Retire on a $1 a day

More on the power of niche websites from professional blogger and internet marketer Gary Conn

"However, it isn’t difficult to get around 100 visits per day to a blog, now is it? Seriously, a good rule of thumb to live by is understanding that 100 visits to your blog should make you about $1 dollar. If you can maintain that level then you can soon retire and quit your day job."
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"A few months ago, my goal was to make $1 dollar per day per blog. Today, some of these blogs have grown to make over $4 dollars per day. One blog makes about $40 dollars per day. Another blog makes almost $100 dollars per day. Other blogs (not shown) are starting to reach the $1 dollar per day mark.

The above screen shot doesn’t even show HALF of the blogs reported in my daily Adsense report. It only shows 15 blogs. I have another 85 or so on the list that make between five cents to $3 dollars. All in all I make anywhere between $150 dollars per day to $350 dollars per day across the board. And that is with Google Adsense alone." Read the complete post.

Admittedly, building 50 to 100 websites with high quality content is not an overnight job. My experience is that working three to four hours a day I can set up a site with several pages of good content in about a week or ten days, depending how long I go without checking my bloglines account.

Gary Conn's approach is a long-term method, probably a year to get 50 sites up and running for most people. Even using free article sites it still takes time to gather content. While there is good content available, there is also a lot of bad, so the editing process takes time.

Ed Dale's 30 Day Challenge - Day 3

Today was all about researching the niche ideas we came with yesterday. Ed showed us a nifty tool called GTrends from Word Tracker. Type in a keyword a phrase and Word Tracker shows you how many Google search a day there are for it.

Obviously if no one is searching for your keyword, you might want to think twice about building a site around it. Next,we did Google searches for our ideas to see if there were a lot of Adsense ads for it. Or as as Ed says:

"Are real people selling real stuff to enthusiastic people for real money?"


Here's how my niche ideas from Day 2 panned out:

• Iraq Jobs: 1,150 daily Google searches. Three Adsense ads directly related to work in Iraq showed on the search page with a couple of more for oil and overseas work, including one from the interesting sounding Danger Zone Jobs.com.

• Trikke: 1, 074 daily searches. This is a really cool 3-wheel fitness scooter. I know there is a high paying affiliate program available through Commission Junction.
  

• Payday Loans: 12,481 daily searches. The search page showed a dozen Adsense ads. Again, there are lots of affiliate programs available as well.

• Raising Earthworms: 19 searches! Ok, this one really bombed. I was a bit disappointed because I do raise earthworms. Apparently not a lot people share my appreciation of the little wrigglers. There were a couple of ads for worm bins and buying live worms, but with such low traffic, I'll probably not work with this one.

• Speed Reading: 930 searches. Good possibilities here, a dozen Google ads. Don't scoff, speed reading works. I took a course years ago and my reading speed is around 560 words per minute with 90 percent comprehension.

• Better Gas Mileage: 639 searches. Plenty of Google ads. With gas spiking over three bucks a gallon, I foresee the number of searches for this phrase going up.

• Raising Tomatoes: 239 searches. Again, another disappointment. Raising tomatoes isn't much more popular than raising earthworms I guess.

That's it for today. The Google Trend tool is free to use. Check it out.
Day 4 and 5 are catch up days. I'll be using the time to research more niche ideas.

Ed Dale's 30 Day Challenge - Day 2

Getting ideas for niche websites was the topic of today's Thirty Day Challenge lesson. Ed Dale showed us a number of resources one could use to find inspiration for new sites.

• eBay Pulse: Shows what items are hot, by category on eBay. Ed's makes a good point when says find something people are not only passionate about but also willing to spend money on. Gaming consoles, iPods and laptop computers were the top searches. In memorbilla, Elvis and the Beetles were popular.
• Technorati: A blog search engine. Looking at post from the Top 100 blogs, two on Lifehacker caught my eye. One about how to fix credit scores and the other on how to go from a couch potatoe to exercise enthusiast. Hmm, both have possibilities. How many people do I know with bad credit who are out of shape? Lots!
• Google Groups: news groups on just about any subject in any language. Actually, there were so many groups it was a little overwhelming, and I didn't spend that much time here. I'm a member of several groups and know how easy it is to waste gobs of time reading and responding to posts.
• Google Hot Trends: Shows the 100 most Google searches for the day. Also lets you compare relative number of searches for up to five different keywords or phrases. Today it was celebrities, movies and and smadgin of politics.
• Yahoo Answers: People ask questions and other users offer (usable?) answers. I saw questions about engine accessories to save gas that got me thinking about what products might be available .

In addition to Ed Dale's suggestions I came up with a few sites of my own to look for ideas.

• Fun Advice: Similar to Yahoo Answers, but better in my opinion because you make money by asking questions. I average about $8 a week here.
• Commission Junction: Affiliate marketing network. Hundreds of companies run their affiliate program through CJ. Browsing categories I found a couple of products I think I can build a niche website around.
• Click Bank: Another affiliate network. Most of the products are informational in nature.
  

Homework- After watching the video and listening to the podcast, Ed assigned us to to come up six niche website ideas. Ed warned not to pick ones with a lot of competition for the first effort. He suggested staying away from weight loss, vitamins and mortgages. Here are my six:

1. Fitness device from marketer on Commission Junction. I know Ed said weight loss was loser, but this is a pretty unique item with a great embeddable promotion video.
2. Jobs in Iraq and the Middle East.
   
3. Online payday loans.
4. Speed reading
5. Raising earthworms for profit.
6. Fuel mileage improvement devices.

In tomorrow's lesson Ed will show us how to do market research to see if our ideas are viable money makers.

Thirty Day Challenge - Day 1

ED discusses the the four basics of the challenge: Market Research, Traffic, Conversion and Product

Portable Firefox- A great time saver

I've recently discovered the joys of portable applications that can be carried on a memory stick. If you're like me, you use a lot of different computers. For instance, I have a desktop PC at home, a laptop and a desktop at work, not to mention school, the PCs I occasionally use at my mom's, the library and home.

I always found it a pain to sync my laptop and desktop bookmarks. And then when I used a different computer, I'd have to try and remember all my favorite sites and passwords. Now I use a portable version of Firefox on a USB memory stick. It's fully functional, and I can have access to all my sites on any computer.

As a side benefit, if I'm using someone else's computer I'm not leaving my viewing history on their browser. As an Internet marketer with lots of different sites I need to maintain and be able to view, portable Firefox has been a great time saver.

Starting Ed Dale's 30 Day Challenge-Preseason

Through the The30 Day Challenge (TDC) Ed Dale promises to teach you the secrets of Internet niche marketing. The goal is to earn $10 in 30 days without spending any money. Ed is quick to admit that $10 isn't much, but the techniques he shows you can build highly profitable sights.

The TDC has been an annual event for a couple of years now . Fortunately all the training material is on the web and you can start at anytime. As part of the challenge, Ed wants students to form teams. Not being much of a team player myself, I have decided to fore go the team portion and strike out on my own. For those of you who might be more sociable than me, new challenges start the first of every month.

Before Day 1 starts Ed has several "Preseason" video and podcasts to get you ready. I'm not a web novice, not by by a long shot, but I found several useful tips. Apparently, much of the challenge is based on social networking. At Ed's recommendation I've installed the following programs on my Firefox browser:

• SEO for Firefox: shows competitive data in search results such as page rank and links. Let's you do link anaylisis to compare your site's link to the competition.
• Google Notebook: Browser tool that lets you clip and save information from websites.
• Stumbleon: Social bookmarking site that lets you classify and comment on sites. I've been using this for sometime. When I'm interested in something I search Stumbleon to see what sites other Stumblers have liked.
• Twitter: Kind of a mini-blog to let people know what you are doing. I've been experimenting with this in my other job as a reporter. Don't forgot to get the Twitterbar download so you can post to twitter right from the browser bar.
• Bloglines: Awesome easy to use web-based blog reader. I don't know why I never set up a blog reader before. I love getting up in the morning and having all the new posts from my favorite blogs all in one place. It's a huge time saver.
• Del.icio.us: Another social bookmarking site to help drive traffic to your pages. Get the Firefox extension here.

Ed's training appears to pretty extensive. Last year the top finisher in the challenge made $7,000. Admittely most of the people who finished the challenge look like they made anywhere from a couple of bucks to about $100. I'll be blogging daily about my progress in the challenge.

Here's a video of Ed introducing the challenge. It's a year or so old, so remember you can now start the challenge at anytime.



Sign up for the 30 Day Challenge here.

Free Content Directory

When it comes to the Web, content is king. Nobody is coming to your page to look at links and banner ads. Viewers can pretty quickly determine if a site contains what they are looking for: useful information.

It doesn't matter if your site is about making money, dating, bird watching, girl watching or the life cycle of the arctic toad, the product is the same information. Knowing that, you might think "Well gee, I don't know anything about body building, so I guess I can't start Get Buff.com." Or, maybe you're thinking, "I know everything there is to know about getting a body like Arnold Schwarzenegger, but writing isn't by strong suit, and I can't afford to pay a writer to fill Get Buff.com with articles."

Well thanks to the information superhighway you can build a website on any subject and experts will write free content for you.

Think of the opportunities this opens up. Without the need for expertise, writing skill or the time to write, you can build dozens of sites on just about anything.

Article directories make this all possible. These sites are depositories of articles written by experts in their field that are free for webmasters to use. Now you are probably asking yourself 'why would anyone write articles for free?' Simple, publicity and backlinks to their own webpage.

The deal is you can use their articles for free, but you must include the author and resource box listed at the bottom of the articles, including links.

I hate cliches, but this is a win-win arrangement. You get fresh, free authoritative content and the authors get more exposure. Think about this: say I'm a relationship expert with a website. Now I could write an article on say, oh, 'The Top Ten Reasons Men Cheat.' If I publish it on my site my regular visitors will read it and hopefully it will pick up some search engine traffic.

But what if I put the same article on a free directory and a 1000 webmasters post it on their web pages? Every time one of their visitors reads it and gets down to the end where there is a link back to my site, I have a potential new viewer.

Free Article Directories:
Article City
Article Base
Article Biz
Free Articles
Free Article Hub
Amazines
The Free Library
Ezine Articles
Article Cube

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