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Blog Consulting presents – Ten Websites for Ten Dollars a Year – Part 6
Posted by: | CommentsHere 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.
Blog Consulting presents – Ten Websites for Ten Dollars a Year – Part 5
Posted by: | CommentsWe 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.
Blog Consulting presents – Ten Websites for Ten Dollars a Year – Part 4
Posted by: | CommentsThis 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.
