I haven’t checked with Mike how to add channels to the blogs. When I tried, it changed the ads or there were no ads, so I took off the channels. I’m tracking the different topics with statcounter for now.

I changed the titles, to also keep better track of the blogs. I’m not sure if that effected anything. Right now I am not going to mess with them any further. I have 8/10 blogs with statcounters and links. I will finish the last two today.

I have noticed an increase in traffic to the sites/blogs that I’ve linked to the automated blogs.

Purpose of the blogs:

• Provide “basement” (back links) links to my first house that I’m building. My first “house” in my “neighborhood” I’m developing is for Jan’s Group Home Support.
• Jump-start my income on line. The blogs got me to my second $100 with Adsense so I can get a check next month and I still have rest of the month to add to the total of that check!
• Try out alternatives to Adsense for income.
• Find out which blogs make the most money and then develop those keywords.

6-7 week plans for the blogs

Week One-May 11-17, 2008

For each blog I’m doing the following:

• Income tracking-create Adsense channel for each blog. Since I want to track the blogs as a group, I gave them the same short name and added the numbers 1-10 after each blog so they will show up together on my reports. I added the code for each channel to each of the Adsense ads
• Traffic tracking-I added a stat counter on each blog. I gave them the same names as the Adsense channels
• Back links-I added links to the sites I want to support on the floors above the basement. For now I included “roof” site since my house is at the beginning stages. Later I will have that site alone at the top with all the other ones linking up to it similar to a pyramid shape
• Name each blog
• Create a folder for each blog and put in the “basement” folder for the house
• Put a reminder on my Google calendar to take down the Adsense Ads

Week Two-May 18-24, 2008

• Affiliates-choose three per blog, pick type of add, and safe code in folder
• Shopping Ads-add one ad to each blog
• Glance through posts to and save sites that can be a good resource in the future

Weeks Three and Four-May 25-June 7, 2008

• Start putting alternative ads on blogs (starting with ones that make the most money)

Week Four-May 25-31, 2008

• Take down Adsense
• Evaluate income and traffic on each blog
• Pick top three keywords to develop into simple 6 page sites with Adsense and alternative ads

Weeks Five and Six (and maybe Seven)

• Write content
• Buy 3 simple website designs/set up
• Add sites to second floor on house
• Set up ads