Make Money for Free?
This post is for the stay at home moms, teenagers, and college students trying to pay of their debt. I’m only kidding, it’s actually for anyone out there trying to make money online. I’m not talking about millions, but an extra little bit of income on the side to help you pay off those bills.
Running A Blog
Plain and simple, this costs money… What you ask? Hosting can cost up ten dollars a month while a domain will run you an about extra eight each year.
I spend a lot of time surfing the web and I have realized that many people use free services such as blogger.com and wordpress.com to share their thoughts on certain aspects of life.
ShoeMone.com is Mine!
I would just like to let our readers know that I took some action after Matthew wrote Should I Buy Typo Domains. The action I took was to actually buy one, wouldn’t I be a hypocrite if I didn’t? Now I spent about an hour looking for good ones. I obviously started with Google, went down to Facebook, over to Myspace, past Digg, through JohnChow, and eventually landed on ShoeMoney. I was being creative here, first thinking about whether users would be experimenting with his domain and possibly typing in something like ShoeCash instead of ShoeMoney (yes, ShoeCash is available if you want it). But then I went back to the basics, and when I do this I always delete the last letter. Why, you ask? Because that is the most common mistake made by people typing into their browsers. Therefore, I landed on the domain ShoeMone.com which I just bought today. Now the reason why I bought this domain was because ShoeMoney.com is actually a well visited site with over 17,000 RSS subscribers, pretty impressive I know. I don’t exactly expect millions of people to be forwarded to my site right away, but I expect to get a few here and there over time. Hopefully, I will be able to eventually sell this to some typosquatting buyer for around $200-$500, depending on its success. The key to being successful here is patience. This decision that I made right on the spot might have been a stupid, but the that I only spent $8.41 and I did for a great reason.
Side Notes
ShoeMone.com is currently being used a redirector to this blog. If anyone is interested in buying this domain, I will at the moment let it go very cheaply, due to the fact that I have no idea as to how effective it will be.
The Scoop on Poker
Recently, I’ve gotten into online poker (with play money, of course).
What’s so appealing about Poker?
Ahh…Poker…where should I start? The popularity of Texas Hold’em to most is baffling. Why Hold’em? I have no idea - maybe it’s the room you get for stringing people along, maybe it’s the element of suspense, I’m not sure. Most people consider poker to be a complete waste of time, sort of like Solitaire, yet they wonder why people play them nonetheless. I’m willing to say that in a few years, Poker will have more popularity than NASCAR, golf, soccer, hockey, curling, basketball, and baseball. Wait, what?! Baseball?!? That’s ridiculous. Well, strangely enough, it’s not. In 2000, the prize money for the champion of the “World Series of Poker” Main Event was $1,500,000. The total prize money in the Main Event was 5.12M. Two years ago, the WSOP reached an all-time high, and online gambling went through the roof. There was a slight reduction in 2007, due to a legal document passed making online betting in the US much more difficult. However, that being said, the prize money to the champ in 2007 was 8.25M,
and the total prize money was nearly 60M for the main event. This year, it’s set to be even higher due to the large revival of online poker services.
What Is Domain Parking?
WHAT?
In a nutshell, domain parking is basically a way of generating revenue from your unused domain names.
HOW?
Domain parking services generate revenue for you by filling up your site with advertisements that are relevant to the title of your domain name. This can of course be changed to maximize profit, because certain keywords such as insurance and data recovery offer more money per click.