Depression? Recession? Boom Times? One industry never fails to deliver, and that’s the wedding industry. The only things that change in the marital industry are the seasons. And, of course, spring and summer are boom times. That’s why well SEO’d authority sites like themaidofhonorguide.com can be killer Adsense vehicles. This particular site makes a healthy annual sum off of Adsense alone. But tucked away among various useful items for visitors are a few affiliate offers which are simply the icing on the revenue cake.

Of course, the problem with sites like these is that your audience is perpetually fleeting virtually always new visitors. They aren’t interested in long standing relationships with the site. This is purely SERP traffic that may only be around for a single article. So focusing your efforts on gaining traffic is really your main priority. Not a bad proposition. Not a bad residual earner.

Game sites have been hot commodities for people attempting to build out niche sites with returning audiences. The keywords surrounding these sites have the ability to bring in a steady flow of traffic. And that’s exactly what enjoyagame.com does.

This site may not have the best Alexa ranking, or make tons of money, but it does have a dedicated audience and that can really make the difference between a profit and a loss. Rushes of traffic aren’t necessary to making considerable amounts of money. You can do just as easily with a small but highly focused audience. Enjoy a Game average something like 5 and half page views per visit. Yet they are relying solely on Adsense for revenue. This owner could easily increase their revenue by simply adding some CPM ads.

But… They could really take this site to next level by pairing down the Adsense presence and offering a plainly visible CPA add. Of course, they might be able to do very well by offering a simple giveaway and building a credible and focused mailing list that might respond to multiple CPA or Affiliate offers which they are truly interested in.

EnjoyAGame smellslike money on the table if you ask me.

This site is a testament to the simple fact that you only need a highly targeted traffic source. And there is none better than Google. So, with Google pushing ton’s of relevant traffic to the site, the owners of learnhypnosisinyourhome.com have turned about 4,000 unique visitors per month into absolute passive GOLD.

Through powerful content, powerful SEO, and powerful product offerings this webmaster has managed to make well into the 5 figures per year simply selling an ebook for $22.00. They also maintain a mailing list. But, as every ethical marketer knows, your mailing list should be reserved for primarily helpful content. Every so often you can offer your mailing list something of value to their interests. And that is exactly what they have done. And because they don’t spam their list, their readers are super responsive.

This is the perfect execution. Hypnotizing.

SaveTodayAutoInsurance.com is an extremely interesting lead gen site. I have seen many similar models that are based on CPC advertising that payout very well, but this site takes that same concept one step farther by selling leads directly to a marketing firm. Lead generation for auto and health insurance can pay in the neighborhood of $50, or more, per lead and can be extremely lucrative if you can drive the correct traffic. This particular site appears to be professionally designed and coded, with high level click tracking implementation. They appear to be selling leads to Trouve Media and making somewhere around $11,000.00 in monthly revenue and netting out about $3,000 after their marketing expenditures.

This is an excellent implementation of a proven idea. This can be extremely profitable.

Selling Twitter services was an extremely hot market last year. I suppose it may still be, but I was a little surprised to see that a business like get twitters was still up and running. Some time ago Twitter went on the offensive and tried to deflate the thousands of businesses on their periphery. However, many companies like gettwitters.com are still in business selling a service that automatically adds new twitter followers to your account. The obvious benefit for the end user is that they now have a larger audience to tweet (or market) to.

GetTwitters makes about $1,500 – $2,000 per month fairly passively. The site is extremely well designed and would be fairly easy to set up yourself. All that you really need is a script which automatically logs into a users account and then seeks out other accounts to add as a follower. The script only executes so many requests per day in an attempt avoid detection from Twitter. I am sure that today there are a fairly good number of scripts which would offer this entire business in a box.

I can’t tell you how many static html sites I see that are dragging in some decent set and forget Adsense (or even Amazon Affiliate) income. In fact, I have noticed that on the whole static html tends to fair better than letting a wordpress site age. A decent example is walnutflooring.org, which passively generates about 100 per month. Another execution of the same concept can be found at GlobalNursingHub.com.

There are several critical components that go into making this happen:

Aggressive Adsense placement is obviously a top priority.

Exact Domain Matching can certainly help. That is to say that if your domain exactly matches the search engine query you are much more likely to gain a viable income which justifies your efforts. You can most likely get by with an extra word (like “hub”) but it will make things much more difficult.

BACKLINKS, BACKLINKS, BACKLINKS. The key to making something like this work is to generate a solid backlink portfolio. When it comes to backlinks quality can often outweigh quantity. I have seen certain publishers build out dozens of $200/month static sites based largely on eZineArticle backlinks.

I would imagine that just about every enterprising webmaster has considering outsourcing content creation as a business model. OrderArticlesNow.com is one example out of the 7 zillion content writing businesses that typically last for about 3 months on the web.

If you know where to look you can most likely lock down a half decent writer for about $3.00 per300 word article. The hardest part is usually just finding one that can write a coherent sentence in English. What we see here is someone making a few hundred extra dollars per month by charging 5 dollars for something that costs them 3 dollars. However, once you factor in their PPC costs they probably aren’t even justifying the time it takes them to take orders and pass them on to the writer.

It generally doesn’t take people long to figure out that this business model…. sucks.

I typically skip over any site that looks like it might have anything at all to do with the Acai Berry or any derivative thereof. However, some intelligent group of folks decided they would just go ahead and make their own weight loss offer. Using media buys, affiliate networks, emailing and ppc, Maquickslim.com generated monthly revenues of about $35,000.00. Pushing their own labeled weight loss product they were able to net out profits of about $16,000.00 per month.

I believe that the FDA may have changed the laws recently regarding weight loss products (AKA diet supplements), but in the past you never needed FDA clearance on basic herbal supplements. This loophole allows for just about anyone to create their own diet supplements without having to go through a lengthy governmental approval process. Combine that drive with affiliate and CPA know-how and you have a full fledge retail outfit on your hands.

If you’re not familiar with Fiverr you should definitely check it out. Fiverr let’s people buy and sell services for a flat fee of $5. It’s been incredibly popular, so of course someone should make an info product about it. MoneyFromFiverr.com makes about $200 per month selling an eBook that purports to show others how to make money on Fiverr. Sometimes I am amazed at the worthless infoproducts that people will pay for.

Last I heard this site (AutoGTrends.com) was making around $500 per month selling a premium WordPress Plugin that allows you to automatically add content based around Google’s Hot Trends terms. This site is really well designed, but has terrible English. I suppose that is to be expected when you’re dealing with a WordPress Plugin programmer. Here’s the deal killer on this product though; Google is killing sites that it now considers to be search engine baiting “content farms”. This news seems to be all over mainstream media and even has some questioning the feasibility of Demand Media’s (eHow.com) IPO.

The important thing here is that you can scrape up some fairly good income if you have a solid WordPress plugin to sell. WordPress is so widely used that your marketing potential is huge. Capturing just a small portion of this market can really return some great revenue. Now, if these plugin programmers could just stay away from scraping content they’d be doing everyone a favor.