Monetizing original & user-generated music memes
Hello all. This is my first post here, hope I'm doing okay staying with the rules and doing some research in advance.
I have a music memes website (musicmemes.youcanguesstherest) that has sat for some time. I know that the domain name will be a huge help SEO-wise when I get things going, so I'm hoping for some mad organic traffic eventually. Social media's set up at the moment. Structure is what I'm looking to improve.
I made a bad mistake of just putting up weekly sets of Billboard hits and other groups in the top menu. Those menu links will be coming down with my first batch of new memes.
I'd like the top row to feature About, Memes, Social, Store, Subscribe (email, not site) & Upload / Generate.
There is also a grandfathered free version of Swiftype on the site. Will that slow my site down with a lot of lolcats looking for their favorite songs?
I'm also uncertain about letting people upload possibly illegal and disturbing garbage versus having them hacking a meme generator (my boss's site got compromised through a bum search plugin recently and it's taking weeks to lose a hacking warning in search results).
As for the memes, I'm thinking about disabling the gallery plugin that puts a row of sharing buttons at the top, since I don't have an opportunity to put in AdSense in the gallery picture text. I'm also looking to just post one meme at a time.
So to recap and also ask (and please don't feel obliged to answer them all):
1. Does the proposed top row sound good?
2. Is SwifType going to slow the site down with a medium amount of traffic?
3. Is a gallery plugin overkill if I can't show ads without hacking it?
4. Will sites like 9gag be okay with attribution and a link if some fan uploads a picture?
5. Is Amazon a top choice, or would AdSense or another choice be?
6. What other music meme types could supplement Joseph Ducreuxes?
7. How much user-generated content can or should I rely on? I have no problem doing 10 or more memes a day, probably 50 if I need to once this gets rolling.
8. What approximate mix of selling vs. ads is good to start with?
9. Is user uploading or on-site meme creation better?
10. What percent of my memes should be given out branding-free for promotional purposes?
11. How thorny are musicians regarding meme creation? I will have a disclaimer and takedown request area for certain bankrupt superstars.
Thanks very much,
J. Ducreux
I have a music memes website (musicmemes.youcanguesstherest) that has sat for some time. I know that the domain name will be a huge help SEO-wise when I get things going, so I'm hoping for some mad organic traffic eventually. Social media's set up at the moment. Structure is what I'm looking to improve.
I made a bad mistake of just putting up weekly sets of Billboard hits and other groups in the top menu. Those menu links will be coming down with my first batch of new memes.
I'd like the top row to feature About, Memes, Social, Store, Subscribe (email, not site) & Upload / Generate.
There is also a grandfathered free version of Swiftype on the site. Will that slow my site down with a lot of lolcats looking for their favorite songs?
I'm also uncertain about letting people upload possibly illegal and disturbing garbage versus having them hacking a meme generator (my boss's site got compromised through a bum search plugin recently and it's taking weeks to lose a hacking warning in search results).
As for the memes, I'm thinking about disabling the gallery plugin that puts a row of sharing buttons at the top, since I don't have an opportunity to put in AdSense in the gallery picture text. I'm also looking to just post one meme at a time.
So to recap and also ask (and please don't feel obliged to answer them all):
1. Does the proposed top row sound good?
2. Is SwifType going to slow the site down with a medium amount of traffic?
3. Is a gallery plugin overkill if I can't show ads without hacking it?
4. Will sites like 9gag be okay with attribution and a link if some fan uploads a picture?
5. Is Amazon a top choice, or would AdSense or another choice be?
6. What other music meme types could supplement Joseph Ducreuxes?
7. How much user-generated content can or should I rely on? I have no problem doing 10 or more memes a day, probably 50 if I need to once this gets rolling.
8. What approximate mix of selling vs. ads is good to start with?
9. Is user uploading or on-site meme creation better?
10. What percent of my memes should be given out branding-free for promotional purposes?
11. How thorny are musicians regarding meme creation? I will have a disclaimer and takedown request area for certain bankrupt superstars.
Thanks very much,
J. Ducreux