Quick and Dirty blog creation - will this work?

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Hey,

Here’s my quick and dirty way of making a site – I can do all this in around 5 or 6 hours.

I’m wondering if these sites are good enough to just cut loose?

Can anyone tell me how Google might see these – would they be considered spammy?

All the content is generated from a wordpress plugin called AutoTubePress i got from the War room. It automatically populates your blog with a video from you tube every day that matches exactly your keyword. What’s better is it also pulls in the description of the video so you have nice keyword rich content.

So - here is how i make these quick, dirty blogs.

  1. Find a niche
  2. Find a Keyword
  3. Buy a domain that is the exact keyword
  4. Set up wordpress on my hosting and point the URL here.
  5. Download one of the free themes from Woo themes. I love this one : Typebased | WooThemes

    It looks fantastic and has some nice spots for banners I hook up to amazon affiliate products related to the nice. All I have to do is make a nice header graphic and stick it up top. I might if I can be bothered cahnge link colours etc to suit my header.
  6. Write or pay for a short ebook on your topic you will give away
  7. I hook up the form and popup dominatin to my email sender (I use campaign monitor) and set up a chain of 5 emails offering some great advice in a conversational tone to build a relationship then in the last email I send on a link to a click bank product on the niche subject I have chosen.

I then hook my blog up with a subscription form on the right hand side top of the sidebar.

I show the cover of the ebook and say they can get it if the sign up.

Then I install the following WordPress plugins:

Google privacy policy – you need this if your going to use Adsense.

Popup Domination
Use this to promote your free ebook when a user first visits your site – I set it show every 2 days. I get around a 50% sign up rate with this.

AutoTubePress
This plug in is invaluable – I got it for free in the War Room.
It automatically populates your blog with a video from you tube every day that matches exactly your keyword.
What’s better is it also pulls in the description of the video so you have nice keyword rich content.

Then you also need:

All in one SEO
Google XML
Google Analytics

I then set up the AutoTubePress to include an Adsense panel under the description of each video.

So in effect i now have a site that auto generates keyword specific content, with posts including adsense, keyword rich copy and an interesting video. Plus they download a free ebook in excahnge for email address that contains links to my amazon affiliate and the clickbank product i promote. They will also receive a chain of emails promoting the CB product i am promoting.

All i have to do is work on backlinks and rinse and repeat the above process. I reckon i could do 4 or 5 a week.

The blog in my footer is set up like this - but I've knocked up another couple i'm going to put live this weekend

But my question is will this work?
Or am i wasting my time doing it this way?

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  • Profile picture of the author jeskola
    Anyone have any thoughts?
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    • Profile picture of the author BloggerHigh
      Originally Posted by jeskola View Post

      Anyone have any thoughts?
      You mention using adsense. Not a good idea on a 'made for adsense' site!
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  • Profile picture of the author rohnsmith
    I do not know about yours but I generally buy post on high Pr blogs
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    • Profile picture of the author Michelle Adams
      How much content are you talking? I would imagine a very short description of the video and that would be all? I'd be careful with having AdSense on sites like that if you don't add any other quality written content.
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      • Profile picture of the author jeskola
        Originally Posted by Michelle Adams View Post

        How much content are you talking? I would imagine a very short description of the video and that would be all? I'd be careful with having AdSense on sites like that if you don't add any other quality written content.

        Check the link on my footer to see how much content.
        Some are alot , some are not. But i've noticed a big jump in adsense clicks which is good.
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      • Profile picture of the author PatriciaJ
        It looks good, the question really is - will it work for you?

        It should be a good one for Christmas sales for fathers and sons, and it's one of those product lines that has lots of must have linking products that can really knock Amazon sales up.

        I would promote this site as much as possible and then if the signs are encouraging build more like it but spend enough time on each (or outsource) to give it a good chance. I like the site anyway.
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        • Profile picture of the author jeskola
          Originally Posted by PatriciaJ View Post

          It looks good, the question really is - will it work for you?

          It should be a good one for Christmas sales for fathers and sons, and it's one of those product lines that has lots of must have linking products that can really knock Amazon sales up.

          I would promote this site as much as possible and then if the signs are encouraging build more like it but spend enough time on each (or outsource) to give it a good chance. I like the site anyway.
          Thanks for looking! Ah that one already has been making click bank sales and adsense revenue.

          I meant ongoing... i've set up another one in a similar way, it only took a couple hours to do , but is much the same format.


          I'm just wondering how Google will view it - will it look spammy?
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          • Profile picture of the author PatriciaJ
            Originally Posted by jeskola View Post

            Thanks for looking! Ah that one already has been making click bank sales and adsense revenue.

            I meant ongoing... i've set up another one in a similar way, it only took a couple hours to do , but is much the same format.


            I'm just wondering how Google will view it - will it look spammy?
            It doesn't look spammy to me but if you are concerned about that you could always add some more content of your own.
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  • Profile picture of the author DJ Hughes
    I think it looks really good. I don't yet have a lot of experience myself with sites like this. In fact, I found this thread while looking for a good adsense plugin for wordpress to use. Have you only used the AutoTubePress for this, or are there others you've tried? Nice looking site.
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    • Profile picture of the author jeskola
      Originally Posted by DJ Hughes View Post

      I think it looks really good. I don't yet have a lot of experience myself with sites like this. In fact, I found this thread while looking for a good adsense plugin for wordpress to use. Have you only used the AutoTubePress for this, or are there others you've tried? Nice looking site.
      Hey - thanks!

      Yeah only tried this one - it works very well i have to say.

      For adsense i use adsense manager but also there is some nice themes

      18 Adsense Optimized Wordpress Themes to Maximize your Contextual Ad Earnings

      You can use these as a starting point - they are not the best looking ones, but you can build on them.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rsberg
    If it were me I think I would add a few more sources of content. Relying only on the videos and their descriptions could lead to problems...maybe...maybe not, but if your getting decent CTR on your Adsense why risk it. Add a few articles here and there, maybe some flickr photos (people like pictures) and possibly some Yahoo Answers content too.

    Overall I think it looks pretty good but I would add a bit more content from a few other places.

    Keep up the good work!
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  • Profile picture of the author jeskola
    So I've been thinking some more about this strategy.

    I think it's going to work - I've found some PLR articles on my subjects and rewritten them and commissioned ebooks on the subjects which i will sell to my list.

    I've been thinking - I'm going to aim to make $12 a day from each blog and do 24 of them.

    I read another post about building a blog empire and I'm going to merge the two ideas together. Build them in around a couple of hours (i have a template now built i can just upload straight to my hosting containing all my plugins and themes).

    Then cut it loose and on to the the next - i think i can get up 24 nice looking blogs drip feeding content out by the end of January (3 down - 21 to go!). Then will go back to the start and work on backlinks, article submission for each - i think a week of work for each... which would mean around 6 months of work - so by middle of summer i should have 24 blogs all riding high on Google and hopefully making $12 a day.

    That's $8640 a month - and all should be automated content wise.
    If it works - then rinse repeat the whole process - cut them loose and do another 24.

    BTW - my first blog doing this just hit 1500 subscribers and generating on average 40$ a day so i'm on my way Just created a new product i'm going to blast to the list shortly at $10 a pop.

    Love this stuff!!

    Oh - and a quick question.

    Do you think as well as an ebook to sell to the list i could offer an audio book/mp3 of the ebook also (say ebook is 9.99 - perhaps offer audio book for 11.99 which also comes with the PDF ebook and perhaps also offer a hard copy version for say 13.99 that comes with the audio book).
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    • Profile picture of the author cash365
      hello, jeskola:

      i just looked up your blog and liked it very much. just one tiny thing, before i forget: on the copy of your popup you say at the end: "Valuable secrets the pros dont want you to know!" besides the missing apostrophe in "dont" , i consider this to be out of line - out of context somehow, because we are talking about a hobby, i would change that for: valuable secrets you won't find anywhere else" or s.th. like that...

      i agree with you and other posters that it would be better having additional content, like you said, some nicely rewritten prls or just related content from other blogs: nick carty is giving away his autoblogging software for the war room, so why don't you try to combine that with autotubepress on a new site and let me know how its working (sorry, i would do it myself, but currently i'm running against a deadline of a project!)

      nice work, keep it up!

      kind regrads,
      tom
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