PPS or Revshare?

When you grab the affiliate links to place on your site, you sometimes have a choice between PPS (Pay per sale) or Revshare (usually 60% on the initial sale + renewals).

Revshare obviously looks better in an ideal world. Getting money as long as the membership is renewed is great. BUT sometimes the customers don’t renew the membership, and you have to take that into consideration. 60% of a 3.95$ trial membership that is not renewed is not much, while getting a 35$ PPS commission for the same signup is far better !

The choice depends on the quality of the site you promote. Some sites are very good at making customers happy, and the laters won’t unsubscribe. Some other sites are lame and boring  and customers usually leave and don’t renew. You don’t want a revshare option with them.

My advice is to always try revhare first, when available. Give it a try for a few months, and check the renewal ratio. If it’s bad, switch to the PPS option immediately !

Some sites have a  1$ trial, with a 30$ PPS for the webmaster. That may look like a good deal for you, because many visitors will spend 1$ to try the site, and you’ll get 30$ each time. But this usually means that the convert ratio is good, because poor content sites don’t offer that option. If most of the customers unsubscribe, they’d lose money if they pay you 30$ for a 1$ signup.

Now, is it a good idea to send your visitors to sites that have a bad content ? I don’t think so, because we don’t want visitors to think that they pay for crap, when they can download good content illegally, for free. So as far as I’m concerned, I always try to send my visitors to high-quality sites, with revshare programs.

The programs I prefer are LucasPays, BelAmi, GunzBlazing, BuddyProfits. I use only Revshare with them, and my commissions are growing every month !

How to make a collage ?

Collages are about 10 pics merged into one single JPG. Some are very simple, others have nice design, logos, borders, shadows, etc… Collages are usefull because they show the visitor alll the pictures at once. They don’t need to click on a thumbnail to see the large picture, and then click again to go to the sponsor. You link the collage to the sponsor directly, which is more efficient.

When I decided to add collages to some of my blogs, i checked which sponsors have ready-to-use collages. There are very few. Buddyprofits sends very nice ones along with their newsletters. Bonobocash has nice ones in the promo area. That’s it. Flamingo Buck gives a colage too but the width is too small : 291px. I asked them to make a 600px one, with no avail.

So most of the time, you’ll have to do it yourself !

It was quite difficult to me to find a software to make one. Here are the two softwares i found to help you to make your porn collages. The first one is dedicated to webmasters who like to make nice collages, with many effects. I’m not one of them :) I really think visitors don’t care about the design of a collage. I think they want porn, not drop shadows, nice logos or flashy colors. And as I try to make my posts as quick as possible. I prefer a simple collage made in 10 secs, that a beautifull one made in 5 minutes. Time is money.

Photoshop Elements

If you want to spend time and money to make a beautifull collage, you can use Photoshop Elements. It’s supposed to be a software dedicated to anybody, with no particular skills. I think it’s a very complicated one, and i wasted a long time finding how to make custom collages. As may adobe sofwares, it requires 10 Nasa computers to run smoothly. I never used a software that needed so many ressources. Very low to launch, ans using it is a pain in the ass.

So in order to create a collage, make a new empty file, and then go to the right menu : Edition / Content / Frames. Choose a frame model, then drag and drop it to your document. Click right to change options. You can now add pictures to that frame. I couldn’t find a way to block the frames. When I block the frame layer, I’m unable to add pictures anymore. So my frames move all the time. Because it’s quite difficult to know if you select the picture in the frame, or the frame itself.

If you decide to use this bad software, probably usefull if you can afford a « How to use Photoshop Elements » course at the university,  you’ll have to pay 100 bucks. I really think you can do a better a quicker job with any photo edition software. Even photoshop is simplier to use.

Irfanview

Now the best part. If you just want a sofware that just merges pictures together, I have a winner. Its name is Irfanview. (http://www.irfanview.com/)

It’s a simple, FREE, ugly software. But it is very ressourcefull.

Once you installed it, you can create your porn collage with just one click. Go to image / Create panorama image. Now you can select vertical or horizontal, select a border and a border color, and drag and drop your files in the box. Press Create Image.

I suggest you install the RIOT free plugin to activate the « save for web » option. Go then to options to select « Ask to resize on open images larger than « 1″ Mega, so that the plugin always proposes you to resize your pictures before saving.

If you want to make a smaller file, you can gather two pictures in an horizontal collage and include it later in a vertical collage.

This great software is not just a photo collage one. It offers great features as Batch Conversion/Rename tool, very usefull to batch process pictures provides by sponsors.

If you know other softwares to make porn collages, please let me know !

Good luck with you future porn collages, and good sales !