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Blog Consulting presents – Ten Websites for Ten Dollars a Year – Part 2
Posted by: | CommentsWe 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.
Blog Consulting presents – Ten Websites for Ten Dollars a Year – Part 1
Posted by: | CommentsOften times people find their way to this blog consulting site because they are trying to figure out if they can actually make some money on the Internet. The answer is yes and maybe. There are people who are making a lot of money on the Internet. There are some people who make a little bit of money on the Internet, and there are some people who don’t make any money and actually lose money by giving it to the people who are making money.
If you are thinking that you should be able to make a lot of quick easy money on the Internet, you need some blog consulting, because you are wrong. If you would like to start your own business, that you work at part time and start by making a little bit of money that eventually develops into more money, then the Internet might be a good fit for you. There are actually a quite a few ways to make money. You can use Adsense from Google to monetize your site with other peoples ads. You get paid for clicks from those ads. Some clicks are worth two or three cents, while others can be worth one, two, or three dollars. For Adsense to be really effective you have to have a lot of traffic on your website. You can get involved in affiliate programs where you recommend products or services from your blog and you get paid by the sale or by the click. Again traffic is important. You can also sell advertising space on your blog once it is developed.
One approach to consider, is to start a lot of websites that make a little bit of money. If you can get a website online in a short period of time, that doesn’t require a lot of maintenance, that makes you fifty cents or a dollar a day, that doesn’t seem like much. But what if as you got used to starting blogs you realized that you could get a site up and running in a couple of hours. That you could easily get five new sites started every week, and if each site could make you a dollar a day, by the time you got a hundred websites running you could start making a reasonable income. You could then further develop the sites that capture the most organic traffic and turn them in to more significant income producers.
In this series of articles I will outline for you how to get blogs started for very little money, just like the title implies, ten websites for ten dollars a year. If those ten websites can make you ten dollars a day, then you have a good start. You can keep adding ten websites for ten dollars a year and over time develop a nice steady income. Each site will only cost you a dollar a year, so you can start an unlimited number of sites. In our next article in the series we will start laying the groundwork for the first ten blogs/websites.
Blog T.L.C. – Part 3
Posted by: | CommentsIn this series of articles on Blog Consulting we are talking about the big three components of a successful blog; time, links, and content. We talked about content in our last article. In this article we will begin to talk about links. How much competition there is for your keywords will determine how many links you will need to get for your site to show up on page 1 of Google. One of the best ways to figure out how many links you will need, is to get an idea of how many links your competition has. To help us with this we are going to use a handy little tool from Yahoo.com called “linkdomain”. What you need to do is do a Google search for your keywords and see what sites show up in the top five spots. For example, let’s do a Google search for “blog consulting”:
Now, take the URL’s for the sites that show up and go to Yahoo.com. Once you get to the search engine on Yahoo type in the following: linkdomain:and the URL address. Here is what it will look like for the top result for blog consulting.
The result for that search looks like this:
And there you have it. 40,322 links is what you would need to compete with the position one return for blog consulting on Google. Don’t worry, blog consulting is a very competitive keyword, and your keyword choice will probably not be nearly as competitive. When you are looking for keywords to help your blog, finding out how many links the competition has can be a big factor in determining if the keyword is worth pursuing. If your competition has 40,00 links, you should probably look for a different keyword.
That being said, how do you develop links? One of the first things you should do is begin to read and comment on 4 or 5 blogs that are similar to yours. If you build some online community you may be able to exchange links after a while. You will also generate some traffic to your site by leaving comments, and the people who come to your site are potential links as well. It is a good first step. We will discuss more linking options in future articles.
