Technology Reports

There is a thread on DP that I have been following almost since it was started on March 11th 07.

The whole $48 concept is that if you create an adsense ready-website and do nothing other than get it indexed by the Search engines that the site will on average earn $48 a year. You set up several sites with several long-tail keywords in the same niche. You get it indexed and sit back and wait for the clicks. Once set up you never need to touch the sites again and your only ongoing expenses are domain renewal and hosting. Use .info domains and only pay $1 to register them and then about $9/year to renew them, set up several sites on the same hosting account - so hosting is less than $5/yr.

So, per site, on average you earn $48 for a $15 Outlay (plus the $3 per site once-off for creation - which is totally offset by the $1 domain registraion in the first year.) So, with 1 site you would earn $30/yr profit. It is all about the numbers so, 100 sites should see a return of around $3K year, 1000 sites = $30K year.

The thread is someone offering to create the adsense websites for only a few $ per site when purchased in bulk. I took a look at it and by the time I decided I would go ahead and order 100 sites and have them set up.

As luck would (or would not) have it, I was too late to take up the offer and the smallest package on offer was for 300 sites. Now the initial cost of setting up 300 sites would have been $300 for domain names, $600 for the websites and For the hosting, I would have just dumped them onto one of my existing servers.

I didn’t quite have the money to gamble on setting up 300 sites but I did have the money and inclination to set up a single site on what I knew to be a reasonably high paying niche.

I purchased a script and a domain name and set it up on the 1st of May to dabble. I spent a couple of days setting up the site:

Expenses:

• $30 Script to run the site (and as many other sites As I want to setup)
• $10 for a good .net domain name in the niche I am targetting
• $0 for hosting - I just put it on my server
• $25 for a custom Blog theme and some Free-to publish Articles on the niche
• $10 for promotion - paid for a blog posting package to have a short article posted in several Blogs

Out of my Expenses, the $30 script is licenced so I can use it to create an unlimite number of sites, so the more sites I create the cheaper (per site) it becomes.

I actually did a little more than simply get the site Indexed as I wanted it to happen fast! I did a few link exchanges and paid for some blog posts. I am going to actually add a blog to the site next month, and set it up to publish a new article every 3-4 days. So with the 100+ articles I have, I will have new content on the site for over a year.

At the end of the 1st month I have already made a little from this site - $4.53 to be precise. This works out to be around $55/year. Yes, with the time I have put in it means that I have not made a single penny this year, but it was more about proving the concept to see how it would work. I proved to myself that the concept works just fine, and I am hoping that the addition of the Blog will further improve the traffic and returns in the coming Months.

Month 1 was positive, so next month I’ll create another couple of sites, using similar promotion techniques and see where it leads me. The Idea of course is to eventually produce a few hundred sites that take no time to maintain and give me a nice residual income.

I guess that the whole webmaster concept is about diversfication and creating these sites are only a small part of my overall strategy.