Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Content for a new Money Making website

I did a preliminary research on what a website content should be in order to get more traffic.
Most of the traffic that a site gets is through search engines GOOGLE, YAHOO. So if your site figures out in the top 10 (at least) results for the major queries, then your website would be a HIT. And you can have Ads on your website. Based upon this I came up with the following content

WHAT [SHOULD THE CONTENT BE]
-Most of the online users are from the US
Analyse using google trends

1. Celebrities
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http://buzz.yahoo.com/actors/
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Jessica Simpson
Beyonce Knowles
Paris Hilton
Scarlett Johansson
Britney Spears
Pamela Anderson
Shakira
Angelina Jolie
Carmen Electra
Hilary Duff
Christina Aguilera
Janet Jackson
Fergie
-Upcoming
2. Sports -
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http://buzz.yahoo.com/sports/
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NFL
WWE
Soccer
NBA BasketBall

3. Jobs
4. Comparitive Product Analysis/Reviews, cars, bikes
5. Tech
Linux
Windows
Wikipedia
6. Movies, Youtube also incressing
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http://buzz.yahoo.com/movies/
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IMDB charts
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http://www.imdb.com/chart/
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Disney Channel
Cartoon network
Naruto
7. Recipe
8. News
9. Music
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http://buzz.yahoo.com/music/
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mp3

Now the Question is: Where do you get content for all this?
One way is [The difficult one] Go through various websites, read the relevant information and spit it out on your site.
Other way is (This is refered to as web scrapping) just pick the content from the top content providers.
One such good resource is WEB HARVEST (You need to know some XML and Java though). You can just tweak in the configuration file and scrap what all you want.

Finally this boils down to building a directory similar to YAHOO. The only difference is that you are arranging for your own content (Yahoo pays the content providers for this content!)

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