October 2010
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I’ve been running a couple of pretty basic wordpress installs with a script that reads a data feed from Share A Sale. Basically, the script takes an assortment of products that haven’t been published yet, and then randomly inserts new pages into a wordpress site over the next week. I run about 100 products per week, so with a larger dataset (say, 5000 products), this site will have continually new information each day for a year.
They work ok; more or less pay for the time spent building them. Seems like cheating, though. But an interesting thing (to me anyway) is seeing the long tail searches that hit those sites. People are pretty much searching for the exact thing (example: blue glass napkin ring ) that is in the page.
I can’t really say that I recommend this site technique. These sites are fairly thin as far as content goes, and not very helpful for an end user. But if you’ve got a domain just sitting there, you might give it a try. I can’t suggest putting adwords on them, though — google doesn’t like empty sites like this.
Written by russ on October 18th, 2010 with no comments.
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I love Superhero movies. Even bad ones. Ok, except Spiderman 3. Superhero or comicbook movies are one of my passions. So when I heard about The Goon Movie by Eric Powell, I jumped up and bought a domain. I put some basic info on it and set up some affiliate links to Things From Another World.
It doesn’t get a whole lot of traffic- about 1000 visitors a month, but it’s made about 55 bucks. I figured that the new Superman movie (shooting starts next year, the movie should be released in 2012) would be more popular than The Goon. And then I heard that General Zod was rumored to be the villain. I was shocked to see that generalzod.com was available. So I jumped on that $10 grenade and a night later had a basic website up.
Well, I woke up yesterday morning and learned that Snyder (the confirmed director) is saying that Zod is just a rumor, and the whole Internet is pooh-poohing the idea that Zod is the villain.
Sometimes the ten dollar gamble pays off (50/10) and sometimes it doesn’t. Maybe general Zod will still pay off.
Written by russ on October 15th, 2010 with no comments.
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