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Goofblogger asked:

For making money online in the long run, is it better to have numerous blogs or numerous smaller html websites ?

Now that is a tricky one.

You can setup blogs just as you can setup HTML websites, however in this case I’ll take you to mean a ‘normal’ blog – updated constantly and focusing on getting readers.

In this case, I’d recommend people getting standard niche websites to make money online long term.

You see, it is easy to get a niche website making $1/day through Adsense, just by putting good content and attacking the search engines.

You can setup a niche website within a few hours.

Just get a template from OSWD.org and create five pages with articles that are around 500 words long. There, you now have a niche website you can monetize.

Put a large (350 x 250) Adsense block above the content (under the title) on each page for maximum CTR.

Next, you want to build targeted links with your anchor text. You can do dofollow blog comments, forums, article marketing, it is up to you really.

All you need is around 20 – 100 visitors (depending on your niche) to make $1+ per day.

Once you have one site making $1/day, you build another one.

And another one.

And another one.

Rinse and repeat until you get tired. Ditch the sites that aren’t doing well and occasionally sell websites if you want to bring in more revenue to spend.

Of course, you should also have a couple blogs, because blogging is fun. But don’t expect to make a lot of money on it unless you are really creative or really lucky.

Having a personal blog is a great way to network with others and learn about blogging, and then you can work on other ways of making money online (affiliate marketing, product selling for example).

So there you have it – out of the two, long term… niche sites are better than blogs to make money online.

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