I was over at HPIC taking a look at things the other day and noticed they’ve added RSS feeds. There are two options with their new feeds. One links to TGP galleries, and the other to their free hosted galleries.

The TGP galleries are leak free, but the FHGs are riddled with leaks. This isn’t news, as their leaky galleries were discussed on webmaster forums months ago. But I am surprised HPIC hasn’t made any effort to clean this up.

HPIC has this statement about their feeds…

“All Pictures and Texts in the RSS Feeds will be linked to the website with your own code.”

While technically accurate, the statement glosses over the fact their feeds have a self serving banner in the upper right corner. Now I know most webmasters do not promote the feeds themselves to surfers, but there are some do, and HPIC hasn’t passed up an opportunity to skim from that webmaster traffic, as well.

Of course, when all is said and done, HPIC’s sites have leaks on the home and join pages, so they have their bases covered when it comes to siphoning off their affiliates’ hard earned traffic.

Launched May 25, Southern Strokes is the latest addition to the gay porn straight boy niche. The new site offers its members an exclusive collection of high-quality content, including videos filmed and mastered in high definition.

The mostly leak free site tour gives visitors an unusually large quantity of free photo and video samples, perhaps too many. In addition, the 21.95 five day trail and 90 day recurring membership options seem out of line for small site with no published update schedule.

This is a CCBill powered program, with an advertised 60% pay out on all sales and rebills. Promotional materials include a large selection of banners, and the sponsor says they send out weekly content updates for affiliates to use on their web sites and blogs. The sponsor will also send out any requested photos or teasers.

Monster Huge announces Gay Site Pass opening. New site includes live behind the scenes studio feed.

This week All Star Internet and Edward James Enterprises officially launched Gay Site Pass, their newest addition to the Monster Huge affiliate program. Using the tag line “5 Fierce Sites - 1 Hot Price”, it includes the existing Bait Buddies a popular gay for pay site, Big Dick Search a reality based site, and Lost In Da Hood a hard edge Black reality site. Also included is a brand new site Gay Amateur Sex “Gay Sex Made to Order” which features multiple themes like “Dogging” the underground British phenomenon of spontaneous outdoor sex parties with a voyeuristic bent. Additional themes on the site are “Real Gay Date” and “Punk’d Gay”. To top off the membership package is another new site Gay Screen Test, a behind the scenes look at a porn studio through a live feed featuring impromptu first time model interviews and screen testing, plus regularly updated archives. “This project has been a long time in the making,” said studio owner and veteran videographer, Edward James, “we’ve been beta testing for about a month and the response has been enormous with triple our normal conversion rate.”

New affiliate marketing tools accompany the opening of Gay Site Pass, which include brand new banners and a full set of hosted galleries. “We approached this project with the idea of completely re-writing our content management script and bringing all of our sites up to 2.0 styling that now highlights our content above everything else,” said Hal Star of All Star Internet, the site’s developer and management company. “And best of all for our affiliates are the new marketing tools,” Star continued. Monster Huge is also the home of tube site Monster Tube which offers affiliates an integrated Flash tube player for their sites which Star says will enable them to take advantage of Monster Tube’s viral marketing power.

Big Cash Society just announced their muscle boy porn star single model site Zeb Atlas has a totally new design. More notable is the site’s addition of one-on-one and threesome hardcore scenes, a departure from its traditional solo jack off format. They have also added a new full screen video player, compatible with both Mac and PC.

The sponsor has also released a collection of new free hosted video galleries to help promote the new and improved Zeb Atlas.

For those interested in the civil litigation against Too Much Media / NATS, there is a web site apparently published by NR Media (NRM), the original plaintiff. With the case now amended to a class action lawsuit, the web site serves as both an information resource and plaintiff recruitment vehicle.

While the primary focus of the lawsuit centers on the highly publicized NATS security breach, the NRM complaint also alleges NATS software does not calculate commissions reliably and accurately, and that the biller admin does not interface effectively with all processors, resulting in the under-reporting of sign-ups and rebills.

This just in from Badpuppy…

Badpuppy has just announced the launch of Badpuppy Island their latest venture that hopes to reach new audiences in an online 3D Virtual World. A world which is imagined and created by its residents.

Eight months ago Badpuppy became a resident of the virtual world known as Second Life ®, and has been building and expanding its presence on a daily basis. Second Life launched in 2003 and is now inhabited by millions of residents.

Badpuppy joins early adopters such as CNN, Dell and Mercedes, all of whom have reportedly enjoyed great success. The veteran sponsor suggests other industry members might want to follow them into this new world for fun, relaxation, meeting new friends, as well as future business associates. Some may actually want to take the plunge, as Badpuppy did, marketing its name and brand to a whole new audience, in a whole new way.

You can visit Second Life for free, but may decide to become a resident, own a home or condo and open a business to sell and/or promote your products and services. The virtual economy currently supports millions of US dollars in monthly transactions. This commerce is handled with the Linden™ dollar, which can be converted to and from US dollars at several on-line Linden dollar exchanges.

With initial construction complete, Badpuppy is now ready to share with you what they’ve accomplished thus far and invites you to their Grand Opening of “Badpuppy Island”, Friday June 13th, 2008.

The events begin at 12 noon Linden Standard Time (LST), which is in actuality Pacific Standard Time (PST), making it 3:00 pm, EST. The details and schedule can be found at (http://sl.badpuppy.com/).

Badpuppy hopes to hold several networking opportunities in the very near future and you will all be invited to attend. Imagine meeting new business associates, having meetings, attending parties and events, without ever leaving the comfort of your home or office desk.

Badpuppy encourages everyone to catch the wave by setting up a free account and make your first stop the Grand Opening Celebration of Badpuppy Island.

Inquiries about Badpuppy Island, and its residential and business opportunities can be directed to Bill Pinyon, Badpuppy’s President/CEO, by emailing rivers(AT)badpuppy.com.

Gay Gravy continues their bonus pay out trend with the announcement they will be paying $150 PPS for every sign up, on June 13 and 15, to their two new all exclusive High Definition reality theme gay porn web sites - Mr Bigs Adventures and Straight Internal.

HunkMoney has just released 15 new RSS feeds and hosted blogs, making them the biggest supporter of hosted gay blogs. The new additions are “photo blogs”, a new style Pic-Of-The-Day covering many different niches. Some of these new blogs have overlaps in content, so you will want to be selective about what feeds to pull into a given blog of yours.

New Pay-Per-Signup Program

HunkMoney has also launch their new Pay-Per-Signup (PPS) program, now participating webmasters have the choice to get paid 50 to 60% Rev-Share or $30 to $40 per join. All link codes and advertising tools have been updated to include the new PPS options. To celebrate their new PPS program, HunkMoney is having a Huge June Promotion. Send 10 PPS joins to any HunkMoney site within the week period they will give you a $100.00 cash bonus.

My Gay Cash has been busy lately cranking out new promotional tools. The sponsor reports these new tools were developed based on feedback they received from their affiliate webmasters. With the new tools in place, My Gay Cash has put the final touch on things by giving the site a much needed makeover. My Gay Cash has done a complete redesign, inside and out, and it’s a huge improvement.

Recently developed promotional tools include:

• Hosted Blogs and RSS feeds offered by site, categories or models
• Hosted Blogs offered with or without link trades
• Links to 3 different pages on the site tours
• New banners randomized
• Hosted Embed flash video previews in 2 different formats

Other tools offered are site thumbs and logos, free hosted video and photo galleries, site descriptions, and free photo and video content.

My Gay Cash provides webmasters with a suit of 5 sites to promote, and one more launching soon. All have a specific niche and all have exclusive content:

For more information, visit My Gay Cash

I was all geared up to write a piece about the leakiest tour I’d ever seen. Then I decided to first practice what I preach, and dropped them a short note explaining why I could not justify sending my traffic to their site.

The next day I received a reply from Male Perfection letting me know they had gone through the tour and removed all leaks but one. The remaining leak is a link to their other site, and the sponsor is working with CCbill to resolve that with a cookie.

Here are a couple of snips from their reply…

“I had to look up “leaky tours” and spent a great deal of time researching all of the ways that sites leak.”

“You opened our eyes how outward links were not only hurting our affiliates, but our web site as a whole.”

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Webmasters need to tell sponsors they won’t promote their sites if leaks are in the tours. For some it only takes one message from a webmaster to get things changed. Others need to hear it from many different webmasters before they finally realize just how much the leaks are impacting their affiliate recruitment efforts.

Leaks are not tolerated by mainstream affiliate marketers, so why should it be any different with adult site promoters?