I guess I’ve been keeping busy during my lunch break thanks to a wi-fi connection and a crappy old laptop I picked up at a local computer shop.

I think I’ve just pulled the biggest website hackjob ever. I’ve thrown together another site. This time it took me no more than 15 minutes. I’ve learned to write lean code, no tables, all div’s, all laid out in CSS, nice php include files for faster updates.

Thanks to GoDaddy’s swift DNS propagation and GatorHosts’s fast nameserver setup, my little experiment was online in a little less than 30 minutes.

So what is it and what am I planning to get out of it?

It’s what Jeffrey is calling a “satellite website”, a little content farm optimized to land links from search engines. This one is called Basement Flooded. “Flooded Basement” was taken, so this was the next best thing.

No, my basement is fine. It was the first thing that popped into my head when I though of an idea for a satellite site. Why? Because people’s basements flood all the time. I figured I’d subcontract my wife to seek out some content, throw it all together in plain html, and let it sit. When someone lands on it, s/he will read a bit, then click on an ad link, and move on.

Also, when you punch in some related keywords, all that comes up are some sites with long domain names and .edu extensions. However, the advertisers seem to want to advertise basement remodeling, sump pumps, and other related stuff. Bingo! No supply, decent demand.

All I have to do now is toss some regurgitated content on the site. Once I hit 10 articles, I quit, set up scripts to change one character on the index page to keep it current for crawlers, and collect (hopefully).

This is my first bona-fide experience in affiliate marketing, so be gentle.