Gaydemon, a very popular gay porn portal has just announced a redesign. In addition to the new look, a video section has been added, cataloging over 60,000 gay porn videos and movies (pay-per-view or download) from all the major providers.

The popular gay affiliate program zBUCKz today announced the release of HDK Porn Blog, their newest hosted blog for affiliates to promote. The leak free blog features sample flash videos from top HDK films, and galleries of their top stars.

The blog was created to help affiliates promote the new zBUCKz sites made in collaboration with legendary gay porn DVD studio Hot Desert Knights. Sites in the network include HDK Raw, HDK Men, and HDK Central. According to zBUCKz, special care was taken to ensure affiliates get credit for all sign-ups coming from the blog.

The new HDK Porn Blog is updated 6 times a week. This, combined with an attractive design should make it sticky with the surfers. zBUCKz Company CFO DannyZ expects the hosted blog to be widely read by all gay porn fans. “HDK has filmed some of the top porn stars in the business. By giving the blog an eye catching design, adding cool features like galleries of their ‘top stars,’ and showcasing HDK’s amazing content using flash video, we are sure people are going to bookmark this and come back day after day,” said DannyZ.

Associated RSS feeds are also available for webmasters to integrate with their own blogs. Webmasters have the option to use any or all of 4 separate feeds:

HDK Main Feed (combined)
HDK Raw Feed
HDK Men Feed
HDK Central Feed

“Everyone at HDK is really excited about the launch of the new blog,” said Bill Gardner, president of HDK. “Given the success of the sites already launched by zBUCKz, we know that affiliates are going to love the new blog as a way of driving traffic to the sites,” Gardner added.

Webmasters wanting to promote the new HDK Porn Blog, its associated RSS feeds, and all the gay porn web sites in the HDK Network, should visit zBUCKz for more information.

Gay Porn Powerhouse Raging Stallion Studios and Gunzblazing today announced that they have purchased legendary European production company, High Octane. High Octane comes with a library of over fifty films and an ongoing production agreement that calls for 6 new releases each year. High Octane, as a brand, will continue under the Raging Stallion banner and the next movie in the series, Masters and Servants, will be released on June 13. High Octane director Herve Bodilis (AKA Herve Handsome) will continue as head of production, and former High Octane president Patrick Albret will stay on as head of European Operations. The incorporation of the 50 High Octane films into Raging Stallion’s library grows the total collection by about 25% and adds another premium, all-original and exclusive pay site title to Gunzblazing.

My Gay Cash has just announced the addition of leak free hosted blogs and their associated RSS Feeds. The sponsor says their new Blogs and RSS Feeds will be updated with exclusive content every week concurrent to the pay site’s updates; thus webmasters can update their sites with fresh content all the time. My Gay Cash also reports the launch of this new tool is just the beginning as new scripts will be added in the near future to expand the possibilities RSS Feeds can offer. The current version allows participating webmasters to do link trades with the blogs, but a version without the link trades will be offered shortly.

Hosted Blogs have the affiliates ID behind all links, so webmasters are credited for each sale generated through the Blogs and feeds. The Hosted Blogs, associated with the sponsor’s web sites are:

Amazing Moro
Latin Studs Mania
Feed That Hole
Naughty Hard Cocks
Bareback That Hole

On top of these new additions, My Gay Cash offers hosted galleries, embed videos in 2 different formats, zip files of high resolution pictures, zip files of video previews, and banners.

Today LatinBoyz informed me they have created an alternate splash page for affiliate webmaster traffic. This page takes surfers directly to the tour pages instead of our site’s main homepage (where the links to other programs are located). The sponsor also said, “This should greatly reduce any ‘traffic leakage’ in the short term and we will continue to refine the offering going forward.”

This action was in direct response to my telling them I would start promoting them if they ever decided to remove all the traffic leaks. They asked what leaks are, I explained, and within 24 hours the changes were made. It only takes a few minutes of your time to express a concern. While some need to hear it from more than one webmaster, others are immediately receptive. Either way, saying nothing accomplishes nothing.

I’ve just learned Mike Handcock has removed most of the previously reported traffic leaks from his site tour. He still maintains a banner link to his Straight Men Directory on the warning page, but all of the other leaks are gone. While this is a huge improvement, Mike still can’t resist skimming traffic from his affiliates. Now he has added a newsletter mailing list sign up option, prominently placed in the top menu bar of the site tour.

New York Straight Men just announced they have set their CCBill Cookie Expiration to 180 days, instead of the standard 3 day expiration. According to the sponsor, this change is effective immediately and will continue indefinitely.

zBUCKz, in cooperation with Hot Desert Knights, announced today the release of their HDK Network of pay sites. The new sites include:

• HDK Raw - featuring hundreds of downloadable movie scenes from the HDK DVD archives
• HDK Men - delivering thousands of high quality photos from the Hot Desert Knights collection
• HDK Central – The umbrella for promoting their all sites for the price of 1 package

During the past 10 years Hot Desert Knights has released over 80 DVD’s featuring everything from leather, fisting and bears to hung European studs. With these new sites, gay porn consumers can stream or download hundreds of scenes from HDK’s DVD videos. Additionally, the sites give members access to thousands of HDK’s exclusive photos and top ranked bareback and raunch video feeds.

According to zBUCKz, the new sites have an intuitive design, making them easy to navigate. To ensure members keep coming back for more, the Network is updated with 3 videos and 4 photo sets every week. zBUCKz Company CFO DannyZ says, “This content is exactly what today’s gay surfer is searching for. The models are smoldering hot and the sex is raunchy as hell!”

The crew plans to exploit all the different niches filmed by HDK studios over the years. Work is already underway on more sites for inclusion in the HDK Network featuring bears, fisting, Euro guys and more.

zBuckz reports initial test results with their traffic have yielded very positive results. After testing from various traffic sources, HDK Raw is currently converting at 1 in 35.

Affiliates wanting to promote the new HDK properties should sign up at zBUCKz. Programs include rev-share at up to 60%, and pay per signup at up to $40 per sale. Banners are currently available and additional affiliate tools such as FHG’s, downloadable content zip files, embedded videos, blog entries, RSS Feeds, free sites and more will be available soon.

STR8cam is a solo amateur “straight guy” web cam site that launched in 2002. Jeff is a good looking muscular hairy guy that performs live solo shows twice weekly. He also updates two times a week with new videos and photos. On top of that he has an extensive archive of previous web cam performances. This week Jeff announced the completion of a new site tour. While much improved, it still maintains that amateur look that can only work on sites like this.

This Verotel powered amateur porn site pays affiliates the standard 50/50 commission for sales and rebills. Until now, his only promotional materials have been banners, but it looks like he’s going to start supplying sample photos on a regular basis. Typical with most small operations, his tour has traffic leaks - DVDs and sponsor program up sells. In my experience STR8cam converts will, and the new tour should improve the ratio. Its a shame he feels the need to syphon off affiliate traffic…perhaps some day he’ll get a clue.

Dirty Boy Video has merged the affiliate tools and stats for its portfolio of sites into a single streamlined affiliate program, the sponsor claims. Dirty Boy Pays is intended to serve as a one-stop resource for the latest promo videos, galleries, landing pages and stats for Dirty Boy Video, Straight Boys Fucking, Dick Show, & Gear Action.

“We’re very excited to give our affiliates a straight forward way to access all the great promotional tools and material we offer,” says Andy Fair, President. “Just log in, pick the site you want to promote, and all the newest promotional materials are there for you!”

All existing affiliate usernames, passwords and previous links will continue to work. The sponsor states the original programs have always been interwoven behind the scenes, but this will present them in a seamless and unified format making it easy for webmasters to get the latest blog photos, landing pages and news.

The 4 Dirty Boy Pays sites offer members multiple weekly updates, free DVD give-a-ways, and special trial offers. The program pays affiliate webmasters 60% on all joins and recurring for the life of the member.

In my opinion this is an improvement, but not much of one. This is their attempt to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. The sow being the DHD Media RvEx affiliate management interface system. As far as I’m concerned it’s a total cluster fuck, and the main reason I avoid promoting sites that use them.