Ok, I’ll talk a little about some of the stuff that I have going on. I got ahold of a few reports explaining how to build a website with the sole purpose of selling it. After reading through one of these reports, I used my programming skills to make a small, simple Free Text Messaging site that I was able to sell for $30. Not bad, considering the price of the report was only $5. Anyway, after that success I thought I would see if I could duplicate it. I bought two new domain names, and modified the scripts a little bit. I couldn’t sell these for the life of me. I don’t know what the problem was, maybe it had something to do with the fact that the domain names were .info’s. I’ve pretty much given up on one of them right now, but decided to update the other quite a bit. I added some features to the script, including a login ability and contact book. This site is itxtu.info, if you want to check it out. Even after adding these features, I still wasn’t able to sell the site. It hasn’t been all bad, though, because I’ve earned about $5.00 from Adsense. I’m always trying to figure out what to do with my sites, so I’ve decided that my next step is to try a new template for the site. Once done, I will decide if I want to try selling it again or not. I have about 30 people signed up, so it may be worthwhile to just keep it.
After doing a couple more programming gigs, I had money to buy another website flipping report. After reading this, I decided that I needed to build a directory site. I had a name that would work great for a directory, so it wasn’t too much work to get it going. But now, what? I decided that the best thing to do is to offer one way links free until I hit a certain number, so I could start growing the directory and getting some traffic. Many people have taken me up on this so far, and I’m up to about 160 links. I know that there has to be more that I can do, though. Then it came to me. I decided to offer a contest in order to promote my directory. Every main category will have 2 links randomly selected to be feature links for 2 weeks. Who wouldn’t like the chance to have their link show featured for 2 weeks? I came up with one more major contest that will help everybody out. Whoever sends me the most visitors from a link on their site will get their link posted at the top of the page, showing throughout the entire directory. The second place referrer will get the same thing, and the 3rd and 4th place will get their link in the sponsors area for a month. This should really improve traffic to the directory. I also submitted it to all of the PR6 and PR5 directories at addurl.nu. I’m really hoping that all this work gets me a pretty good page rank, which will allow me to sell links at higher prices, making a decent profit from the site.
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