Lately, I have one site that is kicikn’ some but on traffic and revenue. It was the success of that one site that encouraged me to start this blog. It also motivated me to set my current goal of setting up and maintaining 50 blogs in 50 different niches. Currently, that one site is pulling in a little over $200 per month. I started calculating the math and figured I could eventually get to my six figure goal if I had 50 sites bringing in $200 per month.

When your doing this much writing (and you’re not really a writer) you start looking for constant reassurance that you are doing the right thing. I mean, I am investing a lot of time in this plan and there are no guarantees that it will ever payoff. Chances are, if this whole thing does pay off, it won’t pay off until years from now.

Yesterday, I decided to take a closer look at my $200 per month site and was little discouraged by my findings. As it turns out, it looks like the search engine traffic might be coming from misspelled keywords mixed with a broken link (or two) in the resulting page.

A few years ago I purchased a program called Directory Generator. This program takes a list of keywords that you have to create yourself ahead of time, and goes out and queries the search engines for the results of each keyword. The program then creates a web page for each one of those keywords and then displays a directory of the search engine results on each page. In my case, I created a list of around 2000 keywords. This resulted in the Directory Generator program to create 2000 pages on my website. I then had to upload all 2000 pages to my server. This whole process can be a little time consuming and requires a bit of quality control. After your done uploading all 2000 pages you’re not really in the mood to make any corrections. My ending result turned out to be 2000 web pages that basically pulled the meta description for all of these keywords, and then, when the program created a link back to the site with the description of the resulting site. The backlinks on my website all resulted in broken links. I think I am earning money because the only links that work are the ads.

This whole scheme is working fine for now but I am sure that the search engines will discover these bad pages and eventually lower my rankings.

Since I put up that site I have purchased a new Vista computer and for some reason can’t get the Directory Generator program working to correct my problem.

I think that the moral of this story is that there is money to be made on the Internet. However, I am starting to think that it might take some serious effort to get legitimate results that will hold the test of time.

Once again, I find myself typing away with no guarantees of future success. The only other thing that I can say about this is that if you plan to take on blogging 50 sites you had better plan on enjoying writing.