Who needs to monetize with ads when you can just sell the entire site!
I remember seeing the site, BeTheBot.com being linked on Digg’s frontpage. I saw it, shook my head, and moved on. An idea implemented many times over many years, it just seemed like another shot against Digg.
And so when I came across the beforementioned link today I let out a hearty laugh. Basically what happened was as follows:
The really interesting thing about this is because of domain tasting (ie you can get a full refund minus 25 cents on any domain within 5 days) our friend Kavi would have been out only 25 cents (plus some of his time).
I’ve decided to jump on this bandwagon – digg this post so I can sell it (just this post) …
8 Responses to Digg traffic can be immediately monetized
Interesting Digg Monetization Strategy : Chris Garrett on New Media
February 19th, 2007 at 5:19 am
[...] While “domaining” (usually buying up domains, putting up CPC ads then selling them from what I understand) isn’t a business model I would want to get into, Ahmed at TechSoapBox thinks this is one way Digg traffic can be immediately monetized [...]
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April 11th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
[...] While a lot of experts have good advice on how to deal with this (PronetAdvertising, Problogger, techsoapbox), here are some positive side effects of getting Dugg (Disclaimer: This is based on two days after the Dugg — so I can’t speak much to the long term effects). [...]
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April 11th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
[...] How To Monetize DIGG Traffic Immediately – TechSoapBox [...]
Kavi Siegel
July 23rd, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Hey asshole, it took me a while to put up the content. I didn’t just go click click done, it took a while. The domain was bought on Jan 14, the story was dugg exactly a month after. It took me a month to get it up. And you see, even if I didn’t hit the front page of digg, I still would have sold it. I just submit all the sites I make to digg in the wild hope that I might be able to get a little of traffic out of it.
AND THEN, I sold the site for $350. It was later resold, by some asshole, for $500.
Ahmed
July 24th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
‘It took a while’ – and yet you sold it for $350?
ElectroGeek
April 28th, 2008 at 7:17 am
If it took Kavi about a month to build the site assuming a 40 hour work week that would equate to earning about $2.19 /hour. If it took about 3 hours to build I might consider doing what Kavi did. No offense, but it seems like that wasn’t a good investment in time. If you bother to invest your time in creating a website you might as well keep it, develop it and make some real money off it.
Ahmed
April 29th, 2008 at 8:26 am
1. Wasn’t about the actual $/hour the person made
2. No way that took 40 hours to make
Jenny
January 28th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
I think digg’s traffic is great. It is about 8 times comparing to splashdot. Digg is popular to the world including Western, Eastern, and Asian countries.
Thanks for sharing this great article.
Jenny.