Dating Website Support Forum - Webscribble

Hello im opening this question to all users of Webdate. I maybe unusual however i purchased Webdate to make some money and have some fun at the same time. Needlesstosay making money on the web and with webdate is a crapshoot at best.

It appears that many people either keep there site free and run off adsense or try and capitalize on any person who is willing to fork out for a membership.

Who id like to hear from is other webdate owners, Id like to hear what has worked for you in making your site profitable, even if its just a few bucks a month up to a thousand or two. Lets help each other be successful

Remember the web is a large place and there is room for all of us to succeed

Dave

I also would like to make money from this site but first you need something to sell like members
so my site is free until i get enough members to make it interesting for them
if you have products to sell related to dating you can keep the site free to bring in surfers to see your products or you can advertise other peoples products as a affiliate

I'm sorry I haven't made anything yet. I was going put a vacation on my site. "win a free vacation" If you're will to spend money to make money it might work.
Dawn

I kept my site free for about 7 months and got the membership up to about 5000. I was making money from AdSense, about $300 a month. Male members would sign up and send emails that were less than polite to women members. Making the site a pay site stopped a lot of the jerks from participating. I was doing all my billing thru PayPal even though the PalPal module only worked about half the time. Every month I was making about $200 more than the previous month and the AdSense revenue continued to climb also. This went on for about 11 months and the site was having crippling problems with the dedicated server (DWHS rot in Hell!) being down a lot of the time and with bugs in the software. Customers would write me and say it was the worst money they ever spent. One Sunday evening in late November I got an email from PayPal telling me that my PayPal account was cancelled and I could never have another PayPal account because I had violated their terms of use by doing billing for an adult website. Huh? I don't allow adult material on my site. PayPal never explains or reconsiders their decisions. That was it. Without revenue there was no point in advertising so pretty soon instead of 60 people on at one time there were maybe 4. I did take my time checking out new servers and billing, making sure to select companies that were the best possible, that answered the phones at 3 in the morning with knowledgeable people. I traded about 15 emails with Webscribble asking them to help me switch servers and upgrade me from V2 to V3 and got the "Who's on first" response. Totally f******g clueless, like most of the time you ask them for support. Paul has been like an guardian angel here, one man doing what a staff of 90 from Eastern Europe can't do. The site's running again so much better, hasn't crashed yet and membership is climbing again. But for some reason it's pretty rare for someone to pay for membership, only a few a week. I haven't figured that out yet.

Google AdSense decided that one of my sites "is not a good fit". (There are some four-letter words used on the site, no pictures at all.) Their response to me writing and asking for guidance to prevent problems that would cause my account with them to be cancelled entirely is to "err on the side of caution".

I've seen some pretty raunchy sites with Google Adsense, the one they dropped just had people writing and talking about their personal lives, asking for advice.

Anyhow, I know that some people reproduce by passing the bible back and forth to each other in bed, but I never learned how to do that in Sunday School or in the dreaded sex education classes where they told us that sperm was transferred from a man to a woman at night when they were asleep.

I'm wandering here......does anyone have experience with Adult Friend Finder or Fling or anything else? The AFF pay rates looked pretty poor to me, but if a lot of people click it we might hear the tinkle of money.

Any suggestions?