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Everyone missing the obvious thing here. It's not about the parrot site at all. It's about Cringely's site. Cringely has written a post about how to make a l
by ratsbane 18y ago
Everyone missing the obvious thing here. It's not about the parrot site at all. It's about Cringely's site. Cringely has written a post about how to make a lot of money doing something easy. Cringely's post gets a lot of traffic. (Currently #1 on HN.) Cringely's site hosts ads. Cringely (and Mrs. Cringely) make lots of money. The parrot site is to Cringely's site what parrots are to the parrot site.
- slance 18y agoHe won't make much from the traffic from HN. Social media tech traffic is worth hardly anything. Ultra targetted non-tech savvy traffic like the parrot site gets from adwords is worth a lot.
- ratsbane 18y agoHis traffic has come up sharply over the last few months (Quantcast: http://www.quantcast.com/cringely.com http://www.quantcast.com/cringely.com) to ~3k/month. Compare with ParrotSecrets.com at ~13k. Cringely is just following his own advice. What he's doing is as interesting as what he's saying.