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How to capitalize on "offensive" web content

         

roldar

5:43 am on May 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I'm not running an adult site, hate site, or anything terrible.

I've got a site where I use colorful language frequently, and almost every merchant running an affiliate program explicity states that they can't be promoted on "offensive" sites.

Just to see what my site would look like without anything "offensive" I removed all the offending words and allusions to "obscene" things, and found it to be rather dull. Maybe I'm just immature, but my content just doesn't work without offending the easily offended.

So I started wondering how I could capitalize on my articles, many of which attract the right demographics for some lucrative products. Has anybody found a way to make money on such a site without promoting adult material?

Is it acceptable to set up a proxy site, through which all transactions will occur? Suppose I put a link up for "27 inch plasma TV" and then people click on it and it takes them to my proxy site with a link then to the merchant. Does this sound like a legitimate work-around?

gazraa

12:47 pm on May 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



how about satellite sites? you can make them non offensive and link to them from your main site. the affiliate merchants will then be checking your smaller sites instead of the main one which puts them off.