My first website was an adsense site in the weight loss niche. Took me I don't know how long to figure out why I wasn't getting any traffic...
What was your worst website / marketing idea?
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made an online forum for my college since it was so big. Told everyone about the idea, couldn't wait to charge hundred a month for advertising ... then failed lol
the good part about it tho is that it got me jump started in to make monies online
the good part about it tho is that it got me jump started in to make monies online
Got a bunch of these. Blogging platform based on a rubbish script (which i discovered after buying this shit), online radio directory, selling rc model parts, business forum, coin appraisal database, selling LED light bulbs, local tourism website, college forum, a few social networking websites.
And there's probably a lot more of these in the pipeline, just more sophisticated
And there's probably a lot more of these in the pipeline, just more sophisticated
When I was in 3rd grade I tried to create the next big search engine. I created a free hosting account on expages (similar to Geocities). I used their WYSIWYG editor to add a title that said "The Best Search Engine" and I added a text box and a Submit button in the middle of the page. Needless to say, it didn't work.
I did a site on trading cards back in the 90s with AngelFire host. I thought I would get rich just by placing some ads on the page.
My worst ever was a TEAM FORTRESS "clan" for Quake 1 (YES QUAKE ONE) lol. I used the geocities site builder. This was about 13 years ago. LOL I thought the site was bad ass
Remember those sites where you download a "viewbar" that displayed ads? Like get paid to surf or some shit. I remember signing up for like 10 of those and plastering their banners all over an angelfire site. Complete fail, for me and the entire pay to surf concept.
I wish I could remember some of their names....
edit: AllAdvantage! That's the only one I remember. I also remember little cheat progs that would fake surfing time.
I wish I could remember some of their names....
edit: AllAdvantage! That's the only one I remember. I also remember little cheat progs that would fake surfing time.
I bought a dropped domain that was literally a guy's name like "FirstLast.com" Did some research, turns out he's huge in the climate/ecology industry, so I made the site into a big Flog scraping 5-6 other eco/green sites, using some atrocious free theme.
After 6 months the site had 16,000 posts and 8,000 of them were indexed, I got kicked off the shared server because I was hogging resources. I rebuilt the site on a dedi and that led to indexation of around 14,000 pages. At this point the site was getting around 200,000 visitors a month.
I started trying to find ways to monetize the traffic (given that it was costing a couple hundred for the server) and soon realized I was probably going to get sued to the ground if the dude found the site with all the blatant advertising on it.
I bought a generic domain and started trying to sync their posts from the same sources, slowly adding redirects to the original. Had a custom theme built for the new site as well.
Somewhere in the process I got distracted, I think because TLA didn't like that the links I sold on Site 1 were redirected to Site 2, so I undid some of the redirects. Anyway, I now have Site 1 with around 12,000 indexed pages and 100,000 visitors a month, Site 2 with 8,000 indexed and a few thousand visitors, and 0 time or motivation to work on either.
They've just become indexing tools at this point. Sad really.
After 6 months the site had 16,000 posts and 8,000 of them were indexed, I got kicked off the shared server because I was hogging resources. I rebuilt the site on a dedi and that led to indexation of around 14,000 pages. At this point the site was getting around 200,000 visitors a month.
I started trying to find ways to monetize the traffic (given that it was costing a couple hundred for the server) and soon realized I was probably going to get sued to the ground if the dude found the site with all the blatant advertising on it.
I bought a generic domain and started trying to sync their posts from the same sources, slowly adding redirects to the original. Had a custom theme built for the new site as well.
Somewhere in the process I got distracted, I think because TLA didn't like that the links I sold on Site 1 were redirected to Site 2, so I undid some of the redirects. Anyway, I now have Site 1 with around 12,000 indexed pages and 100,000 visitors a month, Site 2 with 8,000 indexed and a few thousand visitors, and 0 time or motivation to work on either.
They've just become indexing tools at this point. Sad really.
I had a website with my first gaming clan called "Soldiers of Satan". Growing up in a conservative home, my mom found out and almost freaked. The website sucked, the name of our clan sucked even more, yet it was probably too good of a name for how bad we were at the game.
HarveyJ
He is - THE CACTUS!
Tried to build a social network for cartoonists once... abject fucking failure, but I learnt how to get Joomla working from that at least.
Had a cool url too: sketchyfolk.com
Managed to make some money back on the domain at least.
Had a cool url too: sketchyfolk.com
Managed to make some money back on the domain at least.