Do porn affiliates make money?

I’m a bit dejected after doing Overture searches on search terms to evaluate the market for a proposed website and finding that there are more searches for the primary term plus porn than just for the primary term, e.g. “vintage” = 928 while “vintage porn” = 1,432.

As there is about 50% more people looking for vintage porn than vintage I decided to check out the porn industry from a site owner’s viewpoint and found there is quite a lot of affiliate programs which claim to pay pretty well, up to $35 a sign up and up to 60% ongoing commission. It’s not like there’s much work involved as I’d only have to run some feeder sites. The most work would be in trying to get my sites into high search engine rankings, which I figure would be pretty hard in such a large and competitive market.

I don’t think I want to run vintage porn sites, for a variety of reasons, but I wouldn’t entirely rule it out as vintage porn is a lot softer than most of the stuff on the net and they seem to pay pretty well for little work so I’m wondering: Do affiliate porn sites really make easy money?

I can’t believe I’m responding to this, OH WELL!

:vinnie: :vinnie:

You’re dealing with one of the top industries on the net. The porn industry has shaped many technologies you use today, including media. If you want to look at the realistic realistic side, what makes affiliate and advertising services work well? Demand. Go out on the street and ask people if they buy porn (half of them will slap you, a quarter may hit you, and the other will give you an answer). Most will probably say yes. So yah, I find it realistic that they can provide easy money. The question is do your moral standards orient towards financial gain or ethical views.

Of course that you can make money with porn affiliates :slight_smile:
This is one of the strongest business on internet :wink:
And one of the first…
There is demand, demand and demand but and competition also :wink:

How do I find them to ad to my site…my site is an adult related stie with good traffic…

upwards of 15000 unique visitors a month …I think that is good.

google can help you…

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=porn+affiliate+program&meta=

1.9 million results

Here is a good recent thread on the subject.
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=381211

Thanks for that. It sort of confirms what I’ve found out elsewhere.

I’ve been trawling the net a bit since starting this thread (which I should have done before starting it :blush: ) and, believe it or not, porn affiliates aren’t a guaranteed way to make millions while sipping martinis beside the pool getting a massage from the latest Playboy bunny. [Sigh! :wink: ]

I think there’s money to be made there potentially more easily than most startup sites in other areas, but like everything else it needs constant hard work to do well, and you have to do a lot of work to understand the market before you start.

If it was a goldmine there wouldn’t be people offering a cut of the action through affiliate sites. They’d keep it all to themselves. It’s just another form of pyramid selling.

On the other hand, people who can produce their own content (a video camera and no embarassment about other people recognising you doing things most of us mightn’t even do, let alone publish) have a bit of a niche waiting to be filled (perhaps an unfortunate turn of phrase).

There is actually a pretty well developed range of adult webmaster sites which offer useful information, but the guts of it is that you always need to work hard in a market you understand to make money, and you need to keep working hard.

Alas, I can’t just put up a couple of feeder sites and sit back and collect the huge stream of dollars.

Can someone tell me if my traffic numbers are half good or not? Jsut trying to decide if it is worth it or not to try to advertise on my site

This is an average month and they keep going up
Unique visitors 22353
Number of visits 27283
Pages 225580
Hits 2039797

If 1% of visitors convert to a visit that’ll be more than 7 a day, which ought to pretty rewarding financially even if the person providing the services works only five days, or nights, a week at $220 an hour. It actually comes out close to 9 grand a week for a five day week of 8 hours each day.

I hope you don’t mind me saying that the retro background you’re using clashes very badly with the black content panel.

I’ve also seen that background claimed on another site as copyright material, although I have no way of knowing if their claim has substance or whether you have been authorised to use it.

If you’re getting about 9 grand a week from shagging clients, or about 12 grand a week if you’re working seven days, or just commission on shagging done by others, I’d say your website traffic is pretty close to capacity and / or providing a very nice income.

P.S.

  1. I’d love to know what all the acronyms in her reviews mean.

  2. What is the problem with Greeks: i.e. “No Greek” is mentioned several times when the man with her apparently isn’t a Greek? Are they disappointed that she isn’t a Greek? If “No Greek” is worth reporting, what am I missing out on by not getting some “Greek”? Why isn’t there “No Italian” or “No Arab”? I guess there’s a reason that there’s no complaint about “No French”.

Porn converts at way less than 1% though… People just use the clips to ummmm take care of themselves and don’t buy a membership.

you are wrong. check out gfy.com, thinkreel.com, and netpond.com and you will see what i mean

No Greek = No back door enterance

I was just going to suggest gfy.com. You read around their and you will see quite a few happy porn marketers who are raking in a decent sum of $$$ as a porn affiliate. If you can find the content and audience, this industy is insanely lucrative.

As a matter of fact…that is what I thought as well. I thought if I put up a video clip then all who visit my site whould not need to see me…was I wrong.

My traffic doubled and so did the number of clients.

ermm i started 1 yesterday… only 1:60 converted :frowning: but hey that is good made 80$ :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m not saying that porn doesn’t convert, I’m just saying that your conversion rate is not 1 in 100 to a paid membership.

And I’ve been on gfy, cozyfrog, etc…

Some people are still going to pay, but most are window shoppers.

Ask people what their conversion rates are on their sites or point me to a thread that discusses this.

Then you can say you “proved me wrong”.

i really think that conversion rate depends on how your site looks, the better it looks the more people will trust you and sign up my site is consisting of 1 picture/pink background/ and the registration form in a iframe so dont i dont expect to make milllliiioons but still 80$ a day for a teen like is good :smiley:

Games4fun,

Can you share some light on how exactly do you get the customers? Do you just have a 1 page website with a video clip and a big “JOIN NOW!” button?

Also how do you get the hits? Do you pay for popups? Google/Yahoo paid advertising?

No need to go into it in details since im sure you don’t want to give away the secret. :wink:

I was looking into becoming a porn affiliate but I wasn’t sure on how to go about doing it.

By the way, $80/day is not bad at all! Thats $2,400/month which would pay my rent!

no videos :open_mouth: just 2 pictures and affiliate page in iframe