Clyde I am only making a couple thousand/mo. because it just launched.
It is different this time because the previous one was widget-based and grew virally to over a hundred thousand blogs, getting around 300 million views per month.
That is a real good tip I could give everybody; come up with a free service that other people will want to put on their site. Embed your ad in there. This way, you don't have to worry about SEO or PPC.
I did not know about WickedFire at the time, but I did hear about how much you could make in AF. The task was to come up with something original and useful that would distribute itself. As we all know, a few years ago widgets were the way to go.
Then the AF network went belly up. Like an idiot, I concentrated on preserving the money I had made, rather than restarting the project. That wasted a year. Then it took me another year to 1. Come up with another good idea 2. Build it. Why did this take so long? Emotional distress watching all the money go away, and worry that you are getting closer and closer to being out of money and out of work in the worst economy since the depression. But don't get me started on Liberals.
I should have had a Plan B already in mind the whole time. Even better, it should have been up and running in parallel. That one mistake totally wiped out my whole retirement, in addition to the market crash etc.
My new project requires SEO. I really didn't want to go that route because of the time involved. But the idea is good. Also I have to thank WickedFire for introducing me to the
Prosperent network which makes the idea work better, and also would have made me a ton more money back in the day. Prosperent is basically Adwords with several times the earnings.
The new project is generated sites, but executed to the last detail. Sites that stand up to human review. One thing you will notice in all auto-generated sites is that they look like garbage and read worse. This can be solved.
I've only been on WF for a month but can tell many people here are not interested in quality at all. They want to get this or that spamming tool and will bust their heads against the wall getting it to work.
All you gotta do is approach it like it is a real product/service business. Then integrate ads with it. Everybody here can come up with a realy cool, creative idea for something that solves a problem. My widget did that and made literally millions because it was free, solved a problem, was easy to use, and ad-supported.