Basically what I’m going to share is a pretty damn simple idea. What we are going to be doing is making an online petition site. Anyway ill cut the bullshit (university taught me well) and get on to what we will actually be doing.
The biggest part of the site will be picking something that lots of people are truly passionate about. For example my most recent site like this is a petition for the Montreal Canadiens (hockey team) to sign Mats Sundin. The reason I picked this was because in Montreal… well we are CRAZY about hockey.
Once you pick your topic you will want to make a simple one page site that allows people to leave comments and join the petition. To save time all I did was customize a wordpress theme. You can download the customized theme that I use here. To use it simply install the theme like you do for any other theme and then go to settings link in wordpress admin area and make sure you change the home page to be a static page instead of posts. Once you got the site ready you are going to want to download the share this plugin. This will help you get even more viral traffic.
To give you an idea of what I’m talking about here is the site mentioned above: Want Matt Sundin on The Habs? » Help Sign Sundin!
Now that the site is ready for some traffic we got to get the ball rolling. Comment on the most popular forums and blogs in the niche. In my experiences forums work best and people do not take the link spamming as “spam” because they think I’m trying to help make a petition for something they love, when really I just want to profit off of them. Another way to get traffic is to join all the Facebook groups on the particular topic and post your link on the wall. I’m sure you can think of some more ways but those are just some basic ones to get you started. If you hit a hot topic you will get some nice viral traffic quite quickly.
Now How Do We Monetize The Site?
Wait until the site gets lots of return visitors. You will be surprised how many people come back to see how well the petition is doing. Once you have a bunch of return visitors per day (the more the better) be a bastard and change the page to say something like:
The biggest part of the site will be picking something that lots of people are truly passionate about. For example my most recent site like this is a petition for the Montreal Canadiens (hockey team) to sign Mats Sundin. The reason I picked this was because in Montreal… well we are CRAZY about hockey.
Once you pick your topic you will want to make a simple one page site that allows people to leave comments and join the petition. To save time all I did was customize a wordpress theme. You can download the customized theme that I use here. To use it simply install the theme like you do for any other theme and then go to settings link in wordpress admin area and make sure you change the home page to be a static page instead of posts. Once you got the site ready you are going to want to download the share this plugin. This will help you get even more viral traffic.
To give you an idea of what I’m talking about here is the site mentioned above: Want Matt Sundin on The Habs? » Help Sign Sundin!
Now that the site is ready for some traffic we got to get the ball rolling. Comment on the most popular forums and blogs in the niche. In my experiences forums work best and people do not take the link spamming as “spam” because they think I’m trying to help make a petition for something they love, when really I just want to profit off of them. Another way to get traffic is to join all the Facebook groups on the particular topic and post your link on the wall. I’m sure you can think of some more ways but those are just some basic ones to get you started. If you hit a hot topic you will get some nice viral traffic quite quickly.
Now How Do We Monetize The Site?
Wait until the site gets lots of return visitors. You will be surprised how many people come back to see how well the petition is doing. Once you have a bunch of return visitors per day (the more the better) be a bastard and change the page to say something like:
Some niches you choose may end up to be total flops and never spread that well. If this is the case just though up some adsense and affiliate offers onto the page and try to make some money off of the visitors that trickle in everyday.
