Hosted Services
The method domains propagate to your hosting provider are technically more complicated than described by general online resources. A little mistake with your name servers and dns settings can result in large scale problems most webmasters are not aware of. Some negative consequences are partial unavailability of services and open doors for domain high-jacking. Spammers could use your weak settings for webmail spam abuse with your IPs becoming blacklisted by Spamhaus. Intodns.com allows to check for common mistakes in dns setups. The free website points out mistakes item by item. This is a very valuable service providing way more information than other, similar sites. 
Google has implemented website previews in their websearch about one year ago. Every time people mouse-over their result's url, they receive a small thumb of their result. Such previews are known as webthumbs or thumbshots. Production of thumbshots takes up a lot of memory and CPU power. Most normal webbies are unable to use their server or VPS for hosting own scripts for this intense task. Thumbshots.ru is one of the best and most reliable third party services delivering crisp and sharp thumbnails of websites in various sizes. Unlike other services it is not limited to certain niches (i.e. thumbshots.com will not allow adult websites to utilize their services).
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Premium link trading is offered by Linkspun. Webbies enter websites and search for link partners or just sit there and wait to have trades offered by others. Anchor links can be picked and once trades are setup Linkspun's bots will check them being online. It's easy to join and setup, but very difficult to find quality linking partners. Most people here are spammers with low quality sites who believe link swapping is still working. It is working for those who know how to cheat the system. If you are smart, use it to your advantage. 
Private blog networks are powerful SEO tools. They provide articles and links to your own sites for a price, similar to articles, lenses and press releases that are common in mainstream media. For adult webmsters blog posting service is very hard to come by. Normal private blog networks will not accept adult and porn sites. Adult SEO is a new service for English and Russian webbies with introductory price rates. They protect their network and won't give you a full report, but that's a good sign for people who want to try out some blackhat adult marketing. 
Checking your server for uptime and making sure private nameservers resolve properly is just one thing you can do with Watchmouse service. It's a great monitoring tool for webspace and server speed because it offers about 30 different geographical locations to check a site for availability and various other parameters. In addition it provides opportunities to monitor censorship in foreign countries and check sponsors for redirects. Some programs do redirect affiliate traffic to other sources where affiliates are left out of payments.
Traffic from some countries can be wasteful and harmful to websites. Some poorer countries might send a lot of traffic, but it can drain your bandwidth or it may be harmful to privacy of performers. When a surfer hotlinks one of your images to post it on a popular Indian or Chinese board, bottlenecks build up and server gets sluggish. This happens a lot when girls from countries where porn is illegal are being posted and shared. Such countries include Iran, China, Thailand and India - and many others. One way of protecting your online resources from overwhelming drainage is to redirect surfers from particular countries to other sites.
Obtaining backlinks to your own sites is difficult when just starting out. Mainstream webmasters use article publishing as an effective way of generating hosted properties for inbound traffic and marketing, but it's way more difficult for adult webbies as most blog services frown upon sexual content. MP Poster is an service designed for adult webmasters who wish to publish articles while providing links to their sites. Free subscriptions allow one article per day. Monthly and quarterly Pro membership secure up to 20 articles with discounts. EDIT: This post about thumblogger.com service is outdated. The service was disconnected in April 2013 without any notice to it's users. Very unprofessional webmaster.
Naturally, it's better and more reliable to have your own server and domain for blogging, but there are cases where hosted blogs are a valuable asset to blogging and thumblogger is one of the most reputable services. Bloggers can stay anonymous, don't need to worry about script updates/patches and they can take advantage of network tools generating more traffic to their free hosted adult blog. The best thing: all of it is free.
