Ok everyone. I have a secret to tell you. Well, it won’t be a secret after this post, but I really want to share it with you. This is revolutionary stuff. This is the type of secret that can turn your petty $2/day sites into big time money makers.
It’s not a viral marketing scheme. It’s not a mass advertising campaign. It’s something very simple, very easy. It’s employed by all the big boys. I’m talking sites from The Tech Zone to MSN to ESPN. Sites that use the method below earn big bucks by bringing in lots of traffic. It’s not an SEO ploy to trick Google. It’s not an unusual ad placement to get people to click on your ads.
A friend of mine, Jeff, who runs Myspace Tweaks, employs this secret method. In fact, he’s the one that told me about it. Are you ready? Do you think you can handle it? Do you have the strength and determination to follow this secret to wealth and freedom?
The secret I am about to share to you is: stop checking your damn stats and build some content!!!!!
That’s it. That’s the big secret. I told you it was simple. Stop checking your damn stats and build some content. If you’re like me, you’re checking traffic stats, adsense stats, yahoo stats, analytic stats, and every other stat you can think of. I spend so much time checking my YPN stats it’s not even funny. I check it like 3-4 times an hour at least. Then I’m checking statcounter and other crap.
Stop checking stats and build content. Take all that time to work on making (or purchasing) new content. That’s the secret. Fresh, new content. That’s what keeps customers and readers coming back for more. That’s what turns a little site, into a big money maker. Content. Without it, you have nothing.
11 Responses
Matt
February 16th, 2007 at 11:51 am
1Cool post and it’ll ring true with so many webmasters.
I’m beginning to think it’s some form of psychosis. It drains motivation so much.
propstm
February 16th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
2This is the best post of the day. I don’t care if it’s only 11am. This is the truest post of the DAY!
Andreas Bard
February 16th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
3Excellent advice and so damn true!!!
//Andreas
Marc
February 16th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
4Haha.. so true. It’s the bane of webmaster existence.
Hannes Johnson
February 16th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
5hehe, nice tip… and so true. I used to spend way too much time checking stats – but I try to minimize that now. I have the AdSense notifier add-on for Firefox so I don’t have to log in every hour – I get live updates every 20 minutes
And I usually only check StatCounter if there is something special I want to check out (like where a sale came from, etc.)
Webologist
February 17th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
6Yep, content is king. Funny post though, I was reading it in the hope that some useful little bit of information that had somehow remained hidden to me previously would be revealed. But content is everything.
One way to look at it, is that if you add just one good quality page to your site each week, written by you, or written specifically for you site (i.e. unique content) then in 10 years you will have 500 good quality pages, which should with any luck be a good investment.
I consider making money out of websites a long term goal. Very few businesses make money in the first years of operation. Think long term, ensure your site stays “White Hat”, has good content, and people will link to it, and you’ll rise in popularity and eventually be a profitable business.
Bill
February 17th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
7I also spend too much time checking my stats, adsense, traffic, etc. This week I’ve been checking them less as I have deadlines to meet with some of my projects, and I have been far more productive.
Jacob
February 18th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
8To Webologist. You should be adding more than new page a week. In my opinion, you should be adding at least three. However, if you’re running a blog, posting every day is the best, but if you have to wait, then every at day.
Matt Coddington
February 19th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
9Couldn’t have said it better myself, Dave.
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February 20th, 2007 at 8:06 am
10[...] Friday I posted the secret to making money online. What kind of person would I be if I didn’t follow my own advice? It only seemed logical that I start adding new content to the site that makes me the most money, Pimp Myspace. I wish my best earning site wasn’t a Myspace resource site, but what can you do? It makes me about $20/day so it will be hard to top that with another site I have. [...]
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