How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter
Interesting, I've been doing just that for the last couple of years.<p>It's been a mix of partial successes and total failures, mostly failures. I didn't want to go the 'mfa' route for obvious reasons, so I try to make these sites in to something that actually is useful, and that have a sense of community about them.<p>Here is a breakdown of what you can make this way in a month based on adsense alone after several years of work, not something to be proud of, that's for sure.<p>It is <i>very</i> hard to make stuff that does not need maintenance.<p><pre><code>   pfn 	        3,203 	        18 	0.56% 	€0.08 	€0.26
   leftsidebar 	68 	        1 	1.47% 	€0.00 	€0.00
   linkbar 	72 	        0 	0.00% 	€0.00 	€0.00
   ccm    	1,012 	        2 	0.20% 	€0.06 	€0.06
   dzleft 	52,480 	        34 	0.06% 	€0.03 	€1.81
   dzlink 	47,804 	        98 	0.21% 	€0.04 	€1.87
   dzmain 	46,950 	        222 	0.47% 	€0.17 	€7.93
   fls 	        90,839 	        459 	0.51% 	€0.50 	€44.98
   gms 	        4,242 	        61 	1.44% 	€0.31 	€1.31
   hst160x600 	30,360 	        54 	0.18% 	€0.20 	€6.13
   hst468x60 	29,992 	        55 	0.18% 	€0.20 	€6.00
   jks 	        359 	        10 	2.79% 	€2.06 	€0.74
   lrmsmall 	90 	        0 	0.00% 	€0.00 	€0.00
   lrmtall 	2,173,823 	2,039 	0.09% 	€0.05 	€112.76
   lrm    	5,209 	        17 	0.33% 	€0.35 	€1.81
   lrmlink 	2,204,212 	2,234 	0.10% 	€0.05 	€115.06
   lrmlinkbar 	24,719 	        109 	0.44% 	€0.15 	€3.64
   mdcl 	84 	        1 	1.19% 	€0.05 	€0.00
   pcs 	        93,418 	        225 	0.24% 	€0.21 	€19.21
   pcslinkbar 	89,701 	        1,206 	1.34% 	€0.43 	€38.88
   stroompunt 	1,039 	        17 	1.64% 	€3.60 	€3.74
   cams   	1,510,897 	5,889 	0.39% 	€0.19 	€289.18
   ztk 	        27,112 	        711 	2.62% 	€3.69 	€100.15
   ztklinkbar 	28,534 	        462 	1.62% 	€1.30 	€37.10
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These figures are for the month of January.<p>I've removed the ones that I consider total failures from this list or it would have been three times as long.<p>$1 per day per site sounds like a great plan in theory, but in practice it is quite hard to do that across a broad number of sites and not get bogged down in maintenance issues.<p>Anything with a form will attract spammers more than it will attract users, software will over time stop working because external things it depends on will change and so on.<p>Passive income is nice, but it is hard to make something that is really passive.<p>It's not a complete failure, but it definitely wasn't the success I expected either.<p>This is due to a whole pile of factors, maintenance has already been mentioned, lousy ECPM is another, inability to get any traction with some projects is a third (anybody interested in a complete platform for trading second hand cars or houses ?).