500word site was made for one thing: to make J comm richer. Period. It is a novelty site that allows people to get in on something new. Unless you are a websmater or a well read webmaster wannabe you would never hear about the site. This is a simple case of marketing a new idea without all the added BS of seo. The funny thing is he supposedly is an adsense master and this site has nothing to do with it. I think anyone that can make that kind of $ in a short time had brilliant insight and implemented their idea so it works deserves the rewards. It just goes to show that people will pay for anything on the web if you market it properly with a unique take. SEO is not the end all be all on the web to make $.
Who said SEO was? Direct marketing is a way to success. Build up a mailing list and you would have to be mister dumb on dumb sunday not to make money .
It seems 500wordsite.com have had a good idea. They have teamed up with jumpline.com to offer free vds hosting with each of their scripts.
Well the free script does not include any payment process so the only way of making money is to show ads, which takes clicks away from your paying links which is not a good selling point. By the looks of it, the code seems quite chunky and the script has not been search engine optimised. Finally they do not offer free virtual dedicated hosting to each customer.