You'll never make money with "Maxim" material. And unless you own the material you are going to be playing in a field with a ton of competition. You need to find complementary non competes. Then you need to define your target audience as tightly as possible. Next you either create an affiliate program or you figure out how to get your site to the top of Search Results. 1 in 8 sites has adult content and the competition is fierce.
Wow, sounds fierce. What do you mean be finding complementary non completes? What affiliate would be good for monetizing?
Go to similar sites to contact their advertisers. Advertisers are always looking for more places to advertise in. More, if you would like... http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1208343
To monetise an adult blog/site I would focus on CPM advertising, as you just need the hits, no clicks or purchases required. Can you build an adult site that can hit 100k impressions a day though? I'd say the majority of that has to be quality traffic as well from Google. This is what I have been doing with an adult blog for several months now. I also run affiliate ads for a dating site on the page that pays around 5$ for a free sign up, but seriously these visitors are hard to convert. The majority just wanna browse your site for free, jack off, then leave. This is why CPM works so well!
No I'm a cheap ass lol! Have obviously got a fresh dot com, but still run on Google's server (Blogger). Have no idea when it will finally conk out. Photos are the way to go, videos are no-go these days. It'd be mission impossible trying to compete against one of those evil tube sites.
So you've built a 100k visitor a month website on a blogger. Interesting... Which networks do you use to monetize?
I am looking at 100k impressions a day. I am hopefully gonna get there in a few months. With a typical mainstream site these numbers would be extremely difficult, but you'd be surprised at how easy SEO can be for adult webmasters. With monetisation, I just use an affiliate dating site that pays for free leads and then AdultAdWorld for the CPM ads! >>>