Blog Moving

I have to move this blog due to Blogger no longer supporting FTP publishing.

I *think* I'm actually going to use WP as a CMS for WebWhoreBucks.com so once I do that, the new location for the blog will be easy to find from the front page and I'll leave these archives up here so none of the permalinks will break.

I'm pretty unhappy with the way blogger/google is fucking us with this - I've been blogging via blogger since 2001 and now we have this deadline where we have to migrate all of our blogs to a very limiting format or do what I'm doing, which is restarting many of my blogger blogs at new addresses using wordpress and leaving up the blogger archives so everything doesn't get fuxored. The problem with that, of course, is everyone's bookmarks will be wrong and I have to hurry and POST about these new locations. Since I don't have time to design and rebuild all of them in a smart way I can commit to, I'm forced to make stupid posts like this one that don't even have a link to the new blog. But I'm pretty sure the new one will be at webwhorebucks.com when I get the whole thing redesigned!

CCBill's WMS Apology

Last year we signed up to use CCBill's new WMS hoping it would make administering our affiliate program easier for us and more feature-rich for you. Unfortunately it didn't work out the way we hoped it would.

The good news is EVERYTHING IS BACK TO NORMAL for our "legacy" affiliates according to ccbill in this apology AND new affiliates can signup like normal once again.

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While there are some positive aspects of the new WMS I am going to wait awhile before I invest any of my time in working with it, so if you signed up for WebWhoreBucks under the WMS (during the very brief amount of time between it forcing people to sign up that way and before I took down the signup form) please sign up again for a legacy account.

Of course I could write a litany of detailed complaints at this point, but it doesn't seem like it would be productive so I'm just trying to get back to business as usual and emphasize that I *do* trust things are fixed and back to the way they were pre-WMS and hope all of you are too.

To Stop Getting Affiliate Emails

We send emails containing promos and news to all of our affiliates via the CCBill admin. We do it that way so that your affiliate codes will be built into the links to save you time from having to login, look it up, then change the links yourself.

CCBill allows us to email all active affiliates or no active affiliates; there's no "email all active affiliates who've opted into email". Since CCBill doesn't provide an unsubscribe option or a way for you to continue getting paid to promote us WITHOUT getting emails sent through their admin, the only way *I* can stop you from getting the emails we send to affiliates is to make you an affiliate no more/deactivate you.

If that's what you want, write to me from the email address you receive news from us and confirm that you want your account deactivated in order to stop getting email from us.

The only other thing I can think of is for you to call ccbill or change your email account in the affiliate admin (I cannot change your email address or any other personal details for your account myself in the ccbill admin).

New Blog Promo Tool

We created a new blog to promote and categorize our network-wide members-only updates:

Trixie and Friends

TrixieAndFriends is NOT a new paysite, it's 1) an advertising tool providing free previews and descriptions of our updates and 2) a tool for our members.

You, as an affiliate, can use this a couple of different ways:

*send traffic directly to it using your link code. When your surfers join one of our sites by clicking the links there, you'll get credit for the sales.

*snag pictures and descriptions from it to create your own blog entries (you can also snag pictures and quotes from our individual blogs).

Two words of disclosure and warning:

1) there are traffic leaks on TrixieAndFriends to our twitter feeds and personal blogs which often have outside links to sites and stuff you'll not get credit for.

2) DO NOT create duplicate blogs or sites where you pretend to be us. Do not register domains or subdomains mimicking our domain names or misspellings of them, and/or do not create blogs that only provide content featuring us and dump all of our promos there. WE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN PAYING PEOPLE TO MAKE SHODDY DUPLICATES OF OUR BLOGS. Shoddy duplicates of some of our blog entries, however, on blogs where you build your own traffic rather than diverting ours, are fine!

Eventually we plan to have all of our content indexed there and searchable for our members, but in the meantime it's still a great tool for us (and possibly for you) to let people know our newest updates on all of our sites, not just one of them. These posts aren't automated, they're hand-written by us and don't appear IMMEDIATELY upon posting the updates for members. We often post our updates late at night and will try to update TrixieAndFriends the next morning.

Halloween FHG's and Zips

There are new HALLOWEEN hosted galleries and zips for DeliaTS, AmberLily and TastyTrixie HERE.

Even if Halloween passes you by, our sites are very dress-up oriented and appeal to the kinds of people who like Halloween all year 'round so feel free to use them at any time or build your own galleries out of the zips that are less Halloween-specific.

More Later . . .

Quickly: it doesn't seem like the bonus I tried to give is working (apparently I'd have had to set up a GROUP, then assign everyone to that group, and add each new affiliate to the group, then change the group settings after the promo ended, etc.) SO instead I'll administer something myself. Manually. For those who want to participate and who can accept money orders. I think it will be retroactive for all sales to DeliaTS.com starting on the third of October, through the end of the month.

More details later . . . Monday I am going to spend the day in tax filing hell, focusing solely on that.

UPDATE 10/27:

Here's the modest bonus plan - I know it's too little to be considered an incentive (like the giant $150 per join bonuses some programs are able to offer), but it's actually just meant as an apology for those of you who might have sent traffic to those DeliaTS galleries during those few days where the links were wrong:

1-9 joins to DeliaTS.com: bonus of $3 each
10-15 joins to DeliaTS.com: bonus of $50
16 or more joins to DeliaTS.com: bonus of $50 *plus* $3 each

All joins from October 3rd through October 31st count. The only method we have to pay you is via money order, and you will have to email us your name and address because of the way the ccbill program is administered (you have the option to not share that info with us when you sign up since CCBill is the one who sends your checks). Payments will be sent before November 26th, 2009 provided you've sent us your info and made qualifying sales that didn't result in chargebacks, refunds or returned checks.

OOPS! A Correction, Apology & Thank You

On Saturday, October 3rd I posted new hosted galleries for DeliaTS.com and zips for affiliates and sent out a mailer with all of your link codes already built into the email.

Unfortunately, I made a really stupid mistake when I built the FHGs so the links were wrong and not carrying affiliate id's THROUGH when surfers clicked on them.

Two webmasters (see below) caught my mistake and took the time to write back to me explaining what needed to be fixed. At first glance, I misunderstood what they were saying and thought they were complaining that when they visited the webwhorebucks.com content pages that it still said XXXXXX in the links, so I was like, "dudes . . . I'm not that fancy!" and focused on the other millions of things on my to-do lists.

Later as I did some exercise attempting to maintain my MILFy webwhore figure (ha ha) it HIT me what they were trying to say: I TOTALLY FUCKED UP THE LINKS ON THE FHG PAGES!

Due to the way I jostled my brain during my exercise, it wasn't initially clear to me how I messed up, but eventually I recognized the incredibly dumb mistake I made and fixed it on all six galleries on Tuesday, October 6th so they were only wrong for three days, and only in use by a handful of people for one or two days.

As a very modest token of my regret at having made this mistake, I've added $3 to everybody's payout rate which we'll continue for a week, provided I set it up correctly (in the ccbill admin it says, "To offer a combination of percentage and dollar amount per sale, enter values in the Base Percentage Payout and the Base Dollar Amount fields. Enter percentages as 25, not 0.25." so I left the 50.000% part and added 3.00 to the base dollar payout; having never done this before, I have no idea whether it will perform in an intuitive manner, whether or not it will effect rebills, or anything). I hope I'm not adding a new mistake to an old one, but it's about all I can think of to make sure you know I'm mortified by my mistake.

I know it's not much, but it does apply to all of our sites, not just Delia's or just to sales made on those particular galleries. If we were a huge corporate sponsor and one of my lackeys made this mistake, I'd be able to offer a few of those $100 payout days as an apology! Of course, if I were a huge corporate sponsor who could afford to do that, I never would have been trying to do so many things in the first place that I'd have made this relatively minor fuck-up and I'd probably be screwing our customers and your traffic with a bunch of shady practices to line my pocket enough to where $100 payouts would be as easy as shitting yellow-speckled turds the day after the Fourth of July. As it is, we don't do those things (and I don't even like corn on the cob that much).

Anyway, I'd like to thank the two webmasters who saw my error and took the time to write to me about it:

Oskar of OutlawCafe

and

Mike of PornStarGals

I know when you have a million things to do it's easier to just dismiss a mistake a sponsor makes -- particularly an indie like we are who maybe just doesn't have a clue and no amount of assistance will help -- and decide they are unreliable and not promote them anymore so I REALLY APPRECIATE that they took the time to let me know.

On TOP of that, Oskar let me know how to fix it up so you can get your link codes off of our site more easily with your account number built in; I am working on a redesign of WebWhoreBucks as we speak and hope to incorporate this since it seems like holding our breath for CCBill's new system (which now doesn't even appear to have any promo content management) is not such a wise idea.

Anyway, a big thank you to those two guys. I also added a couple more FHG's for DeliaTS and accompanying zips to entice you to try again.

Name for Leak-Free Affiliate Tour

Perhaps stupidly, I named all of our leak-free/"clean"/no-exit-links tours for affiliates to send their traffic, "clean" or in folders named "clean" or "cleantour", trying to make it clear to our affiliates that they are for them.

This time, with Delia's new site, I named the clean tour entrance page VIP.html and prefixed each additional page with VIP. The reason? I'm concerned that surfers hover over the "clean" links and think they're g-rated or not as nasty/dirty/filthy/nude. I have no reason to think that, but from now on I'm not going to use the word "clean" in file and folder names that we want to get traffic to. I'm just suspicious that maybe the word "clean" doesn't attract clicks. Again, I have no evidence of that and our tours labeled "clean" have done perfectly, respectably well but I'd rather not chance it in the future. Things need to be designed with surfers in mind, not affiliates.