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.