The other recent thread here about guys getting their porn from tube sites gave me an idea of including more embeds from tube sites in my blog posts as a way to draw more traffic to my sites. On other blogs I see an occasional tube clip but I was thinking about really going all out with this, maybe even doing an entire “tube clip review” blog. I might even have a sidebar column with banner ads for my sponsors with the heading “When you’re ready to pay for porn try these sites”.
But I wonder… do the tube sites change their embed links, so that links you post today might not be valid months from now? It seems like that would be the smart thing to do, otherwise bloggers would just be stealing the tube sites content and riding their coat tails.
By the way, I am only suggesting the use of amateur type tube clips, not pirated content.
I know there’s quite a few pretty big names in the blogging world who do this, but I don’t know how it works with Google search, will it list your site as the originator in the results?
I’ve actually had BuddyBate.com for a while and that was initially my plan with that one, but I kind of let the blog plod along and haven’t paid it any attention.
I have added tube videos to some of my other blogs here and there, but nothing considerable that could tell me one way or another whether it’s worth doing.
There is always the chance that videos will be removed, but your text will always be there, and it doesn’t serve the tube site to be loosing videos either.
Most of the video players contain advertisements or “related videos” links. If you embed them on your blog, you will also be sending traffic to that tube. I am not sure if it’s a good idea to introduce/send blog visitors to tubes. If they are horny and searching for places to get off, they might find what they are looking for on the tube and not sign up for a site that you promote.
I would never embed videos from other site into my own.
#1 you are doing a free branding for those sites #2 almost all have embeded advertiser’s links inside #3 what if some day they change their structure and your blog will be left with hundreds of defunct videos
All very good points raised, but is the blog one with personality or is it clear to the visitor it’s primarily an affiliate blog? I think having videos on a blog that people follow is probably more valuable than on a regular affiliate blog personally. It lends more credibility - you’re not just selling.
I work with one client who has probably over 15k a day consistently, and he gets comments regularly, with people voting the posts up and down. He doesn’t add videos at all to the site (either tube or affiliate embeds) but has posts featuring celebs mixed in with the porn. I think if you have that kind of following you can probably get away with it more than if you don’t.
I don’t think I have seen a blog where it’s all about reviewing clips from all the tubes out there, and it actually could get you some decent traffic.
Think about all the tube sites that get all that traffic every day, but they have hardly any text at all. If you’re targeting the tube traffic, for a blog, I wonder how big the chunk of traffic you’d get would be. After all, Google loves text, and if you’re offering a whole lot more of it targeted to the tube searchers you could find yourself in those top results pretty quickly.
Does that make sense?
You’ve actually got me thinking now. You could be looking at a viable way to tap the tube traffic without actually bothering with a tube at all.
I would try it. Some of the big blogs do it very successfully. Just be careful as to how aggressive the tube site is in their ads. For example, Xtube only displays related videos to get the surfer to go back to xtube. (Others actually put an ad to the paysite. I would avoid ones like that.)
Here is the deal: If you do it right and select good amateur content then surfers will come back to your blog. Your time on site will increase and your bounce rate should go down. Some of the blogs I frequent most have embeds from tube sites.
I tried embedding tube videos - bad idea. 1) if the video is slow to load (typical), then you get penalized by Google for slow page loads. 2) Tubes keep changing the embed codes and almost never think about the existing embeds when they do - so all your videos will go dead without notice. Now I only embed videos that I host. Or more accurately, I only embed videos where I host the preview pic, often the sponsor will host the FLV.
It’s not loaded when the page loads, so slowness there doesn’t count against you. Only the loading of the preview pic can count against you - which is why I host those myself.
I guess my point is if someone has a large blog network like MSM it wont hurt to try and add embedded videos and do some AB testing. Just embedding the videos on the main page I wouldn’t do. But the structure like those two seems fine to me.
Thanks for the feedback everyone. I actually have a tube domain I’m not doing anything with so I might try this idea on that.
But after I wrote my post I actually thought of one reason NOT to do this that no one else has mentioned yet. If the purpose of affiliate marketing is to get a surfer all horned up enough so he’ll go to a pay site and buy a membership, it seems like embeding tube clips could throw a wrench into this. If the surfer sees the tube clips and pops their load, pow… no sale. All you can hope for is that they’ll bookmark your site and keep coming back, eventually clicking on a sponsors banner. I must admit that more than once I’ve been on a tube site and found myself, ahem, relieving myself. Why just last week there was one clip of a cute young blonde guy from cam4…
Only the loading of the preview pic can count against you - which is why I host those myself.