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July 16th, 2009 
QuadsZilla Three more questions from the Grab bag: This First question was asked a couple of times:
“How do you manage your working time, can you give numbers for the different levels?”
Outsourcing and hiring people has become a more normal part of my operation. Many of the people I know who do web stuff on any kind of scale get employees and/ or outsource. For me, launching or revamping a white hat site is what takes the bulk of the time. I really enjoy getting new projects off the ground; and enjoy the day to day grind that comes after that initial rush much less than the thrill of attacking a new problem.
“I assume the bottom 2 layers are auto-generated over time – does the same go for the authority/niche sites?”
95% of the work for the bottom 2 levels is automated. The content is from databases, rss feeds, scraping, and mixing algorithms like the markov chain. For the top two layers, it will vary greatly from project to project.
“And how many people work on the pyramid you described above?”
I don’t know how many people work on these types of pyramids. At least one person thinks they invented the whole idea and complains when anyone else writes about it.
Brad did a great post last week that included a diagram of how these pyramids work and I personally know at least a couple of dozen people that use similar tactics (plus, he used the Term “Money Sites” – CALL THE COPYRIGHT LAWYERS!). These pyramids do scale downwards and not everyone is (legitimately) trying to rank for the most competitive terms.
Please – keep the questions coming. It makes it easier to do blog posts 
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When you say there is no “duplicate content penalty” and that most of the time the problem lies else where, where you referring explicitly to building up authority (i.e. PageRank) rather than ranking in SERPs?
Also, do you bother tracking the bottom layer sites at all or is it pretty much set and forget type stuff?
Man! I love to read your posts!
I really would love to hear how a good Expired Domain Snapper should work!
Keep it up man!
have a great day!
Does the bottom layer need to be indexed by Google? In other words, do we just need to build it? Or do we need to promote it (social bookmarking, article marketing, etc)?
How do you use the free hosting blogs? Is not possible to use scripts to make links automaticly, so how you make links to niche sites? adding manually link in every single post or just using the blogroll on sidebar?
Thanks for answering — The last question I believe, is more asking about the number of people that YOU have working on the pyramid for any new project… (5 content writers? 100??)
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