This post inspired Empress and myself to start thinking about systems. For instance:

Can you create a page that earns just .15 cents per day?

Yes? Oh really, well, what are the variables that go into the page to create those results? (my email is in the banner ;-)

If I knew those variables I could duplicate my efforts, I sadly don’t know them, yet.

But if I did know them, I could create 100 pages that earned .15 cents per day and make $5475 per year on the effort (.15 X 100 X 365).

Or create 400 pages with the “system” and make $21,900 per year (.15 X 400 X 365).

All with the knowledge of how to make a page earn .15 cents per day, or the collective of pages to average .15 per day.

I do know how to make stupid content though, pick a good topic, write like hell, and hope something sticks. Here’s why my content is stupid:

I averaged roughly $10 per day this month. My guesstimate of pages I have running adsense is 1250. Here’s the math on how much each page I have earns per day:

$10 divided by 1250 = .008

Every page of content I add to the internet ads less than a penny to my total earnings for every future day ($2.92 per year).

Downside: That is writing stupid content, and tons of it is needed to make money.

Upside: If my earnings stay the same per page, I know exactly what it takes to achieve financial goals.

For instance to earn $50 per day, I just need to write 6250 posts (.008 X 6250 = $50). I’m already 20% there, so to get to my goal I’m just short 5000 more posts!

Like I said, that is stupid content. Maybe I’ll just write like mad until I get 5000 more, maybe not.

Here’s an example of smart content. Once again I don’t know what the variables are to create pages like this, so this is my perception of writing the right content in the right places on the right subjects:

“He started off with about a 20 page website about a month ago and right now it has about 40 pages indexed in Google. Yesterday the site brought in about $40 in AdSense earnings (which is not a lot, but the site is young). Within 2 months I expect the site to be able to make at least $200 a day.”