There are many online businesses which makes money in the longrun without the business owner to do anything. For example a forum or a social network after established well, there is no need for the webmaster to concentrate more on the site. Traffic will not be the problem then and the revenue is also very nice. The webmaster needs only to maintain the website properly. Is there any other Self running online business like forum or a social network you know?
Any website where users can make the website grow. Submitting content like videos, articles, pictures, etc.
You guys are pretty much talking about a web 2.0 site. webmasters don't have to do much, but they can't just ignore it forget about it and forever.
Just start an authoritative website and outsource content. - Even those web 2.0 sites need maintenance - Myspace and facebook are constantly competing with each other so they can't ever stop trying to improve the quality of their site - Youtube constantly has to delete porn and crap off their site - Forums need paid moderators to avoid being spammed upon. Honestly? The most automatic you're going to get is PPC. You can also start a blog, and start outsourcing your content, SEO optimizing it as well. That's pretty much automatic to be honest as I see articles written way back in June of 2005 still on top of search engines for its keyword.
Yea, I think to make any decent online money you need to keep building and moving any site forward. You need to constantly add new original content and most importantly keep learning.
My site is self updating. Just like the forums are. People leave comments and once they hit post the posting is added to the comment section. As the owner of my site I spend a few hours a day working to promote the site on a daily basis. The site is growing on a daily basis, new members are signing up on a regular basis, income is growing on a monthly basis as well. My site might fall into the category that you are asking about. Not sure, but wanted to pass along what I do for my site anyway.
I believe you shouldn't wish to 'start and forget a website, but I understand what you would like to achieve. How I see it, there are few levels of independence for websites: - For a start, you're writing the content, which takes you away from managing. - Next, you encourage/pay others who write for you, while you manage the site, deal with partners and publishing, etc. - It still takes a lot of time, and I think most pro-webmasters today wish to get to this stage. - But there's one more - Total independence comes when you can have someone who will do the management for you (probably an experienced webmaster himself), while you just handle the highest and most crucial parts of business - Dealing with money, having everyone do their job, and continue to improve everything. The first stage is good from 1 to 3 sites, the second is from about 5 to 15, and from there on you should really hire managers below you. Great thread, by the way
If you can find a site that makes $1 a day and takes 1 hour to setup. Costs you $10 to setup per site. You setup 100 of them, which costs $1000, and you get a return in 10 days. Profitable! Just make sure you don't own the market, because then earnings won't increase
Honestly? I still have articles driving targeted traffic towards my website way back in AUGUST! Just outsource your content, build backlinks, and SEO optimize the content on your website. You can even re-write your blog posts and submit them to an article directory for additional traffic. To be honest with you? There is no better landing page than a blog WITH hundreds of pages of content..