Content Management Scripts - What To Look For.

As more and more adult webmasters look towards starting their own pay sites other than the obvious costs involved with design, hosting, traffic, content, etc there is also a very large time cost to factor into the way you both manage and promote your new adult pay sites with that said, one of the easiest ways to cut down the amount of 'physical' time we spend on our sites is to utilize various scripts to manage our members areas for us.

Content Management - The Basics.

The concept of content management has been around for many years however, it is only recently in the past 24 months when this type of script has become more and more popular with many of the smaller pay site owners. Of course many of the large affiliate programs have had content management systems in place for many years however the vast majority of these scripts were either priced to highly for smaller paysite owners to afford or, they were custom written by the large affiliate programs themselves. In essence however, the primary focus of such scripts is to cut down the amount of time a paysite owner needs to spend on 'updating' the inside of their members to the absolute minimum.

Content Management Systems - Choosing The Right One For You.

As with any type of purchase we need to be aware of the different types of scripts available as well as the different features we will need them to have that will work for us on an individual basis. Just because everyone else is using 'CMS A' that doesn't mean that is the CMS for you.

The first steps you should take when looking for a content management script is to make a list of the types of features you need, are you going to be using it to manage one paysite or multiple paysites? Will you use a variety of content types, stills, movies, stories, feeds? How is the content handled by the script and, more importantly, how much will the script cost you?

Once you have made this feature list the next thing you need to do is to go 'window shopping' on all of the CMS sites you can find for example, Content God, Adult Web Ware, Mansion Productions, CMS and many others. Look at the features they include in their scripts and compare those features to the ones you need. Also, see if the sites have live working demo's online many do and this will play an integral part of the process of choosing the right script for you. After all, if you cant use the content management script you purchase then it is no good to you.

Content Management Made Easy.

Now that you have hopefully found a script that you want to utilize on your server to manage your paysites back ends you should ask for other peoples opinions on it, does anyone else use the system you are looking at? Have they noticed any problems with its operation and, more importantly, how is the support offered by the company who developed the script. Only then once you have all of that information should you proceed to make your purchase.

CMS - Overview.

All in all content management scripts are an invaluable tool to paysite owners both large and small and everyone in the adult industry will tell you there is never enough time in the day to finish off everything that you want however, by utilizing a content management script on your paysite members area you can at least start to save yourself some time when it comes to updates.

Article written by Lee.

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