How To Make $100 Per Day In 3 Months
April 12, 2005 by Mary Jo Manzanares
Filed under Business
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
I actually recently decided to document my journey expanding my website here. While I don’t have the lofty expectations of making $100 a day in 3 months, it should be interesting.
While I don’t know if I’d be interested in this websitenights thing, does what I’m trying to do qualify?
I recently started a site that is making over 100$ a month. However, the site has been up and running for about three months. Can I join in the fun?
I don’t think this is realistic, since I am practical, yup need more time to develop branding awareness