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Boosting Search Effectiveness
All websites need traffic, but dramatic changes in the traffic patterns of many adult websites are causing operators to examine other means of luring in visitors. Part of this problem stems from extremely high levels of competition in the search marketing arena, where sites lacking front-page rankings are at a considerable disadvantage; another part of the problem is the devaluing of low quality sites.
The Case for Natural Link Building
Linking between websites is the foundation of the Internet and an arena fraught with fraud and deception as quick buck artists seek an unfair competitive advantage, tainting a process that might otherwise be seen as legitimate “vote” for a site’s quality, significance, or value.
XBIZ Explores ‘The Feminist Porn Movement’
XBIZ explored the changing landscape of “The Feminist Porn Movement” in the June issue of XBIZ Premiere magazine, which is now available online.
A New Generation of Tailored Data Services Comes to Forefront
Interactivity and personalization are among the keys to parting prospects from their cash and driving online profits today. The evidence for this is seen in the popularity of live cam and dating sites, where personality sets the stage for an individualistic appeal that pre-recorded content marketers may find hard to compete with — a challenge as well as an opportunity that is increasing in complexity as customized content delivery arrives.
Billing Innovators in Alternative Processing
Proving that innovation and a keen eye for current market trends can allow a new company to gain traction or an existing one to massively increase market share, even in a very competitive field, these payment processing and alternative payout trendsetters have demonstrated massive growth in recent months. Examining the services they are offering can also provide actionable intelligence for site owners, sponsors and webmasters looking to see where the money is moving and how it will be getting from point A to point B as the field of online finance continues to evolve.
Sex and Sensibility
While a stiletto-clad Carrie Bradshaw glamorized the life of the sexologist on cable television, career optimization for a sexuality educator in the real world takes significantly more than designer shoes. For Megan Andelloux, Charlie Glickman, Emily Morse and Jamye Waxman — it took consummating the appropriate relationships with sex toy manufacturers, circumventing barriers erected by a generally sex-squeamish society and procuring advanced-level education.
Banking on Bitcoins
It sounds perfect: an alternative currency that works in every country; has no chance of chargebacks; miniscule fees; and provides the world’s greatest investment opportunity.
Staying on Top With Credit Card Billing
As the adult entertainment industry continues to evolve, so do online billing solutions — and for adult webmasters, traditional online credit card billing continues to be vitally important in the North American market. Credit card payments take a back seat to other payment methods in many European countries, but for adult webmasters serving the North American market, access to credit card billing is crucial. The vast majority of people who pay for online adult entertainment in the U.S. and Canada are still doing so with credit cards, and any adult webmasters who are seeking North American customers need to have an extensive knowledge of innovations, trends, solutions and developments in credit card billing.
XBIZ Retreat Miami Hosts Most Highly-Attended Event to Date
This week’s XBIZ Retreat — an all-inclusive, invite-only event — boasted the highest attendance to date since launching one year ago, bringing together adult retail market leaders for three days of private meetings, networking and special events.
Selling Free: Mechanics of the Business Model
There’s a lot of discussion in adult webmastering circles these days about the future of premium porn and the move to free, ad-supported websites as the business model of choice for many operators. Piracy is frequently cited as the culprit driving porn’s market shift and indeed, porn’s piracy problem is mainstream’s problem, too — since “nobody” wants to pay for movies, music or games anymore, they want it all for free...
XBIZ Summit Sets New Standards
The scent of muddled mint filled the air as Mojitos mixed with marketing in the Miami moonlight — accompanied by strains of hard rock guitar, wailing in wanton abandonment
XBIZ Summit Day 2 Seminars Deliver
The 2013 XBIZ Summit brought the latest installment of its popular educational seminar series to Miami for a second day, featuring an adult entertainment industry insider’s look at the path to porn profits today and the potholes along the way.
XBIZ Summit Prize Winners Announced
XBIZ Events Director Moe Helmy announced the winners of the first-ever “gamified” show competition at the XBIZ Summit, presented by AWEmpire, on Friday morning during the Farewell Toast at the Mayfair Hotel & Spa.
Topical Sexual Enhancers: Pleasure Products' Hot Topic
Although topical enhancement is the new “hot topic” in the pleasure products world, the sex jazzers have been a mainstay in the industry for nearly three decades.
XBIZ Summit Day 1 Seminars, Special Events
The 2013 XBIZ Summit in Miami spun up the latest installment of its educational seminar series with a roundup of the adult entertainment industry’s best and brightest.
XBIZ Summit Sizzles on First Full Day
Summertime started early on Wednesday at the Mayfair Hotel & Spa, where the top digital media professionals in the adult industry gathered for the first full day of events at the XBIZ Summit, presented by AWE.
XBIZ Summit Warms Up Miami
Early bird attendees of the XBIZ Summit warmed up to a day of relaxation and networking on the first of this three-day adult entertainment industry event.
According to Planogram — Setting Up Retailers for Success
Planogram (also plan-o-gram) n. a diagram or model that indicates the placement of retail products on shelves in order to maximize sales.
Dev Depo: Modernizr, Finding a Perfect Fit
Taking advantage of cool new web technologies is great fun, until you have to support browsers that lag behind, says the publisher of Modernizr (www.modernizr.com), a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in a website user’s browser.
PAY4 Brings New Payments Solutions to XBIZ Summit
The team at alternative payments solution provider PAY4 has arrived in Miami for XBIZ Summit 2013.