How to Start in the Adult Website Industry   by Jed Beaver

in Webmasters    (submitted 2011-12-09)

You may be feeling like it's a little late to be getting into the adult website industry these days. It's true that this is an intimidating industry to start up in right now. In fact, the competition is only getting fiercer as each day goes by.

So why then, would you venture into such a highly competitive industry. Why would you pursue what appears to be such a futile endeavor?

Well, because it's not futile and, while it may be getting over saturated there are small pockets of wealth to be made in, what we webmasters like to call, niches. Niche is the name of the game when it comes to adult website start-ups.

So this may leave you with a few questions that revolve around:

1. How to exploit a niche in the adult website sector?


2. Where do I get content for my adult website


3. How to build an adult website


4. And - How much is this gonna cost???

Let's start with number 4. How much does it cost to start an adult website?

Honestly, if you have a little know how about websites AND you have a little bit of time to spend. You can build an adult website for less than $100. AND I'm not talking days and days of time, I mean literally 4 hours over the course of a week. Done.

So how about number 3 then. How do I build an adult website?

This is not as hard as you think. You can build an adult tube website using open source software, in fact you can build it using the worlds leading free blogging software. This article is too short to cover all the details here, but there is a step by step Adult Website How To Guide here! You can be up and running with full content with about a 4 hour commitment.

Content is king right? So let's talk #2. Where do you get adult content for your new website?

This is where the affiliates come in. You don't need to get a camera and start shooting for content. In fact, you can get thousands of pieces of high quality, absolutely free content for your site easily. AND using this content is also how you get paid!!

Basically, it works like this: You present your adult content to visitors on your site and if they like it, they click a link to see more of the same type of content. Then your affiliate content provider goes to work selling them on various memberships, services, products, etc. If they buy something, you get paid a commission. That's called affiliate marketing.

Now what kind of content is going to sell the best? This is where #1 comes in. How to exploit a niche in the adult website sector? Or, more accurately, what niche should I exploit in with my adult website?

This is all found out through search engine research. You need to find out:
What people are searching for and what the competition is like in each of those areas. The magic formula here is:

Niche = Subject that lots of people searching for that has the fewest number of competitors.

There are tools and methods that will help you find this out, there also a full tutorial at I Start a Porn Site.

I'm sure that you will quickly realize that there are a lot of profitable niches out there that have little to no competition.

About the Author

Jed has been working in the website industry in North America since 1999. He now runs the Internets premiere adult website how to blog, I Start a Porn Site.