Old websites that still work for me
I love having sites that I built last year or even the year before still work to make me money. As you may have read on my profile, I came here in November 2012. At that time, I browsed some of the training available to the free basic membership and decided the resources here were well worth the money to join as a premium member. I have not even considered leaving. My WA referrals alone pay for my membership. Even if I was not getting the referral income, the hosting service and support is far superior to some of the less costly services you may find available.
I started the training as if I was a total newbie, and built a website for a specific niche. I have blogged about this site a few times in the past couple of years. While that site is not making much these days.. it still pays for itself by making more than the domain renewal fees.. this is over 2.5 years with barely touching the site. I visit it maybe once a month to see that everything is still live.
What to you think about being paid to post articles?
This week, I was approached by a marketing company overseas. They asked me to post an article on one of my websites. This is another project website that I haven't touched in a while.. In fact, I haven't even posted an article in over 6 months. They presented a great article that fit my sites's content and only asked for a few links. I was paid $100 to post the article with 3 anchor links. I know some feel that this is not a good practice. I have accepted payments like this several times in the past. I am not sure which link is their client, but I don't really care. I don't feel any of the links were detrimental to my website. They are getting paid to place content. I have websites that have been built that make money.
There are a lot of ways to make money on the Internet
I am glad I found WA and even though I have not been that active lately, I hope my contributions have helped new members here find a way to become profitable. If it is not working for you, find someone here to help you figure out why it is not working. The knowledge is here if you look for it and use it. Stick to the training and don't skip around.
Good Luck!
Bo the Webguy
Webguy Marketing
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Thanks for sharing about your sites. I just ran across one of your trainings on fan page for FB and have been studying it. l haven't made the page yet, but will soon. Thank you. :)
I believe the longer the website, the more traffic it must have driven. You made it work and it's another motivation for all of us. Knowing that this works keeps us moving forward. Thanks for sharing! Have a fantastic day.
You are welcome - Thanks for stopping by. The site I built nearly 3 years ago still gets traffic daily. Some days all it makes is a few pennies... I probably could revive it a little, but the target advertiser is no longer doing business. As long as the ad clicks pay me more than the domain cost, I am content to leave it there. I own quite a few domains that are not earning what they costs me.. but I have quite a few that earn way more than their domain costs.. ;-)
So long as its not a link that takes people to a scam or anything negative I do not see why not we have to be open to opportunities and diversity certainly helps thank you for sharing
None are scams.. I was happy to take their money. It is more than I made from that site in ad revenue last month
it is good to know the various ways everyone is making an income from nothing like having it tried and tested thank you have a good day
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It's great to here from a veteran WAer like yourself Bo. Thanks for hanging out once in a while.