The state of Language

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#1

There is a sponsor site which I regularly visit to see if there is anything in the works that I can start promoting early. It’s my best converting site for the uncut niche, so I like to get in as quick as I can to grab the traffic on a performer the moment it hits the web.

I went there tonight and see there is an update, and it looks like it might do really well - although they haven’t provided any affiliate content for it yet! I can only imagine that this is to try to stay on top of the SERP’s.
Checking their text, they are first position in Google consistently (on a whole line of copy, not on specific keywords), so they are beating their affiliates to the crawl.

The thing is, no one in their right mind should want to copy their text in the first place, because it really is quite poor!
The overriding goal for them should be to gain traffic for the uncut niche, and yet they’ve written a 135 word snippet for their update without using the words uncut, foreskin or intact once. I also counted seven mistakes. The text doesn’t flow, and actually stops you twice.

The largest market for this niche is American, and yet they only use English terminology. They’re completely missing out on a massive chunk of the search engine pie because they simply don’t understand the importance of language.

Now, I know that I have a specific appreciation for language that other users of their site might not have. And writing for your audience is definitely more complex than simply offering perfect English; more people understand David Bekham than they do Stephen Fry.

But from a business/SEO/marketing perspective they should certainly be paying more attention to the language they use than they are now.

So, affiliates and sponsors alike, do you pay attention to language? Do you perform any research or even consider who your audience is and the language they use?

Obviously I do, but it seems that many others have completely disregarded the importance of language - which is bizarre considering that the basic idea of a search engine relies on the written word.

Your thoughts?

#2

Re: The state of Language

Are you observing that websites robo-publish pre-written descriptive language for adult content without bothering to read any of it? Um…yeah. For a lot of folks, that kind of thing is simply not a priority — for better or for worse. This is tantamount to a winery run by people who never bother tasting any of their wines - just going through the motions along the assembly line to final product in the store. The wine should sell now right? As long as the label on the wine bottle features a cute animal and it says Cabernet somewhere…

Now, my position has always been that affiliates earn their money by adding value to the products the are selling. So, if there happens to be a producer whose products could be enhanced by exciting prose that snaps the reader into erect attention, that’s your marketing opportunity.

Instead of just following “What’s Popular and Hot”, I frequently select videos to write reviews about based on my own research that no one else on the planet Earth has both watched the video and taken the time to pen a persuasive essay about it, and to publish that on the Internet.

Also - if a video is made in a specific region - like say England, I would prefer to talk about the videos with an English bent. (for example, “God save the twink!”) I like selling Bel Ami because they are Europeans. If someone like all-American guys, well, that’s where all the California gay porn producers come in handy. At least, that’s always been my own approach. Everyone’s is going to be different.

Steve

#3

Re: The state of Language

I think you should start promoting my site if you’re after good text and uncut cocks :wink:

#4

Re: The state of Language

Sorry I didn’t get back to you Adam. My other half will be sorting that out shortly! :slight_smile:
We write our own content anyway, but your copy is definitely good.

Although, your site copy is still being used, and then crawled before BlakeMason is.
gayvidster, gaytube and rockettube (along with a few blogs) all appear above you in Google for your own site text on both my machines. Obviously pasting in a line of site text is not a measure of specific keyword success, but it is a measure of the way Google “trusts” a site, which is related to duplicate content alongside keyword use and linking.

I do have an idea of how to beat it, so send me a PM if it’s something you want to beat. I do believe it could lead to higher organic search traffic for the keywords you use within a month or two.