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This is the first and a start a series of Internet Success Stories that you will begin to see on the Power Play Bog. Hope you appreciate them!
Do you Know Markus Friend? He is the creator of Plentyoffish.com is a success story worth noting, as he has managed to take a Category formerly ruled by Big corporations and give it his own brand of marketing savvy and his Unique Touch. A case of David vs. Goliath, where the little guy comes out on top in the end. Markus is the top "individual" ad sense publisher in terms of page views. Let's find out what some of his secrets are as he shares some advices with our readers. Feel free to comment!
Markus, what is your experience in computer programming and how did it prepare you for becoming a Successful webmaster?
The average page views a day is around 14 million for the last week. I'm getting another 80 million page views a day from users polling the site to see if they have new messages. Really intensive and huge bandwidth wise!
When I go to your website, First Thing I notice is the ads are targeted to my region, despite the fact that I have not even registered- can you explain to our readers how you accomplish this astonishing feat?
It is easy, I'm just using ip2location.com- Basically I take your IP, look it up in the database and it tells me what your city is. I then bring up a nice list of users in your city, nothing magical about it at all, Just Basic Knowledge.
Are most of your Website visitors coming mainly from search engines , or are you finding that they come from other avenues like affiliated websites? Do you actively advertise in the media?
Search engines account for something like 2% of my traffic. The vast majority of my traffic, like any other site with over 5 million page views a day comes from word of mouth, and repeat visitors.
I noticed that services on your site seem to be offered at no cost to the registrants. Is there some advantage you have over your tough competitors that allows you to do this?
Well, I've developed some new algorithms that allowed me to create a mega site for next to no cost. Several years ago I have created algorithm that was thousands of times faster then the algorithm used in the 1990's to find a string of 22 prime numbers. At that time a Known Professor used several super computers and hundreds of regular computers over the course of several years to find a record. Believe me I did the same thing on 1 computer in 2 weeks.
Astonishing! Are there any other sites you currently maintain, or is it only plentyoffish.com?
It's the only site at the moment. I've got a few other sites I registered for friends so they could learn to do marketing/affiliate stuff. At this point I think 1 site is enough.
Any tips for those looking to create a profitable endeavor on the internet?
IF someone else you know thinks what you are doing is a cool idea I'd say it isn't really... Try to find something no one else thinks is important and build up a site with big traffic in that area. Also try to keep in mind, sites that have low monetization today but have traffic may be the gold mines and the future of tomorrow. In the internet world anything and everything will be monetized at some point and traffic is king. Be Unique.
Traffic is King- very wise advice, Markus. One last question- How do you find the time to maintain such a large commodity on the internet? Surely you must have some other interests in life besides programming and website monitoring?
It only takes an hour a day on average, but its very tiring work. I spend the other couple of hours reading and seeing what is going on.
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