REBLOG FROM CrakRevenue

Posted on  April 23, 2014 by Papa Whale 

TOP WORDPRESS THEMES FOR ADULT BLOGS

If you are just beginning in this industry, you’re probably wondering how to generate traffic and monetize it. Today, there are tons of new and different ways for an affiliate marketer to make money in adult; think media buying, facebook traffic, tumblr blogs, and so on.

But over and all, the real cornerstone of a successful enterprise in the adult web marketing game is — and has always been — building and operating your own website.

Long gone are the days when you needed an army of code monkeys to achieve this feat.  Today, thanks to what are now called Content Management Systems (CMS), even your grandmother can succeed and thrive as a web marketer, even if she hasn’t the slightest clue on how to build a website.

And that’s exactly how WordPress came to be so powerful.

That being said, once you’ve downloaded and installed WordPress, you’ll still have to do a few more things before drowning in dollar bills. That includes comparing and choosing between hundreds of thousands of themes… and this can be somewhat time consuming.

“Rome wasn’t built in a day,” remember?

Screw the Romans!  You don’t have to waste your precious time anymore.

We’ve already picked the best available adult themes and listed them here just for you!

Hey, you’ll thank us later.

1 – Video Hub / VideoStar – RichWP.Com

Video Hub and VideoStar themes are perfect for the adult business because the spotlight put on your video content. The interface is very clean and easy to browse and gives the visitor a direct access to videos from the series of thumbnails displayed on the homepage. These themes also include two banners areas above the fold and optional widget space.

2 - Magazine / Pinboard – Themify.Me Builder

If you want to monetize your traffic, you have to focus on your banner placement. Among the most profitable spots, there’s the footer, the header, and the sides of each respective page. Additionally, if your users read right to left (like in Arabic or Japanese) it’s better to put ads in the left column of your site. Otherwise, the ads should stay on the right.

That’s where the Themify builder comes in handy.

With Themify, you gain access to various themes that can be fully customized by dragging and dropping the items onto your page… just like your banners!  More than 40 themes are available.  However,  we recommend the Magazine or the Pinboard themes, since they are such a great fit for the adult industry.

3 – Adult Video And Photo Gallery Themes – Adultsiteskins.Com

These themes were designed specifically for the adult industry… and it shows!  The pages are not too long, which thankfully avoids endless scrolling.  Themes are so specialized here that you can even choose between the usual niche colors:  Bright red, black for hardcore, light blue, or even hot pink for teen, and so forth– and you know what?  The themes are 100% free.

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4 – Videogrid – Themefuse

This theme perfectly illustrates the trend in which one creates an irregularity in content, so that the user’s attention is drawn more to the page.  In this case, it’s the size of the video thumbnails that are different from one another. And, since this theme is well-thought-out, the thumbnails resize automatically depending on the user’s browser and screen resolution.

5 – Gonzo – Themeforest

Overuse of ad space can drive away your visitors.  Sometimes, less is better, so… keep it simple!  The Gonzo theme is well-spaced and leaves perfect room for the essential navigation tools:  A visible menu, a unique search field, a sub-menu for categories, and of course, obvious buttons that link to social media.  The ads in the header and at the bottom right are so well integrated, they don’t distract from the content AT ALL!

Obviously all these themes are responsive except for the adult themes from adultsiteskins.com.  Many of them may not be free but their cost – between 45$ and 70$ – includes full support and regular updates.

Now that you’ve got your theme set, there’s still a lot of work to be done before you can earn a living out of it but hey, that’s another story!

How To Grow Your Business With Content Marketing

CrakRevenue provides many innovative ways for clients to engage in content marketing, including the distribution & management of sponsored facebook stories, automated twitter feeds, syndicated blog posts and more.  We also offer placement of your ongoing content feeds and display advertising inventory on our flagship consumer website: http://moreCrak.com.

What do the experts have to say?

If you’re not creating content on the web, you don’t exist on the web – by Crowdspring.com.

A 140 character tweet is content. A 1,000 word blog post is content. A comment to a blog post is content. Your website is content. Some content is compelling, reflects your knowledge and authority on a subject, and earns trust and respect from your customers and potential customers. Other content does little to help you grow your business, and may even hurt you.

Top 20 Tips for Effective Content Marketing

Done right, content marketing can be a valuable marketing channel for just about any type of business. Here are 20 tips to help you create compelling, useful content that can help you to grow your business:

1. There is no silver bullet. Many people offer out-of-the-box content marketing solutions. They’ll create blog posts or tweet for you. The vast majority of that “content” is generic, poorly written, and not interesting. Create your own content if you want to do content marketing the right way and help grow your business. Test your ideas in small batches and scale your efforts when you see some success.

2. Set goals, strategies and tactics. This is important because you can waste a ton of time executing tactics without understanding your goals or strategies. I’ve talked to many business owners who decide to use Twitter for marketing, by spending hours every day tweeting about random subjects. Until you create goals and assess your strategies, tactics will be largely useless in helping you to grow your business.

3. Create an editorial calendar. It’s very tough, especially for teams, to leverage content marketing if it’s done randomly. Plan in advance and create an editorial calendar to help you and others. Calendars are not sexy, but they do help. For example, we used to post questions randomly on the Crakmedia Facebook fan page, in an effort to better understand our fans and customers. We found that we repeated questions and didn’t do a good job creating a series of questions that built on one another. So, we created an editorial calendar that we update regularly. It has two weeks of questions, one question per day – and we’re doing a much better job today because of the calendar.

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4. Build an online home. You will market all over the web – but you should find a place where people can always find you. This can be your website, your blog, or even your Facebook page – a place where you’re always present.

5. Who are you? Have a voice and stand for something. Everyone has a story – yours is unique. Find a way to tell it – and find a way to wrap it around the things you talk and write about. For example, our friends at 37signals are passionate advocates for simple software – their musings on that topic, in their books and in their popular blog, have earned them both respect and a large audience (and customers).

6. Play to your own strengths. What do you enjoy most? Do you enjoy writing? Do you enjoy creating videos? Do you enjoy photography? Do you enjoy talking with people? Find the things you’re passionate about and focus on those things – because you’ll be more likely to do those things well than if you focus on things that bore you.

7. Think Visually. People relate better to photos and videos than to words. Find appropriate photos and videos to reinforce your key messages. According to 3M Corporation and Zabisco, 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual, and visuals are processed 60,000 times faster in the brain than text.

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8. Study competitors and others focusing on a similar audience. There are always good examples of people and companies that do content marketing right. Study what they do and how they do it. For example, we’re big fans of HubSpot – they create a ton of valuable content and that content earns them both a large audience and business.

9. Overnight success takes ten years. Be wary of consultants promising overnight success with content marketing. It’s impossible. You first have to build credibility and an audience. That takes time. Even businesses that seem to be overnight successes, like Pinterest, are rarely successes overnight. Pinterest was founded in 2008 – four years ago. It didn’t start getting traction until mid-2011.

10. Be interesting AND interested. Don’t only create content. Always spend time consuming content and listening to what others have to say. You’ll get great insights, learn new things, and get inspired. People will find you interesting only if you also are interested in what others have to say.

11. Never stop listening. In fact, listen before you talk. You can easily search on Twitter, Facebook, and all other social networks. Look at what people are talking about. What problems are they running into? This is your opportunity to help and this is also where you’ll find great ideas for content.

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12. Share your best ideas. Don’t hold back. You should be more worried about people listening to you than about people stealing your ideas.

13. Style matters. Use visually attractive formatting (color, bolding, bullet points). Make it look professional if you want people to think you’re a professional.

14.  Speak like a human. Many people think they need to sound smart. Smart people don’t go out of their way to sound smart. Use normal language and make it easy for people to understand what you have to say.

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15. Reuse content across channels. Write a blog post and then find ways to reuse it in other channels. Ask questions on Twitter and then drive people to the post. Invite comments on Facebook. This is important especially for small teams, becuase their ability to generate large volumes of content is limited.

16. Focus. If you write about 1000 different things, people won’t know what you’re about. Pick an area (or a few areas) and focus your efforts there. Gary Vaynerchuck built his reputation by focusing on wine, before he branched out to other areas.

When we started the crowdSPRING blog, we didn’t have a particular focus and found ourselves rudderless. We realized that we most wanted to build an audience of small business owners and entrepreneurs, and a number of years ago, decided to focus much of our effort in our blog on that audience. That decision helped us win numerous awards (among other things, the crowdSPRING Blog was an official honoree in the 16th annual Webby Awards, along with the phenomenal blogs from All Things Digital, The New York Times, and NPR, and a few others).

17. Be consistent across channels. Don’t have a different voice on Twitter than you do on Facebook. People will be confused. Find a voice and keep it consistent across channels.

18. Find opportunities to guest post. Don’t just share with your own audience. Find opportunities to post on other blogs where you can reach a bigger audience. And don’t sell there – build credibility. People will find you if they trust you and learn from you.

19. Give credit to others. It’s tough to market on your own. You want help. If you credit others when they help you discover great content, they’ll credit you too and find a way to help you. Find good opportunities to re-tweet on Twitter, for example, and always mention the person who initially shared a piece of content you’re sharing.

20. Measure your efforts. You can waste a ton of time on marketing if you don’t measure results. Are you getting visitors to your blog? Are your email and RSS subscribers increasing? Are new followers to your Twitter account bots or real people interested in what you have to say? Are your fans on Facebook actually engaging with you and your brand? Don’t just trust your instincts – measure.

Source: CrowdSpring Blog

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Tips on Tumblr and others platforms adult Blogs

I don’t know that I have any answers, but I want to share some of my experience with Tumblr and adult blogs.

We started in July 2012 and Have now more than 50 000 followers, a weekly traffic of more than 40 000 unique visits on tumblr, 20 000 visits on Blogger

So, some basics:

- I try to keep the content for a blog consistent with its title. People should be able to return to the blog and see similar content to their prior visit. So, I try to name the blog something obvious like mouthcream, and then deliver on the premise.

- I get far more likes and the reposts. This means that I have more visitors than followers. A lot of folks simply like to find sites they like and visit them. This means that you need to have new content daily. I use the queue feature and set it to post from 2 to 5 posts per day. this means that the content on your first page will change every day. So, frequent visitors will find new content, and hopefully a reward for visiting.

- I think GIFs have a great visual impact on your home page. So, I try to keep a good mix.

- I like some info on the content of a video, so I can evaluate whether or not I should spend the time looking at it. e.g., I have started posted notes on when a cumshot happens. (I think MF videos without cumshots should not be posted…. :-)

- I don’t worry too much about reblogging pics that I have already posted. Quantity is more important that quality. And when you have thousands of pics in your blog, it is almost impossible to not have duplicates. (I do really respect blogs that focus on quality, however.)

- I have used tags to index the sites. You can create new pages for your site. The format for a new page that lists only photos tagged with a specific tag is http://blogname.tumber.com/tagged/tagname. I have created collections within the blogs, and this keeps things interesting. I also think that the indexes appeal to folks that are looking for a particular type of content.

- I created new blogs, in part, because I found pictures that I liked that did not fit into the definitions of other blogs I had created.

- Some photos I post first in the newer blogs, and then repost to my more popular blogs. I try to keep this consistent with the blogs branding (or naming).

- I think it important to maintain the original poster of content, however I don’t like links embedded in posts that go to other sites. At one point, I was overwriting the original poster, deleting it and even overwriting it. This was a mistake, and I apologize, for whatever it is worth.

- I was very motivated to increase my followers in the beginning, Now, I think it is more about delivering content to the folks that are following. It is definitely time consuming, and sometimes too consuming. Sometimes I feel good when I can leave the blogs to themselves for a few days.

- One final thought. Recently, I have looked for blogs that started in 2009 and 2010, and then go to their archive to find and repost pics. These early blogs have pics that have not be reposted extensively, so I find fresh content, and I think I am rewarding the folks that started posting porn relatively early. To do this, you go to a blog’s archives, find an old photo you like that has been reposted extensively. For that photo, go to the site that originally posted the pic, then go to its archive to find older pics. If you keep doing this you can find some great pics that have not been reposted extensively (you may want to use "Gettumblrpic.exe" or "DeepVacuum" with Mac

Good Luck and happy blogging!