How to start an adult affiliate site (cams and dating)
Adult affiliate marketing is simple to describe: you send visitors to a cam or dating site and get paid when they sign up or spend. Doing it well is mostly about building something people actually want to use.
How programs pay
- Pay per sale or signup (PPS / CPA): a fixed amount when your visitor buys or registers.
- Revenue share: a percentage of what your visitors spend, for as long as they stay customers.
- Referrals: a cut of what other affiliates you bring in earn.
Two programs we use
CrakRevenue is a large adult affiliate network with cam, dating and other offers. Its referral program pays you 5% of whatever an affiliate you refer earns each day, for as long as they stay with CrakRevenue (you can't refer yourself or your own household). Join CrakRevenue.
Chaturbate's affiliate program pays for viewer signups and spending, and for broadcasters you refer. It also offers a free API listing the rooms online right now, which is enough to build a whole site on. See Chaturbate's affiliate program. Check each program's current rates in its dashboard before you plan around them; they change.
Both are links we may earn from if you sign up. For what it's worth, our own WatchGirls.now is built on Chaturbate's API.
Build something useful
A site that only reposts banners won't rank or convert. What works: a better way to find rooms (search, tags, "who's online now"), honest reviews, or guides people search for. Pick one niche and do it better than the network's own pages.
The rules
- Disclose: the FTC expects a clear, close-by disclosure when you earn from a recommendation. A line near the link beats a buried footer.
- Mark affiliate links with
rel="sponsored", as Google asks. - Don't buy or swap links to rank: Google treats link schemes as spam and can demote the whole site.
- Follow each offer's restrictions, such as no incentivized traffic, no spam email and no misleading ads. Breaking them gets commissions reversed.