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I was in London with work this week hence the lack of posting, my apologies! I’m still alive…just. Unfortunately I’m suffering from abdominal pains that have lasted for two months now. I’m waitin for an ultrasound to rule out gallstones and then a gastroscopy (camera down the throat).

Unfortunately, the waiting time for the latter examination is up to 4 months! Going private is an option but it costs over £1,000 - money that I have but don’t want to spend when I pay taxes and am entitled to free health care.

In an attempt to take my mind off things, I have been building sites continously. I need to let them mature and that means leaving them for a few months. You can’t expect a new site with a brand new domain name to rank well immediately, you need to let things age a little. So, I’m turning my efforts back to my bigger sites and recruiting freelancers to add more content. The hard part here is finding local writers with good knowledge, e.g. a writer in London who has knowledge of local nightclubs. Does anyone have any good sites? My friend recommended Guru.com so I might give them a try.

In other, offline news, my cleaning company, Edinburgh Clean is doing well. We’ve got a few clients and things are building up slowly but surely. I’m looking at expanding into other domestic and commercial services but I need to research this more. I’m a firm believer in not putting all your eggs in one basket hence I invest both on and offline.

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

I’ll be visiting London again with my work which means I’ll be from my sites for the next 72 hours almost. Surprisingly no-one has submitted any SEO suggestions for my previous post…come on folks!

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

Blogs seem to pay off in the long run. Quite a few successful sites are blogs or some form of content management system (CMS). The immediate benefits are that WordPress is setup in a few clicks, you can add useful plugins to improve your SEO and it is extremely easy to rank in the SERP’s using a blog (if you do it correctly!).

OffBeatInk.com is doing well and my unique, daily content is getting GoogleBot hitting my site close to 4,000 times this month! That’s probably the highest I have ever seen on any site I’ve run…and that can’t be a bad thing! Search engines love unique content that is keyword rich and website relevant (all my posts are about bodyart, nothing else - no paid reviews of anything like that).

As a result of the minor yet profitable success of the site, I’ve decided to continue my trend and make a small blog network with fresh daily content. I have one new site that is online but I still need to add a few more posts before revealing it to you. If I can do one post in 15 minutes and have 4 blogs each generating $5 per day, that’s $20 for one hour of my time…no bad.

Long term I’d want that to be a lot higher and there will be occasions when one site will require more work than another but the beautiful thing about it is that, no matter how big or small the site is, one post per day works. So, if OffBeatInk.com began bringing in 10x the amount of visitors and 5x the amount of revenue…my 15 minutes work would still stand.

I would consider increasing the post length and quality to ensure the traffic and revenue increase remains stable, the theory behind it works though! What do you think?

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

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When you are bored you tend to do things you regret…especially on the web. No I’m not talking about surfing porn and getting loads of popups appearing (how do I know that?), but buying domains when the light switch suddenly goes on in my business head.

One of them I’ll definately monetize as I want a recurring income without need to update daily. With OffBeatInk.com and my future gadget site (still in the pipeline), I need to post something new every 24hrs. Although this has its advantages, it can become a headache, especially when working full time.

Some nights I won’t go to bed till after 12am. I don’t mind because I always thing of the long term gain but I couldn’t manage a handful of sites like this unless they generated enough money for my to work part time.

The new project aims to target bloggers, a market that has experienced rapid growth in recent years. With the success of dot com moguls like John Chow and Darren Rowse, blogging has evolved into a very profitable industry. I want to tap into that market by offering products that will benefit bloggers…more info soon!

Anyways, I just thought I’d tell you my plans. Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

Since I’ve been staying awake past 12am and getting around 7.5hrs sleep each night, I thought I’d give you an insight into my daily routine…

> 7.35am - Wake up

> 8.00am - Get out of bed after checking e-mails, earnings, stats and blogs.

> 8.30am - Travel to work.

> 9.00am - Arrive at work, eat cereal with a large latte.

> 9.30am - Start work.

*Break during work time*

> 1.30pm - Lunch hour, check e-mails if a communal computer is available.

> 6.30pm - Finish work.

> 7.00pm - Arrive at gym, work out for an hour then head home. If no gym then straight home.

> 7.30pm / 8.30pm - Dinner time, usually back in front of the laptop.

> 11.00pm - Start thinking of heading to bed.

> 11.30pm - Make lunch for next day, get uniform ready.

> 12.00am - Usually in bed, switching off the laptop.

…There just isn’t enough hours eh? Believe me after a few days you are nakard!

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.