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Originally Posted by T.J.
Are ringtones really this lucrative for the big boys?
I've been playing with ringtones for a couple of months, got some prety good
google positions, but not really bothered doing much more.
My pages are absolutely crap, some of them are just coming soon pages as I
didn't realise it was worth spending any time on.
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Big boys? hello sailor... :eek: Joking.
I think it falls into two categories, put it this way, if instead of spending the money I earned in December and January, I didn't go out for three months and became a hermit, I'd have enough money to now compete with those affiliates that have the funds for PPC campaigns, but because the time difference between earning and being paid is so vast, I haven't got even a glimmer of hope of joining them on decent PPC unless I have an exceptional month, which I forecast by the end of the year.
So with PPC, churning out adwords on the popular characters backed up by TV advertising should see you turn in a good days work. Now I could get an increased credit limit, but nah thanks, I've been in debt before. And with Gordon Brown in charge of the economy, I'd rather not have to worry when the recession comes.
So then that leaves natural search, those affiliates with already built community sites with tens of thousands of users are going to big players, like they always are, but whilst selling to their own traffic, they'll also create their own natural searches via new product pages. So you're competing with these lot as well as those PPC and others across the medium that buy domains to specifically eek their way to the top of engines and stay there via good
SEO and healthy linkage.
It all depends where you fit in and what you're prepared to do, me I got upset at buying a £6 domain the other month, only for the product to change, a few weeks sulking thinking 'bugger this' and I'm back. I do the
SEO route, though I'm not particular great at it but I'm learning still, always learning.
So yes, in answer to your original question, Jamster, like even the most mundane program like selling pills, can be lucrative. It's the kind of program that makes the small players, bigger players and the big players end up with a bonus. Although it's not for everyone, for the last two months it aint really been for me, but that might be because I'm lazy and there's only so much you can do with one topic sites, who knows...
I'm upset that the days I finally seem to get more sales, after changing links to zanox and white label, possibly combined with better
SEO, Jamster goes to pot and I end up with compensation for three days instead which may or may not reflect real earnings. But that's life aint it, hopefully Jamster will go out buy and add another few servers tomorrow.