Stories about webmasters golden years
 

I and I am sure others want to hear some of the stories of what it was like as a porn webmaster during the years of like 2000-2007.

What programs did you offer?

What sort of payments did you receive?

What costs did you have?

How many sites did you have?

How much traffic was there?

Who were the biggest players in that period?


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I wrote a long detailed post about one of my projects back in around 2003 including all the math behind it, along with the earnings.

I posted it within the last 3 months - I'll look later when I have time to see if I can locate it - I just know it wont come up easily with the search...

there's so many analogies for those years. gold rush is the most common.

early adopters paid the biggest price but got the most gold. once word got out, everybody wanted in. now today, you need African mining rights to make money in porn :1orglaugh



i got in late in the early wave (2002).

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The golden era is coming with age verification. The big players are struggling.

I look forward to age verification and being able to sell porn again

you mean the thieves and pirates who crushed the early winners?

the 2008-2019 era was pretty sad. many producers left...

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Found it - Its all written hypothetically of course, but it gives a good idea of the money coming in, from just one single solo site that was updated once a week or so...

https://gfy.com/23095533-post12.html

A little more info, in order to answer obvious questions, is that the site displaying the banner was the Sunday Sport Newspaper in the UK. I wasn't paying for advertising - It was a straight split with David Sullivan (The Owner)

Obviously I didn't earn that EVERY week, but even after the split, it was still pretty much more money each week, than the average UK person would have earnt in an entire year...

Those were MY golden years... :2 cents:

You must mean before there were tubes. Because before there were tubes money in porn was easy to come by. Oddly enough tubes came in right about the same time the housing market was taking a shit. So, as stated earlier, the porn industry was taking a shit right around the same time as the rest of the world.

How did I get paid? Epassporte. I also rarely had to buy Xmas presents because most programs like traffic cash gold, pimp dollars, light speed cash, etc had pretty generous bonus programs where they also paid you in their own currency that you could then use in their stores.

For instance, back when ipods were the new thing I got 5 of them, plus two mountain bikes, a laptop, a large flat screen monitor, an HDTV, etc, etc. I literally did all of my shopping for my kids, nephews and nieces in this way.

On top of that, I was considered a large affiliate by many programs so every year they sent me an Xmas care package filled with things like scotch, branded clothing, branded koozies, pens, coffee cups, etc. If you came to my house and got something out of my kitchen you knew I worked for porn in some capacity.

I still get those care packages. But they aren't as nice as they were back when I was 1/10th the affiliate I am now.

I never paid for stats remote. I always got free years of it from one of those bonus programs.

2000-2008 were great years.

I remember one kid bought a cute sounding domain name and put up a TGP. All he needed to do was create a logo and put it on top, install a script, and select which sites to promote. Two or three hours worth of work and he was making money the following day. Within a year it was making him six figures.

One TGP.

It was crazy.

Given what I know now about billing, those companies back then paying $25 pps were banking... :1orglaugh

I started making real money after the tubes. Despite doing tgps and freesites since 2003, 2011 and 2012 were my biggest years until recently. 2021 and 2022 were bigger than those, and 2023 is looking to be my best :pimp

I was in middle school tricking people to go to whitehouse.com to try to get them in trouble..

With a new virus and lockdowns we can get the golden ages of the Corona period back.

that kid could have been a lot of guys on here. guaranteed he has gray hair now :1orglaugh

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My paysite experiences:

The excitement of getting a getting a listing on thehun.net (for free), then worrying if the traffic will bring your server down. That one listing usually guaranteed me 25+ full price sales (not cheap or free joins).

Remembering my first sale and thinking it was pretty easy and a year later, 5 figure weekly checks were rolling in.

The magical day of breaking 100+ new (full price) joins in a 24 hour period.

The excitment was so much more back in the early 2000's. It was great fun dealing with and talking with affiliates who were also really keen. My ICQ list of active affiliates was big and was a pleasure working with almost all of them ;)

GFY used to move so fast. An unanswered post could be knocked off the front page by the day was done. There were some other cool forums too, now theres just here really and its so slow but a sign of the times with market being so fragmented.

I wish I could re-live 2000 - 2006 again.

Even Dee paying $90 PPS was banking :1orglaugh

yeah but then he banged those people's cards to their limits

No shit :1orglaugh

On line since 2004.

What programs did you offer? NONE. Buy DVD for 30 bucks or GFY

What sort of payments did you receive? 30 bucks per DVD now it is per purchased stream, 48 h rental is 1/2 price

What costs did you have? about 70 to 100 K to make one movie unfortunately had to drop costs to about 30 K

How many sites did you have? One and still have one

How much traffic was there? Do not know and never figured it out to this day have Google Analytics but am to busy making content and DO NOT understand that shit anyway

Who were the biggest players in that period? In "my neighborhood" Viv Thomas,Met ART..I do not count tubes... and they still are , well maybe add Lesbea and Ifeelmyself

:2 cents:

Here is a truly inspirational post by one of the best to ever do it.

https://gfy.com/fucking-around-and-b...ttle-life.html

your visitor messages are lit :pimp

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Do we think this is going to come back around?

OF definitely broke open wallets we thought were permanently closed by the dipshit tubes. now we need to get those wallets comfortable with buying other products.

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I remember the Sunday Sport, that takes me back. Surely it's not still going? Is Linsey Dawn McKenzie still modelling for them?

I am still good friends with the owners of whitehouse.com

Going into my best years too.

But pre-tubes it was everyone's best years. By that I mean everyone was making a lot of money. Okay, not everyone. I was. And I knew many who made more than me.

With tubes the oldest sites out there like sleazy dream, milkman book, elephant list, etc all died a quick and painful death.

The affiliates who made comfortable livings with $6k months went to $2k and had to find jobs.


I'm doing 250% better now than I did back then. But the industry has shrunken 20000%.

Still going to print, but not a patch on the 'Big Deal' (& Circulation Numbers) that it used to be. I haven't seen LDM since around 2011? She's probably still going on onlyfans though.

Nice girl. Warmer and friendlier than you might expect her to be. :thumbsup

pornhub launch - the day the music died :Oh crap



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Who is "everyone"? Everyone I know is doing better than they were 15 years ago.

The affiliate model was just a way to acquire traffic. There is more traffic than there ever was before, and today's companies are doing just fine with that traffic.

The fact when it became harder than "submit a gallery and watch sales roll in", everyone had to get a job, just shows that those guys were lucky to even be here.

Well I remember promoting some program back in like 2000 or 2001 where they were paying $1.00 for every free join you sent. Meaning all the person you sent to the site had to do was register free and you got $1

I was making like $300 / day off that plus extra money when one of those free joins decided to buy a monthly subscription to the site. The program sent me two big buckets full pop corn and candies and goodies as a gift because I was making them so many joins

Those days are longggggggggggggggggggggggggggg gone forever.

i wish i could click like so i dont have to do this

:karaoke :love2suck :stoned

was this board built in the 1890's?

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2020s are golden years too...

im posting too much but thank allah for the Rona :1orglaugh

or whatever fable u follow

Rona got people at home thinking about their own life

dumb plan. end of civilization. however, great for porn, cuz most those losers are single or lonely.

porn sales skyrocketed during Rona.

#:2 cents: porncms

I'd like some more GFY swag. I know I can just make one, but fuck that. I lost my final GFY T-Shirt in Vegas 2 summers ago. Left it at the pool at the Luxor by accident. I was mad as shit when I realized it, that shirt lasted many years.

Sounds like WegCash

Hey mods, you should pretend that it's still the golden years and send me a GFY hoodie. :winkwink:

Sat at the cafe and cloned a few web pages, making a blog from the texts.

Just before a big vacation found out that blog was the #1 search result for the sponsor. Ca-ching.

It was that easy.

My best years were from 2004 to 2013 with the paysite lbfm.net which is now closed. I am now elderly and retired and just have an affiliate site to keep in touch with the porn industry.