I was having a conversation with a buddy recently about the extra cash I make online. I told him there are tons of ways to make money online. The way I choose to do so is write. I sit down and write articles and post them to directories. I make lame posts to my blog to keep things fresh. An affiliate sale here and an Adsense click there and I end up pocketing some mad money. He said that sounds cool. He thought it would be easy enough to sit down and write some stuff and make money too. I think I did my first eye roll since 8th grade.
I guess it really is that simple. You can make money by just sitting down and writing. But that isn’t very easy is it? Ask a veteran bum marketer if he preferred watching paint dry or writing an article and I’m thinking fume inhalation would win out. Writing day after day sucks large.
So my buddy asked why I whine about writing articles? His thought was, dude if you like fly fishing just write an article, post it in your blog thingie and get people to click something. I told him that it wasn’t that easy.
I explained the first thing I do is find something I can make money with. No way I want to write some stupid articles about bowel obstructions if there isn’t something I can sell to make money. Once I found that product to market then I start researching. That would be keyword research at nichebot. I look for what every other bum looks for: low competition and high search volume. Not exactly a cakewalk these days with all the competition.
Now it’s time to write. But the problem is you can’t just write one article and win. I read an article from some dude who said he writes 30 articles for each product he promotes. And he rolls them out in a day. My time is a bit constrained. I can probably get my lazy ass writing 30 articles a week. But dominating a product every week sounds pretty good to me. After a year that’s a heck of a lot of articles, with my affiliate links/back links promoting a product.
It didn’t really hit me until I said it out loud to my buddy. I have got to start saturating the markets again. I tend to think of saturation in terms of websites. I think the way I should be thinking is in terms of articles. Simple articles. I gotta up the writing pace. Not be too anal about the quality. And start submitting the articles and posting them to target those decent keywords.
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April // Oct 11, 2007 at 12:49 pm
If I were starting again I would wait until the next PR update, go onto digital point forums, buy either a domain or a blog (general theme) with at least PR3, write content for the next month and then sign up with blogsvertise.
I’ve been getting $10 for writing a couple of paragraphs on stuff like travel and ink carts. With the money you make from that you can then buy text links to make sure you keep the PR.
It’s not enough to buy a Ferrari but it is money for not doing that much. I’ve made $187 by writing reviews on a general PR3 blog in a month. Most people struggle to make that much with Adsense.
I would love to buy a domain with PR but I have no idea what’s happening in terms of updates.
Splork // Oct 11, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Yea, I’ve been thinking about buying websites too with PR. Seems to me flipping websites is going to be the next big thing. Just wait until all the reports, memberships and crap start coming out. I’ve already seen a couple of reports talking about it.
You’ll know the guberus have squeezed out every thing they can when you start seeing Day Job Flipper, Flipping to the Bank, StompandFlip, Bum Flipper and 30 Day Flipper Challenge released. It’ll come.
Marc // Oct 11, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Flipping sites even has its downside too, you will need to be pretty carefull about it unless you have a well structured plan.
We purchased one site around 2 months ago for around 2k, very little PR, but over 220 uniquely written articles on it and well setup.
For 1 month it did nothing, didn’t make its money back, I thought I had a dud.
Then I pointed a few links at it, started writing some more content to it, and it now is doing around $10 to $15 per day in adsense alone.
I am sure I could slap some products on it, but again I am too lazy to do that with a site that is on auto-pilot.
Now that $15 per day keeps that site running sweet.
I have a writer that writes for it every month, data entry guys that put those articles into the site for me, and link builders that do the main part of the SEO.
Aim is to get it to $30 per day within 6 months, that means I have a site that is worth 500% more then what I bought it for.
I could then sell it, or keep it choice is mine.
So yeah can work, but just like everything else, nothing comes easy you still need to work them.
Regards
Marc
Teli // Oct 12, 2007 at 12:26 pm
I have nothing intelligible to add to this conversation, but I just had to say, Splork, that I love visiting your blog just to read your comments.
They always make me laugh out loud (literally).
Oh wait, I think I just thought of something intelligible to say — April’s on to something.
I actually wrote a short report (that’s now collecting virtual dust) on how to earn money through all those “pay to blog” services and semi-automating the process. Plus, you don’t even need to taint any of your good blogs to do it.
One blog consistently earns $300 gross ($200 net profit) each month and I haven’t even logged into the thing for about 6 months. :-/
I’ve debated releasing the report it b/c it could be construed as grey-hat (nothing hard core, though) and I just don’t want to deal with any backtalk. Maybe one day…
~ Teli
Foliovision // Oct 23, 2007 at 12:31 pm
What works is finding a good business model, building good websites and really helping people with a great service.
Why on earth would you want to spend your days and nights painting lipstick on pigs snouts?
Enjoyed reading both articles and comments though…good luck.
Splork // Oct 23, 2007 at 6:14 pm
It works for some people. Others not so much. If I can make some money by getting a pig to pucker up then I will most definitely slather the porker with Mary Kay’s finest.
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