Lightning Round #3!!!

[Jon]

Jon you suck, 300 million, ha! Expedia.com does over 500 million in revenue every three months, and I own a small percentage of that company! But then again, their market cap is around 3 billion. So I guess that will make you almost a billionaire; like me, if you get listed on the NASDAQ too. Oh, I forgot to mention that I only own 100 shares. So I guess you don't really suck, hahahhaa.

Well, they are a huge company with lots and lots of smart people working for them. For my company, it's two people in charge, one US employee (just hired), and about 45 foreigners doing the grunt work for us. My goal is to become the largest private affiliate company in the industry. Also, unlike them, I will NEVER take my company public.

 

[Jon]

do you determine what adsense keywords will pay higher than others?

We try to, it's pretty tough to guage which ads will do better than others since there is no realy way for us to tell who pays what. But we have some really sweet new custom programs being made to help us out in that dept, as far as monetizing goes at least.

 

[Jon]

Sorry I wasn’t clear there. I was wondering if you could give a good example of an adword ad. The blue widgets was just some random theme I came up with.

I really don't have anything to show you. Ask around, maybe someone else can point you in the right direction.

 

[Jon]

Your thoughts on new and emerging niches...

Hmm.. well I think anything geared towards the gaming industry for consoles and games for PS3 is going to be huge very soon. Maybe doing a review site on the games that are going to be released, along with cheats, tips and screen shots for them would be a cool new site to make. But I'm sure people are already doing that.

This may not be an emerging market, but focusing on business to business services for arbitrage would probably be a sweet idea. Maybe even making a forum or more of an old school BBS for people to post industry ideas or maybe a news resource site for particular industries would be a very smart way to go. The B2B industry is fucking massive, and since affiliate networks generally don't target the major things out there, the market is pretty untapped from that standpoint.

 

[Jon]

Jon,

I own the following clickfraud domains:

AdSenseClickfraud.com
AdwordsClickFraud.com
ArtificialClicks.com
ArtificialClick.com
BogusClicks.com
ClickCheater.com
ClickFraudAbuse.com
ClickfraudAnalysis.com
ClickFraudBook.com
ClickFrauder.com
ClickFraudInformation.com
ClickFraudInvestigation.com
ClickFraudScams.com
CounterfeitClicks.com
etc.... about 40 more.

How should I develop all these sites into a click fraud niche? Interested in buying any of my domain names? I am a little lost as to what I should provide on the site? Also, I don't know why I registered so many domains, hahhaa, but what should I do with them all? They are pretty good names.

I'm not interested in buying anything in that market, but maybe what you should do is commission a script or software to a programmer and have them make a click fraud tool, and then just sell that through affiliates or clickbank. Similar to all of those "error fixing" and "spyware finder" apps that are all over the place. Just make every site a little different, and some cheaper and some more expensive. In turn, you'll be creating and dominating for your own niche.

 

[Jon]

Sorry not to be clear. Basically, I'm trying to do PPC arbitrage. I made my site targeting expensive keywords, but instead of showing ads for those keywords, Adsense is showing marginally related but much-less-expensive ads. I'm wondering what strategies you'd be willing to share for getting Adsense to display ads for the expensive keywords.

Try adding more expensive keywords to your content, title tags and header tags. If the niche itself is an expensive one, then you will figure it out soon enough. If it's not, set it aside, do something easier, and come back to it when you are more experienced with it.

 

[Jon]

i know this might seem to be a stupid question...but just making sure.

if i made a PPC arbitrage site(simple and incorporated ads pretty well), would using wordpress in anyways play with my CTR's?

No. WordPress is one of the best platforms out there, because you don't have to follow the WP template rules. You can customize it anyway you like. Do some reading up on it, or outsource it for $30 or so for someone to make you exactly what you need.

 

[Jon]

Alright, closing this thread now. Thanks again for all the questions and be sure to promote WickedFire and use the lightning round as a selling point, because let's face it, these things rock, and the more people means more questions, and that means more answers for some great information for the entire community.