Does anyone here promote AFF via mainstream sites?
 

I have a fairly large mainstream site and was thinking about promoting AFF on it. Are there nn/nonsexual ads available? How do you find your traffic converts? I obviously realize YMMV, but am looking for experiences.

I think you'd have better luck using friendfinder.com it's more nn dating profiles.

I have never tried AFF on mainstream tho, but you have a good chance of scaring visitors away :2 cents:

Thats what I'm afraid of... Is friendfinder.com the same company? If not, spam me with a ref url.

it's from the same people as AFF but you need separate accounts for every program. Here's my ref url for FF

http://friendfinder.com/go/b72879

thanks for signing up :thumbsup

Signing up now... I wonder why it is that they don't consolidate it all?

yeh I'm wondering too... maybe it's because every site has its own target audience. Or maybe because they would have so many members it clogs up the system?

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btw when you put up ads be sure to use the geo-targeted ones... they convert like hot cakes :thumbsup

advertize passion.com :)

did you get good results with passion.com on mainstream traffic? I'm always afraid that any sexual reference can scare people away.

btw you have a damn sexeh sig :thumbsup

So... anyone promoting AFF on a mainstream site?

This is certainly one approach. As many of you already know, Passion.com is a less racy version of AdultFriendFinder.com -- specifically developed to expand the reach of AFF beyond the bounds of adult traffic sources. Passion and AFF are the same site, same member DB, just different in packaging.

Take note, also, that both Passion.com and AFF allow the webmaster to control the level of adult content displayed -- both in the tour and inside the site.

We have MANY affiliates successfully promoting AFF and Passion from their non-adult sites.

For more information regarding marketing best practices and other recommendations for promoting our sites on mainstream sources, feel free to contact me or any member of the FriendFinder team.

j-(ack Mardack, GM)
ICQ: 222141571
jack @ friendfinderinc.com

trafficdoc @ friendfinderinc.com

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Ya, my site is definitely not something I want any sexual references on.

I sent you an icq... Mine is 111914 if you didn't get it.

That's pretty sweet, I didn't realize Passion.com was the same company and everything.

heh visit the sites, its obvious

I also didn't realise Passion.com was FF, nice break into big mainstream.

It suddenly struck me that -- MAYBE A LOT OF YOU don't know AdultFriendFinder.com owns a slightly-less-slutty little dress called Passion.com.

Call it an exercise in preemptive survivalism, combined with strategic chutzpah of the most mainstream kind.

Everybody knows AFF has done great things with adult, been an integral part of adult's growing-up since 1996, in fact. And, while we certainly enjoy all the adult traffic we get, we've taken some steps to protect the core of our business from some of adult's -- shall we call them -- vulnerabilities.

I've actually written an article for the February issue of XBIZ on just this very subject. But rather than impose my thoughts on all of you here, I'll do a favor for my wonderful XBIZ "editrix" and encourage you to buy a copy of the magazine instead. It's good, smart shit, fellas.

Anyways, Passion.com is nothing less than a wedge we built against the increasingly exclusionary pressures of the mainstream online world. It is the archetypical Wolf in Sheeps Clothing; it is the Trojan Horse we're sending into the newly protected enclave of nipple-free Super Bowls and 4 more Bushy years -- oh God. Cuz here at FriendFinder, we believe in revolutions from the INSIDE.

Passion.com is driving one of the naughtiest, most correct and most historically suppressed messages ever conceived by our species straight into the heart of the scary Neo-Puritanism that's got this country (and, by political and military effect, the whole world) in its grips today. And we mean to pack as many of you hairy porno-monkeys with us as we can.

So, hop on board, me laddies!

There's a shiny new ship, with a bold new course headed out to Sea -- and her name is PASSION.com.



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LOL!

Probably most people don't know that you guys run BigChurch.com as well, and a lot of other sites. FF = HUGE!

not only passion.com - but AFF also ownes and operates alt.com, the biggest alternative lifestyle/bdsm dating/community site. huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge site.

thanks, your sig is quite sexy by itself :Graucho

Don't eeeee-ven get me started -- ALT.com is destined to become AFF 2.0.

But that's a story for another thread.

Meanwhile, ALL senders of traffic to AFF should pop-under ALT.com. Effect = less than 5% cannibalization and net increase in affiliate commissions of about 15% -- no shit.

You can set this up quite easily in your stats area -- or just gimme a hollah.

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Does AFF still own everything at Conru.com?

btw, i love this article:

Small Business - Swingers Go Legit? - FORTUNE SMALL BUSINESS
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/small...594931,00.html

That's one of the article's that inspired me to buy Curious.com & Companionship.com

:)

plus:

FriendFinder Launches YoungAtHeart.com to Offer Customized Online Dating Community for Baby Boomer Singles
http://itreview.belproject.com/?itemid=995

Do we need to signup for a different account in order to promote passion?

Nope. Not at all.

To promote Passion.com, simply swap out "adultfriendfinder.com" in your links (and this holds true for ALL link types: /go/, /search/, etc.) for "passion.com".


For example (assuming your PID is p123):


A. World's Largest SEX Personals Site

versus...

B. Sexy Personals for Passionate People


OR...


A. Meet Local Women Looking for Sex

versus...

B. Sexy Singles in Your Town




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Geo targeting tool should do the trick for you.

Thanks alot for the fast answer :thumbsup