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Lawyers Suck!

lurksteraz on November 17th, 2007

I’m sure everyone has had this happen to them.

You research a niche to find that it’s untapped, great pay, and a gem waiting to be polished to make some money. Well, I signed up for some affiliate accounts(can’t say which yet), register the perfect domain name and start to build out the website.

After the site is built, I like to launch with no ads and let marinate for a while. Get the site indexed, build some links and wait about a month before really pushing anything on it. So, the site does better than I thought with natural rankings and starts to compete with the main affiliate site.

Within a month, I get an email and also a letter from a lawyer stating that the domain I registered infringes on a trademark and I need to ‘cease and desist’ while turning over the domain name. But the weird thing was that in the letter, it seemed to mainly speak of ‘Unfair Competition’. I’m sure there is a bunch of legal mambo-jambo that I don’t understand, but fuck it.
The last time I checked, the purpose of offering an affiliate program is to create more sales for the company and for the affiliate… This kind of crap pisses me off, especially since the site was ranking great naturally.

In the end, I lose no matter what. I removed the site, and have to turn over the domain name. If I ever hear of anyone promoting this particular site or mentioning anything about it, I will do my best to sway them against promoting the at all costs.

I would have thought that a business would want to be promoted to make money, I guess not.

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Adsense is my friend!

lurksteraz on November 5th, 2007

OK, so I’ve been slacking on pushing affiliate offers, and focusing energy on other things where I know I can get an ROI…. Adsense.

I’ve found a great niche to use Adsense. I tested a couple site structures, then some different layouts of the ads themselves. Once I found that the niche was working and producing some good specific traffic, I started digging around for common keywords and checking domain availability. Jackpot! I think I was able to purchase all of the domain names(18 domains) I needed to replicate this one niche. Unfortunately, there isn’t an affiliate program out there for this. I’ve searched high and low, so this is going to take some creativity to try and monetize these sites.

I know this in’t new to anyone and ‘m not landing on Plymouth Rock or anything. But I think there are people out there that forget about Adsense. I know I did and this is some great residual income.

I remember when Adsense first came out. I thought this program was awesome even though it took me 3 months to even get over $100 to get a check. Well, it’s been a couple years since I’ve really pushed this program, and I think it’s time to get crackin’ on it.

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