If anyone knows a more profitable way to get paid for adult exit traffic, I'm open to suggestions.
How slick are those guys at Adult Friend Finder and at ImageCash?
For those who don’t know, AFF is one of many sites in the Friend Finder network of dating sites, which include individual sites for Spanish-speaking people, seniors seeking love, people of alternative lifestyles who seek like-minded persons, etc. AFF is the network’s strictly adult site for those who are basically interested in, for lack of a better term, “hooking up.”
So anyway, the AFF affiliate program (along with that of other sites in the network) is huge to say the least: I see their links on porn sites all over the place. They pay affiliates, in one version of the program, just to send click-throughs in their direction. Think of it as Google Adwords for adult webmasters.
What gets me is that they only pay you , the webmaster , half of one cent to refer a surfer to their site. Half of a penny! And that’s only per unique IP address. So if a surfer clicks on a link that leads to their site the first time, even if he clicks on that same link many more times in a space of - I don’t know - one hour, the webmaster who placed that link only gets his measly 0.5 cents. Who knows? That unique IP address may remain such for life…
Now here’s where the folks at AFF (specifically) make out like bandits: if they were to run a pay-per-click advertising campaign with any reputable advertising giant (e.g Google Adwords, sex.com, Overture, MIVA), the minimum they could expect to spend is 3 cents per click (at sex.com). Moreover, several of those sites don’t guarantee targeted traffic; meaning that the sites where your ads are displayed are not necessarily geared towards an adult-minded audience.
Trust me on this one, because I’ve basically tried (and am still currently trying) all those PPC advertising sites. The conversion rates in terms of sales generated per certain number of clicks are not all that for many of the sites.
On the other hand, when an AFF link or banner is placed at an adult site (because for the most part a webmaster would only place an AFF advert on his adult site. If he didn‘t specifically have an adult-themed site, it would make more sense for him to promote one of the other FF sites.), not only is the AFF cost of advertising much cheaper (half a cent), their traffic is very much of a targeted, niche variety.
And at this stage in the game, they can pretty much get away with it. Like I said before, AFF has notoriety on their side. Webmasters in the porn industry are not allowed to sign up for the Adsense program (because Google forbids it). So it’s pretty much common knowledge in the industry that AFF (and a couple of other adult-themed sites in its network) is the place to look to first if you want to get paid cash for your traffic.
Similarly, for those who don’t know, ImageCash is an image hosting website that pays you when a surfer clicks over to their website to view an image you’ve uploaded. How will the surfer know what image he’s clicking through to see, you ask? The link is a (most times) smaller preview version of the actual photo. What you do usually is post that preview at a message board or on your website.
The issue (I hesitate to say problem because it all depends on your perspective) is that ImageCash only pays you at the rate of $1 for 6666 image views (now it is me, or does just the pay scale itself sound evil and wrong with all of those 6s?). And that translates to about 0.15 of a cent. That’s the bad news. The good news is that you can host adult images there, and if your photos are particularly appealing, you can rack up the image views rather quickly.
The difference between ImageCash and AFF is (I believe) that the former pays you for every single view of your uploaded photo, no matter how many times a single viewer may click on the same preview image. However, much like with AFF, for lack of a suitable alternative, ImageCash is the most popular way I know of to get paid cash just for sending traffic (in this case, for image views).
High volume for low pay: yes, the Walmart model of business success is alive and well on the net.
Looking for Porn in All the Wrong Places (Revisited)
Well, the verdict came down on the case between Google and the federal government that I described before. Not good for Google, but not necessarily bad overall.
Looking for Smut in All the Wrong Places
The federal government is trying to use Google as an unwitting accomplice in its war on pornography. But the search engine giant is having none of it.
Offended by an Offender
A former sexual predator who seems to be going overboard in his attempt to pay his debt to society...
