There are dozens of ways to make money online and several ways to make money in the adult industry. This is a list of the most common ways to make money online with porn.
Paysite
Paysites are part of the foundation that all other methods are based on. Paysites are usually member only sites that charge members a monthly fee for access to their content. They usually host one or many models and produce unique original content. Often they provide free sample galleries, images, and videos to be use by affiliate marketers to promote their site.
These types of sites have a few negatives. First you take on the role of a pornography producer, which has it own set of laws such as age verification and maintaining records. You take on the responsibility of producing content, hiring models and photographers, getting website and graphic design, hosting, and setting up an affiliate program.
The other problem is content protection. There are several sites and forums devoted to creating entire site rips of porn sites. They use automated bots to crawl and download the entire membership area, then they upload it via torrents to share with their friends on forums. Some of these forums are fairly complex and they’ll push to great limits to rip this content. These sites are under constant risk of hacking through password lists and exploits. People also trade accounts and site access.
During high school, I was an active porn ripper. No joke. I was a top member of a private forum devoted to ripping porn sites. I ripped about 200 to 300 GB worth of content during my time there. This is how I learned a lot about the porn industry. Several months ago, when I got into making money online, I used this unique knowledge in combination with traditional MMO techniques to make really good money promoting porn sites.
I have no experience running this type of site, so I won’t pretend to teach you about it. I do have a few friends who are photographers and run these types of sites, but my girlfriend has strictly forbidden me from getting involved in content production.
Free Hosted Galleries
This is an extension of paysites. A FHG is a preview gallery that is usually hosted on the paysite’s server and provided to affiliates for free for use in promotion. These are usually used in combination with TGP or other types of rotation scripts, which I’ll cover in a moment.
Blog
A blog is a form of software that publishes entries/posts on a regular basis. These posts are usually grouped into categories and monthly archives. This site is a blog and most blogs appear in a similar format. Blogs are popular due to their ease of updating and their SEO advantage. My blogging software of choice is Wordpress.
There are several ways to use a blog to make money, I mentioned a few of them in my post about how to make money online with blogs.
TGP
TGP are Thumbnail Gallery Posts and are a very popular method of traffic trading. They appear as a wall of thumbnails that link out to galleries (usually free hosted galleries). Webmasters trade traffic by signing up and then sending traffic to the TGP. The software tracks incoming and outgoing traffic and uses it to manage the display of thumbnails. A common feature of TGP is skimming. A certain percentage of clicks will be sent to a page other than the one intended for the thumbnail. The skim may send the visitor to a sponsor, the provider of the script, another TGP owned by the webmaster, an affiliate gallery for the webmaster, or an advertiser who pays to be included in the skim. TGP deserve their own post, so I think I’ll make one.
Money is made through affiliate adverting and by promoting your own galleries. Some TGP consist of galleries that are all controlled by the webmaster and the owner trades traffic between several of his own TGP. Money is also made by driving traffic to the TGP through the traffic trade and then surrounding the gallery with advertisements and banners for affiliates.
Toplist
A toplist is a classic method of traffic trading used by the adult community. When you sign up for a top list, you’re given a link to link back to the toplist. This link usually has a unique identifier on it. The toplist keeps track of how many visitors each site on the list sends and ranks them according to incoming traffic. The more traffic you send, the higher you rank. The concept is, the more traffic you send, the more traffic you get in return. I’m going to make a post on traffic trading to further illustrate how this works.
Those who sign up with toplists benefit by receiving more traffic. If they sign up with related niche toplists, they’re receiving targeted traffic from other sites in their niche. The owner of the toplist is able to use the toplist to promote their own paysites, affiliate ads, other toplists, and TGP.
Imagehost
Imagehosting is another way to make money, but not one I’ve tried. The market seems saturated and these types of sites are resource heavy. An image host allows someone to upload an image and it generally outputs a thumbnail and linking code. An imagehost can be used by someone wanting to post pictures in a forum. They can upload an image and are given bbcode to paste into their post.
Imagehosts make their money by displaying advertisements around the display of the image that is hosted on their server. Once the site takes off, it continues to generate traffic from people placing images across the web on forums and on their sites.
Forum
Forums are a type of online community. I assume you know what a forum is, so I won’t go into it. They make money by serving ads, having paid membership, offering upgrades for cash, and by selling “credits” to look at images. Forums can be used in combination with an imagehost. You can start your own forum and then require the members to use your in house imagehost. Your ads are displayed each time a person looks at an image.
Other
There are other site models that aren’t “porn”, but are very much related to the adult industry. These may be dating sites, like Adult Friend Finder, or even an online store that sells sex toys or lingerie.
Lastly, porn can be promoted on non-adult sites that receives traffic from demographics that surf porn. These sites might include niches associated with torrents, p2p/file sharing, internet culture, gamers, gambling, drugs, etc.
Conclusion
There are obviously many ways to make money online.This list is not meant to be a all inclusive guide, but simply introduces you ro the various methods. I’ll be covering many of these topics in depth in future posts.
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