The Media Library pop-up dialog will appear.

Select 2 files (FLV file and video still thumbnail) from your computer. After the files are uploaded hit the “Show” link of the JPEG file. The file properties section will appear.

Locate and hit the “Insert into Post” button at the bottom of the image properties section. The Media Library pop-up will go away and the “PaySite Options” block will look like this:

Don’t worry if thumbnail cropping is not looking good. This is just a thumbnail for administrator area display. The front-end version will have correct proportions.

As you may assume, “change” button will call a Media Library dialog again so you can modify files. The “delete” button will unlink video from the update.

That is is. Don’t forget to save your post. Any “PaySite Options” modifications will not be visible at the front-end of your paysite until the post is saved.

Also do not forget to put the post into your updates category (for the default WP-PaySite theme put it into both “updates” and “videos” categories).

If you have any related questions or functionality/usability suggestions please use the comments form below.

The Media Library pop-up dialog will appear.

Select 3 files (or as many as your theme is set up for) from your computer. After the files are uploaded hit the “Show” link of the file you want to select as main. The file properties section will appear.

Locate and hit the “Insert into Post” button at the bottom of the image properties section. The Media Library pop-up will go away and the “PaySite Options” block will look like this:

Don’t worry if thumbnail cropping is not looking good. This is just a thumbnail for administrator area display. The front-end version will have correct proportions.

As you may assume, “change” button will call a Media Library dialog again so you can modify images and select another one as the main image. The “delete” button will remove main image from the update.

That is is. Don’t forget to save your post. Any “PaySite Options” modifications will not be visible at the front-end of your paysite until the post is saved.

Also do not forget to put the post into your updates category (for the default WP-PaySite theme put it into both “updates” and “photos” categories).

If you have any related questions or functionality/usability suggestions please use the comments form below.

The following steps assume you either have a fresh WordPress installation, or know what are you doing. So here you go:

1. Go to Settings –> Premalinks, select Custom Structure and set the permalink format to /%category%/%postname%/.
2. Rename your Uncategorized category into Updates. This step is optional. Everything will work fine if you will leave the category name as it is or will name is somewhat different.
3. Create another category named Blog at the root level. Actually we just need the blog slug. The name doesn’t matter.
4. Under Updates category create two subcategories called photos and videos.
5. Create a page called Join. Also make sure the default About page exists.
6. Go to Settings –> Media and set thumbnail width to 136, height to 181. Medium image both width and height to 514.
7. Go to Settings –> Reading and adjust post per page settings to the number of updates you would like to be displayed per each tour page. Note that after third page of the updates Continue Tour button will lead to sign-up page.

That is all. Now it’s time to upload some content. If you have any more questions please feel free to post comments to this article.

The key to running an Adult Paysite is true dedication. You must focus on Members, Support, Updates, and Webmasters at all times. This is only the start; we also have 2257 record keeping, extra accounting, taxes, possible staff, extra servers for hosting and a need for improved security, and marketing. So the rule is: Never under estimate the dedication needed to properly run and maintain a single Paysite.

This article will assume that you have the proper skills to open and maintain an Adult Paysite. You either are a Webmaster and have the skills needed to publish and maintain a Paysite. Or you have the understanding, the money, and you can manage the people to make this happen. Paysites are not for the Adult Industry novice.

The quick of what is needed!

The listing below is guideline placed in the order that it should be completed in. You can’t get visa approved without an entire working Website, and you can’t build a design without Content. Steps are important!

• Select your niche: Start with something you enjoy.
• Purchase niche domains: Including the .net, org and misspells.
• Content: Video and Picture for members, tours and promo material.
• Get content web-ready: Either purchased ready or converted for web-ready use.
• Paysite design: Warning page, tours, join pages, and members graphics.
• Promotional material: Hosted galleries, banners, buttons, full-page ads, ect.
• Hosting: Quality servers and bandwidth really makes Members happy
• Content management system: Hand updates or a system to your manage content.
• Password protection: Member auth systems to protect from password leaks and attacks.
• 2257: Before you actually release you need to have your records in order
• Processors: Get your tours, join forms and members area Visa/MC approved.
• Costs: The overall costs of opening your first Adult Paysite.

Let’s get started!

The above list seems nice and simple, until you break it all down. Attention to detail and a vast amount of testing is a major part of setting up and running your own Paysite. The details are very important, even the smallest ones.

Figure out what Niche you wish to target, you can use TubeSites to help find your next Niche. If you already have your own traffic base, this may be a simple answer. If not, just remember that some Niches cost a lot more than others. IE: The Gay-Tranny niche can be rather expensive, then again a glamor site may be cheaper to create but it can be harder to promote.

Once you have a Niche, it’s time to select and purchase domains. Try to find the shortest, easiest to remember domain that you can find. Maybe add a keyword or two related to the niche within the Domain name. Don’t forget to pickup the .net, and if you want the .org and any possible misspells of the domains. Normally I spend about $50-$75 on domain reg fees when setting up a new Paysite.

Quick Tip: Before you spend the money on content production, step back and evaluate your decisions. Start by letting go of your personal feelings and ego, remember we all have created the next best niche and paysite idea. Make sure you aren’t letting your ego tell you what to do!

Content Time

This is the hard part, you may have a deal with someone on DVD content, you could purchase pre-made and net ready content from online producers, or spend the big bucks and get exclusive content made. Either way, you will need about 10 movies and 10 photo sets, with updates, to help get the ball moving. The more you can afford to start with, the better.

This is the hard part, you may have a deal with someone on DVD content, you could purchase pre-made and net ready content from online producers, or spend the big bucks and get exclusive content made. Either way, you will need about 10 movies and 10 photo sets, with updates, to help get the ball moving. The more you can afford to start with, the better.

Non-exclusive / Web ready content can be a great starter point. $1000-$5000 in non-exclusive content can give you 100’s of movie and photo sets, all ready to be uploaded and used, ie: web-ready.

Exclusive content on average costs $1500-$5000+ per scene. Having more or better models, the larger the cock, the more exclusive the niche or the higher quality it is, the higher cost it will have.

If you produced your own content or purchased non-web ready content (a DVD) then you will need to encode the content for Web use. This costs anywhere from $15 to $200 per DVD. The price often depends on how much editing the encoders have to do, a straight DVD to Web burn is cheap, an edited burn that cuts out the trash increases the cost.

Burning and cutting DVD’s in house can be costly. The cost of the machine and burning/cleaning software isn’t cheap. The time it takes to learn it or hire someone that knows it already, isn’t easy or cheap. So paying a company to process the content for you can greatly speed things up and lower your costs.

A different, much cheaper solution is to purchase web-ready only content from online producers when starting out.

Buying Content: First thing, make sure you get the 2257 records and the producer is American, just to save yourself some possible issues. Then secondly, make sure you can use the content in all areas, like Members Area, Tours and Promotional Material. Anyway, the Content Blow Out is always a solid buy. They offer several content heavy packages that are cheap and 2257 compliant.

Don’t get stuck in the Content Rat Race, the ‘net is filled with great-affordable content producers just waiting to work with you! So have a look around, ask some friends, post on adult webmaster forums, etc.. You will quickly get bombarded with every Content Special you can imagine with just a little effort.

Tour & Members Graphics

Now that you have content ready and a domain, it’s time to get a design. If you can design everything yourself, that’s money saved. You don’t have to spend a ton of money on a design to make a Paysite convert, actually a simple and fast loading design often does better.

If you need the works, warning page, 2-3 tour pages, and a join page and members header design. It could cost a fair amount. From $400 to $2000+ could be spent.

For the Webmaster skilled, you may be able to duplicate and complete many of the pages yourself, like extra tour pages. So a simple header and a few body images might be the only needed graphics. This could range from $200 to $800, again depending on the amount of extra graphics you need.

Several design companies have packages, which can range greatly in prices. These packages can include all needed pages, warning and join pages, some banners/ads, and sometimes Hosted Galleries. If you plan on spending the money then take the time to talk the design companies and see what special packages they can create for you.

The different pages you may need to create:
The Paysite design / layout may not seem like much, but once you break it all down the overall size of a paysite, outside and inside, is staggering.

• A Warning Page
• Main landing-tour page and other content pages.
• The Join Form and Design, with proper Processor/Visa Details.
• The terms and conditions, privacy policy and disclaimer.
• A customer support section, contact forms, password lookup.
• Members Login Page, StrongBox.
• Error Pages, like 301 failed member logins and 404 file not found error pages.
• Exits or chains of exits, if any.
• The members area, a header, footer, and menu graphics. Depending on the complexity of your members design, it may require much more.

With a 3 page tour, a single Paysites ‘outside’ pages could consist of 15+ different unique Web pages. CCBill and Epoch both offer customer support, password lookup and other support pages that you can link to, cutting down on the total amount of pages you need to create.

Hosted Galleries

Hosted Gallery costs is rather hard to gauge. If you have hookups you can get galleries, with text, and thumbnails for $10 each, if your new into the game and can’t buy in bulk, it could cost as much as $30 for a fully web-ready gallery.

Starting things out you can purchase 20 total galleries, 10 to open with and 5 weeks worth of updates with 2 new galleries a week. 20 galleries X $20 average per gallery is $400 total. Hopefully these are web ready for that price.

Banners and Advertisements

Banners, buttons, full/half page Advertisements aren’t really that expensive but you should shop around. Often you can find package deals that include several different advertisement sizes for a lower packaged price.

Paysite Hosting

The Online Adult Industry is filled with several honest, experienced, reliable and cheap hosting companies. If you are just starting out then it should be very cheap for you to setup and build, under a $100 monthly. Don’t be suckered in by super cheap hosts that promise the world though.

Members Area and Content Management

While you are waiting on Design work to be completed it’s time to get the Members Content in order. This can be done by hand, and starting out that is fine. However if you ever want to go on vacation and not worry about updates, then I recommend you pickup a Content Management Systems (CMS).

Either by hand or through a CMS you need to get the Members Area and Content online. Don’t start off by publishing all your movies and photos at once, save about half for future updates. If you have a CMS, this can easily be scheduled in each week, otherwise create all your updates now so you don’t have to worry with them later.

Password Protection for Members

This is an important step, and one that both CCBill and Epoch setup for you, if you give them FTP access. It’s fine to allow them to setup a simple auth to quickly get VISA approved, but after that you need to beef up your Members Area Protection. If you use a Standard Auth Protection, without anything to protect it, your Members passwords will quickly be blasted all over Password trading sites and your bandwidth bills will quickly increase.

2257 is a BITCH

Old 2257 law or the new 2557 laws, who cares. If you are an American, you best keep your records. It’s a pain in the ass, but a simple excel sheet with each models record and a binder with the model records, listed in order gets the basics covered. Opening a Paysite isn’t a game, and if you plan on lacking on paper work, a Paysite isn’t for you.

Processors CCBill and Epoch

Just before your Website is ready you will need to start the Processor Contract process with either CCBill and/or Epoch. This can take about a week to fully complete, so save you some time by starting early.

Visa and MasterCard Approval

Now that Paysite is ready and we have the Biller Contracts started, you can register your personal, business and website information with VISA/MC (US or EU). VISA/MC have strong Chargeback and Refund limits. A lack of knowledge or focus can put you within danger levels very quickly, an area you do not want to play within. If you lose your VISA/MC account, you will have hell ever processing with them again.

It costs $750 to setup a VISA/MC account through CCBill and Paycom. This is per master-account, per-processor and not per-website. Normally it takes less than two weeks to get approved, but it can take much longer. Each following year costs $350 per master-account, per-processor.

Once you submit your Websites to be approved it is very common to have compliance email you back with simple corrections that need to be made. These can often be missing 2257 or Terms links or other basic billing details that they require. Either way, make the changes and email them back.

Quick Tip #1: Before you submit your Paysite for Approval you can email the Processor Support Centers and have them review your Paysite for you. Rules change, often, and having a quick one over from the Support Staff can save you some time with possible compliance issues.

Quick Tip #2: If you are going to be opening several Paysites you can create a mock tour, join form and members area (with content). This mock up covers all the basic VISA/MC Rules. Using a mock up design can greatly speed up the approval waiting processes. Once you publish the real Paysite I recommend you follow the first tip to make sure your new design is still compliant.

What does everything cost?

The cost of a starter Paysite isn’t all that bad. This guide is lower end of the Paysite food chain. Some Adult Paysites spend $20,000 – $30,000 a Month in exclusive content. Startup costs for large Paysites can easily reach $50,000 – $100,000. The largest “Single Paysite” investment I have heard of is about $3 million before launch.

Domains: $50 : The .com, .net, .org and 2-3 misspelled-related domains.
Content: $4000 : Content Package, web-ready, 20 movies and 20 photo sets.
Design: $700 : Basic warning page, tour, join form and members header graphic.
Hosted Galleries: $400 : 20 web-ready galleries at $20 each, if we get lucky.
Ad Material: $500 : Basic banner/button package from several Adult Design Companies.
Hosting: Starts off cheap, as low as $100 monthly. It can quickly reach $500 monthly when traffic and sales kick in.
StrongBox: $100 : Members area username/password protection system.
Visa/MasterCard: $750 : Per High Risk Processor (CCBill & Paycom)

If you can design or have a designer and have a content deal for web-ready content, you could open with as little as $1000.

Not bad! Looks like we could start our first decent Paysite for under $7,000!

Meum Cerebrum Nocet!

Welp, that about wraps it up, other than a few personal experiences to mention. I spent about $15k-$20k to open each of my Paysites, this includes 1-2 years of fully web-ready, exclusive content. My most expensive Paysite to open cost about $45k in non-web ready content. The biggest key to keeping costs down is the content. Find a hookup, a friend, a partner, someone that can help cover the costs and give them part of the pie! The overall idea is to keep all costs as low as possible, if it’s content, design, whatever it may be. And remember, every service and price in this business can be negotiated. Use that to its fullest advantage to really help save yourself some money!

Credits

Much thanks for The Doc from The Doc Blog for writing this article.

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:

GetaFreelancer.com

This is a great service with many freelancers aboard, which ensures quite good and competitive rates for you.

ScriptLance.com

Also a good freelance service with many developers aboard.

Elance.com

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

Hostgator.com offers webmasters the hosting of adult sites. They are cost-effective and reliable.

2DayHost

Yet another adult hosting provider.

NoHassleWebHosting.com

Also offers adult hosting.

ESKHosting.com

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!

FuckFinals.com

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.

AVNAds.com

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.

Exoclick.com

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.

Getting Started

1. Buy yourself a domain. Buy one that has something to do with Porn and play with the words. Do not register with Go Daddy or other cheap places! Register with the big companies. They charge more but you won

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