I’ve decided that I have enough niche blogs for now. Yes I realize that I should build, build build, but I’m tired of rewriting and writing articles. I’m taking a break from that for a week or three. I’m going on a promotion tour. I want the world to see what I’ve done. I’m going to maintain that which I’ve already created. I’m going to build a farm.
Every day before I start work I do a couple of things. I build a lens or hubpage. Usually I take a couple PLR articles and slice and dice them, and add the requisite modules to make it look pretty. Then I go build a Blogger blog or Wordpress blog for my link farm. Vic had talked about how you should have a 20 site blog farm from Blogger and Wordpress. Nothing spammy but something that could be useful down the road for decent links. I thought why not? I can write up a few sentences, a comment or two, to keep them moving.
I’m thinking of the same thing for Squidoo and Hubpages but I’m thinking bigger. I hope to build 100 of each. At least. Not necessarily with the same account though. The blogs are just general interest. Quick rambles. The hubs and lens are sort of divided into topics. I have a health and fitness Squidoo account. A finance Squidoo account. A fitness Hubpages account. It probably does not matter if you do this or not. It’s just how I’m rolling. I don’t want all my lens or hubpages to get deleted for whatever reason. If I lose 20 it’s not as bad as losing 90 obviously. I can’t think of a reason my account would be deleted but you never know.
Why go through this effort? Because it will pay off a year from now. All those potential authority links. All those indexed lens and hubpages. Some with PR, whether that is meaningful or not. All perfectly white hat.
Then there will be my gray hat efforts. I have Blogger, Geocities, and Googlepages builders that I intend on using to link to those lens and hubpages. This is why I love lens and hubpages. They are designed to receive traffic. The services do not care how that traffic comes. Google might have a problem with your telephone chord domain getting links from midget porn sites, but I doubt Squidoo and Hubpages care ( though they probably would prefer you not linking to those sites). With Google you have to worry about quality of links. With lens and hubpages it’s about the traffic.
So anyway, I’ll use those builders to create sites with links to those lens and hubpages. Google will like that. And I may get a few visitors to click over. The more traffic to my lens and hubpages, the higher they will rank (Hubscore, Lensrank). The higher they rank the more important they *probably* seem to Google. Then Google indexes them high. They get PR. And I can use them to link to my websites to collect Adsense and affiliate income.
Yea, I know it sounds ridiculously time consuming. It’s not. Building lens and hubpages is a breeze. It gets easier each time you do it. Creating original content for the blog farm will take a little more effort, but once it’s going I can just cycle through them every once and while to keep them relatively fresh. They aren’t made for generating anything more than future links.
It sucks but unless you pay for traffic, this is some of the stuff you gotta do to get visitors. I can’t say for certain if it will make a huge difference but it certainly can’t hurt. The competition is stiff out there. If you want the clicks and sales seems like you are going to have to try anything available. The successful ones are.
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Dan Cruz // Apr 10, 2008 at 7:57 am
I hear what you’re saying…
I have a little over 50 niche Blogs now and I’ve decided to stop building as well.
BTW, I picked up BANS like the day after I picked up Store Stacker and churned out some 20 sites so far. BANS is great for new domains whereas I’ve been using SS to add “stores” of products to existing (what used to be MFA) WP Blogs. Pretty much I just point to the store from the posts…
On the promotion front I have to thank Vic at BU for introducing me to Bookmarking and Comment Demons… I’ve been going to town with those things. I’ve also taken the dust off of my article and directory submission software. It’s nice when you fire the thing back up and there’s an update waiting for you… it’s like buying a new product all over again.
Anyhow like you say… this shit is mundane but it’s what we have to do to drive traffic to our sites…
Regarding Squidoo the Black Hatter in me loves Squidoo but I can’t seem to build lenses with your speed and precision for white hate purposes…
Splork // Apr 10, 2008 at 8:20 am
Hey Dan. That sounds like a good idea, what your doing with BANS and SS. I’ve been doing the same thing you are with SS. I got my first Amazon sale the other day. A whopper commission of $1.37. Had to laugh. But where there is $1 there is another.
I was going to write a post about it later on but I got BMD as well. That thing is the shit.
Like you I also brushed off my Article and Directory submitter software. Hell, I got the gold versions for nada being a member of PLRPro. May as well use it.
Squidoo. Man it’s easier than you think. Just use some of your PLR, throw up a photo or two, a video, an Amazon module and you’re good to go. Make sure and roll through to make changes every couple of days. Like move a module. Change a word. Something to freshen it up.
Frank C // Apr 10, 2008 at 12:27 pm
This is a lot like the strategy, build and reinforce, I’m using except that I haven’t gotten into HubPages yet. It’s just been too easy/comfortable to create lens and Blogger blogs. Since Google seems to be lovin’ HubPages these days I probably ought to start building some.
Splork // Apr 10, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Well it sounds like I am in good company then. I’m stretching myself too thin though. These days I am building at least one hubpage daily. One Wordpress.com blog-plus updating the previous days blogs. Refreshing one of my Squidoo lens accounts. Using a tool to build WP blogs and spray my lens and hub URLs on them. A couple of directory submissions. Maybe an article submission. I’m now using BMD. And I use some of Pete’s shit tools to build Blogger blogs, Geocities sites and Googlepages for extra back links to my lens and hubs.
All of which have to be promoted.
Which doesn’t include all my niche blogs and websites.
Good times.
For now. Because I feel like it. Because I want to. I’m concentrating on building a hub/lens farm.
Dinheiro // Apr 10, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Great post splork. This is a very good strategy, that you share with us for free and some of the suposed gurus try to sell us inside a crappy ebook! Thanks!
So, for what i could follow, you build niche blogs/websites, that are your money making sites. Then you build squidoo lenses and hubpages that you use to link to your money sites. Then you build wordpress.com blogs and blogger blogs, that you use to link to your squidoo and hubpages, and some also to your money sites.
Is this correct?
Splork // Apr 10, 2008 at 5:32 pm
That’s right Dinheiro. Except I don’t link too many Wordpress.com and Blogger blogs to my so-called money sites. Only if they are pure white.
I throw everything at my lens and hubs though.
New Year's Resolution Blogger // Apr 11, 2008 at 10:16 am
Wow, you are prolific. I finally created a Hubpage based on your comments. We’ll see.
Then I logged in to Squidoo where I haven’t been in several weeks and I discovered that my earnings in February were over $10. I only have about 5 lenses and only 3 of those have any real crowd appeal. Previously my earnings were always under $2 a month on all Squidoo lenses.
Between the growth in Squidoo income and your comments, it does make me consider what might be if I steadily built.
Splork // Apr 11, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Lens and hubpages are just easy to build. I can think of nothing better to do with my PLR now.
Yea I discovered a couple of months ago the growth in income with Squidoo. Nothing big but it does just keep growing. Sort of makes it worthwhile to build.
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