8 traffic sources for free adult websites. Part 1

Do you want to jump into online adult business? Without a lot of quality traffic, monetizing your site or blog will be an impossible task. It is true that good content makes the sales, but traffic fills your resource with visitors.

Getting quality traffic to adult websites is more difficult than getting traffic to non-adult resources. The reason is simple: the number of promotion tools is limited due to the sexually explicit content. Plus, porn surfers have to be above the age of 18.

If you are running a porn paysite, you can offer adult webmasters a profitable affiliate program and they will display your banners and text links on thousands of sites. But if you are an affiliate, how can you generate traffic to your free resource? Let’s browse through eight useful ways that can help you attract customers and boost sales.

Traffic and content

If you want to make money in the adult website business, you basically need two things: content and traffic. As for good content, you can use your sponsor’s free promotional tools, videos and images to build your own free website, blog, a “porn reviews” resource, or a “best adult websites on the Internet” list.

The second task is more difficult. You have to work a lot to attract potential customers to your adult resource and convince them to buy a paysite membership. Finding sources of quality traffic is a challenging task, and it takes time and effort to find out what works best for you.

When we say ‘traffic,’ of course we mean surfers that visit your website. Traffic is fluid, since website surfers will move from website to website, from gallery to gallery, from blog to blog. Content is the seeds, and traffic is the water for your money trees.

Free adult sites promotion

Analyzing the statistics, you can decide which source of traffic is better for your resource, but the first thing to do is to check out all options available for generating traffic. Here are eight basic traffic sources you can use for promotion of your free website or blog:

1. Search engines 

Search engine traffic is very valuable. Most surfers arriving at your website or blog from a search engine have found it because they used keywords matching your content. It means that they are interested in what you offer – and they can buy what you have to offer.

The biggest search engine in the US (and in the world) is Google - in December 2008, it gained 70.5% market share. Yahoo! was reported to have only 19% market share, Windows Live Search - 6.9% market share, Ask and AOL - 2.4% and 1% market share, respectively.

Applying basic CEO techniques to your website or blog will increase the chances of getting search engine traffic. Pay attention to the title of your web page, relevant back links, list of keywords, tags of the images, and how many times the keywords are used in the text.
Here are several websites that will help you choose good keywords:
• https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordTool
• http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
• http://www.selfseo.com/keyword_suggestion_tool.php
• http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/index.php
• http://www.submitexpress.com/keytracker.php
• http://www.wordtrackerkeywords.net/
• http://conversion.7search.com/

2. Image search engines

The main content of adult websites is often images, so why not take advantage of image search engines? The most popular one in the world is Google Images. If you get a good listing here then you will get a lot of traffic to your site.

Do want your content to be indexed on Google Images? Pay attention to the following factors:
• Keyword in the same table cell as image.
• Keyword in the same paragraph as image.
• Keyword in image name and image meta file summary.
• Keyword below or above image in DIV or floating DIV.
• Keyword in ALT tag.

CEO specialists say that the best size for small images is 150×150 or smaller; for medium images - larger than 150 x 150 and smaller than 500 x 500; and for large images it is recommended to choose 500 x 500 and larger.

Keep in mind that the traffic from image search engines can be difficult to monetize. The reason is simple: there are surfers looking for free pictures. You need to have 100% exclusive content or narrow sub-niche to make them buy paysite membership.

3. Directories and link lists

Free site directories, blog directories, link lists and link dumps can generate good traffic. Some adult webmasters consider that the main aim of submitting their resources to link lists is not traffic but back links, but if you choose the right directories then you could get a fair number of visits too.

The downside of directories is that they usually require some kind of a reciprocal link. It can be a button, a small banner or a text link. Of course, some part of your website visitors can click them and go to another adult resource.

Besides that, if you submit your URL to hundreds of directories, you will have to display a lot of reciprocal links on your blog or website. Your front page can look like a link dump! This design will scare surfers away.

That’s why in this area of adult website promotion quality is more important than quantity. If you have a good resource, choose up to 30-50 directories. You can analyze which ones work best for you and delete useless links.

It is also not recommended to post your website URL to hundreds of link dumps within a very short period of time. Adult webmasters say that this strategy can lead to the ban of your site in search engines.

If you want to submit your blog, browse through Signbucksdaily list of directories or Xodgroup list of directories to find out suitable directories. Or you can visit one of the following sites: adult-blog-dump.com, adultdreamlinks.com, adult-free-sites.net, adult-collections.com, all-adult-blogs.com, all-4porn.com, blogoscop.com, drporner.com, empire-of-porn.com, europornlinks.com, free-xxx-blogs.com, fancylinks.com, freepornsexlog.com, fuckbloglist.com, hdadultporn.com, link-o-rama.com, mad-blogs.com, ourporno.net, omega-porn.com, penisoid.com, pornblogdir.com, porn-blog-catalog.com, pornlinksworld.com, pudcat.com, royaladult.com, sexblogbot.com, smut-blogs.com, top-sex-blogs.com, xxx-blog-directory.com.

It is necessary for any adult website or blog to have a steady stream of traffic to thrive and grow in today's competitive marketplace. In part two, we will continue our listing of the basic means to drive traffic to your websites.