Leenks

Advertising in the porn industry is an art of its own. There are so many different sites out there with many different rules, and it’s almost impossible to learn all of them by heart. That’s why advertising on different porn sites will be a new experience every time. Today we’re going to take a look at Leenks, a softcore porn site where you’ll generally only be able to advertise softcore porn. We’ll get into what that means in a second, but for the most part, the important thing to remember is that this isn’t a good place to advertise hardcore porn, so if you think of yourself as a provider of hardcore porn, forget about it.

Only softcore content is allowed on this site

Now, if I still have your attention and you’re still here then you’re probably a porn webmaster who has a lot of softcore porn. If not, then you must really like reading my reviews. Hey, I don’t mind if you just go on to the end and read everything. Maybe it will be useful to know when you start your softcore erotic art website one day. So, with this in mind, the most important thing to realize is that Leenks.com is a site that concentrates on this kind of softcore content, and so the most you’ll get out of banner ads is a softcore image that will only include a nude babe at most. What isn’t allowed is having a penis in the pic.

So, if your content is penis-free, then it qualifies as softcore porn. Should you want to create softcore porn? Is there a large enough audience for that kind of content out there? To tell you the truth, the porn industry keeps changing, so it’s possible that the answer to that question is completely different from when I’m writing about it. Right now, I can tell you that there is definitely an audience for softcore porn, but seeing as how taboo porn genres are getting more and more popular, that might not always be the case and instead you might see a massive rise in hardcore porn with softcore falling by the wayside.

Different kinds of plugs you can choose from

There are three kinds of ads that you can have on Leenks. Each one of them behaves differently, has a different cost associated with it, and will provide you with different benefits. Let’s start off with Plugs and take it from there. Plugs are basically going to be a link to your content. It’s important to really get the point that you will only be able to link content through plugs and not the front page of your website. And you can advertise pretty much anything, be it a video, a gallery, a game, comic, etc. As long as it’s content that you are sending people to, it’s fine. If you are trying to get the traffic for the front page, then that is when you’re going to get denied in your quest to get the plug. Remember: plugs = content.

But now let’s see how the plugs operate. So you’ll buy a certain number of plugs. These plugs are going to be featured on the frontpage the first couple of days, which is when they’ll generate the most traffic. After that, they will be taken off the front page, but they’ll still be searchable in archives, which is good news for you. You’re buying a permanent spot on Leenks.com in a way. There are three kinds of plugs that you can get and those are SFW, Babe, and NSFW. Those are self-explanatory basically, and in general you’ll get an average of 3500, 7000, and 11000 hits for each of those categories respectively. NSFW plugs, which are especially interesting to us, start at $45 for 1 plug and go up to $110 for 30 plugs.

Hardlinks are available to massively improve your SEO

Next up you’ll also have the opportunity to buy text links. These also fall under advertisement, but they are a bit different than regular plugs. These links are timed, and you need to renew them every 1, 2, or 6 months, depending on which package you get. Also, one thing to realize is that these links are on the right-hand side of the website under the Leenks Friends section. You’ll get your link added to the list when you purchase a package for the text link. Text links are also known as hardlinks since they are hardcoded into the website, which makes them better for certain things than other sorts of ads here.

For example, one thing that hardlinks are really good at is generating SEO. Not only will you get the direct traffic that comes straight from these links, but you’ll also get a massive SEO boost which will help a lot with your site as well. When you buy a hardlink spot, you’ll be added to the list at the bottom, and the only way to move up is by other sites not renewing their package. There are three packages to choose from here, and those are for 1 month, 2 months, and 6 months. These cost $110, $210, and $600 respectively. The links themselves generate between 200 and 800 unique visitors every single day.

Try your luck with top or side banner ads

Finally, you have banners, which are a very flexible form of advertising, and they are probably something that you have already done on other sites already. On this site you will have a choice between two banners. There are the square ones which are 120 by 120, and these will display on the sides of the Leenks website. These cost $360 per month or you can get them for 2 weeks at $200. The wide banners are 650 by 70 and they’re at the top of Leenks.com. You can get these for $1700 per month, and they are a lot more expensive than the side banners since they just garner so much more attention here.

Also, remember that since you won’t be able to use any kind of hardcore content, you will only be able to advertise softcore babes. One of the better ways in which you can utilize this is by having a cam site. Cam sites are known for being quite popular now, but when you think about it, a lot of the content on those sites is very softcore. You basically have a chick who will perform solo and show off her naughty bits and that’s about it. You can advertise this without an issue on Leenks.com, so if that’s something that you’d like to do, then you should definitely reach out to Leenks right now and strike a deal.

Somet things you should keep in mind

What sucks about this place a lot is that with some of these ads you’ll lose out since the competition will want to get those users just as much as you do. Some sites might intentionally not renew their hardlink just to be placed at the bottom which actually gets you more visibility then being somewhere in the middle of the list. Also, since you need to communicate directly with the guy about payments and ads, that means that the entire process isn’t automated and there will be a lot of back and forth involved in the entire process. It would be a lot better if you could just set everything up with some kind of system.

Another thing to keep in mind that might be a bit of a drag is the fact that the performance of the ads might depend on when you post them and just the season in general. Those average numbers that I’ve talked about are only a pointer, and the number of hits you get can be drastically larger or smaller by pure chance. Leenks says that it has more to do with the quality of the content, but I doubt that this can be the true cause in a massive difference in how many users a plug might attract. So there’s that and then there is also the fact that you can just never be too sure about how well your ads are going to perform here and they are quite expensive, even if Leenks.com gets 110,000 unique visitors daily.