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  • 1 New Blog Per Week

    Posted on September 7th, 2009 28 comments

    2009 has flown by and since end of year is coming up in a few months, I’ve been looking back on the year gone by to see how much ground I’ve made.

    Although my income has been good, I’m disappointed that I have not created as many NEW sites as I should have… so from now until year’s end I’m going to create 1 BRAND NEW blog every single week.

    This will include creating/outsourcing around 20-50 posts per blog that will be scheduled to post plus using the WP-Robot plugin to automatically generate hundreds of product focused posts that include my affiliate link (great for easy extra keyword rich content).

    Discarding the Christmas and New Year period, during which my motivation to work goes out the window, I should have around 14 brand spanking new blogs up and full of content by the end of 2009.

    This is going to put me in a great position to capitalize on this real estate all throughout next year.

    It’s never too late to create some new goals, and you can certainly achieve them faster than you think!

    Update October 1 2009:
    I have created around 5 new blogs since posting this. Plus I cheated a bit – I have bought 4 websites which were all actually static HTML or PHP and I’ve converted them to Wordpress. Some had PR, backlinks and some traffic and Adsense earnings + unique content so its a nice little head start. I’ll post a full post update on this project in a couple of months.

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    • I like this idea. But what do you do for a whole week for each site? ie in terms of promotion and all that.

      If i create a site and outsource the articles i can have it up in a day, so theoritically i could do about 5 sites per week…. if i had that discipline!!

    • Yes you could create 5 sites in a week, or instead concentrate on making one site really great.

      Personally I prefer quality over quantity these days. So I like to spend an entire week on a site, building it up and doing some back linking as well.

      Because i write most of my own content that does take up quite a bit of time I must admit, so if you’re always outsourcing you COULD spend just 2-3 days instead of 5 or 6 days on a new site..

      Either way, as long as you’re creating you’re going to win in the long run!

    • Thanks for the update Rebecca, sounds like you are really working hard and taking action.

    • Hi

      I am also trying to get at least 1 blog up every week in a different niche to test out the best products and then I will build out the best ones and flip the others!

      Julie

    • Hi Rebecca,

      I’m a bit slow. I did just finish my second Search Engine Loophole project, where 10 non-monetized blogs with content from CC point to each other and to 10 small related-topic affiliate sites using a link rotator script.

      I had a little success with the method in the spring promoting a seasonal digital product, got a late start so not much money but I’m ready for next spring.

      Just picked up wp-robot and a couple used domain names plus a new high traffic misspelling. I’m itching to try out the content quality vs quantity theory now.

      I do like reading your good stuff.

      Thanks,

      Todd

    • Sounds good Julie, lots of money to be made in site flipping.

      Todd sounds like a plan!
      Also seasonal products can bring in a lot of money at certain times of year so don’t discount them :)

    • Hey Rebecca,

      When you use WP-Robot to drip-feed your posts is it possible to create text links to products in those posts? Can the posts you write yourself (not the auto-generated posts) be monetized in anyway?

    • Also, do you use Firepow for all of your blogs? How many do you currently have up and running with the Firepow system?

    • Ok, two more questions and then I promise I’ll shut up and go to bed :)

      With Firepow, can it drip-feed original content that you create or only the scraped content from Youtube, Ezine, etc? If not is this what you use WP-Robot for?

    • “This will include creating/outsourcing around 20-50 posts per blog that will be scheduled to post plus using the WP-Robot plugin to automatically generate hundreds of product focused posts that include my affiliate link (great for easy extra keyword rich content).”

      Do you use WP-Robot in addition to FirePow?

    • I use both Firepow and WP-robot, but not at the same time. Some blogs are at firepow, some aren’t. I think I have about 30 set up in FP right now. I like to mix it up.

      William you can include anything in your WP-Robot blog posts including text links, they are just normal posts that have been autogenerated but you can edit them at any time.

      Wordpress itself can drip feed your original content (using the post schedule feature) so you dont need Firepow for that. What i like most about FP is the easy social boomarking and the blog content network.

      Hope this answers all your questions :D

    • Awesome! Thanks Rebecca. You’re the best! :) )

    • Hi Rebecca

      Sounds like you’ll be busy! Just another question about Firepow, what happens if you subscribe for a while and then leave, is there any effect on the blogs you have created with Firepow (assuming you are hosting elsewhere)?

      Thanks
      Rachel

    • Hey Rachel

      Your blogs are still independent and if you leave Firepow you don’t lose anything. The blog simply disconnects from Firepow and you will lose access to the promotional and content feed tools – but the blog still remains yours for sure.

      Hope this helps!

    • Hi Rebecca,

      Congratulations on reaching $500 a day!

      When you create these new blogs do you just stick them on one host or are you spacing them out so they are on different c class IPs to stop Google noticing…?

      Thanks!

    • I have nothing to hide from Google so I have no need for different IPs and so on. I have 3 web hosts and I spread my sites out over those.
      Google only penalizes those who do the wrong thing.

    • Is putting up one blog a week the routine you followed to make $500 dollars a day?

    • Rebecca,

      When you set up a blog a week do you keep them all listed in a spread sheet and then link to them gradually? I can’t imagine that you do a link campaign including article marketing in a single week. How do you normally go about it?

      Also do you use your own template or another type when building your sites. I just started building niche blogs and I’m using flex squeeze. Not sure if you’ve seen it.

    • Hi Larry

      I use any free wordpress template on new sites. I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how it looks, as long as its easy to read, allows me to place ads in prominent positions and looks decent, I go with it. Themes can easily be modified later once you have traffic.

      My main form of traffic is article marketing, so I can have that done in a week. I usually write a bunch of articles for my site and then rewrite some of them for the article directories.
      I then do other things like social bookmarking and blog commenting once or twice per week. I then leave the new site to age whilst working on other sites, and eventually revisit them all for extra link building and new content. :)

    • No, but I’m hoping it will double it ;)

    • Hi Rebecca,

      I have taken the offer of a free trial with firepow and whilst reading through the literature stumbled on Niche Blogging Institute and was wondering if I should go with both Firepow and Niche Blogging Institute..money isn`t a problem with me.

      I really do want to make a success of myself this next year…a few days away!

      I am inspired by your 500 a day..well done!

    • Hi Sean, it totally depends on what you want and need. Firepow helps manage your blogs, whilst NBI gives you niches, articles and other support to help market your sites.
      I would start with NBI and go from there, particularly if you already have some sites going. There is some discussion in the NBI forum about Firepow that might interest you, as other members were also wondering whether it was beneficial to join both.

    • Hey Rebecca,

      Do you submit all of your sites/blogs to Google Webmaster (and Bing)? And if so do you worry about what people say about Google using it against you?

    • William, I never submit my sites to search engines. I find they get indexed within a few days anyway, so I don’t see the point.

    • Thanks Rebecca. Also, when you bookmark your sites do you use a software? I use SocialBot. Do you submit your articles, blogs, and web 2.0 sites all at once to every Bookmark site you can or do you space it out over a period of time (for instance, 10 bookmarks per site per day)?

    • Hey Rebecca,

      Got another quick question for you…

      Do you use No Follow tags on your affiliate links? I’m using a PHP redirect but haven’t made up my mind if I should also include a No Follow tag. What do you do?

    • I rarely bother with nofollow on affiliate links. I still think this post from 2006 is relevant to the topic:
      http://www.seobook.com/archives/001744.shtml

    • Awesome!

      Thanks Rebecca :)


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