc. MOTHERFREAKING GODSEND.

And then when I hand submitted it auto-filled the text boxes for me, which meant the longest thing it took me to do when submitting was reading each TGP's individual rules (and they're all different). Advanced Submitter is pretty nice.

Here's last night's gallery.

Another Smut Peddling Blog

2004-01-30T17:56:00.000-08:00

Well lookie look what I found. Another blog named "Smut Peddler."

Unfortunately it hasn't been updated since September.

F'ING BLOGGER

2004-01-30T11:50:00.000-08:00

**Never mind** :-)

Now I remember why I moved my personal blog off of Blogger and got a domain of my own.

No field to add a title to my post
The "RSS" feed doesn't work. Here it is.

I put the "RSS" feed into my newsreader and it tells me that it isn't a valid feed. If you take a look at the actual page itself it sure in the hell looks like an HTML page to me.

Liars...

Lack of True Blogs

2004-01-30T10:31:00.000-08:00

I was searching Google for "Adult Webmaster Blog" and I got to thinking:

Are any adult webmasters using their blogs for anything other than glorified pic posts?

I can't say that I was impressed by what I saw.

Here's a link that's one of my personal favorites. Naked Asian girls. Yeah!!! :-D

Link Fixed

2004-01-30T09:50:00.000-08:00

Just got word from 404 host that they fixed the problem with logging into the download page for Advanced Submitter. Hoo Woo!

BTW, here's a link to the last gallery I created.black ebony bitch girl lady stripping posing ass tits

Break Time

2004-01-29T13:19:00.000-08:00

Okay, break time...

Like I said in the previous post, I've only been an adult webmaster for less than a week. There's a number of different routes that a beginner/novice can go in, but the Adult Webmaster School recommends you start by submitting to TGP's.

TGP's?

Thumbnail Gallery Posts. You know those sites with links that have descriptions like "12 pics of a big tittied blonde getting fucked in the ass by an elderly Indian man." Shit like that, ya know?

I hand code my galleries in Dreamweaver (BTW, Dreamweaver is a kick-ass program. Front Page is a piece of shit compared to Dreamweaver). And then I hand code the different Index pages that I submit to TGP's. All the different TGP's want you to put a link-back button on the page you submit to them, so I have to build a number of different galleries to accomodate everyone's request. All in all I have spent a minimum of 2 to 2.5 hours a nite hand coding all this shit. That needs to stop.

So I'm looking into either an auto-submitter (a program that automatically submits to TGP's) or a time saving hand submitter.

Genesis

2004-01-29T09:57:00.000-08:00

The first thing that I should say is that I'm starting this blog as a record of my "career" as an adult webmaster.

I've been blogging since March of '03, and the reason that I just don't blog in detail about my activities on my main blog is because I want to keep some air of secrecy about what I do. You never know what some clown armed with Google and a WHOIS search can do. So anyways...

I signed up with the Adult Webmaster School back in November or December after reading an article about them on CNN.com. That CNN article had to have brought them thousands of dollars in revenue. Just from my observations I can see that 400+ people signed up in the wake of that article.

Even though I signed up a few months ago I didn't start peddling smut until this past Saturday. My first attempt can be found here. Not all that hot, but IT DID get linked by Persian Kitty.

Anyways, I've got to get back to my day job...