I have been running my automated blog for 2 weeks now. And the results are great. I am running at more than 1000 uniques per day now, people are commenting, posts are being pinged.
The reason why this works seems because I am not using standard software to get to the content. I wrote all code myself to search and scrape content and put it nicely into the blog.
While there are many plugins that do exactly the same, these really didn’t have the same effect. With a same quality .com domain name and the same kind of content, the results of Google, Live and Yahoo indexing were far (far!) worse than with my new software.
One of the projects I have been most involved with in the past year is a social network. Yes, another social network. I know there is Facebook, hi5, Myspace, Linkedin, Xing, bla bla bla and all of those, but still I am sure there is plenty of room for plenty more social networks.
Why do I think that? Well; social networks are still kind of new and they are young technology. There is a lot to learn and a lot to do. As people get overwhelmed and actually bored by the big ones, the smaller ones seem to thrive until they are big and then people go, in small groups to a lot of smaller ones. Of course they stay on at the big ones too, but they’ll be using them less and less I believe (at least the people I know do).
As I set out to ‘generate’ content in the stealing sense of the word, I started working with tools that are available. These tools work with RSS feeds from the web to form web content. Unfortunately I found out that these tools mostly suck.
For my purpose I used Wordpress and some of it’s plug-ins, like WP-O-Matic to consume RSS feeds and show them on the WP page. This turned out not to be so straightforward.
Update (16 october): the automated test blog traffic is growing very fast: 2000 spider visits/250 uniques/1300 pageviews yesterday. Seems the experiment is working.
As I wrote in my mission statement in this blog, I was going to launch some concept sites. This post is about the first one I’ve launched. Read about the ups and downs of it.
In many forums, one of the most often recurring questions is; what is my site worth? This is not an easy question to answer, especially if you don’t know the site in question and it is totally impossible if you don’t know or don’t get the business model behind it.
There is at least one type of site of which it is quite possible to estimate the value within reasonable bounds and that is a site which derives income from CPM (get paid per 1000 impressions) ads. These kind of sites run completely on traffic and traffic alone. More traffic is more money for that kind of site.
I have been working on a project to get as close as possible to the value of a CPM as I possibly could and I think we have succeeded in doing that. But we also created some interesting side effects.
Because I am searching for making money online, I was hoping to find some easy guides to get to my goals. Unfortunately there are very little of them, at least very little that really tell it like it is. And the ones that are very good cost a lot of money.
Fortunately it doesn’t have to be like that. Everything that is needed for making online money and starting online businesses can be had for free. It is just not a step-by-step plan that works. And we all need a step by step plan that works ofcourse.
So ofcourse I decided to make one and offer it for free. All knowledge I pick up and all knowledge I use to make my monthly income offline and online I will give to you over the coming 12 months including all links, ebooks, videos and so on. There already is a lot and that will grow very fast as I continue my quest.
Check out this site for getting into my radical moneymaking system 
I have over 200 sign ups currently; most of the things I will tell do not expire nor get saturated, but just keep it a tight bunch, i’m quiting the sign up process on 300 subscribers.
It seems that most people still do not know that you have to protect your affiliate links from your users. Most users are quite focused on the kind of links that are typical for affiliate codes; for instance, links with ?aff=johndoe in them. In forums and on websites it seems as if people actually do not realize that their prospects cut off these kind of references before going to the site of the product or service they are looking to buy.
While it is not exactly clear (it is not as if they are paying more or anything…) why people cut off these links, it is very common for sites with affiliate programs to get questions like; ‘I am sure I sent 10 people your way, yet I have no one in my downline, your system must be broken’. Of course the system isn’t broken but they all simply cut off the link.
On the internet it is still all about going as fast as you can. Think of something, set a site up the same day, start a blog about it the same week. Start marketing immediately. Get the software done, at least a first version ASAP and prelaunch or launch an alpha version.
The problem is ofcourse that you really cannot rush programmers into doing that kind of thing. Some programmers can do it, but most will require more and more (and more and more…) time getting it done and then it is usually not as you want it.
Is this feeling of ; why can’t he just get it done? And is the accompanying feeling of powerlessness familiar to you? It is to me…
In the first part of this series I told how I go about finding partners on the internet. Although this is not always easy, it turned out that all my partners are trustworthy, hardworking and solid. And I have never seen or even talked to them. I contacted them only via chat or mail; no voice, video or facetime.
How is this possible? I am quite convinced this has a lot to do with taking the time to learning what makes them tick. It seems that everyone on the web is in a rush which is quite a bad thing. As I said in one of my previous posts; I believe you need 3 years to get a business anywhere. Why then all the hurry?
The concept of automating content on sites has always fascinated me. As an ex artificial intelligence student, the prospect of generating content, putting it on a page and actually getting people to read it is very compelling to me.
In the fast paced world of web development, automated content means a lot of things, but it almost never means actual generating of original, high quality content by a computer. What it usually means is ‘generating’ content by mixing some existing sources, which is, of course, not really generating anything but more copying.
Still; it seems interesting to investigate if this really works and if there is any merit to it.
As my readers know, I have been making money online for a long time. Well, online usually meant mixing offline with online. Visiting (boring) clients, talking to people in person (which I hate), giving presentations (which I hate even more). And then the work usually would move to online; getting outsourcing for the project set up, talking to the client via mail from then on (if I could help it) etc.
But that is not really making money online. For me making money online is a total process of making every cent you earn in a ‘project’ or company online; no offline things involved. This means;
- getting the client online
- having the ‘product’ created online (by outsourcing or otherwise)
- transferring the cash online (Paypal or that kind of thing)
- doing all specs online
For me personally it actually means zero facetime, not even that horrible invention called Skype.
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