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Originally Posted by Ironhorse
Traffic of course is the eternal problem and it seems much tougher to generate quality traffic these days.
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I built a sweet system to display videos in an almost never-ending scroller where the movies would play on-screen as the user sat back and let the screen scroll by. It worked great on mobile and desktop. If you moused-over the movies playing, the webm movie would pause and if you clicked, it would take you to the full preview movie at that exact time in the video, and then present a banner / link to sign up. The problem is, since it was all in java and lightweight, that there was 0 SEO on the page.
https://sicklovestudios.com/samples/tubekiller.mp4
After reading a ton of sources on SEO, BlackHatWorld, and other places, it became clear to me that the only way you can start a site in 2024 and actually make it, is if you buy a ton of links like The Porn Dude. You need everyone to link to you, and to do that, you need to pay!
If you had 100k sitting around and you could buy a ton of links, get pornstars to talk about your site on social media, and become memeable like OnlyFans or PornHub, then yeah, you could be the next porn site.
Truth is, the porn world SEO is pretty much locked down. Have you searched Google lately for anything? It is basically useless as every result is PornHub, Xhamster, or Xvideos. The Porn Dude is up there too, but the same sites pop up constantly and none of them really "innovate" how porn is displayed. My system was pretty cool and I had plans to have it so the most paused and clicked-on clips would automatically be put into a "top 100 clips" page that would dynamically update along with "most shared" and other stuff. Using Java, webm and webp, I built a super cool engine and I had a lot of plans for how you could endlessly scroll in 360 degrees on the page, and the engine would count how many seconds you spend watching certain genres and pornstars and then it would weight those videos/stars when you scrolled further until your browsing habits changed depending on what you clicked and what you watched the longest. Lots of cool stuff you can do in Java with overlays. The page loaded the movies in JSON and it was easy to swap out movies, unload and load them from memory, pause and replay cached movies when they move in and out of the view port.
I gave up on it because there was no way to actually get traffic. I would have to buy a ton of links and traffic and I have no money, so there's no way to innovate. Why bother innovating when innovation has no value in the system?
Not to rain on your parade, but unless you're willing to buy a ton of links and really, really work hard on your brand, there is pretty much no way to build a site worth your time in 2025. You could make more money getting a job at McDonald's and then pumping your money into BitCoin than to build a link list.
Anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but during 2023 I was working on my site and while it was so much fun to learn basic coding in Ruby and JS to get the site up and working properly, the fact that search engines couldn't even see anything on my page, my videos weren't indexed, and there was no way to get traffic, I figured there was no point to even trying to innovate if search engines aren't designed to see innovative sites. Search engines are designed to reward the most linked sites and the sites with authority, so if you want traffic to your link list, you're going to have to buy a ton of links.
Look at The Porn Dude's site, there's nothing interesting or innovative about it, but he has tons of sites linking him and comes up first in Google for many searches. The only way you can compete with that in 2025 is to buy your own links, but then you're paying up front to build traffic... might as well YOLO that money into crypto as it has a higher chance of making money.
I'd have to look deeper, but I made a video showing the automatic scrolling and other features, but I may have deleted them after I gave up when I couldn't get 10 hits a day from Google no matter what I did, haha. So I just wrote my 3rd book that nobody read or bought, then I made misery music videos about the homelessness and crime plaguing my hometown which made 0 money and right as I hit 1000 followers and 5 million impressions in 3 months on Twitter for monetization, I got banned. Despite all of my talents and brains, the only money I made was doing gig labour for minimum wage for most of 2024, which lead to getting a hernia that I now need surgery for and I can't even do labour until it's fixed.
I mean, you might have luck building a link list, but I think you'd probably make more money in a month doing a single shift at McDonald's.
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Originally Posted by Ironhorse
for example review an adult graphic novel with links to Amazon or similar type monetization.
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Romantasy books where werewolf billionaires rape women and murder competition, "alpha novels" as they are called, is what is selling in the literary world.
Personally, being a writer and artist myself, I can't sell out and produce this utter slop, but if you wanted to make money online quick, you should read a couple of these books and get the general pace / themes of them, then get AI to crank out a book a day (easy as long as you pay the $20 unlimited ChatGPT fee.) and then use stock photos or AI to generate covers. Slap it together with themes of hardcore rape, beast sex, incest and murder and the most graphic sex scenes and I'm sure if you can crank out a book a day, you could find success selling this dreck.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/spicy...tion-1.7398541
Picking a female pen name is critical as women are much more likely to buy smut books written by women:
This shit is pure slop but it makes female authors millionaires, and unlike porn which will take a ton of work, time, and money, you could get AI to throw books like this together in a day.
Take the time to read some of these books, the writing is grade 7 level and you can copy and paste chapters of books like this directly into ChatGPT and get it to re-write each chapter with different characters and maybe a different sport, like Basketball, and you can make it a poly, kink, "age is just a number" novel with all sorts of hints of perverse shit and I bet TikTok will eat it up. BookTok, as it is called, you could make AI videos AI voiceovers reading the smut and I bet you'd get sales and readers. I can't bring myself to create such total fucking slop, but if a bro from GFY did it and found money from it, I'd be happy!
Also, the start up for this would pretty much just be the costs of ChatGPT, a few books to read and understand what bitches are flicking their bean to, and then however much effort you want to put into your cover.
One key to remember about the time we are living in is that the concept of "authenticity" doesn't matter at all. If you can trick people into thinking you're a woman writing smut novels, people will eat this shit up. You can even have an AI avatar and update your socials as a completely fake person and nobody will be the wiser. Dating, birth rates, socializing... they have all collapsed greatly, and if you want to capitalize on it, women are buying these books like crazy. The increase in sales over the last few years is wild.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...got-so-popular