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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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Re: It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.

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Post by delluminatus »

yummyfajitas wrote: post #104
ck2 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What you are saying (and that link) sounds exactly like a person that has never been poor without a support network of family and friends. It's just a mental exercise with no basis in reality and no "hands-on" experience. The modern welfare system does not allow non-disabled people to draw an infinite amount of assistance - it's very restricted and for a finite amount of time. They must constantly show real proof the…

Could you tell me the flaw in my analysis? Or are you merely asserting that because I lack a certain experience, I am therefore incapable of analyzing the problem using statistics and logical inference? They must constantly show real proof they are looking for work and even with part-time jobs their assistance is immediately scaled back. This is simply false. The vast majority of the poor are not looking for work, no…

Unfortunately for all involved, the poor are people too and to decide to make their lives as uncomfortable as possible in order to force them to get a job is maybe logical but certainly not a kindhearted thing to do.

Furthermore, it is likely that in many cases the very poor don't work because they are unable to -- mental illness is a commonly cited factor, but these days it's hard for anyone to get work -- particularly those lacking high school degrees, for instance. If someone cannot work for such a reason, then by attempting to punish them for not working you simply reduce their already-slim ability to contribute to society.

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Re: It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.

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Post by [deleted] »

yummyfajitas wrote: post #104
ck2 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What you are saying (and that link) sounds exactly like a person that has never been poor without a support network of family and friends. It's just a mental exercise with no basis in reality and no "hands-on" experience. The modern welfare system does not allow non-disabled people to draw an infinite amount of assistance - it's very restricted and for a finite amount of time. They must constantly show real proof the…

Could you tell me the flaw in my analysis? Or are you merely asserting that because I lack a certain experience, I am therefore incapable of analyzing the problem using statistics and logical inference? They must constantly show real proof they are looking for work and even with part-time jobs their assistance is immediately scaled back. This is simply false. The vast majority of the poor are not looking for work, no…

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Re: It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.

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Post by leon_ »

SeoxyS wrote: post #112

This article disgusts me. The internet really doesn't need its brightest minds spending their free time creating spam. How can you even suggest that's a good thing?

don't worry. you don't need to be a bright mind to do this - you only need to know hot to lie to convince people to link to your spam site. the technical difficulties of such a site are somewhere between hello world and an irc bot.

Re: It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.

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Post by toumhi »

getsat wrote: post #78
toumhi wrote: post #73

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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.

That is true, but if the penalties were severe, you wouldn't have Monster, Trovit, Juju, Indeed, SimplyHired, etc. all reposting the EXACT same job and all ranking nice and high. Autoblogs work entirely on copied content and do REALLY well for how little work they require to setup.

That's true but it still doesn't hurt your own site IMHO. Copying site would be way below you in rankings (especially since Panda update it seems). Whether it's possible to make an autoblog work is a different matter.

Re: It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.

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Post by cwp »

palish wrote: post #70
Homunculiheaded wrote: post #38

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additionally if you're going to be pulling down public data sets there are probably more interesting and useful ways that you can restructure/reorganize that data. There's a lot of useful data out there that is a real mess that I'm sure some niche would actually pay decently to presented in a more usable fashion

But would they pay $2,000 per month?

More, if you do it right. Take a look at instantdomainsearch.com. It provides a tiny amount of information, all of which is readily available from other sources. It's still quite profitable.

Re: It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.

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Post by Two9A »

augustflanagan wrote: post #32

On 150,000 pageviews a month I make about $50.00 from adsense. "1.6% CTR with 0.85c CPC" seems pretty unrealistic to me.

It's figures like this that make me think I'm not doing very well with my articles site.

0.02% CTR on 50k page views a month; revenue under $1. I guess that's the compromise you make when your niche is involved articles for a technical audience, but is there a way to improve that?

Re: It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.

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Post by michael_dorfman »

chopsueyar wrote: post #89

What about arbitrage between Facebook ads and Adsense? Has anyone successfully sent Facebook traffic via paid ads to their adsense site profitably?

My experience is that it is very difficult to send traffic via Facebook ads to anywhere outside of Facebook.
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