In today’s post I am going to give my opinion and views on profiting from the world’s largest social network, MySpace. Many internet entrepreneurs have MySpace resource sites. These are simply cookie cutter websites that provide MySpace users with layouts, graphics, music/video codes, and just about everything else a member can use to customize their profile. I have gotten into the MySpace scene a little late… actually like 2 years late. I’ll first list my 2 or 3 MySpace websites and then go into my opinion on all of the resource sites.

  • MySpace Link Directory
  • Layout Pimps
  • Free MySpace Backgrounds
  • My opinions

MySpace Link Directory

I have owned several directories in the past. From my experiences, directories don’t make as much money from Adsense as they do from selling featured links. From my previous directories, I’ve probably only made $15-$20 from featured link sales. I never kept a directory long enough to earn PageRank, so I never experienced the true earning potential. Directories are also attractive sales, making them valuable in my eyes. MyLink-Space.com is my very first MySpace related site. It is simply a directory for all other MySpace sites, anything from layout generators to profiles.
I have so far sold only 1 featured link spot for $1/month (that’s why this site isn’t in my “big” three yet). I think this site has potential to be an excellent MySpace directory. While I’m not too fond of the name, I had to find something that did not have myspace in the domain. Rumors are going around saying MySpace is cracking down on people using their name in a domain for a profit. This site is about a week old.

Layout Pimps

For some reason, someone declared the word “pimp” to be the official word for customizing your MySpace profile. Everyone has pimp, pimpin, pimpmy, or pimpanything in their domain. Google search pimp and I wouldn’t be surprised if everything on there was MySpace related.

Layoutpimps.net is a cookie cutter resource site. It looks like just about every other MySpace resource website out there. All I did is add my own links and change the header. From what I’ve heard these sites are very profitable if you can drive traffic to them. Notice the images by the top center Google ad. Traffic comes to these sites like a virus. Most of the graphics and what not have links back to the homepage, so if someone displays something from layoutpimps.net it will also display my URL on their profile page. Layoutpimps is also a week old.

Free MySpace Backgrounds

I got domain registering happy when Registerfly was running their $2.75 .NET domains. So I registered freespacebackgrounds.net. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with this name, but I’m sure it will be MySpace related. “Free space backgrounds” is a high search term for some reason, so this domain could help bring me to that next level ($10/day).

My Opinions on MySpace

There’s probably not a day that goes by where I don’t hear the name MySpace. Being involved in an internet business it is almost vital to keep up with the times. MySpace is a hot bed for teenagers and young adults. It has become overly saturated with marketing types and spammers, but somehow they are still effective. People spam out mass bulletins with links to their websites to thousand and thousands of friends. Spam has a negative connotation, but it can still be a very effective form of marketing. I feel that if I want either of my MySpace related websites to take off, I will have to revert to spamming people’s profiles.

I personally don’t have a problem with it or people who make a living from it. No one is making the person click on the bulletin or click on the link inside of it. It is the users choice to visit the website. I don’t have any MySpace accounts with more than 400 friends. I have 2 accounts that I use for business only, myspace.com/fightsonglyrics and myspace.com/historum. I use them to keep in contact with people who are interested in my sites. I send out about 1 bulletin a week. I do not have a personal account on MySpace, and I never will.

Well that about sums up everything I have to say about MySpace and my own resource websites. I’m getting in the game late, but I still think there is money to be made. I am not counting on this ever bringing in $100/day, but with these two sites combined with all my others, I hope it can bring me to the $10/day in a few months.