Web development success and failure

About a year ago I started with the idea that I should build and host a blog community with dozens of bloggers writing every day, slowly building an blogging empire. I hardly knew what a blog is (yes it’s true) and I hardly knew any PHP. Needless to say my blogging empire never happened, and other blog projects, as my Steve Pavlina wannabe blog, were disbanded and is now not being updated at all.

My ambition one year ago was to  make a welcome side income from web publishing/advertizing and during this year I’ve tried affiliate marketing, domain trading and web site publishing. I’ve learnt that success may come unexpectely, in our case from a site about pregnancy and maternity (Bli Mamma gravid), an idea that actually my wife came up with. From a quiet start this site now has about 2,000 page views per day and generates from $3 to $40 per day depending on current advertizing campaigns. At the moment we use a combo of AdSense and Tailsweep ads, something that has proven successful.

My other project, called  Hyrprylen.se, which is basically a classified ad site for rentals of gadges and property, is yet to be launched. I coded this site from scratch, thus it is a bit rough. But it might have a potential, especially as we will port it to other languages as well. The platform can also be easily be used for realty, traditional classifieds and vacation home rentals. We’ll see about that one.

What’s in the pipes? Well I won’t say more that I have an idea for a database for affiliate programs, but it’s still in a very early stage idea.

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