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I'm going to add this article to my bookmarks on web site monitization. It appears that a good way to attract traffic is to pattern a site after a British tabl

by russell 17y ago

I'm going to add this article to my bookmarks on web site monitization. It appears that a good way to attract traffic is to pattern a site after a British tabloid. Prominently display a gorgeous girl (even with her clothes on!), along with whatever might be of interest to the real target audience. Grab those eyeballs.

DanielBMarkham 17y ago
With over 500 articles, I've played around with format quite a bit. I enjoy doing creative and new things. The problem is that the eyeballs you grab don't always monetize that much. You end up with this impedance mismatch. But maybe I'm wrong -- perhaps the PayPal link I added might actually work! It's not just tabloid-related. It's much more along the lines of keyword density, which the article goes over. For instance, I wrote an article on Global Warming http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2007/05/did_walt_disney.php http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2007/05/did_walt_disn... that had a picture of Walt Disney holding an early version of Micky Mouse. It was a lengthy article and I was trying to make a serious point. If you google for pictures of Walt Disney, there's my blog up there at the top http://images.google.com/images?q=Walt%20Disney&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi http://images.google.com/images?q=Walt%20Disney&oe=utf-8... To this day I get 30-50 hits a day from people looking for pictures of Walt Disney. They read the article title (of course not the text!) and then make inane comments about global warming. So the strategy might be good for bringing people to your site, but for what purpose? I'm telling you, I should have gotten into porn.