It is much more straightforward to take on a little side work. Set your rate to $100/hr and work an extra 20 hours a month. In today's market this isn't terribly difficult to do.
Where do you find clients willing to pay $100/hr for sidework?
It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.
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No one will do this because their sites will be mirrored verbatim within 24 hours. It takes a couple minutes to write a scraper using Nokogiri. :P
A copy is just that, a copy in the eyes of Google. The copy will be penalized in rankings. Your community won't suddenly leave your website to go to the copycat. There are a million sites that copied Facebook but in the end everybody is on Facebook.
Go take a look at webmasterworld if you believe that to be the case. Panda has severe issues with determining original source.
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What resources do you recommend for learning more about SEO?
I'm by no means an expert, though I've worked with experts and picked up some stuff from them. The rest I learned from Google and various forums: http://www.google.com/search?query=on-page+seo http://blogs.sitepoint.com/ultimate-seo-checklist/ http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/search-engine-optimization-3... Basically, SEO comes down to having awesome content, identifying it properly on your site, and getting other peo…
I didn't mean to imply that it's impossible, but that it is a LOT of work. Becoming good at SEO and marketing, then executing a good plan, is a lot of work. My site was intended to be an example of not doing that. Doing that means trading a lot of time that could be spent learning ... I don't know, machine learning or something. Is that worth maybe 2k a month? Depends on the person.
But the OP made it sound easy. It's not easy.
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This is true. I run a community/blogging site for fun, not profit called yakkstr.com. There are about 50 regular users and it currently has around 5k posts. I mention it because it's a good counter example. I've done no link building, and I get very little search traffic. Maybe 50 visits per day. Occasionally someone will post about a product, instead of their relationship drama, and one girl posted about "mio liquid…
> I've done no link building You have 1,211 backlinks. You have no meta descriptions on any of your pages. The links to your content pages (e.g., http://yakkstr.com/posts/3635-Cute-Friday ) aren't inside a H1/H2 tag on your index pages. You are letting Google crawl/index your tag pages (pointless/bad). Your robots.txt isn't pointing to a sitemap. Are you using Google webmaster tools? Get rid of the /posts/N-title and…
Most of those back links are from ubuntu forums, my profile, which seems to show up on a ton of pages. They are nofollow. I think I have 2 back links that are follow, both on friends blogroll, which I believe google discounts.
How much of a difference do you think those changes will make? I'm willing to do them as an experiment, except for the /title because that has caused me a lot of problems in past experiences.
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What resources do you recommend for learning more about SEO?
I'm by no means an expert, though I've worked with experts and picked up some stuff from them. The rest I learned from Google and various forums: http://www.google.com/search?query=on-page+seo http://blogs.sitepoint.com/ultimate-seo-checklist/ http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/search-engine-optimization-3... Basically, SEO comes down to having awesome content, identifying it properly on your site, and getting other peo…
ug, do not waste time on sitepoint, wickedfire, or the like. seobook, seomoz, seroundtable.com, distilled.co.uk, wiep.net, wolf-howl.com, rosshudgeons.com, and citationlabs are all more worthy of your time. Read The Art and Science of SEO and attend to Mozcon in June and you'll be on the right track.
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#97It's fishy that his blog doesn't even link to his business. The sidebar reads:
whoami
I write code and run a Seattle based Web startup. I'm interested in ...Re: It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.
#98I made sites that list British post offices and post boxes: http://edwardbetts.com/postoffices/ and http://edwardbetts.com/postboxes/ I think both these sites went live in 2008. Here are the AdSense figures for this month so far (May 1st to May 27th): * $52.94 earnings * 21,708 Page views * 147 Clicks * 0.68% Page CTR * $0.36 CPC * $2.44 Page RPM
You do realize the Adsense tos bars you from disclosing this data, right? Not that I care (I think the TOS is b.s. on that point), I'm just saying...
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#99So, 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.
>As the cost...drops, the number of viable niches literally explodes My God, thank you for the warning. I will be alert for exploding numbers!
This reply is quite hilarious. I'm bursting with laughter.
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#100I made sites that list British post offices and post boxes: http://edwardbetts.com/postoffices/ and http://edwardbetts.com/postboxes/ I think both these sites went live in 2008. Here are the AdSense figures for this month so far (May 1st to May 27th): * $52.94 earnings * 21,708 Page views * 147 Clicks * 0.68% Page CTR * $0.36 CPC * $2.44 Page RPM
I guess the real money comes when you help marketing people find spend-happy people's mailboxes ;)
Or connect conmen with heiresses, vacuum cleaner salesmen with Persian cat owners, horny teenagers with lonely centerfold models... I can come up with these all day, now get busy!