I took a few days off from the Internet. Mostly to catch up with housework - which always seems to make a nice appearance… almost as instantly as it is cleaned up in my house.
This week my plans are to finish up the look of my new fan site. I just can’t get over my fan sites. I’ve got another couple of sites planned in that genre… and then I’m going to start expanding on the idea into other niches. I’m hoping to grab hold of some low-lying fruit (so to speak) and start making a little more in Adsense.
As much as I love my fan sites, they aren’t exactly racking in the money - good traffic and a health does of clicks. But these clicks aren’t exactly scoring me big bucks in returns. I shouldn’t sound like I’m complaining - so far I’ve made more doing this sort of thing than I ever have with Adsense before. I’m just “still” wondering where I can get some legitimate answers on where to find higher paying keywords… or is it just a hit and miss deal - that I have to figure out on my own.
Maybe I need to look more closely at the the trends - you know like the newly released Halo 3. There’s an opportunity, and it might be short lived in the way of the Internet - when the buzz dies down and all that. I know something like that has already come and gone - but I’m thinking I need to figure out what people are talking about. New releases - can build a site around a potential “biggie” and put adsense and CPA offers on it. Do the keyword research - get it out the gates before the majority will do it. That’s the key - that’s the golden egg - but it’s doing it that’s the challenge.
See, I’ve got something that works - but I want to build off that plan and make it something bigger 
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October 1st, 2007 at 7:35 pm
I had the same thought this week about building very niche, very short duration sites, or even simple pages.
Having had a few articles (granted on blogs of other client’s) get “digged” up on digg.com, I found out that the metric on average is about 10 visits to every one 1 dig on average. One of the pages got a cool 15,000 visitors over a period of a day or so, but how much did that translate into click-thrus? Unfortunately, this client didn’t have ads running yet on the site so I couldn’t tell ya. Sigh.
Question, who did your design for this site? I really like it and I tried to contact Sharp Wit Designs, but I wasn’t able to submit my contact info (looks like they don’t have a contact us form functioning yet).
Would love to connect with someone that designed up your site. It’s got the right tone/look for a blog.
Best of luck!
Ernesto
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:16 pm
I haven’t been here for a while and whoa… I like the new look.
You are right about following the buzz or the latest trends. Sometimes if done right, this can work really well if you have a blog that is reasonably aged and that the search engines love to spider. Google Trends is a good way of keeping up with the latest buzz.
October 3rd, 2007 at 7:45 am
Thanks Hock
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:01 pm
It’s actually much simpler than that to achieve your goals and you don’t need any new sites to do it.
You’ve got 3 of 5 key factors covered on this site alone, you’re close. Keep at it. When it starts to happen you’ll be amazed and feel a great sense of accomplishment too.
October 4th, 2007 at 9:13 am
not important - 3 of 5? I am feeling pretty darn motivated at the moment. Can you fill me in on what I’m missing?