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Can Quickie Sites Make Money?

I spend a lot of time in designing my sites and then creating content for them. I also give time for proper SEO and link building exercises. I try to give at-least one year to my sites to get them well ranked and making me some good money. But once in a while I make some “quickie” sites. I call a site quickie if I spend not more than a day for the “content generation” for the site. So what are these quickie sites, and can they make money?

Quick Websites Once in a while, I see some scripts or databases being sold on the forums. These scripts/databases may not be of much value because they are sold at dirt cheap prices and thousands of sites are built around them. But if you tweak those scripts or database, then I think you can surely make some money. I will give you 3 examples of such sites here.

Sites Based on Databases
11.pngThese are the simplest way to make sites. Just get the database for $2 to $5 on any of the webmaster forums, and write a script around it. Use .htaccess to re-write your URLs to make them look static. You are done. But the biggest problem with such sites is the “duplicate content”. So can I do something to make it look not “not-so-duplicate”? Well yes, I can. Lets have a look at http://www.drnew.com website. This is a car dealers website driven by a database bought for $5 on digitalpoint forum. This database contains the “addresses” of car dealers. So how do I make it look “not-so-duplicate” from other websites?

I write a small function in the script to change the address by replacing some words in the address.

For example:
“1909 West Hillsboro St., El Dorado, AK, 71730″ will become “1909 W. Hillsboro Street, El Dorado, Arkansas, 71730″

and
“2781 N. College Ave, Fayetteville, AK, 72703″ will become “2781 North College Avenue, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 72703″

Similarly, I do some more optimizations on the database to make it look like a more unique (more unique: is that a word :D ) database. So, this way, just writing a small function make this site worth $400/month in earnings. Total time put on the content of the site: 1 day. Google shows 22,000+ pages listed.

XML Feed Driven Sites
3.pngThe second simplest way to make a site is, just find an XML integrator and integrate some XML feeds from some places and put a site up. But I did it with a little difference. I just took a XML feed from a job site and applied my “unique-filters” to it and created a site http://www.joblistingslive.com I also did some optimizations on them by making categories based on stats and job titles. This site is worth $200/month after 2 months on launch. Google shows 15,000+ pages listed. Total time put on the content of the site: 1 day. Now, when I see this working, I am planning to launch 50 state based website based on this one. If each of them makes me $200 per month, I would be happy.

Another XML Feed Driven Site
2.pngI see many XML feed scripts being mentioned on the forums. Some scrap youtube, some scrap yahoo answers, some scrap ebay listings, and some scrap amazon etc. So I thought of giving a trial to one such script called “QuestionsAnswered”, which fetches content from yahoo answers. Now if I fetch the regular content, it would be called duplicate content. So I try to fetch old content (which is lost deep down inside yahoo answers). I made a site http://www.bcsy.org based on “car” related keywords. Don’t ask me what does this bcsy.org domain means? It was a useless domain lying in my account, so I thought why not create a useless site on it to test it. I tried to find ALL long tail keywords. I fetched old content from yahoo answers, applied my “unique-filters” and put it up on the site. After a month, site is already making me $100 a month and google is showing 12,000+ pages listed. Total time spent on the content of the site: 1day.

So, do such quickie sites work?
Well, the answer is, yes. Yes, they do work but you should know how to use them. When you launch such a site, you need to understand that they will most probably work only for very long tail keywords, which has very less competetion. So you need to have a lot of pages on the site.

I have recently launched two more so called quickie sites. One based on BANS and other based on PHPBayPro. I am trying my best to make things look unique. Let see how my experiment with these sites goes.

I will keep you updated.

Have you ever tried such quickie sites? Did they work for you? If not, try these ideas. :)

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Jim Karter on February 8th 2008 in Blogging, Earning Money, Internet Marketing

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59 Responses to “Can Quickie Sites Make Money?”

  1. Pushkar responded on 08 Feb 2008 at 5:47 am #

    :)

    Anyway the design sucks, well not the design as much as font size. Go back to original one

  2. Pushkar responded on 08 Feb 2008 at 5:48 am #

    and smileys in comments also don’t work (this is outrageous) :D

    Anyway nice post. You can merge this comment with the previous one

  3. Deepak responded on 08 Feb 2008 at 6:46 am #

    Your new theme sucks. Whats the car pic doing in a make money blog. and its not even in good condition, stretched, cut at top. What happened to u Jim?!

  4. Ricky responded on 08 Feb 2008 at 7:39 am #

    Well ..I would just like to that i dont think this KIND of quick website can make BIG MONEY, it can surely make $5 to $10 per day nothing more then that since the content which is there on this kind of database driven websites are easily available to all so the ADS which are being displayed by any advertiser would give you almost nothing with regards to $$

    I am Internet business entrepreneur since past many years and have TON of websites with me at this point of time which is making awesome $$$$$.

    Let me know what you think chief ..since you are surely more experienced then me.

  5. Adam Fowler responded on 08 Feb 2008 at 9:39 am #

    Jim,

    I have been on the fence about whether to build one high value content site per year , then another and so on, or do like you have with these.

    I am a newbie, just learning the basics. I have a sitebuildit site and a couple of sites made with dreamweaver, and about 350 domains.

    Sitebuildit has so many great tools and automated processes that it makes me question building from scratch.

    I am making great progress with install-molding.com but it does cost $299 per year.

    I am getting almost no traffic on the other sites. They don’t have blogs and have not been submitted to directories or have any other backlinks yet, but man finding quality sites with a high PR and alexa rank is time consuming.

    Should I pay for the yahoo directory listing?

    How do I turn every new change on my web pages into a blog post WITHIN my site?

    I just want to enjoy writing and make money do it! If you are making the money you say, you are my new hero.

    I feel overwhelmed with the possibilities. I don’t know where to start…

    Should I build a really informative website about something I love in a tight niche first or learn to write some scripts to bang out a bunch of quickies?

    Where do I start?

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  7. Chris responded on 08 Feb 2008 at 10:56 am #

    I agree, these quickie sites definitely work. This is a great post to read, and really provided a few awesome examples.

    About the site, I like the new theme.

  8. Neeraj responded on 08 Feb 2008 at 11:29 am #

    one offtopic question Jim,

    From where do you get pictures which you add in your blog post….

    I asked the same question earlier also, hope this time, you will reply

  9. colbert responded on 08 Feb 2008 at 8:02 pm #

    jim, do you use wordpress or other type of CMS with those XML integrator sites?

  10. Richa responded on 08 Feb 2008 at 10:05 pm #

    Oh man! you are insane :D
    I mean, where the hell in this world you get so many ideas to make money. I love you man! You married?

  11. jimkarter responded on 08 Feb 2008 at 10:29 pm #

    Pushkar and Deepak, I will look into it to see what can I do.

    Ricky, I agree. But if these quick sites makes even $10 a day, whats the harm in that.

    Adam, my suggestion would be to start with good quality and unique content websites. These quickie is actually not the way to go. I just create them in between just to see if they make money. If yes, then how long.

    Neeraj, these images are from a collection of clipart images I have bought online from some site around an year back.

    colbert, I don’t use wordpress or any CMS for these sites. I write my simple scripts.

    Richa, sorry, I am married. :D

  12. Adi responded on 09 Feb 2008 at 1:04 am #

    Hey Jim,

    Great post out there, and yes, even I have seen these sites do work.

    But, my question is : You said, you are spending less that a day to make them, but are you doing any SEO for these sites?
    Any kind of promotions at all?
    - It would be interesting to know this…

    p.s. your old theme was much better that the current theme.
    and you made a typo in this post here : “Let see —->who

  13. Adi responded on 09 Feb 2008 at 1:06 am #

    Oh..and I see that these sites have some PR also… this means they will work only on “trusted” domains and not new ones…?

  14. dailyfreetips responded on 09 Feb 2008 at 4:38 am #

    Hi Jim,
    Thank you for sharing. Could you tell us how you can get traffic for your quickies?

  15. jimkarter responded on 09 Feb 2008 at 6:52 am #

    Hi Adi,
    I said “I call a site quickie if I spend not more than a day for the “content generation” for the site.” So these sites also have a full fledged SEO strategy to get backlinks to the sites. So, traffic is around 100% from natural search engine rankings.

  16. Ricky responded on 09 Feb 2008 at 10:11 am #

    Jim,

    There is no harm in making $10 per day.

    I just wish to make you aware with the new things happening at google these days, they are putting BAN on such kind of websites.

    If you wish to know more about this Email me i will give you clear idea as to why this is happening.

    Best Regards
    Ricky

  17. Fatih responded on 09 Feb 2008 at 12:38 pm #

    I wanna know more obout it too Ricky. Tell all of us please. Google bans this kind of sites?

  18. Reviewpot responded on 09 Feb 2008 at 5:09 pm #

    Nice one, the database sites. I also think that the link volume they can produce is worth while.

  19. Ricky responded on 10 Feb 2008 at 6:08 am #

    Faith

    google has a report using which they will come to know your website is Original or Duplicate.

    Now if we talk about this kind of database websites which is available for $5, people across the globe can affor it and when number of websites with same content starts increasing BIG G will have a RED eye one day and you will get one email that your accounts that to threat to their advertisers.

    I am sure all must have understood by now what i wanna convey here.

    I am in this profession since past 5 years and have studied google behaviour closely.

  20. Ricky responded on 10 Feb 2008 at 7:24 am #

    According to me best network for these kind of niche are oridian.com and cpxinteractive.com

    Cause when we see even 1% chances of google ban this kind of website, its natual that no one will take to chance since one can not ruin $1000 income which is ongoing just for the sake of $5 or $10 per day.

    If you hook up this kind of websites with low paying networks i have mentioned above would be good.

    Oridian and CPX managers works with me online and they keep looking for small publishers across the world.

    I am sure that information will be helpful for all who are planning to design database driven websites which pays QUICK :)

  21. David responded on 10 Feb 2008 at 8:26 pm #

    Hi Jim,

    Excellent blog! I’ve learnt lots of stuff from here. Keep up the good work! :)

    One thing I’m curious about is how you integrate your databases with the actual HTML template. That’s my biggest stumbling block. I can make basic web designs but my knowledge of PHP is very rudimentary - far less than whats needed to code a script for this purpose. How do you get your database sites done?

    David

  22. gices responded on 11 Feb 2008 at 8:26 am #

    Very interesting Jim! I will be trialing out this idea in the very near future :)

  23. webguy responded on 12 Feb 2008 at 5:27 pm #

    Your website joblistinglive has 0 PR since you are feeding 1000’s pages in a month. Is it a good idea?
    In my view, who cares about PR as long as ROI is 100/month for a days worth of work.

    right?

  24. jimkarter responded on 12 Feb 2008 at 9:17 pm #

    Yes. True.

  25. Popular Wealth responded on 19 Feb 2008 at 5:39 am #

    Quickie sites can make quickie money but sites with a solid foundation outperform them in the long run.

    I wouldn’t get into throwaway sites myself but at the very least recommend learning to do it the hard way first. Quicky sites may stop working at anytime.

  26. Jim Karter responded on 19 Feb 2008 at 10:27 pm #

    Ok, I agree that in long term you need to have a high quality site which provides value to users. But when you are making that big and high quality site, what is the harm to just give one day to a quickie site and get some money in short term.

  27. Darky responded on 26 Feb 2008 at 1:50 pm #

    Interesting..

  28. Debt Cures responded on 03 Mar 2008 at 6:42 pm #

    Hello-

    Having a quickie site can also give you an idea of if a niche is worth developing more later. If the site makes $5 -$10 a day with Adsense or eBay, then maybe if you build out the content or start a network of these quickie sites around similar topics, you could make a lot more money. And then work on replacing the Adsense ads with the affiliate ads and go from $600 a month in Adsense to $10,000 a month in affiliate income like you just showed in another post.

    Thanks Jim.

    -Adam

  29. Jim Karter responded on 03 Mar 2008 at 10:09 pm #

    Adam, I think these quickie sites should be short term projects. You should also start a good long term project in similar niche and these quickie sites and actually flow some good traffic to your good site. Also, you get to know a lot more (yes, I mean a lot more) very long keywords that not many people have thought of.

    I am planning to use those keywords in my PPC campaigns.

  30. Chad responded on 05 Mar 2008 at 7:48 pm #

    So the more pages in the site or database the more google will pick up on the long tail keywords right?

    How many backlinks do you try to build to this type of site?

  31. Jim Karter responded on 06 Mar 2008 at 3:34 am #

    I just get them 50 to 100 backlinks.

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  34. make money blog responded on 06 Apr 2008 at 11:42 pm #

    Hi Jim

    Glad I found your blog but not sure why only now but better late than never.

    Anyway, I’m into the quick sites making money thing you talk about. Only thing is I am programming illiterate.

    Are there any free scripts for the functions and “unique filters” you mentioned?

    thks
    mbm

  35. Jim Karter responded on 07 Apr 2008 at 12:05 am #

    I don’t think there any any such free scripts available. You have to get them done from somebody.

  36. make money blog responded on 08 Apr 2008 at 7:13 pm #

    Thanks for your reply Jim.

    I don’t suppose you would consider doing a more detailed post on how to go about getting a database for your niche and the technicalities involved in getting the script.

    Something along the lines of your chemotherapy site experiment which I’m following with interest.

    mbm

  37. Jim Karter responded on 08 Apr 2008 at 9:17 pm #

    Yes, I think I will make a post about it soon.

  38. Different Ideas responded on 04 May 2008 at 12:00 am #

    Although i dont believe in quick money, but its good to gather in initial investment. In my opinion long term steady income is good.

  39. Ryan responded on 06 May 2008 at 2:10 pm #

    Wheres a good place to get backlinks for my site?

  40. suresh responded on 13 May 2008 at 11:21 am #

    Your good brain shall give all ideas and you are explaining them to the world.

    Wonderful and does work well only for people with sound technical knowledge.

  41. gats responded on 18 May 2008 at 7:23 am #

    This is the new way how to earn online money, even this is not 100% original hard work but I still like your shortcut way and the important thing I like your brilliant ideas!

  42. Carol responded on 09 Jun 2008 at 11:14 pm #

    But I guess the earning won’t be as great as the site which you have given at-least one year to make them well ranked and making some good money, right?

  43. Fadli responded on 16 Jun 2008 at 5:21 pm #

    nice tips man, thanks a lot its motivate me to huntting money on internet

  44. Make Money responded on 04 Jul 2008 at 12:15 am #

    Agree, I love long tail keywords too.

  45. Neeraj responded on 12 Jul 2008 at 6:23 am #

    Is your drnew.com still making $400 per month ?

  46. green home and garden responded on 31 Aug 2008 at 8:46 am #

    I think that long term sites are the way forward especially if you can generate unique content. However, thanks for sharing this information with all of us serial site builders.

  47. kouji responded on 01 Oct 2008 at 1:00 am #

    interesting. while i like the idea of building a blog with good content, the idea of making a quickie or relatively quickie site fascinates me.

  48. Great Hybrid Car Info responded on 22 Oct 2008 at 1:44 pm #

    great post! i especially found it where it stated.

  49. TooNew responded on 03 Dec 2008 at 2:23 am #

    This article is good, many briliant idea in this site.

  50. beastmoon responded on 03 Dec 2008 at 8:48 am #

    this is new technique for me as newbie, thanks

  51. Cash Gifting Exposed responded on 17 Dec 2008 at 1:04 am #

    Yeah, I think We can make money from quickie sites. Like arcades, etc, As always! Keep rocking, you have great info’s here..

  52. havis responded on 13 Mar 2009 at 12:00 am #

    cool tips,,
    keep postings
    it very helpfull

  53. zoel responded on 01 Apr 2009 at 10:39 am #

    very interesting tips for me as newbee ;-) and good lucky for u

  54. iklan responded on 19 May 2009 at 8:51 am #

    wow…very xcellent your idea

  55. Purba responded on 24 May 2009 at 12:11 am #

    Nice idea jim… very-very interesting. Thx u

  56. imanpatrick responded on 07 Aug 2009 at 2:27 am #

    wow..
    i cant believe it..
    very-very interesting :D

  57. Ariza responded on 27 Aug 2009 at 11:32 am #

    hi… very nice blog… with nice theme..

  58. ghozan responded on 28 Aug 2009 at 2:45 am #

    wow the earning and the time spend for “making” a website is driving me crazy. really nice tips. thanks.

  59. gandhi responded on 03 Sep 2009 at 1:04 am #

    hmm, this all job in internet need consistency and not easy,nothing instant

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