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It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, starting in 2004 with census.gov data. Then friends repro'd it in 2005-2006. Repro'd again in 2008. About to repro again in 2011. Current site launched 4 months ago on new domain that had never been registered before. Now passing 1000 uniques per day with 300,000 pages indexed and 3 million to go - and expect to easily hit the short-term traffic target in 2 to 3 months. The site is non-spam, genuinely useful and…
Sorry, what does "repro'd" mean?
Reproduced
Re: It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.
#23I somewhat do this, but with crossword puzzle data. I'm sure there are more spammy ways to do it, but there is money to be made if you can genuinely provide data people are actively looking for and can't find.
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#24That's a lot of work for $2,000, and the hard part is the blogging and marketing, which has nothing to do with programming.
The ??? part of his profit formula—the blogging and marketing—is a part-time job on its own. Regardless, 150,000 hits per month is unrealistic.
Exactly. A website like this won't just start getting a ton of search traffic overnight. It takes a lot of effort building links before the site will see any traffic. This is definitely not a part-time gig.
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#25The title of the post confused me at first. I don't think I've ever seen "OK" used as a measure of difficulty.
The "Here's how" gave it away, but I originally thought the article was an argument against people feeling bad that they do development work on the side.
I've clearly been spending too much time reading English.SE...
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#26In principle it can work, maybe not as well as it used to if the site is too generic but it can in theory be done. But there is one black hole in this plan:
"Tell the right people about your site and tell them regularly via great blog entries, insightful tweets, and networking in your site’s category."
That being only a single line item in this plan underplays how difficult it can be to get good targeted traffic.
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#27It's the second time in a week some one gives numbers like that. Is it true you can do four figures with just 150.000 page views?
Two orders of magnitude better than I do!
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#28Reminds me of a reddit "Ask Me Anything" thread from someone making made-for-AdSense sites: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/a74ba/not_an_adsense_m... (This was pre Google's content farm algorithm changes, however.)
It's an insightful read regarding the amount of work required and it seems the person was actually producing/aggregating useful content.
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#29So, basically, create a demand-media site but without even paying writers the $3/hour to create crap articles? Just scrape them from the government? :-) I'm all for the lifestyle business thing, but there are more fulfilling ways to make $2k/month, imho... As the cost of creating businesses drops, the number of viable niches literally explodes.
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Re: It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.
#30So, basically, create a demand-media site but without even paying writers the $3/hour to create crap articles? Just scrape them from the government? :-) I'm all for the lifestyle business thing, but there are more fulfilling ways to make $2k/month, imho... As the cost of creating businesses drops, the number of viable niches literally explodes.
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