A while ago I was thinking how friends were telling me about other friends who were coining it in from the online adult entertainment arena. Not wanting to miss out, I toyed with the idea of some kind of adult site myself, but to be honest I'm a little bit squeamish about all that, and it seemed I'd have to get special adult hosting and it just seemed like something I should steer clear off.

But, I could see there was money to be made here and I found a middle route that allowed me to make regular money from adult links without having a direct hand in adult sites myself.

Here's what I did...

I went to an adult site and looked for a "performer" that featured prominently - one that was perhaps being pushed as a bit of a star of the site. To a large extent you have to follow your nose and your intuition here. I gather there will often be one or two "fan favourites" and the rest will be a lot of filler.

Then I registered a Blogger blog in the format adult-star's-name.blogspot.com, and wrote about 8 blog posts that featured content about the particular performer. I did a introduction post, a bio post (using information gleaned from the adult site) and I did various "reviews" which basically consisted of reading the synopsis of individual films on the site, reaching for my porn thesaurus and getting a bit of creative. The adult in site in question provide to their affiliates a number of screenshots which I took and cropped to make them actually not at all offensive but suggestive enough to be a hook to the interested punters.

Before uploading the pictures, I renamed them artist-name.jpg, artist-name-2.jpg etc. Each post I wrote on the blog ended with a message along the lines of "To see more, click here" etc.

The next step was to get it indexed on Google. It's not the kind of site I would want to link to from most of my sites, but because I had cropped all the photos so that they weren't particularly offensive at all, I did find a couple of links pages on a couple of my sites where a link could be appropriately placed.

I sat back and waited and it wasn't long before it was indexed, and most promisingly of all, it was showing prominently on Google Images. Since then, a steady stream of commissions have come through as people have signed up for the website which has the main content. I think I first knew it was getting traffic when I started emails from people who somehow couldn't read the disclaimer that this was an unofficial fan site, and though they were emailing the performer themselves, and offering all sorts.

Traffic has actually jumped the last couple of days because Google has recognised the fairly innocuous name as a search term that people often want images for, and are now showing three images at the top of the first page of search results, and with two of them being from my site, I'm effectively the number one result for the search term. Unfortunately the third image is from someone who wasn't so careful at cropping their images and it's actually full frontal nudity and it's showing on Google results even with SafeSearch which is a real flaw in their system I think.

So there you go, follow those steps yourself if you have the stomach for it and you should be able to replicate my success and get a nice little income from the world of adult entertainment without having to immerse yourself too far. The site is making me about $150-$200 a month, which I'm happy with.

Labels: adult site project