Patience

[garcia]

Someone told me a few years back that this is one of a few businesses where you can do and worry too much. One of those businesses where you can actually fine tune yourself right out of business. There are usually two things that cause this to happen. A drive for perfection and no patience.

A drive for perfection can be very dangerous when doing what we do. Most of our surfers could care less about whether or not our blogs are "perfect". They tend instead to care about the content quality and quanity. For the most part the more "bells and whistles" you add to your blog the less productive it will become. The design and the functions become more important than the posts. The special gadgets and places to visit in the sidebar pull the surfers away from what you WANT them to see in the sidebar (your ads).

Perfection makes an appearence in other forms too. The constant quest for the correct keywords and SEO and the perfect trades can be just as damaging as all the gadgets. A perfection nut will tend to spend more time trying to SEO his blog than he pays in putting good content and links on his blog. It is common to see some people spend three or four times more time on the looks and SEO of their blog than they spend on actual posts (which are what the surfers are there to see). It takes an aquired mindset to look at your blog and tell yourself "this is as good as it is going to be" ad then leave it alone.

But more dangerous than a continuous drive for perfection is the lack of patience. I remember this business when all you had to do was get a sloppy gallery listed at the right site and you could expect 10 or more sales a day from it. This business started as one of those where you could make a lot of money real fast. It has not been that way for a long time now.

The adult business in numbers to the extreme. But most newer webmasters forget that numbers over a short term mean nothing. If your blog has only been up a month then you really don't have the numbers you need to get an idea how you are doing or even what you are doing. You need long term numbers that allow you to get a guage over an extended period. How long? A year. Sometimes more--but a year is a good stopping and looking point. With a year's worth of numbers you can look at all the averages and ratios and compare them to the "industry" norms. And over the year you will be surprised just how close to the industry norms your numbers actually are.

In general--between 35 and 55% of your visitors will end up clicking through to your sponsor. 50% of THOSE will be "qualified" click-thrus (actually interested and not just curious). Your sales ratio is going to be somewhere between 1:1000 and 1:1500 qualified click-thrus. (If you have 100 unique visitors a day then betwen 35 and 50 of them will click your sponsor links and between 17 and 25 of those will be "qualified". You SHOULD have a sale between 40 and 59 days.)

But you have to be patient enough to wait and see the numbers develop. Some blog owners get lucky and make 3 or 4 sales in the first week on no traffic at all. Some can go 6 months without a sale. But in the end the numbers will show that both those webmasters are surprisingly close numbers wise (one sale for every 4000 to 5900 unique clicks to the blog). Sometimes a webmaster will get lucky and his numbers will be much better--this year. Next year when he averages the two years out he will be close to the industry norm. And some webmasters, usually the perfectionalists, will see numbers much worse but, again, over the long term the averages tend to play out.

This business requires the ability to work at a frantic pace and the patience to wait for results. In that way this business is just like every other business. You will find that you can survive your constant drive for perfection but your lack of patience will drive you slowly insane.

[SFAlan]

Mr. Garcia how are you doing I have to say I do miss our discussions, but I find this blog most informative. I still hate you're blog Physical exam:

"Female and male doctors rubber gloved hands included make the girls feel embarrassed and even humiliated. At times, the examinees are ready to burst into tears but control themselves as they must go through this to get a promised good job."

That's the ugly part. Hate it, Hate it without it maybe not so bad.

But lets not get into that. I have been finding my self staring at my blog trying to figure out how to make it better. sometimes for hours. What I have realized is content is the most important thing. If it looks good and sounds good then it is going to sell. What I have been doing, Because I was in the film industry for many years, is try to put some emotion in the faces of the performers. sex is so much about emotion, and people connect with that. Seeing pictures of the old in and out is boring as hell.

What are you're thoughts.

Sfalan

[garcia]

Seeing pictures of the old in and out is boring as hell.

I agree with you about that. But we are dealing in numbers here and as boring as it gets to US the surfers are looking for just that to peak their interest. It is withholding that, or rather promising it, that makes the surfer click through to the sponsor.

Just my opinion.

[SFAlan]

Good point. I did hear from other webmasters that a year is about right.

May I ask you this: How many blogs do you actually have, and what is the amount one can really handle, if they are going to be effective and make decent money.

Sfalan

[garcia]

Originally Posted by SFAlan

Good point. I did hear from other webmasters that a year is about right.

May I ask you this: How many blogs do you actually have, and what is the amount one can really handle, if they are going to be effective and make decent money.

Sfalan

I have 373 right now. It will be at 400 by the end of the year. Once you have a system in place you can handle as many as you want.

[mnrvov]

I have about half the blogs garcia does and they are easily manageable. I know others have WAY more than that. It becomes a question of where you want to put your time.
I despise hand-writing blogs, but I have found a "style" that makes in tolerable and the results are very good. Plus it is in a niche I VERY much enjoy, which makes it more tolerable.

The 2257 laws in the states change the rules for me, vs. those of you who could (not saying would, but could) crank out 10 blogs a day using sponsor feeds that I won't (although I should say can't, I'm going with won't because it's just not a good bet in my estimation and it's hard to blog from prison).

So when I get into building mode I can do maybe 2 a day that will run on auto for at least a year if not two. Over two years time, it would be fairly easy to get at least 800 blogs going, allowing time for marketing, forum visiting, partnerships, and beer.

It really becomes a personal decision as to what you want to do, quality (I will use that term to denote handwritten, since most people mistakenly equate the two) or quantity. Either way, you will come up with something that works and a system to manage it, given time and patience.

[sirmarjalot]

Originally Posted by mnrvov

I despise hand-writing blogs

Yes I have given up on handwriting apart from my mongering blog which is actually my own adventures, all my porn blogs are now RSS or Gallery2Blog and this is something I want to develop more....

Im linking my mongering blogs to my porns blogs when say i mention the word black or Latina or slapped her black booty or grabbed her big black tits getting traffic filtering down this way

Originally Posted by garcia

I have 373 right now. It will be at 400 by the end of the year. Once you have a system in place you can handle as many as you want.

Hi Garcia
I have a question if I may - With those 373 blogs of yours, do you have a linking strategy for all of them or is it just a 'devil may care' type of linking those numerous blogs?

[garcia]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi Garcia
I have a question if I may - With those 373 blogs of yours, do you have a linking strategy for all of them or is it just a 'devil may care' type of linking those numerous blogs?

When I open a new blog I put between 20 and 25 links to other blogs on it. I try to keep them niche revelant but if I don't have enough then i go outside the niche to get the links.