Where Is Adult Webmastering Headed?

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Originally Posted by artwilliams

- Sites With Some Differentiation / Uniqueness. I think that cam, single woman and dating sites will prosper. They will offer the surfer something unique and more personal than sites that take the shotgun approach of offering access to a gazillion sites and niches.

I tend to agree to a certain extent. General industrial style porn will gradually decline, but keeping in mind that that the internet usage overall is still growing and that should help balance or slowdown the decline. Better throughput by the billing processors for overseas buyers will also help to keep the cash coming in, and the overall dollar value growing, or a least not shrinking as fast.

I figure that micro-niche porn will continue to climb for a long time. They aren't anywhere near saturation points, and some aren't even available under the paysite model.

Originally Posted by artwilliams

Finding a woman to date(webcam) or have a on-line erotic relationship with is more difficult.

Web cam & dating sites will be around for a long time. People have been dealing in anonymous sex for untold ages. They tend to develop online relationships, and even if they leave, they mainly just move on to a different friend.

There is also a lot of technology coming out in these areas, that I have already started to explore/profit from.

Originally Posted by artwilliams

- Market Research Sites. Sites that offer opinion and research will do well. I am thinking of rating sites and the like.

REAL ones of these will become much more valuable to the surfer in the near future. The SEs are losing the technology battle pretty fast. I even had a discussion with my AdWords rep about the fact that the only thing their quality bot could find on a flash site that I was trying setup PPC for, were the references to NetNanny, etc.