Our quest to make a 100000 euros online

Google adsense

Next to placing banners on your weblog the most obvious online profit would be an advertising program. Like I said in an earlier post, we got an google adsense account based on another website I run: BLDD. BLDD has nothing to do with making money online. BLDD concentrates on exhibitions and customization.

Implementing adsense on 100000eurohomepage is easy with a nifty plug-in for wordpress called adsense deluxe. It saves you a lot of copy+pasting in the future.

No ads

So I activated the plug-in and inserted an adsense code block in one of our post. Not surprisingly adsense didn’t show any ads. I guess this has to do with the low web traffic at the moment and not being indexed by the major search engines.

Those public service ads (PSA) aren’t very beautiful so I looked for a solution on google’s support pages and found alternate ads. I have chosen for google’s 4th suggestion: Collapsing ad units. This will shrink the ad units instead of showing PSAs.

Hiding invisible ads
After downloading google_adsense_script.html and uploading this file into the main directory of 100000eurohomepage.com I didn’t see the PSA any more.

This job is done now we need more visitors

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First money making product?

Placing banners on your weblog is an obvious potential profit maker. The hard part would be selling your banners to customers especially if you are a start-up. In fact setting a price and a period for banner placement isn’t easy either. By selling 10 banners for 1000 €/month our quest will end in 10 months or better yet selling 10 banners for 10000 €

Back on earth

Meanwhile back on earth I had an idea about placing banners on 100000eurohomepage and setting the price(s). My idea is inspired by a couple of things:

• Technology adoption life cycle

different prices during our quest

• Eyetracking

different prices for different banner placement

• onemilliondollarhomepage and all the rip offs

People expect a bunch of graphics/banners if they go to a $$$$$$$$$hompage URL

• e-bay.com

here you can sell everything including banners. Drawback however is the fee you need to pay. So we can use this selling channel only after we make some kind of revenue. (Remember on of our rules: zero budget). But I did use ebay to check for a banner period.

Coming up with a money maker formula
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