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How Cam Girls Can Get Links To Their Sites For FREE

Alex Shwarz — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:43:21 +0000

I’m getting a lot of questions from cam girls who just started their own website on how to get links to their site from other sites. Links to your site is one of the most important things if you want it to survive among thousands of other similar websites. Links will be constantly bringing you fresh traffic of fans that you can make money from by selling cam shows, picture sets, videos, used pants, etc. It’s not that hard to get links to your site and here I’m going to explain the FREE way of doing this. Also after reading this article you’ll be able to get text link pointing to your site – GUARANTEED!

But first a little bit of theory. There are two types of links – text and image. You need to hunt for the text links because they are very good for search engines like Google. When Google sees text link pointing to your site it starts showing your site in search results (when somebody types certain phrase in Google). This can bring you tones of FREE traffic.

The process of getting text links to your site is very easy. All you need to do is find other sites that somehow related to your site and exchange links with them. By exchanging links I mean when site that you found puts text link pointing to your site and your site has link to that site in return. It may sound all complicated so let me show you exactly step by step how to get text link to your site. It’s going to take you only few minutes

Go to webcams411.com . As you can see this website is related to webcam modeling – exactly what you need. It has reviews of some webcam sites and also features independent cam girls. If you scroll down a little you’ll see the section called “Freelance Webcam Sex Girls who run their own websites”:

As you can see this section has links to independent cam girls sites. At the bottom of this section you can see this message:

This means that the site owner offers you to exchange links. All you need to do is send him an email to specified email address where you should specify what text you want to use for the link (in most cases it could be your website name) and address of your website (URL). For example in this section you can see a link with the text “Cam Girl Nikki” that points to http://camgirlnikki.com/ .

Note that this kind of sites like webcams411.com will ask you to put a link back to them. You can put this link in the sidebar or on special “Friends” page.

Conclusion

Getting links to your site is one of the most important factors that determines either your site will succeed or will be dead like many other sites in the Internet. So if you decided to run your own site make sure you constantly hunt for the links. There are tones of other sites like webcams411.com that offer link exchanges. Just make sure that the site you exchange links with is clean without crazy popups and some other “stinky” stuff.

Now Cam Girls Can Sell Paintings Picturing Themselves To Fans!

Alex Shwarz — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:06:13 +0000

Selling posters is one of the ways cam girls can make money out of their fan base besides cam shows. To sell a poster all you need to do is to print a good photo of yours in large size (like 8 X 10), autograph it and mail out to the buyers physical addresses. Most likely the fan who bought your poster puts it on the wall otherwise why would he need such a big picture. Now imagine you could sell not a large size picture but a real paining of yourself printed on canvas in a nice frame (like “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci). You can do it now with CanvasPeople.com.

CanvasPeople website provides a service where they will take your digital picture and print them onto canvas. Once you upload the picture you can choose the frame and many other things to improve the final painting. In about 5-6 days they will ship you the resulting painting. It looks so great and real that you can easily sell it to your fans for the top price.

Although I think that this new service is good for cam models, it can be used in your non-virtual life too. It could be nice and unusual present to your family members, friends and loved ones. You simply pick the best picture that you have related to that person, order painting of this picture through CanvasPeople.com and present it to them.

CanvasPeople are running great promotions right now until July 6th where you can get 8 X 10 painting of any picture you want for FREE. You’ll have to pay for shipping only. Also you can order paintings of bigger size for as cheap as size 11 X 14 for $9.99, size 16 X 16 for $23.99 and so on. I’ve personally used the free offer for 8 X 10 painting and the final product looks just great. I would definitely recommend to try this FREE offer.

Do you sell posters to your fans? How does it work for you? Please share in comments.

5 Ways To Market Your Independent Cam Girl Site

Alex Shwarz — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:01:52 +0000

Before site becomes successful it has to be promoted really well. If you do nothing to promote your site it won’t have any traffic and without traffic it is useless. But if you promote it rightly you can make a fortune with your site. So for the first few years you should put a constant effort in promoting it. If you’ve just started your own site you should spend the same amount of time for marketing as for producing the content. Here are 5 way how cam girl can market her site:

1. Search Engines Traffic

Search engines can bring you crazy amount of traffic. But for this to work your site has to be constantly updated with the new content that should combine text, pictures and video. Blogs are ideal for this since the whole nature of blog is to be regularly updated with short text stories and search engines just love them.

Although for search engines it’s not enough to keep your site regularly updated. You need to have links pointing to your site from other popular sites. Only then search engine will take your site seriously and show it higher in search results.

2. Links From Other Sites

As I mentioned above having links to your site plays very important role for search engines. But these links also bring you traffic from people who actually click it. The most affective and valuable links are text links and not banner ones. People are so used to banners these days that they just ignore it.

There are many ways to get text links from popular sites. For example you could have a review on a popular site that features cam models. Review will be in the form of text article with your picture or video. This article will link to your site in multiple places and you will get two wins at once: fresh traffic from those who read the review and clicked your link plus search engine will notice these links and take your site more seriously.

3. Mailing List

You should build mailing list from the very 1st day you start your site. Email is the most affective way to reach your fans. They most likely will read your emails because they intentionally gave their email addresses to you. You should put sign up form on some prominent place on your site and encourage your visitors to sign up. The more your web site exists the bigger mailing list becomes. With thousands of email addresses in your possession you can be sure to make money with every email you send out to the list. For example once a month you can send out an email announcing a feature show with link to your site where they can easily buy it. Suddenly hundreds fans will click that link and get to your site and most likely some of them will buy the show.

4. Be Active On Social Networks

You should be active at least on two the most popular social networks – Twitter and Facebook. Your site name must be present in your social network’s profile and any new updates you post to your site should be shared there. Once you build a big following on social networks your updates will become viral which will bring you a good traffic. For example let’s say you have 3000 followers on Twitter and you sent out a tweet with URL to your new video. It gets re-twitted by your fans and friends of your fans start watching this video and some of them become your new fans. These new fans will find out about your site through your profile or tweets. The same thing happens on Facebook. The key is to keep your fans active by spoiling them with some free content like pictures and videos.

5. Watermarking Content

You should watermark your pictures and video with your site name in it (that’s why it’s so important to have short and easy to remember domain name). This way you can get free traffic from those who view your pictures and video. But to get this traffic you need to promote your picture and video content mostly through social networks. For example you can post non-nude video on YouTube or share your picture/video on Twitter and Facebook.

Conclusion

If you decided to run your own web site you got to realize that online marketer should become your second job. It will be tough at the beginning but once it starts working you’re going to be surprised with the results. So you’d better love being marketer of your site.

Do you use any other ways to get traffic to your site?

3 Reasons Cam Girls Shouldn’t Start From Membership Site

Alex Shwarz — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:40:04 +0000

I’m getting a lot of questions from cam girls, who are thinking about becoming independent, on how to start their own membership site. It’s not a problem to start a membership site if you ready to invest your time and money but do you really want it? Here are 3 reasons why you shouldn’t start your independent venture from membership sites:

1. You Will Need To Invest Money Into Web Site Setup And Design

Membership site software is not cheap. If you want to build a top notch membership site expect to spend $3,000-$4,000 for the set up and design. There are cheaper options of course but they will require more of your time and effort. Or you can use video chat solutions that charge you around $200 a month for using their video chat platform and you’ll still have to build a website around them. The point is you got to invest money to have membership site.

2. Filling Your Membership Site With Content Will Cost You

You can’t start membership site without having pretty solid amount of content in membership area. This content should combine high quality pictures and videos. It’s almost impossible to produce this content all by yourself which means that you’ll have to hire professional photographer for this. And it’s going to cost you money as well.

3. Lack Of Traffic

Ok, so finally you’ve got your membership site out. You’ve spent money on setting it up, design and filling your site with content. If you expect to start getting paying members right away you will be very disappointed. It’s just doesn’t happen this way when tones of people start hitting your site right after it went life. Your site will be one of many thousands other similar solo girl sites out there. You’ll have to work your butt off to promote it in order to get some traffic to your new site. In many cases you’ll need to pay for the traffic in terms of buying advertisement on other sites and Google. And only fraction of this traffic will buy the membership. Don’t be surprised when it will take weeks! to sell a membership for the first time.

Conclusion

As you can see it’s not wise to start from membership site once you decide to be independent cam girl. Your membership site won’t survive taking into account the amount of competition out there, amount of money you invest and no return for long time. The smartest way is to build up a large fan base first and then build a membership site selling memberships to your hungry, ready to buy everything from you fans.

Solution

To build a large fan base you do need to work hard promoting yourself on cam networks, social networks like Facebook and Twitter, forums, etc. And you do need to have a web site which in contrast with membership site shouldn’t charge anything. You should keep it updating with teasing content and more and more funs will stick around it. Because you don’t charge anything to access your site you shouldn’t worry about professional design and quality of the content. You won’t have to spend thousands of dollars for professional design and photographers. You will be able to shoot it all by yourself with regular digital camera and camcorders. Blogs are perfectly suited for all these needs. They are easy to setup and it’s very easy to publish your content with blogs. If you haven’t started your blog yet, do it now and start becoming independent cam girl.

Do You Care How Your Site Is Doing?

Alex Shwarz — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:53:23 +0000

If you own a web site or blog and spend time on it you got to know how it is doing. Many cam girls start web site (or blog), keep it going for a couple of months and then give up because they don’t see any return for the work they put in it. That’s because they don’t check their site statistics. They don’t know the key metrics such as how many people visit their site every day, what keywords people use in Google to find your site, what other sites send you the traffic and so on. There is a FREE solution for accessing these statistics and it’s called Google Analytics.

Here are 4 key metrics that Google Analytics gives you (screenshots are taken from analytics data on my site, I’ve just blurred the real numbers he-he):

1. How Many Visitors You Get Every Day

As you can see it shows how many many unique people visited your site every day. If the same person visited your site 3 times a day he still will be counted as one person. See those spikes in traffic on the graph above? This is when I was sending news letter about my new articles. So you actually can see how certain actions you do on a web site are reflected in traffic increase (or decrease).

2. How Long Visitors Stays On Your Site

Bounce Rate means what percentage of visitors came and left right away from your site. This shows how your site is appealing to the 1st time visitors. So if bounce rate is high (above 70%) you need to put work into better design.

Avg. Time on Site shows how long (on average) your visitors stay on site. If this value is low (less than 2 minutes) it means that visitors don’t find your content interesting and you need to changes something (put more pictures, video, etc).

New Visits is the percentage of new visitors to your site. If this value is low it means that you have many repetitive visitors which is always good!

3. Traffic Sources

Shows what sites send you the traffic and how much of it. As you can see Google brings most of the traffic for my blog. And this is the case for many other web sites out there.

4. Keywords Your Visitors Used To Get To Your Site

Shows what keywords people used in Google to get to your site. For example if you see that “Asian Girl Fucking Blog” and other variations of this keyword brings you the most of the traffic, see if you are on the 1st page of Google for this phrase. And if you are, then there is a good chance that you can get to the first 3 spots on Google for this keyword. So start publishing more articles with this keyword putting it in a title and body of the article. Once you get to the 1st spot in google for your top keyword you’ll be amazed how much traffic you’ll be getting.

These are just 4 the most important key metrics that you can view through Google Analytics. There are other metrics that will give you even more details such as the most visited web pages on your site, top pages people leave your site from and so on.

It’s very easy to set up Google Analytics for your site. Here is a nice video I found that explains how to set it up and use:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Conclusion

Running your own web site is like running your own business. You can not just start it and let it go. You should pay attention to what’s going on around your web site and do necessary tweaks to make it better. Checking key metrics through Google Analytics is the must for every website owner.

If you have any questions about how to set it up for your web site or what different metrics mean don’t hesitate to ask in comments.

Simple SEO Tutorial For Cam Girls

Simple SEO Tutorial For Cam Girls

Alex Shwarz — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:07:38 +0000

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization which means making your site more exposed to search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. Search engines can give you crazy amount of visitor’s traffic that will buy your cam shows, picture sets, custom videos, and many more. Plus you can make good money through affiliate links. Possibilities are endless here. In this article I’m going to explain 4 steps you need to do to get search engines traffic. The more work you put into it the more traffic you will get.

First of all you need to have your own web site on your own domain name. You don’t want to send traffic to other sites. The best type of web site for this is Blog. Why blog? Because if you run your blog it means you update it regularly with text content (along with pictures and videos). And search engines love text, because this is what people use to make searches, right?

So assuming you have your own blog, here is how to perform SEO:

1. Find Relevant Keywords You Want To Optimize Your Blog For

You need to have a list of 20-30 keywords that are relevant to your blog. To find these keywords you should use Google AdWords Keyword Tool. It’s FREE and very effective. Just enter some keyword relevant to your blog, type characters you see in the picture and click “Get keyword ideas” button. Make sure you checked “Include adult content in my keyword results” in “Filter my results” option:

You need to look for those keywords that have Monthly Search Volume between 5,000 – 15,000. F’or example “asian girl fucking” has 9,900 monthly search volume and “asian teen fucking” has 4,400 (which is not that bad either). The point is you need to find as many such keywords as you can (e.g 20-30)

2. Check Competition For Every Found Keyword

To find the competition you go to Google and put every found keyword into search. If you are getting not more than 2 millions results this is the keyword you should use for SEO. For example “asian girl fucking” has only 2,900,000 results so you should put this keyword on your list:

As result you should get about 10-15 keywords that have pretty good search volumne and very little competition.

3. Use Found Keywords In Your Posts

You should always put one keyword in the title of the post and then use different variations of this keyword within the post’s body. Just don’t put too many keywords (Google doesn’t like it). Write your post for humans not for search engines. Try to keep every article at least 200 words long.

4. Get As Many Links To Your Blog As You Can Using Found Keywords

Links are the most important thing in SEO. You need to have back links to your blog from other sites – as many as you can. You should strive for text links rather than banner links. Every text link should have keyword found in step 2. E.g. you can ask your friend model to put “Asian Girl Fucking Blog” in her blog roll, use it in your Twitter account bio, in your forum’s profile signatures, etc. Anywhere you can get text link on other sites, use your keywords.

Conclusion

As you can see it’s not a rocket since to do SEO. Although it can take some time to do the keyword research, write posts optimized for keywords and find text links back to your blog. But ones you master this, you’ll be amazed by the amount of traffic you start getting and how much more money you start making.

How Cam Girl Can Make Money With Affiliate Link

Alex Shwarz — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:28:21 +0000

Every cam girl spends most of the time online interacting with fans or looking for new fans. But many just don’t realize how easy it is to make money online besides doing private cam shows. I’m going to show how you can make extra cash by doing affiliate marketing. But first we need to clarify what is affiliate link and who are affiliates.

Affiliate is a sales person on the Internet who earns commission from every sale made. But on Internet everything is a little different than in real life. To make a sale all you need to do is to send customer to the web site you are affiliated with. If this customer buys anything on that site you will get your commission. And to send customer you need him to click a special link which is called affiliate link.

Let me make an example if it sounds too confusing. Lets say you become an affiliate of Amazon.com. Once you registered as affiliate Amazon gives you affiliate link like this:

http://www.amazon.com/?tag=

, where is unique ID assigned to you by Amazon. If somebody goes to Amazon via this link and buys something you will get 4% of the amount spent.

Well that was a basic example to help you understand how all this works. Most likely you are not interested in being affiliate for Amazon. But how about cam networks you work for?

Every cam network has an affiliate program. For example if you work for LiveJasmin just check out at the very bottom of they site and you will find Webmaster Wanted link. Once you register as affiliate you will get your very special affiliate link. And now the magic happens. When you give this link to one of your fans (who is not registered with LiveJasmin yet) and he buys your show, you’ll earn $40 (even if he spends just few minutes in private). Or you can choose to use a different kind of affiliate link that will bring you 20% of what he spends on LiveJasmin for life with you or any other model.

Warning: you can’t share your affiliate link in free chat of cam networks you are working for. It’s against their terms of service. Also make sure you check with your network if it allows to open affiliate account besides having model’s account. Some cam networks don’t allow their models to become affiliates (which I think is really stupid).

All of this should sound good but you might be wondering how you can share your affiliate link with fans if you can’t dot this in free chats on cam networks. Here are some of many ways how you can do this:

1. Your Personal Blog

If you have your own blog you can put affiliate links inside your posts and on the side bar. This is how many people make money with blogs. If you keep your blog regularly updated your fans will come back to read new posts. And these new posts can have affiliate links that will be clicked. The more fans your blog has the more money you can make through affiliate links. Plus you will get search engines traffic as well. I know people who make $50,000 – $100,000 a month(!) on their blogs in mainstream. And with adult content it’s much easier to build a solid fan base.

2. Twitter

I’ve already written how you can build a solid fan base on Twitter. When you treat your Twitter fans good and keep them updated with teasing pictures and videos they will be eager for every update you post. So once in a while you can put your affiliate link in one of the updates and many of your fans will follow this link and possibly make a purchase earning you the commission.

3. Forums

Forums can be another place where you can share your affiliate links in forum threads. You may start your own thread or you may participate in existing ones. Just make sure that your forums posts with affiliate links look natural, otherwise you will be banned for spamming.

4. Commenting On Other Blogs

Most of the blogs allow to comment on their posts. So you can post a comment with your affiliate link in it. Note that comments get moderated by real person before they are published so make sure it provides some value to the post. Otherwise blog owner won’t approve it.

5. Amazon

Ha-ha. We are going back to Amazon here. I’ve already written how you can build a wish list on Amazon to get gifts from your fans. And I’ve also explained above how Amazon’s affiliate program works. So you can combine these two together. You send your fans to buy something from your wish list through your affiliate link. No matter if your fan buys something from your wish list or buy something for himself, if he makes a purchase within 24 hours of using your affiliate link you’ll get your 4% commission.

Conclusion:

Ok, that was a long post but I hope very worse reading. The point of all this is that by working as cam model you interact with your fans online a lot. During this communication you can send links in one form or another. Many sites whose links you send have affiliate programs. So why not to use a chance to earn extra cash? People make thousands dollars a day doing this in mainstream so why cam girls can’t take advantage of this as well?

Why Every Cam Girl Should Have a Mailing List

Alex Shwarz — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:43:32 +0000

If you don’t use mailing list on your site or blog you are losing money. The longer you don’t have it the more money you lose. Collecting email addresses of visitors who are interested in your content makes you really independent cam model. Let me show you why.

Here is how it works:

You put web form somewhere on your site (in free area) that collects names and email addresses from visitors. You can see such a form on my blog to the right (it says “Subscribe to Newsletter”). Sure not every visitor leaves his email address but those who do most likely are interested in your content.
Once visitor fills out the form and clicks the “Submit” button he receives confirmation email that asks to confirm his email address by clicking the link inside.
Once visitor clicks the link he’s taken to the “Thank you” page. At this point you are getting email subscriber who is interested in your site/blog since he filled out his info (name and email address) and confirmed his email address.

If you haven’t subscribed to my blog yet you can use the subscribe form on to the right (close to the top) to go through the whole process see how it works. Plus you’ll receive my newsletter

So if you update your site or blog regularly your mailing list will start to grow. In 3-4 months you may have hundreds of email addresses. And it will be growing every day. I know guys who have up to 250,000 email addresses collected this way.

And this is how you can use this mailing list to make money:

Set up so that once you publish new article on your blog the automatic email gets sent to all your email subscribers. This email could include a little snippet from the article and link back to your blog to read full article. This way you’ll be getting instant traffic spikes to your blogs when you publish new articles. And more traffic means more money, right?
You can announce your cam shows this way. For example once a week you can send out an email about your upcoming show with some teasing pictures, etc. This way you’ll be getting instant buyers of your show. No need to waste yur time in free chats. And if you changed your cam network you can let your fans know about this via email as well.
If you sell your picture sets, calendars, lingerie, etc you can email announcements about new stuff for sale.

These are just a couple of ways how you can earn money from mailing list. There are many more, just use your imagination. This is called email marketing. The point is that you have backward communication channel with your fans. You can reach them whenever you want. Email is the most reliable way to reach people. Most people check their emails every day, more regularly than checking their Facebook or Twitter pages.

So if you have your site or blog running and don’t have mailing list set up yet, do so now. It’s not hard to set it up at all and you can easily do it by yourself. There are many services out there that help you manage and grow your mailing list. If you can afford to spend $20 a month I would definitely recommend AWeber. This is the best email subscribers management solution on the market. It provides all you need: customizable web forms, interface to send broadcast emails to your subscribers, integration with your blog, documentation and video tutorials, etc. I use it myself and very happy. And the first month is just $1 so why not to try it?

Update: AWeber is not adult friendly. See my other post for more details.

Have you ever thought about using mailing list for you site or blog?

Accepting Payments For Cam Shows With Zombaio

Alex Shwarz — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:41:11 +0000

When it comes to deciding on processing clients credit cards, you can choose between opening your own merchant account or using a third party processor. With merchant accounts, you need to do your own fraud detection, but a third party processor, like Zombaio, will run it all for you, taking an often confusing part of getting your clients’ payments off your hands. This is generally the preferred method among webcam models’ services and pay sites that charge credit cards.

Zombaio is very easy to use and setting up your site with this service will have you able to accept payments within one business day. One of the many convenient aspects of Zombaio includes not needing a business license to purchase their service if you are independent (working for and by yourself). You can simply register your Social Security number and things will get underway.

Once you’ve signed on, you will be required to give them access to your site so they can confirm it provides a members’ area (for your paying clients) as well as an outside page or site (such as a tour or bio page) and you will also need to have an 18 U.S.C Section 2257 compliance notice on your site. In completion of these two fast steps, you can set up either non-recurring buttons or a virtual wallet (for revolving credits for your clients). The non-recurring payment option is much easier to set up than the virtual wallet and is recommended if you don’t have a lot of experience with the technical side of sites or don’t have a friend to help you set it up. If you know how to edit html, this will come in handy as you will be given a code to paste onto your signup page that will show the signup form and button options for your clients to click to make their secured payments.

You can opt in to receive confirmation emails for each payment made by your clients. The emails will include the username and email address of each client so that you can identify instantaneous payments (for webcam shows, etc) and identify their user account if they’d paid in advance for a cam show. This adds to the convenience of using a third party processor such as Zombaio, however it’s a good idea to contact your client before the show if he’s planning on paying in advance to ensure the type of show and time is comfortable and convenient for both of you.

Overall Zombaio is great to use if you’re hoping to have your webcam business working for you without going through a webcam hosting company and without having to deal with a less automatic merchant account. You also get full payments from all of your clients’ cam shows and only need to deal with the low percentage overheads rather than working at a lower rate overall and letting the company you work for make a profit on top of your own earnings.

Stay In Touch With All Your Fans Through The Blog

Alex Shwarz — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:51:03 +0000

One of the major benefits of running your own blog is that you can constantly stay in touch with your fans. Your potential clients can read your blog constantly without even visiting it. You may be wondering how they can do this. Well, there is a feature in every blog that you may not know about. It’s called RSS Feed.

In nova days many people subscribe to different blogs through rss feed to read articles from these blogs whenever they want. And they can read it from their iPhones and other smart phone devices. They don’t have to be in front of the computers.

Let me provide you with example how it works. A guy finds your blog through Google, likes your articles/pictures and subscribes to your blog’s RSS feed. Every blog has RSS feed and it’s usually marked by this icon. This guy may be subscribed to 10 other blogs of different kinds and now he adds your blog to his list. The next day he may be sitting in a subway on the way to work and browsing through the list of new articles (on blogs he subscribed to) through RSS reader app on his iPhone. He notices that your blog’s got new article and views it right from his iPhone! And he’ll see your article the way it looks like in your blog along with all your pictures and even videos!

So if you are already running your blog make sure that you make it easy to subscribe to your RSS feed. Place RSS feed icon in prominent place so your visitors can easily see it and subscribe. If you don’t have blog yet, start it NOW!