Jill Murray

JillMurray.com is the 967,044 most popular site on Technorati. That’s right, ony 967,043 blogs are more popular than mine.

In order to capitalize on my overwhelming popularity. I’ve added ads. It’s very exciting. So far I’ve raised $0.15 just by clicking on them myself to see if I installed them right.

And that’s not all. I have big dreams. I’m hoping to make it as high as 966,999.

I’m planning to reach my goal in a couple of ways.

1. Find out how the heck Technorati ranks sites. I think I have to suck up to recognized bloggers and get them to link to me or something. Something about becoming “relevant.” Yawn.
2. While waiting for sucking up to kick in, I’m trying out some text ad campaigns to get my page views up and maybe generate some name recognition so that when I do suck up, people think that maybe they know me already.

This may all seem kind of sudden, but it actually evolved quite organically. Last week I had a really bad day, and I went out and bought myself a lottery ticket to see if it could get any better. And you know what? I won $4. So I got another lottery ticket. And I won nothing. And then I realized if I were to spend $4 a week on ads for my web site instead, why I could generate my own cash for life programme, right from my desktop. Here’s a sample of what I can do if I can get this web site to generate more and more cash over time.

• $1.05/week: 3 Fuzzy Peach candies EVERY DAY. Not that I eat those, so I’ll probably buy a thing of dried apricots, which is actually a buck or two more expensive, so I’ll just eat one.
• $5.25/week: A coffee and copy of the Saturday paper with the TV guide in it, except that I don’t have cable and it’s not that hard to remember what’s on 2 channels, and I can look it up online anyway.
• $26.25/week: Basic cable, and I can still afford the paper, almost.
• $131.25/week: That’s a shoe allowance, baby.
• $656.25/week: Basic cable, shoes and rent.
• $3281.25/week: I’m thinking some giant gold-plated vases, a merry go round, and some giraffes and penguins for the front lawn. Lions and tigers for the back. And maybe a safe room. Yeah, a titanium-lined safe room. With a fridge.

I told my mom I was adding a “donate” button to the web site.

MOM: For what?

ME: For so people can donate if they want to.

MOM: Why would they do that?

ME: To support the web site.

MOM: And do you think it’s likely that many people will do that?

ME: No.

But “unlikely” is like a huge step up from “impossible.” So I’m removing that barrier. As The Large White Mocha would say: Thank you Mom, if that is your real name.

Too bad I don’t have one of those rising thermometer graphic thingmies.

blogging, monetization, work from home