May
Fan sites - pre-empting the market
Empress got me thinking today about fan sites
She’s being studiously vague about the project she’s working on, but I think there’s something to be said for the idea of fan sites.
What about this for an idea:
When the next series of American Idol (or Australian, Armenian or whatever) starts up, set up a site for each of the contestants.
These programs are popular enough that there’s always going to be a fair bit about them in the news-media providing enough regularly updated content for an RSS feed to be crawled by the search engines for each contestant.
As each of the contestants are eliminated (up till the last four or so), delete the site corresponding to that contestant.
Chances are that the winner at least, and probably the top three or four contestants are going to become famous, and you’ll have a site which has been ageing nicely for three or four months, with regularly updating content, ready to monetise as you wish!
Just thinking out loud.
2 comments so far
I have found working on the fan site has really made doing the whole tedious SEO stuff a bit more fun - I don’t think the fan site I’ve built is overly saturated (at this time… part of the reason I’m so damn vague). I’m just testing things - see how much organic traffic I can ramp up before I get sandboxed (does that still exist?) or before it gets saturated.
I think if you are into certain TV shows, music, movies… I think there are others out there that share the interest - and it’s something that might keep one blogging when other ideas have come and gone.
Just my 2 cents 
I’m not talking about blogging here Empress - more the joy of RSS feeds….
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