Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Back in the day

A couple years ago I was discussing BeaverBum with a very successful adult website administrator. He gave me a list of rules to follow. I was impressed with myself that I already did many of the things on his list, such as not starting a site without at least 10,000 thumbs and using a good strong brand. There were a couple points he made which I didn't do. 1 point was to use trade scripts. These scripts inflate adult traffic and are used widely across the adult community. The way they work is that when you click on a thumbnail, sometimes it takes you to the gallery and other times it sends you off to some other site. In return for doing this, the site you send them to will send you back a user.

I would never put a trade script on BeaverBum. The whole reason I decided to get into this industry is because trade scripts pissed me off. I wanted to have a porn site I could go to without being pushed all over the internet against my will.

Another knock against my site was that I didn't have any bookmarkers. Bookmarkers are reminders placed all over to remind people to bookmark the site. It probably would have got me a few more retained users, but I figured I would go way above and beyond bookmakers.
I decided that I would capture email addresses. By capturing email addresses, I can tell people to come back to my site. I dont have to rely on them navigating though their bookmarks and stumbling upon my bookmark. For those who get my email SexyInbox is also mine, I do not share email addresses with anybody. SexyInbox sends daily and BeaverBum sends a bigger weekly email.

Over the years of surfing porn, I did sometimes regret not bookmarking a particular site or particular model. I honestly never saw those sites again, but I have come across the models again doing what I do. Dwelling on whether I should or should not add bookmarkers to BeaverBum lead me to a new idea. My "Adored" section.

Instead of bookmarking my site to the browser, I rely on people remembering BeaverBum and coming back. However for those who do come back, I created an "Adored" section. The purpose of the "Adored" section is to essentially allow registered users to store a list of their favourite models. The models have to be classified before they can be added to the "Adored" section, but the way I have it setup is that it only takes a few seconds to classify the model. And another few seconds to A.K.A. that model to another classified model. In the "Adored" section you can also choose your favourite gallery of the model. I have found this to be very handy because there are certain poses or camera angles which I like to see, and not every gallery has them. Allowing me to pick my #1 gallery of a model will ensure that I can get back to my favourtie poses, should I ever need to.

Hope you guys enjoy the "Adored" section. Keep on BeaverBum'in!