I don't know how those MFA or really simple sites can generate enough income to make it worth it. Right now, I'm topping out between 50 - 75 unique visitors per day for my main site, unless I spend a lot on advertising. It's not an Adsense site and the money just comes from sales. My other sites have income based on affiliate and Adsense. The biggest days come when I get a big spike from StumbleUpon. What are your experiences, lessons learned?
Well I know that in order to retain visitors, the site has to have fresh contents. That's what my aim was before launching www.thenewsfeeds.com (credit to popurls). I think fresh contents will make visitors come back
You can qickly get that to 200-300 per day blogging. Read this free book and get going with it. http://www.authorityblackbook.com It is full of ideas to get traffic via blogging and Web 2.0
Very cool! Thanks. My thought has been to either have the visitors add the content or have some sort of automated process, since it is so difficult and time-consuming to do it as just one person (me). I am offering discounts to writers for my business. That is the other way to add content, that I could think of, without having to shell out even more money. I have learned my lesson; "content is king".
Make it as easy as possible for your readers and visitors to spread the word about your site...widgets, bookmarks, etc all will help. The more interaction the better..
Most successful sites are going to user ads content way. Look at: Youtube Myspace Bebo FaceBook Squidoo StumbleUpon Del.ico.us Digg Etc... All of them sites are getting their content added by their users and have made it big on the web so far. The downside to this is obviously going to be copyright infringement though. You will always get users adding content that is not theirs and has just be ripped from other sites, so you have to be weary of things like that happen. Good luck anyway.