Re:Detailed revenue breakdown of a gadget blog ($61k in dec ...
by greyman on Saturday June 14, 2008 @04:13AM
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>>> building traffic to some website for adsense and affiliate sales for the same?
There are basically two main paths you might take here. I have a friend who made a fortune by spamming search engines, but his peak was about 6 years ago, when it was quite easy to game google for profit. Now he has about 1.000 (one thousand) interlinked domains with affiliate links. Of course, as Google algo improved, his sites are slowly de-ranked, but there is also MSN search and Yahoo, and his "imperium" is so big, that he already earned enough to live confortably for the rest of his life.
But anyway, he says that starting now this would be much harder, because Google already closed many gaps. It is doable, but much harder.
Another way is to use "white hat" way, i.e. building normal content like cool gadget blog. But this is also harder that it looks, especially to build "great team of 4 paid writers". Author don't elaborate more about that, but this I think is non-trivial. There need to be some unique vision plus writers who can execute it by writing engaging content.
There are basically two main paths you might take here. I have a friend who made a fortune by spamming search engines, but his peak was about 6 years ago, when it was quite easy to game google for profit. Now he has about 1.000 (one thousand) interlinked domains with affiliate links. Of course, as Google algo improved, his sites are slowly de-ranked, but there is also MSN search and Yahoo, and his "imperium" is so big, that he already earned enough to live confortably for the rest of his life.
But anyway, he says that starting now this would be much harder, because Google already closed many gaps. It is doable, but much harder.
Another way is to use "white hat" way, i.e. building normal content like cool gadget blog. But this is also harder that it looks, especially to build "great team of 4 paid writers". Author don't elaborate more about that, but this I think is non-trivial. There need to be some unique vision plus writers who can execute it by writing engaging content.