Making Money with Racist Jokes article update October 2014. I own a popular Funny Jokes site and in the past made money from it using AdSense. Unfortunately Google AdSense doesn’t like the racist jokes on the site and has blocked the domain from showing AdSense ads (AdSense banned)! Was AdSense banned due to the racist comments on the Mexican jokes page. Update 2014: Chikita doesn’t like racist jokes either, the joke site is Chitika banned as well! Currently running Amazon ads, let’s see how long they last. It’s a very sad fact that some of the most popular jokes SERPs are racist jokes SERPS like Black Jokes, White Jokes, Mexican Jokes etc… Before adding racist jokes as an SEO test […]
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How to make Money Online Without AdSense
Dave,
This brings up a good point. How to make Money Online Without AdSense.
Many guys out there sell physical good. That means a book or e-book. However, people tell me this is more about RSS feed subscribers. People who are subscribers come back and would buy something if you wrote and sold it.
I think you are a highly ethical guy – so I do not think you want to sell a joke book like that, but maybe you sell something that people who are interested in those joke might also buy. Like survivalist type books.
Or simply use that site to direct traffic to another.
I wish I had the answers.
It is a good question.
I know you tried alternatives to Adsense and you were not impressed. What about a theme that is geared just to increasing subscribers, like huge RSS button, ‘subscribe by e-mail’ – something that says “Did you like this article? please subscribe at the bottom of every post in an artistic way. viperchill.com
Or charge a gold membership if you have seen some forums do. But that takes a loyal base.
Either way it is a great question, how to make money beyond traditional methods – and what is ethical.
How to make Money Online Without AdSense
Encourage RSS Feed Subscribers
Have added large RSS feed, RSS email subscription, link to my Twitter page and a link to my Facebook page on the right menu at the top with relatively big images. Using a WordPress plugin though wouldn’t be hard to do this manually.
Not happy it has to be 4 image links that pass PR/link benefit to those 4 pages (main reason not done this before), but will see if I can put something together to either turn these into form links or hide them in an iframe or something so they don’t waste link benefit.
Signed up my first Feedburner feed for this site (should have done this sort of thing years ago really).
So will see how it goes.
Took a look at viperchill.com and assuming the young man who owns the site is truthful (no reason to believe he isn’t) those are very impressive stats for his non search engine traffic. I rely completely on search engine traffic (most Google) and it is worrying that I could loose 90% of my traffic overnight if Google decided to ban all my sites in one go! So it would be nice to spread the risk by gaining traffic from other sources.
On his WordPress SEO article he got his nofollow info wrong mind you (advising his readers to use nofollow) so he might want to brush up on his SEO a bit: can’t complain inspired another article for this site :-)
Thanks for the idea to use big RSS image links Mark.
David
Update: removed the large RSS Feed link, didn’t perform well.
Encourage RSS Feed Subscribers
Make Money from Guest Posts
I exchanged some e-mails with the viperchill guy. His stats are real and for a young guy I am impressed. He has a number of sites he does not talk about directly.
Basically on sites that are not for ads he promotes RSS then writes an e-book himself(my understanding )as opposed to affiliates.
Basically once you get people following you, they are a fan. Fans buy from site authors as they want to participate in the success.
Basically you want people to get warm fuzzies. Then they want to buy from you, not from a third party.
This is what he does (reading between the lines)
He had a 150 usd an hour coaching page up for a few days but took it down as he got too many people.
That is a fan base.
I do not have the answers but I think continue to try this with a couple sites and develop SEM ideas.
If you notice the secret to his big success came from guest posting (SEM’s most effective technique today). He did like 40 big guest posts and each time his fan base went up, got links and branding.
I have never done a guest post because if I write content then I want it on my site (mostly).
But I think this is a mindset and where a young guy like that can make me see things differently.
I noticed the no-follow etc – I think he is not an SEO guy but more just a marketing prodigy. I believe in SEO. SEO has brought be very good returns. But maybe trying some SEM, like guest posting would accelerate things. Its my next steps. I would be curious about yours or other people’s takes on guest posting.
Make Money from Guest Posts
Reducing Ad Blindness
One more thing, if you use those subscribe buttons I think having a header like like “subscribe I do not bite” – or “it is free” or something to get people to think for a second, as people who are experienced web surfers have some ad and button blindness. They just glaze over these, unless you can do something special. This is one take away from viperchill’s site.
I will try this some of my sites.
Reducing Ad Blindness
Make Money Using CPA Zip Submits
Hi,
Why don’t you try some CPA zip submit in the site. Since this is an entertainment site you can easily find entertainment related CPA Zip Submits and give it a try. You can sign up for Neverblueads and give it a try..
Google AdSense Ban
It is a shame that google banned you from using adsense but they are a very touchy company and are usually sued left right and centre for anything they do wrong so you can’t really blame them. Very impressed with the amount of hits you are getting though.
Making Money Online Crowdsourcing
Money can come from any place, just crowd the crowd
How to Convert Search Engine Traffic?
I can sympathise with trying to make money from your joke website.
Thread: ” 100,180 hits today and not enough cash to pay for the electric used by my mouse”
Quite some time ago I raised the above question on a bulletin board and got some ideas from some experienced and knowledgeable posters:
Funny Racist Jokes
I took a look at your jokes forum post (you have to register on the forum to read it BTW).
The responses don’t give any solutions to converting joke/humor traffic per se, but does sum up the problem, humor/joke websites suck for making money! Most of the traffic to my funny jokes site is Google searches** looking for funny racist jokes, black jokes, white jokes and the very offensive nigger jokes: this traffic does NOT convert.
** Because of this post about making money from a jokes site this website is gaining thousands of search impressions a month for racist joke Google searches: mostly image searches!!! Do a Google image search for “funny racist jokes” and note the Check Pants Pocket image from this article is top 10!
Users don’t go to a funny joke site to buy a product or find a solution to a problem etc… they visit to have a laugh or kill time while bored at work. On my funny jokes site most of the visitors are looking for racist jokes and those who comment (3,000+ comments on one jokes page for example) are mostly trashing one another: racism is rampant!!!
This is a not so offensive race based joke I find funny:
Most jokes offend someone and a lot of the time it’s based on racial stereotypes, redneck jokes are racist against white people: black people can’t get a redneck in the sun. Dumb blonde jokes again are racist since non-whites do not naturally have blonde hair.
Racist White Joke
Do white people consider redneck and dumb blonde jokes racist in nature?
Anyway, when I had AdSense on the joke site (before the AdSense ban because of a Mexican jokes page filled with racist Mexican comments) it averaged around £1 (~$1.50) eCPM (effective cost per thousand impressions). In comparison my websites about making money have eCPMs of over £6 and my SEO sites around £5. I have another website about classic literature that received around 2,000,000 impressions last year and it’s eCPM is even lower than the jokes site, so it could be worse :-)
I’m thinking about adding links to affiliates that sell prank products, but I’m not expecting many product sales despite regularly breaking 10,000 unique visitors a day, so no rush.
I have no idea how to monetize racist joke traffic!
David
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