06-30-2014, 04:05 AM
For just over a year I used to run, for my boss, what was, at the time anyway, the number one Preppers site on the Internet. TheComingDepression.blogspot.ca . I also started http://www.thecomingdepressionblog.com/. To try to move the site to it's own domain. My boss bought it from a guy Scott, from Vancouver. I actually did the transaction for him. Scott would only take gold, there was a tax advantage which I forget now. I believe you don't have to pay tax on purchases of gold (?). We paid $10,000 in gold for the site and the dot com domain. I found an exchange in Vancouver and wired them the money and set up a password with them, then phoned Scott, and gave him the password. He went in and picked up the gold.
The site had been banned from Adsense for begging people to click the ads. We set up a new Adsense account and added some other ads and waited to see what would happen. Nothing happened. This was 2009 and Europe was threatening to collapse so the site was full of traffic, got lots of mentions on TV and radio, which would drive the traffic crazy, but no matter what I did it would not make any money. Those cheap Prepper asses would not click on anything or buy anything all summer.
But in the fall, the place went nuts. We had ads from some dried food company in the US all over the site (just looked, they are still there) and they have a big sale every fall. We made almost $6000 that fall on dried foods, like beans. I ended up leaving the guy so don't know much about how it does these days .
Preppers don't spend!
The site had been banned from Adsense for begging people to click the ads. We set up a new Adsense account and added some other ads and waited to see what would happen. Nothing happened. This was 2009 and Europe was threatening to collapse so the site was full of traffic, got lots of mentions on TV and radio, which would drive the traffic crazy, but no matter what I did it would not make any money. Those cheap Prepper asses would not click on anything or buy anything all summer.
But in the fall, the place went nuts. We had ads from some dried food company in the US all over the site (just looked, they are still there) and they have a big sale every fall. We made almost $6000 that fall on dried foods, like beans. I ended up leaving the guy so don't know much about how it does these days .
Preppers don't spend!