How To Make Money From Porn
Using Your Skills To Make A Living In The Adult Industry
When you start out as an adult webmaster, you will, hopefully, browse plenty of Adult Webmaster Boards to look for advice and tutorials. You may, like me, just jump right in and learn as you go along, but it’s probably better to learn a little more first. That way you may not make as many ‘newbie mistakes’ (but we all make a few, regardless…).
Either way, you have to begin somewhere and after you have found all that advice and tried some (or even most) of it out, you will probably end up totally confused! But at the same time, if you have studied carefully, you will have discovered that there are still very many different ways to make money from porn.
So one of the first things to ask yourself is:
“What am I good at and what am I not very good at?”
Writing Adult Content: I am good at writing text. I can write reams and reams of hardcore prose if required and it does make me money if linked well to a particular sponsor. One of the things which also brings me in some extra cash is writing adult content for other webmasters. It doesn’t pay that much, but it’s a pretty regular source of income, as many adult site owners and bloggers are crying out for good written content.
Other adult webmasters are not so good at writing. No big deal. However, having a reasonable command of English - or of the language you wish to market porn in - will certainly help. Search engines spiders require text, but the key factor here is relevant text (text which fits the porn niche you are promoting and the keywords and meta tags you are using - you can write thousands of words on your blog or site, but if they are not relevant to your niche, you will most likely be wasting your time). You can find text already produced by porn site owners at any good sponsor gallery. The key here is to re-arrange this text so it is unique to your post (and still contains a reasonable - but not over-stuffed - proportion of relevant keywords) and your text writing problems are solved.
Graphic Skills: You may have excellent graphic skills and be able to make your own gallery and blog headers which entice even the most ‘banner blind’ surfer to click on your sponsor link. In this case, not only will you have a distinct advantage over most of us, but you could also make some extra money out of your skill, by making headers and selling them to other adult webmasters. The only proviso here, for using them yourself, is you do still need text for the search engine spiders, otherwise the surfers turned on to your sponsor by your graphics will not be able to find you on the search pages in the first place. But once on your pages, those good graphic skills can still stand you in good stead.
Website Design: Perhaps you have a very good knowledge of html, css and php and know how to apply them well. We all need a basic knowledge of these, just to insert images and links in our text and to make our sites and blogs a little more unique, but some people excel at website design. Again, you can use these skills to provide other adult webmasters with the basics they require (adult blog themes, gallery themes, etc), but either cannot do well themselves, or prefer to pay someone else to make for them.
Website Applications: Likewise, an understanding of website development applications is a skill which can earn you good money from porn. Most adult webmasters require a multitude of tools to get the job done efficiently. Automatic blogging applications, porn sponsor gallery ’scrapers’, automatic gallery submitters and link list submitters are just a few of the appications required. There are some good tools out there already, but the market for these is not saturated as yet and if you have the skills to produce any of these or other appications which work well with porn, you will still be able to make good money from this.
Adult Website Flipping: Site and blog ‘flipping’ is still in its relative infancy. The idea is to build a blog or website so that it is completely ready to use and then sell it somewhere like Sitepoint or Digitalpoint (or even eBay, but this is usually less well-favoured and can provide problems with Paypal). Many adult webmasters (particularly those who have only a limited knowledge of css and php) are willing to pay a reasonable price to purchase a ‘ready to use adult website’, rather than do all of the basic setting up work themselves. A brand new adult website will not fetch very much money (as it will probably not even be in the search engines yet). The going rate for a ‘turnkey’ site can be anything from 20 to 500 dollars and will very much depend on how you market it and how well it is set up, but this is a growing business which you may like to consider, particularly if you prefer building adult websites to keeping them updated.
Those are a few of the ways you can use your own unique skills to earn a good living in the adult market. In the next article, I will write some more about some of the basic ways of selling porn on the internet and the pros and cons of each model.
And I hope by now you have realised that there is more than one way to make money from porn 
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