Internet Marketing Brainstorming!

Here’s part of an email I sent to a fellow marketer about blogging for money:

I make most of my money with PPC….throught clickbank, although they are having problems lately which they never admit to…pisses me off. So I also do some PPC for CJ, which never has problems.

I make so little with adsense..I make maybe $150 a month, but that includes pages I send with PPC..strictly from SE’s probably about $35 a month.

I think I’m in the midst of “discovering” the “secret” to getting lots of traffic. I never really believed the money was in having a great template…I think all the templates I’ve seen make enough CTR to make them profitable IF………theres enough TRAFFIC.

I think the ‘real’ issue is getting the traffic. You hit on something with blogger blogs…at a time when everyone has abandoned them because google’s cracking down. Thats probably a good reason to start using them cos no one else will….interestingly, many ‘big’ marketers use blogger blogs.

I think the reason they do well is this….all their blogs link to each other….I am COVINCED that is the secret……..why? the RSS To Blog booklet, you’ll see the thing about ‘blog-clusters’…Lightbulb…everyone who has a blogger blog links to ALL their blogger blogs in every template….= power linking = higher ranking = much more traffic. The booklet uses blogger as an example but tells you to link blogs on one site.

So I did it on 3 new domains using wordpress. My newest projects…guess what…. in less than 2 weeks, these blog cluster sites are getting more traffic daily than all the other 20 blogs I have setup…combined. HUGE lightbulb…….the only difference is…blog-clusters. Everything else is set up pretty much the same, but the impressions are much higher for the 3 blog-cluster sites. Its gotten me exited, so I’m trying to come up with a way to build them quicker..(it is tedious to do 12 blogs on the same site). I’m also throwing blogger into the mix, doing the same thing,….I am working on linking wordpress to blogger as well to create an “avalanche of links” lol. Try that out also.

Dhira