My Newbie Blog is here not only to help you figure out how to create a blog, but also how to make some money on the Internet.  One of the best ways I have seen to do that is a system that is called “The Mini Site Formula“.  This system encourages the development of a lot of quick and easy websites that generate a small amount of money every day.  When you get a lot of these websites going you can start making some significant income.  Joel Peterson developed this process and this is an excerpt of what he says about it on his website:

You see when most people try to make money on the internet, they go for the home-run. They try to make one single website earn $100 or $1,000 dollars a day.

I’ve been down that road and it’s darn near impossible to make it work.

So instead of swinging for the fences…

I Just Bunt!

I don’t even try to launch a website capable of earning thousands of dollars a day. All I want is a website that earns a consistent $3 a day.

Best of all, I’ve created a system that allows me to launch one of these money-making “mini-sites” in just…

30 Minutes!

Now think about this for a minute:

$3 a day certainly doesn’t sound like much, but because it only takes about 30 minutes to set up these mini-sites, the profit potential really starts to add up.

See for yourself:

Each Website you build = $3 / day…

1 Website = $3 / Day

What if you had 100 Websites?

100 Websites = $300 / Day

What if you had 1,000 Websites?

1,000 Websites =

If you would like to read all about the “The Mini Site Formula“  just click on the link or on the picture below.  I encourage you to check it out for yourself.  It might be the right solution for you to develop a successful blogging business.

As we continue to write articles on how to create a blog we want to encourage you about the process of the Google sandbox. We wrote some time ago about a site that we developed called Hurricane Tracking Sites. The Hurricane Tracking site had started out with a flourish, with a page 1 Google result and hundreds of hits in its first few days of existence. It had hung around on page 1 for about six weeks and then just as suddenly as it arrived, it disappeared from the search engines. This is what the Google sandbox does. Last week, the site came back and landed back on page 1 again. I am watching the site to see if it is going to settle in and in the meantime I will post a few articles to the site to help it stay established. Since hurricane season is over for the year there has been zero traffic to the site, but this will change when the season starts again in June. The encouragement is that even though some of your sites may get sand boxed, they will eventually come back. The advantage to developing more than one blog is that even if one of your sites is not doing well, you can just wait out the sandbox by developing your other sites. Hurricane Tracking Sites will most likely end up on Blogs for Sale and will have a lot of potential for the right blogger.

We are continuing this series of articles on how to create a blog today by talking about adding content to your site.  Good content is the foundation for any site you develop.  Even if your are developing niche sites your content needs to be original and well written.  We have been developing a blog as an example during this series of articles called Alternative Energy.  So far we have been laying the the basic foundation.  We have added an SEO friendly theme, added some pages and plugins, and have written a couple of starter articles.

From this point forward we need to develop a steady stream of articles.  One of the realities for most bloggers is that the articles you write in the very beginning of your blog won’t be read by many people.   These beginning articles need to be good articles, but you don’t need to hit a home run with every article.  Once your site is better developed and you begin to see organic traffic coming to your site, you will need to take a little more time with your writing.  For now, write 200-300 word articles about subjects that are a good fit for your site.  You can also get a little better quality article by finding a video clip to accent your post.

For example, on Alternative Energy Online I just wrote an article in which I included a video clip by T. Boone Pickens on Youtube in which he explains his energy plan.  The article is a good one because the video clip adds a lot of meat to it.  All I had to do was write a quick introduction and an ending statement.  Writing these articles will help develop your writing style over time, allowing you to write your best articles once the site is more fully developed.

I write all my foundational articles under a category which I usually designate as site maintenance.  Then, at some point after the site has matured, I can use a category excluder plugin  to take all of the foundational articles off of the home page.  They still exist, and still generate links, but they are not immediately visible to everyone who comes to the site.

In the initial phases of a blog you should be adding fresh content 3 or 4 times a week.  Once you have begun to get the sarch engine results you are looking for, you can slow the pace a little, but still need to consitently add fresh content.   As always, we hope you find the articles on My Newbie Blog a helpful resource for your blogging needs.