* I use _some_ cloud features but having a spotty Internet
[DSL], living out in the boonies... with spotty 3G / LTE
service... I still have to depend on local storage more than
cloud storage.
It's getting better though; If I had a decent website like
you've got, I'd likely utilize a similar setup.
My website experiments have been ugly complicated messes. So
many old sites litter the landscape, most of them thankfully
expired their terms.
Some made money though. my [1]
http://free.naplesplus.us
which I started in 2007 made $800/month through ads, as I
found "the Thing" that Google _wasn't doing_ at the time:
Businesses.
Survived several Google updates and even through the early
days of Google and FB's intergrations of business info into
their ssytems. But alas, I think it was a giant Panda that
recognized it for the competition it was; and all my
marvelous efforts dropped the income from the site to nearly
worthless.
But, I managed to get 6 years of darn decent income from it
'til 2013. It's the one and only time I REALLY tried
monetizing web stuff. It works when you find the gaps.
I had swype on my Android, which I had before my iPhone 4s
(I now have an iPhone 5s). Never could master it. Since
they've integrated word prediction into my iPhone now... I
still haven't changed my habits to incorporate it either.
Then again, I tend to turn the autospell off as well. I'd
rather mispell a word than have the entirely wrong word show
up... which can be quite embarrassing
[2]Naples News, Jobs, Business Directory, For Sale, Videos,
Events | NAPLESPLUS...
free.naplesplus.us
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[7]Kenneth Udut [8]Jonathan Norton I've always been a
"back-end" guy; [boy that sounds awful in the wrong context
] - I like doing all of the background systems, automating
feeds, scripts, making the machinery that works behind the
scenes to keep it running unattended... but when it comes to
the _interesting stuff_?
I've never been good at that. I've never been good at
presentation. Style was never one of my strong points But
I'm proud that it keeps polling Yahoo Pipes which itself
polls several dozen web feeds which _somehow_ are *still*
feeding after all these years and allowing the site to
continue unattended... and complete with spammers and such
(because I stopped caring). It was a successful experiment.
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[12]Kenneth Udut I think like a computer and I understand
computers. No idea why. I guess they were easier than people
I made money not through the people that it appears to service,
but by understanding the ppl behind the spambots and how they
cull information from sites, how they click around, how they try
to break into systems and autopost... what the level of human
involvement is.
[ppl don't realize that there's always a human behind those
things. Things only appear fully automated much of the time]
In a different timeline, I would have been an excellent spammer;
and I've used their techniques for marketing/advertising, but as
a Force for Good (in my mind).
I understand how MLM things work for example. I've never done
one, but the whole process is fascinating and so I've used the
FOAF (friend of a friend) techniques through the years, for
example, to make lots of friends on different networks. I don't
do it for monetary gain, just because I enjoy making new
friends. 5000+ on G+, 6900 on Vine, and I know everybody by name
(recognition) and something about them. I don't write it down, I
just remember, and I go through and comment on the active ones
now and again. The techniques are good ones when done genuinely.
This particular site was the only focused money-making effort I
tried online. I used sleeze-ball techniques all the way but my
heart was in it. All the SEO I could throw at it, I tried to
figure out new things nobody was trying, and I did (rich text
snippets, author profiles, semantic web indexing] - all sorts of
"THIS IS GOING TO BE THE FUTURE!" stuff - and most of those
types of things just.. went *poof*.
Google experiments that will Change Everything and then next
thing, "We're discontinuing this project. Sorry/Not Sorry!"
So I have a love/hate with Google. Mostly love, with a little
bit of irritation.
Yeah, if you want a site to make money, advertising is the only
working model and it's being stretched to death. The
effectiveness of advertising is eventually going to burst due to
oversaturation of the market. I dont know what will happen
then... but this current generation of kids is far more
advertising weary than even I was; so new highs of hyperbole
will have to come out.
It'll be hard to shock and awe a generaton of upcoming cynics.
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