Quote Originally Posted by tombarr View Post
Marketing our content on MySpace gives me chills because of the age group the site appeals to. I like CorbinFisher's approach in the way their profile is carefully screened for friends ages, as well as limiting the content so that
it is not luring....

Thing is, I'll be the first to admit that despite checking every single profile for the age they have listed, it's so far from a foolproof system that I'm still not entirely comfortable with it. People change their listed age left and right on that site. The 21yo you approved as a friend one day might adjust their age to under 18 (and possibly their actual real age?) the next day.

Just gives me the heebie jeebies.

So that's why the only link actually going to CorbinFisher.com in my CF myspace profile is a single little link hidden in the body text, no hardcore images are around, no full nudity, nothing but face-pics and at most, kissing. Nothing too graphic. Very PG-13.

I get a lot of messages from people on myspace saying "Wow you guys are hot! Are you all friends and where do you go to school?". They don't know it's a porn site and think the models' photos are just pics of guys . And I'm more than happy with that. It makes it clear it's not obvious from the myspace profile that it's a porn site, and the only ones aware that it is are people already aware of CorbinFisher, already aware of the name, and are already customers. Myspace is a great way to interact with that latter group of people.

On another note, one of the main changes that will take place when we shrink the CorbinFisher.com affiliate program down to 50-100 affiliates is we will be expressly getting rid of affiliates who don't use their own registered and owned domain as their primary source of promotion. One of the main things we are going for in limiting our affiliates to top and personally-known affiliates is to get rid of affiliates who use things like Blogspot, MySpace, LiveJournal, Yahoo! groups, etc as their primary means of promoting us.

We don't want an affiliate violating any 3rd party's TOS by promoting us. It's perfectly ok if an affiliate has their own myspace profile, or yahoo group used to direct traffic to their own site and, from there, out to sponsors. But if they use myspace or yahoo groups to directly send traffic to us, that isn't a good thing at all and something we don't want in the least.

I'm so looking forward to having only 100 affiliates at the utmost so I can more easily track stuff like that!