They Called It A “Miracle”
A few years ago my good friend John Reese (of Traffic Secrets fame), coined a phrase… “Virtual Real Estate”
The idea is that you can buy a few domains for really cheap, put simple websites on them that can generate a passive, ongoing income.
Let’s be clear. We’re not talking about building sites with super long sales pages, tons of fancy graphics, or anything like that.
Instead these would be “point and shoot” websites that you could put up and earn money through affiliate programs, or Google’s AdSense, basically whatever you wanted to plug in would earn you a handsome profit.
John’s a great guy… I respect him a lot. In this case I think he was a visionary because at the time there wasn’t any software that could easily do what he was talking about.
Then all of a sudden there was a flood of software that came on the market… and I think bought pretty much every single one of ‘em in a quest to fulfill my VRE dream!
The problem was it was all crap. There were actually a lot of problems to be honest.
…The sites were hideous looking.
…There was still tons of “techie” configuration stuff you had to do
…All the sites were secretly embedded with someone else’s affiliate links
…some of them just plain didn’t work
…and others required stuff like MySQL databases, cron jobs, and other stuff
In the end, it was still too much work and I got so frustrated I decided to make something myself that would overcome all those limitations.
So I took a step back, did some research, and tried a few different things. Something I noticed was my blogs would get indexed REALLY quickly, but my VRE sites would just sit there.
But as I already mentioned above, blogs can be a big hassle.
Then it hit me like a ton of bricks – what if I made some flat sites, with no back-end, that looked like a WordPress blog?
I could load them up with AdSense using the knowledge I had already gained about ad placement and clickthrough, then I could pile on Amazon Associate links, eBay Partner Network feeds, ClickBank affiliate ads, put my own articles in there, and fill the rest of the content with keyword-specific feeds from around the web?
Well I did just that — and it worked.
I had unwittingly stumbled upon a way to launch sites that earn a consistent monthly income… but updating just a single file!
