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entertaining news blog

by Ivegotthepower
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I am thinking about launching a news blog about entertaining and uplifting events and stories. I am wondering how profitable this could be if it were successful. Using pay per click or pay per impression as a source of income would be my strategy. Lets say I had 1 million plus followers on facebook making 4 or 5 posts per day. How profitable could that be? I see a few that do a piss poor job and have 2 million plus followers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Lee
    Originally Posted by Ivegotthepower View Post

    I see a few that do a piss poor job and have 2 million plus followers.
    It's because they're spending a lot of money.

    You're really at a crap shoot game with this model. You're throwing money promoting your posts hoping one will go viral and make you a return.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve B
      IMO, you'd be better off launching a news site to a specific industry or market. Then you would be in a position to either create your own products for that industry (i.e. info products), or promote affiliate products in that specific market. Get specific so you become the authority "go to" site in your market.

      By doing this, you'll not have to waste your money trying to do Adsense or other very low paying monetization strategies.

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  • Profile picture of the author wfletch24
    There is definitely money to be made but I imagine it to be a tough struggle in this industry. Steve made a great point. If you could niche down a little you would get more targeted traffic and targeted traffic is more likely to click advertisements and buy products.
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  • Profile picture of the author QueenMelanie
    I'd say it would be difficult to get your foot in the door with this type of site, but if you do it could be ery profitable indeed!
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  • Profile picture of the author pitocus
    Do you already have that many followers?
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  • Profile picture of the author xrcv
    Posting "Is x a good idea" type of questions in forums is a bad idea, because you always will get discouraged into giving up, often by people with zero experience. Usually, the bigger the idea, the more discouraging replies you will get, even if you have the next billion-dollar idea. Use the forum to ask technical questions (like, what plugin is best for so and so) and not idea/strategy questions + Ignore replies from people with links in their signature.

    The idea sounds good and if you look at the first ~50 pages of quantcast top US websites, you will find lots of similar sites, many started in the past few months. However, you need marketing skills (writing titles, I recommend mktgexperiments videos on youtube), writing skills, tons of patience OR a huge budget. I myself am building a similar website and have a strategy outlined for the next 5 months.

    Specifically about profitability, there's an older viperchill post about a guy who created a viralnova-style website and supposedly made $400k in a month, don't underestimate the amount of traffic such websites can get. BTW, there's a subreddit called uplifitingnews and it has 2 mil followers, you can post there.

    You say you see other sites do a "piss poor" job with their websites - be careful with that thought, in the entertainment niche, quality content IS dumb content. You need to post dumb cute pictures of a hungry kitty lost in the backyard, that's a proven strategy for traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ivegotthepower
      thanks for the replies everyone. im thinking if someone is getting 100K views on a post and making 4 or 5 posts a day then a pay per impression strategy should be profitable.. quality should rise to the top. in theory anyway. so I think its worth a try. plus it is something I would enjoy so the experience would be helpful.

      what about hosting a site like this? if it were to take off is there places one should avoid hosting at if you were getting 500K views a day?
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