Website Building Update – Week 16
I came to a sad realization this week that I really need to spin every single article on my websites. Suddenly, I have about 60 articles to spin. I find this depressing because I really hate spinning articles. But I can get so much out of a spun article. I can submit these articles to a butt load of directories and put them up on web 2.0 sites. Plus I can feed them into blog networks and get backlinks.
I considered outsourcing it, but it seems that that would cost me somewhere near $1500 US, which I don’t really want to part with right now. (Did I mention I’m broke?)
So, now it’s time to just man up and do it. I figure I can force myself to do one every day. That should get things started.
Plus, when I’m done, I’ll have three times as many backlinks, which should be just what I need to start pushing a few more pages onto the front page of Google.
Also, I’m still cranking out content for website #5, which I still want to get finished by the end of the year. I can do it, but all this spinning will slow me down a bit.
Once I’m done, I’ll have 5 websites up. I understand that I should expect to make about $50-$200/week from each site. Once all five get up to full speed, that should mean $13,000 – $52,000 US per year.
Okay, so I wouldn’t be rich, but if I can get near the upper end of that, then that’s a full-time income which could afford a comfortable life and even a little outsourcing. Plus I really want to pull in enough money so my girlfriend can quit her job. She really doesn’t like it and she wants to help me with these websites.
If both of us could work on these sites, then we could trade tasks back and forth. When I’m ready to blow my brains out from spinning articles, she could take over and I could start doing something that requires no thought like directory submissions. We could peel these sites out twice as fast!
Here’s my weekly sales snapshot. It’s pretty lame. No sales this week. There’s a spike today, but that’s just a rebill from months ago. I’ll be honest, I’m feeling pretty low right now. I figured by now I’d have at least one site up to full speed cranking out at least $50/week. I’m finding that I’m riddled with doubt and I’m honestly not sure what else I can do except to keep plugging away at this.
Fuck...
December 20th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Keep plugging away man it’s the only way.
I’ve been having similar results although I’m only working on one website.
You’ll have a better day tomorrow. Then one day it will all come together.
You’re sales are not flukes. They’re just not very regular, that’s all. Mine are the same. A few here and there. It’s just the start though.
Every worthwhile journey starts with one step.
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:53 am
Keep at it and good luck!
January 26th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
Hi,
I am a reader that envies the lifestyle displayed in Tim’s book, I am just coming to the realization that I can potentially start generating some extra income from blogging and creating websites. The only problem is, I have no Idea where to start. As of right now my knowledge of web design is pretty limited, which doesnt concern me as much (outsourcing). I am more just trying to wrap my head around how money actually gets made this way, if you know of any resources aside from your site than can help me get started they would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
January 27th, 2010 at 11:05 am
@ Andy, Hey, glad to meet a fellow 4HWW fan. If you are trying to get started making a muse, you can really do one of two different things. The first is to make your own product, and the second is to sell other people’s products as an affiliate. I’m doing affiliate marketing right now because it gives me a good foundation on web design and promotion without the hassle of creating a product on top of that. If you create your own product, you still have to do all the web design and promotion too, which is a lot to bite off when you’re first getting off the ground.
Pretty much everything I know about affiliate marketing, I’ve learned at Affilorama.com. They have good lessons that you can watch for free, plus they also have a discussion forum where you can ask questions and get some help. If you can afford it, I’d recommend their AffiloBlueprint product, which is a step-by-step course that lays everything out for you, but you’ll surely get a lot of good stuff from the free content too.
There are other ways to make money online too. You can go to WarriorForum.com to learn more about these. Be careful though. On this site, they talk about pretty much everything from affiliate marketing to adsense to product creation to bum marketing and everything in between. It is really easy to get overwhelmed and run around in circles.
But if you just want to get a good understanding of promotion or linkbuilding or something like that, you can also look at ThirtyDayChallenge.com. This is a free site that tries to teach you the basics of getting a simple niche blog up and running in one month. It’s a great resource.
Other than that, I would recommend that you move your website (the one that you left in your comment) to your own domain name. As long as you stay on Blogspot, it’s like you’re renting property from Google, and all it takes is a few twitches from them to wreck your whole blog. Buy a domain of your own and it’s like owning your own land. You can do whatever you want on it without having to worry about getting banned or kicked off because of some new Google policy.
I hope this helps.