I've launched a new fun site called YouAreWhatYouBeat.com where you can buy a widget that links three words from a song's lyrics to your blog or site. I didn't have PlentyFish in mind when I built this but now I see it could work very well. Especially if your lyrics are from a love song. Check It Out

PlentyofFish, the free dating site, is making it's owner over $15k a day. And $10k of that is coming from Google Adsense earnings alone - he's their best client. Truly amazing huh? And still, as I understand it, a one-man show. Run from Markus Frind's Toronto apartment. Is this the future? Can we all become online moguls this way? We probably need to learn code and write our own algorithms just like Markus has. Read more on this remarkable business below.

Key PartyHoly Moley...PlentyofFish founder Marcus Frind reports on his blog that he's passed the 50 million daily page views.

Last month marked the first time I passed 50 Million daily pageviews and 50 Million monthly visitors, basically passing all the milestones I’d ever set for the site.

And what sort of money is this one-man-show work-from-home operation making? Millions. He's pulling over $10k a day - yep, a day, from Google Adsense alone (making him their #1 customer).

I've blogged before about PlentyofFish and Marcus Frind. Read below. I'm in awe of this 30 year old. Oh yeah...he's also a mathematical genius.

His blog is also talking about spammers cracking Captcha codes

Spammers can crack any captcha on any site now in a matter of seconds. There are even sites like CaptchaKiller.com which allow you to break captcha’s using API’s.

Marcus was able to break any dating site's captcha. Including his own Plentyoffish captcha.

CaptchaKiller would have us believe they are providing a public service -

CAPTCHA Killer is 100% focused on increasing accessibility on the Internet. There are over 1 Million Americans that suffer from blindness. CAPTCHA Killer can be used to automatically translate an image into the underlying text...Won't spammers use this? - They wish! We don't do business with spammers. We can detect and delete spammers from the system.

Sure you can.

PofF 8/10

This is incredible! Look at this. PlentyofFish has beaten MSN and Facebook on the Compete.com Top Ten U.S websites ranking (based on the parameters below - not just traffic). Not just that - look at the other sites on this list - Pogo - a games site, followed by two gay date sites (ha ha) and a site dedicated to scribblers. And the avatar playground for kids GaiaonLine is performing well too. Markus Frind has this to say about his site's listing -

The average unique visitor spends 3.6 hours a month on Plentyoffish.com verses 2.8 hours/month on Facebook.com. Considering Plentyoffish has 30% monthly turnover in members, showing up in that list at all is absolutely amazing and shows just how useful & addictive the site really is.

I think it also helps his traffic the way he regularly nudges you with an email ;-)

More on this here at Plentyoffish

Markus FrindPretty cheesy video of geeky PlentyofFish founder Markus Frind on his hosts site Peer1.com

Here's part of what they say about him -

"Google Adsense millionaire Markus Frind, founder of PlentyofFish was a database and web developer who graduated from college in 1999 with a diploma in computer science. This was also the time of the dot-com meltdown. Jumping from job-to-job, Markus began developing a home-grown site to help himself learn ASP.net. Rather than buy a book, he learned by adding new functions and features to the site. He also started experimenting with search engine optimization (SEO) strategies and incorporating them into the site. Gradually, it morphed quite unintentionally into an online dating center. The site has continued growing astronomically ever since and is now the No. 1 free online dating site in the world, averaging 8 million unique visitors per month. His bank account has grown fatter as well thanks to the Google ads he runs on the site. He has also garnered international attention, including being featured in the Wall Street Journal and on the Today Show.

What makes Markus’ story even more incredible is that he is the sole operator of the company who wears all the hats – Executive, Finance, Marketing, Operations, Business Development, and Customer Service. He operates PlentyofFish out of PEER 1’s data center location in Vancouver, Canada with just one web server, one mail server, and two database servers. Most sites with his volume run servers numbering in the hundreds and its Markus efficient use of human resources and hardware that he is most proud of. He also seems to relish in his unlikely status as the online ‘love doctor’ and seeing the hundreds of thousands of people he has helped to connect successfully using his unique ‘compatibility predictor’ algorithm. And there are, no doubt, countless interesting and amusing PlentyofFish inspired stories out there."

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