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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 T.L.C. – Part 4
Posted by: | CommentsIn this series of articles on Blog Consulting we are talking about the three big factors of a successful blog, time, links, and content. In our last article we started talking about link building. We are going to continue that discussion in this article by talking about building links by using article marketing.
There are a lot of blogs and websites that are desperate for content. They will publish articles on their sites that you write and in return they will allow you to include two or more links in your article back to your site. There a lot of these sites on the Internet. Here are a couple of examples:
Article City (articlecity.com)
Ezine Articles (ezinearticles.com)
The only drawback to article marketing is that it takes a lot of time to submit your articles to all of the different sites. The way I cut down the time of this process is by using a service provided by Article Marketer . I just submit my articles to Article Marketer and they submit them to hundreds of other sites. They offer a free service which has a partial distribution, but I pay for the full service because I feel like I can make better use of my time than hand submitting each article to the various publishing sites.
The way the process works is that you write an original article about a topic that is in line with your blog. Do not duplicate articles on your blog. The best thing to do is write an article just for this process. If you cant do that, than do a thorough rewrite of one of your own existing articles. When you submit the article to article marketers, you can include two links back to your site in the author’s box. As part of the agreement for publishers putting your article on their site, they have to publish those two links as well. This does two things, it will give you traffic from people who read the article and follow the links, it will also count as two links. With Article Marketer your article has the possibility of being published on hundreds of websites. Do the math, two links times hundreds of websites, equals hundreds of links. If you can write two – four articles a month and submit them to Article Marketer you can generate a lot of links over time. Take some time to check out some of the various article marketing opportunities. Article Marketing can be time consuming, but it is a great way to build good links for your blog.
