Money Making The Grown Up Adult Way
As I’ve said previously I like to experiment with blogs to see what works, and what doesn’t, as regards making money.

I’ve been dabbling in the fringes of the adult market recently and, as I guess most of us would expect, it is a very profitable niche.

First a warning: Please do not got to any of the links on this post if they are likely to offend - that’s the last thing I want to do - plus everyone must be over 18.

I started an adult version of a celebrity blog about four to five months ago, with a partner, and it has proved very profitable. I actually spent some money, which is against my normal mission rules, and bought a decent name for a change: CelebTease.com. It only cost $10 for the first year and at the moment it is still hosted on Blogger.

It hasn’t reached the heights of my top celeb blog traffic wise, as yet, but the number of page views is quite good - see below for the last week.

As you can see it gets nearly 2,500 page views a day so readers are staying longer on the site. This means there is more opportunity to sell and, as I’ve now proved, certain things are easy to promote.

As we know the Internet is flooded with adult sites and one of the reasons is because people are making lots of money out of this business. It appears to be a fact that those interested in such things are willing to click on ads, join stuff and also spend money.

If others are interested in testing this market here’s a few affiliate programs that have paid out worthwhile amounts and have been easy(ish) to promote.

WegCash. This has been the biggest earner. One of the reasons is that it’s possible for people to join some of their adult websites for free. For everyone who does you receive $1.15. This may not sound a lot but it soon ads up because it’s easy pickings.

They also have paid sites for which much larger sums can be made. I’m not sure how many sites they have in all for affiliates, it’s quite a few dozen, and cover all ‘variations.’

Met Art. Not so explicit and has won awards for it’s photography - it’s still naked girls though. Pays out on time and, along with the other progams, there is money to be made by introducing others into the business.

AdultFriendFinder. The biggest online contacts site. It’s massive and has about 30 different sites to promote. It’s now owned by Penthouse and it’s possible to promote their site as well - though I haven’t done very well with this - lots of clicks but few sales.

The group has good promotional material of every shape, size and format.

Sexy Ads. Similar to AFF and have various contact sites to promote. Some of the sites I’m able to promote on my normal celebrity blogs (this also applies to AFF where they have sites for sectors such as Christians, Jews and various individual countries). They offer very good back up and I get a check from them every month.

Convergence Inc. They offer a free website of sex toys and similar items with high commission rates. Based in USA but pay out regularly on all orders, even small amounts. They have the sort of products that are right for the Internet and the privacy that this offers.

One more, nearly forgot:

DIY Dating. They are in the UK but operate worldwide, millions of members. They also offer a free website, using their database, on whatever sector of contacts that you prefer.

Now all of this isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. It depends what you are willing to promote to make money. Lots of people have various beliefs, standards, principles and so on.

It’s not really my personal ‘thing’ but I’m interested in seeing what makes a good profit. If nothing else we may be able to sell CelebTease.com in the future. Now selling blogs … that’s a whole new ball game which does interest me.

Good luck,
Mike.

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Voxant Newsroom: Money Making Update
As long time readers will know I have previously been full of praise for the Voxant Newsroom. This is where you can get all sorts of videos to embed on your blog or website and get paid for doing so.

I use Voxant on a couple of my celebrity blogs and have made some reasonable money from them. I think the most I received in a month was $401.75, which was very acceptable.

I made the money by having the videos play automatically when someone goes to the blogs. Okay, this may annoy some but I’m out to make money!

For this the rate varied month to month but was about $3.50 to $4 for every 1000 plays. I thought this to be fair.

I’ve now only just realised that the rate for June autoplays has been slashed to just 50c per 1000. So that’s a 75% pay cut!

For videos, where readers have to click to watch the video, this is still at $3.50 per 1000 for June. Of course this is less profitable as visitors have to click and watch the video/ads to be included in the 1000.

Another move they have made is, to quote their blog:

“Therefore, moving forward, we will only be compensating you for impressions that come from North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.”

This I can understand - advertisers wishes have to be met.

The slash of the autoplay rate I’m not so happy about.

May well have to look for a replacement programme to compensate. But that seems to be the way of making money with blogs. It’s about keeping up to date and moving around when necessary.

Good luck,
Mike

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