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Market Porn and Make Money With Good Wordpress Themes

If you have your own hosting and you wish to make money from porn blogs, you are probably making them on Wordpress, as it is the most popular platform for self-hosted blogs on the net, including those which sell access to sex sites.

For newbies just starting out on paid hosting, I would recommend somewhere like Hostgator which has cPanel and ‘fantastico’ for one-click installs (and upgrades) of Wordpress. With cPanel you can install all your Wordpress themes easily, just by uploading them to Wordpress Content>Wordpress Themes in the particular blog’s directory and then click on ‘Design’ inside your blog’s Admin panel and select the theme you have installed. Nice and simple.

When your aim is to make money by promoting membership of sex sites you will want to consider the theme you use very carefully. Some themes you can use in mainstream marketing (or for personal blogs) may not be at all suitable for advertising porn pictures and video clips. For example, anything religious would probably not be such a good idea (and the theme designer may well object), and many ‘family-based’ themes would be a no no - especially if they have any reference to anyone underage in the images used in the template. The last thing you want to do is attract the wrong type of people to your blog by giving the wrong message.

Looking for a good theme for an adult blog or porn blog is not always easy. There are a host of ‘general’ themes you can download for free, but if you want a theme which says out loud ‘this is a porn blog’ then you will probably have to adapt a general theme yourself by changing the header image. You also have to consider that things like ‘recent comments’ and the ‘about me’ page will probably be unnecessary if you want a straighforward blog just to market porn.

However, there is a growing number of ‘adult’ themes you can use - for free. The biggest list of these I have found so far is on the JJS Porn Wordpress Themes site. At the last count there were 36 there. The themes do vary in quality and type (some are widget ready, others are not, some are scrolling, some are fixed width etc). You may well have to change a little of the coding to get them working as you would like for a porn blog, but they are all very useable. I have tried several and currently use a couple of them running on different adult sites.

As a personal preference, I normally use more general themes. I find them, on the whole, much less cluttered and often easier to use and adapt. Even having taken the previous considerations into account about what you should never use as a theme when you market porn, you can still find a host of themes out there which you can use for your porn blogs.

However, one of the most important things you need to think about when using a Wordpress theme to make money from selling membership to sex sites is how search engine friendly your blogs are and how well they are going to market porn for you. And this entails more than simply using plugins like All in One SEO.

When you search for free Wordpress themes, you may well find yourself downloading some which contain a load of spammy links and keywords hidden in the theme itself. These will do you no good and in SEO terms, they could do you a great deal of harm. I guess if you know what you are looking for and have the time, then you could go searching through the templates and remove these parasites, but why waste your time which could be better spent making money from your porn blog? The best way to go is to find some clean, SEO friendly themes.

The best resource I have found for SEO Wordpress Themes is at Courts Internet Marketing School. On the post linked to here, he gives the reasons why he has chosen the themes. Court has gone through all of them with a fine tooth comb and taken out any parasitic links as well as making the themes more SEO friendly. Here is the page where you can download the free themes (there are about 100 of them now, by the way, not 48 as in the original post). There is also an update of one of his most popular themes - Dateless Sniper - on this post. This has been made to combat a ‘broken themes’ issue which occured in the recent Wordpress upgrade, so is well worth considering by anyone whose themes do not work properly since Wordpress 2.5/2.51.

While you are browsing those free Wordpress themes you just might want to have a look at some of Court’s other posts. As far as I know (and who really knows for sure…), he is not marketing porn, but his knowledge of SEO and his marketing skills are pretty damn good. You can use many of them to market porn and make a good deal of money, so it’s definitely worth having a look

And while you are doing that, I am off to do a further search of all my self-hosted porn blogs to have another look for spammy links. I want make money for marketing porn. I don’t want to give away links to some other crap. This may take some time

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