Lesson #03 Making Money With a Free Site
Written By Titmowse

Just like network television offers entertainment in trade for advertising, a free site makes its income from those little banners and text links you find in prominent locations.

You make money from your free site by selling memberships to affiliated sponsors, and by click-thru traffic. You provide free adult entertainment to the legal-aged public and hope that your marketing skills will entice your visitors to buy the services of your sponsors. Turning your traffic into profits isn't an easy task.

There are so many sponsor programs in the adult industry; there's no way you can't find one that will work for you. These sponsors have structured payout systems/tracking programs. Many of them offer free content and sometimes free hosting. Quite a few are established, cutting-edge paysite networks that can afford to pay webmasters higher commissions on sales. Some are new paysites that have recently become successful enough to start offering affiliation. These newer sites are always good to sell because they offer access to less seen content. New sponsors can also be an unsure path because they haven't had time to prove their business acumen.

You could make a free site that features galleries of amateur women in softcore poses. You could theme it as if it were your personal voyeur portal into amateur hotties. Then you could tease the surfer with attractive banners/text links to an even better amateur voyeur site with full-length videos and chats with amateurs. You could also tempt them with ways to meet women through a classified ad link. Those offers and temptations will be the links to your sponsors.

You could make an online magazine with erotic stories and daily, free galleries. You could use free story content from a story sponsor and attach a banner to them in each of your visitor's free reads. You could use the auto-generated gallery links that some sponsors provide. When your customer clicks on it, they get to see a free, fresh gallery with alluring banner/text links to your sponsor.

Making money through sponsor ads and affiliate links is the most common way to generate income from a Free Site. You can also promote your very own website(s) via your Free Site. The possibilites are endless. Jus remember to be creative and think outside the box. Sharpening up your marketing skills and sales tactics is a must!

Your free site can take any shape you want. Your objective is to use it as a tool to sell memberships to sponsors. When your surfer buys a membership through an affiliate ID link on your free site, you get a percentage of that membership paid to you from your sponsor. This percentage varies from sponsor to sponsor. You can also make sponsor income through adult stores, click-thru programs, e-mail programs and more. Every time a unique customer clicks on your sponsor's banner/text link, you have a chance at making some green. If you Free Site is busy, the numbers can really add up.

Countless adult webmasters make a decent living running a free site and selling sponsor programs. The more visited and re-visited your free site, the more likely you will sell to your visitors.

To learn more about sponsors and the different programs they offer, please visit the Cozy Academy Library and look for the Sponsors category! You can also drop by our Sponsors/Profits guide on Cozy Frog for tons of useful articles and helpful resource links!