[journey] Starting an adult tube website

zocx said:

The niche is everything. It determines how much money you can make and whether your website will grow fast or slowly.

If you choose a niche with low competition, you have a much better chance of seeing growth within 2–3 months. If you go after highly competitive niches, it can take anywhere from 6 to 12 months before you see good results.

Some niches also pay very low CPM rates, while others can make you a lot more money. That's why choosing the right niche is so important.

The good thing on these days you can use AI to research and find profitable niches. You can also browse Reddit to discover weird or overlooked niches that already have active communities interested in them.

My suggestion is to build as many websites as you can instead of focusing on just one or two. That way, you can quickly see which niches are growing and making money, then invest more time into the winners.


That's true, but not entirely. I see a lot of mistakes people make with adult websites, and many of them are using the same outdated and broken scripts. If you really want to grow in the adult niche, it's much better to build your own CMS.

For example, with my old CMS v1, I created 15 websites, but only 2 of them actually grew. The success rate was low (I'm talking about reaching over 10.000+ per day), but I learned from my mistakes. I fixed many of those issues in my new CMS v2, and I'm still improving it.

The biggest mistake most people make, including me in the past, is focusing on just one or two websites and trying to make them as big as possible. I don't think that's the best approach because once a website becomes big, it attracts more competition and gets more attention from Google.

My strategy now is to build many smaller websites that can stay under the radar. I focus on creating websites that can make around $3–$5 per day, and I'm happy with that. Build 100 websites like that, and you've created a solid income stream and big traffic ... is more easy and safer to grow many small websites than 1 what can get wiped overnight. On top of that, each site can provide free backlinks to help grow your future websites.

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darksider8 said:

It's time consuming to create your own cms. And you still need dev skills even with AI.

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zocx said:

I've been a developer for over 19 years, and I can honestly say that Claude AI can do better work than most developers these days. Get the Pro version of Claude AI, and the only limit is your imagination.

It's true that building a CMS from scratch still takes time. What used to take me 6–9 months can now be done in about a month with Claude. Most of the time is spent fixing bugs, refining features, and making improvements.

That's the beauty of building your own CMS, you can make it work exactly the way you want. Using the same outdated CMS as everyone else won't really help you grow. If the CMSs being sold on the market were truly that good, their creators wouldn't be selling them—they would be using them to build their own websites and make a lot more money.

I've tried several CMSs before, including KVS, WP Script, AVS, and others. They look fancy and come with a lot of features to convince people to buy them, but in reality, they're not that great for someone who's been in the adult industry for a long time. Most of those features are things you'll rarely use, while many of the features that actually matter for growth, SEO, automation, and scaling are missing or poorly implemented.

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darksider8 said:

Some created new cms, I even bought one (tubesbooster) but the basic feature of using embed videos (hosted on bunny) wasn't available. So, I went back to Wordpress with a paid theme (not the overused ugly themes from WP script) and for my niche, it works just fine.

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G7Sport said:

Good luck to you. I'm trying to do one also in the french market but it's hard to get traffic without SEO.

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darksider8 said:

Some created new cms, I even bought one (tubesbooster) but the basic feature of using embed videos (hosted on bunny) wasn't available. So, I went back to Wordpress with a paid theme (not the overused ugly themes from WP script) and for my niche, it works just fine.

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cs1492 said:

Yes indeed. The best traffic I had recently was from a random comment I left on a reddit thread when I subtly promoted one of my sites. My numbers really exploded for the next few days. Now back to normal.

According to my research and based on what AI tells me, my seo on the sites is good. It's just a matter of when Google tries to properly index my sites... It's been about 2 months now and I have very few pages indexed and barely no videos yet. Maybe I am doing something wrong, but also based on what I read on this forum, Google can take months to properlyi ndex new adult sites. I'll keep hacking at it for at least the next 6 months!

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zocx said:

I have a friend who bought the WP Script. He started like 5/6 websites, and even after 1 year, none of them grew... I even check my self and helped, but didn't find a reason why they didn't grow ... so for me, WP Script failed... but it's good to see some people have success with the script ... how much traffic do you have per day?

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cs1492 said:

Nice to know that there are Wordpress alternatives to WP-Script out there!

How has Google indexing been for you? Did it take a while before you got proper indexing? Did you use some particular strategy?

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zocx said:

How many videos do you have on your website?

I can tell you that some domains will never grow. If you're unlucky and get a domain that Google doesn't like, it will have a much lower chance of growing. The niche you choose also matters.

I've started multiple websites in the same niche, and some grew while others didn't, so it's kind of random. I'm not sure why or what makes Google decide that one domain is good and another isn't.

This has happened to me many times. The first domain didn't grow, so I moved the exact same content to a different domain, and it started growing. I've also launched multiple websites in the same niche at the same time, and some grew while others never did.

Based on my experience, if a website doesn't start getting at least a few organic visitors from Google within 3 months, I consider that domain a bad one. If after 6 months it still isn't getting decent Google traffic, I usually shut it down. It also depends on how much disk space the website is using.

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darksider8 said:

I'm not using WP Script. I just use Wordpress and a theme. The content that is important, not so much the cms. Mass importing from pornhub doesn't work anymore. Good backlinks also matter. I started this website in May and I have around 2k unique visitors/day, T1 traffic. (Small niche)


The indexing was actually pretty fast. I uploaded around 50 videos before adding my sitemaps to Google. I also manually uploaded a few videos every day, each with a unique title and description. About two weeks later, the first videos were indexed, and every 2–3 weeks after that, more and more of them got indexed. I'm now working on building backlinks to rank higher in the general search results for this niche.

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cs1492 said:

Wow that is solid. Must have something to do with your metadata or the niche you are in...? All my metadata is unique but generated automatically by AI. Who knows if Google has some fancy tricks to detect that.

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Autistfren said:

Just started my website today this is inspiring

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V said:

Following. Good luck with your journey, mate. Any screenshots of the current traffic?

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