If I had a spare moment, I was building websites for AMA last week. I was neck deep in the site building competition. If the stats over the weekend are correct I made top ten, which was my goal. I ended up building 370 websites over 47 IP addresses. I’d always planned on building a massive blog network but never got around to it. The contest pushed me to get around to it.
Now I have to begin the long arduous task of trying to get them indexed and maybe ranked. None are the so called “money blog” but many could be used for affiliate sales or Adsense clicks. And of course I don’t have to add a single word to any of them. The AMA system will do that for me. Which brings up another thing that I have to start doing: Article writing.
I didn’t add a single article to the system last week. That has to change. The articles that I have written continue to be distributed across the blogs that are in AMA which meet my niche criteria. I’m more interested in being able to generate hundreds of targeted anchor links to my money sites than I am in building hundreds of blogs.
Some of those blogs I built for AMA will be converted to money blogs. If I can find the right keyword phrases to target for anchor links I’m pretty sure I can drive some traffic to them. They are very competitive niches like acne, dating, fitness, etc. Everybody is targeting them and everybody is writing articles for them. It’s a double edged sword. You’ll wind up with all you can eat posts but you’ll also be struggling against a lot of apparent competition. Keyword phrases are key as always.
I built my share of Blogger blogs. For two reasons: 1) It was easy and 2) I plan on using them for Ebay. If you’re wondering what I mean go read Blogger template for Ebay sniplets at Optempo. Basically I’ve modified a Blogger blog template for use with Ebay widgets.
Speaking of Blogger. Early in the week a whole batch of Blogger blogs were flagged as potential spam. Because posts couldn’t be published, AMA removed the blogs. I got greedy and added 35 blogs to one account. In one day. Oops. I asked for a review though early in the week. By Friday, at the contest deadline, they were all released. Dig what that means. Blogger/Google finds value in those blogs that were created by the posts from the AMA members.
I put all these blogs into a spreadsheet over the weekend. I needed a way to organize them and decide which ones get the Ebay treatment. Which ones might get Chitika. Adsense. Kontera. Clickbank. Affiliate programs. Which ones will I ignore. Which ones will get my attention. Additionally, I need to do a lot of keyword research to find the right keywords.
I think I’ll go build a static XSP site for old times.
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Blogger rule of thumb: Never go over 5-10 blogs per login ID. If you do they assume you’re using Blogger Generator and lock the account and possibly even block your IP address.
One of these days I’m going to have to finish up my blog management program. Right now I’m also mostly doing stuff via Excel but it would be good to have a comprehensive program to handle them, especially sites on shared hosts like Blogger.
370 sites! I made about 30 – lol – I need to work harder (or you need to get out more!)
Hey Frank. Yea I know. I got greedy. I subsequently built a ton to replace them using accounts with only 5 blogs per. I even switched IP’s by grabbing unsecured wireless around the neighborhood. I knew better but I was racing.
Hey Chic. Yea if I had known what a drag it would end up being I never would have gone for it. Then again I now have a nice stable of blogs so I guess it was worth it. I used Blogger and Tumblr obviously. They are ridiculously easy to build with. I also had a few self hosted that I added or built. Fantastico makes it easy. I went out and found free blog hosts to use. I found a few WPMU sites to drop a blog on as well. The thing that was a drag was using free web hosting and building Wordpress on them. Sometimes it worked. Sometimes not. Those free hosts are a pain in the ass. Particularly if they don’t use c-panel, which most do not. They have some other piece of crap panel they use for management.