In an age when most industries are struggling and experiencing losses, porn is at its most profitable. So, if you’re interested in making great money and ditching your day job, starting a porn site is an excellent place to start.

But how do you make a porn site? And even more importantly, how do you ensure that it actually brings in profit?

Let’s find out together.

First Things First: Pick a Site Type

There are various porn site types that you can go for. Therefore, your first task is to pick one based on your goals and the content you want to share.

We’ll list the three most popular options below:

• Tube sites — mainly consist of free videos and resemble YouTube
• Cam sites — broadcast streams from a variety of different models
• Membership sites — contain licensed videos you have to pay to access

Now, tube (or video) sites are by far the most popular and widespread. When thinking of starting a porn site, most people actually refer to this particular type.

That’s why the rest of our guide will focus on starting a tube site. Still, the advice we’ll share is quite general, so you can use it even if you choose one of the other two options instead.

Choose a Niche

Although it might be tempting to show all porn types out there on a single website, doing so won’t help you stand out. Instead, you’ll find yourself stomped by your more experienced competition.

So, it’s important to choose a specific niche that you’ll service. By doing so, you’ll know exactly who your target audience is, and getting through to them won’t be as difficult.

To illustrate our point, we’ll take HeavyFetish — an excellent tube site — as an example. If you check it out, you’ll notice that it caters to all fetish lovers out there.

The categories the site offers range from whipping and bondage to knife and breast milk play. As a result, if someone has a specific fetish, they’ll easily find something they like on HeavyFetish.

This site is a great example of how far you should go while picking your niche. Namely, it’s specific enough to ensure the competition isn’t huge, but still broad enough to attract a wide audience.

So, try to pick something in a similar vein for your own site. Going with a niche you enjoy is also a good idea.

That way, you’ll know where to find the best content, and the whole thing will be much more fun for you.

Pick a Great Domain Name

After choosing your niche, it’s time to shift your focus to finding the best domain name for your site. This step is crucial since a complicated or nonsensical one could lead to people forgetting your website’s name.

Therefore, dedicate at least a few days to brainstorming, drafting, and playing with words and puns. The result should be unique, catchy, and easy to remember.

Also, if available, go for a .com extension, as it’s more memorable and has more SEO authority in the eyes of search engines.

Get Adult Hosting

Your next step in starting a porn website is to find a reliable adult hosting provider. With a good one in your corner, you won’t have to worry about content takedowns or service interruptions, which often happen when porn sites are hosted by non-adult providers.

In particular, you’ll want to make sure that the provider has an offshore location, good computing resources, and excellent security. Also, check whether the company has a good support team, especially if you aren’t that tech-savvy.

Build Your Site

Although building your site from scratch is always an option, most people opt for buying a theme or script instead. This choice is definitely less time-consuming in the long run, especially if you pick one of Vicetemple’s adult themes.

These require little to no coding knowledge, and setting them up takes very little time. Plus, they’re fully customizable, functional, and responsive — just what every great porn site needs.

Upload Away

And finally, you get to make or download porn videos and post them to your site. If you go for the latter option, make sure to trim the videos a little, remove any watermarks, and come up with catchy titles and descriptions.

Also, read up on how to make use of SEO when it comes to keywords and descriptions. That way, your videos will rank on Google and have a better chance of being seen by the right audience.

Monetize Your Content

All the steps above are enough to start a porn website. However, actually making money from that site will take a little more work.

And by that, we mean you’ll have to monetize it. This can be done via banner ads, pop-ups, link ads, or any other specific option that will work well for your niche and audience.

You can also experiment with video sales and subscription models, creating a hybrid between a tube site and a membership site. As long as it brings in money, anything goes.

Conclusion

With that, you finally know how to start your own porn site — and make money from it. Now, all that’s left to do is get to work and follow all our steps to create the porn industry’s next big player!