How to make $1000 a month with blogs
1. Find a theme for each blog which is not too broad, but not too specific. “free PHP web hosting” is a good niche, so is “repair bad credit” or “free legal aid”, but try to avoid just “credit” or “hosting”.
Don’t bother making posts about anything not matching the niche you choose. Don’t link to sites selling anything else either. If you want to talk about all aspects of a niche (say “credit”), make several blogs: one for “credit repair”, one for “free credit reports”, one for “credit card offers”, etc.
2. Get your own hosting and your own domain (NO FREE HOSTING! EVER!), and install wordpress on it.
3. At least once per week (and not more than every other day! If you have more time on your hands, make more blogs)
Make a post. It is, at the very least, 15 lines of hand-written text (NO RSS FEED). If you get carried away and type a 50 line-post, that’s fine. Never show more too many images (keep it under 10) per post. Don’t bother the surfer with crap like “click here to buy NOW!” sales text.
Show you know your niche well and think of the surfer more as a friend than as a client. (ie: think “convincing a friend” rather that “sale”). Show your personality and every once in a while talk about something else. For example, wish your readers a happy new year, remind them of Valentine’s day a few days in advance, etc…
Be creative. Your site should appear to be done by a FAN and not by an AFFILIATE or ADVERTISER! No blind clicks to sponsors! EVER! In other words, don’t send the visitor to some site they didn’t expect to go!
3- Never ever link to a site with more ads than your blog. This basicaly means toplists, linklists, other blogs are ok. However, MFAs, affiliate blogs, and a lot of “FREE” websites.
4. Every month or so, try to make a few more hardlink exchanges. If you have several blogs on close subniches and can make abc or abcd link exchanges do so. Try not to add too many links in a too short timeframe. (up to 3 link exchanges per week seems reasonable) Don’t exchange links with sites not related with your niche.
5. Follow all that for at least 1 year. if you need to take a break or a vacation you can use Wordpress’ post scheduling option to write 4-5 posts in advance and only have them appear online when you want it to.
So, use Wordpress, not Serendipity!
6. Be sure you really understand and follow rules 2 and 4. I mean it.
7. Get a feedburner feed.
Follow these rules on at least 3 blogs and I’m pretty sure you’d be making at least $1k/mo after 1 year. It may not seem much, but once everything is set up, it only really requires to write 3-5 articles per week which shouldn’t keep you busy for more than 1 day at most.
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