Ok day 3 has not gone as planned!

My writer seems to have decided that when he says 24 hours he means those special ones which are two-three times as long as normal hours. I am waiting for 5 pages of web content for the next 5 websites.

So today isn’t a total bust I have ordered headers for the product sites, I dont use headers on all my sites. Especially adsense ones, I have tried various looks for adsense sites and usually ones without headers do better, not always but usually.

What I will do is test, if I get a header made I will try it for a month and then do a month without it and see which layout works best. Funnily enough it isn’t a sure thing, some niches do better with headers some do better without and once in a while I get a niche where even if I had naked dancing girls on the page they wouldn’t click.

I have also loaded the rss feeds from the first 5 adsense sites into rssbot which I have always liked but having just downloaded the latest version I like it even more now than ever.I especially like the fact that it has a feed generator built in, while it may not be majorly useful for those of us using WordPress I can see its uses.

This is just as a way to get the sites indexed, I will also

• Add them to my Google rss reader
• Bookmark them on Folkd

One other thing I sometimes do when I have a number of small sites is create one rss feed from just the home pages (I use hostmyrss for this) and then use that with the indexing plugin on one of my sites which gets spidered a lot and that ensures quick indexing. If the sites only have one main page of content then it doesnt take much to get them indexed. But I thought I would share a few diff ways, rssbot costs but is very good for rss feed submission but the other ways are free so take your pick.

I know people are really only interested in the promotion side of this, and I will get there but I do want to at least cover some of the sitebuilding as not everyone will be at the same stage. I am disappointed with my writer as he hammered out the first 5 articles so quickly and I was very gung ho to get these next 5 sites done.

Thursday and Friday I am planning to finish the 10 wordpress site installs, and get them all at least alive and working.

Thanks for following along and I promise I will do my best to make the future posts a bit more juicy!

Day Two

Where am I now, Well I have got all my domains and hosting set up.

5 sites are up and I have ordered the content for the next 5.

I am building the first 10 sites using xsp2 which is a stupidly expensive website builder, but I have had it a long while so I figured I may as well use it. You can use any html builder or do them using wordpress. The site builders are just tools, you can use whichever one you want.

My next 10 will be built using wordpress, I have already installed the outline installs but I do need to go back and upload plugins and themes. I don’t normally do more than a site or 2 at a time these days so doing this many is a bit of a change from my normal routine.

So far none of the original 5 are indexed but I haven’t done anything to get them indexed so I am not worried.  I have added them to Google webmaster and when all of the 10 sites for adsense are built I will then start doing something to get them indexed and start the hunt for traffic and rankings.

Sorry if this seems a bit disjointed but it is Sunday and I have been out in the sun for 4 hours and I ache all over as well as being sunburnt.

Plan for tomorrow is to do the next 5 adsense sites if the content is back.

Content Tips
If you can write your own content do it, you save money and it is quicker.

If you are buying content, don’t buy a ton of content from one person, unless you know them and have used them before.

One of the worst things in building sites is the waiting for things. If you are impatient them it can be a tense time, but waiting is all part of the process.

Where do I get content from?
PLR- Private Label Right – not ideal for your site but if you are willing to do rewrites and you can actually find PLR in your niche then it can work.

Two places I have used
http://www.flamillion.com/

http://plrminimart.com/

There are plenty more places spread throughout the net but these are the only 2 I actually go back to.

Outsourcing
Odesk – This is a relatively new site that brings together people looking for workers and workers looking to earn some money. I have used them a lot and for content it can be very hit and miss. It is free to join and post ads, you do pay for the work and a 11% fee to odesk, which still allows you to get cheap content.

My top tips would be, make your advert very very clear -

• No upfront payment
• Must be original content (tell them you will check before payment)
• Must be delivered in 2 or 3 days (you choose)
• Price for ALL articles (so there is none of this , I mean $10 each not for 3 articles)

You will get lots of bids, if you get any from native English speakers that are comparably priced then all the better.

Warrior Forum – Like odesk this can be a bit hit and miss, you will find writers who are wonderful and then some who are pants. Read the feedback and be honest with what you expect, just because someone is cheap it doesn’t mean they are rubbish but it is something to think about.

That is all for today, once I have these first 10 sites done then I will be starting on getting them indexed and of course earning some money.

Expenses

Domain Concierge = $160
Domains =$176.20
Hosting =$6.95
Content – 10×500 word articles = $70