heya all... I want put a very simple broad question forward, imagine you have 200 original handwritten articles about a certain niche, you build a site and use these articles as content (brand new domain) you then simply ping your url at a popular blog,... when would you expect the site to bring in .50c to $2.00 a day? no seo, nothing, just really good content.
Personally I'd get a couple of links then upload 5 to 10 articles a week (providing there good, sorry but I would optimize them as much as possible without damaging quality and that should bring in well over $2 a day depending on the niche. Without the above its anyones guess as just relying on blog pings is probably going to get you barely any visitors compared to what I said above
Hi Sterlingpixel, thanks for your input... i'm a noob to all this and have zero knowledge of how a link can aid your traffic efforts. Would you point me int he right direction vis a vis where i can buy good one way links for the finance industry? also, as for optimizing content, do you mean work on the keyword relevancy? many thanks!
If you have good content you can earn much much more then that. follow simple steps. Upload 2-4 articles a day. submit your site to google, and other directories if you can. The search engines are now becoming friendly to little or less SEOed sites. Stil need to do minimum SEO. Basic things are pretty easy. like H1 tags and meta tags. Nothing too fancy. That you will learn when you start pushing your site.
wow! thanks to all that have replied. I hope (although doubt for now as Im a Noob) that i can reciprocate in the future!
actually I will tell you one experience I've had with a website. about a year ago I wrote a website that dealt with print buyers asking a multitue of printers for quotes. the print buyers would ask for free but the print buyer would pay $10 to reply. I have a printing press so I know how important this lead generation product is, anyway, I built the site uploaded it all with my own handwritten content and after a month I got 2 printers that signed up (each with $250 deposits for their account) to receive leads. this is just a small experience I had with a site I did absolutely ZERO to inrelation to SEO. it still managed to make some cash. i had no links or anything like that and I didnt even submit the URL (don't know how Mr. G. found me ) I think it was just a result of pure handwritten content written by a professional to another professional in similar fields.
Writing articles is not all that easy. It takes time, especially the ones written with quality in mind and to provide readers with useful information.
Writing articles is very easy when you write about something you are passionate about. I run several different sites. I love some of the topics, and I dont love some of the topics. But I love learning, and thats what drives me to make my sites. I continuously study topics, and write about them, just like we all did in elementary, high school, college and university. When you enjoy learning something new, writing articles about it is simple.
hit it right on the head... I have several sites about topics I didn't know anything about at first but have since taken the time to put the research in, read other industry related sites and compose quality content that reflects information that my readers want to read. As far as the inital question about throwing up the multiple well written articles... You could do as you suggested BUT the key is why do it half a**ed when you could take the time and make double, triple or even ten times your inital goal of that $2 per day. Do a bit more research on basic SEO tips onpage and offpage (H1 tags, title tags, keywords etc.) then don't just blog and ping the pages but do some directory submissions and article submissions (do a bit of research on these as well) you'll be pleasently suprised with the results I think depending on the niche....You never know might find yourself starting another site with more content Oh and ...I should mention as others have already grow the site over a bit of time don't just post all those articles you have at once. It'll be better for you over the long haul to have your site grow a bit over time. good luck. Spikey
Alejandro, what you say about writing like we did in school is right on the button. I used that as an example in my original AdSense book, in a section called "Dusting Off Old Skills". (That particular chapter can be downloaded for free, so please go ahead and take a look.) It's like you're writing a big report, except at the end of the report you're going to split the report into multiple chunks, each chunk on a separate page. Wrap the chunk with navigational trails to make it easy to go from page to page. Add a sitemap (both the human-readable kind and the SE-readable kind) and an about page and you're done. Then move onto the next topic. It does take time and effort to do this. But do it once or twice and you'll have the mechanics figured out, because you'll easily build a skeleton site from one of your existing sites, after which it's really a matter of writing content for the new site. I calculated not long ago that you could make $5000/month with AdSense if you had 172 sites each earning $1/day. That's a lot of sites, yes, but if you can get your per-site-average up to $2/day you only need 85 sites, and so on. This is why people think the "pre-built" AdSense sites will make them a lot of money. But they never think about what it takes to get traffic to those sites. Do it over the long term with your own content and the traffic will build naturally.