Comments on: How I got 12,000 Pageviews for $50

By: Ed Hardy bags

Ed Hardy bags — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:32:20 +0000

I always wanted to try something like this..

By: vaibhav

vaibhav — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:58:26 +0000

hey nice story. even i wan to take my blog daily pages from 20 to 1000 atleast
i”ll try to implement somethings

By: make money online

make money online — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:24:12 +0000

Really? That is actually quite amazing and brilliant at the same time. You brought back traditional writing to an age that has almost forgot it. I mean heck just writing this comment I hit backspace a few times I really need to try this online typewriter that is so cool.

Kris,

By: Redouane

Redouane — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:34:44 +0000

Thanks for the article, fresh and great idea. However, like Dumitru Brînzan said, it’s not just the $50 you invested. You have your audience, the ressources and let’s be honest, you must have explored other mediums to attract attention to what you have to offer?

However, bloggers be aware. Getting 12000 page views is cool, but how about the traffic in the long run? I mean, you need to have something to offer, sticky that makes your readers come back.

The moral of the story is great, but getting a lot of visitors that will vanish as quickly as they appeared is a false sense of success. After you get visitors attention using out of the box genius ideas like this, you need to keep them coming back.

P.S My personal blog is new, but I’ve blogged elsewhere like maniac!!

By: Wally

Wally — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:52:43 +0000

A very inspiring story, specially for people like me who have yet to see such traffic to ones site.

By: Brenon MacLaury

Brenon MacLaury — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:18:23 +0000

What great inspiration to go out and make an idea a reality! That’s one of the smartest ways to spend $50, that’s for sure. All I have to do now is come up with an idea! Thanks for another great article! :)

Brenon MacLaury

By: james oh

james oh — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:30:16 +0000

Wow, such a great ideas and count me in. Thanks for sharing and I will spend some time to read this post and try out every moves suggested,

By: Mida

Mida — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:45:01 +0000

Amazing idea, i do have some programming experience this should easy for me , very inspiring thanks

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By: Melvin Ng

Melvin Ng — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:41:29 +0000

Wow…bloordy cool idea…just simply brilliant.

It just shows that thinking out of the box can be so rewarding!

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affordable small business website — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:16:20 +0000

Hmmm, interesting outcome on that one. Something to think about and play around with.

By: Not John Chow

Not John Chow — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:30:06 +0000

I am always looking for new ways to create traffic!

By: carla | green and chic

carla | green and chic — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:20:51 +0000

Thank you for sharing your experience! I cant believe I missed this post until today. I am constantly trying to find new ways to market my blog and this is a good inspirational story to “think outside of the box”.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:36:24 +0000

Thanks alot, I got your blog on rss so I’ll be reading.

By: Joey

Joey — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:26:47 +0000

Thanks everyone, glad you got something out of the article.

Jerry, I had a friend ask me a similar question. Yes, there’s a risk there and it’s something I’ve thought about. The people I’ve dealt with just seem to be interested in getting the job done and moving on. Plus if they stole an idea they’d probably be blacklisted from Elance and other freelance sites. I’d say if possible, have them do the task or part of the task but not be clear on what the end goal is.

Elance has an NDA option you can use, but of course there isn’t much legal action you can do with someone in another country. So hire someone from the US (or whatever country you’re based in) so if they do steal the idea you have legal options.

By: www.glocalwriters.com

www.glocalwriters.com — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:46:42 +0000

I am more than tempted to invest $ 50 now for my first advertising campaign

By: çocuk oyunları

çocuk oyunları — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:57:52 +0000

Nice and inspirational story. Thanks for this post Darren and of course Joey.

By: Mang Jaya

Mang Jaya — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:01:11 +0000

Thats great experience and beautifull idea. Ican’t delete, you can’t copy, you can’t paste. So i really write my own article

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:43:58 +0000

Good story, 12,000 pages not too bad!!!

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:49:20 +0000

just wondering what type of protection do you have using this type of site to get stuff created, I read someting some time ago that a freelancer on one of the sites stole an idea they should have been working on. I have never used a site like this but have a few ideas I would hate to see walk away. Hello by the way New to the site and think it’s great full of info