James Hume - Entrepreneur Blog

My first semester of college starts in about 1 hour. That means less time to work on my sites, and more time getting swamped with bullshit school work. Oh well, I should meet a lot of new people so it will be worth it. I’ll post again tonight about how everything went and how my sites are going.

I recently picked up a few domains, and I’m going to start a new mini network of mini niche websites (mini-mini, haha). I picked up 3 cell phone related domains and another car related domain to add to my car network. The main reason I’m posting about this is to get it ranked, but some of you may find it interesting. As far as estimated earnings, I’m hoping the site makes $1 a day (along with the other 2 sites). It’d be cool to earn $100/month from just a few hours of work (thus passive income).

It took me a few hours to get it up, but I have the ‘template’ completed, and it should only take an hour to get the other two sites up (uploading and writing content). I still have more content to write, and I have to start getting backlinks for the site. But other than that, it’s pretty much complete.

Here’s the URL: LG Venus

I realize that I haven’t updated in awhile, but there really isn’t anything to write about. My sites are running smoothly, and most of them are seeing gains in all categories of running a website (traffic, backlinks, content, revenue, costs, etc).

I recently found an interesting trend in my network: the sites I spend the least amount of time working on are doing the best. I wish I could post an example, but I’m getting ready to start some heavy work on one of the sites and don’t want to spoil the niche. But the site that I spent the least amount of time on is on an aged domain, while the sites that I spend a lot of time working on are on fresh domains. 

Everybody already knows this, but I didn’t realize the power of it: aged domains are the way to go. I started BSG on a fresh domain and put a lot of work into it. It isn’t doing that well. On the flip side I paid $3 for a year-old domain that a webmaster was just going to let expire, and right now it’s doing great, easily kicking BSG’s ass. I’ll never build a site on a new domain again.

That’s all for today, remember folks: buy aged domains!

Just finished perfecting my desktop setup - for now. Ideally I’d like to have my MBP hooked up to a 30″ Cinema display, but its hard to justify the price for it. So for now, I’ll stick with what I have:

• Macbook Pro 2.4 Ghz Penyrn base model
• Custom Built PC - 2.16 Ghz C2D, 2GB ram, 8800GTS 640mb, 150gb Raptor
• Monitor on the left is 19″ Gateway widescreen hooked up to PC
• Monitor on the right is HP 17″ square hooked up to Mac
• Synergy is used so that I only need 1 mouse/keyboard to control both machines

So I use the MBP for everything but gaming, and I use the PC for gaming. It also serves as another screen for web browsing, so when I’m multitasking I usually browse on the PC. Its a great setup, and I’m sure it’ll last a while.

Oh yea, sorry about the picture, it didn’t turn out to nice. I can never get a good shot of my desktop; it has poor lighting conditions for photography. 

The time has come to reveal my new network! I’m making this a bigger deal than what it really is, so please bare with me. So far I’ve completed 3 out of a planned 5ish sites; don’t want to spread myself to thin. All of them are using the default Wordpress template with a custom header. Here they are, starting with the smallest:

LexusLF-A.net: This site was started when I heard about Lexus’ development of their next supercar, the LF-A. It’s what you’d call a mini niche site, which will only be updated once or twice a week. The goal is to eventually rank for the word Lexus LF-A when it comes closer to the launch date of the vehicle.

NissanGT-R.org: The Nissan GT-R is very near and dear to my heart. It is my dream car, and has been so for 7 years. With that said, NissanGT-R.org is my baby. I try and update her everyday, and keep things fresh. If you don’t check out any of my sites, at least check this baby out.

FactoryJDM.com: This is my big site, my tier 1 site. It’s going to be an information portal for everything that has to do with Japanese cars. I’m going to write about whatever I want, whenever I want. In its first day I posted 3 times, and I have 2 posts lined up for tomorrow. I plan to flood this site with unique content, and I hope to get it ranking soon. The domain has been registered for over a year (just renewed it) so hopefully it will do well in the SERPs.

See the trend? All car sites. Cars are my passion, I’ve loved them since I knew about them. I plan on launched a few more sites, but I’m not quite sure what I’ll do yet. In the mean time, please check out the sites. A simple copy and paste is all you’ll need; I didn’t link to them because I want to keep them as separate as possible. Hope you like them, and please leave feedback about them here. I need all of the suggestions I can get to make them successful.