I've been reading books on white hat SEO in the non-adult world. The #1 method is to submit articles to article publishing sites. The #2 method is to do guest posting on other blogs. You put a limited number of keyword links back to your pages in each. Does anything like this exist for the adult world? If so, I can't find it.
Since I'm a better programmer than webmaster, the thought has occurred to me to start such a site. Members could post articles that summarize their recent posts with embedded pics and videos with either links back to their site (like doing a tumblr post for your site) or use their affiliate link and send the traffic straight back to the pay site. In addition to creating a venue for backlink generation, the presence of free adult content could be a draw for users who would click back to the site and generate traffic.
Members would also be... asked, encouraged, required?... to fill out a monthly traffic report. The data from these reports would be rolled up as reporting for members to use. You could see trends across the industry and do month-over-month comparisons. Beyond traffic it could contain very specific things like the plug rush trade payout ratios etc.
But the bottom line is that both of these types of submission would be legitimate content with legitimate backlinks. No tricks, no google penalties. And I think there would be a lot more useful information and features that could be created at the suggestion of members who are a lot more experienced than me.
I know this kind of goes against the urge to protect this kind of information, but in exchange for the information (which can't really hurt you, can it?) you get real, valuable backlinks to drive up PR on individual posts and sites.
The final piece would be a feature set that facilitated members doing guest posts on each other's sites/blogs. Again, doing a guest post gets you backlinks, additional traffic and it's pure white hat. Unlike link exchanges which Google is quickly killing, this is exactly how Google wants us to build backlinks. And a guest posting exchange benefits both members, even if one has a PR of 6 and the other has a 0, wouldn't it? Since it isn't a naked link exchange, there is no penalty for the high PR site and they get some additional traffic out of it.
So what's the verdict, wise ones? Is this stupid or could it be useful? Which ones of you would use it and which wouldn't, and why?
Killian
Since I'm a better programmer than webmaster, the thought has occurred to me to start such a site. Members could post articles that summarize their recent posts with embedded pics and videos with either links back to their site (like doing a tumblr post for your site) or use their affiliate link and send the traffic straight back to the pay site. In addition to creating a venue for backlink generation, the presence of free adult content could be a draw for users who would click back to the site and generate traffic.
Members would also be... asked, encouraged, required?... to fill out a monthly traffic report. The data from these reports would be rolled up as reporting for members to use. You could see trends across the industry and do month-over-month comparisons. Beyond traffic it could contain very specific things like the plug rush trade payout ratios etc.
But the bottom line is that both of these types of submission would be legitimate content with legitimate backlinks. No tricks, no google penalties. And I think there would be a lot more useful information and features that could be created at the suggestion of members who are a lot more experienced than me.
I know this kind of goes against the urge to protect this kind of information, but in exchange for the information (which can't really hurt you, can it?) you get real, valuable backlinks to drive up PR on individual posts and sites.
The final piece would be a feature set that facilitated members doing guest posts on each other's sites/blogs. Again, doing a guest post gets you backlinks, additional traffic and it's pure white hat. Unlike link exchanges which Google is quickly killing, this is exactly how Google wants us to build backlinks. And a guest posting exchange benefits both members, even if one has a PR of 6 and the other has a 0, wouldn't it? Since it isn't a naked link exchange, there is no penalty for the high PR site and they get some additional traffic out of it.
So what's the verdict, wise ones? Is this stupid or could it be useful? Which ones of you would use it and which wouldn't, and why?
Killian
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