GoFuckYourself.com - Adult Webmaster Forum - View Single Post - 4 easy ways to increase your tube site revenue

wankawonk · 12-15-2018, 06:08 PM

Hello, everyone!

I'm a webmaster with over 4 years experience running my own successful tube sites. In this time, I've learned a lot of tricks to increase my website revenue. I would like to share some of them with you today!

Skimmed Traffic

If you're not selling skimmed traffic, you're missing out on a lot of potential revenue.

What is skimmed traffic, you ask? Skimmed traffic is when you click on a link, and instead of being taken to your intended destination, you are redirected to an advertisement. Skimmed traffic networks provide you with a direct link, and you get paid for every hit you send to that link.

This would seem to be annoying for users, but I've found it to be a much better way to monetize my tube sites than popunders--in fact, I don't even use popunders anymore! The CPMs are similar, you can get more impressions (since many browsers are blocking popunders, but no browsers will ever block clicked redirects), it's less likely to get your site penalized by google (keep reading to find out why) and the actual ads being shown are much less annoying--it turns out it's mostly CJ tubes buying skimmed traffic, so you don't have to worry as much about malware, aggressive landers with autoplay sound, etc.

So how do you implement skimmed traffic?

My recommendation is, cookie your users with the amount of videos they've viewed in the current session. Then you can set up your server to redirect users to the ad url based on the amount of videos they've viewed. For example, on my sites, I redirect my users to the ad url on their 5th video view, and then on 5% of views after the 6th. I recommend you only redirect on video views, not on other page views, because the user specifically intends to watch a specific video, so when they get redirected, they're likely to just click back and click on the video again, keeping them on your site most of the time.

Using cookies to determine when to redirect will help you avoid a google penalty, because google doesn't use cookies when they crawl your site. So google is not likely to ever notice that you have some redirects on your site. (You should probably use this strategy for popunders, too--don't add the code to the page until the user has made a few views. This will make your pops less visible to google.)

I recommend that you sell your skimmed traffic to CLICKAINE, where I've seen the highest CPMs for my traffic.

So, you should definitely start selling skimmed traffic ASAP! If you need any help setting it up, feel free to PM me.

Native Ads

Native ads are all the rage in advertising in 2018/2019, and for good reason: People click on them at a much higher rate than banner ads, meaning more revenue for you, the publisher. Personally I've seen fantastic revenue with native ads--much better than banners, and in some cases almost as good as popunders.

Native ads are typically styled with CSS to fit with the rest of the content on your page. They consist of an image, a headline, and a description--all of which can be styled to match your website's CSS.

EXOCLICK is the best network for native ads. I've seen fantastic CPM using exoclick native ads.

Here's a few tips to optimize your revenue with native ads:

--Get the CSS as close to your website as possible.

--Place the native ads in your page flow so that users will see them as they scroll. For example, if you have a list of thumbnails, 4 thumbnails wide, then try putting a 4-thumbnail wide native ad every 3 rows of videos. This will get you much better CTR (and therefore better revenue) than placing them at the bottom of your page, or next to a video. That said, you'll make better money placing native ads at the bottom of your page, than you will stuffing the bottom of your page with banners like you see many sites doing.

Native ads can be a little tricky to style properly. It took me a while to figure it out. If you need any help with how to style them and where to place them, feel free to PM me!

Video Sliders

This is a relatively new ad format that is gradually taking the place of instant message ads that pop up in the bottom right corner of the page (you know, the ones where a fake instant message box pops up in the corner with a fake girl saying "hey sexy" or something). It pays much, much better than instant message ads--over 4x better, on my sites.

These new video sliders slide in from the bottom right corner and play a short VAST video ad (with no sound) that you can skip through after a few seconds. They have insanely high CTR (and therefore CPM), I've never seen anything like it!

These are super easy to implement. Just head on over to CLICKAINE, create an account, get your site approved, create the ad zone (find the "add zone" button next to your domain on the statistics page of the publisher section), and you'll get a Javascript code that you can easily add into your pages.

If you're not using video sliders, you need to be!

Chaturbate Native Ads

I saved the best tip for last: Chaturbate native ads are the single best revenue source on my tubes, outperforming every other ad format by factors of 5x to 10x, and accounting for almost 30% of my total revenue. If you don't have chaturbate native ads on your tube, you are fucking up big-time.

These ads work by showing thumbnails of currently-online models. When you click one, it takes you directly to the model's chat room, which means you get a really nice conversion rate--users are being taken exactly where they meant to go, so they're more likely to convert.

Here's my 2018 revenue so far from chaturbate native ads, just to give you an idea:

Unfortunately, these take a little more work to get right. You have two options.

First, you can go to your chaturbate promo tools page, and select the "Cam Listing" tool. This will give you a simple-to-use iframe that you can embed on your pages...but there's a problem. It's not styled to look like your content! So the CTR Will be much lower than you could potentially reach.

Now, if you're decent with CSS, you can do some work to make it look more similar to your content, which will greatly increase your CTR and earnings. But there's an even better option:

Use the chaturbate JSON API and your programming skills (or hire someone) to create a truly native widget. Check out what I have on one of my sites:

what's awesome about this is that, by creating the native widget using the JSON API, I was able to list the model name and the chatroom description all within the "title", which looks exactly like all the other titles of all the tube videos on my site. If you use the "Cam Listing" iframe from chaturbate, you don't really have this option--the header underneath the model's thumbnail is just going to say her name, and then beneath that you'll have the room description, which is going to make it look a lot less convincing to your users. You really want this widget to look as much like your normal content as possible!

Now, as far as placements, similar rules to Exoclick native ads apply: You want it to appear within your content, in places that users will be looking at as they scroll. So, next-to-video doesn't work that great.

Personally, I make almost all of my cam revenue from putting this widget on my home page. As users scroll down my home page, they see the widget (which I posted an image of above). These widgets haven't been very effective on my video pages or search pages. Not really sure why, to be honest.

Finally, keep in mind that cam revenue takes a long time to build up to its maximum potential. I've been using these for over a year and my monthly revenue is still increasing! So don't be discouraged if you have no spenders 2 weeks in. You just gotta give it time.

If you need any help integrating chaturbate native ads on your site, feel free to PM me. I can help you with the placements, the CSS, and I can even code you up a true native widget using the JSON API.

---------------------------------------

So, that concludes the tips that I have for you today. I hope that this information helps you to increase your revenues!

And remember, if there's anything I can do to help you, feel free to PM me. I do charge a fee for my time, but over time you'll make much more money from your website if you implement these strategies properly.

Good luck, and have fun!

12-15-2018, 06:08 PM
wankawonk Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2015 Posts: 1,017	4 easy ways to increase your tube site revenue Hello, everyone! I'm a webmaster with over 4 years experience running my own successful tube sites. In this time, I've learned a lot of tricks to increase my website revenue. I would like to share some of them with you today! Skimmed Traffic If you're not selling skimmed traffic, you're missing out on a lot of potential revenue. What is skimmed traffic, you ask? Skimmed traffic is when you click on a link, and instead of being taken to your intended destination, you are redirected to an advertisement. Skimmed traffic networks provide you with a direct link, and you get paid for every hit you send to that link. This would seem to be annoying for users, but I've found it to be a much better way to monetize my tube sites than popunders--in fact, I don't even use popunders anymore! The CPMs are similar, you can get more impressions (since many browsers are blocking popunders, but no browsers will ever block clicked redirects), it's less likely to get your site penalized by google (keep reading to find out why) and the actual ads being shown are much less annoying--it turns out it's mostly CJ tubes buying skimmed traffic, so you don't have to worry as much about malware, aggressive landers with autoplay sound, etc. So how do you implement skimmed traffic? My recommendation is, cookie your users with the amount of videos they've viewed in the current session. Then you can set up your server to redirect users to the ad url based on the amount of videos they've viewed. For example, on my sites, I redirect my users to the ad url on their 5th video view, and then on 5% of views after the 6th. I recommend you only redirect on video views, not on other page views, because the user specifically intends to watch a specific video, so when they get redirected, they're likely to just click back and click on the video again, keeping them on your site most of the time. Using cookies to determine when to redirect will help you avoid a google penalty, because google doesn't use cookies when they crawl your site. So google is not likely to ever notice that you have some redirects on your site. (You should probably use this strategy for popunders, too--don't add the code to the page until the user has made a few views. This will make your pops less visible to google.) I recommend that you sell your skimmed traffic to CLICKAINE, where I've seen the highest CPMs for my traffic. So, you should definitely start selling skimmed traffic ASAP! If you need any help setting it up, feel free to PM me. Native Ads Native ads are all the rage in advertising in 2018/2019, and for good reason: People click on them at a much higher rate than banner ads, meaning more revenue for you, the publisher. Personally I've seen fantastic revenue with native ads--much better than banners, and in some cases almost as good as popunders. Native ads are typically styled with CSS to fit with the rest of the content on your page. They consist of an image, a headline, and a description--all of which can be styled to match your website's CSS. EXOCLICK is the best network for native ads. I've seen fantastic CPM using exoclick native ads. Here's a few tips to optimize your revenue with native ads: --Get the CSS as close to your website as possible. --Place the native ads in your page flow so that users will see them as they scroll. For example, if you have a list of thumbnails, 4 thumbnails wide, then try putting a 4-thumbnail wide native ad every 3 rows of videos. This will get you much better CTR (and therefore better revenue) than placing them at the bottom of your page, or next to a video. That said, you'll make better money placing native ads at the bottom of your page, than you will stuffing the bottom of your page with banners like you see many sites doing. Native ads can be a little tricky to style properly. It took me a while to figure it out. If you need any help with how to style them and where to place them, feel free to PM me! Video Sliders This is a relatively new ad format that is gradually taking the place of instant message ads that pop up in the bottom right corner of the page (you know, the ones where a fake instant message box pops up in the corner with a fake girl saying "hey sexy" or something). It pays much, much better than instant message ads--over 4x better, on my sites. These new video sliders slide in from the bottom right corner and play a short VAST video ad (with no sound) that you can skip through after a few seconds. They have insanely high CTR (and therefore CPM), I've never seen anything like it! These are super easy to implement. Just head on over to CLICKAINE, create an account, get your site approved, create the ad zone (find the "add zone" button next to your domain on the statistics page of the publisher section), and you'll get a Javascript code that you can easily add into your pages. If you're not using video sliders, you need to be! Chaturbate Native Ads I saved the best tip for last: Chaturbate native ads are the single best revenue source on my tubes, outperforming every other ad format by factors of 5x to 10x, and accounting for almost 30% of my total revenue. If you don't have chaturbate native ads on your tube, you are fucking up big-time. These ads work by showing thumbnails of currently-online models. When you click one, it takes you directly to the model's chat room, which means you get a really nice conversion rate--users are being taken exactly where they meant to go, so they're more likely to convert. Here's my 2018 revenue so far from chaturbate native ads, just to give you an idea: Unfortunately, these take a little more work to get right. You have two options. First, you can go to your chaturbate promo tools page, and select the "Cam Listing" tool. This will give you a simple-to-use iframe that you can embed on your pages...but there's a problem. It's not styled to look like your content! So the CTR Will be much lower than you could potentially reach. Now, if you're decent with CSS, you can do some work to make it look more similar to your content, which will greatly increase your CTR and earnings. But there's an even better option: Use the chaturbate JSON API and your programming skills (or hire someone) to create a truly native widget. Check out what I have on one of my sites: what's awesome about this is that, by creating the native widget using the JSON API, I was able to list the model name and the chatroom description all within the "title", which looks exactly like all the other titles of all the tube videos on my site. If you use the "Cam Listing" iframe from chaturbate, you don't really have this option--the header underneath the model's thumbnail is just going to say her name, and then beneath that you'll have the room description, which is going to make it look a lot less convincing to your users. You really want this widget to look as much like your normal content as possible! Now, as far as placements, similar rules to Exoclick native ads apply: You want it to appear within your content, in places that users will be looking at as they scroll. So, next-to-video doesn't work that great. Personally, I make almost all of my cam revenue from putting this widget on my home page. As users scroll down my home page, they see the widget (which I posted an image of above). These widgets haven't been very effective on my video pages or search pages. Not really sure why, to be honest. Finally, keep in mind that cam revenue takes a long time to build up to its maximum potential. I've been using these for over a year and my monthly revenue is still increasing! So don't be discouraged if you have no spenders 2 weeks in. You just gotta give it time. If you need any help integrating chaturbate native ads on your site, feel free to PM me. I can help you with the placements, the CSS, and I can even code you up a true native widget using the JSON API. --------------------------------------- So, that concludes the tips that I have for you today. I hope that this information helps you to increase your revenues! And remember, if there's anything I can do to help you, feel free to PM me. I do charge a fee for my time, but over time you'll make much more money from your website if you implement these strategies properly. Good luck, and have fun!