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Creating a Small Website to Earn Passive Income: Second Attempt(sparklewise.com)
48 points by toumhi 15y ago|36 comments
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by toumhi 15y ago
Ah yeah, could be. I'm currently in Vietnam. Through my VPN in UK you also show up as number 1. How can a website hosted in Australia shows up higher in Vietnam and UK than Australia? Except if competition for grafting tools is fierce down
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by toumhi 15y ago
I vote for 3. You already have a product that you need to promote. However, boosting your page rank? Page rank is 4 and you're already number 1 in google for "grafting tool". Are you sure you have a pageview and pagerank problem? Maybe you
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by toumhi 15y ago
Currently on the road in south east Asia while launching several (small) web apps/products. Definitely not easy, will be back in Europe in 1 month at least for a few months. You can check my blog www.sparklewise.com for stories about it ;-)
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by toumhi 15y ago
Yeah, I know something about the family doubting of that kind of plans :-) As for expenses, it depends of your lifestyle of course but it should cost $25/day for basic expenses (housing + food + beers) . If you want to travel around it will
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by toumhi 15y ago
I'm currently for 1 month in Hanoi, Vietnam (after 4 months in Indonesia/Philippines/Vietnam). Life is dirt cheap here - you can find an apartment for $400 (or much less if you get some local contacts or go to some smaller city), food $3/da
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by toumhi 15y ago
Interesting. Can you explain how one would predict voters based on past voting patterns? Or do you know about similar projects? It seems that Offensive Politics is more into mapping election results. It seems to me politics is not a field w
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by toumhi 15y ago
Hey brandoncordell, you could populate your site from listings from indeed and simplyhired. They have APIs for you to do that, so you don't have to scrape them. Plus you actually earn money when people apply for a job. Also, you can check
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by toumhi 15y ago
Agreed. But you have to know what compelling content is for that niche. Basically ask yourself the question "why would anyone follow my blog when there are 1000's of blogs for programmers?". A few random comments: - In general, I find your
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by toumhi 15y ago
A few years, I don't know :-) Why don't you start with 3 months first? I've been traveling/living/working in Asia for 4 months now, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam. I'm currently in Hanoi, Vietnam where cost of living is very low (you ca
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How I Got On The First Page Of Google(sparklewise.com)
4 points by toumhi 15y ago|0 comments
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by toumhi 15y ago
1- As a heuristic, find an existing successful product (for example invoicing, accounting, crm...) and tailor it to a smaller national market (for example France, Germany...) or to a specific niche (accounting for trainers, invoicing for pl
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by toumhi 15y ago
That's true but it still doesn't hurt your own site IMHO. Copying site would be way below you in rankings (especially since Panda update it seems). Whether it's possible to make an autoblog work is a different matter.
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by toumhi 15y ago
A copy is just that, a copy in the eyes of Google. The copy will be penalized in rankings. Your community won't suddenly leave your website to go to the copycat. There are a million sites that copied Facebook but in the end everybody is on
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How I Became a Gift Certificate Expert By Accident(sparklewise.com)
2 points by toumhi 15y ago|0 comments
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by toumhi 15y ago
www.giftcertificatefactory.com $40 from Adsense (for 1 month). Traffic is building up (website is only 3 months old), so I have hopes it's going to increase :-) The website provides gift certificate templates for businesses and not business
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by toumhi 16y ago
Wow - 5 things at the same time... makes me reevaluate my lethargy not to start working on a second project at the same time... How do you cope working on 5 different things? Any project that gets time priority?
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by toumhi 16y ago
I'm making an application for small businesses to select, edit and print their own gift certificates: http://www.giftcertificatefactory.com I'm spending an awful lot of time writing content as a SEO strategy. It does take time to climb up
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Testing a product idea with Adwords: case study(sparklewise.com)
1 points by toumhi 16y ago|0 comments
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by toumhi 16y ago
I should be in jakarta at that time. My email toumhi at yahoo dot fr
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by toumhi 16y ago
eh, me too. I'm in Jakarta for 2 months (ok, not very glamorous), planning to go to Maluku for some time after that, building an online business. Maybe there should be a directory of expat entrepreneurs in indonesia :-)
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How I Chose My First Online Product: Gift Certificate Templates(sparklewise.com)
1 points by toumhi 16y ago|0 comments
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by toumhi 16y ago
I've also recently started working from (a temporary) home. A couple of remarks: - develop a good routine that keeps you moving. For me, it means: - working from home from 9 to 12. - eat lunch at home - go to coffee shop to have
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My Quest to Come Up With a Domain Name(sparklewise.com)
2 points by toumhi 16y ago|0 comments
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by toumhi 16y ago
funny. I moved from france to holland three years ago, but have now started my business in France this month. I'm currently traveling but am still undecided on where to "settle" :-)
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by toumhi 16y ago
thanks for the feedback, it helps a lot! You're right on point 1 and 2, point 2 it's because I used a template from themeforest. This is a MVP and in a second iteration I intend to redesign the site, with less clutter. Very good point about
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by toumhi 16y ago
Well, since I'm french, it was easier. There is a new status called 'autoentrepreneur' and it makes it quite easy for people to start a business (very little tax as long as you don't make more than 80000 euros a year, don't have employees e
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by toumhi 16y ago
clickable: http://www.giftcertificatefactory.com
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Ask HN: Review my first project (gift certificate templates)
3 points by toumhi 16y ago|7 comments
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by toumhi 16y ago
Sounds awesome. I'm actually going to be in SE Asia for 5 months starting in 10 days (to start working on my own software product) so I'm already converted and can definitely see the value in this :-) Being surrounded with like-minded peopl

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