A Blog Consulting Happening
By · CommentsI guess you could file this article under “so what” but I felt like sharing something that has been happening here on Blog Consulting. We are showing up on the first page for a Google search of “Blog Consulting” every now and again. Here is some pictorial evidence:
Now, granted, Blog Consulting is showing up at the very bottom of page 1, but it is on the page. Why does it even mater? A page one return is the desired result for SEO efforts. The blogs and bloggers who sites show up on page one are an amazing group of blog consultants. I often read their blogs and I know what kind of work they are producing. Just to show up on the same page is what we consider a “happening”. When you work on a blog or website and finally see some Google recognition, it is a very satisfying feeling.
There is an extremely strong possibility that the slide will slide back to page 2 or 3 and then move forward again. Over time I hope to see this Blog Consulting site stay on Page 1 and hopefully move up somewhere in the top three for the keyword phrase “blog Consulting” and “Blog Consultant”. We will keep working and watching!
Here on Blog Consulting we are writing a series of articles about setting up ten websites/blogs for ten dollars a year. We are putting together a group of Alternative Energy Information sites. Currently we are setting up the sites so that they can have some potential income sources while they are developing relationships with the search engines. What kind of things should you have on your website/blog in the beginning phases? Let’s use Alternative Energy Stocks as an example.
On this site we have added a premium WordPress theme, then we added some affiliate links, we added five public domain articles about alternative energy stocks, and we added Google Adsense. If you look at the site you can see that we take time to keep the sites attractive. The Adsesne is carefully color coordinated to match the text and links on the rest of the site and the ads are placed carefully. We added a stock market ticker to give a more professional feel to the site as well. We want our content to be valuable, but the reality is that the best outcome for the site is that someone clicks on one of the Google ads or on one of the affiliate ads. If the site doesn’t look professional, the chances are that people will just move away from the site without clicking anything. This site presents well, and as we begin to see some traffic people should start to click on the ads.
A fairly normal click rate on Google is about 2 or 3 percent. That means that if hundred people visit the site, two of them will click on an ad. If the click is worth fifty cents or more than you can make a dollar for every hundred visitors. If the site is only costing you one dollar a year, it doesn’t take long to break even. It could take a while to get the first hundred visitors. We will discuss how to start getting traffic in future articles on Blog Consulting.
We continue in our series on blog consulting about the benefits of starting a large number of sites as a tool for making money on the Internet. We are demonstrating a method that puts a self hosted wordpress blog on the Internet for one dollar a year. To do this we pay ten dollars for a domain name at Good News Domains and then we take advantage of their free web hosting which allows us to get ten websites started under that one ten dollar domain name.
For our project we chose the domain name Alternative Energy Information (www.alternativeenergyinformation.net) which we have now set up and we have added the nine sub-domains, which gives us the ten websites for ten dollars a year. We have to set up each of the nine sub-domain sites so that they are functional. This requires installing WordPress, adding a theme, and adding content. We have finished setting up the first sub-domain site, Renewable Alternative Energy. We added five public domain articles to the site (using the public domain articles is handy because it is quick, but it has some drawbacks, namely, the articles don’t help us with our search engine optimization), we added Google Adsense (there is virtually no traffic to the sites right now so the Adsense isn’t effective, but if one person makes it to the site and clicks on a link, it could pay for the site for the year), and we also added some affiliate programs to the site which provide additional information and also another possible revenue stream.
We will repeat the process for each of the other eight sites, finding content and affiliate programs that fit the site. Then we let the sites kind of simmer a while so that the search engines can begin to relate to them. We will add an article or two a month, and we will begin the link building process. We will talk more about these three components (time, content, links) in future articles in this blog consulting series.
I had hoped to demonstrate how quickly the ten sen sites could be put up but I got busy with some other blog consulting work. Each site requires about two hours to reach the set up stage, this includes all the preliminary set up with the web host. I am hoping to have all the sites up by the end of May, 2009.
