subject: How To Make $3 Million In 6 Months With Ad Sense! [print this page] This is the Beginning in a series of Internet Success Stories that you will start to see on the Power Play Blog. Hope you like them!
Markus Friend, He is the creator of Plentyoffish.com is a success story worth noting, as he has managed to take a niche formerly ruled by Huge corporations and give it his own brand of marketing savvy. A case of David vs. Goliath, where the little guy comes out on top in the end. Markus is the top and the best "individual" adsense publisher in terms of page views. Let's find out what some of his secrets is as he shares some advice with our readers. Feel free to comment on this!
Markus, what is your experience in computer programming and how did it prepare you for becoming a webmaster?
The average page views On the Website a day is around 14 million for the last week. I'm getting another 80 million page views a day from users polling the site to see if they have new messages. Really intensive bandwidth wise! This is Enormous Traffic!
When I go to your website, I notice that the ads are targeted to my region, yet I have not even registered- can you explain to our readers how you accomplish this feat?
Well, I'm just using ip2location.com- What this do is take your IP, look it up in the database and it tells me what your city is. I then bring up a list of users in your city, nothing magical about it at all.
Are most of your visitors coming to your website primarily from search engines (SERPS), or are you finding that they come from other avenues? Also do you actively advertise in the media?
Actually Search engines account for something like 2% of my traffic only. The vast and most majority of my traffic, like any other site with over 5 million page views a day comes from word of mouth, and repeat visitors. It is the best advertising.
The services on your website seem to be offered at no cost to the registrants whatsoever. Is there some advantage you have over your competitors that allows you to do this?
I've developed new algorithms that allow me to create a mega site for next to no cost. Several years ago I created algorithm that was thousands of times faster then the algorithm used in the 1990's to find a string of 22 prime numbers. At the time a professor used several super computers and hundreds of regular computers over the course of several years to find a record. I did the same thing on 1 computer in 2 weeks.
Amazing! Are there any other sites you currently have, or are plentyoffish.com the only one?
Actually it's the only site at the moment. I have got a bunch of other sites I registered for friends so they could learn to do marketing/affiliate stuff on it. At this point I think 1 site is enough.
Any tips for those looking to create a profitable endeavor on the internet?
IF someone else thinks what you are doing is a cool idea I'd say it isn't... Find something no one else thinks is important and build up a site with big traffic in that area. Also keep in mind, sites that have low monetization today but have traffic may be the gold mines of tomorrow. In the internet world anything and everything will be monetized at some point and traffic is king.
Wow...Traffic is King- very wise advice, Markus. One last question- How do you find the time to maintain and keep up with such a large commodity on the internet? Surely you must have some other interests in life besides programming and website monitoring?
It only takes an hour a day on average, but its very tiring work. I spend the other couple of hours reading and seeing what is going on.
