In a nutshell, David asks “how many sites do your GUYS maintain, and how much are the sties making in order for them to pay for themselves?”

I thought the question and answer were informative enough to make a post out of it.
Here’s my response:

@David – this is a great observation.

I’ll tell you a little about my business so you can understand a bit about how I work.

I don’t know how many sites I currently have…maybe 50, maybe 100?
How many have I built over the past years? …hundreds maybe?

Here’s a quick breakdown of sites my team has 100% built for me:

• I have a site that makes me over $15,000/month that my team built.
• I have some sites that make between $1000-$5000/month that my team built.
• I have lots of sites that make between $100-$1000/month that my team built.
• I have even more sites that make me between $1-$100/month that my team built.
• Most of my sites that my team built don’t make me anything! $0.

Some of those $0 sites are new…at some point they’ll make me money.
Lots of them I’ve given up on because the model/market/niche/site failed. I lost money on those.

For me, I just know that the more sites I build, the better chance I have of finding winners.
I also know that some of them that I build are going to do really well. Every once in a while I’ll get an awesome one.

My team (of 3-5…depending on how you look at it) builds and maintains all these sites.
Once a site is built and established, it requires less and less maintenance.

The thing about all this is that I DIDN’T DO THE WORK!
If it were up to me to do the work, none of these sites would have been built or marketed.
Because other people are doing it, it got done, and I make money because of it.

To me, that’s the key to all this. For years I tried to do all the work myself. With that I think I had built 10 sites in a few years and only 1 of them was really successful.
With other people doing the work I’ve built hundreds of sites and lots of them are successful.

Frankly, I’m capable of doing better work than my GUYS do.
However, I DON’T DO THE WORK even though I’m capable. I don’t know…it’s just some problem I have. If it’s up to me to do the work, it’s just not going to get done.

For this reason I created my outsourcing system. So others can benefit from what I’ve done.

John

This is also very instructive for you in terms of what you should be doing for your websites. What my guys do is awesome.

I added the parts in CAPITALS.

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Sites Handled by [NAME]:
[THESE ARE SITES USING METHODS LIKE THE MINI-SITE FORMULA OR PNE OR OTHER SIMILAR METHODS. THESE ARE NOT SITES WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON. THEY ARE OFTEN EXPERIMENTAL OR SMALL/AUTOMATED SITES.
THESE SITES GET BUILT ONCE, PROMOTED ONCE, AND MAYBE UPDATED/PROMOTED EVERY 6 MONTHS AFTER THAT. I DON'T EXPECT ANY OF THESE SITES TO MAKE ME A LOT OF MONEY.]

Method of promotion:

Directory Submission
Submission to ezinearticles

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Sites handles by [NAME]:

[THESE ARE SITES THAT I EXPECT TO DO REASONABLY WELL ($500-$3000/MONTH). SOME OF THESE ARE USING THE NPC METHOD. THEY ARE SITES WE SPEND MORE TIME ON, BUT THEY HAVEN'T GOTTEN TO THE HUGE STAGE YET (SOME OF THESE WILL MOVE UP TO THE LAST CATEGORY OF SITES).
THESE SITES GET PROMOTED EVERY MONTH, MAYBE MORE OFTEN THAN THAT.]

Method of promotion:

site: www.xxxxxxxxxxx.com (this one is the best of this type of site that we have)
Directory Submission
Article Submission
Bookmarking
Yahoo Answers
Mininet
Blog Comment
Forum

other sites:
Submission to Ezinearticles
Little bit of Yahoo Answers and Forum posting

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Sites handle by [NAME]:

[THESE ARE OUR BIG SITES. THEY ARE SITES THAT WE EXPECT TO CONTRIBUTE OVER $5K/MONTH TO THE BUSINESS. SOME OF THESE ARE USING THE NPC METHOD. OTHERS ARE LARGE AFFILIATE SITES. THEY'RE STILL COMPLETELY AUTOMATED (from my point of view) BUT WE GIVE THEM MORE ATTENTION THAN ANY OF THE OTHERS.
THESE GET PROMOTED AT LEAST WEEKLY.]

Method of Promotion:
Directory Submission (done)
Article Submission
Mininet
Forum
Bookmarking (occasionally)
One-way link from blogs: Content spooling, 1waylinks, free traffic system
A little bit of Blog comment and yahoo answers.

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Here are my thoughts. (THIS PART STILL WRITTEN BY MY GUY)

For me, the best method in building backlinks are article marketing and blogs. Search engines love content. Articles and blogs are often updated and SE’s love them. It also looks very natural in the eyes of the SE’s.

For direct traffic, yahoo answers and video marketing are the best strategy.

Forum posting (with signature link) and blog comment can deliver both backlink and traffic as long as it is posted on relevant sites. But the problem is, there are only few forum sites related to the topics. And for blog comments, most of the blogs are moderated so woudl it take time for your comment to be posted. Most blogs now have nofollow attributes on comments and Google does not follow them anymore (as posted to their webmaster support website). But other search engines may handle this attribute differently.

In the case of [NAME], as she handles so many websites, I think Free traffic System can really help her. I am still looking on how this system works. But I think this can make linkbuilding easy and effective. For me, directory submission is good if the website is new. But if it is already indexed by SE, it is not that important exept if the directory is an authority site such as Dmoz and Yahoo Dir.

This is what I’ve been doing:

New site:
Directory Submission
Bookmarking
Yahoo answers
Blog Comment

If the site is indexed:
Article Submission
One-way links from blogs
(this will help the website increase its ranking the natural way)

If there is a sudden drop on the rankings or as the site gets more established:
Forum Posting to dofollow forum sites
One-way links from blogs.
(this can give instant backlink to the site because it does not need approval and review)

For maintenance:
Combination of all these methods
Video marketing for traffic

Not bad as a website marketing plan that we came up with over time. Here are some of my thoughts for your benefit (I sent this to him):

• I want to use 3waylinks.net in addition to 1waylinks.net on all the sites. Both can be used just once on the experimental sites, but should be used regularly on our good sites. Both are very good.
• I haven’t used the free traffic system, so I don’t know how effective it is. My GUY seems to think it’s good so I told him to buy it.
• I think we should be doing video submissions for all sites. Experimental sites can have just 1 video submitted. Better sites should have it done regularly.
• I wouldn’t worry too much about the nofollow attribute thing
  on blogs. I don’t think google discounts it as much as they say they
  do. I think it’s still valid to post comments on those sites.
• We use Unique Article Wizard for article marketing.
• We use Traffic Geyser for video marketing

If you (the reader) have other systems you use to promote your sites, please post in the comments.

Training for YOUR GUYS for all the methods mentioned above are available as a member of ReplaceMyself.com. The training is designed to teach YOUR GUYS how to do what MY GUYS are doing for me.