Plan 8 From Inner Space

If that entry title amuses you, your name is probably David Christian Liedle. ;]

I've been working hard on one monetization project - a website I started back in 2002, and then left alone for several years.

SurgTech.info was once the top search result on Google for the term "surgtech". After a 3 year hiatus offline (there was no site there from 2005 to 2008!), its back and in the number 2 spot. Heh heh. You can check it out if you want to learn more about surgical technologists. I'm just mentioning it here because its one of the projects I'm converting into a (small/hopeful) source of income.

I used to get a lot of traffic at the site, and lots of schools linked to me. The reason was obvious - I was putting out good information for people that truly needed it. When they found me, their search was at an end. Answers galore.

Anywho, I never really did anything with the site to generate income, apart from about $5 in markup sales from the surgical technology gifts I designed. I had/have links up to sell a few books, which could provide referral revenue in theory. But I never really monetized that site's main value: traffic.

I've revived the site only because I happened to still have the URL, and I noticed that several schools and students still have links out there to what had become a non-existant site by the time I began researching it. I had shut the site down on purpose in 1995; I was a surgical tech student in another life, and the site was laid to rest along with that. But now I'm hoping to use it as a test-bed for a few development ideas, get the content out of the moth-balls, and shop it out to the highest bidder.

Its an asset that I can use as a guinea pig without feeling bad. Those are the best kinds of experiments, the ones where you can do literally anything you think of.

Well, I thought of adding some Google ads, and removing the XML content-type so Internet Explorer users can actually SEE the thing. Heh. (Did you know that IE is entirely unaware of the existance of XHTML? Microsoft is doing that on purpose. And its evil.)

If you don't have a CafePress site, you should get one! Its lots of fun to upload pictures and set them up as designs for Tee-shirts, mugs, and baby bibs. They even have a referral thing going on, so enter one of my shop names when you sign up!

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/about_me.aspx?s=guessmedia

k thx.