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

I blogged a couple of months ago about about a project in the world of adult entertainment that I wanted to do. It took the form of a blog around a niche area.

Unfortunately the project never really went anywhere. My heart just wasn't in it. I managed a couple of posts but it was too lame and I just couldn't bring it to completion. I showed it to a friend and he didn't even realize it was an adult site.

I'm not sure why I couldn't garner the enthusiasm to really put some effort in. It seems like there's a tonne of money to be made from that area, which usually excites me, but I just couldn't get into it.

So the project is at an end.

My friend is in the process of having a full on porn site developed, so I'll be interested to see how she gets on with that and I guess I'll think again about it if she's on the beach in a few months running a porn empire from the laptop.

Labels: adult site project

Just a mini update on my little foray into adult affiliate programmes, because I want to chart the project's every step on the blog.

I just received the OK today from a couple of the sites I'm affiliating with to go ahead and select any images I want from the site and use them as the basis of affiliate links. They had already made a number of banners available but I wanted to just grab images from the site and include them in my blog postings.

So I got the all clear and I can move forward with it: my plan is to get plenty of postings on it, and then add a discrete link to it from a well indexed site and see magic happen.

Labels: adult site project

I blogged yesterday about a new project where I wanted to get myself a tiny piece of the adult entertainment action. I started researching web hosting and was particularly impressed with XXX Web Hosting.

But then I realised that the site I have in mind is going to be adult themed but I'm not actually intending to host adult content.

The format my project will take is a blog on a particular niche interest. There''ll be general postings about the subject to emulate some interest in it, and also I've signed up with several porn site affiliate schemes through ccbill. Considering how widely ccbill seems to be used, I'm suprised at primitive nature of their interface. I'll be checking the content provider sites to find models that are lated to the niche and then profiling them and linking to them with the affiliate links, as I think this seems to be a tried and tested format.

Next step is to create the blog and start posting, and maybe backdate a few to give it a more aged look. I think I will use blogger for the project. I've checked their terms and I can't see any problem - although I did skim though - but I almost can't believe I can do this for free!

Labels: adult hosting, adult site project

A friend was telling me about someone he knew that had some porn related domain which was really quite niche, and yet a whole stack of traffic purely from people typing in the domain name. I guess it's obvious really that adult sites have the potential for lots of traffic because it's clearly a very popular subject online.l

I did dabble once before when I setup a directory of dogging spots in the UK. I had premium rate phone lines alongside it and it ticked over nicely, but I always fearful that one day it would get me in some hot water, or some nut case sex attacker would use it as a means to find victims. So in the end, I closed it down and it does kind of ok through Sedo parking but nothing spectacular, and it's gradually decreasing in traffic/value.

So at the present time, I have no real active interests in the adult website market, but I suppose it would be foolish to ignore the potential thats there.

So for a new project, I will investigate setting up an adult site, finding the right hosting, look at how I can get traffic to it, get some good affiliate links and see if I can make some money with it. I'll chart my progress on here along the way.

Labels: adult site project