Is Britney Spears a Source for Easy Ideas to Make Money?
Now that I have put my other life as a pure Adsense blogger aside, I am prepared to conquer the world of opportunities for making my computer spit out money at me. For
my first few projects I am going to with a some of my easy ideas for making money. That is, the money may not be easy to make but the process of completing the project will be easy. I mainly just want to lighten my load by crossing off as many of my ideas from my list as possible.
The list is pretty big.
So for my first few projects I want to use some of the domains I have acquired, but done nothing with. I would have great ideas for a blog, purchase a domain name, and then come up with a better idea. It is so much easier coming up with ideas than it is actually completing a project and making money. I lose interest pretty quickly, so I have to complete these projects quickly in order to be successful. My first project will put to use a domain that I really thought would end up just drifting aside, collecting dust, as I didn’t have a solid idea of what I was going to do with it. I was embarrassed that I purchased the domain, here’s why:
That’s right I was going to create a blog about the train wreck of Britney Spears. Let’s keep this story short, and say I realized that I could not keep up with a blog about her, and it is quite a competitive market to rank for any variation of Britney’s name in keywords (and its just sad). So now my plan is to create something that I hope Britney fans will use, and it should be viral enough that I won’t have to do well in Google. I plan on creating a Britney Spears Search engine , using the Google Search function. Yeah I know: I drop a blog that was about Google and Adsense, and then I come crawling back for the first project on this blog it’s quite silly, I know.
The steps for this project are quite simple (as I said earlier: start with the easy ideas for making money!):
- Create the Britney Search Engine.
- Promote it through the Facebook Advertising program, which you can specifically target Britney fans.
- Track its usage and traffic, and if it gets decent traffic, sell advertising, or some kind of music related affiate programs
- Hope I don’t get sued.
Even if I do get sued, I could turn the domain into a blog about my journey being sued by Britney!
Last night I cooked up a mockup and had the full intentions of conveting the mockup into a template this evening but was sidetracked by a few googd friends: Rum and Beer. I have managed to pull it together enough to write this post, but I feel the familar calling of the “Passing Out Fairy” coming to take me away. Hopefully tommorrow I will have more progress on this project. Sure its one of my easy ideas for making money, but getting hosed really doesn’t make it much easier. I am a little concerned about the time when I get to the more complicated projects…
How To Increase Your RSS Subscribers While Making Your Them Hate You
I am continually trying to find new ways to draw people to my blog and subscribe to my RSS feed. I am sure that is what most of us want. We all have different motivations, but we all want the same results: A buttload of subscribers. Most of us want more readers so we can gain a bit of fame, as well as make some cash from advertising. I like to follow a simple equation here:
Whiteley Enterprises + a high subscriber count= Selling advertising. Which to me equates to increasing the amount of fluid in my liquor cabinet.
I have been stewing on this method of getting more subscribers for quite some time, but I never really wanted to implement it as I kind of respect and enjoy the company of my readers. So I am not going to screw with you guys just to satisfy my ego and cravings for booze.
The theory:
When you first start a blog it is tough to get people to subscribe to your blog, and if you display your Feedburner chicklet of 3 subscribers people will generally discount your blog as being new, and not worth subscribing to. This is the main reason why people don’t show their subscriber count until they reach around 100 subscribers. Once you have hit this mark it is much easier to have people subscribe to your blog, as people will see that others have found your blog worthy to subscribe to, so they will subscribe as well.
So it kind of snowballs, the higher your subscriber count is, the easier it is to gain new subscribers. So it is that first hump that is tough to get over, but once you have a ton of subscribers you can pretty easily get more.
The Method:
Like I said earlier I had been toying with this for a while, and I am not going to do it on my blog because I have a solid foundation of readers that I don’t want to offend. There are a few ways to that you can make it look like you have more subscribers than you actually have:
- Steal someone elses feedburner code
- Use the Feedburner Hack
Of course both of those methods may have either been fixed, or are in the process of being fixed ( I haven’t fully researched either method but feel free to do so and share). My idea was to create a simple gif image that showed an inflated number of subscribers. It’s not entirely honest, but it could give those new blogs an extra push to becoming more popular. OF course if you show an inflated RSS count and manage to deliver cruddy content, then people will eventually figure it out. Then they will laugh and point at you as if you were that kid in school that wet themselves. Nobody likes a blog wetter.
I have cooked up a few images that you can use to show a false number of subscribers on your blog. I would be curious to see how much of an effect that this would have on someones blog. So if anyone is using, or plans on using this method leave a link to your blog in the comments below so we can follow your progress. Just save the image below and crop out the image that you would like to use. Or if you would like a custom one made with different colours and reader numbers please use the contact form ad let me know the background and text colour (in hexidecimal) as well as the number of subscribers and I can make one for you.
Link is to Ganon as I am to Google (Mortal Enemies)
The first post I ever wrote was “I am Free Because I am a Blogger” and back in the day it was a liberating feeling. But I was so unaware as to how I was not going to be free. Because of my original blog plan (and name) I was shackled to the topic of Google Adsense. All I wrote about was my journey with Adsense. And all I used to monetize was Adsense.
That was a mistake.
I watched as several bloggers started up blogs around the same time as I. I then watched as their blogs surpassed mine, even though they were the generic make money online post ideas that were generally ripped off from the big name bloggers (and not half as eloquent). I had a unique voice, an intriguing style, yet when I reached the 50 RSS subscriber mark, they had hit 200. So what was my problem? Why was I not successful?
Because I Was Living on Adsense.
The title of my blog, was like an icepick to the toenails; sounds funny when you mention it, but isn’t a great idea in reality. I wanted to branch out, but I had to keep writing about Adsense if I wanted to increase my readership and have people coming back. But what I wanted to write about was my life as a regular guy trying to make money online.
Well I am now free of Adsense
No longer will I obsessively check my stats, no longer will I keep trying to create and update a million blogs just to earn a few pennies. I am now free to make money online in any way I please, I am now free to write about what I originally planned on and not have readers get confused as to why a blog called “Living on Adsense” just wrote something about blogging, or about drinking too much Red Bull. I have moved my blog to a new domain name, a domain name that is generic enough that I will be able to continue blogging “Whiteley” style for as long as I like. I have tossed away my old Tri-Force of Blogging, gone to defeat Ganon, and have risen from my challenge with:
A new Tri-Force of Blogging:
- I will blog about making money
- I will blog about blogging tips and ideas
- I will blog about items 1 & 2 as they affect my life
So now that I am free, what will I be doing?
Well, the first item on my list is start making use of all of the old domain names I have just sitting around. During the old Adsense days I had acquired a bunch of domain names as I came of with blog ideas. Then I kinda stopped with the blogs. So now I will come up with uses for these domains. I have a butt load of cool ideas in my brain that I haven’t been able to unleash as I was to distracted and oppressed by the evil powers of Google. With my trusty wooden sword in hand, I have freed myself of the evil forces of Google. “Don’t be evil” Right. I filled up my hearts and shot Google with my sword of power.
As Sarah said to Jareth, so I say to Google:
“You have no Power over me.”
