I know the secret to instant riches, and you probably do too. Rob a bank.

That’s it. There are no instant riches on the Internet. You can’t build a Web Empire working four-hours a week. You can maintain your Web Empire working four hours a week (or less), if it is well designed, but it will take years of hard effort to get to that position.

If you have a website, you have a start. If you don’t have one, then start one today. Go to wordpress.com and start a free blog. First, you might want to try this little experiment. Go to Google and type in:

site:wordpress.com blog

Now, go to those sites and check their pagerank. If you have Firefox, you can use the SeoQuake plug-in and then you won’t even have to visit the sites, it will show you the pagerank for each right on the Google results page. Right now it shows two PR6 and six PR5 on that page, not including the WordPress site itself. Then go to the second page of results. There, I’m seeing one PR7, four PR6 and several PR5 sites. Skip all the way down to page 10 of results, and we still see blogs ranging from PR4 to PR6.

Wouldn’t you like a site with PR4 or above where you can link to any other site in your Web Empire? Links like that are a valuable resource. You won’t find instant riches, but you can add the foundation stone (or another building block) to your Web Empire.