Thursday, August 13, 2009

My Make Money Online Goals

So what do I plan to achieve by making money online? Freedom, first off. If I can make this happen, my life will be free. I am not ruled by money, but I do know that money makes the world go round. I enjoy seeing and traveling, being with my family. Having a passive income will allow me to do this. I enjoy working hard, and come from an analytical background.

So what are my goals for the next year? (Hopefully my girlfriend stays around!)

I plan to make $1,000 per day between different affiliate and advertising programs. How do I plan to do this? Let me lay it out for you a little bit. I have been following Court, Griz, Justin, and a new guy, Ben, and they have finally broken out some projects and experiments. This is exactly what I have been looking for. I'll lay it out.

5 Authority Blogs (5 Years)
- These are going to be my babies. Probably no advertising. I want to test my hand at list marketing, and see if I can't drum up some advertising dollars.

1000 HubPage Mini Pages (3 Months)
- Writing a 300-400 word article targeting a long tail keyword, and using sniper targeting to get higher paying adsense ads, I plan to develop 1000 HubPage minisites. The intent is to make $100 per day with these 1,000 pages. I average 20 minutes per hubpage.

1000 Info Barrel Mini Pages (3 Months)
- Same concept as HubPages. Targeting the same keywords as my HubPage sites, but keyword anchoring to the HubPage to give it a bit more juice.

100 ClickBank Affiliate Niche Sites (3 Months)
- Using 300-400 word posts, and 4-5 posts per site. Employing the funnel marketing tactic, get them to purchase an item from ClickBanks product bank. Marketing comes into play here. Put these each on their own domain. I might try PPC with these as well one day.

100 Commission Junction Affiliate Niche Sites (3 Months)
- Same tactic as above, may practice PPC with these as well. They are solid marketing principles only. Ethics are out the door.

100 phpBay Niche Sites (3 Months)
- 300-400 Word Posts Targeting Buying Longtails

100 Amazon Affiliate Sites (3 Months)

1000 Post AdSense Article Blog (3 Months)
- Consider this my HubPages or Info Barrel, except I keep the profits. This one should be fun to create, because by this time I should be able to leave my job. An adsense ready template, and 1000 of my own HubPages, or Info Barrels.

100 Hubpages Project - Day 1 Finished Update

Well, 25 hubs completed, and already 290 page views. Can't beat it with your longest stick. My goals are to get 5 completed each night that I am working, and to get 25 completed each day that I am off. This is how I plan to lay it out. I have already gathered the list of 100 keywords from my existing websites search traffic logs.

Thursday 8/13 - 25 Hubs Completed
Friday 8/14 - 5 Hubs
Saturday 8/15 - 10 Hubs
Sunday 8/16 - 25 Hubs
Monday 8/17 - 5 Hubs
Tuesday 8/19 - 5 Hubs
Wednesday 8/20 - 10 Hubs
Thursday 8/21 - 15 Hubs

So one week from today, this project will be complete. Then I will try to keep you updated on the weekly earnings. If it gets to be too outrageous, I probably won't post it. I like to stay under the radar. After this, it is going to be setting up 100 info barrels, with 100 ezine articles supporting them. I will link the ezine article to the info barrel, and link the info barrel to my hubpage. From the hubpage, I will shoot a deep link to one of my niche authority blog posts. Sounds like it will work? If not, I could also drop a few unique article wizard on the top paying hubs and barrels... hmm, ideas?

What are you waiting on? Do something already. I've gotten this stuff down to a 15 minute per hub science. If I can do it, you can too.

100 Hubpages Project - 10 Hubs Completed

Well, it has been a short 3 hours. That is all it took for me to research 50 keywords, and to build 10 hubs. I set up a new account just for this project. Already have 2 fans, and 6 comments. Within 3 hours, I have had 180 visitors to these 10 hubs.

The only backlink promoting I am doing is using digg, reddit, and stubmleupon. I am optimizing the hubs for the ads I want displayed, and talking about a couple products that I can find on Amazon and put below the text. I hope this works out. At this rate, I will be able to complete 100 hubs well within 30 days.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

100 Hubpages Project Day 1

First things first, we have to compile a set of keywords. Today, being my day off, I am going to compile as many as possible, and get the first 3 Hubs up. This is what I have learned from previous experience, and from Ben's project comments.

Target keywords with 500 searches and low competition as a general rule. If search results reveal forum posts, article directory posts, or posts from unrelated websites, chances are you can rank easily. Once completed, these Hubs can also be used to feel out future niches, or targetable longtails for authority sites.

For the articles, use 400 words, and optimize for AdSense. Use This layout.

- TEXT
- PICTURE
- TEXT
- EBAY / AMAZON
- COMMENTS
- LINKS

Target 10 Hubs per niche, and 10 different niches.

Submit the sites to Digg, StumbleUpon, and Reddit for a few free backlinks.

If you have made it here...

What a fluke! Hah! Nah, seriously. You made it to my personal diary or journal of sorts. So what about me? I'm a little mysterious.. my girlfriend likes it, and calls me Batman. I well... about me..

I am 25 years old, have a beautiful girlfriend, and gorgeous little girl. I practiced severe blackhat, hacking, cracking, and general internet "malicious behavior". I had 2 lawsuits brought against me, and turned my directions. I didn't really know what I was doing at the time, just that I knew how to program, and had a knack for busting up software, and setting up huge botnets to destroy networks. (Anyone remember rewriting forms on AOL using internal accounts and SIDs? Hit me up! :D What about using ActiveX to write in an 8kb downloader on an IE page? AOL 2.5 Anyone?) Ok, enough h4x0r talk seriously. I come from back in the day, even though I am so young.

I got out of the web and software development game for a few years, working the grind at endless high paying jobs. Regardless, I learned a lot of skills, but one of them wasn't happiness. Then I met my girlfriend, and had my daughter. I am on top of the world, but to complete me, I must be able to quit working. These are my goals.

I have been reading Internet Marketing and SEO over at Court's Internet Marketing School. For 3 months now, I have followed his site, even though out of date, and have a very firm grasp on how to really design a site for the engines approval. He helped me with the dream of building a passive lasting income. For this, I am grateful.

After finding Court, I quickly found his circle of friends, and determined what business models suited my tastes. Now that they have all started updating their sites, or going to subscription models, I was forced to put everything into action. If anyone does make it to this website, I just want you to see that it is possible, and with projects that I am learning from Ben over at Make Money Online With SEO I am going to attempt to quit my day job as an Assistant Manager for a dying furniture company.

Using techniques that I have also learned from Griz like how to optimize your click through rate, and writing for targeted adsense ads, to please both your readers and the engines, he has taught me an extreme amount of knowledge. He runs a ring of blogs. His most notable one, that I followed, is Making Money With Adsense.

Justin, at SEOZombie.com is an excellent SEO, and provides great information on his site. He runs a Nashville SEO company, and has finally started taking on bigger internet marketing and seo projects.

One more, that I almost forgot to mention.. I don't really agree with him anymore, because his blog has turned into an affiliate promotion tool, and he has gone behind closed doors, but he does deserve a mention anyways. You can find Vic Franqui at BloggerUnleashed.com.

Once again, this site is really just my diary, and a way to show support to a few people who have helped me out along the way. Remember, I have a lot of experience designing, spamming, and monetizing from my teens, so all of this really was just a refresher course for me. You can do it too, but if you have less experience, just make sure you are going to put in the extra effort. All it takes is commitment!