The current article is the documented steps of starting an adult website for complete newbie. This only contains recommendations, as this is just point of view of a single person who is just into adult industry.
Starting an Adult Website
Starting an adult website is often not as easy as one might imagine it to be, this is especially the case when you as webmaster are looking to monetize your website and earn an income from the traffic to it.
Webmasters entering this field will realize that everything is a new ball game, previous advertising programs no longer supports your new area of venture. Receiving funds from visitors, for any reason whatsoever, are no longer supported by the majority of services you used to make use of.
Content, website templates, etc., are much more difficult to get hold of, in general much more expensive, and the webmasters communities are smaller and difficult to reach.
Advertising your website, building quality links and monetizing it might take hours on end and exhaust your budget in the flash of an eye.
This guide was written with the aim on new webmasters who decide to start their own adult projects. Hopefully this guide will put webmasters on the right track in launching that first project and getting it known around Internet communities.
Website Scripts
In starting you adult website, you basically can design your own website, or alternatively purchase a script for the specific purposes of your website, e.g whether you want to run a TGP, a blog, a video hosting service, etc.
Here are some recommendations for scripts:
1. Video Hosting
Adultscript.net offers a quality script for hosting your own videos or simple links. Visitors can submit videos or links directly to your site. It also have a link trade function built in where other webmasters can exchange links with your website.
Another, similar type, adult video hosting script can be found at PornWack.com. Quite cheaper, but this script does not provide all the functionality Adultscript.net does.
2. Blogs
If you intend starting a blog, I would suggest WordPress, which is a free script and easy to install. Some of the advantages is the facility to add videos as well as RSS feeds, which could automate your website.
3. TGP
If you would like to start your own TGP, a great script can be found at JMB Software for this purposes. Although a bit pricey, it is worth the price for the serious webmaster.
Although this is not free, you can find a free thumbs script over at Smart Scripts, which could also be useful in running this type of service.
4. Buying a Website
If you do not have the time or knowledge to install or set up scripts, you can buy adult websites and domains. There are a number of webmaster sites catering for this.
5. Having a website developed.
If you are looking to have a website developed from scratch and offer a unique appeal, I would recommend you utilize a freelance service for this purpose. This might prove to be quite expensive, but definitely worth the expenses.
I would recommend the following freelance services:
This is a great service with many freelancers aboard, which ensures quite good and competitive rates for you.
Also a good freelance service with many developers aboard.
Yet another good service provider with many freelancers.
Hosting Your Adult Website
The majority of Internet Service Providers do not allow the hosting of adult websites. It might often be a hassle to find a host to suit your need. Here is a list of service providers that do allow the hosting of adult sites. Please note that you should carefully read their TOS before entering into a hosting package!
Hostgator.com offers webmasters the hosting of adult sites. They are cost-effective and reliable.
Yet another adult hosting provider.
Also offers adult hosting.
Allows for adult hosting.
Advertising Your Adult Site
Advertising your adult website is of utmost importance if you want traffic to your site. Here are a few recommendations for getting that first number of visitors to your site.
I personally started off by buying one plug, later three, on one specific website, which provided excellent traffic to mine. In fact, to be precise, almost 2000 unique visitors on the first plug alone!
For any person wanting quick traffic, I would recommend buying a plug at FuckFinals.com at a low price of only $15 per plug! You simply supply an image, a description and the link to your specific video or image gallery.
AVN Ads is another way of advertising and paying per click. I am not sure the type of traffic you can expect, but a large number of webmasters are using this service in advertising their products. This will not be a very cheap option to drive traffic to your site though.
Like mentioned above, another popular adult advertising service is exoclick. Although not a cheap method of driving traffic, it will surely offer you services to satisfy your needs.
Buying Links
I would recommend this method as it might be more cost-effective. My recommendation is to visit various webmaster websites and look for webmasters offering links for sale on their websites. Here you can buy links and drive traffic to your site by buying links at any price from $5 to $100 and more per month on any specific website.
Submitting Your Content to Other Sites
If you have your own watermarked images or videos, you can submit your content to video and image hosting websites. Here a large number of people are viewing such hosted content, and you could easily see your traffic picking up by advertising your site on the content.
