Spectrumming

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Every day, Millions of surfers make their way from mainstream sites to porn sites. Sometimes they do it directly, via direct navigation and bookmarks, and sometimes they make their way in steps, through a sequence of sites. This is what I call macro-scale "Spectrumming," which happens naturally all over the web, and refers to establishing a network of sites with different site obscenity levels.

The borderland between mainstream and adult sites is appealing to surfers because it contains content - both visual and textual - that is sexy or risqué in nature. It is also appealing to advertisers, because it lets them get the best of both worlds: large volumes of traffic from unrestricted mainstream sources, and the higher converting power of adult-oriented programs. There are a small number of site types where this seems to happen naturally such as dating-related sites, celeb sites and humor or "gross-out" sites...more



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Since the whole idea here is that you are using several blogs together to achieve an effect, you might wonder how exactly the links are made between them -- I'll go into that later. But, I just wanted to say that it's much easier if you post to all of the blogs at the same time. This way you can track through the link sequence (just like the Spider is going to) and make sure you are #1) adhering to the rules about linking up and #2) adding a little something to the page that came before, in terms of descriptive value. One way to do this without too much thought and no extra text is to create two parallel paths between, let's say your "ad" and your pre-sign-up page gallery. Parallel paths would be link sequences that anchor from the same folder location. For example two pages of text in the same folder each linking to two thumbnail galleries in the same folder would be considered parallel paths. The spider likes this because it gets two different perspectives of the same content. The Parallel path concept can be scaled to make the anchor points the same sub.domain, or the same domain, or the same IP, when you are working with larger networks.

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If you take none of the technical details away from the article, take this:

"Most adult webmasters have it in their heads that they should shoot for the moon in terms of page rank for every site they operate. This approach inevitably leads to the temptation of 'shortcuts,' such as linking to your new sites from your established sites in an attempt to boost their page rank or engaging in any of a number of practices that attempt to gain Google page rank by making something look better than it is."

Not all your blogs can be 4-star generals, you have to have some grunt privates in there, and be prepared to sacrifice them on the "front lines" -- here's one of my most valued gruntblogs -- MYFASHIONGIRL


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Somewhat related to the idea above, is being prepared to "let go" of a blog that's holding you back. For example, my main "porn blog" at blog.impoverishednoobs.com is being prepared for "archival mode" -- this is what I am calling it when you stop actively posting to a blog, and shift into a mode where you are taking complete advantage of all the content and links in an "old but good" blog and making that the basis on which to create a new blog. Right now I am making a new blog in another subdomain of impoverishednoobs.com. Although this is a wholly separate blog (not even sharing a SQL DB), it will be very tightly integrated into the old workhorse. The result will be a macro-blog, with an established, thoroughly Google-Indexed content warehouse, and a shiny new front end with all the latest whistles, as well as all the ideas that I could not execute on the old blog. In this manner, you can keep adding new front ends, building onto the content/link "asset" and never lose PR, in fact, probably gain.

ALL ON A SINGLE DOMAIN --


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It should be no secret to anyone at this point that there IS a difference between blogroll links and links in posts.

Google is EXTREMELY familiar with the structure of vBulletin. There are tens of thousands of well-indexed vB boards out there. When it comes in here(GFY), it already knows what a sig is -- and think about, just logically -- if there is this wad of code in the same place every time you post, and the spider sees it is there whenever "you" are there, it simply integrates into You. Like If I am a doctor, I know what a hand is, I have studied-up on hands real good in anatomy class. When a new patient comes into my office, I don't run to him in amazement and wonder what those 5-pointed things are at the ends of his arms. I presume to look for DIFFERENCE -- "How is this specimen NOT like the rest?" The doctor thus forms his diagnosis, the spider, its place for you in its heart.

Links in posts are where a blogger would indicate his INTENTIONS, his ACTIVE VOLITION AND PREJUDICES would be in evidence there. Those are the things that blogsbyhumans have plenty of. Now, the blogroll on that there blog, is not link any blogroll you've ever seen.



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Long before blogs and blogging had reached the staggering popularity they have today, there was an understanding of Reciprocal Linking in the Adult Biz. Simple "You gimme a link, I'll give ya a link" evolved into complex scripts that balance not only for volume but for converting "quality", developed by some of the most talented innovators in all of e-marketing, people who post right here on this board. Later, a greater awareness of SEO principles introduced relative PR into the list of issues you had to consider when you recipped with another site. The impact of linking relationships between blogs, both to their respective Page Rankings AND the WAYS in which the SE's will index them is built on the principles of Relevancy (an arithmetical calculus), BUT also begin to integrate some of the new principles of TRUST. TRUST IS REPLACING RELEVANCY, FYI, as the basis of Page Rank. See PDF linked above.

To continue with the example of my blog (bannedfromtheboards.com) and Mike's new blog (internextlive.com), we have an imbalance of PR, an imbalance of "maturity" (DB size/# of posts) and an imbalance of age (inception date). Normally, all that would be recommended is the now conventional "blogging it" link, which happens when a blogger wants to excerpt another blogger's post on his site. As I describe in the article, you should always link up, never down (save for the loophole 5:1). Google rewards this when done right, because #1) you have proven yourself capable of identifying "quality" (as determined by the Spider's opinion of the site you choose to link to), and #2) because you are adding descriptive value to a pre-existing item in the index. You do this with a "more" link on the basic end of the spectrum, or more complexly, via careful selection of anchor text for the link to the single-post permalink of the article you are blogging.

That would be as illustrated by link 1. in the sketch below.



However (and I can already here my rationalist friends from across the pond and up north begin to froth at the mouth), something rather trippy happens when two blogs recip as illustrated in link 2. Remember, blogs are not expected in (let's call it) a "tight" recip with other blogs. By tight recip I mean post-to-post. A "loose" recip would be [blogA/post5]>[blogB/post33]:[blogB/post40]>[blogA/post7], for example. There is a formula in the PDF above that lets you resolve a hard value for TrustRank from such a relationship. But the beauty of TrustRank is it's intuitive, assuming you have any familiarity with trust or being trusted -- lol.

Look at at this way: The senior blog has conferred "trustability" upon the junior blog by linking to it from an ORIGINAL post (that's KEY), which the junior blog has blogged. If the
senior blog just blogged one of the junior blogs posts, that would (under most circumstances) violate TrustRank and hurt the Senior blog, and do nothing for the junior blog. This gets around that --


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