Craigslist and Website Traffic

As most people noticed I mentioned an article in the last two posts about making money with Craigslist that no longer works.

However, because of that article, and my recent boredom, I produced a short 7 page eBook that served no function except to be humorous. I called it the Amazing Taco Bell Hot Sauce Packet Diet. It's a free download that I only promoted through a single post on Craigslist Forums. (It took me about an Hour and a Half to make but I was having fun.)

Within 8 hours it was downloaded over 400 times, and a blog which had never made any money on Adsense quicky became my daily best performer.

The traffic has since died down. Much like the traffic bursts I would experience on my RV Selling site which made me a tremendous amount of money in a short time compared to some of my other sites.

I am currently investigating further ways to use the Craigslist Eyeballs, for now here's a YouTube video I found interesting on the subject of using Craigslist for increasing traffic to your website:




Craigslist Adsense Website Traffic

Wow, Most Viewed on YouTube

After winning a most viewed in a day award for one of my video's on YouTube I have also been slowly climbing in rank for the most viewed award for the month of January '08.

And to think it was all due to a silly little ebook on YouTube Marketing and a few experiments that got me there.

Its not all happy and sugary though. After I redirected a few domain names that weren't making money from being parked and redirected them to affiliates which I thought would draw in tremendous amounts of income I had some problems.

The affiliate sites and redirected URL's weren't making anywhere the money, or seeing the traffic I had expected. So I bailed on the experiment, maybe too early but whatever. The problems arose when the people at NameDrive thought I was promoting my domains, which is a Terms of Service Violation at most parking companies.

Thank God they are there listening, unlike some other companies on the 'net. They were open to the reasons I had for the sudden increase in traffic and accepted my explanation, along with screenshots of my affiliate experiments as well as pointing out some sites that were still running the affiliate program.

So for anyone who reads the Craigslist and AdultFriendFinders Article, beware, not only is this no longer possible, AdultFriendFinder does not pay out anywhere near expected, and switching away from their program may be a detriment to your standing with your current aggregator.

Adult Web Sites and the New Year

First off Happy New Year Everyone. It's 2008 and despite the way the economy seems to be going I have a good feeling about the stability and security of online income for the new year.

As some of you know I got started in the domaining game by purchasing a large amount of Adult related domain names that I thought I could resell for a profit in a very short amount of time. That never worked out as I had planned and I ended up stuck with a few domain names which I had no interest in building a website around. (Thanks Matt for Rectricity.com)

Though the adult related domains have been doing decent income from simply being parked I had a renewed interest in them after reading this article on Adult Friend Finder and their affiliate program.

They pay $1 for each unique visitor, per IP address, in a 24 hour period. Some of my Adult related domain names have at least 10 uniques a day, and even parked they're getting as much as a 40% Click Thru Rate.

So the experiment begins.

I'll use their downloadable web page to host under one of my 4 letter domain names and draw some traffic to it, (at the same time submitting it to Archive.org to increase its value in the long term) and I'll temporarily forward one of my adult related domain names already seeing decent traffic to my Adult Friend Finder affiliate URL.

The difference between a 40% Click Thru Rate on a $.06 ad and $1 per each visitor could mean a hell of a lot.

I'll keep you updated.