Who Makes the Dollars/Pounds/Moolah! Etc

Sloughing through the emails

[King_Fisher]

Spent an half hour going through the in box deleting all the
Marketing Messages.

It got to me wondering about who really makes the money on
the Internet.

Is it the affiliate sites?

Is it the Adsense sites?

Or is it all the e/books, e/programs, Marketing Gurus?

Using a bench mark of hundred thousand a year(earnings)
Do you think 95% of those who make over that amount are
Gurus of one kind or another?

What do you think?

[rocker]

It got to me wondering about who really makes the money on
the Internet.

Is it the affiliate sites?

Is it the Adsense sites?

Or is it all the e/books, e/programs, Marketing Gurus?

It's the ones that show up first in Google serps :)

[King_Fisher]

Rocker, Point well taken!

[londrum]

...people who make anti-spam software?

[willybfriendly]

It got to me wondering about who really makes the money on
the Internet.

It's the Nigerians. I just got an email from one of them...

WBF

[King_Fisher]

Can anyone take a guess? Anyone?,,,,,,

[vik_c]

It's the government, really. Whatever you do, whether it's earn, spend, save, invest, give away or lose, they want a piece.

[jsinger]

It's the Nigerians. I just got an email from one of them...

If there was so much money in "nigerian" scams, crooks in other countries would be doing 'em

[LifeinAsia]

If there was so much money in "nigerian" scams, crooks in other countries would be doing 'em

They do- about half of the scam messages I get these days are for countries other than Nigeria.

Actually, the Nigerian e-mail scam is just the latest version of a con that has been around for almost 100 years.

Also, other countries have laws (that they may or not enforce) prohibiting these types of scams. They supposedly do in Nigeria as well, but enforcement is non-existant. I heard (may have been an urban myth) that thse types of scams are Nigeria's 2nd largest factor for GDP behind oil.

[arieng]

It's gotta be e-commerce sites selling hard products.

[jsinger]

Nigerian-type scams can be traced back to the late 1930s or before, but on a tiny scale. The roots are European.

I used to get scam letters at work by regular mail 20 years ago...always from Nigeria, How did they afford the heavy cost of overseas postage? Some have indicated the stamps came from corrupt connections or were counterfeit.

I get Nigerian-type emails that purport to originate outside Africa but the wording and style suggests they are from Africans in other places. Understand there are Nigerians in the Toronto Canada area involved in the scam.

A few Asians and E Europeans have tested the Nigerian formula. The lack of follow-up suggests to me that there isn't all that much money in it. The problem with sending out 10s of millions of emails is that they must get thousands of scam-bait responses that must be sifted thru. No doubt they get many responses from suckers who have no money to scam. This must be a fairly labor intensive way to make money.

Have you ever heard of a highly profitable fraud that is confined to one country or small region? I haven't. Contrast that situation with phishing which probably comes from many places and is surely more profitable. Credit card fraud attempts on our website are worldwide.

[ann]

Who is making most money? Why, Google, of course.

[King_Fisher]

The question is.....

Who makes the most money!?

Adsense Sites/ Affiliates Sites/ ECommerce Marketers?

Come on guys, pick one of the above!

Google and The Nigerians weren't on the list.

Read the original post. Geeze... :)

[ann]

It really depends on what fits best on a given site.

Some say adsense and others say ecommerce...all depends on what works well with what you have.

Ann

[vik_c]

There's nothing equal to having your own E-commerce business if you're successful. Affiliate sites can go from thousands of dollars a month to zilch. In Adsense you can get on the wrong side of Google and lose everything. Of course there are other contexual ad networks but you get the point. Your own E-commerce brand in a stable industry with loyal customers is head and shoulders above a lot else. You can lose Google traffic but if you have a strong brand, people will come to you directly. It can be quite a good source of generating revenue, I'm inclined to think.

[Marcia]

As part of the big picture, it's a relatively small percentage of the huge number of sites online that are Adsense sites. Same with affiliate sites. It would have to be the ecommerce sector that's getting most of it, where profit is concerned.

How many Adsense sites would it take to make as much in a year as just Amazon?