What’s up with these sites with no content of their own, only a mass of links on some specific topic (and of course google ads or something)? Some “cello” site has linked me, har har, as has a “flower” site. Today I see a Christian (?) parenting site has linked a post I wrote back in November 2003 on the applicability of the CI4 T*rtur3 M4nu*L as a source of parenting advice. [low-quality screenshot in case it falls off their page]
These are sites created by people who have read all those “How To Make Money With Google AdSense” books and have discovered that the combination of RSS and Google means “INSTANT BLOG”. Whether or not they actually make money is up for debate.
It’s the “Future Of Blogging” staring you in the face.
yeah, i’m linked to a couple of those, too. these people don’t realise there’s only *one* person who’s made money from a site like that…
I got an incredible 40 hits in one hour one day several months ago. They were all coming from a parenting resource site. I took a peek, it looked legit, but I found I had to register to read anything and I didn’t want to. I even wrote a blog about it looking for some brave soul to go see how they had connected to me – never posted it though. I racked my brain and ended up concluding that maybe one of my regular readers worked there and was reading my blogs when she/he should have been working. If that was the case I didn’t want to be the one to spill the beans. Now how considerate is that? :-) So it remained a mystery that was never resolved.
Look up splog on wikipedia.
I can assure you they do make money, the bastards.