Our goal at My Newbie Blog has been and will continue to be to help people answer the “How to Create a Blog” question.  As part of the process of helping you learn how to create a blog we include various techniques and programs that can help you attract more readers and make more money.  With that in mind we want to to introduce you to a great program called AWeber.  AWeber does an amazing job with email marketing.  It is also a great tool for developing and creating a list of potential customers that you can market products to in the future.  It can help you get people to add their names to your list and ultimately your list can make you money as you market ideas and products that you recommend to your readers.  Here at My Newbie Blog we have made arrangements so that you take a free test drive of the AWeber system.  Fill in the form below to get your free test drive started.  You will be happy that you did!

As we continue to help people try and answer the how to create a blog question we are going to run a little experiment on the importance of content.  The three big factors in SEO are time, content and links.  There is an ongoing discussion about the importance of content with regards to search engine results.  We have devised an experiment to see just how important content is here on My Newbie Blog.  We started two new blogs today.  They were started within one hour of each other.  They are identical in every way except that they were started in two different domains as sub-domain sites.  The only difference between the two sites is that the domain names in the URL address is different.  For the purpose of this experiment we will refer to one site as “Plus” and one site as “Advantage”.

Here is how the experiment will work.  We will keep the sites identical in both the time and links part of the equation.  The only difference between the two will be that one of the sites will get more content than the other.  We will then track the search engines to see which site shows up first and which site gets the best search engine result.  If the site with more content does better, our assumption will be that content is King.  If the site that gets less content does better, we will probably assume that content is not as important as the other factors.

Let’s say for the record that our pre-experiment belief is that the site with more content should do much better than the site with less content.  However, we are open to whatever result might come.  We will begin the process of getting some (identical) links pointed at the sites and adding some initial content to each of the sites.  We will be writing regular updates to let you know how the experiment is going in the weeks and months ahead.

If you decide that Niche Sites sound like an avenue of blogging business that intrigues you, staying organized will be very important.  One strategy for developing Niche sites is just sheer volume.  Even if your sites only make ten or twenty dollars a month, you can do well if you get 200 niche sites developed.  I know some people that develop 1 new site a week, and some that shoot for 4 or 5 a week!  Using the methods we are talking about it can be done for very little money.  It just takes time and you have to stay organized.  As you add sites and domain names, do keyword research, write articles, and build links you can get overwhelmed pretty quickly.  Some of the most common options for staying organized include keeping notepads, having a traditional filing system, or using spreadsheets.  I want to give you another option that I have developed for staying organized.  I call it the Organizational Blog.

The Organizational Blog

I developed a blog that is really just for me.  It is set up so that I can get to all of my sites from that one blog.  I also use it to pass blogroll links to some of the blogs I am developing.  I never want to miss an opportunity to build links.  I have some pages set up that are password protected where I work on sites that I don’t necessarily want people to see.  I have links to all of the tools that I think are important.  When I sit down to work I start by going to my organizational blog.  From there it reminds me of what I am working on, where I am on each project, what needs to be done when, etc.  To set up the blog I used free web hosting so it doesn’t cost me anything.  It might take a little extra time in the beginning to set up but it will pay huge dividends later.

I justify the time further by the blogroll links it provides.  I write short articles about the sites I am promoting and what I am doing to them.  I don’t promote the organizational site at all and I don’t think that anyone will ever read the articles (it would be fine if someone does and hopefully it would lead them to my main sites), but each article combines with those blogroll sites and builds links over time.  The organizational blog will easily add 50 links over the course of a year (probably closer to a hundred) to each site I add to my blogroll.  Considering it is work that I am already doing I think it is the best way take advantage of it.  As you consider how to create a blog you might just want to start an organizational blog of your own.