Starting up:

HOSTING : First of all, get yourself an adult webhost. Below is a filtered list of the best possible adult web hosts - both free and paid. This list contains only adult hosts which I have tried myself and found to be satisfactory. Obviously, there are a lot of other adult hosting companies who may be better, and you will find a lot of adult webmaster resources listing them.

1. PROTGP - Paid hosting starting at 7$/month - 150MB space, 4 GB bandwidth. Includes cgi,perl, php4, mysql, reseller plan, flash support, ecommerce ready, 200 pop/smtp emails, password protected directories and a lot more. See review here.

2. DEEPFREE - Free hosting - unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth. No popups, free Russian Submitter and Rove TGP Submitter accounts, free .com domain, full FTP management and a lot more.

For max efficiency and economy, I would suggest that you register with both and divide your files among them - the protected folders such as membership scripts and pay to view services in protgp and the public or open folders in deepfree.

CONTENT: The next step depends on whether you plan to buy or shoot adult content or whether you want it all for free. If you plan to put up excusive adult content, get it all ready first. Else, for free adult content - join up with the following sponsors: Again there are a lot, and I mean a lot, of adult sponsors offering free content in exchange for you promoting them to your users with banners, popups, text links and any other way that you can send them visitors. Listed below are the adult sponsors that I am using myself, who offer downloadable picture files, galleries and movie files in zip format. Also, some hosted galleries ( meaning all you have to do is put up a text or image link to a gallery hosted by the sponsor. So, you don't need any space or bandwidth. The downside is that it doesn't add to the adult content on your site ).

1. Topbucks - The best - Videos, image zip files, hosted galleries for all niches. Highly recomend this adult pay per signup sponsor for all webmasters.

2. AdultPlatinum - Galleries, free content, and more. Lots of sites for you to promote.

3. Pornstarbucks - Official homepages of Jenna Jameson, Brianna Banks and a lot of other pornstars. Promote using their picture sets and videos.

4. Flyntdigital -Incredible picture sets ( zip files ) from Hustler, Barely legal and a lot of high converting sites.

5. Moneytree - Like it says, they have tons of money, a solid rep and infrastructure to back it up, and lots of sponsor programs for all kinds of adult webmasters.

6. Totemcash - Sell the latest pornstar and model Virtuagirl desktops to your clients. Adds free adult video galleries to your adult website.

7. Maxcash - Tons of downloadable picture galleries from Kara's XXX - one of the most successful porn sites on the web zip files.

8. XPays - Adult sponsor network for a lot of sites including the marketing of the Paris Hilton video.

9.Fhgstore - They have thousands of hosted galleries from all the major adult sponsors which you use on your site. Just key in your affiliate code and you're all set.

10.Pornstardollars- Adult Sponsor program for all the major pornstars. Webmasters earn big bucks plus lots of quality free content for your adult website.

For full list of all adult pay per signup sponsors, click here.

Hosted Galleries:If you are the lazy type, then the hosted galleries are the ideal solution for you. Click here to get links for thousands of hosted galleries.

SOFTWARE & SCRIPTS: OK - So, you got your website hosted, you got your harddrive full of free content. Now, the next step would be to collect the tools, i.e. - the software and scripts necessary to put up all this in a clean and appealing format.

Software list:

1.Macromedia Dreamweaver - HTML Editor

2. WSFTPPRO FTP Client -- Upload files to your webhost ( free trial download )

3. Express Gallery Maker - Make instant galleries from picture files ( free trial download )

4. Streamauthor2.6- Multimedia editing ( free trial download )

5.Video Joiner - Join broken mpeg files to make one big movie ( free trial download )

6. Adobe Photoshop Edit, resize and mix your images. ( free trial download ) Good for working with banners created using Xara ( free trial download )

7. Avi Splitter - Capture frames from videos. ( free trial download )

8. Webposition Gold - How to increase traffic to your Web site without spending advertising dollars.

List of scripts:

1. Amember- Membership Script from cgi-central.net

2. Matt's script archive - (Free Downloads)

3. Menu script - This is one helluva scam - I tried menu building software from at least 4 different companies, and found that either they got popups when you see the menu on the net or there's some fuckwit blocking mechanism. So, finally, i decided to code it, and you can see the result up top.Click here to see the source code. Just copy paste and change the URL's and names to get your own menu.

DESIGN: So you got everything. Now it's time for some hard work and to show your designer genius. Design seperate pages for everything:

To download free adult templates zips - visit the design section but remember that a lot of people are doing the same.

Suggested pages:

1. Disclamer & Home page - Please go through a lot of disclaimers and study the laws to see what fits your site best.
2. Thumbnail Gallery Page - subcategorize as per niche
3. Video and movies - subcategorize as per niche
4. Live Cams
5. Ezine
6. Links
7. Webmasters ( In case you decide to start an affiliate program )

Two points to consider when you're designing your pages:
1. Minimize banners - A couple up top, and maybe one or two small ones inside the pages. Leave space for the banners.
2. Include as many text links as possible( you can replace them with exchange links later - we'll get to that).

REVENUE: So, hopefully, by now you got a good looking website and you're feeling proud of yourself. Now is the time to start worrying about how you're going to make money after all this hardwork. Well, cheer up, and read on. Considered that it's difficult to get people to pay money for watching porn on the web nowadays, but there's still an enormous amount of money being made by a lot of people. Here's how they do it: Signup for every program in this list and try to include as many as possible in your site - this is where the money is going to come from.

Type of programs:

Pay per signup - These sponsors pay for every user from your site who lands up at their site and sign's up for their membership. You already signed up for ten of them above in content. Just use their content to get signups credited to you. Send as many people as possible to their sites.

Pay per Impression: Make money off every user who visits your site - These sponsors give you a few lines of code to incude in your site. Any visitor who comes in will get a popup, either when he comes in or when he leaves your site - you decide. Warning: If you incude any sponsor who opens multiple or chain popups, the user is going to be drowned in popups or end up, as we say - in "popup hell".

I suggest a sponsor who gives you a single popup on entry or exit, such as FPCTraffic or Xitcash .

High paying chain popups are: Yourxxxsponsor & Offshoreclicks

Pay per click - Now, you got to be very careful here, or you could end up in deep shit. Read all Terms & conditions carefully before you signup and decide if you want your user to end up in some place where he doesn't want to go. Blind clicks( where the user clicks on something like - Click here for free Teen Movies - and ends up at your adult sponsors webpage ) are easy to make the user click, but may result in a loss of regular visitors. I suggest one single popup per page along with a lot of signup sponsors, text links for per click and a few images for pay per click sponsors.

EZINE: Sponsors include Freepassbucks, Adultearners, Gammacash, Wegcash and Adameve. These adult sponsors offer about 1$/confirmed email. Big money and easy to promote. Visit Formmail to setup your own ezine.

DO NOT SPAM!

See the directory resource listing at top of page or do a search for listing of any particular topic.

MEMBERSHIP & CREDIT CARD SETUP:

Amember:

To be able to accept credit cards, join up with one of the following:

They'll do the installation, so you don't need to worry about how to set it up.( Hint - With the processors listed below, you don't need amember.)

CCBill

Ibill

Verotel

One word of advice, do not setup a paid site unless you feel that you have something substantial to offer your customers.

ADULT TRAFFIC: Ok, so we're all set to go. Only problem is - you got no visitors and nobody knows about your site. Fear not, help is at hand. Just follow these tips and you should be on your way on the high seas of adult porn.

1. Search Engine Optimization - involves a lot of hard work, but probably the only way to go.( visit www.submitcorner.com)

2.Buy traffic - be careful - not only are you spending money instead of earning it, results are far from assured.

3. Trade traffic - For more details see the traffic trade listings.

4. Start an affiliate program, where you're the sponsor. Find a good adult affiliate network. I would advise against installing your own affiliate script in the beginning, considering the large possiblity of fraud and cheaters stealing your hard earned money.

5. Advertise your site on search engines and other adult sites. ( again, you're spending money but this one is slightly more likely to bring in some revenue).

Advertisers List: Google Adword.

6. TGP Posting: Post your galleries on Thumbnail Gallery Posts - See TGP Resources.

7. Link Lists: Submit your site to all the reputed link lists here. They'll drive quality adult traffic to your website. Warning: Submitting your site to FFA sites can lead to search engine ranking falling disastrously.

TIPS & TRICKS:

Search Engine Tips - Before you submit to the search engines, get text links exchanged with as many adult sites as possible. Google will search for links to your site on the internet before listing you. Warning: Link only to pages with a Page Rank™ higher or at least equal to your link. Suggest that even if you use auto submitters, check every site to see if your link is up.

404 page exits - Use 404 pages ( these are custom pages shown when the user tries to find a page not there in your site) to send visitors to adult sponsors.

Use free gifts like dvd/s and adult toys to attract signups.

Keep your content fresh - rotate pics on all index pages at least every fortnight. See random html script to randomly load a page.

Keep your pages clean and simple. Sites which look very attractive have relatively lower signup stats.

Use a lot of text and text links throughout every page. Search engines love text.

Keep in mind that this is just one of the ways to get started in the adult industry. The rest depends on your hardwork, talent and let's hope that ladyluck smiles on you.

If you are looking to sell adult products, and don't know much about websites, check out the Froogle listings.

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