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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.

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.

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 to Promote Webcam Shows on Twitter – 6 Simple Steps

Alex Shwarz — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:30:50 +0000

Twitter could be a powerful tool for building a great fan base that is easy to convert into paying customers. You can get thousands of loyal fans that will pay for your shows, buy gifts from your wish lists, buy your autographed posters and many more. But how can you get thousands of followers on Twitter? I’m going to show you a little spammy but proven way of getting targeted followers.

1. Create Twitter Account (if you don’t have one)

If you don’t have Twitter account do it now. For the Twitter’s user name try to use your nickname from cam network or your website/blog name if you have one. Write some teasing introduction in your profile description and definitely upload a nice teasing picture (non-nude one). Make sure that it looks nice when it’s reduced to 48 X 48 pixels in size. For the best results use the close up of your face (the whole body won’t fit into 48 X 48 nicely).

2. Tweet Regularly on Twitter

As soon as you open Twitter account you should start twitting regularly so that your Twitter account looks alive. Try to send minimum 5-7 teasing twits a day with at least one teasing picture. Since the length of the twit is 140 characters max the total time you spend for all this is no more than 20 mins a day. Many cam girls are so addictive to Twitter that they can’t live without it and communicate with their fans all day long. Once your fan base starts growing on Twitter you can start promoting your cam shows and wish lists through your twits.

3. Think About Who Is Your Ideal Customer

You must already have some following if you work on cam network. Just look who is the most paying one in terms of age, work place, ethnicity, etc. If you don’t have any fan base yes just use your intuition. You need to visualize your ideal customer

4. Use Twitter Search To Find Your Ideal Customer Profile

Now you need to use the power of Twitter search. For example if you picture that your ideal customer is a 40-45 years old man working in financial field, search for some financial terms and find tweets that contain these terms. Then look up the profile of the tweet’s author and at his profile picture (most of the guys put their face as profile picture). Also, look up how many followers this guy has. He should have at least 15-20K followers. So just find at least one guy who qualifies for your ideal customer profile. Or you can find top financial guys on Twitter through Google search.

5. Look Up Followers of the Chosen Profile And Start Following Some of Them Who Qualify

The reason this people following a guy you found in step 3 is because they are interested in what he’s twitting. So they should also qualify for you ideal customer to some extend. So just start looking through the long list of followers this guy has paying attention only to profile pictures to make sure that this is a male and of the similar age. You can easily look through 40 followers a minute and pick the ones that qualify.

And here is what happens for the other end. The guy who you picked to follow receives and email notifying him that he’s got a new follower. In this email he sees your profile picture and probably gets intrigued. He checks your profile, your recent twits and there is a good chance that he will follow you back.

6. Periodically Unfollow Those Who Don’t Follow You Back

Not every one who you follow will follow you back so you may end up following for example 800 people and only 500 people follow you back. Twitter profiles with such difference between number of followees and followers look spammy, so you need to unfollow those who don’t follow you back. It would be very time consuming and annoying to do this manually but luckily there are many free tools online that will make this process easy. One of such tools is Friend or Follow.

Conclusion

As you can see it’s not that hard to build a loyal fan base on Twitter. Just make sure that the content you share through your twits is not hardcore otherwise your account can be suspended and you’ll lose all your followers.

If you are new to Twitter and have questions please ask in comments section. Also it would be nice to hear some success stories how Twitters helps in your webcam modeling business.

Why Every Cam Model Should Have Her Own Home On Internet

Alex Shwarz — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:35:50 +0000

I’ve made a mistake that many beginner cam models do. I’ve trusted part of my business to 3rd party service and it has suspended my account for no reason. Here is what happened:

Last week my account at AWeber got banned due to violation of their Terms of Service. In particular they found my blog’s content as pornography and sex-related. WTF?! If you don’t know what AWeber is, it’s the best email marketing solution that allows building mailing list and then send mass emails to all subscribers. If you have already subscribed to my newsletter (through subscribe to my newsletter popup form) you may have noticed that every time I publish new posts on my blog you get an email about this. I could do all this without AWeber but AWeber has very high deliverablity rate (so your email doesn’t end up in spam folder) and many more cool features.

So my AWeber account got suspended for the non-sense reason mentioned above, I’ve lost 89 email addresses that I’ve collected so far, my blog doesn’t have that nice popup subscribe box, I don’t have access to very useful reports about my subscribers, and so forth.

Now how it all relates to the title of this post. Many cam models fall exactly into the same trap. You may have opened account on MySpace or Facebook for example. Spend hours and hours building your fan base by shooting content (pictures and videos) and publishing it. Then suddenly random moderator finds your content pornography and sex-related and just closes your account due to violation of their Terms of Service. Or some of your fans reported. Or may be your competitor reported. The point is it could be multiple reasons your account will be closed and all efforts are gone.

That’s why you need to have your own site – your home on the internet. If you host it on adult friendly hosting there is no way it could by shut down (unless you publish content that violates the law). So spend all your efforts on your site. Publish pics and video to it and then use other sites to announce what you’ve published. If your account gets closed on these sites you lose nothing but some source of traffic.

Blog is the most easy to setup and very affective type of site for adult models. So start your blog today if you don’t have one yet.

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?

Do You Really Want To Stay Away From Cam Networks?

Alex Shwarz — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:01:10 +0000

I was chatting the other day with one of my cam model friends Ashley Steel and she made the following statement:

“… I will also tell you I have run my own affiliate programs and I think it is best to use the sites and let them bring you traffic. You get higher commissions on your own traffic so self promo is still a great idea but a girl just on her own is NOT going to make any money, trust me. They SHOULD be on the sites using THEIR traffic. I ran my own programs cause I never wanted to pay anyone 50% or more for sites. After 5 yrs and $45,000 lost I would be HAPPY to go back and give them 50% — 50% of $6000 is a hell of a lot more than 100% of nada. Not to mention when you can make $100 an hour on a network, or spend 6 hours making $30 on your own site why on earth wouldn’t you just use their stuff? Also they keep their members cause they have a lot more girls. If you’re not on someone else’s site, and you take a day off you could lose valuable customers you spent weeks earning…”

I’m getting a lot of complains from beginner cam girls who are not happy with cam networks (cam sites) because of the high commission they charge (up to 70%). What Ashley means is if you know how to promote yourself, i.e. get your own traffic, you can get a lot more from cam networks. Some cam networks would pay you up to 40% in addition to what you’re getting if you sign up a new member to buy your show.

For example you may have your own blog where you publish short articles with teasing pictures. This blog is going to attract some traffic from search engines. Once you see that number of visitors to your blog grows you can start announcing your webcam shows linking to cam site you working on. Now let’s say one of your blog fans is eager for the private show with you. He clicks a link in your announcement, gets to the cam site, registers and pays for the show. So, now you are going to get your usual 30% plus additional 40% because you brought a new member to the cam site.

Cam networks pay you such a big commission for bringing a new member because they know that if he’s already spent money for your cam show most likely he will spend money on other models too.

The point of all this is that you need to know how to get your own traffic. Once you have it you can get money for your traffic. Ashley Steel described one of the ways how you can profit from your own traffic. Anyone wants to share other ways they use?

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Working On Multiple Webcam Sites – Pros And Cons

Alex Shwarz — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:46:57 +0000

Every webcam site offers a unique environment to work in and it’s important you find one that suits your personality. Sites like WebCams.com have large model databases, so if you’re alluringly cute, you could be quite successful on that site. However, if you enjoy chatting to clients and can sell yourself (or want to learn how to), LiveJasmin could be a good option for you as it has a free chat program for surfers to increase your exposure and build up your client list. Once you have a base site to work from, you can often work among other webcam sites at the same time to bring in more money.

Having multiple chat programs open simultaneously is the best way to get as many shows into your online time as possible. Many models run 1-3 free chat sites and have 1-3 offline sites open at the same time to earn faster. Using this method of performing, you will do better with some sites some days than others and will get a lot more paid opportunities than if you’d been signed to just one site.

While it’s nice to think of monetizing your time this way, be aware that many sites prohibit their models working with other sites. Check the ToS (Term of Services) agreement with each site. Some ToS agreements don’t allow you to use other sites so to stop having your account closed with them, you may need to be careful and either only use them or not use them during your multiple site sessions. LiveJasmin is the best webcam site to be signed up in if you’re looking to have multiple webcam sites streaming at the same time as it does not prohibit working on other sites. You can juggle more than one chat site by leaving a standard message for the other sites when you go into private chat. Make sure site administrators don’t view this message as it may breach their ToS and you may get your account closed.

Make sure you’re organized before each cam session so you don’t get flustered and remember your priority should be on paying customers rather than the free customers and you will learn over time that many free-goers are there to see what they can get from you for free (not all, but many). Teasing is the best way to get their cards out rather than giving the prize before they buy.

What is your experience with working on multiple webcam sites?

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!