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Now, what I wanted to do is see if I can make money by setting up a wordpress blog and adding PhpBay and some content. My goal is to spend as litlle money as possible in the project, no paid search or links to build traffic.

I started with a niche domain name. Since it’s an eBay affilate site I decided to buy it on eBay. I wanted a domain with a little age and not a fresh reg for SEO purposes. I also wanted a .com. I thought about a few niches and decided to pick up MotorcyclesGear.com. The domain cost me $15.52. A little more than I wanted to spend but the Motorcycle niche seems to be a good one due to the rising cost of fuel and the summer season. I could have gone with an older domain with expired traffic but my goal is to see how I can build traffic to the site.

There are plenty of places you can get free or very low cost web hosting but since I alreay have a Goaddy Linux hosting account so I used that. I pay less than six bucks a a moth for my Godaddy Linux hosting account by using discount codes. You can find the codes here. Godaddy has a neat feature that will automatically install wordpress for you so the site was live in 30 minutes. I loaded the PhpBay lite plugin and I downloaded a motorcycle wordpress theme, added the google analytics plugin and added the site to my webmaster tools. So far I have around an hour of work into the site. I added a few basic pages of the top of my head to get started along with a privacy policy. The site now looks like this motorcyclesgear.com. I’m not sure I’m happy with the theme so I’ll be looking for a new one next week.

Next week I’ll be using the free keyword tool at freekeywords.wordtracker.com to find the search terms for my pages and catagories. Then I’ll work on some link building. I’ve already added a link to some of my other sites and to my signature in my namepros.com account. The site is alreay indexed it’s time to build some traffic and add the content for my niche! I’ll be working on that next week.