The semi-evil niche blog business – Part 1
Yes I know, this post title sounds a bit strange. Anyway, I came across a nice and easy online business model that’s capable of bringing in some good bucks each day. And I want to share it with you because I think it’s quite an easy method to make money online. The original idea is from Keith Kogane, a fellow Warrior on the Warriorforum. You can read the thread describing his online business model by following this link.
Let me put the whole business model in a short list (I know you like lists):
- You choose a niche that gets good search traffic while having a low competition
- You set up a Wordpress blog and get a keyword rich domain
- You have to install a bunch of free Wordpress plugins (described in Keith’s thread)
- These plugins will pull fresh content for your site via RSS feeds from blogs and other sources (you have to search for such feeds by yourself)
- Your blog gets automatically filled with new content each day (mostly excerpts with backlinks to the original posts and articles)
- Each time new content is added to your blog, different services will be pinged. This will massivly increase your backlinks and rankings over time (think about selling links and such)!
- A plugin substitutes certain keywords in the content with your affiliate links, offers etc.
- You monetize the blog with different methods like selling advertising space, text links or contextual ads
- Rince and repeat. The whole blogs runs nearly maintenance free.
- Optional. Keep yoour blog for a month or two and later on flip it for some hundred bucks.
Ok, got the basic idea? Looks like you have to create a splog, huh? Well, calm down. We won’t actually create a spam blog, but more a news site tailor made to your choosen niche. Rather than filling your site with useless content, you’ll provide relevant content to your readers in a compressed format. Please note that you’ll also give valid backlinks to your original sources and most times only show excerpts of the content!
After setting up your news blog, you’ll slowly see an increase in your rankings. This is because of the many backlinks you blog receives from all the different auto posts. Each time a feed item gets pulled and published on your blog, different ping services (you can feed Wordpress with whole lists of them) will be contacted which in return will give your site a backlink, many of them. And this is really the secret sauce of this whole business model, higher rankings mean a higher earning (and selling) potential! Once your blog sees its first Pagerank, you will see an increase in your earnings from selling text links, advertising space or ad banners. And the best thing, once your blog is set up correctly it needs next to no maintenance at all while pulling in some nice cash month after month.
Such automated news blogs, as I would call them, bring in between $1 to $50 each month (depending on your choosen niche and skills to set up such blogs). So you see that the idea behind this business model is not quality (although you still provide value) but quantity. The more sites you create with help of this method, the higher are your earnings. And this only works because of the fact that, once created, such auto blogs need nearly no maintenance. You could set up 100 of such sites and probably need only work for some 10 hours per week to keep them up to date.
Feel free to read Keith’s whole thread to get a better idea of this business. I personally have just started to transform one of my under-performing niche sites in a fully-automated news blog. So far I’m fiddeling around with getting the right feeds, setting up the plugins and the whole layout of the site. Since it’s the first time I’m creating such a blog, I think it’ll take me some time before it’s set up correctly, but I hope that I’ll later on don’t need too long for this task. Let’s see 
Cheers,
Querblogger
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As I have mentioned you in the last couple of mails I sent you, this business model looks quite promising. And if it works as it sounds, too, then I don’t see why one can’t actually make some nice bucks out of it. Not just that, but it’s also good for lazy people, who tend to procrastinate..just like me..hehe. Not much work involved
Cheers, buddy,
Tiberius
PS: I know, I know, you’re eager to start reading new articles on my blog, but I seems like I’m not gonna ever write anything on WallachianBlogger Dot Net. Don’t worry: even though the official launch date has been plagued by delays, which made me reschedule it, the first article will come out off the press tomorrow! And that’s a promise I shall respect! Oh, you have permission to make fun of me if this won’t happen..hehe
Comment by Tiberius Burciu — December 10, 2008 @ 12:46 am
…and I will make fun of you, trust me
Comment by Querblogger — December 10, 2008 @ 7:57 pm
Hehe, thanks for the “encouragements”
Comment by Tiberius Burciu — December 10, 2008 @ 9:12 pm
Me again. I have failed miserably! And you know what I’m talking about
But it wasn’t my fault: a friend of mine bugged me all day long to teach him how to build a dating site, as he too wants to make some money online. And cause his is a rookie..I had to spend several hours to tell him and show him what to do. So, there you have it: another blogging day lost! No, it’s not an excuse, just wanted to let you know the reason why I haven’t managed to write anything today.
Cheers,
Tiberius
PS: By the way: please remove the link to my old blog – http://www.myppcadvertising.info -, as the domain has just expired and I have no plans to renew it. Thanks!
Comment by Tiberius Burciu — December 11, 2008 @ 2:06 am
So, you have failed huh? Should I make fun of you now? To be honest, I would if I really had the time to do so…
I’ll leave a comment on your new blog!
Comment by Querblogger — December 11, 2008 @ 8:27 pm
Thanks, I will look into it!
Have a nice day
Comment by Stijn — December 11, 2008 @ 11:25 pm
@Peter: Yeah, as I’ve said in my last comment, I have failed! So, you’re free to make fun of me, as soon as you have some spare time
Cheers,
Tiberius
PS: Gonna read your comment now and reply to it
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