10+ Ways How Porn Websites Make Huge Bucks
Written by Pradeep Kumar in Featured, Make Money - Print This Post
I never thought of writing this post, but I don’t want to waste the content I had in my mind. So here it is. Before that, I would like to stress that free porn is something more popular than Facebook or Google. The more you see, the more you addict. Porn Internet Marketers use this simple logic to attract millions of visitors and earn billions (and even more) through that. You can check the Internet Pornography stats for that.
This post is purely for “learning” purpose, like how they trick (or partly fool) us to earn money with their sites. Never follow these methods, they are not ethical. I didn’t censor some of the images, I thought uncensored images can reach more well.
1. Premium Content
Who hates “free porn”? The fact is that they don’t provide all for free, they also have a premium section which provides HD quality content and unlimited access to the videos available.
Normally below every streaming video (on tube sites) you can check banners like these tempting users to register and purchase premium membership from them.
They also show distracting advertisements and offering them a way to remove them, i.e., buy a premium account. These streaming sites use something called Adult Video Script (AVS) for making a clone like YouTube.
A Sample Premium Membership Facilities
- Download all available videos
- 21,360 full DVDs
- 134,710 HQ scenes
- No Ads and Pop-Unders
- Profile promotion – be popular!
2. Video Ads – Tube Sites
Streaming sites are quite popular for porn, thanks to YouTube, the concept of streaming applied widely. Like YouTube, they also show advertisements on the videos. Sometimes they display ads during the play, but the users will have the option to close it. They also show ads when user pauses the video.
Normally the users will get confused, like they’ll think that the advertisement is the real video and click it. Big bucks for the site.
3. Affiliate Ads
Yes, Affiliate Marketing is also popular here, why? Because porn sites have targeted users. They have good demographics base, they know what kind of visitors they will get. So by placing such affiliate advertisements near a video can easily tempt the viewers to click on it, rest is history.
They request you to join their services for free and afterwards, hidden charges. Normally there are 3 types in Affiliate Program.
1. Per-Click Program : They give you up to $1.00 per each unique visitor per day.
2. Percentage Program : The more traffic you send, the more you earn with their percentage program.
3. Per Order Payout : Some sites pay you up to 70$ for any order placed on their site.
4. PPS Program
PPS programs are nothing but, Pay Per Sale Programs. For every sale referred by you, they’ll give commission, sometimes like 70-75% of the price.
If you can see the advertisements above you won’t be surprised why they are popular. Porn sites sell drugs and other kind of toys that are widely popular among sex addicts. They won’t mind spending few bucks to increase their lust.
5. Dating and Webcam
Thinking they are real, some fools will fall prey for such automated webcam videos. They think they can chat (or whatever) with them online for some bucks, but shit, they are not real.
Sometimes those chat windows appear like Yahoo! Messenger, GTalk, and Facebook chat message window to fool visitors.
The automated messages will be like “Wanna see my b****s?
Guys who are not aware about such illegal tactics can easily be fooled and they’ll loose their money within few minutes.
6. Online Porn Games
This is also quite popular now-a-days. Online porn/sex games are both available in free and premium version. Just like the #1 point, they’ll provide you the trial version for free and will prompt you to pay for getting the full version. Hidden charges in short.
These games are also very popular on mobile phones and iPad.
7. Through Fusion Marketing
I’ll start with an example for this one, you are downloading your favourite song from Rapidshare and unfortunately the downloaded file is a small porn clip with an URL to visit the main site. It is just a matter of preference, whether people will see it or not. I recommend not to try this one with ‘dark’ intention.
I’ll tell you how to adapt and adjust. Using Fusion Marketing, you still give people what they are asking for, that’s the highlight. We are talking about legitimate Fusion Marketing, not porn oriented. A Fusion Marketer will give you what you want and also at the same time ride along with his marketing message i.e., the advertisement.
Example (Real World) : Seeing movies advertised on the cups of soft drinks served at KFC. Yep, we call that as Fusion Marketing. Porn Marketers use Fusion Marketing in a wrong way, in other words, they use ‘Bait-and-switch’ method. This irritates the customers a lot. Bait-and-switch is a form of fraud, most commonly used in retail sales but also applicable to other contexts. First, customers are “baited” by advertising for a product or service at a low price; second, the customers discover that the advertised good is not available and are “switched” to a costlier product.
8. Credit Card Tactics
Internet Marketers and Bloggers still use this trick to grab customers’ attention. Moreover it also makes easier for consumers to make a buying decision. Consider this incident for example (of course, for example only, ahem!) You are visiting a porn website, and you are attracted towards a short (& sexy) clip of your favourite porn actress (hmm, why not Brianna Banks?).
Now obviously you are interested in seeing the full clip, but before you can view the full clip, you need to cross one quick step. Now you are asked for your credit card details (and you gave it, damn), since there are several reasons for asking them. Maybe they wanted to verify that you are above 18 years old or they are giving $1 trial offer for the first few days of access. Now you are viewing the full length video. Bingo! But the fact is, after 1 month you will get your credit card bill and your soul won’t know the charges (yet). Now that will be great for the porn sites and bad for unsuspecting consumers.
9. Embed Videos on sites
Larger sites pay smaller tube sites to embed their videos and they both earn from ads within the video player. Some sites even pay to provide short clips of the beginnings of a video for tube sites to upload. Sometimes they earn a cut from each sign-up.
If you are watching a porn video on WXYZ.com, you could have seen ABCD.com’s logo or some branding, this is the real reason for that.
Such porn companies pay the tubes to feature their content, so it can direct some traffic to their pay sites. Though most of the popular tube sites and porn sites are all owned by the same company.
10. PPC & CPM
Like normal websites, adult websites also use such Pay Per Click (PPC) and Cost Per Impression (CPM) programs. Of course, they earn 100x than normal sites. But they can’t use Adsense and those normal ad networks because they won’t accept adult/porn content usually. But there are some special PPC and CPM programs exclusively made for such sites.
They also earn money through direct advertisements, like selling ad spaces directly to the advertisers. There are many such ad networks exclusively for this. A good advantage for them is, if there is no advertiser available to buy your ad space, then their own network ads will display on your site so you can earn money through their CPC program.
11. Donations
They set up a donation system to allow visitors to give money of their choice. The most common and easiest way, as you know, is PayPal. They set up a simple PayPal donation so that their readers and visitors can easily make the payment.
It works if they have good number of regular visitors and they have a blog attached to their site where they can discuss with their readers/viewers.
12. File hosting and Image hosting
File hosting and image hosting are some of the good ways to earn from a porn/adult website. How? They host the adult content on their sites and they earn big money when someone downloads your files from those hosting sites.
By this, porn site webmasters and internet marketers are indirectly promoting the file and image hosting sites. They also get traffic by making their download link URL viral.
13. Content Locker or Content Gateway
Some sites have Content Lockers or Gateways, like the visitors should complete some surveys before they can view the main targeted content. By this site webmasters have been earning thousands of dollars each month.
They prevent you from accessing the main content and ask you to pay them before proceeding. You would have eagerly visited the URL from another link or another part, but they’ll prompt you to pay them before viewing the content.
Though some of these tactics are also applied on normal sites, why, even your own blogs, but porn sites make them even more appropriate because the kind of visitors they have. That’s what we call “Sexy”.
Earlier I wrote a post – 15+ Blogging Tactics I Learned From ‘Porn’ and you can compare both, the tactics are quite explained there.
Your comments are appreciated, but please, don’t make this article so special by unparliamentary comments.
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Very genuinely written Pradeep. Whether it is the ancient days or the 21st century, sex sells, hence the porn industry is playing in billions…all of the above strategies really work.
nice research.. have to think about this mega niche..
Haha, very different and interesting post, making money online is big niche, and this proves that, from porns to games, this is huge market and people will always be interested in this. thank you Kumar for sharing this with us.
I'll be writing the similar article on my blog soon.
Hmmm…we can write about what affiliate marketers can learn from the porn industry affiliate marketers…best would have been to get an interview but I think these guys like to remain behind the scenes
Actually long back, I wrote one :
http://hellboundbloggers.com/2011/04/14/blogging-tactics-from-porn/
There are hell lot of stuffs to learn, since this industry is popular and viral, things are so easy to proceed.
Ad-Explosion is one i guess pradeep ?
Yea mate..
Sparking topic this is ! Gonna ignite the fire here in comments
Haa … Really True ,many marketers earn more from this industry !!!!!!
You did some research here
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First of all great work brother. the data, screenshots and the way you have presented this article is too good. classic article for learning purpose and i came to know many hidden things that how this guys makes huge money
personally i liked it so much.
Thank you.
Yaa, Very True.. And Youth are easily attracted to these tricks and they tempt to click on them.. Great article
@Aashish, Same here..
Pradeep made me think on this niche.
I wonder from where they get advertisements for these sites.. I mean is there any porn advertising agency like we bloggers have adsense..
There are thousands in fact. Understanding this industry is ever-green many people started ad networks for this.
Please name some advertising companies for this who pay high like we have adsense for our blogs. (I might start one 18+ website in near future)
Sorry mate, I can't advice on that unfortunately and it is NOT recommended indeed to start one.
Not recommeded? It will be all about money bro… You yourself stated that it is a billion dollar industry.
Yea mate, it is. But still these tactics are not recommended, as almost all the porn sites use unethical ways for earning..
Yes, It's true. porn sites are making huge bucks. We also can do it. But I am against porn and adult sites..:D
Really awesome tips… but can you tell me it is really work.. and how to get ads for p*** sites
I can't refer or share any sites mate, but they earn from many ad networks. To know more, check this infographic : http://hellboundbloggers.com/2011/06/29/internet-and-pornography-stats/
lol… very good written
LOL
,seems you have done lots of research.Also to write about it you need right knowledge and guts.
Thanks for sharing how they make huge money.
Hi Pradeep , glad you have done the research so some of us don't have to ; ) the premium content approach is one that I think is a fair approach. I don't like to be "switch and baited" so I wouldn't go for that approach regardless of how much money I could make by doing it.
Pradeep, The Porn researcher
Hi this is Awesome post, even i can't think how porn sites make money. Thanks for sharing great information.
Wow, this is a big revelation. I am a huge porn consumer and now after reading and reflecting on your post, I tend to agree that it is an addition and it lures you very easily into itself. Thankfully, I have not spent any money foolishly on it. But the points that you have made about how the chains of taking you from one to another work with the advertisements and all that is very true. I have been swindled a little in that trap. But maybe for people who advertise such products that are sex-related the best place to do so is porn and the best thing to do is to use the power of porn to lure people in a positive way of sorts.
Interesting post HBB…..these sites consist of lot of high paying ads like adult friend finder…..It pays a lot with every register
Heheh…. You are very well read in this Niche dude ! I suspect you run a lot of them
The next Hugh Hefner in the making …!
Hi,
You have great idea about how to we can make more money with what kind of ideas and this is very true these kind of things attract many visitors who don't know about all this.
Really cool.. There have been many ideas also which can be obtained from Porn Websites as well..
Great research Pradeeep! By reading what you wrote, one can see how people are earning tons of money through what is often called the oldest profession. Now, you can call it the "newest profession" online. Really amazing!!!
I am afraid that if you will start a porn site (Just KIDDING), this is a picture perfect guide for those who are planning to make money online by starting some porn/adult niche websites.. awesome research.. kudos dude..
Thanks for the amazing research. I am sure this might help some of the interested business developers in setting up as well as improving their websites. As for me, I think the porn business will always be a huge success no matter how stiff the competition is and the information provided by you will help people plan their marketing strategies.
wow after reading your post, even i want to own a porn site
LOL
Believe me, whether male or female, after reading this article, the thought has crossed everyone's mind…heheheh
I Agree with you Chitra
I Agree with you Chitra
This post will spoils every one mind 
you are absolutely right!
hey nice research cuz youth is easily attract to these types of things and now i am also thinking to own a porn site to earn money…!!
but i have a question that where from the videos and the pics which are to be uploaded on porn site.. are came..???
means the source..
Porn Industry is same as Film Industry mate, they produce and direct films.
You have done quite a lot of research to put this all together, haven't you..
Really nice stuff Pradeep… I have read your other article as well – blogging tactics from P0rn… quite informative, both of them… lots to learn from the tacts they use to earn big bucks…
You really seem to be giving the wrong type to attention on porn sites.
It is commendable that managed to 'extract' so much from such a stressful environment.
Nonetheless, a very informative article, impressive and somewhat tempting net savvy users to indulge in the porn industry.
haha very nice networks for porn sites
I think most porn website makes their money is mostly because any users are allow to upload contents into the website. Its kinda like another version of youtube, but instead with porn.
I would have added an article. There are some sites, called cj, they generate traffic to sites with premium content. A good way to start your own business on the Internet – is to your sentence:
Understanding this industry is ever-green many people started ad networks for this.
Awesome idea you have here. Are you implementing it on some website?
Learn from everything, but don't follow them.
This post says that all : http://hellboundbloggers.com/2011/04/14/blogging-tactics-from-porn/
Awesome Plans and Great Networks. Any one here executing these plans
Well i wasn’t aware there are so many ways for adult sites to make money !