Comments on: Profiting Without Frequently Updated Content

By: ktmonline

ktmonline — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:43:49 +0000

wow great i completly agree with you.

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www.webhosting.uk.com — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:37:35 +0000

Great article!
Thanks for sharing it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:43:11 +0000

I totally agree. I own a reference site and it’s done fairly well with having original content and organization that makes sense. Quality of quantity is our moto. you can check it out at

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www.eukhost.com — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:15:35 +0000

great info thanks i was worried how to update my website regularly

By: Fallback

Fallback — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 04:44:19 +0000

Great article. Thanks for the insight Chris!

By: guysmy

guysmy — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:36:42 +0000

I’ve always been attracted to timeless knowledge. Surviving in the wilderness dates back to the dawn of mankind and yet its still relevant today.

By: Sculli

Sculli — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:21:19 +0000

I think one needs to few things in perspective. Sure, the wilderness survival site may be revenue generating (though the pop-under is quite annoying and will prevent me from ever looking at it again), but it was created at a time when there were very few other pages with similar content. 5 years ago is basically the same as a thousand years ago if we are talking about Internet.

Anyone, their child, and their dog have web sites about anything online right now. coming up with a reference site that is fairly unique, user friendly, and has great exposure, that is the tricky part. I am not saying it is impossible, I am just saying that running off to make reference sites on a whim will result in great disappointment.

By: charmedlover

charmedlover — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:42:13 +0000

This is one area that I have been looking to break into. I do not know enough about one particular topic though to create a resource websites. I’ll have to look around and find something I have adequate knowledge about.

By: aspen

aspen — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:31:58 +0000

For a reference site is it as vital to have completely original content and if so how do you manage to differentiate the content you provide from, presumably, other similar niche sites?

You have a few options here.

1. Be really good at marketing.

2. Publish the non-unique content before anyone else, thus getting a head start.

3. Add a unique component to your site, like a forum.

But where should we get our content from, is there still some public domain content that we can make money off?

Yes. However, do not get your ideas for public domain content from other websites. If you do that you’ll always be behind the curve and have a hard time getting traffic. You can bet that if one website exists republishing that public domain content, then there are dozens more either already online or waiting in the wings. My survival site was the first of its kind, but check now and you’ll see many copy cats out there. It doesn’t much matter though because I have 1 and 2 in my response above.

So, if you want to use public domain content, look for “virgin” public domain sources.

And yes, now I mostly write myself or hire people from places like Constant Content.

By: peach

peach — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:38:25 +0000

But where should we get our content from, is there still some public domain content that we can make money off?
Are you still doing that.. or do you also write yourself/hire authors?

thanks,
JR