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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 3
Posted by: | CommentsIn this blog consulting series we are talking about setting up ten websites for ten dollars a year. We are going to start a group of websites about alternative energy and then we will put adsense on them and find some good affiliate programs to see if we can begin to make some money from the sites.
We need to get a domain name to get things started. This is what we are going to spend the ten dollars on. We are going to do our domain name research at Good News Domains, and then we will purchase the domain name (with tax the domain name will actually cost 10.19, so I rounded down for the title of the series). Good News Domains will then provide us with free hosting for our ten websites. We will set the main one up with the domain name we purchased, and then we will set up the others as sub-domains with the keywords we researched earlier.
Alternative energy is very competitive and so we had to get creative to get a domain name that would work. We finally decided on and purchased Alternative Energy Information (www.alternativeenergyinformation.net). We will set this site up with the free linux hosting provided by Good News domains. The next step will be to set up the sub-domain sites. This method will work fine as we are going to be expecting the search engines to bring traffic to our sites. Over the next couple of week we will be getting the following sites going.
Renewable Alternative Energy
Future Alternative Energy
etf Alternative Energy
Mutual Fund Alternative Energy
Business Alternative Energy
Alternative Energy Funds
Alternative Energy Investments
Alternative Energy Stocks
Alternative Energy Sources
Getting these sites started will require us to create MYSQL databases and then installing Wordpress for each of the sites. This process is really fairly easy once you get used to it. It requires some knowledge of how to use FTP (file transfer protocol), and how to unzip files. Good News Domains provides an FTP program or you can use Firezilla or any other FTP program you are comfortable with. We will continue this blog consulting series of articles after we get the sites up and running.
