Blogging for Dollars (part 1)

I’ve been getting a lot of emails lately asking me “how to make money using their blogs?” So this series of articles is for you guys. In my six plus years of experience as an internet entrepreneur and affiliate marketer, I have found that the most affective way to utilize your blogs to make money is to set up an internet affiliate blog network.

That’s multiple blogs all connected in a hierarchy, usually with a central site positioned at the top. This is the most affective method for one simple reason. There is power in numbers. Yes, that old saying is still relevant for internet marketing. The fact of the matter is that, you can make a bigger impact on a niche internet market with multiple sites (or blogs) than you can with just one single site. Our goal is to completely dominate the niche market that you specify with the intent of leveraging that position for money making purposes.

So how do you do this? Well the concept is quite simple, but the implementation can prove to be quite harder than you think. The trick to accomplishing the task of using an affiliate blog network to make money is being able to organize the setup, promotion, and updating of the sites. It can be a daunting task when you’re dealing with a couple of hundred sites.

So that brings me to my next question, how many sites does it take to create an affiliate blog network? Well that depends on the market that you are targeting. More specifically, it depends on the number of keywords or keyword phrases in your keyword list. There is no magic number. Because I suggest that you create a blog for every keyword in your list.

In some cases you may have to create over a hundred blogs, sometimes thousands. It just depends on the size of the keyword list that you are using. Like I said before the hard part about doing this is getting everything organized. Your ability to accomplish this work in an efficient manner is the key to your success using blogs to make money online. This is going to take some work. You can utilize places like blogger.com and wordpress.com to set these blogs up and the best part is they’re free.

So now you have the setup part organized, for the most part. The next two problems are not going to be as easy on your own. You must provide each one of these blogs with keyword rich, targeted content. And you must promote everyone of these blogs. Because you can’t just set them up and expect people to find them. You can now see how much work this is really going to be. Fortunately there is a very easy way of creating a blog network for making money.