Name The Top Five Website "Mainstream" Moneymakers

So what isn't like blogs, ebay etc.. ?

Want me to hold your hand and walk you through things step-by-step?

There is this amazing invention called the 'internet' if you couple it with a company offering name 'Google' you shall find the answers you seek...

Seriously though, there are thousands, millions of different ways to make money outside of adult, you just have to find one you are comfortable spending a decent amount of time developing a traffic base for and you'll make bank.

Hell, you could even take a few of the things we have in adult and make them cross-over businesses... DMCA requests are needed in mainstream too (and not just by the major film and music companies) as one example...

Not if you don't know what you are searching for. Most people looking to make money search 'make money' and end up buying scammy products from people who don't know how to make money, on making money.

If I searched 'make money in mainstream' I wouldn't find any answers.

Many of us webmasters here at gfy keep asking that same question over and over in different threads - "What do people do in mainstream?" and we all know how to not only use google but to get listed on the first page too (with variable success).

I guess what most of us are asking is how to make money in mainstream in a manner that mirrors what we already know in adult. If not blogs, free sites etc... then what is the model?

Then don't even bother looking to make money in mainstream.

You have to actually work, not throw up hosted tube clips, galleries, free sites, etc...

There is no comparison whatsoever.

sweepstakes (win offers) - not on google
bizz ops (ebooks)
Diets pills

most of these can go on Google / Rightmedia / Bing if your landers are not to hard

If I may crawl inside the mind of Webmaster Advertising here, I THINK what his reply is saying is "Hey boy, you don't show enough gumption or smarts to figger it out yerself - which is what is required - so there's no comparison". Yes? :D

Because otherwise, if you are seriuos, then I disagree with you. There IS a comparison to adult in mainstream:

You still have to build websites
You still have to get traffic to said websites
You still have to SELL SOMETHING in order to make money (a service, information, a product, something)
You still need to write good sales text
You still need to display graphics effectively
You still need to capture emails and user info
etc

But what you CANNOT do is NOT THINK. Adult has a wonderful but frustrating "infra-structure" (or giant circle jerk) already built. So it's relatively "easy" to get traffic in large numbers to an adult website. It seems like with "mainstream" (really, anything non-adult) you have to be more creative. You simply can't post video to YouTube and get traffic.

Good thread. Trying an amazon affiliate website of water filters now. I see now where getting my own product and selling through Amazon would be a better idea. Also, I am out done in SEO by sponsored ads.

Maybe better to setup a blog on the dangers of fluoride or contaminants in water and putting adds up for the more expensive Reverse Osmosis filtration systems.

First I need to get the traffic, then get the sales.

If someone decide to go with Amazon make sure Amazon has you state in affiliate list. Last time when I checked it ~1 ago CT wasn't, means they will not pay if you are form CT(something with laws). I think there are few more states.

What % would you get from Amazon for the expensive ones if you did this?