Multiple Blogs Mean More Money

Have you been working intensely at web marketing with little to show for it? Have you observed that there is one bright, new, exhilarating concept after the other being sold to you but hardly anything seems to work in the end? Do you know that you are being sold out-dated information or only part of the total picture? It's not your fault and you are not alone but that still doesn't put dollars into your checking account.

Do you know what the problem is? You are doing the same thing as a crowd of people, just like yourself, who try out everything new that comes along. Because so many people are trying the same thing, the competition is stiff and no one makes much money. But how about those fabulously rich Internet gurus? How come they are making money and you aren’t? Either they are lying to you about their achievements or they are actually doing well and are purposely not showing how they are doing it. In that case, they are probably taking the road less traveled.

The real dollars being made on the net is being done in ways that have not been generally discovered or are so simple that they may look like they are worthless to the uninformed observer. The truth is always simple but that very fact escapes the eyes of most people because they think that the truth has to be complicated or difficult. The big money being made these days on the Internet is being made “under the radar.” One example of this is the use of so-called “money sites.”

What is a money site? A money site is a very plain site with one purpose: A money site is set up to rake in as much money as possible using simplicity. A money site is not flashy. It’s just well designed to lead visitors quickly to where you want them to go which is straight to the “Add to Cart” button. A blog structure is a great venue for a money site because it can be made to work quickly. It needs only a theme, content related to that theme and it needs to be "monetized." Some of these ad campaigns will make you money. Small amounts of income will come in from Google Adsense ads and larger amounts from small advertisements leading to affiliate sites that earn you money for every sale you bring to them. A great web site to get affiliates ads is ClickBank.com where merchants will pay you commissions of up to 75% of whatever your visitor ends up buying from them. Each affiliate ad is embedded with a code that identifies you as the site owner who is to be paid the commission.

Now, a site like this may only make $30 or so a day, on average, but since it was so easy to set up and is so straightforward to maintain, you might want to think about setting up a whole chain of sites with different themes, catering to different but hot markets. A chain of 10 sites might compensate you with about $300 a day, a chain of 20 sites about $600 a day, a string of 50 sites about one thousand five hundred dollars a day or $293,500 annually. Now, it's true that some blogs will prove to be massive lucrative ventures while other may show themselves to be without merit. As you continue along, you can weed out the underperforming blogs and replace them with new sites. There are literally thousands of diverse products to sell on ClickBank and it’s easy to tell which products are garnishing the most cash.

You might want to consider using Word Press as the location for your blogs. Do not go to the Word Press site directly because those blogs are not permitted to contain ads. Rather, access Word Press from inside a web site hosting entity such as HostGator.Com. (Not all hosting companies offer the Word Press feature.) Sign up for Host Gator's "Baby" account (or larger). That way, you will be allowed to have many sub-domains but pay only for the hosting of one web site. You simply make the quantity of sub-domains you will want for the number of blogs you will be creating. Google (and the other search engines) treat a sub-domain as a distinct web site or blog for ranking purposes. If your master URL were xyz.com and you were marketing widgets on one of your blogs and you were making a sub-domain for that blog, you would name it something like "widgets.xyz.com." This also gives you a good probability of being able to use a potent keyword in your URL even though the URL "widgets.Com" has been taken by someone else.

You should use software to assist you in doing the protracted, repetitive tasks. There is plenty of Internet marketing software out there to help with just about any part of what you need to complete to keep your blogs running with out a hitch and lure sizeable amounts of highly-targeted traffic to them. Don’t agonize too much about content, there is plenty of that to be had on just about every topic and there are programs to acquire it for you quickly and simply.

Each and every time a visitor visits one of your web sites, you should have a place to gather their email address. You can give away something of value for this or you can use the email entry as the ticket of admission to transition to another page or video of interest. You will use these highly-targeted email addresses to fabricate an email list for marketing purposes. That will be one of the most profitable things you can do in Internet marketing.

You will use carefully-researched keywords to push substantial quantities of search engine “organic” traffic to your site. Organic traffic is free, targeted traffic. You will learn how to get placed high in the search engine pages for the best keywords. You will learn how to find the preeminent market niches and get rich from them. You will find out how to pen excellent content by yourself or by locating existing material from other locations on the Internet. You will learn how to get RSS feeds of articles to your blogs and you will discover how to position yourself as an “expert” in your niche so that visitors will come to have faith in you and buy products from you. How are you going to learn all of this? Just open your eyes and look around you. The answer should be clear as a bell. It’s staring you right in the face.

© Robert M. Gillespie, Jr.