Let’s have some fun – and try to do it with no (little)money!

Concept: So Simple anyone can do it!  Let’s make some money selling blogs(really). Goal: $100 Per Hour.

The “changing affiliate world” is a series I’m doing in parts to give those going through the 30 day guide some ideas to get something off the ground.  You can see all the posts on the “Changing Affiliate World by looking at the “Changing Affiliate World” Category.

As I noted in part 1 I’m going to be burning through my “idea” folder and just posting them all.  Today I’m going to post one that I can’t believe I never got around to doing – and be warned, I’m going to be jumping into this with two feet this coming week.  I’m so dang nice though that I’m going to share ALL my notes.  Since my handwritting is horrible I’ll type instead of scanning them in.

I don’t care how not technical you are – this is something you can do easily as long as you can create a blog.  First things first – you are going to need a couple things.  First thing is hosting – and in this case it doesn’t matter if it’s shared or a VPS.  If you go with a VPS consider setting up WHMCOMPLETE so you can earn from hosting as well (see part 4 for more on WHM Complete).  This takes a little ‘work’ – and of course requires some time to come to fruition… but you can earn in the meantime.  You can automate parts of this – but it’s still going to take work to make that $100 per hour.

First thing you need to do is set up a few blogs (pick your keywords, and start posting good keyword quality posts)

Anyway, this section doesn’t need to be long – you should know how to create a blog and add some good plugins by now.  If not come see me in other98percent.com and I’ll make sure you get access to blogsfortraffic.com so you can learn.  (I’m the admin there).

The important thing is to NOT list these blogs for sale until you have 40 to 100 posts on them.  That sounds scary – but I’ll explain further down how to do it fast.  You should also embedd your links in posts, etc… Don’t overdo it – but your new owner isn’t going to go delete all the existing content when he takes over most likely… so you have free links for life as well.

Once you get a dozen or more blogs up and running (ie ready to sell) it’s time to set up your shopping cart.  There are a ton of free ones out there – oscommerce is nice for example.  Don’t sweat the “look” of your shopping cart so much.  Load up your shopping cart with all your sites.  Be descriptive and actually go into detail on your traffic and income.  At this point you just set these up and you aren’t getting a whole lot of traffic – so let’s do this by the amount of time things took you.

30 minutes to install the blog.

20 minutes to paste in articles from article directories.

10 minutes to add into your shopping cart.

That’s one hour – and we want to make 100 per hour right?  So let’s set the price of the blog at $125.  That’s going to cover your domain, your hour, etc…

(it’s a good idea to do some marketing (link building) of your own at this point. Outsource it and add it into the cost of the website)

If you do any promotion, any content purchasing, etc.. CHARGE FOR IT.  Add it to the price of your blog.  It might not be worth it today from a buyers point of view but in 6 months that’s a whole new ball game.  Wouldn’t you pay more for a site that’s been updated for 6 months, has hundreds of links, traffic, etc…..

Chances are you won’t sell it right away because no one knows about your shopping cart site so any profit your blog makes prior to you selling it is a bonus…

Once you have a dozen or so sites on the topic inside your shopping cart it’s time to make a few bucks and possibly sell some of the sites right away.

Head on over to digital point, WF, sitepoint (any webmaster forum with a marketplace) and say I’ve got 12 blogs on XYZ topic that I’m selling links, posts, and sponsorships on. Please PM me for urls.)

When the folks interested in links contact you let them know that the links are XX per month or XX per permanent link inside a single post.  Also offer to post related content that they provide you.  It’s also a good time to let someone intersted in this topic that the sites are for sale.  Here is a pretty decent example mail:

The following domains in the “xyz” niche are available for both purchase and link sales.  The domains are:

• domain1.com
• domain2.com
• domain3.com
• domain4.com  (etc..)

Since these are newer sites and I may not always own them (I develop sites to sell to others) I want to protect your purchase of links as well. I don’t sell permanent sitewide links.  I do however sell embedded links into the post that will stay there with a new owner.  I can also offer limited time sitewide links, and even blog sponsorships and/or the posting of content you provide.

Prices:

Link embedded in posts: $5 each.

Posting your content (you provide): $10 each.

Site Wide Link:  $30 per month (with the understanding that I will have to cancel your subscription if I sell the site)

I also have several other sites for sale on XYZ topic.  All of them have at least xxx posts and I’ve done some promotion.  You can find all the sites for sale here: myshoppingcartdomain.com

You will sell some.  Here is the tricky part. If you accept paypal you will find that it’s impossible to transfer to your buyer when you get one.  So you are stuck either selling lifetime links embedded in the posts, or time length sitewide links like (3 months for example).

You can scale this up by offering hosting, offering to add content every month (see the link below for powering up wordpress).

You can use custom themes that you sponsor yourself.  A good theme is about 200 bucks, buy the rights to it. Keep it to yourself and just embed your links in the ones you sell.

Personally I would offer to keep it updated using  Power Up WordPress (not quite available at the time of this post – but module 1 will speed things up for you and allow you to scale this up big time).  I created (am creating) Powerup WordPress just for this concept of putting out a mass of blogs on the same topic.  I’ve been doing it for a long time and it works – time for me to step up to the plate and start selling them outright as well.

I’m not sure if this is a “FUN” thing or not.  I actually enjoy setting up networks.  It’s a great feeling when I rule most of the top ten results for a topic.  I rarely sell my networks as they are more profitable for me to keep in the long run – but working for 50 to 200 per hour isn’t bad either.  It’s hard to sell a “NEW” blog for anything over $50 bucks – but once you add in your income from link sales, any affiliate sales, etc… on top of what the blog eventually sells for it’s going to work out well.

(note: I didn’t mention this up there but occasionally you are going to have to  update your shopping cart to reflect the new reality of your blogs.  Using images of your traffic or link sales income is a great way to boost what folks are going to pay.  Make sure you occasionally raise your prices as well – chances are your link sales will be enough to pay the bills and make this worth your time in the long run.  The occasional sale is just icing on the cake).