For all my “internet marketing ramblings”, I don’t really give any information on it. There’s a good reason for this. I don’t claim to be a guru, or know that much about internet marketing. Nor do I claim to be earning lots of cash, because I’m not.

This blog is here to share my experience of making money online. I hope that it’ll be an inspiration to other noobs, and that one day people will look back through the archives here and think, “this is how it all started”. One day I will be able to give advice, and great tips. But right now I’m concentrating on using those tips for my own benefit until I can get something to work.

What I will share with you is advice that I pick along the way. So this post is about building up a network. In a previous post I mentioned the importance of content, and how you need to just keep on creating content. I think that this is one surefire way of making money online.

No, it isn’t perhaps the best way, or the most intelligent way.

But it is one of the easiest ways, if you follow the right advice. Right now, I’m building up a network of blogs. I call it a network, but really the only thing these blogs have in common with each other is that they’re blogs.

I’m writing 2,500 words of content a day as I take part in the WebWriMo challenge, but I plan on continuing at this pace even when I’ve finished the challenge. At this rate, I can get a new blog up and running with all the content it needs (time stamped of course so that it has fresh new content each day) as well as keep writing for the other blogs I’ve already started.

This is only one of the things I’m involved in, but I hope that in 6 months time I can say that I have a few blogs to my name. Each blog can be developed in it’s own way, and be promoted into a profitable site. If not, well I can always sell them.

I think that there is something to be said for having “online real estate”. That is, online properties that you have created that continue to grow even if you’re not actively promoting them. If I want to take a break from blogging, all I have to do is stop making new blogs and have a good long writing session to give me enough content to last a few weeks for all my blogs.

And in that time the blogs will continue to grow and become more popular by themselves, providing I’ve done enough work in beforehand to get them to that stage.

Even if I don’t make a whole load of cash from this idea, I will have some kind of audience around each of sites as well as linking power. There is definitely power in numbers in this game, even if I only have 10 medium sized blogs, that’s still a way for me to break into whatever niche those blogs are in if I decide to at some point in the future when I get the skills.

So my message to you today is to get building. Build sites, build content. Content never gets old. The great thing is that even if you’re not a great marketer right now, one day you will be. And you’ll look back on the sites you’ve made that will be sitting with page rank, links, and some amount of a readership and think, “Damn, I can market the hell out of these!”

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Recently I’ve had a mass of ideas for sites, advertising and promotion. Some of these ideas have come from some awesome bloggers, others have been from little old me. In the past I’ve had this thing where I spend hours thinking about how great a project would be if I did it, but then never bring myself to actually do it.

This is just what I’m trying to do now to make sure that great ideas don’t just stay as a few lines in Notepad.

Collect all ideas/notes for the project in one place

It’s not good having 5 different text documents splashed across your desktop, a few bookmarks sprinkled through Firefox, and a couple of scribbled down notes on your desk.

All the ideas need to be collected together in the same place.

This includes stuff that’s in your brain, make sure to download all that to the same place. Don’t worry about processing any of the information, just make sure you have every scrap of info about the project/idea written down.

Organise the Data

How?

Take the related pieces and put them together. Anything to do with the content generation of the site, group that together. Then anything to do with link building, put that in another pile. This process should probably happen naturally for more experienced marketers, but for me I find it helps to work exactly what I’m going to do for each project.

Create a Rough Guide

The natural progression is to get the ideas written down in such a way that you can refer to it by way of a quick glance every now and then.

I want to stress that this whole process up to now shouldn’t take more than an hour or two. If it does, you’re over-thinking - paralysis by analysis. The whole point of this exercise is to be able to get the projects off the ground as fast as possible, without making too much of a mess through lack of organisation.

The Important Step: Develop Content

This is the most important part of everything I’ve said in this post. If you remember nothing else, remember this. All that planning will not count for anything if you don’t put your back into making the content.

My past experience of starting a project has been something like this:

1. Think about the project
2. Day dream about the project
3. Think about it some more
4. Start designing the site, messing with layouts and cPanel and whatever
5. Never get around to writing the content

It’s imperitive that we get the meat of the site done first. Perhaps this applies more to the types of sites I’m developing now, which would be blogs, but content is still one of the most important parts of the building process.

Before I even think about playing around with a layout now, I make sure I have at least a “base amount” of content first. For a standard blog that would be at least 30 posts. This way I ensure that when I start getting the site built up, registering a domain, and putting on the finishing touches, I actually have a site with which to send people to.

I don’t pretend to be a guru, I am more a noob than anyone at times.

If you’re also a noob reading this, take my advice and do what I’m doing. If you’re not then feel free to laugh in my face because of your awesome superiority.

I mentioned the WebWriMo challenge here: Content, Content, Content

Well, I’ve finally signed up and am ready to go. I started getting into content writing in a big way a couple of days ago and my word count is already up to 10,072!

The aim is to get to 50,000 words by the end of November so I still have quite a way to go, but I’m confident I can make it. I’m doing around 2,000 words an hour at the moment which is just awesome. I’m gonna be stuck if I run out of content ideas though.

The reason I’m getting so fast is because I’m writing short blog posts based on the knowledge in my head, so no researching or anything. I hope I don’t completely empty my head by the end of the month!

Working on the WebWriMo challenge is a great addition to my Internet Marketing 30 Day Blitz that I’ve started. I shouldn’t be short of things to work on for now.

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Damn, I never knew content generation could be so fun. I’ve been against it for months due to a stint at attempting to do article marketing in a niche that I was so not interested in.

This is probably the best advice I could give to myself or anyone else right now - just write content! Unless you are retarded and can’t actually write, there’s been quite an influx of idiots migrating from Digital Point to Wicked Fire recently that fit that description. My advice for these guys is to quit while you’re ahead, or at least go back to school.

Why write content?

If you know what to do with the content, then content is money. Or content is backlinks. Content is whatever you make it really. I’ve concentrated a lot more on the marketing side of things and to my shame I cannot show you one site that has half decent content on it.

Another reason for you is this: content is what the internet is made for. Ultimately you will have to come to terms with it at some point, Google are cracking down more and more on crap/thin content sites and before you know it there might not be a place for half-baked mini-sites. I am not an expert and don’t pretend to be, I’m just looking to the future and that’s what I see coming.

Tools of the trade

Content generation needs very few tools. As I said above, you need a brain and ideally the ability to type at a half-decent speed. I recommend learning to touch type, it works wonders, it really does.

I also recommend Q10 as an awesome text editor, and props to Emp from Blind Ape SEO for mentioning it, a good find. It turns your screen into a text input environment, full screen - all you can do is type! It blacks out everything else on the screen and leaves with a couple of details such as the time and your word count.

Music is also a much debatable tool to help with content generation, some people think that it hinders and distracts you whereas others believe it can be very motivational. I’m finding that it really depends what you listen to. At the moment I’m listening to an awesome UK (Welsh I think) band called Skindred.

They are the shiznitch, seriously. I don’t know how to describe them, I guess it’s metal/rap/Jamaican. Technically Jamaican isn’t a musical genre but what else can I call it, it’s not reggae I know that. It’s original, hardcore Jamaican metal - that might be the best bet. All I know is that by listening to them, my fingers are dancing away on this keyboard while my head bops like there’s no tomorrow.

WebWriMo

The WebWriMo is a challenge based on the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). The idea is to write 50,000 words in a month long period. I’m tempted to put my name down for it as I’ve already done a few words in the last two days alone and if I keep this pace up I’ll make good for the end of the month.

Just done a quick count up what I’ve gotten done so far in the last few days since I started getting into it: 4,457

Accoring to the WebWriMo I’d have to do another 45,000 in 20 days, so that’s 2,250 a day til then. A bit of a stretch but then that’s the idea.