Bonus money
I’m not running HentaiRules for money (basically, the earnings of HentaiRules for an average day of march 2008 were making less than one hour of my work), but I appreciate the fact it is making a bit of an extra !
I give you here the ways I earn some cash, if you’re interested in knowing or if you want to give it a try.
Zip hosts
(paypal being the most popular online payment system, I mention it when I know it is supported, that doesn’t mean this will be the only payment processor)
In march 2009, sorted by earning rate, it would be :
Uploading > Depositfiles > Hotfile > Sharingmatrix > Easy-Share
Depositfiles : my biggest moneymaker. They host zipped files, they take remote upload, and give money to the uploaders at the rate of 5$ for 1000 downloads. Payments by paypal. Share your files on a few boards and you reach that number without much difficulty. I also appreciate the fact that after a while, a big uploader is offered a Gold account 
Uploading.com : a new zip host that pays even better than depositfiles in average, with remote upload, accepts paypal. I’ve been using them for 3 months now and they’ve been entirely satisfying Useful detail, don’t upload them files larger than 75MB.
Easy-Share : They host your zipped files and pay you for the number of downloads. Very leecher friendly, remote upload, paypal, they’d be cool if their earning rate wasn’t low, and they modified their terms of service in march 2009, reserving the right to refuse to pay you, for undisclosed reasons. Recently, since 2 weeks (mid-march 2009), some of my files (even when I don’t share the link >_<) are randomly removed because of a weird server bug : use at your own risk
Sharingmatrix : Another host paying you for the number of downloads of your zip files. It took me a bit long to get accustomized to their user interface, but apart from that, they’re cool. Easy to use, remote upload, paypal. Low paying rate, comparable to easy-share. Sometimes a remote-uploaded file won’t be shown as the last of your uploads, it may be hard to find it in all your files.
Hotfile : A new zip host I’ve been testing for one week, extremely simple and fast to use both as an uploader and as a leecher, takes remote upload, pays by paypal. Earns almost as well as uploading.com.
Other sponsors
Epassporte : they’re just like paypal, but they officially accept money from porn sponsors (while paypal will ban you if they discover your money comes from an adult source.) Unless you like to receive bank cheques, they’re the alternative I suggest you to receive money online, they’re the biggest paypal equivalent there is, they’re trustworthy.
Hentaiboss : this company owns 4 hentai sites (centered around big tits, bondage, lesbian and yaoi hentai). Display their banners on your site. When people who clicked the banners sign up, two choices. Choice 1 : the user pays just 1$ for a 24-hours trial and you get 25$. Choice 2 (“revshare”) : a lifetime 50% of the 25$ subscribers pay every month (that means 12.5$ per month for you). I’d suggest you choice #1, it’s a sort of mini-donation system, useful since paypal refuses to be used on adult websites.
Adult Friend Finder : they’re one of the biggest adult dating and cams website on the internet, claiming 20 million members. They offer you a shitload of banners and flash stuff and dynamic contents you can insert into your webpages, and if they convince someone to join, that’s 130$ earned for you 
Mind you, there’s a trick : you can join for free, but you’ll have to pay money to access the real dating stuff and talk to the real girls, and you win the 130$ when the members you sent finally pay.Something I observed, they are the only sponsor that contacted me one week after I placed their banners, to give me intelligent suggestions adapted to my website, to help me “converting” more people, that deserves respect
AAW (Adult Ad World) : Great and cool advertising company, perfect for small websites, and stays perfect for big huge websites. You chose what code you want to put on your page, and voila, you start earning. You can chose CPM (you’re paid depending on how many people see the banner) or CPC (how many people click the banner, it pays more but you must carefully chose where to put the banner), or CPC text ads, or pop-unders. I know from experience that, for a hentai blog, only CPM banners pay well. Compared to the other ad companies I tested (clicksor, etology, AVNads, blacklabelads, for instance), AAW has by far the best pay rate, both for CPM banners and for the popunder.
Juicy Ads : Like AAW, they display banners and you’re paid for the impressions… Until the moment an advertiser decides to purchase the right to display his own visual in your ad space, at a price 50% higher than the usual pay-per-view price. They’re fairly recent (as I write this, I’ve been using them for one month, the vast amount of ad formats is a bit annoying (you waste lots of time testing which one works best), but they pay really well, they pay as well as AAW, without the annoying “superior 800 pixels” placement limit for CPMs, that’s cool.
Ero-Advertising : from my point of view, they dont’ pay as well as AAW or Juicy Ads, but other webmasters found Ero-Advertising was even better than the two above. I guess it may depend on lots of things, I give you the link in case it’s better for you too ! They’re still better than other networks like Blacklabelads, Clicksor or Etology.
Servage, cheap EXCELLENT hosting : Servage has hosted hentairules.net during 2 years, and has satisfied me in every regard : price, simplicity, technical support, power, speed, accessibility. I give more details about servage in the webmasters corner.
Traffic Holder : you buy traffic, that sucks your dollars fast. BUT there is a trick to make it proffitable. You buy traffic from people clicking links on TPGs (you know, thumbnail gallery posts), you can chose to receive visitors only from hentai websites and/or any other niche, that makes an enormous temporary surge in your stats. Here is the trick : your website must be good, at first sight, so the visitors who discovered your website will come back and give up on those shitty TGPs. Remember, the people who use TGPs are newbies at browsing porn, it’s most likely they didn’t even imagine sites as good as yours/mine existed : most of them will become fidelized members… if your website is good, really good, at first sight and in-depth. So in the long term, this is proffitable, your audience will be much bigger even when you stop buying traffic – as long as you have a quality site 
Imagereverb : picture hosting site, with banners around the pictures to pay the server and make money. They have two remunerating options. Option A : the site gives you half of the earnings he gets from the ads around the pictures. Option B : you insert your own advertisement code in a space reserved for you, just above the picture. If you’re already a well-trained webmaster option B is better, if you’re a beginner option A is simpler.
Even free picture hosts that don’t pay you must nowadays place a shitload of ads to cover their fees, so think twice before you chose a paying pictures host that will impose even more adverts, that’s annoying for the visitors.
