Make Money Online

Quick Tip: “content” is whatever is on your website, like articles, videos, pictures, etc. It’s whatever is drawing people to your website in the first place.

In case it isn’t completely obvious, I’m a firm believer in good planning. Financial plans, website plans — plans give us a direction, and organize us so we know exactly what to do next. When you have a plan that works you can focus all of your efforts where it counts the most. 

Your website’s content is no different. You need a plan. In this article we’ll be talking about exactly what kind of content plan makes the most sense if your goal is to efficiently make money with your website.

The 50-Article Plan Explained

The plan is extremely simple. Analyze your niche. Boil the topic down to 3-10 sub-topics. In each of those sub-topics, write 5-10 articles that cover everything about the sub-topic. The exact numbers will be whatever it takes to insure that you end with about 50 articles. Now write the articles.

Your content will look something like this:

Your Website’s Topic Sub Topic

1. Article Article Article
2. Article Article Article
3. Article Article Article

Sub Topic

1. Article Article Article
2. Article Article Article
3. Article Article Article

Sub Topic

1. Article Article Article
2. Article Article Article
3. Article Article Article

You’re done. That’s the 50-article plan.

A Quick Example

For example, let’s say you’re writing about why gun control is unjustified. That’s your niche. Your website is going to discuss the topic of gun control, gun laws, self defense, etc. So you’d boil the topic down to 3 general sub-topics. Then you add 10 or so articles under each of the sub-topics. You’d link each “leg” of the ladder — your main page would link to the sub-topics, which would link to the specific articles. 

For example:

Topic: Gun Control

Sub Topic: Gun Control and Crime

1. Gun Control Failed in the UK
2. Gun Control Failed in Washington, DC
3. Gun Control Failed in Canada

Sub Topic: Gun Control and the Constitution

1. Gun Control Violates the 2nd Amendment
2. Gun Control Violates the 14th Amendment
3. Gun Control Violates the 9th Amendment

Sub Topic: Gun Control and Morality

1. Gun Control Makes Minorities Defenseless
2. Gun Control Makes Women Victims
3. Gun Control Disarms the Innocent

Is it beginning to make sense? The goal is to create a simple heirarchy that gives your website three layers: your home page, the secondary pages, and then your third pages.

The Goal of the 50-Article Plan

The purpose of the 50-article plan is to make money. This is achieved through several means.

As I’ve explained before, the best source of traffic to your website is search-engine traffic. Search engine visitors are more likely to click your advertisements, buy products, sign up for newsletters and other things that make you money.

By building your website with a strong heirerchy, and making sure you link “down the ladder” from your home page to the sub-topic pages to your specific articles, you are making sure that the search engines know what your most important pages are.

This is extremely misunderstood by most of the “make money blogging” gurus.

For example, let’s say you write an article every day for a blog. When you write an article, it will be replaced by another article, and then another, until the article you first wrote is lost in the archives somewhere. It’s “harder” for the search engines to see that article. There are fewer links from your site to that article. You’ve effectually lost time and content. It’s innefficient.

This isn’t the case with the 50-article plan. Plus, with such an easy-to-use 50-article heirarchy allows people to find the information they want, and quickly. This means your visitors are happier and are more likely to read, click, buy and even link to you. It’s a win-win situation.

But perhaps most importantly, having 50 articles gives you a goal that you can achieve. Most websites are “open ended”, meaning the goal of the webmaster is to keep writing until doomsday. There’s no set goal. With the 50-article plan, you know exactly when you’ve achieved the goal. 

This Isn’t the Only Way

Of course, there are dozens of other ways to publish content that makes money. There are other systems and plans that might work just fine for some people.

But this website is about finding a system that works for anyone — we want guarunteed success, not chasing possible wealth. The purpose of this website (and, specifically, this page) is to detail and explain the steps I’ve taken to success so you won’t need any guess work.

No theory here — just what we know works. And the 50-article plan does just that.

What to Do Now

To learn more about how you can achieve more by working less (but more efficiently), then read The 80-20 Principle of Getting Stuff Done. You can learn how to literally double your productivity while working half as much.

Do you like the concept of using a set plan to achieve your online income goals? Then check out the most important article on this website, The 10-Step Plan: How to Make Money Online.

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