I started a brand new site about jokes
Recently I wanted to to see how hard it is to build a new site about jokes. Why jokes? I think “jokes” is one of the best web 2.0 topics you can think about. Almost everyone knows one or two jokes, so anybody can contribute! The first thing I did was to get a good domain name – I chose www.guter-witz.at which means good jokes in german. Pretty neat name, isn’t it?
I chose WordPress as my site platform because it is easy to install and it is easy to work with. Five minutes later I had my jokes blog up and running.
Next thing was to start getting some content…as it is all about jokes I just wrote a few posts with random jokes that came to my mind. One of the benefits of choosing a blog platform for the site is that for every post you can choose a category and you do not have any work with getting a category structure for your jokes afterwards. You can even put a joke in multiple categories – WordPress handles it all. Now it seems that Chuck Norris jokes are quite popular in german speaking countries at the moment, so after a while I started getting hits in the Chuck Norris Witze category.
What else did I do – I posted some comment on do follow blog, which I found over here: Find http://www.seo-traffic-guide.de. Shortly after that I found that especially short jokes (Witz des Tages) were very popular.
So far my jokes site is pretty successful, people like the jokes and even started sending me new ones to publish.
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