We are writing a series of articles on blog consulting about the benefits of starting a lot of websites to prode an income stream from the Internet.  We are going to work through the process of starting ten websites for ten dollars a year.

There are a lot of things we will have to cover in tghis series.  We will discuss how to get ten websites for ten dollars, how to set them up, and we will talk about the process of what kind of websites to start.  We want to create websites that will eventually develop traffic and that have some adsense value.

Let’s start by talking about Adsens value.   Google has a great little tool available that is called the Goodle Adwords Keyword tool.  You can access it at https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

This tool is designed for the people are going to advertise with Adwords but it works very nicely for giving you some idea of the value of certain keywords.  What we need to find out is if the keywords we are going to use on our sites have any measurable traffic, and what the going rate for a click for that keyword is.

By typing in a keyword phrase and checking out its estimated CPC we can get a rough idea of the adsense value for a keyword.  After much blog consulting thought, I have decided to demonstrate this process with the keywords alternative energy.  While this is a very competitive keyword, which is not one I would suggest for anyone, it shoud make an interesting demonstration site and perhaps ultimately I will be able to sell the site to someone who is trying to promote an alternative energy business in the future.

The Google keyword tool tell me the following about “alternative energy”

The important numbers are the estimated CPC $1.89 and the search volume, 368,000.  The higher the two numbers are the better, but, the keywords will be way more competitive.  Our strategy is going to be to look down on the list of related keywords and look for keywords that have a high CPC and a reasonable amount of monthly searches.  We are going to try and find ten keywords that fit our profile and then we will begin the process of starting the sites.

Some promising keyword possibilities that fit our profile are:

Renewable alternative energy, CPC 2.99, Searches 8100

Future alternative energy, CPC 5.78, Searches 1000

etf alternative energy, CPC 3.60, Searches 1600

We will continue to research the keywords and come up with a list of ten and then we are going to go shopping for a suitable domain name in our next blog consulting article.