Uh… hi? Hello. Long time no see, I know. Yeah, anyhow. First things first, while I will always & forever love Anya, I’m actually pretty happy with Whitney’s win of this cycle of America’s Next Top Model. Conspiracy theories and whatnot aside, she’s gorgeous, a damn good model, and she’ll make a great Cover Girl. Congratulations, Whitney!
I finally ended my reign of terror as the #1 do-nothing slacker of the internet last week. Refilling my Adderall prescription is a good idea, you know? It’s nice to once again be able to think, like, COHERENTLY. As much as I really do hate it (I’ve always been one who prefers being in complete control of my own mind - thus why I’ve never even really been tempted to try drugs - and why I was so reluctant to try Adderall in the first place… also, it costs so fucking much - $100 a month for GENERICS), I can’t deny how it tends to bring all my scattered-ass thoughts back together. But still, the idea that I’m somewhat reliant on these pills to make my brain work properly kind of bugs me. Then again, without them I tend to forget words and/or what I was talking about or what just happened. So, yeah.
Anyhow, Creepypasta is still rocking it out, averaging about 300 hits each day. I’m loving how many people are leaving comments, too. It may not be a huge moneymaker (although Google AdSense and WidgetBucks ARE bringing in some revenue), but it’s still a lot of fun.
I decided to expand into a (completely) new (to me) niche as well: witness Tales Of Hentai. I’ve never really been into anime & such, although I do remember having to watch Spirited Away for my East Asian Humanities class in college and liking it… but anyhow, I noticed that even the text links I’d thrown up as an afterthought on Super Hero Fetish tended to convert well, so why not try out an entire site dedicated to the hentai/comic genre? So far it’s looking good - it’s only a few days old (don’t be fooled by my backdated entries, ha) and has already brought in three sales. Let’s hope that those conversions are a sign of success to come, right?
Lastly, is anyone else out there watching Top Chef? I need someone to talk about Richard’s awesomeness and Dale’s hotness with, thanks.
Nice. I made the AWE top webmasters list again last period - this time for having the second highest average purchase ($141.42) - of course, I only had seven sales, but still… I love seeing my name on that list, makes me feel like I can actually succeed at this whole game. The person under me had an average of $124.67 with 77 sales. Can you IMAGINE. Some of these people make bring in a quarter of a million in sales every 15 days (top sales amount for last period: $254,133) - it’s just so hard to wrap my mind around that much income in such a small period of time.
The month’s just about half-way over and I’ve already beaten January’s income. My overall conversion ratio isn’t too bad - 1:491 for February. Really, the only discouraging thing this month is the eerily low rate of CCBill sales this month - I’ve had only ONE new signup for any CCBill website, and last month I was averaging at least one new CCBill signup each day. I’ve been pushing CCBill sponsors just as much, so it’s kind of strange. Good thing other sponsors have been converting in their place, I guess.
I’ve got a few goals for the next day or so: I need to think of a domain name for either a black girl or interracial niche blog. I already have Latina and Asian niche sites, but for some reason I’m just drawing a blank when I come to domain names for these two niches… and I have so many gorgeous black chicks I want to promote! Interracial has always converted well for me when I put it on LLO, too, and according to Psychic Search, my readers REALLY want more.
Also been working on another mainstream website - it’s not yet live, so no links just now. But it’s on a topic that I’m quite adept at rambling about, so hopefully that helps with prompting me to update it more frequently than a few of my other mainstream websites.
For the most part, I’ve had a pretty good experience in the online adult industry so far, especially when it comes to affiliate programs - they’re usually helpful, pay me on time and accurately, some even go the extra mile and help me get specific content for a themed website or give me promotional passwords (I’ve got to give Kate from Prissy Pays some props right now, she recently sent me some gamer-themed content from the Natalie Sparks member’s area for me to put up on Gamer Fetish).
Unfortunately, the time has come for me to face facts - I seem to have found a dud. It’s even more disappointing because Cash Uncovered converted really well, even on the small amount of traffic I sent their way. All time, I’m 1:216 with them, with 7 signups. That’s pretty awesome. Unfortunately, it’s not so awesome when I’ve had to drop their links because they’ve never bothered to pay me.
I even contacted them a few months ago, asking what was up and why I’d never seen a dime from them, saying that I’d hate to have to stop promoting them because they have great content, great sites, and a great ratio. At first, I got some replies from them - stating that they had “records” of sending me the checks, and when I suggested that perhaps they had gotten lost or there was a mix-up (because truly, I’ve never gotten anything from them), they offered to check with their bank to see if the supposedly mailed checks (sorry, I’m a bit suspicious they ever existed now) had ever been cashed. So I thanked them, and then waited… waited…
I’m still waiting, MONTHS later. I’ve shot them a few more e-mails, trying to touch base, but no response. And of course, no checks from them have arrived, even though I had made more sales with them in between that conversation and the time I finally decided it was time to pull their links from my websites. I’ve sent them one last e-mail today, and I think that if I don’t hear anything from them within a week, I’ll have to take it to the webmaster boards and do the whole drama thread/internet hissy fit thing, which I really don’t want to do… I am a very (probably too much so) non-confrontational person with this sort of thing, but after my last “real” job deciding to never pay me my promised raise that went with my promotion even though I had still been doing the extra work, I’ve come to realize that people WILL take advantage of that fact and bank on my distaste for drama overcoming my rights/things that I’ve earned or been promised.
So cross your fingers this gets worked out and I get paid. Ugh.
So I ended up upgrading to a dedicated server from Webair - my websites hosted with them went live on it earlier today. It’s not even so much that they talked me into it, but Kimo has been working on convincing me to get a dedicated for, oh, the past two months or so. So we’ll see how it works out - they’ve been much more responsive ever since I bitched about my previous issues contacting them on GFY. Surprise, right?
Recently launched Celebrity Sex Comics, mostly to have a place to continually promote both celebrity sex tapes (I love Kim Kardashian, I can’t help it) and my beloved Free Sinful Comics. It’s already been doing decently, I posted a leaked clip of the Vivica Fox blowjob tape that’s been circulating lately, and searches for that and “celebrity sex comics” have brought in a decent amount of people without hardly any other promotion by me, yet. That was a strangely phrased sentence for sure, but you get the point I hope!
I’d write more but my back is killing me - sitting in this chair typing is just not at all fun at the moment. Painkiller torrent, plz.
Happy New Year, everyone! My new year has already gotten off to a good start - at least luck-wise. Adult Webmaster Empire has a drawing every pay period for their active webmasters (read: those sending in sales) and I was just notified that I won $250. Free money is always good! I love AWE, though. Their camgirls are probable in my top three moneymakers, I even made their top 50 webmasters list once. For a small-time webmaster like me, that was awesome.
I’ve been dedicating a good amount of time to my newest website, Gamer Fetish. I’m actually incorporating some all-text posts into this one, trying to make it a tiny bit more than just another porn website. The galleries feature, of course, hot chicks playing video games naked (or in other states of sexiness) and most of the text posts are either reviews of games/gaming websites or recaps of cool shit I find across the internet that would probably interest a gaming crowd. It’s been fun thus far, though I’m surprised more solo girls don’t have photo sets of themselves playing video games… it seems to be something guys find really hot.
Mainstream websites have been slowly but surely drawing income; Amazon’s Omakase widget seems to be the best converting tool I’ve used thus far. Basically, it shows products that the surfer has either recently viewed, or products related to the website the widget is on… so you get people seeing something they’d looked at earlier and being all, “hmm, I should really buy that after all”… and boom! Sale. The fact that the mainstream websites are making money at all is REALLY impressive, because honestly… I have yet to find a really good source of traffic (other than google search engine) for any of them. So the traffic is miniscule, but targeted, at least.
I’ve got to get back to work on my newest project, so I’ll be back soon with more absolutely FASCINATING! posts and ramblings. Don’t miss me too much.
I just watched the Dawson Miller interview video that’s been circulating around the adult webmaster community lately. Dawson - real name Justine - gives an interesting point of view & behind the scenes look of how solo girl sites work, and how the decision to become an internet solo girl is made. Of course, her experiences differs from most solo girls in that she essentially screwed over her webmasters by backing out after all the content had been shot - most solo girls don’t do that. So while the journal entries on dawnsonmiller.com are fabricated and there’s no live webcam shows, most girls actually do have a hand in their sites. I’m hoping that any non-industry porn viewers that see this video don’t automatically assume that all solo girls websites are like this - a big part of the appeal of those girls is the interaction and personality they put into their member’s areas.
In regards to what made her change her mind, I think it’s extremely odd that she didn’t realize that popular opinion in Christianity, when it comes to porn, is that it’s evil. I know that I was raised in an extremely strict, sheltered environment, and I was basically taught that porn - and anyone who is involved in it in any fashion - is horrible, evil, and unclean. But then again, I was raised with the same views on sex drilled into my head, so it’s not surprising. You should’ve seen how my mother reacted when she caught me reading Jenna Jameson’s autobiography!
I’d be interested to hear what the “Christian photographer” that originally talked her into it said that originally made her feel comfortable with the whole nude-on-the-internet thing. I’d also be interested to hear why she didn’t think it through more, and what she thought the long-term effects would be. Perhaps she just underestimated how much of the population views porn, and thought that nobody would ever see her website? I think that sometimes, in the whole American porn-is-the-devil moral value that seems to be the norm, people don’t see through the fact that most people preach about how evil porn is to their children, and then turn around and check out titties once the kids are in bed. And if I recall correctly, hypocrisy is also spoken against in the Bible…
Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against Christianity. I consider myself a Christian, although I don’t belong to any particular sect - I’ve never really been much of a churchgoer, mostly because when I have attended, the preacher/pastor tends to take some Biblical moral and twist it to his own devices. That never sat right with me - that it seemed like most churchgoers were okay with simply accepting what the preacher said as truth, without actually cracking their bibles to see if he was correct or embellishing to suit his own purposes. But perhaps that comes partially from the fact that I became a Christian solely from reading the Bible - I had been researching world religions for fun (anthropology and the like was my thing in high school) and eventually accepted Christianity as my faith of choice. A lot of the “conflicts” that it seems most people have between faith and science and the like have never made sense to me, and I attribute that to my never having had the “Creationism is the only interpretation” view fed to me by a church or book. My interpretation of my faith comes from the Bible, not a secondhand party.
As for how I justify working in porn while still considering myself to be a faithful Christian - it really comes down to this: the Bible states that all sins are equal in the eyes of the Lord. I covet other people’s things, I swear, I have premarital sex… so until I’m ready to change those parts of me (and I don’t know if I ever will, to be honest), how am I going to say that the way I make my money is the one thing that suddenly tips the scales from “Heaven” to “Hell”? That outlook simply doesn’t make sense to me. The only person without sin was Jesus; not me.
That said, I would never become a solo girl or porn star - not out of religious reasons, but because I have the foresight that it seems Dawson didn’t - that such a decision is very public and will follow you for the rest of my life. I’ve often stated that being famous would be my worst nightmare. I like being anonymous; going to the grocery store in my sweats and walking the dog with no makeup and not having to worry that it’ll be plastered all over ONTD or Perez Hilton’s site within an hour. I once went shopping with a comedian who at the time had a show on Comedy Central; even after we parted ways, people were following ME as I met up with different friends. I sort of wanted to smack them all. I can be an extremely private person, and I tend to be introverted with strangers as a rule - so having a bunch of randoms trailing me? Fucking horrific.
Point being, I know myself well enough to know that putting myself out there like that would not be a good decision for me. I’ve had a few people tell me I should become a solo girl or at least a x-rated camgirl, and saying no is the easiest thing in the world for me. I understand that while I and my boyfriend are fine with my career choice, not everyone out there will be okay with it. Quick money and attention are not important enough to me to have to constantly defend my actions to family members who stumbled across me naked (although, of course, you’d probably never hear them defending why they saw the photos in the first place). Even now, as a simple adult webmaster, I pick and choose who I tell carefully. I greatly dislike drama, especially if it involves myself, and anyone who would make a big deal over what I do for a living doesn’t deserve to be close enough to me to know.
That’s enough rambling. If you have no idea what I’m talking about and need to see the interview in question, you can find the video here.