So if you were hesitating on how to get started, simply take your main and secondary keywords and add the modifiers to make these buyer keywords. Then check the competition but don’t get discouraged if this looks tough. If you market at the right places you can still get traffic there.

Now even with no offers to promote, buyer keywords are generally great for AdSense. Advertisers target buyer keywords, and those get some nice amount per click due to their competitiveness. So people looking to may be inclined to click on ads if these are actually showing what they’re looking for and if you don’t have other links.

So start with your keywords. That’s what I’ve done, I compiled a list of 10 buyer keywords around my main keyword for one of my niche website. These will be outsourced, I’ll submit them to top article directories and create few web 2.0 pages that will link to my money site.

I’ll repeat this for as much websites as I can, and may create new ones too. When time is short outsourcing is really a great help and can push your business beyond your expectations.

Of course nothing is going to happen by simply wanting it, but if you can remember what you want then you will put yourself in a discipline, focus mode that will move you towards your goal. Again this has something to do with taking action. We stop ourselves from doing because we fear of not getting results, we are scared to take a risk, we think about wasting time and that the outcome is not there at the end.

We just freeze and don’t move on. This may be inconscient but what we do is focusing on all the negatives side. So once you have a decsion to make here are few qestions to ask yourself:

• become a 60 seconds decider (I got this from Jason Fladlien): Will this or that action/decision will completely change your life or business? If yes, you may need to take more time, otherwise in 60 seconds you should be able to decide if this action should be done or not, and move on.
• What is the worst thing that could happen to your business if you take that action? Is it irreversible? Most of the time, it’s not.
• What is the cost of NOT taking action? What is the outcome of doing nothing?
• What results do you expect from that action? So do it!

This introducion may look a bit long but I thought it is dedicated to get your mindset on ACTION mode.

Achieving Goals Step By Step

So you may want to lose 20 pounds, do it 1 pound after the other. Of course set your goals the SMART way (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time-targeted).

For income goals you need to know HOW you’re going to achieve it. You may have decided to reach $10,000 per month. How? By having 10 websites to generate $1,000 each. Just an example, you can have your own numbers.

Of course you still don’t know how easch site will perform but we’re not going to discuss niche research, product selection, keyword research and competition analysis.

But either as an affiliate or a product creator (or both), you can decide the money to be made with the $ per sale you get.

$1,000 per month is about $34 per day. You may make more or less commissions depending on various factors but you shouldn’t think about that. What you need to focus on is getting the site up and getting traffic and sales/commissions and then improve if needed.

Basically you need to register a domain, install WordPress (or another site/blog platform you like), have content, monetization, and traffic. The details are omitted on purpose. Most people know how to create a website, create content, build backlinks and so on.

Once you have been marketing online for some time you know what to do, it may just look boring. Have a clear plan, each of your actions should be laid out and you should be able to go through these one by one, or step by step. Outsource your plan if you can.

Let’s dig in our example a bit more:

If you decided to monetize an site with AdSense, you may have 20 pages. To reach $34 a day, each page should generate $1.7. It’s certainly doable right? Remember you can monetize with affiliate offers too, or have your own product.

Build one website and market it so you can generat an income and invest it in content creation. If you already have money to invest then you can have your first website content done for you, and focus on the marketing until you reach your goal.

Hey how many $5 articles can you buy with $1,000? The answer is 200! Or 20 articles x 10 sites. So if you have one website profitable you can and you SHOULD re-invest in your business and reach your goal much faster!

For your first site, writing 20 articles is just writing 1 article, and then another article, until you’ve done it 20 times. Again, just divide each goal, each task and FOCUS on it 200%.

So what is your plan? Can you clearly see each step? Then move on.

In the very beginning of this post I asked you what it is that you really want. So it can be the car, the house… And unfortunately these things are not free, but not impossible to get providing you do the right things and focus on what makes you money.

If you’re not sure if something is worth doing, ask yourself the questions we’ve seen earlier and also this one: will this move me towards my goal or away from it?

If this is something that can be incorporated to your plan then it is fine, otherwise are you really going to use it? An example would be automation softwares. If you saw an offer for an article directory submitter, it can be great if you’re an SEO and article marketer by doubling or tripling your efforts. But if you plan to get traffic with PPC or PPV then is it really worth it?

• WPRobot

I think this one is one of the most popular out there. It grabs content from many sources (articles, videos, Amazon, eBay, ClickBank, CJ, LinkShare,  Yahoo Answers, Twitter, RSS and even more) and publish on autopilot. There are tons of features that makes it incredibly powerful.

You can edit templates so the layout of your posts are customized to your own likes, you can mix different sources in the same post… WPRobot can also rewrite or translate posts giving you even more unique content.

WPRobot uses different modules. There are several packages you can buy,  the full version that comes with everything ($169) and certainly the most recommended one, the content version (for adding various content and medias), the money version with all making money modules.

You can also customize your order and select only the modules you want. And you can also get the devleopper license if you want to sell your websites later. It may be a bit pricy but it’s certainly the most complete autoblog plugin on the market.

Check out WPRobot.

• Caffeinated Content

This is another powerful autoblog plugin at just $77. It will also publish RSS, articles, videos, Yahoo Answers. These are less sources than WPRobot but you can still monetize with AdSense and other affiliate offers. Caffeinated Content also use a template system so you can customize your posts.

It can also rewrite and translate posts. This is a great plugin. Check out Caffeinated Content

There are some more, but I won’t list them. The two above are the most recommended and used by pro autobloggers (yes it seems you can be a pro doing nothing). Many other plugins will do the same, more or less but these ones are constantly updated and are stable.

Now you have other options, and I’m talking about FREE autoblog plugins. I’ve not tested them since I think you can do it yourself. I will try few ones on this list though I already own few paid autoblog plugins. But really, when something is free, just try it and see if it’s good enough for you, don’t wait for someone to do all the work for you.

• WPArticleFetch

You don’t even need to subscribe to download this. But you should know this plugin removes all links in articles. So if you find it unethical for authors, don’t use it. They say on the download page they will update it with new posting capabilities: YouTube, Yahoo! Answers and re-writing. A training video walk you through the plugin functions on their site.

• WP-O-Matic

This one is known by many. It will grab RSS sources and publish content on your blog. I’ve seen it may not be working very well on WordpPress versions above 2.6 but some others also said it does work… So, you’l have to try and see.

• EazePress

Another plugin that posts from RSS feeds. It extracts full text from feeds so you can have full articles posted. You’ll have to check if it works with your version of WordPress. Update : it’s actually a modified version of WP-o-Matic, didn’t work for me, only partial feeds were posted.

• WP-YA Grabber

I was amazed to discover this one was free. This is a Yahoo! Answers grabber, it will take questions from YA and publish those. Questions become the title, the description becomes the body of the post and answers become comments. Really great. You will have to set up a cron job at your host so it automatically posts new content, they show you how to do it. But you can also run it when you want to have new posts publish on the go. Watch the video that explains how o make it work but it’s really easy.

Update! Found some other autoblogging plugins for you. Test these too.

• Multipress Content Lite

Okay this one is probably the most complete of the free autoblog plugins I’ve found, remember I didn’t test it but on the paper it sounds really good. The download page mentions a full version but this may only available once you have installed it as I didn’t see a link to the paid version.

Anyway Multipress Content Lite can publish articles from the 3 largest article directories, YouTube Videos, Rss feeds, Flickr and Yahoo! Answers. That sounds pretty good, right?

I may give it a shot myself, I have few domains that I do nothing with so I’ll use these to setup autoblogs and test these free plugins separately. I’ll post an entry then with my results.

Update2

• Unique Article Wizard WordPress plugin

I can’t believe I missed this one the first time I pubslished this post. Well here’s the fix. So Unique Article Wizard plugin is the plugin that allows you to receive on your blog, for free content submitted by subscribers of Unique Article Wizard. The system generates unique version from submitted articles and you get yours. There’s actually more version of this plugin for various platforms (Drupal, Article directory scripts, blogspot by email…)

–End of update–

With the two plugins I mentioned in my previous post to optimize duplicate content, these free plugins may get really better than free.

Okay that’s it for now I hope you’ll do good use of these autoblog plugins and start profiting a little bit of autoblogging. Don’t be lazy, these will do much of the work for you, but few backlinks here and there will be worth the extra effort. If you can get some search engine traffic, then your AdSense clicks should be paying higher too.

You can of course monetize your traffic with anything you want providing you don’t break any rule.

Hope you’ve enjoyed that post. I’ll see you tomorrow.

Tom

But can you use others content and build a website that can make you money. The short answer is yes. People who make autoblogs usually use and exclusively use duplicate content. Plugins grab content from different sources and publish these on your blog. This can be articles of course, as well as YouTube videos, Yahoo! Answers, Amazon products, eBay listings…

All this content is of course duplicate content. If you manage to get traffic to your website you can make money. And if you can’t afford autoblogging plugins (I’ll post about some later), you can publish articles yourself, manually. For articles, republishing suppose that you keep the articles intact, keeping all the text and links.

You can then promote your duplicate content sites normally as you would for your own unique content. If you build good quality backlinks to your website,

You can own a mini article directory in a specific niche. If you think about it, article marketers submit their articles to multiple article directories, so there are duplicate content already out there. Your website is just  hosting this content at another place. Of course, your job would be to make your website the authority for this content so it receives traffic.

Now, you can already know what content is already ranking. If you can see an eZineArticles article ranking on the first page of Google for a keyword, you could tryto outrank it. Just check the number of backlinks. Use SEOQuake (a firefox plugin) to know how many backlinks are pointing to the EzineArticles, and maybe you can republish it with more backlinks on your website.

It would be interesting to make a case study. But basically, you know that search engines serve the most relevant results for a given search. Then it determines which has enough authority to rank. If that content ranks well elsewhere, it should rank well on your site, so build backlinks.

Your monetization methods:

• AdSense (can pay good money if you target high paying keywords, take some with at least a $0.50 cpc)
• Other contextual ad networks
• Amazon
• Affiliate programs
• CPA offers

…actually, any kind of monetization that you would use for your own site.

I’ll have to expand on this further, with a case study as I said, and talking about autoblogging plugins too. Also, on ranking with duplicate content, you may also download the free SEOn Trial report which will show you a website could rank with no content.

See ya soon!

So no, I didn’t buy it but I still recommend it. If you have a system in place already that is well working for you then this might improve a lot of things, or you may find things are great like they are now. If you don’t know at all where to start and need ONE service that can centralize all your research work (niches, products…) then IMEye seems to be the Ultimate research software out there.

I’ve already purchased stuff from them (Niche BluePrint, Commission Blueprint) and these are great courses. IMEye doesn’t look crappy. If you haven’t checked the video, do it now and you will see what it can do for you. Here’s the link : IMEye demo.

What makes it extremely valuable is the speed at which it will give you profitable markets, niches and keywords. Everything is stored in a huge database, then you only filter columns : minimum and maximum competition, cost per click, searches per months, is the exact match domain for the keyword for sale, and much more stuff.

A tool you can use everyday for AdSense sites, affiliate sites or e-commerce sites. Or use it just one to get thousands profitable markets and then outsource projects of website creation. Well just check the video, it is maybe the best research tool you can find today, at least I can say this one tool can replace all the others in its category.

Check IMEye

It was from Chris Rempel, the author of Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate, a very good ebook. I may write a review of it, I bought this few months ago. Anyway, Chris creates some special “VIP” marketing material that he promotes to his buyers list. I have to admit I truely like a lot all of his reports, and already own the “Conduit Method” and “Reverse Niche Selection“.

Chris always prices his products very cheap and they are of a very high quality and value. This time, back from my vacations, I had the pleasure to see he released “VIP Essentials“. It’s a package including :

• Website templates (html, XSitePro, and WordPress theme)
• Step by step traffic blueprints (free and paid methods)
• Outsourcing templates (sample job offers, project descriptions…)

This actually has been designed to help you build an empire of websites that use the Conduit Method. So what is the Conduit Method ? It’s, in Chris words, the simplest method to make money with affiliate marketing, and it truely is. More than simple, it’s even stupid.

The Conduit Method was the first VIP report Chris Rempel wrote, and it is brainless. I told you I liked all of his stuff, I own everything, it’s so cheap that you shouldn’t miss it, and above all it’s made for lazy people . You need to create minisites to promote products (well it sounds like normal affiliate marketing), but you just don’t have to think. Don’t think about the content, don’t think about pre-selling, don’t think about SEO, you don’t even have to know well the products you promote to sell them. I can’t reveal everything, but you will be able to create hundreds of pages if your only skills are reading and writing.

Now with the VIP Essentials, it’s even get better and faster. You get the high-converting templates Chris uses to create his “Conduit websites”. Just systematically add content to these, without much research. With the traffic generation blueprints, and the outsourcing reports you can be a Super Affiliate too. You don’t have to outsource any task if you don’t want to. But when you can afford it (it’s cheap really), the jobs involved being so simple, you will be able to relax and have the “work” done for you. Just check your stats to see sales coming.

Well I’m not urging you to check this stuff. Well actually I am, because it’s really good. I told you Chris makes his marketing stuff cheap :

• Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate was released last year I think, it’s $29.95
• The Conduit Method is $14.95,
• Reverse Niche Selection is $14.95
• VIP Essentials is $29.95

Even if you bought everything it would cosst you less than $100. And what makes this so good is that you can also immediately use this material, and profit from it. His reports are short, but very powerful.

Frankly, you should have a look at least to VIP Essentials, his last product and you will see what I mean. With it, you will want to create many websites. There are so many niches you can profit from, because you have no real work to do. And if you’re smart you can target products or services with high commissions, it works too. Highly Recommended Products. 5 stars !

The Common Article Marketing Strategy, or Do-It-Yourself

Articles are content, you can write some to develop a website, and to market your website, submitting to directories to gain backlinks. This is the article marketing as we know it, or bum marketing for some. I still do article marketing and when you are in a cool niche, with not so much competition, or promoting a new product that just comes on the market then you can dominate SERPs easily.

TIP : your article includes the name of the product in the headline and body, and the domain you installed a website for the product (your landing page, or mini site, blog) includes the name of product too. If you are promoting ONE product on its ONE website this workd very well. You may have already seen some www.ProductXYZreview.com.

Article Marketing – Pay For Good Work

So I have bought the 4 Hour Work Week (still writing the review) and there is a part about outsourcing. And since writing articles may be time consuming when you are not an expert on a field, you can hire a writer and have him writing articles for you. I have found some cool writers on digitalpoint forums, they work well and they are cheap. (I also have been scammed, articles not unique and then not usable…), so ask members with good or great reputation, this is your best bet.

Here is an example that I am using right now :

I’ve found a member with a very high reputation and itrader on digitalpoint, his rates are $0.01 per word. You will find writers at 0.015 or 0.02 and even more. What you want are the backlinks, even if the articles are “small”, you will still be there. So if your writer is professional, writes a good english, that’s fine. You can ask samples to see the quality of their works.

Back to my writer and his $0.01 per word, means a 300 words article is $3. You also have to know that many article writers offer discounts if you purchase in bulk, or for more words. But for the purpose of this example I’ll keep the $3 per article. I choose 300 words because EzineArticles asks articles to be at least 250 words.

Now depending on your budget, if you want to submit one article a day, it’s 30 articles and $90. You should be able to write few resource boxes. While your writer is busy, you could have started your mini site/landing page for affiliate programs or AdSense. This means you too have some work ! Write a review of a product, or articles for AdSense.

Once your website is ready, you can start submitting all the articles, but one a day is recommended. I am not an SEO expert but I’ve read that building too much backlinks in a short period of time could make Google unhappy. I don’t know what is too much, but with one submission a day you also ensure a regular flow of content.

That’s it, if you have an affiliate program that pays $20 then, with 5 sales you are in profit. It should be easy to reach this, remember you will still get traffic after your articles are submitted, so maybe you will have a more success in the month following the article submissions. And if you choose AdSense to monetize your website, you could make $3 a day and in a month get back your investment.

I recommend you to read the free report by Josh Spaulding, the “$5 mini site formula” (Nope, not affiliate link, it’s free). Josh explains how to make at least $5 a day with article marketing and AdSense. I enjoyed the keyword selection part and have myself experienced some great things from then. If you already have websites with AdSense, a few tricks with keywords could increase your earnings.

So even if you hire a ghost writer as I described or writes article yourself, AdSense is still a great way to earn money from your mini-site. Articles are great for long term traffic.

Articles and Selling Websites

Either you write yourself content or pay for it, you have content that you can put on your website. Just don’t copy articles from article directories to a new website and sell the website. On a website you want to sell, it’s better to have unique content.

Some people just sell websites without any marketing having been done. They are just good writers, so they build a website of say 20 pages and then sell it on forums, saying that the website is new, there is no revenue from it, but it has good keywords and if the buyer is good at SEO or marketing then it can makes good money.

That’s a good strategy, if this is on a topic where keywords pay well, or if you can recommend affiliate offers then you can have some people interested. You could even combine it with the previous strategy : having someone writing content for your website. You then sell it for more.

Or you can test how the website is doing. You will track performance and visits to the site and will have stats to provide to buyers. Then decide how much you can sell the website ofr. I’ve seen some people saying the value should be 6 months of website income, some have said 10. I can’t really say how much you should sell, but check the midascode blog for cool tips about buying and selling websites or their buying and selling website services .

Article Writing and Selling

Well everything is the title, I talked about writing articles yourself or hiring someone. This “someone” could be you, and people could ask your services. Forums are a good starting point. You can introduce your services at a very low price to get some people coming. You could even actually offer a free article to the first person who answers your offer. Don’t forget to ask people to review your work (risky if you write crap).

Be sure to know if you can write on any topic or if you are an expert on one or more specific fields.

Turn Articles Into Videos

That’s a great solution. First because if you have an article written, then you can just make a short video with only text and a little music. Second possibility, you can film yourself with your webcam or another video recorder, with you just reading your article to your audience. This is really easy and fast, your videos can just be just one minute long or less this is not a problem.

The main advantage is you can put your backlink to your website too, so if people like the video they can visit your website for more information. But you may also have seen that some YouTube videos are at the top of Google SERPs. So again : good keywords should bring you targeted traffic. Why not put your product reviews into video ?

Another place to put your articles

So unique content is good, you have written or bought it and now you have decide where to put it : on your website or blog, or submitting to article directories. There is another place for good content, and this is Squidoo. I have used it a lot. You may know Squidoo is really appreciated by Google, and you may have noticed some squidoo lenses are in the first page of Google.

It happened to me for some keywords and of course you can monetize your Squidoo pages with some affiliate programs and build backlinks from there pointing to your website. Squidoo lenses are so easy, fun and powerful for your business. Really, if you don’t have used it yet, do it. You can just put one article, then an Amazon or eBay module, a guestbook and some YouTube videos (hey why not the one you created).

Well that’s it for now. These are some strategies to market or build a website with articles, either you choose to purchase content or build it yourself, you NEED content.

Why is it interesting ? Well, you may have seen some graphics that you like, maybe for a website that you will build, or for a WordPress theme, but you would have to download them and then use PhotoShop or another image editing software to identify the very specific color code at a very specific place on the graphic you see.

Well, I know this is a bit confused, so if you don’t know about this soft, visit Instant Eyedropper website, the tutorial explains it all, with pictures. Click and hold the left button from the taskbar icon and drag the mouse on your screen to get any color code. Best of all this very light software is free.

You want to know how I had to use it ? No ? Hey I write what I want ! It may save you a precious time and keep your eyes healthy (I said I write what I want).

Today, I wanted to add some AdSense to a new website I just created. As many of you know, it is a good thing to blend your ads colors with your theme colors (background, links, text). If you coded your theme you may remember the colors you used for your theme. But if like me, you just downloaded the theme then you would have to explore the CSS file to know the exact background color code, the exact link color code, etc.

Some CSS files are confusing and you often see more than 3 color codes in the CSS code. After several trials, it seems I didn’t identify the color code for the background so, I open a new tab and use a very useful website : Google. I found Instant Eyedropper and in few seconds I manage to identify all the color codes I needed to create the perfect pallette and have my ads blend.

So that’s it people, I hope I helped someone, I surely helped myself.

There are many things you may already know about WordPress, and the first thing is this is a blogging platform. In this completely free guide (she even doesn’t ask your email adress), you learn how to develop niche websites, not niche blogs.

Caroline takes you through the whole process of installation of your blog and tells you how to structure your blog to make it a website. Of course, it is a useful guide, since it is a little about website monetization too . She also shares some resources for you to help improve your site. Resources like plugins, tools, and an AdSense theme.

If you are a beginner and want to launch your first website, this is a simple guide you must check. It will work too if you want to use WordPress as a blog, since the installation process is the same. The concept is “how to turn a blog into a website”.

I have to admit this is an idea I had for few websites, but still didn’t do it. I have a new niche idea to launch, the content is already written, but I’m not sure I can write on a regular basis on the topic. So launching a niche website will be my choice, and hopefully, it will be a money making website.

Plus, WordPress is so convenient to manage content, change design that I don’t want spend some time to build and code a website myself.

So, right, I knew how to use WordPress to make it look like a website, and if you are using WordPress for some time now, you may see how to do it too. But it’s always good to have a guide to rely on.

Caroline updates her guide regularly so don’t forget to check for updates. Give her your feedback and suggestions, sure she will appreciate.

Last words (repetition) : it’s free.

Visit Caroline Middlebrook’s blog, there are some nice articles too.

I really recommend you read their blog, it’s cool and simple explained and also full of ideas.

They of course built several websites, one of them is Coolest Gadgets, and it earns more than 10,000 a month, mainly about adsense. Again AdSense is for CONTENT websites. But, I also read a post on their site telling about “minisites” making maximum money, and showing us a minisite example.

Here is the post : Mini Sites don’t always make mini money.  All you need is a good idea, work on it, buy a domain and host your files, make some SEO.

Your goal first would be to make $1 a day for this one website. Then, how many websites can you create ? What if all your websites earn now $2 a day… Okay you understand. And don’t forget that with time you may have more ideas to add to each of your minisites.

Now, you have to do some brainstorming. I took a pen and paper and wrote down every topic I was sure I can write about. I have more than 50, and I’m sure you can easily do it too, even more. Then start writing. This is not so hard to write content for these websites, this could be the same process if you had to write articles and submit them to articles directories, to increase your backlinks for your main websites.

If you need ideas, visit forums, blogs, read articles about a topic and rewrite everything you think useful with your own words. You may also want to add links. What are the best websites for these topics ? Just use Google and find what are the top sites.

Even if building new minisites will not consume so much time, you also have to keep working on your main websites. So build your network of mini websites and make them profitable, but keep adding content to your bigger money makers.