There are people out there who make money off blogs, and loads of it. This isn’t a surprise to many, but content really does pay you off in the end. You can have all the search engine optimization tricks done to your page, have thousands of links pointing to your sites through link exchanges and have a killer layout… but all this won’t mean a thing if you don’t have good, original content. The SEO game has been getting tougher and tougher each time the search engines do an update, as they want to make webmasters work hard to receive a ranking.

This week, I will be telling my brother and my friends how to startup blogs and make a bit of coin off of ’em. I will also plan out a new site dedicated to making money off blogs… an experiment in the works.

Lately, I’ve had the urge to spend more time on the web researching trends, brands and keywords. Just now, I registered 20-something domains on GoDaddy, hoping that one day I’ll make use of them or sell them to someone. A lot of them appear to be junk to most people, but in my eyes they’ll be worth something soon. I think they’re perfect for branding your sites, actually. How? Here’s an example: your site deals with a certain subject, and your users seem to love your site. How do you think they’ll remember your site? Bookmarking sites these day is pretty much history (pun!). How will they remember it? Easy. They’ll go up to their friend and ask them, “Do you remember that site dealing with product X… oh yeah, thatPRODUCTXsite.com!”. Bingo! So you’re running an entertainment site… ThatEntertainmentSite.com! What about that gamer’s site? ThatGamerSite.com! Or that lyrics site; ThatLyricsSite.com! There you go. Now, this may be the most moronic idea ever, but I’m sure someone will like it. We’ll see how this idea goes.