That Web Man

On the subject of advertising, two of the main earners on the Internet are gambling sites and adult sites.

Google’s AdSense program, however, does not allow their use on sites featuring “pornography, adult or mature content” as well as other prohibited sites. So the alternatives to such ‘legitmate’ advertising programs are adult affiliate advertising programs, but which to use?

Well if you follow that link, you’ll come across a very interesting blog entry from Matt Peskett in February 2007. He mentioned just how professional Traffic Cash Gold is.

Now at this point, I should confess that I operate a web site featuring adult content. And why not? It’s not pornography: it simply combines my creative side by way of web design and photography, my business side by way of seeking to make some money doing what I enjoy doing and my personal side by allowing me to indulge in what else I enjoy…

The earnings from running the site aren’t exactly massive at a little over $500 since I started it up late last year, but then again it isn’t a full-on, XXX site either so the membership fees are a very modest $13.95 a month for those that continue past the initial $9.95/21 days taster. Modelling fees and location costs have actually more than used up the revenues (let alone the domain names and hosting on top of that), but then again it is a great way to spend a day so I’m not complaining!

So anyway, last week I signed up with TCG and placed three small banner ads. in the sidebar of the samples page on my site so as not to make the rest of the site look too tacky. And I already have one $35 referral fee! So it’s a start and another $35 to go towards the next modelling fee…

The main source of traffic to my site is a channel on YouTube which I started in February 2007 and to which I post a video from the main web site every few weeks (I currently have 11 videos showing there). As of today, it  has 908 subscribers, the channel has been viewed 81,073 times and the videos themselves have been viewed a total of 832,193 times. If only I had been paid a buck or even less per view!