For those of us who have been around the adult business for a while we are aware there was a time when smaller affiliates seemed to succeed better when they targeted specific niches, or even just one niche. Things have changed, however and since then I have tried to branch out into the more ‘mainstream’ niches.

While this does seem to work for me at times, my biggest issue with it is that so many other affiliates are promoting the same scenes/shoots/videos. You submit a hot blog post to a blog sharing site etc (or what you may think is hot), and 5 others have been there, done that already. It really affects the ratio of making any sales with that particular blog post. Sure, it may come down to originality, quality of text, image choice etc, but it’s still a huge gamble.

I used to do well with fetish and kink and it is what turns me on predominantly. I usually don’t get too turned on anymore by porn after so many years of promoting it, but if there is anything that grabs my fancy it’s usually kink related.

My point – is it still lucrative for a small adult affiliate to target a particular niche and stick with it? I want to be unique and perhaps that means going back to kink – which very few affiliates promote from doing research – and finding that particular audience again. I used to get mad traffic for kink, fetish and BDSM. I wonder if that is still possible with Google’s consistent changes and the market today.

Your thoughts? Thanks.