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I have not posted on this site in a while. Partly because I’ve been busy with other stuff, but mostly because I’m not into the genre of this site any longer. I’m probably going to change the focus of this site in the near future as Internet Marketing topics are not really something I care to blog about any longer.
Lots of you long time subscribers may be wondering why and I’m going to tell you. A site like this is pretty much a losing deal for most people including me. When I first started this blog is was not to earn money but because I was tired of all the crap out there about IM and how to make money online. The truth is most of the eBooks and other materials are a waste of time and money and I’ve attempted to explain why that is my opinion. Now I won’t say this is true across the board but the majority of products are crap and if you spent half the time just searching Google as you do looking for the next best thing you would make more money. The main reason the Gurus keep pushing porduct after product is that is their business, they sell you ways to make maoney and that is their business. The truth is if you do some searches in Google and find some of the sites by some of these gurus you won’t be impressed. Seems to me if someone new how to tell you to build a money making site then they should have one or two out there somewhere.
A few months ago I really started studying my methods of creating sites and while they do earn me some money its not where I want to be and I was thinking about things wrong. I had fell into a mind set of creating hundreds of sites on various niches, post a few articles try to get it ranking for a few searches a day and move on. Now while this strategy works its has a fatal flaw. And that flaw is the time this requires and the ongoing expenses of maintaining the domains.
Domain names are really rented not owned and for everyone you have you need to pay the yearly fee. If you have hundreds of domains just as I do then that adds up to a significant expense. Then you add all the time it requires to build a site, post some articles, do some article marketing or link building, etc.. Once you do all that you have a lot of time spent on building domains.
Would it not be a more efficient use of your time to only spend all your time on a couple of sites and build those into authority type sites. The only true way to build an authority site is to have a crap load of content. Now this content can’t be any PLR or other rehashed content. It needs to be unique and well written. Really the only way to get exactly what you want is to either hire fulltime writers( out of most people’s reach) or write it yourself. Writing it yourself requires a lot of time too, but its time well spent.
Of course one of the staples of an Authority site is the amount of content. You need thousands of articles or more and the articles need to rank. Not all need to rank number one for every term, but they do need to bring in some traffic every month to ensure your success. Now I know there are some people that are shaking their head and saying I’m a nut its not the only way. I’ll prove it to you if you will listen.
Now for a little exercise as this will be a multi post series in the end. Take a look at sites on the web which you consider Authority sites. Take a look at Wikipedia, About.com and others of the same size. Those sites are huge. How did they get huge? They bought the content or in Wikipedia’s case they talked others into writing it, but they are still huge.
Now lets get a little smaller. Take a look at Problogger.net and StevePavlina.com. Look back through Darren’s and Steve old posts. Listen to what they are telling you in those early posts and what they tell you in the posts that talk about their success with blogging. They have something in common. They did not start seeing success in their blogging until a year or two. They posted a lot during this time and then one day things started taking off. Why because they reached critical mass with the number of posts and those older posts where still bringing in traffic. This is the whole secret of building money making blogs. You need a lot of posts at least 500+ and then you also need to be blogging on topics that a lot of people are searching for. The monetization and everything else will just take care of itself once you take care of the critical mass issue.
well I thought this was going to be a series and I was going to go into a lot of detail, but I just realized I’ve said everything that needs to be said on this subject. Build a lot of unique pages and keep doing it and you cna’t help but to be successful with your blogging endeavors.
Now that I’ve gotten this out of the way you are going to see me change this blog’s theme. Not just the way it looks but the topics it covers. I have reasons for this change that I’ve already stated. This is a crap subject and not something I want to spend my limited time doing.
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