About a year ago my friend and I (two gay boys) needed money to support our incessant over-indulgence and alcoholism that come with being gay, 21, and living alone in the summertime. This is when my fascination with the internet first came to fruition.
I don't know where the article is, and I've never been able to find it again since this particular day, but I know for certain that I read something about SEO and niches that inspired me to start a fetish blog. I'm not going to say what the fetish is, but basically I did a bunch of research on what gay guys could do that would be 1. non-nude (we're college kids with futures c'mon) 2. not too gross, and 3. profitable. I stumbled upon this niche and have since become a serious power player within that niche's community forums. Here's how I chose the niche:
Go to Clips4sale.com. they are the barometer for the crazy kinky world of homemade fetish porn. You need to browse through their categories and find a niche with HIGH sales/views and not many videos. So, if you stumbled upon a niche that had 10,000 views or purchases or whatever, but they had over 500 different amateur studios producing for them - not a good call. Stumble into something with 20,000 views, highly specialized, and like 30 studios producing? = gold mine.
Get the word out. You all know this step. Make the respective twitter, Instagram, Facebook etc accounts for your new website. Then start curating content
Here's what I've found. People will not pay for porn anymore UNLESS it's not available anywhere else. You can find all sorts of porn on the public sites, but fetish-porn is not so widespread. Believe me people are willing to pay for it.
My friend and I decided he'd be the model since he's hotter and so it was. 1 year later and not even making the videos anymore we are still #12 most popular studio in our niche, and my website gets 30,000 hits a month!