I love playing games. I’ve probably tried out about 20 different MMOs this year, and I’ve stuck with a couple at a time. For many of you hustlers out there, you probably think PC games are a waste of time. Meh, its a form of entertainment. Some people go dance at a club, some people go raid some dungeons, then dance in their guild’s castle. What’s the big difference there, right?

Well, there are some ways you can actually get some cash back and build a decent website off of this with minimal investment. One such example I was working on that got me introduced to the idea was with the game Eve Online.

Now I could have gone off to sell my ISK (the in-game currency), but its against ToS and can be a lengthy boring process with very little reward when all is said and done. A new player could probably make enough to sell 5-10 dollars in ISK a day if they had a good corporation to party with.

What we want is a real asset. Something we can grow with minimal work on our end (grinding = work = not fun). So I thought, why not make an Eve Online blog. I won’t disclose the URL since I don’t play Eve anymore and the site is pretty much dead, but its got about 20 grammatically correct English, and 100% unique posts that I probably paid about $15 to get. A lot for a little.

The idea was, I offer a large sum of ISK to write. You can’t buy ISK with real money, but you can buy one month time-cards, which can then be sold for about 300,000,000 ISK. A month time card cost around $15 or so. To a new player, and even many veterans, 10 million ISK is a lot. You can go grind for a few hours to get that, or you can write 30 minutes for it. I think in some instances, I’d only be paying 20ish cents for a short article and $1.50 for a long 500 – 1000 word original walkthrough.

It was relatively easy to recruit people to write as there are several noob channels and recruitment channels that span across the whole universe. I’d request a sample article and if it was good, gave them an account on WordPress to keep writing.

So I’ve got a ton of great content that I payed $15 for. It’s also on a kick-ass domain. If I wanted to, I could sell it for a couple hundred bucks, or just slap some banners up and hope for some small ad revenue here and there.

It’s a basic idea that maybe some of you guys can take and expand upon, especially if you are a gamer like me.

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I’m no expert on SEO, so don’t take my advice on it. Most SEO guru out there says build links that aren’t no-follow for maximum results and boost your SEO ranking. I still have a few SEO projects I work on here and there, lightly, that make me a couple hundred bucks a month for 15 minutes of work a day, so I dilly dally in the subject. However, I don’t pay attention to follow or no-follow links. I believe a link is a link, and follow and no-follow links both have their positive effect to SEO.

A do-follow link, of course, passes link juice. Link juice is the soul to what helps you increase rankings in Google. From my understanding, though, a lot of do-follow links are posted on websites that are spammed by others hoping for a little bit of link juice. Not all of them are bad, but I hope you understand what I’m saying here.

No-follow links, are generally implemented to control spam on high traffic websites. Spammers usually don’t give a damn about no-follow links, because all they want are rankings for their poorly written/Google translated content so they can make more Adcents (Adsense) money. Now if you are writing good content that helps a user, this is why even a no-follow link can help you.

The user enters your website from some no-follow high trafficked website link, likes your blog posts or articles, bookmarks it for you, 5 other people read it from that book mark and a couple others post about it on their blog. You just built a few more links, follow and no-follow which essentially brings you direct (probably very targeted traffic) and helps give you a bump in the SERPs.

Again, I’m no expert at SEO, and this is just my thought on the subject. I outsource all my basic link building, but I don’t really care where my outsourcers get links (except all those spam filled WordPress blogs) because almost all of them provide some trickle of traffic. That can eventually mean an extra sale, lead or subscription generated that makes me money.