One of the money making strategies I was experimenting with was blogging about random topics from highly searched for topics.
The three sources that I picked this up were
If I were to follow this today, I’d be posting about
- Lindsay Lohan’s possible sex tape
- Britney Spears guess appearance on How I met your mother
- Ashley Alexandra Dupre - whoever she is
- baba booey (??wtf??)
- dagmar midcap - dagmar what??
- Djimon Honsou - again no idea who he/she is
- Pregnant Man - really?
You get the picture, there’s some interesting random stories in there like the girl who became a man but is now 5 months pregnant - fark! However, after a bit of posting, I noticed that the click through rate on the ads were super low and the blog had no theme and no direction. I wasn’t blogging about stuff that interested me and it felt like that I was just posting for the sake of posting.
As a business model, even though I was getting some immediate hits from search engines, this wasn’t sustainable as it was based off trends that did not last long. As soon as the trend dropped off, the search traffic would also drop and rely on the next trend. I was chasing trend after trend and because of the sporadic topics, repeat visitors were few and far between. There was some small money to be made but it was too labour intensive and not enough immediate return. Perhaps if I kept it up for a year and kept churning out 10 articles a day, I might have seen some good results… but that’s too much hard work for my lazy ass.
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