I’m considering letting in a trades who use those tube sites or long videos because I figure that if they don’t want sales and quality bookmark traffic, at least I still get them.  But I wonder about these few things:

1. If I associate my site with the sites who promote long videos and tube sites, am I harming the industry by being a secondary promoter? And if so, by how much, and how will it affect my business?

2. Will my conversion ratios decline, but ppc/dating/cams ad revenue increase? And how much time do I have before my ppc/dating/cams rates/conversions decline due to everyone else promoting them even more?

3.  AAW once paid a pretty penny, but now pays a much less because A) it’s been abused by webmasters who place ads in poor places which don’t convert for the advertiser and it also takes 100k daily to earn decent cash with AAW.

4. If I do succomb to the changing market and associate with websites who provide long videos, how long until this industry dies due to affiliate programs closing because they’re no longer making money because we’re no longer converting for them?

5. Am I trapped in a case of “if you don’t do it, someone else will?”

6. What are the benefits of associating with tube/long video websites, and do the benefits outweigh the harm possibly caused in the long run to the industry?

7. How do affiliate programs feel about this? I see one lawsuit from Teen Revenue against Red Tube, but I don’t see any other actions against the tube movement, so is it secretly embraced?

8. What are some creative ways to generate additional income if sales decline due to the user getting off on a poor quality and buffering long video?

You can do one of two things at this point – 1) continue to read to learn the basics of how to start your own porn site, or 2) contract me for a fixed price to build the site for you and show you how it works.

You could spend the next month trying to figure it out on your own, or you could invest in professional to build it for you – why waste your time trying to learn on your own when you can get a tax deduction by hiring me?

If you’ve made it this far and still want to learn on your own, then here’s the steps you need to follow.

Chose a niche. What do you like? Anal sex, babes, pornstars, blowjobs, hardcore, big tits? Everything? Chose the content that you will enjoy working with. If you like it all, that’s ok.

Chose a domain. Your domain should be relative to your niche, easy to remember for branding, spelled correctly, without hyphens, etc. If your surfers can’t remember how to spell your domain because it’s spelled incorrectly, or its a stupid made up word that makes no sense, then I can’t promise you that your domain will be worth buying. You can try, but you may lose some traffic. Finding a domain may be the hardest uphill battle because there’s not many good domains left without looking. I’ve spent up to three hours just searching for a domain that was less than two words, relevant, without hyphens, and spelled correctly – but it’s worth the time in the long run. Domains cost about $9.99. Domains that are already owned, but for sale, can be sold by any price the seller is willing to sell them for. I’ve spent $2,000 on a domain that was well worth the psychological research put into it.

Chose a type of site. Your options are tube site, blog, plug trade site, paysite, review site, tgp/mgp, or something else that you think of on your own. Think about what you will enjoy working on every day and the type of updating you won’t mind doing…or outsourcing.

Chose your software. The type of site you run depends on the software you will need. Some software is cheaper than others, while some will cost you $500. WordPress for blogs are free. KatCMS for plug trade sites is $500. TGP scripts range from $89 to $250 depending on which you use. I can refer you to scripts that are well worth using. My main advice about script chosing is to not ever use a free traffic trading script that takes 1-2% of your traffic as you will lose much more money and traffic in the long run and it is very worth it to purchase the paid versions of the scripts.

Chose a host. Check your scripts for server requirements and make sure your host can provide that. Most hosts that I’ve encountered have been able to provide everything I need. Chances are you can start on a small shared hosting account that costs about $20 per month. Right now I spend over $1,000.00 to host about 30 websites spread out on six servers. You shouldn’t need to spend that much unless you’re running this many websites and hosting your own videos.

Design your website. Your design depends on the type of site you’re running. Look at similar style sites and follow the current trends. If you’re not able to design, slice in photoshop, and code html/css, then you should hire a designer/coder who is capable. Some designers cannot code, and some html/css specialists cannot design. It’s ok if you need to hire someone different for each job. Every designer and coder will range in their abilities. Sometimes you have to mix and match to get the perfect fit. I have different people for different tasks who all specialize in what I hire/outsource them for.

Install your software and apply your layout to your scripts.

Register for sponsor programs who offer content in the niche you’ve chosen.

Add content from your sponsor. If you’re a tgp/mgp, then import galleries and run your gallery scanner to crop thumbs and fix the bad thumbs manually. If you’re a plug trade site, then add 30 hosted videos using sponsor embedded videos. If you’re a tube site or a blog, then add 30 videos or blog entries. You want to have enough content for a month so that your site looks established and webmasters you trade with (if you trade) have content to chose from. If you try presenting a site with 2 videos, then the surfer probably won’t come back to your site,  and the webmasters you trade with will likely tell you that your site is incomplete and you need more content before they send to you.

Add other ads. Banners, pay per click, cpm – whatever you think matches well with your site to generate extra income from other programs.

Search for trades. Look for sites of similar style, niche, and availability. You want to match your content and thumbs/text to your trade partners so that quality is good. You certainly don’t want to trade with any site that has more than one popunder or illegal material. Look for quality sites only.

Manage your trades. You should be able to manage trades via your trade script or cms if you’re a trade site, or Google Analytics if you’re a tube site. If you see a site sends you 1000 hits per day to your plug trade site, but it only generates 300 clicks to trades, then that site is only 30% productive and NOT worth keeping. You want your productivity on trade sites to remain over 100% (pending all links on your site are trackable; if not, you’ll have an overall average to go by). You want your tube site to generate several pageviews per user. If the surfers from a site aren’t making it past page one, then they aren’t worth keeping.

Find link trades. Trade links with similar sites.

Talk with other adult webmasters. Webmasters generally chat about web stuff and work together to customize trades to make trades more productive for each other.

• Sales to sponsor fhg’s and/or banner ads.
• Sell partner accounts.
• Sell banner space.
• Sell paid listings.
• Sell traffic per click.
• Sell exits and 404 traffic.

How much will you make? That all depends on how well you organize your site and if you put any effort into it at all. If you put no effort into the content and marketing, then don’t expect to earn much money.

If you strategically place your ads and generate traffic via various marketing methods, then you’re likely to earn a pretty penny.

Sponsors pay anywhere from $9.99-$200.00 per sale pending your choice of pay per sale or revshare and if there’s a promotion period active.

Partner accounts sell for $10-$50 from my experience. You can charge what you like and you don’t have to approve anything you don’t like.

Banner space sells for whatever you wish as well, but if your asking price isn’t reasonable in relation to current trends and banner space prices, then you won’t get a sale. For example, if your site gets 100 visits per day and you ask for $1000.00 for a monthly banner spot, then you will not find a buyer unless your buyer has no idea what they’ve just been suckered into buying. I sell my banner space for approximately what I earn in each space and I provide generous discounts to people who purchase network advertising space.

Paid listings sell for $50 to a f ew thousand depending on how much traffic they send the buyer. I’ve purchased listings for $500 a month to $2000.00 a month. The key is to be able to provide a sufficient amount of traffic to make the purchase worthy for the buyer.

Traffic sales per click can generate anywhere from half cent per click to $5.00 per thousand clicks sent. If you’re having trouble converting your sponsors and you have no other buyers, then selling pay per click traffic to a traffic broker is a last resort to generating at least some income to your site.

Selling exit traffic is when you send someone to a site after they leave your site.

Selling 404 traffic is when you send the buyer to pages that conjure a 404 error. For example, someone types in your domain.com/something-here but that page doesn’t exist. Your 404 page will either have the buyers advertisement or your 404 page can redirect to the buyers own page via .htaccess redirect code.

Seeking pr2-pr4 link trades. Almost every niche needed/accepted. Show me what you have via PM or ICQ and I’ll respond with something that’s relevant and helpful to us both.”

Someone like you isn’t supposed to ICQ me like this:

Rachel: hi link trades?

Me: what’s the pr and what are the sites?

Rachel: what niche are you looking for?

STOP!

You already know I that I requested all niches and will have something for you. You already know what I am looking for. Don’t read my request and then ask me what I just asked you for. It wastes both of our time and itt shows you’re just hunting every link trade you can capture and aren’t paying attention to who you’re talking to or what thread you read. You just want every little link trade like a greedy spammer. You’re basically a link savage who probably doesn’t offer any quality links on quality websites. You probably run a pr1 site with 50 hits per day and 127 link trades in your footer and 4 pieces of content on a default Word Press template. At least get a free template like I did.

Not happening.

This is how Rachel should’ve responded:

Rachel: hi link trades?

Me: what’s the pr and what are the sites?

Rachel: domain.com/pr3, domain.com/pr5, domain.com/pr2…etc.

Me:  Sure, I can set you up with…

It’s called getting down to business and skipping the chit chat. For a guy (me) who runs 30 websites on their own, this saves extremely precious time that can be used for important stuff like vacuuming and changing cat litter, or eating lunch in my underwear while setting up a new homepage trade with a milf site. All things more productive than answering my own questions to a girl who didn’t read the thread I wrote or at least pay attention to the person responding when she’s spamming every ICQ number on a forum. How do I know she’s just a scavenger? It’s because forums are the only place I request link trades and post my ICQ address. You won’t find me requesting link trades with ICQ information on any of my websites.

Sorry Rachel, but I had to block you.

These are the three main payment types that adult sponsors use to determine your payout.  Some sponsors may offer a choice to use one, another, or more than one, while other sponsors offer one, the other, or simply just one.

Let’s examine each payment option.

Pay Per Sale

• Has larger up front pay amount than PPC,  Revshare, and CPM. Sale amounts range from $20-$200, with $200 being on bonus days.
• No rebills. You get credit for one sale and that’s it. Not every sale is a surfer, and not every sponsor will convert for every website.
• Once you find a pay per sale program that does convert, the payouts can be much larger up front than any of the other options.
• Use this option if you know a program cannot retain members for more than two months. Otherwise, use Revshare.

CPM

• If you have tons of traffic but can’t convert anything to a sale, then running CPM ads are for you.
• These pay per thousand impressions, regardless of how many sales you do or do not convert for whatever is advertised.
• I can only assume that payouts will be higher for quality traffic, and lower payouts for low productivity traffic.
• This is easy money, but you need a lot of traffic to make it worth it.
• If your traffic is of great quality, I don’t advise on using CPM ads in prime locations.

Revshare

• Works like Pay Per Sale except you split the profit with the sponsor.
• Payments per revshare sale can be between $5.00 and $100+ depending on if you sell $10.00 memberships or a live web cam show for $200.
• You earn a sale each month the member renews their membership.
• Less money up front, but possibly more money in the long term.  If a surfer remains a member for three months, then you’ve probably made more money than if you did Pay Per Sale.
• Do this option if you’re sure that a program is able to retain members for at least three months.

Pay Per Click

• Your job is to make surfers click on these text or banner ads and in return you get paid a few cents per click.
• Rack up thousands of clicks and you can earn decent cash.
• Some PPC programs pay on first click, others pay on second click.
• Second click programs sometimes pay more money per click.
• Some programs also pay more for high quality traffic. For example, a person sending 1000 clicks from USA will be paid more than someone sending 1000 clicks from a country considered third world.
• It’s always a good idea to have at least one PPC sponsor on your site to generate extra cash. If you’re having a bad week with conversions, then at least you’re generating cash via PPC.

(Roman Numeral M = 1,000)

The only thing you need to make your own porn site is a computer, some cash, and half a brain.

Step One: chose the niche of adult content that pleases you.

Don’t base this decision on what converts best because if it doesn’t interest you, then you may abandon your site due to boredom. Chose what will make you happy when you view it, and if nothing perks your interest particularly well, then you’re in store for a general porn site. However, focused niche sites usually convert better, so try to narrow your choice in some way for better results.

Step Two: chose the type of site you wish to make.

Tgp/mgp, blog, review site, video plug site, paysite, etc. Different types of sites require different software, so know ahead of time what type you’re planning to make so that you purchase the right software.

Step Three: chose a domain name.

Think of something clever, catchy, spelled correctly, makes sense, and is easily remembered. If people have a hard time remembering your domain, then you’ll get less direct traffic. If its spelled terribly wrong, then you may receive less traffic as well. This is all important for branding purposes and if your domain is not brandable, then you risk losing direct/type in traffic from people spreading the word about your site to their friends. I use GoDaddy and domains cost $0.99-$9.99 TOTAL. They offer buyers the chance to purchase tons of addons, but buyers aren not required to purchase any of the extra items.

Step Four: chose the software you wish to use.

If you do a video plug trade site, then KatCMS is all you need. Want to run a tgp/mgp? Then use Smart Thumbs or TGP X and Trade Expert. Decided on a blog? Then use WordPress (for real blogs), KatCMS, or something similar. Perhaps you want to build your own image galleries, then you’d purchase Arylia gallery builder which works wonders.

Step Five: Get a layout designed and coded.

If you can’t design yourself, then don’t spend three months trying to learn. Just hire a designer and let them work their magic for you. You can learn to design on the side, but if you want your website up and running fast, then hire a designer.

Find numerous sites you like so that the designer knows what style you want, and also tell the designer everything you want them to know, where things go, and even draw your designer a sketch of what you want. This will make your hiring process 100% better. Designers often collect 50% deposit, 50% upon completed project. Ask your designer for a projected time they will be finished, agree on a completion date, and go from there. Most of my designers take a few days, but they’re given simple jobs. If your job is more complex, then the work will take much longer.

Step six: get a host.

You’ll need a shared (low traffic) or dedicated (high traffic) server to post your website on. Make sure your host accepts adult content. Contact me for host referrals.

Step seven: chose sponsors and ad networks.

Find sponsors who offer content in the niche you’ve selected. Also find alternative pay per click and cpm sponsors if desired. I suggest using a mix of both incase you don’t get sales for a while (my first sale took three months).

Step eight: put it all together!

Place your host’s nameservers inside your domain names admin. This is called your DNS and it tells the domain to point to the server’s IP your website is hosted on.

Chances are you will have to skin your script with your layout. Take the html from your coded layout and add the code appropriately to the necessary templates inside your script’s admin.

Add content. I suggest adding about 30 pieces of content. If you’ve created a video plug site, then create 30 hosted video pages. If it’s a tgp/mgp, then import lots of free hosted galleries until you acquire submissions from partners. If you’re a blog, then post at least enough content to cover your front page. People won’t trade traffic or links with a site that has no content, so load up on it and make it presentable and worth viewing.

Buy traffic to get started. There’s many adult traffic brokers to help get you started. You could even purchase traffic from websites you like.

Look for trades with similar sites and ask about trading traffic. Trade with small sites at first, then move on to larger trades as your traffic permits, and remove any unproductive trades as they’re not worth your time or traffic.

Over time you’ll see which sponsors perform the best and which trades have best productivity. Making successful adult websites is a massive game of trial and error. What works well on one site, may not always work on another site. Every site is unique and has different visitors. Once you find what works, stick with it and perfect it!

If you need help, then contact me and I’ll work with you to get you started.

For those of you who thought you had to hire local girls/guys to have sex in your kitchen while your wife is at work, you can rest assured she will come home happy because all the tools you need to run an adult site are already in place!

Different types of websites have different objectives and methods of doing things. These are the most popular adult website types that webmasters use:

Blogs: short term for “web log.”  Blogs commonly contain a sample picture or two of a gallery and a paragraph of text near the photos. Webmasters usually place text links within the paragraph leading to content and similar content, or sometimes they plug other websites for traffic trading purposes.  Blogs can do traffic trades by method of toplists, plugging sites as posts or within posts, and hard link trades. Some blogs post random girls and a blind traffic link to increase some trades. That’s done with a trade script like Trade Expert.

Blogs often use software like WordPress, KatCMS, Babelogger, or any script that permits them to post a photo with a description as long as a paragraph.

Babe Blogs sometimes post just the sample picture leading to content and maybe a sentence long description or a name. They also commonly use large pictures and focus mostly on picture galleries opposed to video plug trade sites which use videos.

The galleries on babe logs/blogs are often clean cut with links to the sponsor and perhaps some ppc links.

Video plug trade sites run on scripts like KatCMS which permit webmasters to create a hosted video page with a video, ads, and plugs to the trades. Video plug trade sites base traffic trades on a combination of raw or unique visitors and productivity.  Video plug trade sites keep track of trade statistics and permit submissions based upon the ratio of incoming traffic to the amount of outgoing traffic. For example, if I send someone 90 hits, and they’ve sent me 100 hits, then I am at a 90% ratio. An 85% ratio is very common.

The video pages on these sites sometimes contain tons of random banner/text ads, popunders, interstitials, peeler ads, and anything else that webmasters can stuff on a webpage.

TGP sites post submitted galleries and free hosted galleries from sponsors. Traffic trades are managed by a trade script that permits traffic skimming and toplist output; Trade Expert. The site itself is powered by a TGP script such as JMBSoft’s TGP X.

TGP sites post only image gallery content and list them as thumbnails or text links.

MGP sites are are the same thing except they use movie content rather than picture content.

Paysites provide adult videos and pictures to members who register and pay a monthly membership fee. Paysites often have affiliate programs in which webmasters can promote the content and generate sales in which they’re paid on pay per sale or revshare options.

Paysites with an affiliate program are often referred to as sponsors, and paysites don’t trade traffic. They may do crossales inside the admin, but they don’t trade traffic like the other types of sites do.

Tube sites contain nothing but videos and rarely trade traffic. The objective is to keep users on the site for as long as possible. They generate income with sold ad space most commonly leading to dating or live cam programs.

Review sites review adult sites by ranking them on various categories and posting links for surfers to check out each site on their own. They generate income with their sign up links.

Most webmasters have a set of rules that the public must abide by if they even want their gallery considered. Webmasters of respected tgp’s often get 100+ submissions per day, but may only have room to approve 10-20 per day, at which point a backlog of galleries builds and some webmasters are approved ages later! Think of it as a loooong line to get in a club, and if you don’t follow the dress code, then you’re not getting in.

Partners often have a private submit form and they skip the long line. It’s like the VIP line, you submit and you’re in as long as you followed the rules. People who do paid submits often have what’s called a Partner Account or PA.

PA’s are usually  cheap and they only permit you the ability to submit. They don’t guarantee your submission will be approved, because if you submit something that breaks the rules, then you’re out of luck. Shame on you for paying to get in, but not dressing appropriately.

Paid listings cost much more usually in the $100-$x,xxx.00 range. However, you’re guaranteed to be listed in the spot you purchased for the amount of time you purchased it for. Granted, if your gallery breaks the submission rules set by the tgp/mgp, you can bet your bottom dollar your submission will be deleted and your violation of the terms may give the site owner the ability to revoke your listing.

Partner Accounts

• Permits submitter to submit a gallery.
• Price range of $15-$50.
• Reduces the amount of bad submissions for the website owner.
• Can speed up the approval process.
• Can give submitter a better chance of approval, but does not guarantee each gallery will be approved.
• Submitter must still adhere to the rules set by the tgp/mgp.

Paid Listings

• Generally cost more than partner accounts and give the submitter a guaranteed spot on the site they’re submitting to.
• Submitter must apply to all rules of the mgp/tgp site, just the same as a partner account or public submission.
• As long as the gallery meets the rules set by the tgp/mgp, then the gallery will be listed extremely fast.

Public Submissions

• Typically require a reciprocal link back.
• Often a very slow approval process.
• Your submissions may not ever get approved.
• Must play by the same rules as the two above.
• Cost is generally FREE, but if you don’t ever get approved, then you’re only wasting time – or your galleries break the rules, are of poor quality, or both.

Last night I was somewhat bored and still had some extra cash left in my Traffic Holder account and decided to test some traffic sources for productivity.

How did I test the traffic you ask?

I created a hybrid thumb/text page in TGP X with 100% tracked urls consisting of thumbnails and text links – both visible above the fold. I also removed iframe/java ads since I don’t know a method to track those withTrade Expert. I’m not even 100% sure it’s yet possible to track the traffic on an iframe ad without setting up a campaign in your sponsors admin, but I wasn’t going through that trouble just to test a few traffic sources; removing it was much easier and more efficient in tracking.

Now I have a page where any click will register as a productive click, and the page was very similar to my homepage. I mimiced my homepage because if the traffic turned out to be worth purchasing, then I would purchase more and utilize it to build bigger trades.

Once my page was created, I logged into Traffic Holder and my next step was deciding which method to browse. I know for a fact that testing the traffic is easiest when you purchase by domain. I scrolled through the list of domains selling traffic and looked at their “projected” or “listed” productivity.

I looked for every domain offering productivity over 100%.

Next was narrowing it down to the domains whose content was similar. I used teen content, so any of the high productivity domains who were milfs, blacks, shemale, or anything NOT teen – I nixed immediately.

What I was left with were about 6 domains with 100%+ productivity and teen content. It was a mix of thumb and text sites, and I figured I have a little of both:, 4 200 x 160 thumbs across and text links down the right column.

I ordered a few thousand hits from each domain.

I recieved a MAX of 47% productivity.

Awful results from a site that listed these domains as 100%+ productivity.

It’s a good thing I suspended the orders, and now I know not to ever purchase traffic from those domains.

Even worse, one of the sites I purchased from I have a hardlink exchange, and the traffic from the hardlink is great. Once I recieved their skimmed traffic through the broker, it went to shit.

The bad thing is that Traffic Holder listed the domains at a half decent productivity…but smart buyers know to test traffic before splurging.

I’m just glad I didn’t spend $17,000 and find out at the end of a campaign how awful it was. I learned my lesson the hard way in 2007.

People who submit well will do the following:

• Select the correct category.
• Crop a proper high quality thumb from the gallery or video that doesn’t cut off someone’s head or important part.
• Write proper title and description text that uses descriptive, interesting, and entertaining text, as well as ensuring that the described text matches the depicted thumbnail. Example: “burning hot redhead  snuggly rug muffin pussy destroyed by next door neighbors black monster cock.”

People who suck at submitting will do the following:

• Chose the wrong category. Example: they chose black instead of redhead.
• Crop a lazy thumb in which the image shows just a blurry thigh and it doesn’t match the text and/or the content.
• Write an awful three word title that will generate very little clicks. Example: “girl gets fucked.”

If you want to generate more clicks, then follow the first set of rules and don’t be a slacker. Bad titles, bad thumbs, and wrong category choice will almost always garnish lower click through rates, less conversions, and overall bad quality. If a guy clicks on a redhead, and gets a bunch of black girls, then he will probably not click much or buy anything.

If he/she clicks on a black girl and gets more black girls – then you’ve just made his/her day and they will click on more black girls until he/she either masturbates, bookmarks your site, clicks on more related content or trades, or purchases a membership – any combination of those are great for your site.