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