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BradM · 04-03-2007, 07:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamageX

For those who haven't realized it yet, what they did was use the sex.com type-in traffic as feeder to launch a TGP. Now they've moved it to another domain, fucking over a bunch of their trades in the process, and sex.com goes back to business as usual.

Hundreds and hundreds of trades will continue to fire them free traffic for months.

DamageX · 04-03-2007, 07:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BradM

Hundreds and hundreds of trades will continue to fire them free traffic for months.

That's a gross exaggeration, but I do expect them to get some traffic from people who weren't aware of the switch, yes.

tranza · 04-03-2007, 07:41 AM

They've turned into a banner farm?

That's just sad.

dynastoned · 04-03-2007, 07:43 AM

geez.. even if its a temporary design they could have spent more then 5 minutes on one to make it more productive. seems to me like someones just throwing money away.

pbtraffic · 04-03-2007, 07:56 AM

Hello Everyone,

In case this was not clear, last week a thread was posted as well as a story (in XBIZ) about the management of sex.com changing over.

This took place on Friday night and through the weekend. We had e-mailed our trade partners and made our best efforts to contact them about this change over. The majority of them were made aware that this was the case. Obviously, we would have liked to have gotten to every single one of them, but a few may have missed this. We did not put out a statement about this due to not being fully sure what the status of the TGP would be until late last week. Likewise, we had to be fair to the new management and allow that transition to take place smoothly.

As for the traffic trades, if you have not already noticed or have not gotten our e-mail pertaining to this matter, we apologize sincerely. Under perfect conditions, we would have clearly and publicly made a statement. However, we did not know if it would continue to run and that decision came down later in the week. As such, we had to wait for the announcement to be made, but that left us with little time to notify people.

We do have several TGP properties that we are happy to take trades on. We do have a link on sex.com going to one of these, and we do appreciate them keeping this there for us during this period. Likewise, we have more properties with traffic buys from other good tgps (which also have some decent existing trades). We’ll be ramping these up in the coming days and months. Please feel free to contact us and examine some of our offerings here:
h-t-t-p://getporn.com/trade.html

Thank You,

PB traffic

Fluid · 04-03-2007, 09:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cybermike

That must suck for the people paying for sex.com tgp spots with gts

Even though I'm not with GTS anymore, I will say, no one got ripped off with this at all. Notices were given, articles written, and the new and old owners let everyone's spots run to their conclusion before changing a thing.

Fluid · 04-03-2007, 09:33 AM

opps...double post

germ · 04-03-2007, 09:57 AM

lol that looks like a porn site from 1997

KingK7 · 04-03-2007, 10:07 AM

Back to basics haha

LadyMischief · 04-03-2007, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fluid

Even though I'm not with GTS anymore, I will say, no one got ripped off with this at all. Notices were given, articles written, and the new and old owners let everyone's spots run to their conclusion before changing a thing.

Yep people probably just didn't read their email

I am positive everyone will be satisfied in the end.

sexdotcom · 04-03-2007, 10:20 AM

For those of you who missed it, read about the most recent Sex.com news here (as reported by AVN):

2007-03-27

Escom Names New CEO/President, Plans to Revamp Sex.com
By: Jed Nottingham
Posted: 11:00 am PST 3-27-2007

LOS ANGELES - Escom LLC, the company that bought the controversial Sex.com domain almost a year and a half ago for a reported $14 million, has hired Del Anthony as the new chief executive officer and president to lead in the revitalization of the site.

Anthony, formally the chief operating officer of VS Media, has extensive Internet development experience, including a comprehensive knowledge of the space. Anthony will oversee a complete reorganization and restructuring of Sex.com.

This is the first of many announcements Escom will be making in the coming months, according to a company statement. Escom plans to upgrade its business model and brand image, veering away from the "banner farm" the site had become and toward a refined, mainstream, adult-friendly, user-powered portal and social network, the statement noted.

Anthony told AVNOnline he is excited about the upcoming changes at Sex.com, saying they are only the beginning.

"Our goal is to turn the domain into what it should be?a world-class destination and online society for all things adult. Expect a complete metamorphosis," Anthony promised. "We are going to build the site into an enormously powerful brand. Sex.com will appeal to a much broader market segment, with more focus on women users, and shake loose the negative stigma associated with adult sites. Our objective is to go as mainstream as we possibly can in terms of some of our new partnerships, as well as the new technologies that we'll be using. The domain name itself can easily be transitioned into something more mainstream."

The new Sex.com site will be Web 2.0-compliant, offering a multitude of options including video and photo content, shopping, news, community, survey statistics, and more.

"The site will be refreshing, lively, and unconventional," said Anthony. "We are going to completely redo our image. Unique, informed, lifestyle-driven, socially networked: These are just some of the concepts visitors will associate with the site in the future. This new positioning will help us expand the brand way beyond merely driving Internet traffic to the world's best domain. We have a branding company that we are working with now that we feel is confident in helping us obtaining these goals."

Escom has been building momentum over the past several weeks by inking partnerships with high-profile industry leaders across the globe. While the deals give Escom a head start with modern content, Anthony explained the company is working to acquire additional partners that offer products and services of mass appeal, to fill in any service gaps.

"We will lead by example and partner with key industry leaders," he said. "The best of the best modern adult applications will find a lucrative, white-labeled home at Sex.com. So, if you fall into that category, please get in touch with us ASAP."

The company plans to open a new Los Angeles office soon and is hiring experienced professionals to fill numerous roles, Anthony said.

_________

If you are looking for additional info, or would like to discuss potential partnerships, contact [email protected] .

polish_aristocrat · 04-14-2007, 01:11 AM

ok

its parked already

im 100% sure it makes more money now than with the banner farm two weeks ago (unless these banners were advertiser spots who were overpaying like 4-5 times )

vikiboss · 04-14-2007, 03:53 AM

Is it that easy for sites to get hacked?

Roald · 04-14-2007, 05:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blackfeet

you make more money with just a few banners then a whole bunch of links or banners. all that ppc advertising is nickel and dime if you really think about it. it may benefit you as an advertiser, but with a domain name like sex.com they could make a lot more money then with ppc advertising.

i'll give you some of my secrets free of charge.
i just took a zanax and i'm feeling melow. ;)

i have a link list (link dump i should say) i joined every affiliate program with my niche thinking visitors would be interested in at least one of the links or galleries when they visited my site. then i tried something different.

i went into my ccbill account and looked up a whole year of sales to see which sites brought in the most sales. then i put the top 8 sites on my main page with descriptions, (no teaser photos) then i created a page and named it link.htm. i put my webmaster trades and the other weak sponsors on that page. i named the link page ***webmasters trade here*** and placed it at the bottom of the main page.

so now when new visitors would visit my site, they really didn't have much of a choice to choose from. you have like 3 minutes to grab their attention before they leave. i found it's better to have 2,000 hits a day visit 8 sites instead of 20,000 hits visiting 150 sites and/or a bunch of free galleries.

plus, if you have too many free galleries, visitors have more then enough porn to satisfy them to a point where they really don't need to join any site. plus they get confused and don't know which site to join. cut down on your galleries and have no more then 3 sponsors with 4 MOVIE galleries from each sponsor. (besides the original 8 sponsors with descriptions.)

create a table with a heading of the sponsor (joe blows website) and a table underneath with 4 links to that sponsors galleries. (movie 1 movie 2 etc.)

(do not use teaser pics. they'll now click the link because they're curious. if they don't like the teaser pic you use, they won't click that link at all.)

my advertising budget went from $150 a day to about $20 a day max now and i make almost as much as i did with all the links and a big budget. target your keywords and stick with your niche. don't be tempted to use general terms like sex, porn, xxx etc. you'll be wasting your money. stay on target.

also, i found out that a few movie galleries are better then photo galleries. photo galleries give visitors a chance to fantasize because the pics are still. with movie galleries, it doesn't give them enough time to beat off.

this works well with link list for me. i'm not sure if this is what sex.com is doing with just a few banners. they may be just testing to see what works for them.

i've been doing this since "97" and i keep learning something new everyday. always keep testing, testing, testing.

side note:

i was getting a shit load of hits from google each day when i was spending about $100 bucks a day with them. when they started wanting to charge me $1, $5 and $10 per keyword i had to drop them because i couldn't afford to pay that kind of money. i figured my business was screwed. my sales dropped so low i wasn't sure how much longer i would be in business. i stayed focused and knew i had to think of something and i did. there's an answer to every problem if you don't give up. hope this info helps some of you.

i do miss the other sex.com format before they sold it. i also advertised with them myself. sure wish i owned that name.

Awesome advise, I am taking down all links on FreeOnes right now as it, like you say, doesn't work at all to offer to much free porn. Damn that must be why stats are so shitty

Wicked!

markz08 · 04-14-2007, 05:31 AM

how much does the domain name sex.com cost???

Roald · 04-14-2007, 05:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by markz08

how much does the domain name sex.com cost???

Not much, around $450 last time I checked

Michaelious · 04-14-2007, 05:37 AM

It does seem there is something wrong with it

Nicky · 04-14-2007, 05:50 AM

If I owned sex.com id make it a huge paysite review site

polish_aristocrat · 04-14-2007, 06:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nicky

If I owned sex.com id make it a huge paysite review site

I tried to put a paysite review site on a typein domain and it makes much more when it's parked

Yahook · 04-14-2007, 06:58 AM

Very sad news

sortie · 04-14-2007, 07:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StarkReality

Damn, is it so hard to hire a few people and let them design and build a paysite review site...would probably make them alot more than trying to make money like in 1998

Agreed!

But that's life, you know what to do with the domain but would never ever have it, yet some idiot has it without a clue of what it's for.

johnydo · 04-14-2007, 07:52 AM

Thats great news, maybe this guy will be able to went this site to something usefull. At least we can hope so.

s9ann0 · 04-14-2007, 07:57 AM

they went back to the steve cohen sex.com style - I think it will be the most profitable

I think the % of internet virgins who type in sex.com is high so wheres the $'s in revealing to them the free side of online porn?

Tylo · 04-14-2007, 08:00 AM

It reminds me of how it used to look before Kremen got it back. Not sure how well 90's marketing work now in 2007. Guess we will see but I doubt that 4 banners on a page will do well anymore.

GatorB · 04-14-2007, 08:11 AM

While I'm sure most internet newbs typing in sex.com are looking for porn, he/she could also be looking for sex tips and other things erotic and not necessarily pornographic. It would seem if they were looking for porn they'd type in porn.com first. People typing in playboy.com aren't looking for chicks with 2 dicks in their ass and a gallon of splooge on their faces.

JamesK2 · 04-14-2007, 08:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by QuaShe

Not much, around $450 last time I checked

devilspost · 04-14-2007, 08:38 AM

they should make it a wiki ;)

will76 · 04-14-2007, 09:07 AM

modeling after gay.com would be their best bet if they want to get mainstream involved as well.

Violetta · 04-14-2007, 09:31 AM

that page is sad

polish_aristocrat · 04-14-2007, 09:38 AM

come on, why is everyone still talkin about a banner farm?

banner farm was there 2 weeks ago, today its a parked page, am I the only one who sees it?

slapass · 04-14-2007, 09:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by will76

modeling after gay.com would be their best bet if they want to get mainstream involved as well.

I get nothing at gay.com.

slapass · 04-14-2007, 09:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat

come on, why is everyone still talkin about a banner farm?

banner farm was there 2 weeks ago, today its a parked page, am I the only one who sees it?

I get a parked page.

teksonline · 04-14-2007, 10:35 AM

looks like a lease that went unsold

Kevsh · 04-14-2007, 11:32 AM

I'm getting nothing. Doesn't resolve.

I did PPC with sex.com years ago and conversions were brutal. The last "relaunch" didn't look like they did much - A link to Advertise went to an email address, not very professional.

If someone who has a clue got this site, they could actually do something with it if isn't too late.

clubchics · 04-14-2007, 01:05 PM

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_detail http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr...ls?url=sex.coms?url=sex.com

PMdave · 04-14-2007, 02:57 PM

can't imagine that anyone who types in http://www.sex.com today will ever do that again. They are waisting a golden domain. Short rin this "parked" thing will bring in some bucks but eventually it will be the modt useless type in domain.

RayBonga · 04-14-2007, 03:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PMdave

can't imagine that anyone who types in http://www.sex.com today will ever do that again. They are waisting a golden domain. Short rin this "parked" thing will bring in some bucks but eventually it will be the modt useless type in domain.

I agree.

Just seems such a waste

cosis · 04-14-2007, 03:52 PM

It's pretty sad looking right now. atleast when it was a TGP I am sure the traffic grew

04-03-2007, 07:41 AM	#53
tranza ICQ: 197-556-237 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: BRASIL !!! Posts: 57,559	They've turned into a banner farm? That's just sad. __________________ I'm just a newbie.

04-03-2007, 09:33 AM	#57
Fluid Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 380	opps...double post Last edited by Fluid; 04-03-2007 at 09:35 AM..

04-03-2007, 10:20 AM	#61
sexdotcom Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 9	Escom Names New CEO/President, Plans to Revamp Sex.com For those of you who missed it, read about the most recent Sex.com news here (as reported by AVN): 2007-03-27 Escom Names New CEO/President, Plans to Revamp Sex.com By: Jed Nottingham Posted: 11:00 am PST 3-27-2007 LOS ANGELES - Escom LLC, the company that bought the controversial Sex.com domain almost a year and a half ago for a reported $14 million, has hired Del Anthony as the new chief executive officer and president to lead in the revitalization of the site. Anthony, formally the chief operating officer of VS Media, has extensive Internet development experience, including a comprehensive knowledge of the space. Anthony will oversee a complete reorganization and restructuring of Sex.com. This is the first of many announcements Escom will be making in the coming months, according to a company statement. Escom plans to upgrade its business model and brand image, veering away from the "banner farm" the site had become and toward a refined, mainstream, adult-friendly, user-powered portal and social network, the statement noted. Anthony told AVNOnline he is excited about the upcoming changes at Sex.com, saying they are only the beginning. "Our goal is to turn the domain into what it should be?a world-class destination and online society for all things adult. Expect a complete metamorphosis," Anthony promised. "We are going to build the site into an enormously powerful brand. Sex.com will appeal to a much broader market segment, with more focus on women users, and shake loose the negative stigma associated with adult sites. Our objective is to go as mainstream as we possibly can in terms of some of our new partnerships, as well as the new technologies that we'll be using. The domain name itself can easily be transitioned into something more mainstream." The new Sex.com site will be Web 2.0-compliant, offering a multitude of options including video and photo content, shopping, news, community, survey statistics, and more. "The site will be refreshing, lively, and unconventional," said Anthony. "We are going to completely redo our image. Unique, informed, lifestyle-driven, socially networked: These are just some of the concepts visitors will associate with the site in the future. This new positioning will help us expand the brand way beyond merely driving Internet traffic to the world's best domain. We have a branding company that we are working with now that we feel is confident in helping us obtaining these goals." Escom has been building momentum over the past several weeks by inking partnerships with high-profile industry leaders across the globe. While the deals give Escom a head start with modern content, Anthony explained the company is working to acquire additional partners that offer products and services of mass appeal, to fill in any service gaps. "We will lead by example and partner with key industry leaders," he said. "The best of the best modern adult applications will find a lucrative, white-labeled home at Sex.com. So, if you fall into that category, please get in touch with us ASAP." The company plans to open a new Los Angeles office soon and is hiring experienced professionals to fill numerous roles, Anthony said. _________ If you are looking for additional info, or would like to discuss potential partnerships, contact [email protected] .

04-14-2007, 01:11 AM	#62
polish_aristocrat Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 40,377	ok its parked already im 100% sure it makes more money now than with the banner farm two weeks ago (unless these banners were advertiser spots who were overpaying like 4-5 times ) __________________ I don't use ICQ anymore.

04-14-2007, 05:31 AM	#65
markz08 Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 735	how much does the domain name sex.com cost??? __________________ Sextoys - Sex Toy Store - Sextoys by the thousands at this awesome sex toy store. Find everything you're looking for. Sexy Girls in Panties

04-03-2007, 07:43 AM	#54
dynastoned mmm yeah! Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: roseville, ca Posts: 5,061	geez.. even if its a temporary design they could have spent more then 5 minutes on one to make it more productive. seems to me like someones just throwing money away.

04-03-2007, 07:56 AM	#55
pbtraffic Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 7	Hello Everyone, In case this was not clear, last week a thread was posted as well as a story (in XBIZ) about the management of sex.com changing over. This took place on Friday night and through the weekend. We had e-mailed our trade partners and made our best efforts to contact them about this change over. The majority of them were made aware that this was the case. Obviously, we would have liked to have gotten to every single one of them, but a few may have missed this. We did not put out a statement about this due to not being fully sure what the status of the TGP would be until late last week. Likewise, we had to be fair to the new management and allow that transition to take place smoothly. As for the traffic trades, if you have not already noticed or have not gotten our e-mail pertaining to this matter, we apologize sincerely. Under perfect conditions, we would have clearly and publicly made a statement. However, we did not know if it would continue to run and that decision came down later in the week. As such, we had to wait for the announcement to be made, but that left us with little time to notify people. We do have several TGP properties that we are happy to take trades on. We do have a link on sex.com going to one of these, and we do appreciate them keeping this there for us during this period. Likewise, we have more properties with traffic buys from other good tgps (which also have some decent existing trades). We’ll be ramping these up in the coming days and months. Please feel free to contact us and examine some of our offerings here: h-t-t-p://getporn.com/trade.html Thank You, PB traffic

04-03-2007, 09:57 AM	#58
germ ( o Y o ) Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,108	lol that looks like a porn site from 1997

04-03-2007, 10:07 AM	#59
KingK7 Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 6,372	Back to basics haha

04-14-2007, 03:53 AM	#63
vikiboss Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 39	Is it that easy for sites to get hacked?

04-14-2007, 05:37 AM	#67
Michaelious Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Scotland Posts: 6,720	It does seem there is something wrong with it __________________

04-14-2007, 05:50 AM	#68
Nicky Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Sweden Posts: 30,069	If I owned sex.com id make it a huge paysite review site __________________ gfynicky @ gmail.com

04-14-2007, 06:58 AM	#70
Yahook Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2002 Location: Global traveler Posts: 840	Very sad news

04-14-2007, 07:52 AM	#72
johnydo Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: DK Posts: 91	Thats great news, maybe this guy will be able to went this site to something usefull. At least we can hope so.

04-14-2007, 07:57 AM	#73
s9ann0 Confirmed User Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Boston Posts: 4,873	they went back to the steve cohen sex.com style - I think it will be the most profitable I think the % of internet virgins who type in sex.com is high so wheres the $'s in revealing to them the free side of online porn?

04-14-2007, 08:00 AM	#74
Tylo Confirmed User Join Date: May 2002 Location: South FL. Posts: 2,108	It reminds me of how it used to look before Kremen got it back. Not sure how well 90's marketing work now in 2007. Guess we will see but I doubt that 4 banners on a page will do well anymore.

04-14-2007, 08:11 AM	#75
GatorB The Demon & 12clicks Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: SallyRand is a FAGGOT Posts: 18,208	While I'm sure most internet newbs typing in sex.com are looking for porn, he/she could also be looking for sex tips and other things erotic and not necessarily pornographic. It would seem if they were looking for porn they'd type in porn.com first. People typing in playboy.com aren't looking for chicks with 2 dicks in their ass and a gallon of splooge on their faces.

04-14-2007, 08:38 AM	#77
devilspost Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Tampa yomebe -at- hotmail Posts: 3,980	they should make it a wiki ;) __________________ Brothels and Escorts Worldwide.

04-14-2007, 09:07 AM	#78
will76 Making $$$$ w/ ClickCash Industry Role: Join Date: May 2003 Location: USA Posts: 18,037	modeling after gay.com would be their best bet if they want to get mainstream involved as well. __________________ ICQ: 86364801 Email: will [at] innovativeassets [dot] com PROGRAM SHIT LIST - DO NOT PROMOTE (click link for gfy thread) FNCash \| Media Revenue

04-14-2007, 09:31 AM	#79
Violetta Affiliate Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 28,735	that page is sad __________________ M&A Queen

04-14-2007, 09:38 AM	#80
polish_aristocrat Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 40,377	come on, why is everyone still talkin about a banner farm? banner farm was there 2 weeks ago, today its a parked page, am I the only one who sees it? __________________ I don't use ICQ anymore.

04-14-2007, 10:35 AM	#83
teksonline So Fucking Banned Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: At My Desk Posts: 2,904	looks like a lease that went unsold

04-14-2007, 11:32 AM	#84
Kevsh Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: TO Posts: 8,619	I'm getting nothing. Doesn't resolve. I did PPC with sex.com years ago and conversions were brutal. The last "relaunch" didn't look like they did much - A link to Advertise went to an email address, not very professional. If someone who has a clue got this site, they could actually do something with it if isn't too late.

04-14-2007, 01:05 PM	#85
clubchics Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 739	http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_detail http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr...ls?url=sex.coms?url=sex.com __________________ www.BoostUltra.com ICQ ME: 55112653 AIM: CAZEY43 EMAIL: [email protected]

04-14-2007, 02:57 PM	#86
PMdave Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,517	can't imagine that anyone who types in http://www.sex.com today will ever do that again. They are waisting a golden domain. Short rin this "parked" thing will bring in some bucks but eventually it will be the modt useless type in domain.

04-14-2007, 03:52 PM	#88
cosis Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Beach Posts: 5,281	It's pretty sad looking right now. atleast when it was a TGP I am sure the traffic grew