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Cashing In On Celebrity Gossip

Nextebizguy — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 11:32:53 +0000

If you’re tired of trying to get a few clicks from Adsense blind tech readers, perhaps you should start dishing the dirt on celebs like Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and Lindsey Lohan.

A celeb blogger that goes by the name “CalGuy” on Digital Point did just that and has earned over 1000 dollars a month in just three months. The amazing part is that CalGuy is making nearly every penny from Adsense ads.

Making a success in such a competitive field isn’t easy and CalGuy is posting nearly six times a day to feed the rabid readers. The traffic stats are pretty high and most of it is through organic searches (~1000 a day from Google) and link exchanges.

Here’s the site: http://www.celebslam.com/

Analyzing the site, on the main page he’s using:

1 Google Leaderboard 728×90
1 Google Sidebar 300×250
A few blogads and Commission Junction Affiliates

The Google ads are showing stuff like “shopzilla” and lots of “celebrity gossip” links. While he did admit the the CTR isn’t “great” the ads are in a competitive field.

Running some numbers through the Adwords keyword estimation tool, the keywords with “celebrity” all top out at 5.00 – 5.02 dollars a click for #1-3 position. So if Adsense is paying 50% on clicks you’re making 2.50 a click. You don’t need a high CTR with that kind of click cash.

Another celeb blogger site named “Perez Hilton” claims over 2 million unique visitors a day. It’s a safe bet that he’s making some decent cash. If you’re going to give celeb gossip blogging a shot, you’ll need lots of pictures, above-average snarky commentary, link exchanges, and decent placement of Adsense ads.

How Your Website Can Make Money In Just Months: Ebook by Randy Brown

Nextebizguy — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 08:24:22 +0000

I first heard of Randy Brown over at the Digital Point forums where he posts under the name “Tearabite”. He was writing about his website success and came up with a no-nonsense ebook (which he calls an “ebooklet” due to it being only 14 pages long). The ebook chronicles how Randy took his site from zero to > 3000 dollars a month in a mere eight months.

I had an opportunity to read through it and I can tell you it’s packed with insightful information about what he tried and what worked for him. If you’re new to monetizing a website or aren’t having much success so far, this ebook is for you. Some of the areas discussed are:

niche marketing
website creation using a content management system (CMS)
web hosting
URL optimization
site navigation
user created content
traffic creation secrets
Adsense and other advertising

Another part I like about the ebook is that Randy just lays out the content. I’m very much a “just say it” kinda guy. I’m not into the stories and endless fluff to make an ebook 99 pages (when it really has 10 pages of actual content).

Currently Randy is selling this ebook for a mere ten dollars. I highly recommend you purchase it. Anything that can save you precious time is worth it. Like I’ve mentioned before, your time is your most precious resource. You can search the forums and scrape together bits and pieces but you are making much better use of your time taking advantage of this ebook.

You can read more about the ebook and find testimonials from others here: How i was making over $1,000/mo after only 4 months

You can purchase the ebook directly from Randy by sending him an E-mail: Contact Randy For Your Copy Of The Ebook

Inspirational Stories

Nextebizguy — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:46:00 +0000

I just stumbled across this site and found a lot of inspirational business success stories. Take a read and I’m sure you’ll be inspired as well.

http://uncommonbusiness.blogspot.com/

It again goes to show that you can take what seems to be a “silly” idea or maybe even a dream and turn it into a profitable reality.

10,000 A Day!

Nextebizguy — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 12:59:00 +0000

I read this story: 10,000 a day the other day and still haven’t stopped thinking about it. Here is a guy with a free dating site that is pulling in 10k in adsense revenue. The article is more about anti-marketing design, but I’m interested in what it takes to pull that kind of cash off a website.

I’ve reviewed the site and the adsense appears primarily as a leaderboard on the main pages. It is near where a person selects the type of person they are searching for, so that’s good placement as most clicks are going to be in that area to begin with. Outside of that, it appears it’s simply a numbers a game. Get tons of traffic with a free dating site and you’ll get a certain percentage of clicks regardless.

So the keys again are give people what they want (in this case opportunity to find love, sex, companionship) and a novel service idea (free dating service), some good SEO and you’ve got a winner.