This series on blog consulting is about the benefits of starting a large number of sites as a tool for making money on the Internet.  In order for it to work the cost has to be reasonable, and the method we are demonstrating 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.   We chose the domain name Alternative Energy Information (www.alternativeenergyinformation.net) and we are in the process of adding sub-domain sites right now.  In fact, as I write this article on one computer, I am installing Wordpress on the sites with my other computer.  The process takes some time, but considering it is virtually free, it is worth the up front investment of time.  The reality for me is that when it is all said and done and I have the initial phase of the ten sites completed, I will have about two hours in each site.  By that time the sites will be adsensed, have some affiliate links, and have a WordPress theme that I have tweaked for SEO purposes installed.  I will install some public domain articles initially, and then after the sites have aged a little I will begin to add more content rich articles.

I have already laid the groundwork on the head site at Alternative Energy Information, and once I get Wordpress installed on the other nine sites I will begin the process of getting them ready.  Initially, to save time, the sites will all have the same theme, I will change the colors for a little variety, but I just want to get them up to start getting some Internet time.  Time is a big factor with SEO.  So is content.  And so are links.

I have Future Alternative Energy and Renewable Alternative Energy already up and Wordpress’d.  They are just sitting there with the Kubrick theme saying “hello world”.  Normally, I would write an article. point a feew links at the site, and just let it sit.  However, for the sake of this article, I will try and get the sites up in the near future.  I am installing Alternative Energy Funds as I am writing and I am timing how long it takes from the time I edit the wp-config file until I have the Wordpress installation completed.  I just finished Alternative Energy Funds and it took exactly fifteen minutes.  I am not just sitting here watching files transfer, I am multi-tasking on three computers which makes the time go really quick, but in a little over two hours I should have these nine sites up and running with the Kubrick theme.

I spent two hours this morning doing some affiliate research so when I start customizing the sites it should go pretty quickly.  In the next blog consulting article I will write about how the sites are developed.  If you have questions about the basics of how to create a blog, I would recommend you visit My Newbie Blog (www.mynewbieblog.com) for information on WordPress basics.