My 6 year old boy’s crazy about Ben 10 and so I created a very simple wordpress blog for him and his brother being the good dad that I am ...
You can see their blog at http://www.ClaydenAndCoen.com
Anyway, he started posting just titles and pictures of his favourite Ben 10 toys on the blog as and when he likes to.
Now here’s the kicker, the blog had absolutely:
- NO content whatsoever
- NO widgets
- NO keyword research
- NO promotion
- NO backlinks
- NO articles
- Nothing!
It had nothing except for titles and pictures.
We don’t even go to the blog except once in a few months.
Guess what, I recently went to have a look and was flabbergasted that the blog was getting over 3,000+ unique visitors per month!
See proof:
There were also 32 pages indexed by Google:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aclaydenandcoen.com
Here’s the SECRET which I think got the traffic…
Listen up…
It’s a real secret :-)
Look at this screenshot and you’ll see:
#1 out of 944,000 competitors in Google images for a keyword with over 90,000 searches per month…
It even outranks giant websites and businesses like Flickr and Alibaba!
Now here’s the important thing from this case study:
Re-think how you can rank on the search engines with images.
Remember, we did absolutely NOTHING except post photos which were found for FREE on the internet.
However, I believe that the postings of relevant pictures and keyword titles may play a part.
But I’m STILL flabbergasted that it can be so easy to get traffic and a business going online.
What do you think about this?
Also, the comments from visitors are hilarious, I mean read this:
http://www.claydenandcoen.com/?p=18#comments
People were ASKING to buy stuff from my 6 year old!
Now, what if we build a little business off this?
Here are some ideas of what we can do:
- Build a list of responsive kids and parents
- Make money with affiliate programs like eBay, Amazon and Adsense
- Create an info product around Ben 10
- Set up an eBay store and auction off his toys (there are TOO many of them!)
- Set up a Yahoo! Store and get stocks using the wholesale/dropship model
- Flip the blog for a nice profit by selling it
- Actually do something to promote the blog!
This shows just how SIMPLE setting up an internet business can be…
You’ve just got to stick to the basics and grow from there.
I mean, if a 6 year old can do it, anyone can do it!
You can literally do this for ANY niche and make almost guaranteed income.
Here’s an easy to do step-by-step plan just for you:
Step 1: Find a market on Amazon.com or Clickbank.com
Step 2: Research some long-tail keywords
Step 3: Find relevant images or photos on Google images
Step 4: Find relevant affiliate products (Ebay, Amazon, Clickbank, Adsense)
Step 5: Start a blog (just a simple one, no fluff needed, Blogger or Wordpress will be fine)
Step 6: Post your photos with keyword-rich titles and tags and add your affiliate links
Step 7: Promote the blog with articles, forums, social bookmarking to create relevant backlinks.
Step 8: Post new photos every week
That’s it! You should be getting targeted traffic automatically and making real money online for FREE.
You could definitely refine and systemize the above plan. Or outsource to some college kids and build an entire money-making niche empire without spending a cent.
I suggest you go try this and POST YOUR RESULTS HERE.
Man, I should have charged for this information :p
Your comments and ideas to brainstorm further are appreciated…
Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
Ewen
