Six figure income in only 500 hours
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It sounds like a dream: earning a six figure income in only 500 hours.
But that actually happened to Patrick Meninga of Make Money With No Work.
It’s a very interesting and instructive story, certainly if you can write great articles. And I certainly appreciate his way of creating backlinks.
Read it carefully, maybe someday it will happen to you too. Here’s Patrick telling exactly how he did accomplish that six figure income.
Enjoy!
How I Built a Six Figure Website in Under 500 Hours
My flagship website was earning me very good money – over $2,000/month at one point. I eventually sold it when someone offered me $200,000 for it.
So how did I achieve this level of success with such a small time investment? After all, 500 hours can be accomplished with just 2 hours per day in less than a year!
Here are the three “secrets” that got me there:
1) Average of three articles published daily.
2) A precise marketing strategy focused on high quality backlinks.
3) Ignore distractions and take a long term perspective.
Average of three articles published daily
Volume matters. The idea is to create a large authority website and rank for lots of long tail queries in the search engines. If you have over a thousand articles and decent authority then you can probably earn a full time income from the combination.
How do you get over a thousand articles on your website?
Write them yourself. What looks like an “unclimbable” mountain is actually pretty simple to conquer: simply publish 3 articles every day. Period. Done deal.
Within a year you will be at your target of having over 1,000 articles on your website.
One major caveat to keep in mind, however:
Your articles have to be good.
Darn good. Fantastic, in fact.
So you may not be comfortable publishing three each day at first.
Rest assured, if you keep at it, you will one day be able to crank out three quality articles in a single day.
If you want a six figure website, this is the main shortcut that will get you there….high volume publishing. Three per day is the magic number. Anything less will be agonizingly longer wait to see real money.
Precise marketing strategy focused on high quality backlinks
All of that quality content that you are putting up needs some promotion.
If you want to stay underneath the 500 mark, then you cannot waste time with things that do not lead to future income.
For the most part, social media marketing strategies should take care of themselves and be handled almost entirely by your readers. If you are creating phenomenal content and have the appropriate buttons and widgets installed, social media should take care of itself.
What you need to focus on for promotion is getting a few really good links. Period.
My suggestion is to write original and useful guest posts to be published on other sites within your niche.
Is there still a place in Internet marketing for cheap manufactured links? Perhaps. However, they are a poor use of your time, unless you already have some authority based on “real” guest post links. If you must, outsource the creation of these supporting links after you build a strong foundation with guest posting. That way you are not wasting precious time that could be spend creating high quality content on-site.
There are only two activities to concern yourself with:
1) Putting premium content on your website.
2) Creating backlinks to your website.
If your workflow spreads the 500 hours out over one to two years, then I suggest that you spend roughly 75% of your time creating killer on-site content, and only 25% promoting it with strong links.
After a certain point your time spent marketing drops to zero, and all of your effort can be focused on creating premium on-site content.
You only have to build link juice and site authority once. Streamline the process by pushing hard for quality guest posts.
Ignore distractions and take a long term perspective
You can absolutely create a six figure website by only working on it part time. The secret is that you must be patient and give the site time to age while you build it.
This works out very well if you focus on quality on-site content.
It also works particularly well if you focus on getting just a few high quality backlinks rather than lots of cheap manufactured links. A flood of cheap links might brink quicker rankings and traffic, but the quality guest posts will build lasting authority over time.
The manufactured links will lose effectiveness over time unless you create more of them, while the handful of guest post links will stand the test of time.
Achieve your income goal by eliminating distractions and working efficiently:
* Have a daily publishing quota while maintaining high quality.
* Spend about a quarter of your time creating high quality guest posts for strong backlinks.
That’s it. Have enough patience to allow time for trust to build.
Do these things consistently and you will meet your income goals.
Any questions? Ask me in the comments!
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Can you post the URL of this money making site? It will help see what it means to have great content and high quality backlinks. Thanks in advance!
Sure thing, Nir Katz. Just Google my name (Patrick Meninga) and you will find the site on the first page somewhere. Double check by glancing at the author bio, etc.
There is another way to make cash on the net that I keep hearing a lot about. It seems to be that there are so many people out there selling products using affiliate marketers for their sales that a new job market is exploding… A manger is needed to keep up with all the array of things that sellers have to do…from paychecks to helping network the marketers and give support, etc. I really don’t know how to affiliate market so my description may be a little rough. I intend to go to a conference in London and learn all the ins and outs of affiliate marketing. Supposedly, there will be people there looking to hire the new managers coming to the conference. I am not interested in that, but I hear the commissions are lucrative. I just want to earn cash at home and stay with my little ones.
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I’ve subscribed to this thread in the hope that you’ll reply to my question and give me some help.
I got here by searching for backlinking topics, and wondered if you’d be able to help me.
Is a sort of reverse-backlinking feature feasible? As in, instead of writing killer content like you say, and having it link to me, can I have other people write killer content for my blog, and then hope that I catch other people searching for it?
Does that make sense?
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@ Ion – I would wonder what incentive people will have to post their great content on your website if you do not have any authority/popularity to begin with. So in a way you have to figure out how to build that authority from scratch. Putting up great content, guest posting, creating link bait…these are all possibilities. But just getting authors to contribute great stuff will be tough if you are not already successful….
I just found this post from alltop.com
With the new way Google has just “socialized” the search, I almost wonder if anybody but the gurus will get traffic.
@ Carl – Yeah I wonder about the new social search stuff as well and how that will all play out. My guess is that the big G may dial it back a notch eventually after their initial experimenting. Or perhaps it will stick around but not have too huge an impact on organic ranking anyway….I mean, just look at how much they have pushed with universal search results already, stuck images in there, videos, maps, etc. and we still rank for stuff and get free traffic. So we will have to see how it all plays out.
Hi frend,
Very Nice article. Though these are basic things that everyone is supposed to know and follow but its these that we so often miss or neglect and that’s what, i suppose, differentiates a good blogger from a great one!
Thank you for this lovely piece of information.
Man, reading articles like this really makes me wish I started this process…a year ago! LOL…anyways, I am in the process of developing my own blog so I will definitely be using the content first principle that you, SEOMoz, and many other great internet marketers promote. Perhaps and interesting write-up you could do is talk about the existing platform you would recommend to do this strategy. For instance maybe you would recommend using WordPress/Joomla/Drupla with Plugin1/Plugin2/Plugin3 installed prior to developing all this content. Maybe give us readers a look at the backend that would should focus on before spending our time with developing content. I know this would be a huge help for me because I am currently in the planning stage of my blog. Anyways, thanks for the write up, and I will be checking out your other tutorials and articles.
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Great article Patrick, looking at 1,000 articles really does seem a lot but thinking of it as 3 a day doesn’t seem that much at all.
And there’s plenty of ways of generating idea’s for creating content – it would be a great opportunity to survey your market.
When you were publishing your posts did you find that there were particular times that it would be better to post your articles?
Patrick, what about posting youtube videos with back links to your site. Also, I’m not sure what you mean by guest posts.
I agree. A high-quality content will only be put to waste if it’s not promoted well. It’s better to rely on few high-quality links than on hundreds of spammy links.
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Excellent tip to “eat an elephant one bite at a time.”
It’s definitely overwhelming if you think of everything you have to do, all at the same time. Chunking it down to just 3 articles a day makes it doable without all the stress.
Also, one thing that may help – think of the daily article writing as a practice, just like practicing a musical instrument or a golf swing.
The energy and effort you put into your daily “practice” will accumulate over time, until you can reap the rewards (in this case, a nice income!)
I wish I understood why I am not making the money you are making. I have done everything that you have stated. I made high quality content, I got back links, I have a PR5… 200 – 300 people a day. 6 – 8 minutes on avg for people staying 20% people return a day and I get 80% unique visitors a day. But I still make very little money. uggggh, reading your article and hearing how much money you have made, makes me frustrated. I just want to be able to make money that will help support my family. Thanks for sharing, I still have hope. I never give up. Thank goodness I like doing what I am doing..
I love it when people make writing articles sound so easy. It’s all Internet Marketing seems to be about these days. Have you ever tried to write 3 quality articles in 1 day? It’s very hard! I have a lot of respect for this guy though because if you can do it then you must because the traffic is great and free.
I figured out that articles were not for me I write a few now and agin but i haven’t got the mind power to write 3 day! Phew, I’m sweating just thinking about it.
Where do you post this content (on your own site)? Also can you be more elaborate about your link building strategies?