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What is TotemCash?
TotemCash is an Affiliation program. Affiliation programs are arrangements in which an online merchant Web site pays affiliate Web sites a commission to send them traffic. These affiliate Web sites post links to the merchant site and are paid a portion of the sales generated (in our case 50%).
Can I become an affiliate?
Becoming an affiliate is easy. Fill out our online application form to become a member of TotemCash. The application will ask for some personal information (name, address, payment method) and information on your site (URL, name) and will have you agree to a service agreement. This is completely free.
How to send traffic?
We provide promotion material as well as links to use that contain the URL of our site and your affiliate identification number. When visitors click on the link, our servers records a hit on that particular URL, which tells us what affiliate sent a visitor. We also track sales using Internet cookies containing these same identification numbers, so we know what affiliate referred the customer to us.
How do I sign up ?
Please fill in the form
here.
Frequently asked questions about the signup form:
- I'm in the US and I don't have a tax Id : please indicate your Social Security number
- It refuses my url: please make sure you have put http:// at the beginning
- I have several sites: no need to create several accounts, we can create separate tracking so that you got split stats within one account. Email celine@totemcash.com to get separate 'adspaces'
- I want to promote several of our sites: no need to create several accounts, you'll have separate links and stats for each of our sites within the same affiliate account
- I want to change my payment method later: simply email webmaster@totemcash.com with your login and the postal address you have entered in your profile.
How do you track sales?
We use cookies to track surfers from your site to ours. More, when the surfers
you bring us download virtuagirl, virtuaguy or deskbabes software, they are
assigned to your account and you get paid no matter where they buy from and
with no limitation of time.
Where to find a banner? What are all these marketing tools?
Click on "Sales Tools" in the top menu. Several tools are available for you.
Each tool page has detailed instructions to help implement your campaign:
- Peel away ad: the top right hand corner of the web-page shimmers and
the corner seems to be peeled away. Especially efficient if you have a
small banner in ther page
- Top banners: The best converting banners of the moment.
- All girls banners: show the banners per girl and per size
- Rotating banners: display several banners one after the other (it refreshes
for each visitor of your page)
- Flash banners: banners in swf format.
- Free content: pictures & texts extracted from our site and that you
can freely use to link to us.
- Photo galleries: galleries of 15 pictures hosted by us
- RSS: some content that we host and that you can ''call'' from your site.
- Logos
- Videos: extracted from our member zones. If you're an expert in video
processing, note that some flash ads are available in the flash section
to put at the beginning or end of the video.
- Wallpapers: available in 3 sizes + a thumbnail
- Flash transparent teasers: which consists in girls animation in flash
poping directly on your site. Most performing tool at the moment.
Now you need to choose your link code to associate with the banner so that the visitors and sales you bring us are attributed to you:
How to get my link code?
Click on "Sales Tools" in the top menu. The first tool from the marketing
tools box is ""linking code".
Two things to take into account :
- To which page of the site do I link.
You can link to different pages :
- Our general home page (your link code will show "pp=1")
- Our general home page with one model of your choice to appear at
top of the list (your link code will show "pp=1" and "&g=SET_ID" at
the end): this way your visitors watch our big flash that explains
our product on the home page + immediately recognize the girl that
made them click on your banner.
- Do I want to track separately several tools I will use?
If you intend to use several promotional tools, we recommend you to track each separately so that you measure each tool profitability. To do so, we can create adspaces in your master account so that you have separate linking codes and separate stats under the same affiliate account. Please contact webmaster@totemcash.com to get separate adspaces.
How to set my banner and code onto my site?
Now, associate your link code to your banner so that clicks & sales are well recorded.
Let's say you chose a 468*60 banner called virtuagirlhd_02.gif with Carmen Gemini.
You download the banner in a directory named, for ex., "pics" near your site index.
Now, let's say you choose to link to our home page with her, then your html code will be:
<a href="http://c.actiondesk.com/?s=YOUR_ID&p=26&pp=4&g=298" target="_blank">
<img src="pics/virtuagirlhd_02.gif" border="0" width="468" height="60">
</a>
How do I check my stats?
Click on "My Stats" in the top menu, then select the period you want to check plus the adspace you want to check or all in once (in case you have several).
Reminder: adspaces in your master account allow you to have separate linking codes and so separate stats under the same affiliate account. Please contact webmaster@totemcash.com to get separate adspaces.
What am I paid on?
We pay our webmasters on each transaction they generate to all our products, initial signups and rebills. Our clients choose to buy girls by bunches and pay regularly, other choose our recurring memberships and are rebilled every month/3 months/6 months. You got paid on these too.
You also get paid a 10% commission on the sales and rebills generated by the
persons you referred to Totemcash.
How much am I paid?
We pay our webmasters 50% of the net sales & rebills. A net sale is a sale amount minus the bank fees (see below for the % of fees).
Ex: [$24.95 - (24.95*10%)] x 50%.
Please note that for clients that buy from Europe VAT applies.
€24.95 Price includes a 19.6% VAT. It means Price taxes not included is 24.95/1.196 = €20.86. So, VAT = €4.09
For your European customers, you get:
[(€24.95 (Price with VAT included) - €4.09 (VAT 19.6%) - €2.50 (Biller fee 12%)) x 50% (Normal revshare rate)] x 1.50 (Exchange rate of the Euro to the Dollar of the day)
You also get 10% on the net sales and rebills generated by the persons you referred to Totemcash.
When do I get paid?
Twice a month directly by us, by check, via regular Mail (see the 'terms of agreement' for payment date details) or by Payoneer or Paxum, with a $2 fees by payment.
New affiliates : in order to keep our fraud ratio low, first payment to new affiliates is sent 8 days after the end of the SECOND complete pay period.
If just joined totemcash, you won't be paid at the end of the first period, but receive two payments in one at the end of the second period.
Are there any transaction fees?
You can find your stats per transaction by clicking the "see details by day" on the stats page (under the product name).Then click on the little cross on the right. You will see all transactions.
These transactions indicate the % of fees applied to each transaction.
Here is the list of fees the billers take:
| |
Epoch |
CommerceGate |
CcBill |
Webmoney |
Neocom |
Webbilling |
| Credit card |
12,50% |
10,00% |
10,50% |
12% |
12% |
12,5% |
| Check |
12,50% |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
| Chargeback |
n/a |
15$ |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
What method of payment do you offer?
Get paid every two weeks by check, wire, payoneer, paxum.
Checks are issued from a US bank account. Checks are sent by regular mail to the address you gave us. They can take from 3 days and 2 weeks to reach you, depending on how far your country is from Europe. You can cash them in any bank, make sure you inquire about fees if your bank is not in the US.
You can be paid by wire if your payment is over $1000.
You can be paid via Payoneer or Paxum.
Paying fees :
- Check : free
- US wire : $18
- Intl wire : $35
- Paxum: $1
- Payoneer: $2
How do I get an Payoneer or Paxum account?
To create your an account with
Payoneer or
Paxum, go visit their website and follow instructions. Then go to your Totemcash profile, select « I want to be paid by Payoneer » and follow the linik to link your Payoneer account to TotemCash. Or select « I want to be paid by Paxum » and type your ID.
Is there a minimum payout, can I change it?
Yes. The minimum payout is set to $100, but you can change it on the "my profile" section of Totemcash. Sending a check smaller than $50 is not cost-effective, so $50 is the absolute minimum.
Where to check my payments history?
Click on "My Payments" in the top menu, your payment history appears like a bank statement.
How to promote your affiliation program – How much do I get with your referral program ?
We highly recommend you to propose our affiliation program around you. All the persons you refer to Totemcash will bring you 10% of their income with us, with no time limitation!
Where do I find my referral link code?
Click on "Product & Tools" in the top menu and scroll down to find Totemcash banners & referral link code.
Your link code will look like : http://www.totemcash.com/ref.php?s=YOUR_ID
How to set my referral campaign?
You can choose to put a text link like: "We recommend Totemcash".
Your code will be:
<a href="http://www.totemcash.com/ref.php?s=YOUR_ID" target="_blank">
We recommend Totemcash
</a>
You can choose to put a banner. Let's say you chose a 200*200 banner called
totemcash_02.gif.
You download the banner in a directory named, for ex., "pics" near your site index.
Then your html code will be:
<a href="http://www.totemcash.com/ref.php?s=YOUR_ID" target="_blank">
<img src="pics/totemcash_02.gif" border="0" width="200" height="200">
</a>
How to check my referral stats?
Click on "My Stats" in the top menu, then select the period you want to check. Your referral stats appear at the bottom of the page.
The urls displayed are the ones provided by the persons your referred when they filled in the Totemcash signup page.
On the border between mainstream and adult
The fact that VirtuaGirl and VirtuaGuy are not too naughty to be pure adult and not too squeaky clean to be pure mainstream, means webmasters can promote them on virtually any website targeting men! Check out our banner selection today to find the one that best suits your site!
Don't over-do it!
I've seen webmasters' sites with our banners everywhere, talk about overload
! Be intelligent and strategic about the location and the number of banners
you place on your site. Often you'll find that just having a few small sized
icons with an animation on them in 2 or 3 different spots on the site works
great!
How to send visitors?
If you already have a website with some audience, just add one of our banners using your linking code. Some of the visitors coming to your site will click on it to come visit us. Any money they spend with us we'll share 50% with you.
If you don't already have a website then you need to build one in order to build traffic and send us some visitors. Check the other options in this FAQ about it.
Search engines
Search engine traffic is very valuable. Most surfers arriving at your website or blog from a search engine have found it because they used keywords matching your content. It means that they are interested in what you offer – and they can buy what you have to offer.
Applying basic SEO techniques to your website or blog will increase the chances of getting search engine traffic. Pay attention to the title of your web page, relevant back links, list of keywords, tags of the images, and how many times the keywords are used in the text.
Finding traffic is all about keywords. Perform basic keyword search to determine how big is a market for the set of keywords you want to choose.
Don't forget to compare these results with the number of search results at Google or Yahoo for the same keywords. Thus you will see not only which niches are more popular, but also which ones have less sites catering for them.
Here are several tools that will help you choose good keywords:
Image search engines
Our content is mostly images, so why not take advantage of image search engines? The most popular one in the world is Google Images. If you get a good listing here then you will get a lot of traffic to your site.
Do want your content to be indexed on Google Images? Pay attention to the following factors:
- Keyword in the same table cell as image.
- Keyword in the same paragraph as image.
- Keyword in image name and image meta file summary.
- Keyword below or above image in DIV or floating DIV.
- Keyword in ALT tag.
CEO specialists say that the best size for small images is 150×150 or smaller; for medium images - larger than 150 x 150 and smaller than 500 x 500; and for large images it is recommended to choose 500 x 500 and larger.
Keep in mind that the traffic from image search engines can be difficult to monetize. The reason is simple: there are surfers looking for free pictures and often don't realise there is a product (desktop strippers) behind them.
Freesites
Free Sites are almost finished as a way for making money in the adult world. It's still working for certain niches that have not been over advertised such as desktop strippers.
Freesite consists of an url, a page which introduces your galleries and has links to each one, and two gallery pages. Each gallery page will have thumbnails which link to around 12 (or more) full size images.
Click on 'Photo Galleries' in 'Sales Tools' to choose from hundreds of hosted galleries.
Although the term 'Freesite' contains the word 'free' (and will contain a fairly large number of free porn pictures or videos), the basic premise behind the Freesite is to convince the porn surfer to come visit us long before he/she opens those pictures or looks at the video clips.
There are many link lists where you can (and should) submit your Freesites.
Adult Blogs
Adult blogs are getting highly popular. It is becoming the next big thing to attract surfers.
Visit 'All Models Content' in 'Sales Tools' and grab what you want there to blog about our girls.
You can even plug our RSS Feed ('Sales Tools' - > 'RSS Feed)' to your blog for automated posting.
Building an adult blog is just like building a mainstream blog. Blogs have the SEO advantages due to the inbuilt ping feature and internal linking structure. More over if you use wordpress you have many plugins which will help you for SEO.
Unlike TGP (Thumbnail Gallery Posts) or MGP or TUBE site which depends upon large volume of traffic to make money, blogs aim at getting quality search engine traffic. Your aim as a porn blogger is to get that search engine traffic, tease the surfer a bit and take him to the paysite (with your affiliate code of course) and make money. If you can write stories, a sex story blog will work fantastic.
Unlike other type of sites blogs need to have text content to pull the search engine ranking as well as to keep the surfers coming back. But keep your post short (around 100-250 words). And finally do not start a general blog. It is much easier to start a niche specific blog and succeed.
Don't forget to submit your blogs to Adult blog directories.
About Blog SEO
Have a keyword-relevant url (three words are usually best).
Have a good (preferably longtail) keyworded title for your blog.
Have a good keyword-relevant description.
Use keywords, long tail keywords and synonyms in your posts (without making them too 'spammy').
Always ask yourself "What would a porn surfer be likely to type in to find this post?" And use that as your post title. Make it relevant and keyword/synonym rich.
Have a Sub-Title In Bold (which is also relevant, but different keywords/synonyms) at the top of each post (have a look at the top of this post - see what I mean?).
When you make a post about a subject you have mentioned before, link to it from the post you are making now. It not only provides the se spiders a relevant path to follow, it provides you with a second chance to sell this particular 'subject' to your readers.
Give your images good title tags and alt tags without making them spammy.
Give your links good title tags.
Use relevant keyword categories and tags for each post.
End each blog entry with a relevant phrase (probably re-hashing, perhaps in a different format, the title) also in bold.
Directories and link lists
Free site directories, blog directories, link lists and link dumps can generate good traffic. Some adult webmasters consider that the main aim of submitting their resources to link lists is not traffic but back links, but if you choose the right directories then you could get a fair number of visits too.
The downside of directories is that they usually require some kind of a reciprocal link. It can be a button, a small banner or a text link.
Software Directories
Take adventage of the fact you're not only marketing a website but also a software by submiting it to Software Directories. You'll have to learn about doing PAD files. PAD is the Portable Application Description, and it helps authors provide product descriptions and specifications to online sources in a standard way, using a standard data format that will allow webmasters and program librarians to automate program listings.
PAD saves time for both authors and webmasters.
Google AdWords
Google Adwords (and similar platforms from Yahoo, Facebook, and others) are an advertising approach based on words, which allows individuals to create their own advertisements. You can decide upon the keywords that will be used, as well as have the option to only pay when someone actually clicks onto your ad. Be smarter than others choosing your keywords to keep your costs low (the standard .05 cents per click) and make profit.
Forums
Forums can be Great for Online Promotion & SEO, many of them provide Free Advertising Online
Forum communities are a very popular means of communication on the internet. They can also be quite useful for advertising your stuff online. It does not take a whole lot of research to find forums that will let you advertise for free.
A lot of forum communities provide an advertising section where their members can buy, sell, trade, and advertise stuff. When you discover a forum that lets you post advertisements, you should bookmark it and use it to your best advantage. Be sure that you understand the forum rules and do not flood it with your advertisements all at once. Spread your ads over time and try to make unique posts advertising your stuff, because if each ad that you make on various forums is unique you will be discovered by more people through the search engines.
Advertising forums can also be a great tool to help webmasters doing Search Engine Optimization (SEO). You should always leave a link to your website every time that you advertise on forums. Be careful though as some forums use the NoFollow code and their links will not help you in your SEO link building efforts.
Tube sites
Searching for free porn online, you will certainly come across adult tube websites. They work similar to YouTube, but instead of funny cats and music videos their content is adult related. The past few years have seen an explosion of adult tube sites - Youporn.com, YouSex.com, AdultMovieTubes.com, Pornhub.com, Xtube.com, Tube8.com, Megarotic.com, Xvideos.com, RedTube.com, and many many others.
As the name suggests, they let surfers upload and watch a large selection of sex videos for free. The clips on tube websites - like those on YouTube - range from the amateur videos to the professional material.
Click on 'Videos' in 'Sales Tools' to download our videos and submit them, don't forget to use your linking code for the sales to be tracked by us.
