OK, this is what I do...
1. Pick a niche - use software such as PPC Profit Scout to identify profitable niches.
2. Use keyword software to build HUGE keyword lists.
3. Use page-generation software with CUSTOM templates (designed to fit all proven ideas, such as images next to ads, etc) to generate pages for keyword list. I also use quality content insertion tools (RSS, etc) to make quality pages, not scraping or other spammy techniques.
4. I use a popular blog-software as a front end to my sites, and use RSS2Blog to post to it daily from RELEVENT, QUALITY sources.
5. I add a relevant article each and every day - this is actually automated via a script I had custom built.
6. Use a Google sitemap tool to submit to Google.
7. Use blog and ping techniques - again, I have a custom script that blogs to a different blog each day, rather than every day to the same blog.
8. Pay for a couple of professionally written articles (to ensure uniqueness) and submit them via a press release service.
9. Pay for a couple of PR8 links (ebay is a good cheap source) - in fact, I now have lots of PR7 and PR8 links to some of my 'directory sites', which then link to my own sites - at this point, your costs of links comes down!
10. Interlink your sites by dividing them into three groups, then group A links to group B, group B to group C, and group C to group A, no reciprocal links between your own sites.
11. Every site on a unique IP, and spread them out over several hosts.
12. Include a trade links section on your site for reciprocal linking.
13. Cron jobs automatically add new articles, blog pages, etc, on an ongoing basis.
Add a dash of quality SEO to your templates, and make sure everything 'looks' the same throughout the site. Spend a couple of weeks getting everything in place, then you can churn out a complete site in under an hour.
If it ain't making $5 in 6 weeks, I'd be surprised. But you ain't putting 6 weeks of work into it. If you build 1 site per DAY for 6 weeks, you'd have 42 sites, all interlinked and having fun together.
And as all the sites use a popular blog-software, you can blog and ping from one of your sites to another, and play all sorts of fun games and come up with all sorts of linking and optimization strategies.
Oh, and I never run out of templates as there are literally thousands available online, and it's well documented on how to mod the themes so they can be used in pages 'outside' of the blog software (but on the same site).
Rinse and repeat.
OK, now I realize there's going to be a lot of question, like "what tool do you recommend for this", and "can you give me more details about that", but I just wanted to get this thread up and going.
Wow - this is what I teach my students (albeit with hand-holding and personalized advice, etc), and I charge them 25% of their earnings for this... Is there a way I can add a credit card gateway to this thread
