I bought OccupySucks.org last week with the lofty goal of convincing some people that they should stop enabling the tools of slavery, stop being stupid slaves, and start taking care of themselves.
Some wise friends encouraged me to abandon that goal and just make money off of the domain instead. The advice I received was to wait for an angry reactionary to offer to buy the domain. I'm open to selling the domain if that is the most profitable option, but in the meantime, I want to try to get some traffic and monetize the site.
I'm just thinking through this now, so I have a lot of work to do, but this is what I've got so far:
Traffic:
- Should be able to rank for 'occupy sucks' pretty easily, but currently no data in the AdWords Keyword tool.
- Should be able to rank for some related keywords.
- Plenty of stuff going on on FB & Twitter, I have @OccupySucks, hopefully I can get some traffic from social...
Content:
- Fuck My Life style forum for opinions and anctedotes?
- Crappy Blog?
I can whip up a basic FML in Django/AppEngine pretty quickly if there is not already some decent script or WP theme available.
Monetization:
- idk. AdWords could work? maybe an info product or some "Occupy Sucks" merch...
- Would love to have an affiliate product that would fit the traffic.
So, I don't have a real clear idea right now, but I'll work on it some more when I get home from work.
Any and all feedback is welcome.
Some wise friends encouraged me to abandon that goal and just make money off of the domain instead. The advice I received was to wait for an angry reactionary to offer to buy the domain. I'm open to selling the domain if that is the most profitable option, but in the meantime, I want to try to get some traffic and monetize the site.
I'm just thinking through this now, so I have a lot of work to do, but this is what I've got so far:
Traffic:
- Should be able to rank for 'occupy sucks' pretty easily, but currently no data in the AdWords Keyword tool.
- Should be able to rank for some related keywords.
- Plenty of stuff going on on FB & Twitter, I have @OccupySucks, hopefully I can get some traffic from social...
Content:
- Fuck My Life style forum for opinions and anctedotes?
- Crappy Blog?
I can whip up a basic FML in Django/AppEngine pretty quickly if there is not already some decent script or WP theme available.
Monetization:
- idk. AdWords could work? maybe an info product or some "Occupy Sucks" merch...
- Would love to have an affiliate product that would fit the traffic.
So, I don't have a real clear idea right now, but I'll work on it some more when I get home from work.
Any and all feedback is welcome.