The semi-evil niche blog business – Part 3
Welcome to part 3 of showing you my progress with my automated niche blog. It’s rather a short update than a complex follow-up post, but I think there are some things worth to mention.
As I already told you in the last post, I have ordered a custom blog header from a guy on the DP forums. Today he finally got ready with it and I’m just done implementing it (which in fact was as easy as substituting the current header file with the new one). I think he did good work, especially for paying him only 7 bucks!
Beside the header, I’ve also implemented some link selling code from TNX, a great link broker I’m using for several months now. You simply have to include their code and the rest is up to their spider which crawls your pages and automatically ad text links from people willing to advertise on your site. You don’t have to do anything beside waiting for your points to get credited in your TNX account (1000 points are currently worth $0.95, a PageRank 0 link gives you 6 points). So far over 100 pages of my blog are indexed and I think the first links will be sold within the next days. Let’s see…! 
Another thing worth to mention is the increase in my Alexa rankings. Slowly but steadily the rankings are climbing. But to be honest, this is mostly because I personally visit my blog quite often to work on it (e.g. managing the posts, design, comments…). And since every visit counts towards these rankings, it’s only a matter of time before one will see the rank increasing. The good thing is, that this will also increase the value of links sold on my blog posts and pages!
Ok, nothing more to see for now, but more post will follow!
Bye bye,
Querblogger
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Pingback by The semi-evil niche blog business - Part 1 | The Making Money Experiment — December 21, 2008 @ 6:52 pm
Hello you evil blogger,
How are you doing? Just wanted to drop by and say hello
. So, I’ve been watching your progress with the automated niche site for awhile now. From what I’ve heard ( actually, read ) from you, it seems like a good way of earning some extra bucks, without working that much. I don’t think that 10 hours of setting everything up and doing all the necessary tweaks, is a lot of work.
Especially if you consider that, once the site is good to go, it will pretty much do things on its own. I’m wishing you good luck with it! Don’t forget to keep us informed on how everything’s going
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See ya soon,
Tiberius
Comment by Tiberius Burciu — December 22, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
Well, the site is doing fine and fresh content keeps coming in. It’s nice to see the post count growing, without me doing anything at all
Now I only need to wait for the first text links to be sold and I’m raking in money, muharharhar…
Another good thing is, today I found a (potentially) even more profitable business model which is like the auto-blog thingy, but way more rewarding. I’ll talk about it soon, for now I have to study some more facts about it (I bought an ebook on the Warriorforum for $49 and the writer perfectly over-delivered, lots of quality content, videos…)
See you,
Querblogger
Comment by Querblogger — December 22, 2008 @ 7:19 pm
Hmm..a new business model, you say? Well, then I’m looking forward to seeing what’s about. I would like to experiment with such kind of sites ( automated blogs, that is ) myself, but I already have enough work on my hands for now. I simply can’t afford starting new projects
. One niche site and one blog are enough for me, at the moment.
But when I’ll have more time to check on other business models, then I’ll probably consider starting my own automated blogs, too. Will see..
Have a nice day,
Tiberius
Comment by Tiberius Burciu — December 22, 2008 @ 7:58 pm
Hey, been thinking for a while about setting up a few auto blogs, what is your traffic like and when did you start?
Comment by Matt Strange — December 30, 2008 @ 2:26 am
Hi Querblogger,
I am very interested in your new Auto Blog business model. I frequently check your blog (water-fuel blog) for traffic rank. Yes it is steadily climbing up.
I am also like to have this kind of blog as it is easy to maintain but I never used Word press before. I am using Blogger blog.
Is Hostgator Hosting Ok for this auto blog?
Thank you for giving useful information.
Chamil
Comment by Chamil — December 30, 2008 @ 7:40 am
@Chamil:
Yep, the rankings are getting better now (the blog already received a PR1 too). I really like that because it increases the value of links sold via my site. Setting up such a blog is not the hardest thing in the world, especially if you’re using a host that supports Fantastico for automatic Wordpress installations (like Hostgator does). The newest version of WP (2.7) makes it even easier since you can install plugins directly from the WP user interface without uploading any files. I would highly recommend Hostgator for such a blog, be sure to choose the “Baby” package for $8 which supports unlimited sites, meaning you can run dozens of such blogs on a single account!
@Matt Strange:
The traffic is slowly getting better. Since I started the blog at the beginning of December, it already got around 1,000 unique visitors. For the last days it was even averaging 50 to 80 visits daily…and those numbers are still climbing!
Comment by Querblogger — December 31, 2008 @ 1:05 pm