How to make a lot of money
While the .com era has been and gone, there’s still plenty of money to be made on the web. The obvious way is to create something free, which people love and flock to in their droves, and just sit and wait for Google, Yahoo, AOL or MSN to buy you. But apparently you can make shit loads of cash even before someone buys you. I had no idea how potentially lucrative signing up with Google Adsense was. See this. The guy runs PlentyOfFish.com, a free online dating site. It’s very no frills. It doesn’t offer what many of the pay dating sites like Match does, and it has nowhere near the coolness factor of the best free ones such as Consumating or OK! Cupid. But right-click on the image of the cheque and you can see that in two months he has earned CA$ 901,733.84. He earns $10,000 a day by doing virtually nothing. Sure he has to make sure the servers are withstanding the load. Maybe he adds the occassional new feature. But that’s it. He created the site, signed up for Google Adsense and then sat on his arse and made money. Here’s an interview with him
June 21st, 2006 at 3:21 pm
How about doing an experiment: set up Google Adsense on this blog, monitor how much work it requires and how much money it brings in. And then tell us all abou tit of course.
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June 21st, 2006 at 3:36 pm
Hi Ivan! *waves* I’m pretty certain it requires no work at all—you just sign up with Google and paste the code and that’s it. But there’s no point here. Nowhere near enough people visit here to make it worth it, and I don’t want adverts all over my blog. But if I think of something that would attract visitors, I would put ads on it, and I’ll be more than happy to let you know what the income is.