James Hume - Entrepreneur Blog

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.

Although I could really drag this post out, I need to make it quick and get some sleep. I’m basically changing up my network, again. I’ve been talking with some guys about internet marketing in general, and they’ve basically told me what I should have known. I’m chasing niches that I don’t give a shit about. Coupons? Who gives a flying fuck about coupons?! Shot glasses? Well I like shot glasses and I actually collect them, but not enough to write about every day.

I’m basically only going to build sites around subjects that I’m passionate about. Sure, they may be saturated markets. But there are tons of people that are just chasing money that I’m sure I could out rank because I actually give a shit about what I’m writing about.

In a week or two I plan on announcing everything in my network, and you’ll be able to tell what subjects interest me. I won’t be able to build a site about everything I like, but I’m going to try and cover a good amount of subjects. Some will be mini niche sites that I don’t plan to update more than once or twice a week, while others are sites I’d like to update as often as possible. 

I’m also working on trying to get a new job at a graphic design, marketing, programming, media, everything in one type of company. I have some pretty good connections to get inside, but I just need to make the effort. Of course I’m not guaranteed the spot, and I’m nervous as fuck about it; I haven’t even called to schedule an appointment for an interview. However I’m going to try as hard as I can and give it my best shot.

Thats all for now. This post turned out longer than I had hoped. Time to get some sleep, peace.

I added Asides to the sidebar. Sometimes I’m doing something that isn’t worth writing a post about, however I still want to document it. Therefore, I make it an Aside. Its basically Twitter posts, however I only Twitter when I’m away from a computer. 

The link building process for coupon has begun. In the past 15 minutes, I hit up the top 30 results for ‘coupon blog’ to find places to insert my link. Out of those 30 results I found maybe 10 sites that would accept a link. Half of those were probably no follows, but that doesn’t worry me. 

Next up I’ll find some forums and start posting. If I can find 5-10 forums and make 10 posts each, thats 50-100 easy backlinks. I’ll then purchase some social bookmarking links from some guys at Wickedfire. I’ll then continue to add content, at least a few pages per week. Hopefully that will raise the income of the site.

As you can see, nothing crazy or out of the box. Just basic stuff. Hopefully it will produce some results in the next few weeks. Time will tell…

Something weird is going on. BuyShotGlasses has over $50 invested into backlink building. Coupon has $0, and 0 time invested into backlink building. BSG brought in 56 uniques and 132 page views last week; coupon brought in 47 uniques and 54 page views. BSG earned $1.30 last week, while coupon brought in $4.51 last week. Of course that was because of one eBay conversion of $4.16, compared to the single $0.96 EPN conversion at BSG.

So what’s going on? Why is a site that has been developed losing to a site that hasn’t been touched? Well there is only one reason I can come up with, and its because I threw something at the wall and it sticked. There are a few other factors as well though. Coupon’s domain is much older than the newly registered BSG domain. And come on, www.coupon.nu is going to rank a lot better than www.buyshotglasses.com. 

Moral of the story? Time to through money at coupon and see what happens. I plan on getting some social bookmarking done, content generation (mini blog), and more backlinks. 

Other News

LexusLF-A and NissanGT-R have been launched. They are both just mini niche blogs that will only be updated every now and then. Last week they had a total of 16 uniques each, with 7 of those uniques being me most likely. They have zero backlinks, I’m just focusing on creating content for the sites and worry about backlinks later.

I also built another phpbay site: BeachSandals. Thats the first link it has ever seen, so obviously Google doesn’t know about it yet. Time will tell if the site converts or not.

And that it for today. Time to get back to work.