Give up the Daily Grind - Here's how Im gonna do it

[rikster69]

Hi all, well I have been lurking around here for a few weeks now and Im ready to take ACTION, so I figured it was time to say "hi" and let you all know my plans.

Basically I dont want to have to go work in some cra*py job doing something I dont really like for someone I dont really like. So I have decided that 2009 will be the year that I leave the daily grind behind and plough my time and efforts into providing a better, more secure future for my family and myself.

I have my business plan laid out, and have set myself some pretty tough goals, but I believe in aiming high, and although this plan may seem ambitious I believe that it is achievable and if I can keep to the schedule I should be earning a good income in quite a short time.

I have been researching Niche Blogging and have decided that its certainly a good place to start. So here is a brief outline of the plan.

I will create and upload, from scratch, 2 niche blogs per week for 26 weeks. Each of these niche blogs will have unique post content and each blog will be monetized with 3 revenue sources. Certainly, initially I will not be creating my own products, so I will predominately be promoting affiliate products.

So here is a quick breakdown of what I will be doing.

Well perhaps the most important aspect of each blog will be to actually identify the niche. I will be researching niches to find keywords with a good number of searches (its no use promoting a niche that no one is looking for) but without too much competition (ie I dont want to be competing with millions of other sites). Another consideration when researching a niche is how easy it will be to beat the existing competition in the search engine rankings.

When I find a niche that meets the above criteria (and believe me there are thousands - if not tens of thousands) then i need to make sure that there are some affiliate products I can promote within that niche.

I will be using Wordpress as my blogging platform and in most cases each blog will have its own domain, these will be hosted on my hostgator account.

I will be using a "super adsense theme" for my blog and I intend to just create a simple header for each niche and maybe use different colours, this will enable me to spend as little time as possible on each blog layout whilst giving a common look and feel accross all my blogs. (Afterall I should have 52 blogs uploaded in 26 weeks from now)

The next step will be to install the required wordpress plugins, after which I will be ready to start posting to my blog.

Initially I am going to write 10 blog posts for each blog, these will be automatically uploaded at intervals of 3 or 4 days. Now obviously I will need a lot more posts for my blogs, this will help to keep the blog content fresh in the eyes of the search engine crawlers, so after the initial 10 posts I intend to outsource a further 10 posts (maybe more) for each blog.

I will be doing my level best to try and ensure these posts are SEO optimised to help with traffic from search engines (targeted traffic)

I have a social bookmarking strategy which I will be following for each blog.

I will also be setting up an RSS feed for each blog using feedburner.

I will be writing 2 articles which I will submit using isnare (nice and cheap to start with) to get some backlinks, I will then write a further 2 articles which I will be submitting to EZA.

So tell me do you think I am on the right track ? Is there anything obvious that Im doing wrong ? Or anything obvious that Im missing out ?

[cashcow]

That sounds like a really good, well thought out plan.

I think everything is spot on, but I believe you are going to need to do a lot more in the backlinking department (depending on what your traffic goals are, of course).

Lee

[ivana]

It does sound like a good plan BUT...i would rather have one niche or two than 26 sites up! 26 sites take a lot of time to maintain. I hot issue, one hot product can make you a lot of money!

The goal starts with the Niche Research, after that the 5 page site can get you a lot of traffic and money!

Your traffic will have to be targeted! You will need to connect with those people!

[dotslash]

BUT...i would rather have one niche or two than 26 sites up! 26 sites take a lot of time to maintain. I hot issue, one hot product can make you a lot of money!

I agree with this - I have been down a similar volume route when I first started and wasted loads of time and effort creating sites and pages that never made much. I'd cut down the number of sites and put the saved time into quality. You're also more likely to create a lasting income from them than a 'blueprint blog' with an obvious SEO footprint which might just suddenly disappear one day.

If you put more effort and care into something the rewards can be exponentially higher.

But anyway good luck it is a detailed plan so I'm sure you'll succeed

[peter gibson]

With that kind of virtual real estate you will have to outsource a ton of copywriting and pay for backlinks. It takes a significant effort to drive traffic to a blog, and your concept would be a nightmare to maintain. (if you're thinking you can do it alone)

I'm with the rest when they say it's much more efficient use of your time to promote and work with 5 to 10 profitable niches then to go for volume like this. You'll make more money and have far less headaches.

Having said that, if you do decide to go for all that volume, find a copywriter (or 10) that can really rock on command. I use a few that are rock stars. PM me (once you get to 15 posts ) and I'll give you some contacts.

[Andy Hart]

I'm gonna have to agree with most of the other comments in this thread, I'd suggest going with quality not quantity.

You should stick with maybe 5 or so niche blogs and really put some time and effort into them rather than 52 "thin" sites.

I'd also suggest doing intensive market research or maybe spend some money on PPC to test which markets you decide to work on, reason being if you decide to take the forum advice and create a smaller amount of blogs but bigger and more depth to them then being as sure as possible that the markets are viable will save you a lot of heartache and time.

Thanks
Andy

[David Raybould]

Hey rikster...

It's always good to have goals, but make
sure they're flexible.

If this is your first foray into making money
online, change your first goal to something
like making 2 niche blogs a week for a month.

Then sit back and analyse everything you did.
Maximize where you made money, and minimize
where you wasted time and didn't make money.

It seems to me that you'll need to bolt on
some kind of proven, repeatable link building
strategy also.

Without getting all this right you may find you
end up with 52 niche blogs making you
absolutely no money at all.

I once read a blog by a guy on digital point,
he worked hard for three months to produce
600 articles, thinking they would have provided
enough traffic and profit to quit his job.

Unfortunately the poor bastard didn't alter his
game plan from day one, and just worked like
a robot.

The result? He made something like $500 total
for 3 months hard work, and quit the IM world
altogether.

If he'd stopped to analyse what he was doing
at some point though, he no doubt would have
made some adjustments.

Hope that's useful

David Raybould

[rikster69]

Originally Posted by cashcow

That sounds like a really good, well thought out plan.

I think everything is spot on, but I believe you are going to need to do a lot more in the backlinking department (depending on what your traffic goals are, of course).

Lee

Hi Lee, thanks for the encouragement and I take onboard your commets re the backlinking. Would you have any suggestions on what I should be doing with regards to building back links ?

Originally Posted by the_writer

Hey rikster...

It's always good to have goals, but make
sure they're flexible.

If this is your first foray into making money
online, change your first goal to something
like making 2 niche blogs a week for a month.

Then sit back and analyse everything you did.
Maximize where you made money, and minimize
where you wasted time and didn't make money.

It seems to me that you'll need to bolt on
some kind of proven, repeatable link building
strategy also.

Without getting all this right you may find you
end up with 52 niche blogs making you
absolutely no money at all.

I once read a blog by a guy on digital point,
he worked hard for three months to produce
600 articles, thinking they would have provided
enough traffic and profit to quit his job.

Unfortunately the poor bastard didn't alter his
game plan from day one, and just worked like
a robot.

The result? He made something like $500 total
for 3 months hard work, and quit the IM world
altogether.

If he'd stopped to analyse what he was doing
at some point though, he no doubt would have
made some adjustments.

Hope that's useful

David Raybould

Hi David, thanks for your comments, and no my plan certainly isnt set in stone, I will not just develop tunnel vision and plough on regardless.

I think form the comments received so far, I should concentrate on getting fewer blogs up and running and concentrate on making them of a higher quality. Im gonna meet you guys half way, after all it would be stupid (if not down right rude) to ignore your advice after I asked for it, so what Im gonna do is setup 1 blog per week for the 26 weeks.

After around 8 weeks or so, I will have an indepth look at where Im at, and make any strategy changes that seem neccessary.

Also from comments received so far it would seem that my thoughts regarding building back links are somewhat limited, so any suggestions would be gratefuly received.

Thanks
Rik

[cashcow]

Hi Rik,

Yes, I have ideas on what you should do to build back links! I think backlinking is underestimated by many and why a lot of people don't make money. The other part of the equation is, of course, the keyword research because that dictates how many links you need to get to each page.

Anyway, for back links I think you need way more than 4 articles. At least 30 is probably what you need. The more the better and it kind of depends on your niche and competition.

Submit most to EZA and some to Buzzle (both of these require unique articles), then once those are accepted blast a few to isnare - I don't think you have to do all 30 of them to isnare BUT you want to link back to your blog pages that will benefit from the link juice the most - these would be the pages that you see getting some traffic but aren't already at the #1 spot - I did a video on that if you want more info here's a link:
Mine Your Site Stats For Keywords And Increase Your Website Traffic (I hope it's OK for me to post this here)

But you don't want to stop at articles, you also want to add in:
squidoo lens
hubpage
video submitted to a distribution service (heyspread is free, I think)
submit your rss feeds for the blogs PLUS your author rss feeds at ezinearticles and isnare
commenting on other peoples blogs

As you can see a lot of work goes into each site. That's why taking the advice of the others above who are suggesting on working just a couple of sites is probably a good idea.

Early on I made a huge mistake of putting up a lot of sites but not spending any time promoting on them. Some made a few bucks but most did not.

You have to put a lot into a site to see the rewards but the good thing is that once you get it earning with these types of methods, you will be able to sustain the earnings with very little effort. Then you can use your extra time to build out more sites!

Hope that helps!

Lee

[ivana]

You know I've been think about this a little bit and some people don't realize that it is the niche in a true sense that makes you the money!

So let's take a look at this example in the real life! Stores such as the niche stores Maternity, Baby stores, can sell their products at higher prices because they are niche stores. In US Baby's r us, sold me many items at higher price, because it was right there when I went to pick something else up. But this is because on average the majority of people who do come in are the expectant parents, and here in there an off person who is shopping for the baby shower or a grand parent! But your main audience is the expectant parents or the parents with small kids

When you have the people in mind, you really don't need many different sites, you can go back to promoting to the same people because for the next 5-10 years they will be shopping for similar items.

Small business owner who is looking for a domain, will also be looking for hosting, but after, they need the content developed, plus they need to promote the site, so they have a lot to learn! Your only job is to help these people get the best possible solution to their problem. If you know what their problem is, who they are, the conversion happens!

One more thing! People concentrate too much on getting the traffic to their site, but they often have no idea who their audience is! So what is the point of getting all that traffic, when you may only get 1 conversion from 500 people!

People concentrate on getting the 100 daily searches per keyword! My thought is, I would rather have 1 keyword phrase that gets 100 monthly searches, but I know this is the buyer keyword, and the keyword that converts, and the keyword that has NO competition!