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		<title>Why Cant I Get Indexed By The Search Engines?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, this is an all too common question. If it makes you feel any better, you&#8217;re not the only one frustrated about the length of time it takes to be indexed, or the many pitfalls involved. It often takes anywhere from two days to as much as six months to be listed on a search [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unfortunately, this is an all too common question. If it makes you feel any better, you&#8217;re not the only one frustrated about the length of time it takes to be indexed, or the many pitfalls involved. It often takes anywhere from two days to as much as six months to be listed on a search engine. For example, last month Excite finally updated its index for the first time since last August! Luckily, Excite is the most extreme case lately, but waiting several weeks to a month can also be extremely frustrating especially when your livelihood depends partly on these search engines.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.webposition.com/d2.pl?r=K6S-55E8" target="WebPosition">Web Position</a> Submitter report will give you current time estimates for each engine so you&#8217;ll know what to expect. However, an engine at any time could choose to delay their indexing beyond the &#8220;norm&#8221; for maintenance or other reasons. On the flip side, you could get lucky and submit just a couple days before an engine does a complete refresh of their database. Therefore, submission times can never be an exact science since we&#8217;re all ultimately at the mercy of the engine.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve submitted your site and have waited the estimated time to be indexed and there&#8217;s still no listing, what do you do now?</p>
<p>Here are 16 tips that should help you solve this problem:</p>
<p><strong>1.</strong> First, be sure you&#8217;re not already indexed but just don&#8217;t know it. Unfortunately, none of the major engines are kind enough to e-mail or notify you as to if and when you&#8217;ve been indexed.</p>
<p>The method to determine if a page or domain has been indexed varies from one engine to another, and in many cases, it&#8217;s difficult to tell for sure. Never assume that you&#8217;re not indexed just because you searched for a bunch of keywords and you never came up in the first few pages of results. You could be in there but buried near the bottom.</p>
<p>In addition, it&#8217;s not very practical to check the status of a number of pages on each major engine each week. Fortunately, <a href="http://www.webposition.com/d2.pl?r=K6S-55E8" target="optimization-software">Web Position</a> has a URL verification feature in the Reporter that makes this process much easier. Each time you run a mission, it will report which URLs exist and do not exist in each engine. If you&#8217;re using <a href="http://www.webposition.com/d2.pl?r=K6S-55E8" target="optimization-software">Web Position</a> and are not finding your URLs after submitting, be sure to see this page for common pitfalls to watch out for:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webposition.com/urlnotfoundhelp.htm" target="webposition-gold">http://www.webposition.com/urlnotfoundhelp.htm</a></p>
<p><strong>2.</strong> Make sure you have uploaded the pages to your site before submitting them. This one seems obvious, but submitting a page that does not exist or submitting with a subtle typo in the URL is a goof we might all make at one time or another. If you&#8217;re using <a href="http://www.webposition.com/d2.pl?r=K6S-55E8" target="optimisation">Web Position&#8217;s</a> Submitter, there&#8217;s a checkbox on tab 2 that forces Web Position to verify that all your URLs are valid before submitting them.</p>
<p><strong>3.</strong> If you have information inside frames, that can cause problems with submissions. It&#8217;s best if you can create non-framed versions of your pages. You should then submit the non-frames versions of your pages which can of course point to your framed Web site. Alternatively, you can enter your relevant text within the NOFRAMES area of a framed page which most search engine spiders will read.</p>
<p><strong>4.</strong> Search engine spiders cannot index sites that require any kind of registration or password. A spider cannot fill out a form of any kind. The same rule applies regarding indexing of content from a searchable database, because the spider cannot fill out a form to query that database. The solution is to create static pages that the engines will be able to find.</p>
<p><strong>5.</strong> Dynamic pages often block spiders. In fact, any URL containing special symbols like a question mark (?) or an ampersand (&amp;) will be ignored by many engines.</p>
<p><strong>6.</strong> Most engines cannot index text that is embedded in graphics. Text that appears in multimedia files (audio and video) cannot be indexed by most engines. Information that is generated by Java applets or in XML coding cannot be indexed by most engines.</p>
<p><strong>7.</strong> If your site has a slow connection or the pages are very complex and take a long time to load, it might time out before the spider can index all the text. For the benefit of your visitors and the search engines, limit your page size to less than 60K. In fact, most Webmasters recommend that your page size plus the size of all your graphics should not exceed 50K-70K. If it does, many people on dial up connections will leave before the page fully loads.</p>
<p><strong>8.</strong> If you submit just your home page, don&#8217;t expect a search engine to travel more than one or two links away from the home page or the page that you submitted. Over time they may venture deeper into your site, but don&#8217;t count on it. You&#8217;ll often need to submit pages individually that appear further down into your site or have no link from the home page.</p>
<p><strong>9.</strong> If your Web site fails to respond when the search engine spider pays a visit, you will not be indexed. Even worse, if you are indexed and they pay a visit when your site is down, you&#8217;ll often be removed from their database! Therefore, it pays to have a reliable hosting service that is up 99.5% of the time. However, at some point a spider is going to hit that other 0.5% and end up yanking your pages by mistake. Therefore, it pays to keep a close eye on your listings.</p>
<p><strong>10.</strong> If you have ever used any questionable techniques that might be considered an overt attempt at spamming (i.e., excessive repetition of keywords, same color text as background, or other things that the <a href="http://www.webposition.com/d2.pl?r=K6S-55E8" target="web-position-gold">Web Position</a> Page Critic warns you about), an engine may ignore or reject your submissions. If you&#8217;re having trouble getting indexed in the expected amount of time, make sure your site is spam-free.</p>
<p><strong>11.</strong> If your site contains redirects or meta refresh tags these things can sometimes cause the engines to have trouble indexing your site. Generally they will index the page that it is redirecting TO, but if it thinks you are trying to &#8220;trick&#8221; the engine by using &#8220;cloaking&#8221; or IP redirection technology, there&#8217;s a chance that it may not index the site at all.</p>
<p><strong>12.</strong> If you&#8217;re submitting to a directory site like Yahoo, Open Directory, NBCI.com, LookSmart, or others, then a human being will review your site. They must decide the site is of sufficient &#8220;quality&#8221; before they will list it. I recommend you read the submission guide on the directory tab of the <a href="http://www.webposition.com/d2.pl?r=K6S-55E8" target="webposition-gold">WebPosition</a> Submitter. It contains tips to improve your chances of obtaining a good listing on these directories.</p>
<p><strong>13.</strong> A number of engines no longer index pages residing on many common free web hosting services. The common complaint from the engines is that they get too many &#8220;junk&#8221; or low-quality submissions from free web site domains. Therefore, they often choose not to index anyone from those domains or they limit submissions from them. It&#8217;s always best to buy your own domain name (very important) and place it on a respected, paid hosting service to avoid being discriminated against.</p>
<p><strong>14.</strong> Some engines have been known to drop pages that cannot be traveled to from the home page. HotBot has been rumored to do this. You may want to consider submitting your home page that links either directly or indirectly to your doorway pages.</p>
<p><strong>15.</strong> Make sure you&#8217;re submitting within the recommended limits. Some engines do not like more than a certain number of submissions per day for the same domain. If you exceed the limit, you may find that all your submissions are ignored. Fortunately, <a href="http://www.webposition.com/d2.pl?r=K6S-55E8" target="webpositiongold">WebPosition&#8217;s</a> submitter will warn you regarding current limits and recommend you stay within them. Some submission consultants feel it is dangerous to submit more than ONE page a day to a engine for a given Web site. For those who wish to be ultra-conservative in their approach, the <a href="http://www.webposition.com/d2.pl?r=K6S-55E8" target="webposition-gold-software">Web Position</a> Submitter includes a checkbox to limit submissions to one URL per day per engine.</p>
<p><strong>16.</strong> Last but not least, sometimes the engines just lose submissions at random through technical errors and bugs. Therefore, some people like to resubmit once or twice a month for good merit in case they do lose a submission. Certainly if you&#8217;ve followed all the &#8220;rules&#8221; and are still not listed, re-submit! Sometimes a little persistence is all that&#8217;s needed.</p>
<p>If any of the above scenarios apply to your submission, you should make the necessary adjustments and re-submit. If that still does not work, you should consider e-mailing or calling the search engine and asking them politely why you have not been indexed yet. Sometimes they will reply back with &#8220;Sorry, there was a problem with our system and I&#8217;ve now made sure you&#8217;ll be indexed within the next couple days.&#8221; Or, sometimes they&#8217;ll tell you why you were not indexed. In other cases, they will ignore your e-mail and you&#8217;ll have to keep e-mailing or calling them until they respond. Still, it&#8217;s definitely worth the effort to get your site listed with the major engines assuming you also take the time to optimize your pages so you&#8217;ll achieve top rankings.</p>
<p>Article written by Lee</p>
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		<title>Whats A Twink</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think you would be surprised at the number of times I have been asked, &#8220;What&#8217;s a Twink?&#8221; Or my, personal, favorite &#8220;So how do two men have sex?&#8221; If you know me, you know I am never really bothered by questions &#8211; I never mind people&#8217;s candor. What does bother me, though, is the [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think you would be surprised at the         number of times I have been asked, &#8220;What&#8217;s a Twink?&#8221; Or my,         personal, favorite &#8220;So how do two men have sex?&#8221;</p>
<p>If you know me, you know I am never         really bothered by questions &#8211; I never mind people&#8217;s candor. What does         bother me, though, is the bulk of the people who ask are trying to work         the gay market. Unsuccessfully, I might add.</p>
<p>So, let&#8217;s expand our webmaster         knowledge. Don&#8217;t worry, I am not about to explain how two men have sex         (that I will save for my story site LOL)</p>
<p>I have decided, however, to give you a         Gay Glossary of sorts. There are many terms that can be included here.         But, I thought to start off, we will hit the basics and add to it as         time goes on. Keep an eye for future articles and additions on Gay Wide         Webmasters.</p>
<p>Here is a list of the most common terms         on the Gay Adult &#8216;net:</p>
<ul><strong> </strong></p>
<li><strong>Twink</strong> – A buff and lean young man; a 20 something. Age and leanness make           the guy a twink. The best example is your <em>typical</em> bar room           stripper.<strong> </strong></li>
<li><strong>Teen</strong> – This is the same thing as in EVERY market, hot young and under           twenty – but LEGAL at 18.<strong> </strong></li>
<li><strong>Hunk/Stud</strong> – Beautiful, built and beefcake. The guys commonly posing for           calendars and such.<strong> </strong></li>
<li><strong>Chubs</strong> (or <strong>chubby</strong>) – Just what it sounds like, a larger man. Not           just muscular weight, most often heavy set.<strong> </strong></li>
<li><strong>Bears</strong> – This is a HAIRY man. Not a young guy, most often over thirty,           sometimes with a husky build (but not always). You will probably see           this niche sold as &#8220;Real Men&#8221;.<strong> </strong></li>
<li><strong>Cub</strong> – This is a YOUNG hairy guy. Sort of a HAIRY TWINK…<strong> </strong></li>
<li><strong>Daddies</strong> &#8211; Daddies are men over thirty, who like younger guys. (Just a side           note here to clear up some misconceptions, not all gay men want to do           young guys!)<strong> </strong></li>
<li><strong>Sons</strong> – the young male counterparts to Daddies. The young of the two can           be a twink, cub or teen – makes no difference. This term is based on           the visual couple. For our non-gay friends think of this as an           example: the businessman who goes away for the weekend with his NEICE.           See the comparison? LOL<strong> </strong></li>
<li><strong>Transvestite</strong> – is a man who dresses as a woman. Whether it is simple underwear or           all our female attire. A lot of webmasters confuse this with           Transsexual.<strong> </strong></li>
<li><strong>Transsexual</strong> – is a person who has decided to make the complete change and have a           sex change.<strong> </strong></li>
<li><strong>Trans Gender</strong> – this is a more general term for people who live life as the           opposite sex. They are in the process of, or have completed, a sex           change.</li>
</ul>
<p>So know go have some fun. Try to         classify your friends and lovers in these terms! I enjoy it when a         webmistress comes up to me and says, &#8220;I heard your interview and I         think my husband is a bear. But he&#8217;s a little twink-ish. What do you         think?&#8221; This just makes my day! I have to laugh at the look on         their husband&#8217;s face when they think I&#8217;m going to ask to examine them or         something. &#8220;Turn you head and cough – OH! You&#8217;re a Twink…&#8221;</p>
<p>Along with what works, I have to offer         some terms that DO NOT work. If used incorrectly or out of context, then         your attempt at marketing to gay men can be dreadful.</p>
<ul><strong> </strong></p>
<li><strong>Faggot</strong> – I hate this word, personally. This is a word that is as derogatory           to the Gay Community as other words are to a race.<strong> </strong></li>
<li><strong>Nancy boy</strong> – a typically non-US term that basically is used as a derogatory           manner.<strong> </strong></li>
<li><strong>Lil Boys</strong> – a derogatory term used primarily in the Southern and Mid-Western           US. It&#8217;s derived from the negative connotation that gay men are           pedophiles.<strong> </strong></li>
<li><strong>Gay Owned and Operated<em>. </em></strong>Allow           me to be blunt <em>&#8211; If it is not true, do not say it</em>. This is           probably the most OVER used phrase in the gay adult market. So much           so, it is relatively meaningless today.</li>
</ul>
<p>We all need to remember from time to         time, the key to success in any business is knowledge. Whether you are         up selling to a sponsor or designing sites, knowing some of the more         common terminology in the gay community can only help your ventures in         the gay adult market. And remember, do not be afraid to try and NEVER be         afraid to ask.</p>
<p>As always, good luck!</p>
<p>Article written         by Gary-Alan</p>
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		<title>What&#8217;s In A Niche?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many webmasters realize what the different &#8216;fetishes&#8217; the surfers have are but, how many of us realize these are actually niches and, how many of realize that these niches can be broken down into smaller sub niches of the particular fetish the surfer is looking for? Lets take an example of say, the &#8216;lesbian&#8217; niche. [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many webmasters realize what the different &#8216;fetishes&#8217; the surfers have are but, how many of us realize these are actually niches and, how many of realize that these niches can be broken down into smaller sub niches of the particular fetish the surfer is looking for?</p>
<p>Lets take an example of say, the &#8216;lesbian&#8217; niche.</p>
<p>Of course we all know what the lesbian niche entails, two women getting naked with each other right? Wrong.</p>
<p>There is much more to it than that, for example, obviously lesbian sites appeal to, well, they appeal to guys who want to fantasize about getting it on with two women but, what about the female surfers? Sure, some women probably join lesbian paysites too.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s one &#8216;sub-niche&#8217; of lesbian right there, this can be broken down even further though for examples, Ebony Lesbians, Teenage Lesbians, Mature Lesbians, the list goes on and on and on.</p>
<p><strong> So how do we choose a niche to market in adult?</strong></p>
<p>The first and foremost thing you should try when choosing &#8216;your&#8217; niche is to try something that either excites you or, appeals to you in a non sexual manner, if you are into Lesbian Midgets getting it on, then start off with that for your niche.</p>
<p>Likewise, if guys getting down and dirty is the thing that floats your boat, choose that as your niche, you should already know enough about the niche you choose primarily to be able to sell something to the surfer. If it excites you, it will more than likely excite a surfer and result in a sale.</p>
<p>Of course, the above statement isn&#8217;t always true, I know plenty of straight webmasters who market the gay niche VERY successfully, they have found a method that works for them and developed their business from there it probably wasn&#8217;t easy at the start but, nothing easy will make you the &#8216;real&#8217; money that there is in adult.</p>
<p>You need to experiment, constantly adapt and change the way you do business, if you try something and it doesn&#8217;t work, ask yourself why, what could you have changed that might have made a difference and, instead of changing it on the first site you built, change it on your next one, that way, even though it may not work at this moment in time, you will no doubt find it will work at a later date just as you will find that something that works well for you now may not work at all later on in your business career.</p>
<p>Once you have mastered a general niche you should then think about trying some of the sub niches that are available to you, there is more to teen than than just cute teenage girls lying naked on a bed and getting screwed rotten by some guy. just as you saw there was more to the lesbian niche above.</p>
<p>Take your sponsors tour for ideas, often you will notice things that spark some though and, once you have that spark, you should ensure it develops into a flame.</p>
<p>Even something as simple as a tattoo on a model or a piercing can be the tart of a whole new niche, look at the things that other webmasters may not be, just because there isn&#8217;t a proliferation of teenage pierced lesbian sites, doesn&#8217;t mean that someone doesn&#8217;t want to join one and, who knows, that weird sexual fetish you build a site for now may become popular in 6 months time.</p>
<p>Basically, what I am trying to say is that as adult webmasters we need to investigate all aspects of the niche we want to or, currently do market, just because a surfer comes to the front page of a lesbian site, doesn&#8217;t mean that they wont also be interested in an ebony site, its all down to how we market our sponsors paysites as webmasters.</p>
<p>Article written by Lee</p>
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		<title>What&#8217;s A CHMOD?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHMOD is another name for setting the permissions of files on your server. All UNIX based web servers understand the concept of permissions. these are broken down into three distinct areas. Permissions for the person who OWNS the file. Permissions for the group (all users are members of one or more groups). Permissions for everyone [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CHMOD is another name for setting the permissions of files on your server.</p>
<p>All UNIX based web servers understand the concept of permissions. these are broken down into three distinct areas.</p>
<p>Permissions for the person who OWNS the file.<br />
Permissions for the group (all users are members of one or more groups).<br />
Permissions for everyone else.</p>
<p>Permissions are listed one of two ways either using numbers such  as 755 or, using letters such as rwx-xr-x however they both mean the  same thing.</p>
<p>The first number or first group of three letters stands for the permissions of the owner (IE 7 or rwx).<br />
The second number or second group of letters stands for the permissions of the group (IE 5 or xr).<br />
The third number or third group of letters stands for the permissions of everyone else (IE 5 or x).</p>
<p>The way the system works is as follows:</p>
<p>1 = x = you are able to execute (run) this program.<br />
2 = w = you are able to write to this file.<br />
4 = r = you are able to read the contents of this file.</p>
<p>so if you add it up rwx = 7.</p>
<p>So, in the example given above (755 or rwx-xr-x) the owner is allowed to read and write the file AND execute it.<br />
The group is allowed to execute and write to the file.<br />
Everyone else can execute the file.</p>
<p>We hope this gives you a little more insight to how CHMOD&#8217;ing  or, setting the permissions on your server can affect how files act.</p>
<p>Article written by Lee</p>
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		<title>What On Earth Is CGI?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s unlock a little bit of the mystery about something called CGI. If it helps any, CGI means Common Gateway Interface. This is a method which is used to swap data between the server (the hardware and software that actually allows you to get to your web site) and a web client (your browser). CGI [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s unlock a little bit of the mystery about something called CGI. If it helps any, CGI means Common Gateway Interface.</p>
<p>This is a method which is used to swap data between the server  (the hardware and software that actually allows you to get to your web  site) and a web client (your browser). CGI is actually a set of  standards where a program or script (a series of commands) can send data  back to the web server where it can be processed.</p>
<p>Typically, you use standard HTML tags to get data from a person,  then pass that data to a CGI routine. The CGI routine then performs  some action with the data.</p>
<p>Some of the more common uses of CGI include:</p>
<p>Guest books &#8211; The CGI routine is responsible for accepting the  data, ensuring it is valid, sending an email acknowledgement back to the  writer, perhaps sending an email to the webmaster, and creating the  guest book entry itself.</p>
<p>Email Forms &#8211; A simple CGI forms routine just formats the data  into an email and sends it back to the webmaster. More complicated  routines can maintain a database, send an acknowledgement and validate  data.</p>
<p>Mailing List Maintenance &#8211; These routines allow visitors to  subscribe and unsubscribe from a mailing list. In this case, the CGI  routine maintains a database of email addresses, and the better ones  send acknowledgements back to the visitor and webmaster.</p>
<p>A CGI routine can be anything which understands the CGI  standard. A popular CGI language is called PERL, which is simple to understand and use (well, compared to other  languages). PERL is a scripting language, which means each time a PERL  routine is executed the web server must examine the PERL commands to  determine what to do. In contrast, a compiled language such as C++ or  Visual Basic can be directly executed, which is faster and more  efficient.</p>
<p>Okay, in a nutshell (and greatly simplified), here&#8217;s how it works:</p>
<p>1) You (the webmaster) specify a form tag which includes the name of the CGI routine.</p>
<p>2) You create HTML tags which retrieves data from your visitors.</p>
<p>3) Each of the input tags includes a variable name. The data  which is retrieved from the visitor (or directly set if the tag includes  the &#8220;hidden&#8221; qualifier) is placed in the variable name.</p>
<p>4) When the visitor presses the &#8220;submit&#8221; button, the CGI routine  which was specified in the form tag is executed. At this time, the CGI  routine &#8220;takes control&#8221;, meaning the browser essentially is waiting for  it to complete.</p>
<p>5) This CGI routine can get data from variable names. It retrieves the data and does whatever action is required.</p>
<p>6) When the CGI routine finishes, it returns control back to the browser.</p>
<p>Some important things to remember about CGI routines:</p>
<p>You can install CGI routines on your own site if your host  allows it http://www.webair.com  is an example of a web host which allows for CGI  routines. Some web hosts do not allow you to install your own routines  but do provide some pre-written ones to you. If these are not sufficient  for your needs, you can find a remote hosting service to provide the  necessary functions.</p>
<p>Generally, if you install your own routines they must be installed in the cgi-bin directory of your site. This is a special location which allows scripts and programs to be executed.</p>
<p>CGI routines work best on Apache-style servers. Windows NT and  Windows 2000 does support CGI, but it tends to be slow and problematic.</p>
<p>If you use a remote hosting service, you must remember that  although they appear to be giving you this for free, you are actually  paying a price. Usually they want to display advertisements, although  some of them actually take visitors away from your site.</p>
<p>When you write a CGI routine, you have the choice of a scripting  language like PERL or a compiled language such as C++ or Visual Basic.  Anything which can execute on the web server is acceptable.</p>
<p>I hope this short introduction to CGI has cleared up some of the mystery.</p>
<p>Article written by Lee</p>
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		<title>What Is The Golden Ratio?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its a little known marketing technique that say that, as long as the longest side on any oblong is 1.6 times the length of the shortest side of the same oblong people will be more likely to prefer that shape over any other shape. Why do they prefer this size? Because it occurs naturally and, [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its a little known marketing technique that say that, as long as the  longest side on any oblong is 1.6 times the length of the shortest side  of the same oblong people will be more likely to prefer that shape over  any other shape.</p>
<p>Why do they prefer this size? Because it occurs naturally and,  subconsciously EVERY LIVING PERSON is attracted to this trait.</p>
<p>An example of this is as follows:</p>
<p>1) Stand Up<br />
2) Measure the distance from your head to your feet and write this measurement down<br />
3) Measure the distance from your Navel write this figure down.</p>
<p>The length of your ENTIRE body is 1.6 times longer than from your Navel to your feet!!</p>
<p>The same is also true for the length of your arm from shoulder to finger tip, then from elbow to finger tip.</p>
<p>The same is true for credit cards, the longest side is 1.6 times longer than than the shorter side!</p>
<p>Think about this for a second, banner ads, what shape are they?  Oblong except, they don&#8217;t employ the &#8216;golden ratio&#8217; what if, just what  if, you used some banner ads that employed this &#8216;golden ratio&#8217; who says  banners have to be 468&#215;60 in size?</p>
<p>Why not try making some &#8216;basic&#8217; banners in paint or a decent  graphics program utilizing the 1.6 rule and see if your click thru&#8217;s  increase, personally, I will bet my earnings last month that they will.</p>
<p>On the same way of thinking towards marketing, table ads, money  bars, etc, why not incorporate this idea into them also? It cant hurt  and who knows it may just work.</p>
<p>the math to work this &#8216;golden ratio&#8217; out is as follows for Image a above:</p>
<p>shortest side (60) x 1.6 = (90) Longest side</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t even need to be a genius to make your own ads using  this method as the people at Microsoft supplied you with a calculator.</p>
<p>Article written by Lee</p>
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		<title>What Happens Your Current Processor Bails?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst this is perhaps one of the hardest challenges that a webmaster of a paysite can face in the industry it isn&#8217;t as bad as they may seem at first after all, there are literally hundreds of processors to choose from ranging from credit card processors, dialer option, micro-sms billing and a wide range of [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whilst this is perhaps one of the hardest challenges that a webmaster of  a paysite can face in the industry it         isn&#8217;t as bad as they may seem at first after all, there are  literally hundreds of processors to choose from ranging from credit card  processors, dialer option, micro-sms billing and a wide range of other systems.</p>
<p>The first and foremost thing you should do however when  confronted with this challenge is to try and contact your existing         processor and find out what will happen to funds that you are  owed, will you be paid (in most cases you will).</p>
<p>The next thing you should do is to evaluate your business billing methods are you offering         multiple processors already? If so, simply switch to your backup processor and find a new processor to use as a backup.</p>
<p>However, what happens if you only have a single processor on your site what can you do then?</p>
<p>First things first, you need to make sure you choose a reliable  payment processor to start off with companies such as iBill, CCBill, CCBill EU, Netbilling and Jettis are all good processors  used by a multitude of sponsors and content providers amongst the other  companies.</p>
<p>You will most likely find that these companies are more than  happy to work with you in the integration of their system onto your  site.</p>
<p>Whilst you are awaiting your setup of your new processor to  ensure you do not lose any sales it may be an idea to divert your join  page off to a dialer or, perhaps have some form of &#8216;internal&#8217; billing  mechanism set up so that, when you do change over processors you can         seamlessly transition your member base across.</p>
<p>Now, presuming that you already have an existing member base  what do you do then? How easy or hard is it going to be to transfer them  across to your new processor? Well based on the situation some were  confronted with when Visa introduced the new fees to process adult  payments this can vary from webmaster to webmaster again, as before, the  easiest solution for you would be to contact the company you will be  using as your primary processor and see what they can suggest.</p>
<p>Hopefully, you will have access to a database of your existing  members email addresses this will also come in handy to ensure you can  keep recurring those members. Send out an email stating that you will be  changing your processor and, ask that, if they would like to remain a  member of your site that they update their billing information, it might  also be prudent to offer them some sort of recompense for having them  change processors perhaps something along the lines of 2 weeks low cost  or even free access tot he site, this is sure to mean that most of, if  not all of your existing members will input their billing information  again enabling you to rebill them until they cancel their membership at  our new processor.</p>
<p>Of course nothing is infallible so the best advice i can offer  you is to work closely with your new found processor and make sure that  the transition period happens as quickly and, as smoothly as possible.</p>
<p>Hopefully this article will be of some use to those who do get  affected by their processors going out of business and, will also serve  as a warning to have multiple processors in place         for those who have not or will not have the need to change your  billing company.</p>
<p>Article written by Lee</p>
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		<title>SMS Marketing To MMS Marketing &#8211; WAP Billing Solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MMS Billing (Multimedia Message Billing) is going to be one of the next huge leaps forward for the online industry&#8217;s, with more and more surfers firing up their cell phones to visit our sites and properties we need to start looking at the ways in which we can ultimately bill these types of customer and [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MMS Billing (Multimedia Message Billing) is going to be one of the next  huge leaps forward for the online industry&#8217;s, with more and more surfers firing up their cell phones to  visit our sites and properties we need to start looking at the ways in  which we can ultimately bill these types of customer and this is where  MMS Billing comes into play.</p>
<p><strong>MMS Billing &#8211; What Is It?<br />
</strong><br />
MMS Billing is a method of charging surfers using cell phones for access  to your sites and services. Much like how the SMS Billing model works  however, rather than solely billing for text or images, you can utilize  MMS Billing on a wide range of rich media applications including movies,  sound and, flash applications.</p>
<p><strong>MMS Billing &#8211; What Are The Costs?<br />
</strong><br />
The costs for MMS Billing can vary greatly depending on your MMS Billing  provider however, as a rough guideline, you can expect to pay anywhere  between $0.10 and $0.50 per purchase through the MMS Billing method.</p>
<p><strong>MMS Billing &#8211; An Overview.<br />
</strong><br />
MMS Billing is still in its infancy across the internet however, with  more and more sites becoming WAP enabled and, more and more surfers  turning their cell phones on to browse our websites this billing model  will soon grow to what the current SMS Billing model is today.</p>
<p>Article written by Lee</p>
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		<title>AVS Changes &#8211; Is The Proverbial Sky Falling?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the announcement yesterday from several of the large AVS systems, Free Age Card, Sex Key and, Gay Passport (also speculation on and off the forums state that Mass Pass were aware of this happening) that they will no longer allow webmasters to use the terms; AVS, Adult Verification Service, AGE Verification Service and, Access [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With the announcement yesterday from several of the large AVS systems,  Free Age Card, Sex Key and, Gay Passport (also speculation on and off  the forums state that Mass Pass were aware of this happening) that they  will no longer allow webmasters to use the terms; AVS, Adult  Verification Service, AGE Verification Service and, Access to thousands  of other sites what does this hold in store long term for AVS  webmasters?</p>
<p>Quite simply, it looks at first glance as if these changes have  something to do with the speculation surrounding VISA and AVS systems  from a few months ago.</p>
<p>In fact, these changes have been on the horizon for some time  now however, until yesterday webmasters seemed to be unsure as to what,  if anything will be changing. Even though the speculation has been  circulating for some time, one of the first AVS systems to envoke these  new rules, Sex key, came out with the following statement; &#8216;While we  knew changes were coming, we just now found out what we believe are the  new requirements. With this new information, we are trying to comply as  quickly as humanly possible.&#8217; quickly followed by; &#8216;We felt it was  better to give people a chance to modify their sites this weekend rather  than to not be in compliance Monday.&#8217;- Craig Tant.</p>
<p>One thing is certain, come Monday, there WILL be a lot of unhappy webmasters</p>
<p>So apart from the added workload for webmasters what other  issues is this likely to bring up in the immediate future, well, again,  based on the         rumors and, i should stress that is all they are up to this  point in time, from a few months ago we could expect one or more of the  following items to happen to the AVS model as we know it.</p>
<p>1) Visa starts to charge the AVS companies the $750 fee just to process memberships.<br />
2) Visa starts to charge individual webmasters the $750 fee to use an AVS service.<br />
3) AVS Systems cease to exist.</p>
<p>So, lets break each of the above items down and see how it will  have a long term effect on both AVS webmasters and, the adult industry  as a whole.</p>
<p><strong> AVS Companies Charged $750 Visa Fee&#8217;s.<br />
</strong><br />
In itself this isn&#8217;t a big issue that we should be immediately  worried about,         after all the AVS company will be the one footing this bill and,  with the amount of traffic and sales that these programs get $750 is a  relatively small pebble at the foot of a mountain. That said however,  some of the smaller AVS systems might end up having to close because  they cant afford the fees in much the same way that some Amateur paysite  owners had to close their aff programs.</p>
<p><strong> Webmasters Charged $750 Visa Fee&#8217;s.<br />
</strong><br />
This is the option that i am most concerned with, after all,  with thousands of AVS sites being built each day and being submitted to  literally hundreds of AVS companies the potential cost of this could run  into thousands for individual webmasters.</p>
<p>Of course, with this expense there also comes some benefits. The  immediate benefit that comes to mind is that a lot of the dishonest  webmasters will refuse to or, be unable to pay this fee that in itself  will lighten the strain for the rest of the industry.</p>
<p>There is also the possibility that webmaster may need to pay  this fee for each and every AVS that they submit to which, in itself  will not only harm the individual webmasters but, it will also see the  rise and, dare i say it, fall of some of the smaller or less profitable  (from a webmasters point of view) AVS companies. No doubt if this did  ever happen the likes of Cyberage, UGAS, Global Male Pass et al will be unaffected as, they have  enough of a webmaster following and traffic base to ride this potential  storm out.</p>
<p><strong> AVS Systems Cease To Exist.<br />
</strong><br />
This is potentially the worst case scenario and, whilst i will  be the first to admit that this is VERY unlikely to happen, the         possibility needs to be looked at.</p>
<p>What happens to all of your sites you have in the AVS systems? What happens to all of your potential rebills? What happens to all of that AVS traffic?</p>
<p>Well i would say for the most part, changing your sites from AVS  to the free model wont be such a big deal for webmasters however, the         financial losses to individual webmasters and companies could  run into hundreds of thousands a month. With these financial losses will  more webmasters leave the industry or, will more of the AVS webmasters  start running TGP&#8217;s and dilute the traffic quality even further?</p>
<p>Speaking of traffic, we all know by now that AVS traffic is  qualified potent traffic but, what will happen when this traffic, should  the AVS be closed down, hit the adult web again? Quite simply long term  the effects of such a force could have positive and negative effects  ranging from paysite memberships sales rising to the onslaught and  proliferation of free porn being searched for again &#8211; good news for TGP  owners.</p>
<p>As you can see from the above, all of the speculation, rumors  and, facts speak for themselves in so much as, if you are an AVS  webmaster, you NEED to start diversifying your business model to ensure  that even if the worst         doesn&#8217;t happen, you are still able to be profitable online.</p>
<p>Article written by Lee</p>
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		<title>Utilizing All The Content You Use On TGP Galleries!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Utilizing All The Content You Use On TGP Galleries! For the last few months i have been experimenting with a few new (but old, if ya see what i mean) ideas. Basically i have adapted Voltars 3x3x3 project slightly and incorporated it into the TGP/TGP2 game. The results have given me some of the best [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Utilizing All The Content You Use On TGP Galleries!<br />
</strong><br />
For the last few months i have been experimenting with a few new (but old, if ya see what i mean) ideas.</p>
<p>Basically i have adapted Voltars 3x3x3 project slightly and incorporated it into the TGP/TGP2 game.</p>
<p>The results have given me some of the best sales ratios ever!  We&#8217;re talking under 1:60 almost consistently across all sponsors!!</p>
<p>What you did is thus&#8230;.</p>
<p>Design a NICE 15 pic tgp gallery in a table preferably four rows high and 5 columns across.</p>
<p>In the first row place one thumb in each cell (5 pics).<br />
In the second row place one odd sized banner in the first cell and merge cells 2,3 , 4 and, 5.<br />
In the cells you have merged place some descriptive text about  the pics you are using in under two paragraphs and include a line of  text where you MENTION the sponsors site name.<br />
In row 3 place one thumb in each cell (5 pics).<br />
in row 4 place on thumb in each cell (5 pics).<br />
under the table place a juicy text link.<br />
below this juicy text link leave a line or two and add a money  bar (one row by three columns using a contrasting color to the  background of your gallery page).<br />
ALL pics go on html pages using the same layout as your main TGP page but, without the table included.<br />
Repeat this process 4 times once for four different niches, saving each niche in their own sub folder for the main site i.e:</p>
<p>url/sub folder/niche 1<br />
url/sub folder/niche 2<br />
url/sub folder/niche 3<br />
url/sub folder/niche 4</p>
<p>You should now have 4 TGP galleries using 15 pics on each in four niches (60 pics in total).</p>
<p>At the top of each of these main pages place a three cell one row table.</p>
<p>in this table use text links to describe each niche i.e:</p>
<p>Teen<br />
Gay<br />
Lesbian<br />
Mature</p>
<p>in the template for the teen niche you use text for the gay,  lesbian and, mature templates and link these to the appropriate TGP  template.</p>
<p>This is where the fun begins&#8230;..</p>
<p>Take all four TGP niche galleries you have just made and do the following&#8230;.</p>
<p>Delete the first row of cells (including pics) on all TGP  galleries and save the new page layout in another folder using the same  navigation structure as the original ie:</p>
<p>url/sub folder 2/niche1<br />
url/sub folder 2/niche2<br />
etc<br />
etc</p>
<p>You should now have the following:</p>
<p>four TGP templates consisting of 15 pics each.<br />
four TGP templates consisting of 10 pics each.</p>
<p>Again, link these new 10 pic templates to each other in the same way as you did the 15 pic templates.</p>
<p>Repeat this procedure to make the 10 pic TGP page using the  original TGP page BUT, this time, delete the bottom row of cells.</p>
<p>You now have the following:</p>
<p>4 niche 15 pic TGP pages<br />
4 niche 10 pic TGP pages<br />
ANOTHER 4 niche 10 pic TGP pages</p>
<p>Still with me?</p>
<p>Its gets better&#8230;.</p>
<p>Take your original 15 pic TGP template and do the following&#8230;</p>
<p>Delete the first and the third row of cells including all the  pics and save them in ANOTHER folder using the same structure as before i.e:</p>
<p>url/sub folder 3/niche 1<br />
url/ sub folder 3/niche 2<br />
etc<br />
etc</p>
<p>Again link these in the same way as before using the text links at the top of the pages.</p>
<p>What do you have now?</p>
<p>4 TGP pages using 15 pics<br />
8 TGP pages using 10 pics<br />
4 TGP2 pages using 5 pics</p>
<p>Can you guess what&#8217;s next?</p>
<p>Take that original template again and&#8230;</p>
<p>Remove the first and fourth row of cells do the same when you save it as you have done above&#8230;</p>
<p>What do you have?</p>
<p>4 TGP pages using 15 pics<br />
8 TGP pages using 10 pics<br />
8 TGP2 pages using 5 pics</p>
<p>Do it once more using the original templates but removing the final set of 2 rows of cells you now have&#8230;</p>
<p>4 TGP pages using 15 pics<br />
8 TGP pages using 10 pics<br />
16 TGP2 pages using 5 pics</p>
<p>In the root of the domain where you are going to upload these pages do the following&#8230;</p>
<p>Create a simplistic warning page&#8230; link this to a multi site  FPA&#8230; this multi site FPA links to each of the niche (15 pic) TGP  templates you have made.</p>
<p>On this same fpa place an email erotica collection box, banner  exchange code and a toplist counter code along with an exit console  going to         a MC POTD program.</p>
<p>Now, what you need to do is start submitting these pages to the  TGP/TGP2&#8217;s submit one a day or as many as you can until you have  submitted them all.</p>
<p>Ok still here?</p>
<p>Next you have to duplicate ALL of the above again.</p>
<p>Place the duplicate of the above into a separate set of folders/sub domains etc.</p>
<p>On the new root you have created, link to another multi site FPA AND the first root index.html page.</p>
<p>You now have the makings of an EXCLUSIVE 3x3x3 TGP hub which, you can leave alone and submit all of the pages         intermittently to any TGP/TGP2 you wish for LIFE!!</p>
<p>All the time you are adding new sections to it and building your  link pop in the search engines because you are continually interlinking  to each of the         separate niche and relevant sub niche folders.</p>
<p>Of course, you NEED to get the meta&#8217;s sorted on the first main  template for this to work but, if you change all subsequent meta  descriptions etc         you&#8217;ll have a very reasonable listing in Google for the relevant  search terms <img src="http://directory.gaywidewebmasters.com/articles/wp-includes/images/smilies/simple-smile.png" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<p>Article written by Lee</p>
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