Say I put 20 .info sites up, and wrote 20 articles per site. If I made sure all the articles were SEO'd and I submitted them to the search engines, would 400 pages be sufficient to make me a few dollars per day? I mean, would this be a good idea?
What about offsite SEO?... content is not enough to get traffic...you need links too...tons of them if you are in a competitive niche .
Maybe I could get all 20 of my sites in the Alive Directory or something? Maybe buy some manual submission?
Google is really cracking down on MFA sites, so you would need to make sure that they are useful sites, with original content that people are interested in. Or you risk getting either the sites, or the account, or both banned.
One link from Alive directory is hardly anything... What niche ado you intend to target? Why don't you start with just 1 site... if you think it is working then you can always make more. It is better than making 20 sites and then after a few months realizing that the plan is not working .
I'd definitely write my own quality articles regarding topics I know about, so it wouldn't really be MFA.
Yes that would give you an advantage...but still not good enough. Google's algorithm can distinguish between Unique and Non-Unique content, but it can never judge the quality of the content. For quality, it relies on offsite SEO - in other words "INCOMING LINKS". For relevancy, it relies on both on onsite SEO (use of keywords and content as whole) and offsite SEO (relevancy of sites linking to your site as well as anchor used). So you have to take care of all factors to achieve good SERPs. That's why I am insisting that you start with just one site, experiment as much as you can and then do it on a larger scale.
Why not make it in a blog format and save time? You can use Wordpress or any other CMS. Wordpress takes two minutes to install (uploading the files takes more time ) and there are 1000s of free themes available.
why you waste cash for buying domain and space ? wordpress is best search engine friendly blog if you are using articles ....
Setting up many sites does not necessarilly6 bring in traffic and income. Sure, if they are all quality sites then you can get traffic and money but not just setting up sites for the sake of it.
If it is as easy as that we don't need all those SEO stuffs (ever changing) to implement. Go to SEOgeek.com to read about interesting features of the major search engines.