$50 a day

Yeah, it's okay, the others are just being faeries about it. No one is going to bother you over it. But if it'll make you feel better, you can make a link from all of your pages to Creative's homepage with a text that says, "From the Creative Hompeage", etc, with a working link. Then you can use their description and images. And you're right, you are promoting them. Rather you sell anything or not, you're spreading the word, and their product ID, and they love you for it. You won't get any letters or complains from Creative in a million years.

As to rather the site can make you $50/day? Well it's all about traffic. The more you can get, the more you'll make. That's basically it. If you have the traffic, you can make a site about dirt and make $50/more a day.

 

I disagree.

It doesn't have to be Creative that nails him on this. Let's say he gets a decent search engine position with this site. Now imagine the guy two pages below him in the SERPs has been busting his butt to try to get a better ranking, but he's just going nowhere. So he starts looking for "unusual" ways to move up. He goes over all of the sites above him with a fine-toothed comb and finds one that has purloined copyrighted text and images on it AND is "borrowing" bandwidth from another site by serving some of the images directly from the manufacturer's web site.

He contacts Creative, the ISP, and Google AdSense with a DMCA complaint. Creative may or may not sue. They won't be too happy about their network bandwidth being used to put their copyrighted images on somebody else's site. Many ISPs yank the account immediately when a DMCA complaint is filed, especially when it's as easy to see as this one. Google may pull the AdSense account for one of their vague "illegal use" clauses. I've seen forum posts from people who seem to delight in playing "net cop" and reporting sites they see as bad to anyone who will listen.

Overall, I like the idea peeg has for the site. I'd run a spell-checker on it ("Family" is misspelled near the top of the front page.) Maybe you should contact Creative and ask if it's OK to use their photos (hosted on your server, of course) on your site. They may be accomodating. Going in this way up front beats having registered letters from lawyers showing up later. They probably won't let you use the ad copy that they paid a fortune to have developed, but you can always ask to see what they say.

Once you have the content questions all worked out, definitely get a real domain for it. If you build it to $50/day and then decide to change the domain, all of the traffic goes away. The search engines, blog postings, forum signatures, link exchanges, articles, etc. will all be pointing to the old site and you'll have to start over with the new domain.


Scott

 

making $50 a day is no easy task you will need a lot of traffic to make that Amount.