I don’t want followers. It’s one reason why I don’t do email lists. The other is I’m lazy. But I just thought I’d mention what is working for me.

Wordpress.com - I have 5 blogs. I have readership ranging from 50 to 500 daily. The one with 500 was the one I put up a graph of on a previous post. It was getting like 200 at the time. I use them for my own pleasure and to get other sites indexed and for backlinks. Nothing works better right now. It does not help one bit for my .info sites.

Blogger/Blogspot - The success I am having with Wordpress.com has motivated me to build quick affiliate blogs. I can now get them indexed. I really like what I’m doing with these and hope they will perform well in a few months. No Adsense by the way. Strictly affiliate products.

Squidoo - For every Blogger blog, I build a Squidoo site. Some lens fall flat. Some rank top-10 in Google. No rhyme or reason. I haven’t figured it out. Am I doing Hubpages? No. Too hard. I liked them before and was getting good results. I don’t like them now because I am not having success.

Article Marketing - If I build a site I suck it up and write an article and submit it to Go Articles and Ezine Articles. I don’t bother with submission software and trying to market to other directories. This will have to do for now. It’s not wasted effort as the article is listed top-20 in Google for the keyword phrases I’m sniping.

SEO Elite/nichebot - I am completely reliant on these two tools to tell me what keyword phrases to snipe.

Adsense/XSP - I use XSP to build quick and boring mini-sites solely for the purpose of getting Adsense clicks. They look professional. They have plenty of content. 10 pages takes less than an hour. I mostly put them on subdomains or free sites if you’re wondering. They aren’t working all that great right now to be honest, but I need to do a better job at promoting them. Ironically, I don’t think Google likes Adsense sites.

WPDFI - Datafeeds posted to blogs work best for me right now. Another stellar month from Shareasale. The problem is it takes time to set up. Build the blog. Fix the datafeed. No doubt about it, it’s somewhat a drag unless you just don’t give a shit about the result. I do.

Self-hosted Wordpress blogs - I still have quite a few of these. I post PLR and scraped OrwellPro articles using RSS2B4. Within that posting I also used Affiliate Feed Generator to post Amazon products related to that post. I log in to the blog and use Utility Poster and Link Luv Post Builder to add a link or two for Pingbacks. All in an effort to make it somewhat useful and non-duplicated.

Fast Blog Finder - I comment on blogs.

Link Directories - I add my links. It’s tedious.

So here’s how it goes down with the blogs: I cruise around and find something I want to market. I go to nichebot and see if anybody is searching for it. I use Nichebot to determine the backlinks for the keyword phrase. I use SEO Elite to see if I can rank for it easily. If I get the green light I build a quick Blogger blog. I write an article to post. I write another article for the article directories. I build a Squidoo lens with a link back to the blog. I announce on Twitter that I have built a lens and blog. I write a post on one Wordpress.com blog with a link to the blog. I comment on other blogs. If BMD is working I bookmark. I submit to link directories. This generally takes a week (I work full-time and I probably do 2 or 3 at a time). On most of the blogs I have found that within 10 days to two weeks I can rank the lens, article and/or blog in the top 10-15 in Google. I try to keep the blog fresh but I have so much crap that it is hard. I usually have the most interest in the last blogs so they get my attention for a couple of weeks until I’ve found other interests.

It’s really not that big of a deal. I find something to market, I write some crap and then I get backlinks. Do I make money? A little. It’s early in the game. I’m getting traffic. If I’m not making money in 3-4 months then I’ll let it die and move on to work those that are. I figure that if I build 10 of these blogs, 7 are going to be crap. 3 are going to get traffic. And out of the 3, I’ll make money with one.

Anyway, I’m a little less motivated right now to build XSP sites. I’ll get through this phase of affiliate blogs and need a change of pace and start building those out. It will probably coincide with PLRPro’s new membership. And I want to build more datafeed sites. I’d like to drop at least one a week on the web.

There you go. My advice is no different than anybody else’s. Find something someone will buy. Write some content. Get a shitload of links. There, I just saved you $97 $67 $47.