I have a newsgroup with 1000 members, what is the best way to upgrade to a blog or a web site and make money?

Question

Built a local newsgroup to help communicate among people who move into the city as expatriates and have 1000 members now. I am planning to upgrade to a blog or a web site where I can organize events, help members interact, provide helpful information and of course make money from ads. Anysuggestions?

Answer 1

Try Yuwie (see my Profile here or the link below). It is a social networking site with the ability to create blogs and groups and sounds ideal for your purpose.



It pays you on the basis of page views and has a referral structure to 10 levels, so the more referrals (members of your group) you have, the better for you and them.

Answer 2

US Government has appointed some 10,000 people in CentCom to debunk the 9-11 conspiracy theories. The Government is spending more money on cover-up than on the basic investigation. When a terrorist activity happens, the first thing that a Government naturally does is to handover the case to the police, provide them all the support and protect the crime scene. This is what the Government did not do indicating their own involvement. The security chief post and the Attorney General post were given away to dual citizens of Israel - USA. (Since they have started an oil war, they have given oil ministry and airforce chief post also to dual citizens). Unfortunately, they are unable to prove that it was done by Muslim Extremists. They are unable to disprove the role of CIA-Mossad in this operation because the evidence is too obvious. They are yet to come out with a plausible theory on the Building 7 even after 7 years. What will they do now ? The truth will eventually come out. Nixon felt that truth would never come out but two journalists unravelled the truth. It will happen here also. And when it happens, the present top people in positions of power and their rulers in Tel Aviv will hide where ? Bush has atleast purchased 100,000 acres of land in Paraguay to settle down but not the others.

Answer 3

Lots of places to publish your Blog or web site. Build it, and send an invite to your newsgroup members.



Now making money is another thing, make your blog or web site out of a labor of love. Unless you can find a big sponsor behind the site, or special interest group that you can cater to. The ads you can display may enable you to keep the site accessible, but you're not going to make much money. And anyone who says otherwise is just scaming you.

Answer 4

I would use some sort of CMS to build an online community with Forums and articles etc. If you could find some way of turning the newsgroup posting into forum threads that would be great. Or you could just ask your users to start posting in the forum instead of the newsgroup.

DONT just delete the newsgroup.

Throw adsense/yahooAds on the forum/articles and profit.

Answer 5

It is usually possible to sell advertising on your site.