A dime-a-dozen, mile-a-minute, tour-de-force of out-to-lunch bric-a-brac
 

Amazing secrets to becoming rich and famous and successful and wildly popular just by sitting on your computer all day.

By Kevan • May 7th, 2007 • Category: Art & Technology


It’s super easy! All you have to do is start a blog that appeals to an influential, tech-savvy and participatory demographic, get featured regularly on the front pages of Digg and Metafilter and Reddit and BoingBoing, make connections on a personal level with other well-known, microcelebrity bloggers like Jason Kottke and John Chow and that ProBlogger guy, monetize your blog using third-party advertising plugins like Google Adsense, TextLinkAds, or AuctionAds, write a minimum of three posts per day, ensure that each post is swamped with an overwhelming amount of links, build your RSS subscriber list to over 5,000 regular readers, sign up for additional blog services such as ReviewMe and PayPerPost, devote additional time to adding personalized content to other web services such as Flickr, Twitter, Last.fm, Virb, MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, Bebo and LinkedIn, and continue contributing to other web communities, discussion forums and community blogs that you’re a part of in order to keep up critical web connections.

But first you’ll have to purchase your own domain name and set up all your FTP information, select and install and customize an appropriate WordPress theme, configure a multitude of helpful WordPress plugins, widget and supplements, burn your site’s RSS feed using Feedburner, and prepare your site’s podcast using FeedPlayer, but don’t forget to boost your Technorati ranking, your Alexa ranking and your Google ranking, ensure that your blog is search engine optimized (SEO) for targeted keywords, launch a Google AdWords campaign to bring in extra traffic, send out a regular newsletter to your subscriber list, bring your Blackberry or mobile phone with you to most social engagements to ensure you’re being constantly updated about important developments on the web so you can post about it on your own site and take advantage of new services that might help your site, and ensure that your own RSS subscriptions include feeds from places like TechCrunch, Engadget and Lifehacker.

Additionally, you’ll need to ensure that you stay in close contact with your real-life friends, your family and your significant other, and make sure you allot adequate time during your day to spend time outside, get regular exercise, eat healthily and stick to a consistent workout schedule, while continuing to keep up your day job to ensure you are earning enough money to keep you afloat before your blog makes it big, although you’d be free to take the plunge and quit your job early just to devote more time to optimizing your blog, and don’t forget to document your blog-building adventures ON your blog as you go along to ensure that your progress is well-tracked and that everybody knows how much work you’re putting into things.

By following these helpful steps, you should start seeing results IMMEDIATELY. If you need any evidence, just take this site! Since February, I have devoted over 150 hours to building this website, and I have already made $6.34 in ad revenue alone, and that’s just after three months! I also have an RSS subscriber list that well surpasses 9 (nine) unique subscribers. I have even submitted posts from my site to Digg multiple times, and every post has scored more than 2 diggs each, one of them even getting as many as 5 diggs! Lastly, my credibility has gone through the roof. A brief look at my Technorati ranking shows my site is in the top 300,000 of all blogs on the Internet! And best of all, my level of personal self-satisfaction is at an all time high, knowing that all of the energy, time and creativity that I’ve devoted to my blog is paying off BIG-TIME in the form of deep and sincere online relationships with fellow bloggers, and by the incredible amount of money I continue to make each day. Thank God for blogging.

Kevan is a life-size replica of a 5'8" tall human being, and comes with several interchangeable outfits and a realistic haircut. With a BA in Communications from Trinity Western University, Kevan’s professional writing, graphic design, web and creative consulting services are available for hire. Kevan resides with his beautiful wife Kendra in Vancouver, BC, and is generally a nice person.
Email this author | All posts by Kevan

7 Responses »

  1. amen.

  2. Please remove your ads. They bring down your site design and don’t bring in much money anyway. If you want $6.34, I can take it from my tithe envelope and send it to Calgary. I can’t stand looking at the ads, and until this post limited my reading of the blog to my rss readers. Much love from Langley.

  3. Aww, Jaaaames, I’m trying very hard to sell out over here, and you go and point out that I’m making artistic compromises. I’m concentrating very closely on jeopardizing my creative credibility for the sake of cash, and all you can do is encourage me to let my content speak for itself? I’m making great efforts to allow a faceless corporate web presence to influence my otherwise-independent site just for the sake earning a few pennies-per-click, and you want me to STOP? This pains me, James, that you are giving me intelligent advice that is in my best interest, but requires me me to stop being greedy and start depending on my own meaningful content to make the site worthwhile.

    *sigh* Thanks for being a good friend. I’ll think about it.

  4. Top 300,000? That’s actually kind of impressive. I am last, just behind the guy that set up a blog about his cat.

    $6.34? That’s actually kind of impressive. I have accumulated zero dollars of wealth.

    Kevan? That’s actually kind of impressive. My name is spelled quite blandly.

  5. lol, i featured your comment on my (even if it´s german) site. I love that kind of irony. Keep up the good work :)

    http://thedevelopers.de/john-chow-die-geilste-internet-pottsau-der-welt/

    BTW: “pottsau” means smartass / weirdo in german hehe

  6. […] CHOW. What is with this? I thought if I copied every single thing you did I’d have discovered the amazing secrets to becoming rich and famous and successful and wildly popular just by sitting on my … Instead, I’m just another piss-poor, unoriginal wannabe blogger faking his way through the web […]

  7. Dear Mr. Gilbert
    impressed by your website earnings, we would like to interview you.

Leave a Reply