Depending on how many people visit your site, you also get a rank on the Adult 10,000, a compendium of the most-visited adult sites. You also get a free piece of software from WebSideStory called Hitbox, which can monitor traffic to your site in real time. Click on the ads, and you're whisked off to the sponsoring site. WebSideStory also operates a non-sex counterpart called World 1,000. But it's the skin industry that has been floating Barrelet's boat, at times accounting for as much as 80 percent of his firm's revenue.
Adult material is one of the few content lines that can survive on ads and subscriptions.
They can survive and thrive. Mom and pop pornographers WebSideStory appears to be more than just thriving. According to Barrelet, the firm currently employs 25 people, and he expects to double its payroll in the next few months. Monthly sales are doubling every two to three months, Barrelet says, and Adult 10,000 is adding about 200 new sites every day. And we did this without any PR campaigns or advertising.