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I guess we’ve all heard about this kind of Internet income plan – aim to make just a little money each day from an individual Website (and Adsense usually seems a good bet as the income source with this type of plan), and build lots and lots of these sites to earn your total target income each day. So assuming you think that you can manage a measly buck a day from each of your simple little sites, then to hit $100 a day target income, you’ll have to build 100 of these sites (even I can manage that math!)

Now, I’ve never been a huge earner from Adsense, but it is a regular daily earner for me since I was accepted into the program at the beginning of January 2004, so this sort of plan has always intrigued me.

The big problem with it for most people is just building and maintaining the number of sites needed to make it work. Clearly, even if each site is only five to ten pages in size, that’s still a fair amount of content to write if you’re going to aim for unique content – which is clearly the best kind. And another problem is the boredom factor – unless you’re a genuine polymath you’re probably not going to have much of an interest in most of the subjects you’re building sites around, so coming up with that content is probably going to be quite a chore.

Of course, you could outsource the content, but that takes money, and if you’re like me, you may not be very good at outsourcing – yes, I know, you really should be looking to outsource the time-consuming, menial stuff so that you can devote your valuable time to more productive things, but I guess that’s one of my failings – I never said I was perfect!

Anyway, I got to thinking, what if you could get away with readily available and free content from article directories for example and just use WordPress with a basic theme to build these Websites and maybe even aim for really low expectations of 50c per day or every few days? If the sites were quick and easy enough to build, this might be a feasible plan.

So, as a sort of  a case study, I’ve built a site today using WordPress with just articles from ezinearticles with a simple, non-graphical theme. I’ve even used a subdomain for this site instead of putting it on its own domain.

To compromise a little because of not having unique content I’m using a WordPress plugin called WPUnique which makes the content different enough to pass Google scrutiny without changing the actual wording of the articles.

The other aspect of this that is normally time consuming is the promotion. Now, given that you’re only targeting relatively small amounts of cash from each site, you clearly aren’t going to be doing anything promotion-wise that takes an inordinate amount of time as that would just about invalidate the concept anyway and make it a complete waste of time. But clearly you’re going to have to do something.

I’ll go into more detail in further updates on this experiment, but what I’m trying to do is get away with as much automation as I can. To that end I’ve used a couple of autosubmitters I have which I don’t have too much faith in, I’ve used a WP plugin called Twitter Tools, I’ve submitted the url and xml sitemap to Google, Yahoo and Bing, I’ve submitted the RSS feed to various RSS aggregators, I’m using a ping list with WordPress and, something I’m hoping for big things from, I’ve just purchased a directory submitter called Deep Linker Pro which is way more automated than most and which I’m hoping for good things from.

Anyway, I’ll let you know how this experiment goes in future posts here, so watch out for them. I’m keeping my fingers crossed because this is a strategy that I have an affinity with and an enjoyment in so I’m hoping that this little test gives results that justify it being put to use as a genuine longterm business strategy.