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A Brand New Make Money Online Social Network
I am sure that this post title excites you, I know it does for me. Could you imagine submitting your make money online related content into a social network that is geared specifically for accepting make money online articles and posts? Seriously, wouldn’t that be cool? I could be wrong, but I don’t think that there is a social network online that is specifically for make money online. If there is, I haven’t heard of it. The only thing close is Sphinn.com, which by the way I truly enjoy.
Sphinn.com is great! It is titled as an Internet marketing news and discussion forum. However, over time it has become more of a social network for search engine optimization and search engine news more than anything else. While I am not discounting that at all, I am just saying that Sphinn.com doesn’t really cater to make money online. To put things into better perspective, perhaps maybe around 1 out 10 posts I publish on GarryConn.com could be Sphinn.com material, the other 9 wouldn’t do very well because it wouldn’t interest the people in the Sphinn.com community.
Sphinn.com is run using an open source program called Pligg.com. On my blog, I have written about Pligg.com twice: Once on June, 21st, 2008 titled, “Start Your Own Social Networking Site With Pligg” and then once again on July 1st, 2008 titled, “Remember How I Said You Can Make Money Online With Pligg?” In these two posts combined, basically I recognized that Pligg.com was the program that was used by Sphinn.com and I discovered that it was easy to install and operate myself.
All in all, operating Pligg.com requires about twice the level of experience and skill compared to running a self-hosted WordPress blog. Needless to say, this is something I totally can handle. Creating professional Pligg.com templates are also a snap. The process isn’t much different than creating SMF Message Board Templates or even WordPress Themes for that matter.
So, really in this post, what I want to know is if I were to create a social network site using Pligg and it was geared specifically towards accepting content related to making money online, would that interest you? Would you invest time out of your day towards submitting content into the site? Would you invest time into voting and commenting on other submitted content? In other words, would you help me build the community to make it into something amazing? In all honestly, I would indeed need your help. This isn’t something that I could do on my own.
Here are some key benefits:
Here are some key elements that will benefit the make money online niche community with this newly proposed social network:
- It will give you a great way to increase the number of search engine friendly backlinks to your web pages and web site.
- It will help you increase your traffic to your web site and web pages.
- It will help you increase the number of new regular readers to your site.
- It will help you find useful information related specifically towards the topic of making money online.
- It will bring the make money online niche community closer together and allow for a countless number of new friendships as well as newly established personal and business relationships.
The Domain Name:
Well, I am sure that you know that I stock pile domain names. I have a few hundred or so. With that said, I have three domain names that have some great potential and can be used for this make money online social network. If fact, I kind of need your help figuring out which domain name would be best to use. I have the following three names to consider:
- MoneyEdition.com
- MoneySmack.com
- MoneyListers.com
So what are your thoughts?
Does this sound like something you would be interested in? Look at it this way, if there was a social network as popular as Sphinn.com or even StumbleUpon.com that was geared specifically towards the make money online niche, you and I both know that we’d be all over that site like it was going out of style. Many of us use Digg.com, StumbleUpon.com and other networks almost like we cross our fingers and hope that it will deliver results that in the back of our minds we know will never happen. If there was already a social network for make money online, wouldn’t that almost instantly become our favorite network?
So what do you think? Is this something that we can do together? Does the idea appeal to you? Do you have any concerns or suggestions? Which one of the three domain names should be used? Honestly, I would really enjoy doing this and I would enjoy knowing that my GCDC readers would be apart of this as well. I feel that if we pull together we can really make a huge difference in the mmo niche and build something that will be amazing for younger generations to follow. What are your thoughts? Drop me a comment and let’s talk about it.
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Date/Time: 7-22-2008 23:49:16 Comment #17270
As far as the domain name goes, my pick (for what its worth) would be http://www.moneylisters.com. The reason being, it sounds more authoritative.
I look forward to reading other comments and good luck with it Garry.
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Date/Time: 7-22-2008 23:56:42 Comment #17272
Date/Time: 7-23-2008 00:52:49 Comment #17276
It’s one of my favorites.
Noel
Date/Time: 7-23-2008 02:31:22 Comment #17281
Thanks for the comment. It looks a little spammy to me. Immediately when I visited I got hit with a popup. From there, it appears to be a network with a broad range of topics. I am more less wanting to stay focused on a “Make Money Online” social network.
Date/Time: 7-23-2008 10:37:22 Comment #17310
Yuwie is able to pay their members because of their advertisers.
They don’t go overboard on pop-ups.
The great part about it is all the page views. Currently I have over 400,000 page views for the month. People get paid to visit each other’s pages.
I have made some of the greatest friends in the world thanks to Yuwie.
The fact that we get paid is like icing on a cake.
Noel
Date/Time: 7-23-2008 01:42:54 Comment #17278
There would definitely be some valid news and articles/post that would fit nicely but unlike a digg there is definite direct methods to make money off referrals with every submitted post which would probably be a huge target for spammers.
But if that didn’t overwhelm and annoy the regular users and people stuck around something like that could do well eventually.
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Date/Time: 7-23-2008 03:29:37 Comment #17284
Regarding the spam concerns, as the site would grow in popularity, I would seek out a few volunteers who would help me moderate the site. Also Pligg.com is very well supported in their wiki and forums and includes quite a few anti spam modules, one of which is a “report as spam” button as seen on Sphinn.com:
As particular as I am about things, I don’t see how anything spammy will pass over my eyes with getting the boot. Also too, would it be safe to consider the voting system as well. If something does pass through my eyes, then it would be subjected to community vote. The “Devoting” option is available as well. Do you have any additional thoughts that you’d like to share based off my response back to you?
Date/Time: 7-23-2008 05:00:08 Comment #17288
But as far as “spam” that is the hard part with this niche. I do know that pligg has decent spam reporting and the voting system in itself is a sort of filter…not sure if you remember from the other pligg post you made but I have a celeb news pligg site: http://Celebits.com , so know the “power” behind it.
It’s just that the whole “make money online” niche is pretty much all about getting traffic to your sales page. I can see plenty of good submissions…like maybe your recent adsense optimization post would be great, but I can also see every silly wannabe marketer on digitalpoint trying to constantly submit their post that are just filled with affiliate links.
Maybe I just get too annoyed browsing DP too often lol. But it seems like it would be a huge target for every spammer out there trying to sneak in their affiliate post.
I do think it would be a nice subject though. I just imagine it being overwhelmed with low quality content and people getting annoyed and not spending time on it. But I guess if there are enough moderators and regular members who are strict with their votes it could do well even if overwhelmed with spammers.
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Date/Time: 7-23-2008 05:06:18 Comment #17291
Very nice work on that site man… I am totally impressed.
Date/Time: 7-23-2008 14:46:25 Comment #17316
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Date/Time: 7-23-2008 07:06:58 Comment #17300
Oh, a social network of celebrities was another niche of which I was thinking (seems that I’m getting only on already old ideas
). I would love to hear from this your experience, may be you make a post about it. Thinks I would like to know are:
- hosting requirements, how much pageviews a day are you getting ?
- which strategies did you adopted to let the world know about your network ? Is it already rolling ? Does it need a high time investment at the beginning and then it starts rolling on it’s own ? Since how long are you running this network ?
-Moderation: do you make a moderation/do you have moderators ?
- Monetization: do people click on ads in a social network ? Are you willing to share some stats ?
- Pligg: which features/plugins to use and which not ?
- In general, Which errors to avoid ?
- On what it is important to focus ?
- Do you have experience with other networks ?
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Date/Time: 7-23-2008 05:02:40 Comment #17290
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Date/Time: 7-23-2008 05:14:19 Comment #17293
Date/Time: 7-23-2008 02:16:46 Comment #17280
on my holiday in the past two weeks I was thinking right about the two posts you mentioned above in your article and I came up with the same idea: I too noticed that there isn’t a specific MMO social network. I didn’t started to work on it because of lack of time.
In my opinion it has great potential and I’ll give you all my support if you’ll do it. I would like to learn from this experience as long as I’ve in mind some ideas for social networks in other niches.
IMHO the succes of every social network resides on how mature the partecipants of the network itself are, that means that if only people who submitts scammy posts or scammy productssite populate the network, the network itself will be of pure value. It’s the old GIGO (Garbage In -> Garbage Out) concept.
My favorite is Moneylisters.com
To the keybenefits yo can add another point
6. I can make you earn some money if the owner of the site shares the Adsense earnings with the submitters
ciao
alexander
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Date/Time: 7-23-2008 03:41:03 Comment #17285
I would be fairly strict on the quality of the content being submitted into this network. I too believe in GIGO. If I was to build this network it would uphold the highest level of quality. Perhaps I am not having an accurate vision on the amount of work needed to moderate a social network for the make money online niche community. I know that I am very strict on the comments that are allowed to be published here on my personal blog. Many people don’t know this, but I get tons of comments that I don’t publish. These are not the automatic ones that everyone gets as well. These are truly manually written comments that self promote affiliate links and things of that nature. So, indeed… how I run my own blog here is exactly how I would run the proposed social network. With that said, I too don’t believe that it would be difficult to recruit a few of my close online friends to help moderate with me as well.
In response to this:
I don’t visit the community having a revenue share; however, the moderators and upper level users would. Also too, I am unsure if I would use Google AdSense. I think I would be more interested in private advertisers. But I do know that Sphinn.com uses AdSense and indeed their ads look very appealing and in fact I have clicked on a few AdSense myself over there. All in all, I would totally be interested in rewarding my moderator team. End users would be rewarded with search engine friendly back links to their content as well as traffic generated from the site itself. Perhaps too, there could be a few perks here and there. But overall, I am sure you can vision what I see.
Date/Time: 7-23-2008 03:02:34 Comment #17283
I would say this is a venture best served if you already have a team of admins/moderators dedicated to monitoring else it would be a major time drain for you.
I agree with DD that the site would get spammed and attempts at gaming it unless it is proven to show constant oversight & moderation.
With that being said I like the MoneySmack domain.
PS - I see you went with the CommentLuv suggestion - I forgot to mention previously that they can be nofollowed.
,Michael Martin
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Date/Time: 7-23-2008 04:01:47 Comment #17286
Controlling superior quality is one of the main reasons why I have a huge interest in creating this network. I would bring a lot of compassion and devotion to contributing my time towards assuring that this would be a place that mirrors what I vision in my mind. To me — and again I must have a false perspective on the complexity and time invested — I don’t see it as being all that difficult to monitor. I would not allow direct submissions to landing pages that promote product. I would not allow submissions that purely point to affiliate links, etc… This would be a community where end users have the opportunity to submit their blog posts and web pages that provide superior and excellent quality content on tips, advice, tricks, lessons and tutorials on how to make money online.
If a user submits an article on how to make money online selling AdSense secrets and in the content that users directly links to the AdSense Secrets web page using their affiliate link within the post, I believe that would be fine. That user wrote a post that is helping others by sharing successful marketing methods for selling Joel Comm’s eBook. He should indeed be rewarded and granted his submission into the network. Now, if that same user didn’t put effort into writing a post and attempted to submit the URL that points to the AdSense Secrets page with his tracking ID in it, then that submission would get rejected and corrective action would be taken which could lead to termination of the end users account. Sign me up… I am ready to build this, I just want to know if I would have community support on this and if a large percent of my readers would volunteer some of their time towards submitting content into the site to help prime the pumps and get the traffic flowing.
CommentLuv is great. Thank you for suggesting it. In response to NOFOLLOW, I didn’t do a thing. The plugin was installed, activated and came out of the box as NOFOLLOW. In fact, I don’t see a front end way to change that. I do, however, see how I can modify that from the back end. Thanks again for your feedback and providing the comment.
I too favor MoneySmack.com. Reason being is because of the voting buttons I have in mind. Similar to the famous Google Smack… the SMACK button would be the DE-VOTE button.
Date/Time: 7-23-2008 05:01:58 Comment #17289
In any event more of a community needs to be established and think having its own social network would be very cool.
You’re going to do folow all the links (Search engine suicidal but great !!!)
Let me know if I can help in anyway !!
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Date/Time: 7-23-2008 05:18:50 Comment #17295
I don’t see any harm in the links not being nofollow. I see that Sphinn.com actually does NOFOLLOW their links; however, places like Digg.com do not. I think the links would be very natural and organic and deserving of a backlink credit.
Date/Time: 7-23-2008 05:07:14 Comment #17292
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Date/Time: 7-23-2008 05:15:26 Comment #17294
Date/Time: 7-23-2008 05:44:35 Comment #17296
I think you should do it, roll with the vision man….
I personally like moneysmack! Sounds more catchy!
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Date/Time: 7-23-2008 06:33:50 Comment #17297
Your vision sounds exceptional. I truly hope that it comes to pass.
The name “MoneyEdition” has a refined ring to it.
Best Wishes, Birgit
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Date/Time: 7-23-2008 07:04:31 Comment #17299
The benefits that this social network is providing is definitely going to help us a lot.
Date/Time: 7-23-2008 07:07:21 Comment #17301
I think it would interest me because I’d like to read articles and peoples thoughts on programs and find out about new ones, but how much I’d use it would vary.
Date/Time: 7-23-2008 07:22:00 Comment #17302
What do you mean with that ? Why do you’ve to throw money in that ?
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Date/Time: 7-23-2008 07:28:15 Comment #17303
- hosting requirements, how many pageviews do you get ?
- How long are you running the network ?
- How do you got it to roll ? Which startegies you used to let the wolrd know about the network (and people submit articles) ?
- Is there a point, after the initial time and energy investment, when the network starts rolling on it’s own ?
- Moderation: do you moderate or have moderators ?
- System: which one (Pligg or other) do you use ?
- Given your type of system, which features/plugins do you recommend to use and which not ?
- Monetization: do people click on ads in a social network ? Which monetization strategies worked best ?
- In general, which errors avoid ?
- On which points it’s important to focus ?
Very Thanks in advance to everybody willing to share his experience
ciao
alexander
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Date/Time: 7-23-2008 08:42:51 Comment #17305
Drop me a line if you need help with any custom software development on this or any other project.
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Date/Time: 7-23-2008 09:29:28 Comment #17307
Love the idea and I too would point out the obvious challenges that have already been listed by others: avoiding SPAM through strict content monitoring, etc. I think one way to slow it down on the front end is to make it a paid membership site. Doesn’t have to be much money if you are worried about affordability but that would definitely take away a good chunk of crap that comes from spammy auto post stuff, like the idea of a gated community.
I would like to see quality product reviews so that people can really get a sense of some of the expensive stuff out there before buying them.
None of the names appeal to me - sorry. They are not clear enough to me that it’s about online money making via internet marketing, as opposed to general money making or something unsavory. Of the three, if push came to shove, I’d pick MoneyEdition. But, with enough heavy lifting, just about any name would work if you get the popularity you need.
Best of success with your idea. I’ll add content!
Together, we are stronger.
Vicki Flaugher, the original SmartWoman
p.s. CommentLuv - definitely should be follow links, not nofollow, IMO. That’s the whole idea, right?
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Date/Time: 7-23-2008 10:40:21 Comment #17312
Date/Time: 7-23-2008 14:49:10 Comment #17317
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Date/Time: 7-23-2008 16:03:01 Comment #17321
Isn’t that what Garryconn.com is for?
I think it would be a really great site if you get the spam factor taken care of as well as the regurgitation of the same ideas/posts that are already so common with the MMO niche.
MoneyListers.com would be my pick for the domain.
Date/Time: 7-23-2008 20:12:50 Comment #17325
Moneylisters.com is easy to remember.
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Date/Time: 7-24-2008 05:12:03 Comment #17334
just keep in mind, its HARD to moderate the spam and stuff. Pligg comes straight “out of the box” as a digg clone, however, only 1 ‘digg clone’ has really made it big. and thats Sphinn. I am actualy working on making my site into a ‘bloggers portal’ and not a digg clone, I Have actualy gotten afew programers to help me re-write afew of the pligg scripts, only half of my site is currently running on pligg the rest is running on a custom script.
anyways, i know you work hard on all your projects, and i know this will be a success, i’d use it, its a great idea - look how big the make money online niche is these days.
in regards to the name, i like the MoneyListers.com suggestion! MoneySmack sounds like your going to smack me =] haha
oh and if you want any help with it, let me know!!!
i would love to help!
Date/Time: 7-24-2008 19:08:36 Comment #17342
I do own a pligg powered site but i use it to have my own link farm =)
Members are active posting their articles, because I made it 1 vote and your article will be on a first page, soon i’ll try to change that rule but for now members are happy in that way.
Take a look at my pligg powered site. http://www.KaBlogs.com
Not yet customized.. but still i got users posting.
Social networking site needs users to make it work, so far im happy with my site.
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Date/Time: 7-25-2008 00:27:32 Comment #17348
I certainly would help to add content.
Date/Time: 7-25-2008 10:37:05 Comment #17354
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Date/Time: 7-25-2008 13:23:27 Comment #17357
I’m not so sure that you should post an idea great like that so that anyone can steal your work.
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Date/Time: 7-26-2008 06:26:36 Comment #17386
lol jkz
Date/Time: 7-26-2008 16:00:30 Comment #17406
Date/Time: 8-7-2008 13:56:14 Comment #17885
I have, however, become interested in a new guy on the block called Web2Upgrade.
That’s partially because I like to see thing grow and develop.
Date/Time: 10-2-2008 19:39:09 Comment #23569
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