SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—Dating back to Google’s introduction of the Page Rank algorithm, link brokers have been at the forefront of most sound search engine optimization (SEO) strategies.
They’ve allowed companies to purchase links on relevant web sites to increase search rankings.
But nobody has presented the service AdultLinkMarket.com is offering – the first of its kind for the adult industry.
Adult Link Market, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based operation, allows adult advertisers to buy relevant ads to both drive quality traffic to their site while simultaneously improving their link popularity and improving their placement in the engines.
Like other link brokers such as Link Worth and Text Link Ads, Adult Link Market works off a 50/50 revenue sharing system that splits their profit from advertisements with the publishers in their network.
Launched earlier this month, ALM is rapidly building their network of adult content sites, blogs, forums, affiliates, and e-commerce websites.
Most online advertising in the adult space comes from the affiliate side. Many free sites will sell advertising to larger sites on a CPA (cost per acquisition) basis. For instance, Playboy offers a kickback to the referring site whenever someone signs up for their monthly service.
Adult Link Market prices all their ads on a flat monthly rate regardless of clicks or impressions. Publishers, or companies that sell links on their sites, are now able to make substantial payouts from “niche pages”, also known as “back pages”. Advertisers or companies that purchase relevant links from larger “authoritative” sites can gain considerable SEO benefits for a much lower, fixed cost than going through traditional SEO marketing companies. Advertisers also have direct control over their own budgets and which sites would be most relevant in which to purchase ads on. Conversely, publishers retain full editorial control over the text link ads purchased and delivered by Adult Link Market.
The major search engines set strict limits on what keywords pornographic sites can buy for sponsored search, so competing on the engines hasn’t traditionally been easy to do. Buying links through ALM gives adult webmasters a new tool to compete – and in several cases surpass – competitors.
AdultLinkMarket.com will undoubtedly change the landscape of advertising in the ever changing landscape of the adult industry.
For more information, please visit www.adultlinkmarket.com.
