The Workermonkey

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

a question for all of us 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 5/04/2005 01:16:00 AM

i've been thinking, what if we wanted to make some money off of this whole web site thing? how would we entice readers to click on adds. its not hard to get people to advertise on your site, but they only pay you for "click throughs" or the number of people who click on thier add from your site. Google has a great Add program that is context sensitive, and easy to profit from. Amazon.com also has one where you can sell thier prooducts through your site. something like that would be great because each of use could recommend a weekly CD or movie or the book we're currently reading.

but that would all be a mute point unltess we get more traffic. how is that achieved? if anything we should post on other blogs, or at leat add comments. another good way is to make a name for yourself on a forum on a bunch of sites. forums are great places and i encourage everyone to find one on something they are interested in and post often. there are some great websites out there that cover some very specific topics. it's been my experience that the people found there can answer just about any relevent question you may have in a timely fashion and with more info then you could ever possibly need.

any forey into this relm would require a new site design, preferibly from scratch. i've read a lot of content driven blogs that are done by one person that could very easily be pushed into a book deal because they are so driven on a single topic, and they use a basic site design. check out Clublife for a good example of this.

i greatly enjoy the current format of this blog. i love how anyone is able to post any random though, picture or rant that enters thier head. it should stay this way. i'm sort of proposing a second bolg that is either driven by a central theme or topic, or even something that has a point. as i'm writing this i can only think that this sounds like the book idea. maybe it is. as a single person its hard to spend enough casual time to get the word out and provide enough content the get outsiders excited. i have to stress again that we have a unique group here that all post regularly. we're funny, inteligent and slightly exciting. why not make a few bucks from it? would anyone be interested?

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yeah chump, i'd be happy to lend some time and wisdom, if we found a topic we all agreed upon. we'd have to be more focused than we are here, but i think we could do that, especially with the workermonkey still alive. i would hope we would still check both, however, as the monkey would still maintain importance.

By  josh, at Wednesday, May 04, 2005 2:04:00 AM  

shit, i forgot, i was going to suggest a topic or 2. we're all interested in politics on some level. i was thinking something about the conservative right, morals, censorship. for an interesting censorship article check this out:

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/303732p-259748c.html

By  josh, at Wednesday, May 04, 2005 2:06:00 AM  

*Long sigh* If you remember back when brainstorming for the book, the website idea came up (my suggestion- refer to April 30th 2004 archive, entitled "Sober up and lets go, take your time reading this...). I do think its more plausable than the book, but many of the same problems will arise (e.g.- lack of motivation, differences of opinion, lack of structure, lack of everything). On the positive side, we could always try. It would definetly have to be another blog or website becuase i want this one the way it is. Lets not ruin it. As far as central themes we could toss a few ideas around. Religion seems like it alwasy stirs things up. Politics also, but i would rather not. Current events is always fun. Sports. Science. Growing up, coming of age. But we would have to think of something that would draw in people and also be profitable...

By  Brancibeer, at Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:30:00 AM  

umm... oops? sorry brian. i think we turned that previous idea into working on the book, but that has compleatly fissled out now. the monkey would not go anywhere, thats the first thing. i wouldn't mind doing something political or currentevents/news like because that would constantly give us new material to write about.

of course i already see the same problems happening with this that happen with the book also.

making a website profitable comes down to traffic. the more people you get to look at the site the more likely people are going to click the adds or buy your crap. i'm sure we could find some creative ways to get people there if we had a good product to send them to.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:10:00 AM  

well, while i also agree we'd have many of the same problems, as long as the narrative stays focused, is that a problem? would a debate not bring people into the site?


and so on and so on and things of that nature

By  josh, at Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:32:00 AM  

If there were going to be multiple people posting, we would have to have an editor. Someone to proof the post before posting. That way Kolpaks and Murphys jiberish wouldn't interfere with rational thought. But seriously, otherwise it would end up much like the Monkey.

By  Brancibeer, at Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:48:00 AM  

i think barone here is trying to run the monkey instead of getting a job.

By  ron, at Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:40:00 PM  

shhhh.... i may be onto something here.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Thursday, May 05, 2005 12:01:00 AM  

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