Friday, March 03, 2006

Cash Back For XXX Sites (No, I'm serious)

It may come as a shock to anyone who sees this blogger templated site that I actually do web design professionally. My interest in starting this blog was not to attract clients or anything like that. I just wanted to write about money. That said....

One of the ways I make a little extra change is through an adult website. Hint: if you want to make REAL money from the internet, forget blogging. Anyway every porn site out there has an affiliate program. Usually 50-60% of the cost a subscriber pays to sign up is paid to the affiliate. Pay-per-click affiliates usually aren't as profitable as revenue sharing, or wouldn't be with the moderate traffic my site gets.

If one was so inclined, a webmaster can use their own banners to access adult sites and weeks later (depending on traffic and payout thresholds) recieve 50-60% of that money back, in effect giving a discount .

However at that point it technically counts as 1099 income, unless you run an adult site, in which case it's a business expense. Most people are probably better off using bit torrent and getting the stuff free, but if anyone does avail themselves of premium sites... it's something to consider.

4 Comments:

Blogger Dawn said...

Ya' know I considered getting into the turnkey business side of a porn site. But I was so new in the web thing.... I'm glad I didn't.

Still something to consider, hmmm.

6:39 PM

 
Blogger Mike said...

If I knew a site would get traffic and affiliates I'd totally plop down the cash but from what I understand it can be very competitive.

6:56 PM

 
Blogger Frank said...

That's very interesting. How much do you make from that side job? I have some tech skills and could always use some extra cash.

8:07 AM

 
Blogger Mike said...

I charge 20$ an hour for freelance web design.

8:26 AM

 

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