google adsense success stories

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Markus Frind, the creator of Plentyoffish.com is a success storey worth noting, as he has managed to take a niche formerly ruled by giant corporations and generate it his own brand of marketing savvy. A case of David vs. Goliath, wherever the small guy comes out on top in the end. Markus is the top "individual" google adsense publisher in terms of pageviews. Lets find out what some of his secrets are as he shares some advice with our subscribers. Feel free to commentary!

Markus, what is your experience in computer computer programming and how did it fix you for becoming a webmaster?

The average pageviews a day is around 15 million for the last week. I'm getting another 90 million pageviews a daytime from users polling the site to see if they have new messages. Really intensive bandwidth considered!

Once I attend your site, I notice that the ads are targeted to my region, yet I have not still registered- can you explain to our readers how you accomplish this deed?

I am just using ip2location.com- Basically i take your IP, look them up in the database and it tells me what your metropolis. I so advert a list of users in your city, nothing magical about it the least bit.

Are most of your visitors adding up primarily from search engines (SERPS), or are you finding that they come from other avenues? Do you actively advertize in the media?

Search engines account for something as though 2% of my traffic. The vast majority of my traffic, like some additional site with over 5 million pageviews a day comes from buzz, and repeat visitors.


The services on your site appear to be offered at no cost to the registrants. Is there some advantage you've over your competitors that allows you to do this?

I have developed new algorithms that allow me to make a mega site for next to no cost. Several years ago I produced algorithm that was thousands of times faster then the algorithmic program used in the 1990's to find a string of 22 prime numbers. At the time an prof used several super computers and 100s of regular computers over the course of several a long time to find a record. I did the like thing on 1 computer in 2 weeks.

Fascinating! Is there any other sites you currently maintain, or is plentyoffish.com the just one and only?

It is the only site at the moment. I have got some other sites I registered for friends so they dismissed stuff. At this point i think 1 site is enough.

Some tips for those looking for create a profitable endeavor on the online?

IF somebody else thinks what you are doing is a cool idea I'd say it isn't... Find something no more one else thinks is important and build up a site with big traffic in that area. Also keep in mind, sites that accept low monetization today but have traffic may be the goldmines of tomorrow. In the online world anything and everything will be monetised at some point and traffic is king.

Traffic is King- same wise advice, Markus. a final question- How do you find the time to maintain such a large commodity on the internet? Surely you must have another interests in life besides programming and website monitoring?

It only takes a hour a day on average, but its really boring work. I spend the other couple of hours reading and seeing what is coming on.