What do you think of HunkHunter and Gay.Sex.com???

I'm looking into advertising with HunkHunter or Gay.Sex.com.

Are they a good source of traffic? Do you find your conversions do well? What is your overall opinion of them?

I'm not sure yet how to advertise with them as they have many options but maybe if you have experience with these guys you can tell me what has worked or not worked for you.

I've only bought traffic from Men On The Net and although I had a lot of traffic I could not convert it.I was told by the rep that might have been because I wasn't offering exclusive content. I do now but not that much.

I'm a bit leery of advertising that I have exclusive content yet because of this, it's growing but it's not even like some of your sites.

Your thoughts please and thank you.:kitten:

MK,

I currently have a text ad on HunkHunter. It does alright for me and it doesn't cost a lot, it's $70 for three or four months in the bear / hairy men section.

So that would be my advice to you: try a text ad first. They're cheap enough and you're bound to make your $70 back (or whatever it costs) over a three month period. I don't know that I would blow a lot of money with them on a banner ad until I saw how a text ad performed. I've heard a couple of people on here talking about how disappointed they were with the performance of their ads over there, so I really think it depends on your niche and a whole bunch of other things.

Cheers
Dzinerbear

Thanks love. Good advise as always.

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As I was reading your reply post I can hear your voice saying the words. Is that cool or what! hehe

I only briefly tried sex.com. I think I bought $50 worth and it didn't convert.

Try google adwords, but target your search terms and limit your budget. I spend a lot there every month and it converts great on one of my sites. I have tried it on 2 other sites with terrible results. But it can work very well with a lot tweaking.

Thanks Xstr8guy, it's the advise of these boards that helps us all.

Google Ad words.. Hmm, I'll check them out.

Thanks again.:kitten:

Yes, it is 1 out of 3, but I think I could improve those results with some more tweaking. I really only like 1 out of 3 of those sites so I didn't try too hard, lol.

If you get it right with google adwords, the results can't be beat.

Hey! You edited your post Mamkity. Lol, now it looks like I'm crazy and talking to myself. :wacko:

You are and you do, don't you?

dzinerbear

MamaKitty....some good advise here. I can personally and professionally vouch for HunkHunters. They have great traffic, some of the most reasonable rates you will find anywhere and the guys that run it are the top-notch, stand up guys that makes it a pleasure to do biz with

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You are and you do, don't you?

dzinerbear

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BITCH!




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Dzinerbear and Xstr8guy...Play nice! Hehehe, your too funny.


Harlan, Thanks for the recommendation. I'll go look into it.:kitten:

i like hunkhunter, and i love google adwords. adwords takes a lot of tweaking, because ya can't use any nasty words there.

i did okay on sex.com, but i was advertising in a category that showed up on sex.com as well as gay.sex.com. it wasn't my best campaign ever, but it did make a little $.

Thanks Basschic. Now that my computer is finally working today I can go look into it.

Greetings:

I've been spending about $150 per day playing with google adwords for the past couple of weeks. I can agree with what everyone else has said, it performs well once you tweak everything (hint: add the word "free" to your list of exclusions, and make DAMN sure you don't choose any keywords that use it. "free" cost me a lot of money, haha)

Sex.com sucks, and not in a good way. I did a $100 test campaign with them, and didn't make a single sale from it! Contrast this to the 1:137 conversion ratio I'm getting from google adwords.

I don't know where on earth sex.com is getting their traffic from, but they can damn well keep it as far as I'm concerned.

i would imagine most of their traffic comes from guys typing in the word "sex" and wondering what is there.

also keep in mind that sex.com opens your site in a new window, which NO other bought traffic does. and they keep a console in the background, as well. so they are definitely not trying to help you make sales.

Boardtracker must be down. Shouldn't we be getting some worthless sex.com spam by now?

you are SO right!

See with us, MOTN traffic does WELL for us, and hunkhunter's traffic (for the short time I used them) did little. Granted, the "free sites" I list thereget a lot of traffic really quickly, but it just didn't convert.

I would really just buy text links from hunkhunter and see how it does first. If it does convert, then buy more or even a banner spot.

Now, sex.com. haha, I don't know what it is, but I just don't have a urge to buy traffic from them. From the pop up ads, exit consoles, then opening sites up in a new window. Then the spams in my email, not knowing we had an account. Just left a sour taste in my mouth.

Here's an update on my progress... I wrote my adwords but it was before Basschic's comment about the "nasty word" use. Of course, I was WAY too nasty. I'm such a bad girl. hehe So I re-wrote that but have not heard yet if my ad was approved. I did not use bad words but I was heavy on the connotations. Aaannnnd then I called Hunk Hunters, talked to Dennis for a while (what a doll). I wrote, re-wrote and wrote yet again my ad for them. We'll see how that goes.

Now I'm gonna go log into Google and see what's up with my ad words thingie.


Thanks for all of your sound and honest advise.:kitten:

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MamaKitty....some good advise here. I can personally and professionally vouch for HunkHunters. They have great traffic, some of the most reasonable rates you will find anywhere and the guys that run it are the top-notch, stand up guys that makes it a pleasure to do biz with

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I second this! They are a great company to work with and the business I have there is doing very well. Like Harlan said they are great guys to work with. I would definitely consider them!

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I second this! They are a great company to work with and the business I have there is doing very well. Like Harlan said they are great guys to work with. I would definitely consider them!

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It's always great to hear feedback, good and bad. Even better when after you start work with the company in question the good keeps rolling in.:high:

UPDATE!!!!

HunkHunters are doing well for me. I'd love to see it do even better but don't quite know how to do that. But at least it's registering in my stat counter. :thumbsup:

Google AdWords is getting hits or clicks whatever you call it. I get major impressions but few clicks off of them. I dont know what that means, YET. lol The "avg position" thing is really messing me up. I increase the CPC and it barely makes a dent in my position. I'm guessing now that I just dont understand what it really means. haha I'll get it though.

I have noticed a small but hopeful increase in my sales. I imagine that I have to tweak more with my adwords. That is proving to be a challenge to understand. But I'm not giving up.

I didn't bother with the Sex.com one.

There you have it in summary, Hunk Hunter is in the lead for performance. Go hook up with them. :high:

maybe we can help figure out what is wrong. if your top bidded price on google doesn't put you in the top five results, you'll see less traffic. if you aren't in the top ten, a LOT less traffic. if you have a low budget, you won't get as many impressions.

if your keywords are unrelated, general or not well targeted, you can either see less hits or less sales very easily.

what do your google stats show as your overall ctr, and would you consider posting your ad here? there is a lot you can do to improve your overall ctr at google by working with your ad.

Check your PM. Thanks

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