While growing up on the farm in North Carolina, I
loved gardening. There was something 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.
About the author:
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
