Making money with a porn blog

[SBS.95]

And just because you think something is bad, doesnt mean it is. Some people like lil wayne. Some people like jersey shore (I do). And some people like porn. I think it's a personal opinion. As long as some people like it then it has value.

To be honest I was willing to give a fair shake (pun intended) to the porn blog idea. Not something I would ever do, but whatever. But this post demonstrates your problems-

1. You think people are hating on the porn thing because they don't like porn. 90% of the people here want to talk about business. They don't care whether you're making money through porn or manufacturing candy for blind children. When you have good business lessons, the specific industry becomes less important. They're hating on your idea because it adds NO value.
2. "As long as some people like it then it has value"? WTF does that even mean? Seriously? I have tons of things I like perfectly fine. Doesn't mean I should start a business, doesn't mean I'm adding value, doesn't mean jack shit.
3. I've never met anyone who likes Jersey Shore who was headed for success. Doesn't mean you can't be the exception. But I'm doubtful. That show was meant to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

 

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[Samy Bazizi]

Thanks Esquire for your answer. Don't you think you can make money with affiliate marketing, instead of selling your own products?

 

[smarty]

I just wasted 69 seconds of my life...

 

[Esquire]

Thanks Esquire for your answer. Don't you think you can make money with affiliate marketing, instead of selling your own products?

Yep. You can. No doubt.

Not as good as your own product ... but if you don't have a product ... and are hell bent on blogging ... then yes ... affiliate marketing is your next best option.

ANYTHING ... is better than paid advertising.

If you think you can build an audience ... and successfully market tailored (affiliate) products ... go for it.

Bloggers don't make money.

Marketers ... with blogs ... do.

 

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[Samy Bazizi]

To be honest I was willing to give a fair shake (pun intended) to the porn blog idea. Not something I would ever do, but whatever. But this post demonstrates your problems-

1. You think people are hating on the porn thing because they don't like porn. 90% of the people here want to talk about business. They don't care whether you're making money through porn or manufacturing candy for blind children. When you have good business lessons, the specific industry becomes less important. They're hating on your idea because it adds NO value.
2. "As long as some people like it then it has value"? WTF does that even mean? Seriously? I have tons of things I like perfectly fine. Doesn't mean I should start a business, doesn't mean I'm adding value, doesn't mean jack shit.
3. I've never met anyone who likes Jersey Shore who was headed for success. Doesn't mean you can't be the exception. But I'm doubtful. That show was meant to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

I am sorry I did not express myself clearly when I said this. English is not my first language and sometimes I dont use the right words. What I meant is, what difference is from a porn blog or any other blog posting videos?

 

[FlamingRemedy]

IF you want to do it then do it, but be open-minded as to what everyone else is telling you. Going into something without knowing the industry or how everything works is the quickest way to lose money. Don't end up buying step by step eBooks or video courses, just research what has to be done and do it efficiently. Do not expect immediate results either, for all you know the people with your targeted fetish may only like going to other websites and not yours. I know I wouldn't go to a blog for that stuff.

 

[redsfaithful]

So in this thread you have people equating pornography to owning McDonald's franchises. I am dumber for having read most of these responses.

Samy, there was a time you could make money doing this. It was probably a decade ago. I never really got into it because it was competitive even then.

I did make about $20k from a site that I monetized with links to celebrity sex tapes and Adult Friend Finder (remember that?) I think this was about 2007 or 2008 and was something I spent probably less than 10 hours on. Eventually the celeb affiliate program went under and the guy ran off owing everyone a bunch of money. From what I gathered at the time this is a fairly common occurrence in the adult industry.

The ViralNova guy got his start with an adult site, although it was more like shock videos - NothingToxic.com. There were private forums where people bought and sold and traded traffic and he was a user at one I frequented. I used to buy NSFW traffic and send to celebrity gossip sites. I wasn't the only one doing that, some very household name sites built their empires with bought traffic from some of these sites.

There's still guys that do the traffic trading thing and make money. Some very web 1.0 sites that are still huge - ehowa.com is a good example.

A site like that could still be created and probably be successful, but:

- It's cult of personality - it's not just about curation. People have to enjoy your updates and commentary.

- You have to be able to create a brand. DrunkenStepfather.com is a good example of that.

- You need a healthy budget, because you're going to have to buy traffic to your site.

- If you can do those things, and you have a healthy budget, there's more lucrative things you could be doing.

GFY.com is the porn industry board, if you want to do this I'd recommend you go there and read until your eyes bleed. There really are better things to do with your time however. Even if you're seriously passionate about porn there's probably better ways to make money.

Like anything, you're better off being the affiliate company than the affiliate, but I read an article a few years back about how the porn industry is all owned by one company at this point. All of the huge tube sites, one large company. I think the days of a small timer being able to compete are over. But I might be wrong, like I said it's not an industry I'm in, so I'd recommend reading GFY and seeing for yourself.

 

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[Sean P]

So you like porn and want to start a business that is associated with it, correct? And you thought of creating a blog, marketing which may not be easy when there are thousands of porn sites competing with each other. Also, I think you're not really passionate about porn(which is purportedly the best recommendation for a niche for starting a blog) but you would like to earn money since you enjoy it.

If I have guessed right then here is my recommendation. Study adult media buying and start your own ad campaigns. Once you have learnt the ropes including campaign optimization the ROI in porn ads is very high.

 

[Ninjakid]

Since I lost so much time looking at porn, why not use this to make money?

This is what's wrong with the world.

 

[theag]

ANYTHING ... is better than paid advertising.

So much lol in that sentence. Obviously you are clueless .

 

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[Deon]

So much lol in that sentence. Obviously you are clueless .

I think he meant having paid advertising on your website as a source of revenue. Not using paid advertising yourself to sell what you want to sell.

Or would you still think that's very wrong?

 

[Esquire]

So much lol in that sentence. Obviously you are clueless .

No ... quite the opposite. If you think paid advertising is how people make money with blogs ... then YOU are the one who is clueless.

A blog with 1000 page views a day (for example) ... is only going to net the average person about $3 a day from Google Adwords ... which is roughly $90 per month.

And YOU going to bust your a$$ to get 30000 visitors a month for a whopping $90.00 ...?

Not me.

You'd have to be dumb as rocks to do that. Which is why most bloggers are broke.

The (very) few bloggers who make serious money ... are those using the blog to sell their own high-margin information products ... membership sites ... tangible products ... or whatever.

The people who are making (real) money from blogs are marketers with blogs ... not bloggers selling ad space. Paid ads will net ya chump change.

Don't know what else to tell ya.

 

[Esquire]

I think he meant having paid advertising on your website as a source of revenue. Not using paid advertising yourself to sell what you want to sell.

Or would you still think that's very wrong?

Exactly. Nothing wrong with paid advertising if YOU are the one doing the advertising.

I am critiquing the blogging crowd that sells their ad space for peanuts. They ought to be using that space to sell their own products.

 

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[theag]

Don't know what else to tell ya.

You are mixing up all kinds of terms. Thats why it came across loly. The term paid advertising usually refers to the buying side. As does Adwords. The selling equivalents are ad space (as you are now correctly referring to it) and Adsense.

 

[theag]

I am critiquing the blogging crowd that sells their ad space for peanuts. They ought to be using that space to sell their own products.

Please dont let them take the ad impressions away from me .

 

[iwontquit]

i would advise against it friend!

 

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[Catalyst]

OP: you need GFY

 

[DeletedUser394]

OP: you need GFY

And then he needs to post it on his blog! He'd be creating jobs, think of all those jobs!!!!

 

[biophase]

I haven't read this whole thread but it's not about porn, it is basically a "Can I make money with a ______ blog?" thread. The subject to me does not matter. And BTW, I did like Jersey Shore!

 

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[csalvato]

Adult Friend Finder (remember that?)

AFF is still pretty big in the swinger/casuals scene.

 

[Samy Bazizi]

I haven't read this whole thread but it's not about porn, it is basically a "Can I make money with a ______ blog?" thread. The subject to me does not matter. And BTW, I did like Jersey Shore!

Thanks man, nice to see someone who is not jugmental I don't care what kind of blog I make, but for me the easiest to make and to provide content would be a porn blog. And Jersey shore is awesome, it's like watching a social experiment! No shame at all of watching this show!

 

[Catalyst]

@Samy Bazizi above I wasn't proposing you GFY, was recommending you read the GFY forum in addition to here.

 

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[Ryllban]

If you are going with this idea, then why not try to get money from different ways then ads?

Maybe post your favorite videos each day, but then you also sell sex toys?

Have your blog as a way to drive traffic, then you sell them something on the site. You could also sell other peoples products (affiliate) if you build some traffic on your site.

I myself is starting a blog (not in the porn industry) and will use my blog as a way to drive traffic and then sell other things on the blog.

Many ways to earn money!

 

[theag]

BTW porn blog CPMs are in the 5-20cent range, not $2.5 like somebody suggested above. So yeah, you'll not make money from this. Unless you create thousands of automated blogs, but it doesnt sound like you have the knowledge or resources for that

The people suggesting to build a porn blog to drive traffic to products obviously were never in that "niche" or bought adult traffic before or they wouldnt suggest this.

Next idea.

 

[Samy Bazizi]

BTW porn blog CPMs are in the 5-20cent range, not $2.5 like somebody suggested above. So yeah, you'll not make money from this. Unless you create thousands of automated blogs, but it doesnt sound like you have the knowledge or resources for that

The people suggesting to build a porn blog to drive traffic to products obviously were never in that "niche" or bought adult traffic before or they wouldnt suggest this.

Next idea.

Have you been in that niche? Do you talk by experience? Are you sure there is no way to be succesful in that niche? And by succesful, I dont mean making millions but just a few hundreds a month would be enough

 

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[theag]

Yeah have and still am, among others. Big market, big opportunities. Takes skills and capital though.

 

[csalvato]

Yeah have and still am, among others. Big market, big opportunities. Takes skills and capital though.

To be clear, to go the traditional route of buying ads to push traffic and offers, you need skills and capital.

If you truly innovate and create something great, you get a lot of marketing for free once you start getting your name out there.

Don't let the difficulty of pre-existing systems stand in your way. If you want to be a porn tycoon, maybe PPC or PPV ads aren't for you. Maybe, instead, you can offer a different kind of value to this industry.

But now that begs the questions: how much do you REALLY care about this industry? Enough to iterate over all of these failed ideas in turn?

Think about it.

What is your purpose?

 

[theag]

What is your purpose?

Thats a bit too deep for my taste in a porn thread, but whatever floats your boat .

 

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[csalvato]

Thats a bit too deep for my taste in a porn thread, but whatever floats your boat .

Then he will fail right out of the gate and should only get his hands dirty in this industry in the privacy of his own home.

If he doesn't want to have a serious impact on the porn industry, he is just wasting his time.

 

[Samy Bazizi]

Then he will fail right out of the gate and should only get his hands dirty in this industry in the privacy of his own home.

If he doesn't want to have a serious impact on the porn industry, he is just wasting his time.

You think it is not possible to make a little passive income without spending a lot of capital and time?