Fire-and-forget Websites

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Retirement is staring me in the face. My pensions and so on won’t be enough to support us. I spent most of my income over the years on horses and other bad habits. One bright side to that is that I don’t have anything invested in the stock market, so I don’t experience the roller-coaster emotions that investors are experiencing right now. Not having a house to worry about feels pretty good too.

But,,, I feel a distinct need to develop another source of income. My latest endeavor is the creation of niche websites.

The idea here is to find certain search keywords that get some traffic from google and don’t have too much competition. Then you get an ebook created in that area which you can sell. Finally, you drive traffic to the site via article marketing. This gets you a fairly high google ranking.

A key difference with this approach is that you don’t try to get rich off any one site. If you can pull $30 a day from a site you’ve succeeded and anything beyond that is gravy. Once the site is up and running you basically let it take care of itself and repeat the process for another topic.

Thirty bucks a day isn’t much, but if you can do that ten times? You do the math.

I’ve put up my first two niche sites. One is on koi care. The other is built around grape growing. Feel free to check them out, but be kind. They aren’t done yet. This is just a sneak-preview. Certainly don’t try signing up for the mini-course on either site because the forms aren’t hooked up yet. With those caveats in mind, any comments or criticism is welcome.

Posted by: swampy | 02-25-2009 | 12:02 PM
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