Imagine a bicycle wheel. In the center of that wheel is a hub. Emanating from that hub are several shiny metal spokes, surrounded by a round frame, wrapped with a soft rubber tire that goes round and round and round.

Perhaps you already know what a ‘hub’ site is. Maybe you’ve heard it called something else like ‘traffic pump’ or ‘feeder site’. If you are familiar with the concept then you know that a hub site is a main site, with solid content and substance. A hub site is a site worthy of bookmarking, of being listed on well-known top lists. A hub site is a site where you’ve put thought and work into the effort and you’ve created something meant for more than one visit. A hub site has content, text, updates and a few strategically placed ads.

"Instead of making a storage-stretching image-based hub, why not create a nice, search engine-friendly text-based hub?"

A hub site is not a one-page TGP gallery. A hub site is not a build-it-and-forget-it-three-page freebie site. A hub site is not a banner farm. A hub site is not a fake TGP or list of sponsor-hosted galleries. A hub site is not a Full-page ad for a paysite.

A hub site can follow any niche or theme. You can make a hub site that features free galleries, or stories or adult games or all three. You can create a lesbian hub site, an interracial hub site, a gay hub site or a vanilla softcore hub. You can make a portal hub site with areas for news, search and of course, free porn. You are free to produce whatever hub site you imagine. After you built it, it’s time to add the spokes.

The spokes are outbound links. Somewhere among your menus or highlight boxes, you will add a list of links to other porn sites. Your hub site will contain links to other porn sites. These other sites are smaller with far more emphasis placed on the hard sell. These are sites that might contain a popup and many ad banners. These spoke sites will offer a little bit of free porn but will make the surfer work for it. These outbound link sites are called spokes because guess who owns them? You do. When you build a hub site and populate it with outbound links that go to your very own pages, you keep the surfer spinning towards you. Some webmasters create a second tier of spokes (linked from the original spoke sites) that are even more ad-heavy.

Now to the subject of Blogs. A blog is a weblog. A weblog is basically an online journal. Most blogs today are created with blog software that uses a server-side database for online administration; updates and dynamic features such as live commenting. Blog software is simple to use and personalize.

While creating a blog is relatively easy, maintaining one takes work. As an adult webmaster, you are probably tempted to start a blog because it seems like a quick way to get some nice search engine traffic. What you may not understand is that a successful blog requires good, old-fashioned labor on your part. If you want to build any real traffic with your blog, you’re going to have to fill it with bookmark-worthy content. You’re going to have to update your blog on a regular basis. Your going to have to build something that surfers will want to visits more than once. In other words, a blog is just like a hub. And just like a hub, you can add any old outbound links you want. You can make those outbound links lead to ad-heavy pages, owned by you.

If you’re going to create a hub site, think about making that hub a blog. Both a hub and a blog require nurturing and elbow grease. Instead of making a storage-stretching image-based hub, why not create a nice, search engine-friendly text-based hub? Write reviews of sponsor paysites. Discuss computer security. Analyze current events from the perspective of an adult webmaster. Blog about anything you want but blog with the hub concept in mind.

Build a blog, a good blog. Then make that blog into a hub by creating a bunch of small, ad-heavy free sites that you can link to as spokes. Blogs are the perfect fit for a hub. Keep them spinning around your circle of cyber highway. Make your next hub a blog!