Comments on: It’s Not About What Content You Provide, It’s About How You Sell It http://www.howthiswebsitemakesmoney.com/blog/2010/02/16/its-not-about-what-content-you-provide-its-about-how-you-sell-it/ Trying to figure out how much money a Webmaster makes per hour. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:22:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Lebowski http://www.howthiswebsitemakesmoney.com/blog/2010/02/16/its-not-about-what-content-you-provide-its-about-how-you-sell-it/comment-page-1/#comment-822 Lebowski Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:37:32 +0000 http://www.howthiswebsitemakesmoney.com/blog/?p=503#comment-822 As I said in one of my earlier comments about six months ago, your website has too much written content and not enough flashing lights and smut. Put up some "click here NOW for a million dollars" buttons and start writing about the latest celeb gossip and you'll see your traffic skyrocket. You also definitely need a bouncy titty babe somewhere in the corner of the website and for god sakes quit writing in long sentences and paragraphs. Cut everything down to a one-liner like twitter or a facebook feed. That being said, this whole idea of writing a detailed daily or periodical blog is dead. The online community is moving into packaged, standardized and user-friendly formats like facebook and twitter and the new Google one that has just started. They will kill blogging much like Netscape and Explorer killed the once promising BBS concept. Moreover, as regulation of the internet increases, you'll start to see more and more fees, restrictions and taxes imposed on website owners. The purpose and effect of these will be to start squeezing out the little guy in favor of big corporations as the internet is already too cluttered with all these mickey mouse websites all over place. It's much easier for the powers that be to have the flow of information concentrated in a few places rather than have a disorganized and unpredictable open forum as the internet is today. I predict that in 10 years most website traffic will concentrated among a few major sites like Wikipedia, Amazon, Google, the big SNS sites and of course corporate websites. Individual blog sites will be the realm of hobbyists only, will operate at a cost and of course be subject to content restrictions. One hundred years ago, the radio market started out relatively free and open and a lot of homebrew radio operations started up at the beginning with individualized, local and unregulated content. As we see today, the radio market is now solely in the hands of major corporations and the only a few remaining ham radio operaters still manage to broadcast themselves, albeit at their own expense. The same can be said for publishing, a handful of companies in each country control the printed media market and the idea of writing, editing and distributing your own book at a profit is all but impossible. Every form of media in human history has followed this pattern. The internet is headed in this direction too and if you can't smell the wind you'll keep wasting your time posting your thoughts into the empty ether. If you have the spare time to write and post your thoughts I recommend you switch to Ham radio, it's much funner and you don't have to pretend that you're doing it to make money. If you can't affort a Ham radio license just tweet all your meaningless daily interactions and follow the rest of the herd into the abyss of simple mindedness. As I said in one of my earlier comments about six months ago, your website has too much written content and not enough flashing lights and smut. Put up some “click here NOW for a million dollars” buttons and start writing about the latest celeb gossip and you’ll see your traffic skyrocket. You also definitely need a bouncy titty babe somewhere in the corner of the website and for god sakes quit writing in long sentences and paragraphs. Cut everything down to a one-liner like twitter or a facebook feed.

That being said, this whole idea of writing a detailed daily or periodical blog is dead. The online community is moving into packaged, standardized and user-friendly formats like facebook and twitter and the new Google one that has just started. They will kill blogging much like Netscape and Explorer killed the once promising BBS concept.

Moreover, as regulation of the internet increases, you’ll start to see more and more fees, restrictions and taxes imposed on website owners. The purpose and effect of these will be to start squeezing out the little guy in favor of big corporations as the internet is already too cluttered with all these mickey mouse websites all over place. It’s much easier for the powers that be to have the flow of information concentrated in a few places rather than have a disorganized and unpredictable open forum as the internet is today.

I predict that in 10 years most website traffic will concentrated among a few major sites like Wikipedia, Amazon, Google, the big SNS sites and of course corporate websites. Individual blog sites will be the realm of hobbyists only, will operate at a cost and of course be subject to content restrictions.

One hundred years ago, the radio market started out relatively free and open and a lot of homebrew radio operations started up at the beginning with individualized, local and unregulated content. As we see today, the radio market is now solely in the hands of major corporations and the only a few remaining ham radio operaters still manage to broadcast themselves, albeit at their own expense. The same can be said for publishing, a handful of companies in each country control the printed media market and the idea of writing, editing and distributing your own book at a profit is all but impossible. Every form of media in human history has followed this pattern.

The internet is headed in this direction too and if you can’t smell the wind you’ll keep wasting your time posting your thoughts into the empty ether. If you have the spare time to write and post your thoughts I recommend you switch to Ham radio, it’s much funner and you don’t have to pretend that you’re doing it to make money. If you can’t affort a Ham radio license just tweet all your meaningless daily interactions and follow the rest of the herd into the abyss of simple mindedness.

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