Brainstorming session - mainstream business.
 

Today you installed internet access and you have $2000 in your pocket for investments. You know quite a lot about html, marketing, SEO and stuff. You want to open a little mainstream business. What business would that be?

I start:
daily loto featuring some simple games like scratch cards.

i'd buy 40 depositing players for my casino ;)

are they for sale? :1orglaugh can you tell more about the system? I'm really thinking about opening a little loto/mini games portal.

knowing stuff will go a long way, for sure...

I'd build out a lead aggregation site for financial services, it's competitive for sure, but if you know what your doing there is easily room and payouts just go up and up. Especially for refinances.

buy 50 domains and a custom built seo script and use google adsense as sponsor

And put them on differing Class C hosts

$2000, eh? I'd set up a FREE dating site and make money on the upsells.

+ ebay as an affiliate :)
what are the most popular topics? just my few ideas that would be quite easy to collect info about:
recipes
hardware
software
gambling "secrets" site

sounds good! :thumbsup but not for me yet.

yea, and also pay a few $100 for some high pr relevant linkbacks

But what about the topics? In porn, it's quite easy - we have niches, porno actor names, paysites names, etc... The keywords are quite obvious. But what about mainstream? I get that your idea is to go with SEO, but where?

There are plenty of companies in mainstream that offer SEO/PPC solutions just like in porn. Since that is my background I know quite a few, it's really all the same except the adult industry does it first =)

yea, well in mainstream you have "niches" too.....ofcourse if you have a domain about casinos you try and get linkbacks from other casino related sites. As for the keywords the overture keyword lookup tool is a good start

Ok, I think the good start would be to find a list of the most popular keywords.

keep the idead coming :thumbsup