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by: Willie Crawford
Copyright 2005 Willie Crawford
While growing up on the farm in North Carolina, I loved gardening.
There was something magical about planting a dollar's worth of
seeds, watching them germinate, and then feeding the family for a
entire season with my efforts.
The only part I didn't enjoy was the weeding and cultivating. That
was the WORK! So I was thrilled when I discovered "The Ruth Stout No
Work Garden Book." That book taught me how to get all of those great
vegetables with no weeding, very little cultivating, and little
watering. It really did teach you how to garden with literally no
work.
Twenty year later, I discovered just as fertile a garden on the
Internet. With practically no investment other than my time, I could
put up a website, nurture it, build traffic to it, and in time,
harvest lots of sales from it.
Just like with the vegetable garden, there was a lot of maintenance
required if you wanted a good harvest.
The site needed to be constantly updated so that the search engines
"learned" that they should visit this "fresh" site often.
The site needed to have lots of keyword rich webpages so that it
would rank high for relevant keywords, and attract organic search
engine traffic. Since I was taught that "content is king" that meant
the more content-rich, tightly-focused webpages you had, the better.
The content-rich pages meant you could make sales, get new
subscribers, and even earn pay-per-click revenue from programs such
as Google AdSense.
The only problem with the above model is... it's a lot of WORK.
Then I discovered, "The No-work, Money-making Website. It wasn't
completely no work, but it was probably 1/10th the work that I had
been doing.
The no-work website encompasses building a content-rich website
using automated tools. These tools allow you to gather relevant
content (articles, RSS feeds, etc.) from all over the Internet and
then instantly generate hundreds ... even thousands of content rich
webpages in minutes.
The no-work website encompasses using other tools to automatically
update your site, so that each time the search engine spiders visit,
they notice new content. Noticing new content on each visit, the
search engine spiders make a note to visit more often.
Now here's where this gets really powerful...
As these search engine spiders visit more often, they don't just
crawl your current no-work, money-making site. They also follow
links to other sites you want to get indexed. So now you can put up
your no-work site, teach the search engines to come back often, and
then go on to build other sites knowing that getting them indexed is
as simple as linking to them from your old sites. It really is that
easy :-)
By now you're probably asking what are some of these magic tools I
use to build these amazing, no-work sites that literally takes on a
life of their own.
Here's are just a few of the tools I personally use:
1) Blogs. Blogs hosted on Blogger.com get noticed very quickly by
Google because Google owns Blogger.com By pinging blog directories
(and Yahoo using your "My Yahoo" page) lots of other sites take
notice of your blog. They visit your blog and follow links to other
target sites.
2) I'm a charter member of Content Desk. Content Desk has a tool
that allows me to query databases containing tens of thousands of
articles (based upon keywords). I can automatically sort the list of
articles that is returned based upon keyword density, or a number of
other criteria. Then, I can have the software itself create webpages
for me using a template I've designed using the template tool built
right into Content Desk.
Content Desk is probably my favorite tool because I can, quite
literally, add hundreds of article pages to my sites in minutes. My
templates also include ads for a "pet" product and/or Google
AdSense. I can add content-rich, relevant, very nice-looking pages
to my sites in minute, and then move on to the next project, knowing
that these pages WILL make me money.
Content Desk limited its charter membership to a total of only 400
members, and that quickly sold out. However, since it's a monthly
membership, not all members renew and there are probably some
openings. To check on openings, simply visit:
http://WillieCrawford.com/content-desk.html
After arriving at the site, click on the "Charter Membership" link
in the upper left menu bar. This will tell you if there are any
current openings.
3) RSS Feeds. By incorporating RSS feeds into your webpages, you can
set them up so that the content is constantly updated. This gives
your visitors something fresh to read each time they visit. This
gives the search engines fresh content each time that they visit ...
and trains them to visit often.
Content Desk incorporates a feature that works very similar to
regular RSS feeds EXCEPT that it doesn't send your website traffic
away. With a normal RSS feed, the content automatically added to
your site contains links inviting your visitors to click away. It
allows you to automatically update your pages, but it also siphons
off traffic. Content Desk does this in a way that automatically
updates your site without sending your visitors away.
4) Traffic On Steroids. This is another system for automatically
updating/changing content on your site. Traffic On Steroids actually
takes a core database of articles/content that you set up and then
rotates it in your target webpages. The net effect is that each time
a visitor (or search engine) visits a page, the page is different.
This is very effective at training the search engines to come back
often... and increasing your pages' ranking. Incorporate Google
AdSense into these pages and you have another hands-off money
magnet.
You can also incorporate a product data-feed into your page using
Secret Money Generator and have pages that are constantly updates
AND have a catalog of products built in that all pay you an
affiliate commission. Secret Money Generator is at:
http://WillieCrawford.com/money-secret.html
You can check out Traffic On Steroids at
http://WillieCrawford.com/traffic-on-steroids.html
I've just shared with you a few of the dozens of tools I use to
create nearly-hands-off websites. I do still look at some of them
from time to time to see if I can make them perform better. However,
you could LITERALLY never touch many of your sites created with
these tools for years... and you'd still have a nice revenue stream
from them.
It’s all about working smarter, not harder. It's all about using
technology to leverage your time.
Willie Crawford is a corporate president, published author, seminar
speaker and host, tele-seminar speaker and host, retired military
officer, karate black belt, master network marketing trainer, and
lifetime student of marketing. He shows people how to actually
generate substantial income on-line using very simple, easily
implemented systems. An example of such a system that you can study
and utilize is at: http://WillieCrawford.com/TheSystem.html
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