A long time ago I scraped a lyrics website and wound up with 60,000 song lyrics. I sat on this for a while and then put them on a website RockFind.com. Rockfind made me about $20 a month before the recession and about $8 a month since. This is not much, but since the domain only costs me $9 a year, and my hosting sites have unlimited domains, I kept the site. I did no SEO on it and the site itself reflected my dismal graphic skills and my own lack of taste in website design.
I closed another site recently that was not performing, but had a pretty good template based on a free WordPress theme. I used just the format, not the WP programs. I adapted that theme for Rockfind.com based on what I have learned in the last year from WP hacking.
I never liked the domain Rockfind.com, but it has a Google Page Rank of 3.0. Wikipedia.org uses RockFind for some of its lyric references. It is too good a property to abandon and I should have gone about working on its SEO long ago.
I’ve registered it with Google Webmaster Tools, and I am going to start tweaking the Meta data and Titles as well as the links to make it more acceptable to Google. I don’t suppose that I can make a sitemap for all 60,000 songs, but I will try to generate one for the 1200 or so recording artists.
I am tempted to make context sensitive ads for Amazon, but I get very little return on any effort that I give Amazon. I might make an eBay panel based on the artist. I might look into iTunes to see if their affiliate program can be fed an artist or a particular song.
Hopefully, Rockfind.com will be making some decent money in the next few months.