Novel Ideas for Making Money Online

Make Money Using Humor

Humor can get you a lot of traffic and make money for you in the process. Check out the "Buy My Stupid Ebook" site below for a great example of how to create an Adsense site dressed up as a very funny one page sales letter.


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Make Money Using Viral Applets

Dane Carlson from Business Opportunities Weblog created this widget (see below) using Technorati's API. Carlson's widget will figure out your sites worth by using the same ratio of dollars per links on technorati that AOL/Time Warner used to purchase WeblogsInc. Tristan Louis ran some data and came up with a number value for each link you have pointing to your site. Depending on whether Aol paid Weblogs Inc $25 million, $30 million or $40 million (real price not released but assumed to be in this range.) then each link to your site would be worth $564.64 (25m), $677.57 (30m) or $903.42 (40m). I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for someone to come along and offer you this kind of money but it does give the blogospere a yardstick to work from.

You have probably seen the widget on lots of sites as it appeals to a lot of people - just how well do I stack up against others online?

From a viral marketing standpoint Carlson has a winner. By creating this widget he gets a lot of traffic from curiosity seekers and backlinks from all the sites who use the widget.





Generate Traffic by Creating a Free Tool

People love using tools online. If you can think of something that people would like to know hire a code monkey and offer the world a free tool. Internet marketers love comparing their sites with everybody else's sites. Who has more traffic? Who has the most backlinks? Who ranks better in the SERP's? Who has a higher PageRank? Where can I find a niche? You can finds tools to answer all these questions. If there is something you want to know but can't find a tool then have someone build it and offer it to the world to use for free. This is a great way to drive traffic.

I found Website Grader recently and it's a prime example of what I'm talking about.

Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.

It's a pretty cool tool and gives you a lengthy report on how your site compares with others from a marketing point of view. You get a rank between 1-100 the higher number the better. How they arrive at the final number is not exactly clear but since I scored an 83 I'll let it slide. They did mention that my blog isn't sufficiently dummed down for most readers...

Readability Level : Advanced Degree (PhD)
This score measures the approximate level of education necessary to read and understand the web page content. In most cases, the content should be made to be simple so that a majority of the target audience can understand it.

This is a criticism? John Chow's blog has a readability level of a grade 5 student and this is just tickety boo according to them. Bastards!

Here is my score summary - if you don't understand it you probably don't have the required PhD.

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Here is the link again if you are interested in checking out your ranking.

Website Grader

Before I leave here is another site you should take a look at if you want some humorous ideas. Spanklin

Have a great weekend

Grizzly