Comments on: Blogging and American Top 40 is it coming to this?

By: tankilo

tankilo — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:08:12 +0000

Top 40 what? Pop Songs? But your style is more indy folk techno metal blues (with a sprinkling of pop). Being on the top 40 gets you tons of “general traffic” and in some forms of adverising that might be all you want.

Not that I have all the answers, but I run a webpage that helps with 1 specific error message people get in Windows XP. I don’t try to solve all your problems with Windows XP, just this one problem.

If you search Google for the text of the error message, I am the top entry, throw in stuff like quotes or “fix” etc, and I’m still within the top 10 results.

My solution is given free, and there are Google Ad Words on the page, but the real money is from donations of people who are able/willing to throw me the $5 donation, and I get approximately two a week.

Granted I’m not going to retire on this, but it takes about an hour of maintenace a week and makes $500 a year. I suppose if I had 100 sites like this I could make $50,000, but that would be 100 hours a week.

But to get back to your “Top 40″ metaphor, I never mention the URL of the site or the error message, but instead encourage people to “search google for the error message you get”. And there they find me at the top of the indy folk techno metal blues (with a sprinkling of pop) list.

By: Kami Huyse

Kami Huyse — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:58:48 +0000

I am late commenting on this post, but there is a reason to not aspire to be to high on any list. I think the best position on any list is near the bottom. That way you can say you are on it without the stress of trying to stay near the top.

By: Albert Maruggi

Albert Maruggi — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:24:20 +0000

Thanks for the comment Mike, and the link to a crazy site. I try to keep my stock up with family, friends, clients, and the like. I don’t know I buy into being a traded commodity.

When I was a kid, Mr. Rogers told me I was special and you were too, so I’m not about to put a price on someone’s “blog” net value.

Readers, Michael Benidt and Sheryl Kay do a great job of uncovering hidden treasurers on the net. Ways to search things, how to use the net. They have the blog Hidden Treasurers on the Internet and their company is Golden Compass. Sheryl has helped seniors and Alzheimer’s patients learn about the web. Michael spent much of his time with Waldenbooks and as a speaker with Pryor/CareerTrack seminar company. http://www.goldencompass.com/

Thanks again, and you just helped us donate a food item to a St. Paul food shelter.

By: Michael Benidt

Michael Benidt — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:14:23 +0000

Wanna’ see a place where all the people who want to sell you the dream of making the “A” list? It’s called http://www.Gurudaq.com – a kind of Nasdaq of the folks who pitch the dream that you’ll be successful if you only learn to optimize your web site or blog. What’s being lost is optimizing your human abilities to relate to other business people. Where’s the human factor these days? As we wrote recently, “…it does mean that numbers is not the main game you want to play. That’s the game they’re playing on you. Don’t bite.”