Splork,

You more than most, have the brains and ability to figure out your own system and it appears you have. I can only speak for myself but I have found that the simple systems always seem to work and the more complex it gets the worse the results get. Just do your thing – anyone who works as hard as you can’t help but find a method that works. Always a pleasure reading your thoughts – hell I think I’m reading my own post half the time!

Me Too ; )

I built about 10 before I stopped (probably saw what you were seeing as well) but I didn’t stop building BANS sites indefinitely I just switched from .info domains to .com domains and those sites seem to be doing ok for me. I have customized them quite a bit though…

Making money online is all trial and error right now as the internet and its’ users continue to change and adapt to new and different advertising models… I think the key is building websites or blogs that get traffic and offer some value to the readers and then tinkering with monetization until you find something that works.

Anyway, I figure they may not like the price if I list it and go visit some other site. But if they are curious enough about the product and go see the price, they may hate the price, but the site already has them and they may sell them something else.

Seems like we are on the same page as I recently decided to go my own way as well! I know it makes a bit of money, although it might not be the new “breakthrough” that will make me millions.

On your WPDFI sites, do you list the price? I have a few of these sites that continue to make me money and wondered if listing the price will help clickthroughs.

Found your site through Griz’s. At the end of the day (it’s 2:00 am) I always turn to your blog because you keep it real and I know that you are not out there to make a buck from me. Sometimes I wonder about others…

I am just getting started. I did a test sniper site (ala Court) 2 months ago and have made a tiny amount… actually I’m still in the hole but it’s still fun for me at the moment so what the hell.

Though all of a sudden I went from ~30 in google to ~60. What gives?

Dave

You may be right about Google and WordPress. Maybe they will stop being enthusiastic about indexing those blogs. And maybe I’ve convinced a bunch of people to go over and blog and helped contribute to its demise. yikes!

I guess I’d encourage folks to figure out what is working for them. I got the idea for the WordPress blogs from BU. I had planned to build like 20 of the things like Vic had suggested one time. Blogging works for me but I decided to go my own way with it and luckily it’s working for me.

To all: Respectfully, I’m not a shepard. Just a guy doing a thing and blogging about it. Just ’cause it’s working for me doesn’t mean it will work for you. And vice versa.

And I think you speak for many of us when you say you have to go with what works for you and not get stressed trying to follow someone else’s plan to the letter.

Those type of schemes only work for people who are new to making money online and have no experience of working with anything else. Because, once you do have other methods already assembled to bring into the mix, you are bound to find following a scheme devised by someone else boring.

I was unable to follow the BANS model because I could not get accepted by ebay. Now I’m glad.

Although I doubt I would have made those sites with info domains if I had been able to, because, working mainly in adult, I had already seen a bucketload of info adult spam blogs, so for me the info domains never cut it in terms of credibility anyhow.

And personally, I reckon that, even when you are setting up a crap BANS site (or an adult one come to that), to get decent sales you still need to generate trust, otherwise customers will be wary of buying from your site. And for me an info domain doesn’t provide the element of trust required. But that’s just my thoughts. I could well be wrong…

Nevertheless, I am sorry for what happened to those who set up the info BANS sites – they could have worked given the chance. I also feel sorry for people who set up business sites on info domains because they were ‘special offer’, not knowing what was going on in the BANS world. They must be wondering what the hell happened right now.

But now I’m wondering how long the WP dot com era will last before we all get caught out there as well.
As you say, you are making genuine blogs there, so am I, but there may be others who jump on the bandwagon here too and push things too far and mess it up for the rest of us…