How To Make $100 Per Day In 3 Months
First the rules set forth by WebSiteNights:
- It does not matter if you’re starting to work on a new project or an existing one, as long as this project is not making you ANY money right now.
- Lay out your plan in advance - and post it for us to read - this will not only educate others but also put positive pressure for you to act. You can always change your plan as needed.
- Report your progress somewhere we can see. A blog… a forum thread… as long as people are able to follow your low points/high points/success. Posting as you go has a few reasons
- Send me an email to - lichter AT gmail.com - where I can add you to my list on the main page so others can see your progress journal.
- That’s it.
Now originally I thought it said you couldn’t use any of your other sites to link to the new site that you are trying to make money from, but I do not see this rule in the guidelines stated above. Not that this necessarily makes it any easier.
Then in Darren’s entry about the contest I tried to get it out of him how he would go about this task and if he even thought it was possible without doing PPC advertising. Now the guidelines don’t say you can use PPC and many of the participants are, but for me I am more curious as to how someone would go about doing this without using PPC.
Take into consideration that for new sites it can be nearly impossible to get out of Google’s sandbox in 12 weeks time so PPC almost becomes a necessity…or is it?
I started the Big Money Tips project because I read about this contest a couple of weeks ago. I have the domain. Google has indexed it now and I figure it’s time to make some money from it.
Progress is slow at the moment. I have only broken the $1 mark once, but it will take a little bit more time and I will make sure to keep you updated, but now it’s time to talk about bigger things.
12 Weeks, $100/day
So you wish to apply yourself and go for it. How do you go about it I am sure you are asking yourself. To be honest I think the easiest way is to create some kind of one-page site that gets link to it by hundreds/thousands of other sites. You’ve seen these sites whether it be a Flash game or a videoclip or whatever. People email their friends to go check it out and its traffic continues to grow exponentially. Of course thinking of an idea for these kinds of sites is not easy.
Another method would be to create a good amount of datafeed sites that also contain AdSense ads. Again though these run a good chance of being sandboxed and never getting out because of duplicate content, but it’s worth a try. This is an approach I can see many people going for.
A final method (but not the only final method) would be to spend a month writing an e-book, another month promoting, and the third month watching the money hopefully come in.
These aren’t necessarily the best plans and they don’t go into much depth, but I just wanted to mention them to help give you an idea of ways to approach this contest and your life.
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14 opinions for How To Make $100 Per Day In 3 Months
Michael Moncur
Apr 12, 2005 at 6:55 pm
I don’t think there’s any way a datafeed site could make $100 a day in 3 months, or even ten of them… it’s not really enough time to get out of Google’s sandbox.
If I were doing this, I think I’d find four or five really high-paying affiliate programs and start a few sites on closely related topics - you’d have to be way more plugged in to the affiliate scene than I am, but I think using Adsense alone is hopeless.
I think I’m going to start a personal challenge to be making $100 MORE a day from my existing sites in 3 months, which is a whole different ball game.
Scrivs
Apr 12, 2005 at 9:18 pm
But what about sites that you don’t make money from, but are already out of the sandbox. One of the rules is that you can’t be making money from the site already, so with those circumstances and a high enough pagerank I think you might stand a fighting chance.
Michael Moncur
Apr 13, 2005 at 12:36 am
True. I have a few established sites that aren’t what I’d call “making money”, but they make a few dollars per month so they’d be technically ineligible…
The Star
Apr 13, 2005 at 1:17 am
Re: Google’s sandbox
Chances are a brand new site will not be sandboxed - there needs to be some extenuating circumstances for it to happen.
For instance, take two sites - both newly registered on the same day, yet only one has been sandboxed by Google (it still brings me money because I simply shifted my focus to optimizing for Yahoo! and MSN instead).
The other site is doing just peachy in Google for its selected keyword. Whether Google will sandbox this site further down the road has yet to be seen, but if the progress of any of my previous sites is any indication - it won’t.
While the sandbox should get some thought, it shouldn’t get that much thought.
Just my 2 bits :)
Nicole Simon
Apr 13, 2005 at 6:18 am
Projects like this give you the ideas of how to handle future projects.
From the sandbox you now know, you need to calculate more time to start a business. Register the domain, work a little bit with it on low key and after it is out of the sandbox, start really working with it.
So just have a longer breath on starting projects.
The project is interesting though but at the same time not - because many of the things working their are for an us based market - tricks and ideas working overseas are not as working here, because the whole culture, experience etc is different.
For example, ebook is not a great market over hear, audio books are slowly starting (speaking of online business). I would say we are 3-5 years behind the US.
Has advantages and disadvantages.
Nadav
Apr 13, 2005 at 7:48 am
Nicole,
Who said you can’t market to the US?
Create your Ebooks & products for the US market, this is the great advantage of distributing digital products.
Adsense is growing into more and more countries with more and more languages supported.
So I’d prepare the infrastructure to when your market “matures”.
Nadav
P.S.
I have the same problems here… Internet marketing where I live is also 6 years behind the US.
This is why my main focus now is the US market.
Scrivs
Apr 13, 2005 at 9:14 am
As for the sandbox you can’t say that a brand new site will jump to the top of the rankings and stay there for 12 weeks. For me the sandbox means more than just not having a site exist, but also for a site to get proper PR and backlinks updated within the search engines.
If you are looking for free traffic you simply have to have a ‘longer breath’ as Nicole states. Otherwise you need something viral or you need to head down the PPC route and buy your traffic.
Jacob G.
Apr 13, 2005 at 10:21 am
I actually recently decided to document my journey expanding my website here. While I don’t have the lofty expectations of making $100 a day in 3 months, it should be interesting.
While I don’t know if I’d be interested in this websitenights thing, does what I’m trying to do qualify?
The Star
Apr 13, 2005 at 5:37 pm
Actually, a site I registered last year still is. It’s not a site I’m using for this competition because it’s not really allowed. But within 4 weeks of registering the domain adding content and being spidered - I was ranking within the top 10 for my 3 selected key terms.
Admittedly, they were not super competitive, however, they are somewhat competitive and highly profitable - I’m now coming up on my 6th month and my rankings haven’t been disrupted and my site hasn’t been sandboxed in that time…
I also have a site which I registered in January of this year that is ranking top 10 for one of its selected keywords which hasn’t been sandboxed either.
As I said - it depends on a lot more factors than your site being brand new ;)
The Star
Apr 13, 2005 at 5:41 pm
helpful tool for determining if your site is (or potentially will be) sandboxed (hope you don’t mind the link Scrivs):
http://www.socengine.com/seo/tools/sandbox-tool.php
Scrivs
Apr 13, 2005 at 9:01 pm
Star, those kinds of links are smiled upon. And I can see Google allowing some sites up there I suppose, it’s just lately I am seeing a lot sites take longer than they used to. Of course linking to them from all my sites probably sets off some red flags for Google.
The Star
Apr 13, 2005 at 11:10 pm
Yes Scrivs - it does…one thing I never do with my new sites (if they’re hosted on the same hosting plain/nameservers/IP block) is interlink…
Stephen
Apr 14, 2005 at 4:23 pm
I recently started a site that is making over 100$ a month. However, the site has been up and running for about three months. Can I join in the fun?
Nicole Simon
Apr 15, 2005 at 3:36 pm
Nadav,
not everyone is interested in marketing to the US - to be honest, I don’t think it is that attractive to spend about 40% of my time just playing catching up - this is time better spent in this market. ;)
As said, it has pros and cons.
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