That's a lot of work for $2,000, and the hard part is the blogging and marketing, which has nothing to do with programming.
It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.
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#12Post a link to a site that you created following this that is making $2k a month.
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#13So, 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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#14Interesting article. Have you done this successfully?
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 solves a real problem. The current (soon to be previous) top ranking site for the category is awful. It's filled with ads to make it unusable and functionality sucks. It was acquired a long time ago, the core dev team has probably left and the entire category needs a refresh and I'm happy to help.
I should have added to the blog entry to look for categories where the competition is stale and has been acquired by a large publisher looking to cut costs and aggressively monetize.
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#15Hmm, I always assumed you could earn way more with spam.
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#16How to make an extra $10,000 per month:
Find 12 people who conduct significant business online, tell them this story, and set your bill rate accordingly.
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#17That'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.
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#18This is nothing new and Google is well aware of this tactic.
Years ago I use to buy pre-populated databases (such as all the veterinarians in the US) and create SEO-perfect websites with one piece of information on each page. It was highly crawlable and did well. I threw adsense on it and made good money for a while. A lot of other people figured it out and Google started dinging sites like this. I don't think this would work anymore.
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#19Interesting article. Have you done this successfully?
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?
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#20Interesting article. Have you done this successfully?
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…
What are the addresses for those sites?