I believe it just depends on what you want to do and what ideas you have and what you put into action.

If you’re not a technical person then SBI seems like something worth looking into for how simple it is to use and the incredible power is provides you to build a focused website with.

If you are a technical person then setting things up and going for it all on your own maybe more your style. You just have to see what works best.

I’m not earning a penny with my website or blog however, I’m learning a lot of valuable information experimenting and using what I know to see what works and what doesn’t.

I believe strongly that creativity and action are two great tools you have to work with, especially to make money on line.

You can have related sites or not. It’s just trading links. “I give you this and you give me this.”

A blog to link to your main site is good, but it needs some pagerank to make the links strong. Which means you need to find links to a blog again.

I’ll contact msn again also. I think msn
visitors convert better with adsense than other visitors, I used to have a high ctr before.

You said “I offer someone a PR2 link from my existing site for a PR2 link to my new site.”

Do you you need to have related sites for this.

Last one, what do you think about using a blog to
promote your websites new articles. Ex. the blog would have the headline of the article and the 1st 1 or sentences as a teaser, then a link to read more on the website.

Thanks,

Jeremy

MSN does send me some nice traffic – but still much less than Google. I don’t know why your sites are not indexed.

Check some SEO forums, maybe someone can help…

Very helpful.

I see your sites are indexed in msn,
do you get lots of traffic from msn.

I ask because all my sites are indexed in google and yahoo, but for almost 2 years now my site were de-indexed from msn. I don’t know why.

I even used msn webmaster tools to let them know,
they just said they are working on it. That was a while ago and have not thought about it til now.

My sites are still out of the msn index.

Thanks,

Jeremy

It depends at which stage of website building I am.

1. Keyword research – takes quite some time. I’d say something like 5 or 6 hours to find the keywords and organize them in T1-T2-T3 structure.

2. Website design – I hire someone to do it and then I tweak the HTML a little bit with my limited HTML knowledge. Maybe 2 hours…

3. Content – for my tennis sites and this blog, I write everything. For other sites, I outsource.

So mostly I just need to SEO optimize the articles (check them in SBI Analyzer), add some pictures or ads (Chitika, Adsense, CJ, Amazon, …) and then upload and link to it. I’d say this takes me around 20 to 30 minutes for one page.

So I build a site with most of the T2 pages and 4 to 6 T3 pages for each T2 page. If I have 15 T2 pages and each links to 5 T3 pages, I then build a 75 page site. This can take me 3 months, depends how much time I have and how motivated I am.

I don’t bother with links much (maybe 2 or 3 article submissions to ezinearticles…).

4. Links – once my site is complete, I submit to major directories, do lots of article submissions and try an occasional link exchange. But since my site has pagerank 0, almost no one will link to it. So I try to get the site to at least pagerank 2, possibly 3.

Then I can get some quality links to it. It also helps to trade – I offer someone a PR2 link from my existing site for a PR2 link to my new site.

5. Content + links – I add 1 or 2 articles per week to the site and look for links, links, links…

6. I don’t monetize until I am listed in DMOZ (which happened only once) or until I have at least 300 – 400 visitors per day or I have a pagerank 4. (people don’t like to exchange links with Adsense sites but PR4 is too good to refuse. )

I read through the post more slowly again.

Where do you focus most of your energy,
in regards to your business.

Jeremy

I’ve shared my story and my numbers before.

Let me know what else you’d like to know that I didn’t cover in that article…

it would be motivating to have an idea
as to how much your making per website,
and long it took to get there, anything you could
reveal.

Appreciate it.

Jeremy