Two New Projects

Mon, Jun 9, 2008

I’ve adopted two new domains: NissanGT-R.org and LexusLF-A.net. The hyphens do make the domains look a bit awkward, however that is the correct spelling for each. I’m going to start working on the GT-R site as soon as possible because the GT-R has been released. The Lexus LF-A has yet to be released, however there have been some prototypes lurking around the Ring. Well I’ll save the rest of the info for the sites.

What’s my plan? Build up as much information as I can in the next few days using Wordpress as my CMS, and whore out links to as many social bookmarking sites as possible. I will also comment on a ton of auto related blogs and try and get some traffic going, and hopefully I will be able to rank well for some decent keywords. Then I may through up a forum, depending on the traffic.

Revenue will be generated through Adsense, affiliate ads, and EPN (eBay partner network) ads. Hopefully with a few days work these sites will turn into $3-$5 day earners. With two of them, that would be $180-$300 per month. I don’t plan on spending more than 10-12 hours with the sites combined.

So in theory this plan should work. You build up a mini site, ad unique content (or rewritten scraped content), get some backlinks, and bam money. I mean, people post all over the interwebs about this business model. Well I’ve tried and tried, and the most successful site I’ve ever built was a car blog along time ago. And I got lazy with monetization, and found myself wondering why the site wasn’t making any money.

Then along came some guy flashing big bucks ($150) for a site that probably took 15-20 hours of my time to make. I was young and naive, the site had plenty of potential (around 40-50 hand written posts) and the place is now a fucking parked domain. The domain was brandable, and I had a small but dedicated reader base. Digg users loved some of my articles, which really helped the site in the rankings. But no, I’m an idiot and lost a potentially great money maker.

So I’m returning back to the niche. A niche I can write about for days. The automotive niche. And I plan to make a small network, more like a mini network consisting of a few sites, and hopefully turn a healthy profit.

Oh yea, you’re probably wondering if I have any updates about BuyShotGlasses.com and Editorialize.org. Well I do, but that will have to wait for another day. I have some work to do on these two new sites. See ya.