This is partly for you and partly for me, but let's do a quick recap of what I've done so far. Every week or 2 I'll do a recap so you can see where you are in relationship to me, if you've tried anything new, or if you're missing something or some way to make money online or SEO (search engine optimization).
1. Choose a niche (topic)
2. Figure out keywords for your niche - write these down. You should have long trail keywords, too. Long trail keywords are, for example if your niche is golf balls. It's going to be hard to rate on google page 1 for gold balls, so start with a long trail. How about blue golf balls. "blue gold balls" is your long trail. But don't go too far. If your long trail is "blue golfballs that double as ping pong balls" no one is going to search for that. You might rank well, but it won't matter.
3. Create a blog around your niche including a few original articles loaded with your keywords (but not too loaded) find the balance.
4. Get your website/blog indexed by google and get keyword anchors and backlinks
A. get indexed
a- yahoo answers
B. keyword anchors
b- goarticles
c- ezinearticles
d-hubpages
e- squidoo
f- any others - I listed a few others in the posts
C. Backlinks
g- connectcontent
(this is just a skeleton of what I have done - these are the main points. No two systems will be identical but this is what has been working best for me)
5. Keep track of your stats on statcounter.
6. Sign up for google adsense and affiliate sites such as clickbank, amazon associates, etc (those are the only 2 I've used so far. Next on my list is the ebay one).
7. Wait until you have a steady flow of *ORGANIC* traffic, meaning search engine traffic. I waited until I had 100 unique visitors, you should probably wait a little longer though. Then start to monetize your site.
Tip - the way I see it, the longer you wait to monetize, the better in the long run because google ranks sites that are not monetized higher than sites that are. I just wanted to go with it so I did, but I would suggest you wait a little longer than I have.
That's about it. Next time on Make Money Online for Beginners I will be talking about google adsense.
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Connectcontent review | hubpages review | Make Money Online Update
Here's an overdue update of how things are going with my one and only precious blog.
I've been distracted over our first black president but I'm back.
I want to talk a little bit about my blog, how it's doing and the ups and downs. And I want to talk about what's going on behind the scenes. On January 19th, maybe because it was a holiday but I'm not sure, I had almost no unique visitors to my blog. This got me really nervous, so I went and I answered a bunch of questions on yahoo answers. I posted articles on goarticle and ezine. I also joined a hub network called hubpages (google it, I'm not providing the link). I used connectcontent. I went back and edited some of my posts for better search engive optimization (SEO). I will got through this step by step and show you the results after.
Connectcontent
I think I've mentioned this program already but I urge you to go out an purchase a membership. It's great for beginners because it is easy to use and inexpensive compared to the other programs out there. The man behind it, RT, is very helpful and responds to you very quickly. I'm very satisfied. Within 12 hours of purchasing a membership I had received 6 backlinks. I know I said I wouldn't sell thing here, but a girls got to eat and I don't feel bad putting an affiliate like in here or there. Oh yeah, once you join connectcontent, you can become an affiliate member and when someone clicks on the link you provide, you make commission. So if you are planning on joining Connect Content please use this link to show some appreciation to me.
Thanks :)
Yahoo Answers
Pretty simple. Answer some questions with a unique 100 word or so paragraph. Include a link to your blog. I get tons of traffic from yahoo answers. Simple really - someone googles a question like "when is the next season of ANTM on" the first thing that pops up on google page one is the yahoo answers page. TONS of TRAFFIC. I'm serious. This is a money maker. Warning to you though - this is what happened to me when I started using yahoo answers the first time (I was pretty stupid, don't be as stupid as me). I found that there were a dozen questions asking the same exact thing. So I copied and pasted the same answer a dozen times. My account was suspened and then banned. I had to open a new account. My advice is that if you're serious about making money online, take the extra 2 minutes and write an original answer.
Goarticles and Ezine articles
You know what these are. Go post your articles on them. Make sure they're original, use the same keywords, and have a keyword anchor link to your blog. Piece of cake. Making money online is easy, huh? Not quite.
Hubpages Review
Great website which allows you to create a hub. A hub is a webpage. You more or less write articles (or rewrite your original articles) choose a topic or a niche. What makes this site unique is that you can monetize your hub. You can put adsense on there and certain afiliate sites. So while you're waiting for your blog to be indexed and get some decent traffic flowing, you can test out the water and use hubpages to see what works and what doesn't.
Also, as a sidenote I downloaded the SEO plugin for firefox (for those of you who use firefox). It gives you easy access to information such as pagerank, keyword density, and how many backlinks a webpage has. Basically, it allows you to gage your competition for a keyword/niche.
Another side note, as soon as I start up a few more blogs, I'm going to try out linkvana which is a bit more expensive which is why I'm waiting. I have to make sure it's worth it, and it will only be worth it if it can pay for itself. And it will only be able to pay for itself if I gain a little more experience and confidence in this.
Now back to my blog. So After I did all these things - hubpages, connectcontect, articles, etc. My unique visitors started returning.
To be specific - monday I had 22
Tuesday I had 64
Wednesday it dropped back down to 56
And today .... 100! On the dot and today isn't even over yet!
I finally monetized my site today. I put on google adsense which may not have been the brightest idea but I'm ambitious and willing to take a risk. Plus, since it's my only blog I have adsense on, I'm not at risk for damaging my earnings from other sites.
I'll let you know how week one goes with the monetized site.
Next post I will talk a little more about adsense, what it is, what I have learned so far, how to use it, how not to use it, how to make money with adsense, and the dangers in using it.
Please feel free to ask questions, I'm always afraid I'm not explaining myself well. Everyday I'm learning a lot about this whole making money blogging thing and sometimes I forget to talk about basics, so let me know if you have any questions about what I'm talking about. I'll get back to you as soon as I can, and if I'm not sure of the answer I'll refer you to an expert in making money online.
The reason why I think I'm a valuable resource to you is because I am you! Only a few steps ahead of you. I think like you, I talk like you.
UPDATE: remember how I was talking about getting indexed quickly by using yahoo answers. Well here's what I meant : This site, about 20 minutes ago was not indexed. If you searched for it in google with the URL search results would return nothing. This site didn't exist. I just answered a few questions on yahoo answers, and guess what - 20 minutes later (that's all it took) my site is now indexed.
Halleluyah, praise the lord.
Thanks for visiting Make money online for beginners.
I've been distracted over our first black president but I'm back.
I want to talk a little bit about my blog, how it's doing and the ups and downs. And I want to talk about what's going on behind the scenes. On January 19th, maybe because it was a holiday but I'm not sure, I had almost no unique visitors to my blog. This got me really nervous, so I went and I answered a bunch of questions on yahoo answers. I posted articles on goarticle and ezine. I also joined a hub network called hubpages (google it, I'm not providing the link). I used connectcontent. I went back and edited some of my posts for better search engive optimization (SEO). I will got through this step by step and show you the results after.
Connectcontent
I think I've mentioned this program already but I urge you to go out an purchase a membership. It's great for beginners because it is easy to use and inexpensive compared to the other programs out there. The man behind it, RT, is very helpful and responds to you very quickly. I'm very satisfied. Within 12 hours of purchasing a membership I had received 6 backlinks. I know I said I wouldn't sell thing here, but a girls got to eat and I don't feel bad putting an affiliate like in here or there. Oh yeah, once you join connectcontent, you can become an affiliate member and when someone clicks on the link you provide, you make commission. So if you are planning on joining Connect Content please use this link to show some appreciation to me.
Thanks :)
Yahoo Answers
Pretty simple. Answer some questions with a unique 100 word or so paragraph. Include a link to your blog. I get tons of traffic from yahoo answers. Simple really - someone googles a question like "when is the next season of ANTM on" the first thing that pops up on google page one is the yahoo answers page. TONS of TRAFFIC. I'm serious. This is a money maker. Warning to you though - this is what happened to me when I started using yahoo answers the first time (I was pretty stupid, don't be as stupid as me). I found that there were a dozen questions asking the same exact thing. So I copied and pasted the same answer a dozen times. My account was suspened and then banned. I had to open a new account. My advice is that if you're serious about making money online, take the extra 2 minutes and write an original answer.
Goarticles and Ezine articles
You know what these are. Go post your articles on them. Make sure they're original, use the same keywords, and have a keyword anchor link to your blog. Piece of cake. Making money online is easy, huh? Not quite.
Hubpages Review
Great website which allows you to create a hub. A hub is a webpage. You more or less write articles (or rewrite your original articles) choose a topic or a niche. What makes this site unique is that you can monetize your hub. You can put adsense on there and certain afiliate sites. So while you're waiting for your blog to be indexed and get some decent traffic flowing, you can test out the water and use hubpages to see what works and what doesn't.
Also, as a sidenote I downloaded the SEO plugin for firefox (for those of you who use firefox). It gives you easy access to information such as pagerank, keyword density, and how many backlinks a webpage has. Basically, it allows you to gage your competition for a keyword/niche.
Another side note, as soon as I start up a few more blogs, I'm going to try out linkvana which is a bit more expensive which is why I'm waiting. I have to make sure it's worth it, and it will only be worth it if it can pay for itself. And it will only be able to pay for itself if I gain a little more experience and confidence in this.
Now back to my blog. So After I did all these things - hubpages, connectcontect, articles, etc. My unique visitors started returning.
To be specific - monday I had 22
Tuesday I had 64
Wednesday it dropped back down to 56
And today .... 100! On the dot and today isn't even over yet!
I finally monetized my site today. I put on google adsense which may not have been the brightest idea but I'm ambitious and willing to take a risk. Plus, since it's my only blog I have adsense on, I'm not at risk for damaging my earnings from other sites.
I'll let you know how week one goes with the monetized site.
Next post I will talk a little more about adsense, what it is, what I have learned so far, how to use it, how not to use it, how to make money with adsense, and the dangers in using it.
Please feel free to ask questions, I'm always afraid I'm not explaining myself well. Everyday I'm learning a lot about this whole making money blogging thing and sometimes I forget to talk about basics, so let me know if you have any questions about what I'm talking about. I'll get back to you as soon as I can, and if I'm not sure of the answer I'll refer you to an expert in making money online.
The reason why I think I'm a valuable resource to you is because I am you! Only a few steps ahead of you. I think like you, I talk like you.
UPDATE: remember how I was talking about getting indexed quickly by using yahoo answers. Well here's what I meant : This site, about 20 minutes ago was not indexed. If you searched for it in google with the URL search results would return nothing. This site didn't exist. I just answered a few questions on yahoo answers, and guess what - 20 minutes later (that's all it took) my site is now indexed.
Halleluyah, praise the lord.
Thanks for visiting Make money online for beginners.
Sunday, 18 January 2009
Update|Making Money By Blogging|yahoo answers
I just wanted to update you on how it's going with my blog. Yesterday I had 61 unique visitors, which was more than double what I had the day before. Today, so far, I've had 52. The day isn't over yet but I'm kind of down since this is the first day it has decreased. Hopefully the next few hours will bring lots of visitors.
I'm going to talk about how to get your blog/website indexed almost immediately by google.
Two words: Yahoo Answers.
Yahoo answers PR (page rank) is an 8, which means that Google crawls it constantly. Look for a question on yahoo answers and answer it. Include your link to your blog or website. This well get it indexed fast, but better than that, it will get it a ton of traffic. When you google a question, chance are someone has asked that question on yahoo answers, and one of the first items listed on google will be the yahoo answers page.
Also, submit articles to sites such as squidoo, netscape (propeller), goarticles, and ezine articles. Rewrite them but use the same keywords. Create a keyword anchor link in the article. This will get you traffic and you will move up on google.
Now I want to talk a little about connectcontent, the backlink program I just starting using yesterday. It is amazing. It does what other backlink networks do for a fraction of the cost. I strongly urge you to invest in this.
In other news, my blog is starting to show up for a few keywords. Sure, the keywords it's showing up for are long and obscure but I dont care because I'm taking it one day at a time.
Come back soon for more news on how to make money blogging for beginners.
UPDATE: If you google America's Next Top Model Cycle 12 I'm on page 8 - that's the top 80 sites for that keyword out of over 252,000. If you google it with quotes around it I'm on page 4, and I have a goarticles article in the number 11 spot. I know that the search keyword is really long, I figure that the new season of the show is starting in a few months. It's a popular show and a lot of people are waiting for it. The close it gets, the more traffic it gets. So I'm getting a head start.
Why am I telling you this? For two reasons. First off, I'm bragging. It's silly, but I'm proud that I was able to do this. Second of all (and of more interst to you) I want to show you that if you're persistent you will be able to do this.
Thanks for reasing make money online for beginners.
I'm going to talk about how to get your blog/website indexed almost immediately by google.
Two words: Yahoo Answers.
Yahoo answers PR (page rank) is an 8, which means that Google crawls it constantly. Look for a question on yahoo answers and answer it. Include your link to your blog or website. This well get it indexed fast, but better than that, it will get it a ton of traffic. When you google a question, chance are someone has asked that question on yahoo answers, and one of the first items listed on google will be the yahoo answers page.
Also, submit articles to sites such as squidoo, netscape (propeller), goarticles, and ezine articles. Rewrite them but use the same keywords. Create a keyword anchor link in the article. This will get you traffic and you will move up on google.
Now I want to talk a little about connectcontent, the backlink program I just starting using yesterday. It is amazing. It does what other backlink networks do for a fraction of the cost. I strongly urge you to invest in this.
In other news, my blog is starting to show up for a few keywords. Sure, the keywords it's showing up for are long and obscure but I dont care because I'm taking it one day at a time.
Come back soon for more news on how to make money blogging for beginners.
UPDATE: If you google America's Next Top Model Cycle 12 I'm on page 8 - that's the top 80 sites for that keyword out of over 252,000. If you google it with quotes around it I'm on page 4, and I have a goarticles article in the number 11 spot. I know that the search keyword is really long, I figure that the new season of the show is starting in a few months. It's a popular show and a lot of people are waiting for it. The close it gets, the more traffic it gets. So I'm getting a head start.
Why am I telling you this? For two reasons. First off, I'm bragging. It's silly, but I'm proud that I was able to do this. Second of all (and of more interst to you) I want to show you that if you're persistent you will be able to do this.
Thanks for reasing make money online for beginners.
Saturday, 17 January 2009
Someone Used a Search Enginge And Found My Blog!
I have to run, so I won't be able to talk about this in detail. But today someone did a search for "ANTM season 12 january" and my blog was on the first page of google! Woohoo!
I don't know what my blog has to do with January, nor do I care. That's the first person who has found my blog using google's search engine, and I'm psyched. 1st page!
I'll write more on this later, and on a few other things.
Thanks for reading How to Make Money Online for Beginners.
Well I wanted to come back and explain and elaborate on a few things. Since my last post, I haven't really done anything new to my blog. The exciting news (there's a lot of exciting news) is that everyday since I created my blog it has been getting more and more traffic and more and more unique users.
Here's the stats:
Tuesday it had 8 unique users
Wednesday it had 13
Thursday it had 26
Friday it had 34
and today (Saturday) it's had 51 so far. This is good news! Today isn't even over yet!
I just googled "americas next top model obsessed" which is the name of my blog, as well as the name of a new show on the oxygen network, and my blog is in the number 10 spot on the first page of google. Sorry to gloat, I'm just excited. Plus this should prove to you that if you are willing to put in some time and effort from the getgo, things should pick up pretty quickly.
Here are the keywords I want to rank well on:
America's Next Top Model
America's Next Top Model Cycle 12
ANTM
Tyra Banks
If you google "ANTM cycle 12 blog" I am also on googles first page for that keyword. So I'm getting there, slowly but surely. And this gives me hope and motivates me to keep going.
While I have your attention I want to share a few tips.
This one is really good: When you're creating a Niche blog, don't be afraid to get specific. Niche blogs are often time based. You'll have a ton of traffic when your niche is really hot and then it will slow down when it cools off. If you make a blog about fashion in general, it's going to be really difficult to compete with other websites/blogs about fashion. A lot of people dedicate their time to serious blogs about fashion, while you are making a blog really just to make money. So it will be more difficult for you to rank high, beause you'll be competing with the best of the best.
But if you were to, say, make a blog about boat shoes (those are really in style right now) you would be competing with less people and you would make it to the top quicker.
To add on to this tip, I have another tip. Let's say you decide to make a blog about boat shoes. You need to do some research and pretend you are the person who is searching google for boat shoes. What would you search? There are 2 main brands of boat shoes. There are Sperry Top Siders and Sebago Docksides. People are very likely to be searching by brand name rather than the key word boat shoes.
Another example - let's say it's 2006 and the move The Pursuit of Happiness with Will Smith is about to come out. This is a big movie, it's a biopic and your intuition tells you that a lot of people are going to see this movie. So you make a blog about it because when people see a movie based on a real story, a lot of them are going to come home and find out a little bit more. What better place to do that than online. So what are you going to call your blog? The Pursuit of Happiness? Picture this, you go and see the movie. This movie is a true story about a man called Christopher Gardner. You like the movie, you return home, you want to find out more. What are you going to search? You're going to search Christopher Gardner. So that should be where you focus.
Here's a program that I just signed up for. It does cost money but it's cheap and worth it. The thing I haven't been able to properly do for my new blog is get meaningful one way backlinks. This is a very important step to getting search engine traffic. I was turned on to a program called "connectcontent" which is basically a site you pay $12 a month for or $120 a year, and you log on and give away backlinks and other people give you backlinks. The way it works is as follows:
You become a member of the site. The only rule is you have to give away the same amount or more backlinks as you get (being in the positive). You post your anhor keyword, URL, and title. Viola! It's a good site run by a good man and if you are having trouble getting backlinks I urge you to join. The more people who join the site, the better it is for everyone, and programs like these are often very pricey.
Well, that's all for now.
Come back soon for more how I'm making money by blogging.
I don't know what my blog has to do with January, nor do I care. That's the first person who has found my blog using google's search engine, and I'm psyched. 1st page!
I'll write more on this later, and on a few other things.
Thanks for reading How to Make Money Online for Beginners.
Well I wanted to come back and explain and elaborate on a few things. Since my last post, I haven't really done anything new to my blog. The exciting news (there's a lot of exciting news) is that everyday since I created my blog it has been getting more and more traffic and more and more unique users.
Here's the stats:
Tuesday it had 8 unique users
Wednesday it had 13
Thursday it had 26
Friday it had 34
and today (Saturday) it's had 51 so far. This is good news! Today isn't even over yet!
I just googled "americas next top model obsessed" which is the name of my blog, as well as the name of a new show on the oxygen network, and my blog is in the number 10 spot on the first page of google. Sorry to gloat, I'm just excited. Plus this should prove to you that if you are willing to put in some time and effort from the getgo, things should pick up pretty quickly.
Here are the keywords I want to rank well on:
America's Next Top Model
America's Next Top Model Cycle 12
ANTM
Tyra Banks
If you google "ANTM cycle 12 blog" I am also on googles first page for that keyword. So I'm getting there, slowly but surely. And this gives me hope and motivates me to keep going.
While I have your attention I want to share a few tips.
This one is really good: When you're creating a Niche blog, don't be afraid to get specific. Niche blogs are often time based. You'll have a ton of traffic when your niche is really hot and then it will slow down when it cools off. If you make a blog about fashion in general, it's going to be really difficult to compete with other websites/blogs about fashion. A lot of people dedicate their time to serious blogs about fashion, while you are making a blog really just to make money. So it will be more difficult for you to rank high, beause you'll be competing with the best of the best.
But if you were to, say, make a blog about boat shoes (those are really in style right now) you would be competing with less people and you would make it to the top quicker.
To add on to this tip, I have another tip. Let's say you decide to make a blog about boat shoes. You need to do some research and pretend you are the person who is searching google for boat shoes. What would you search? There are 2 main brands of boat shoes. There are Sperry Top Siders and Sebago Docksides. People are very likely to be searching by brand name rather than the key word boat shoes.
Another example - let's say it's 2006 and the move The Pursuit of Happiness with Will Smith is about to come out. This is a big movie, it's a biopic and your intuition tells you that a lot of people are going to see this movie. So you make a blog about it because when people see a movie based on a real story, a lot of them are going to come home and find out a little bit more. What better place to do that than online. So what are you going to call your blog? The Pursuit of Happiness? Picture this, you go and see the movie. This movie is a true story about a man called Christopher Gardner. You like the movie, you return home, you want to find out more. What are you going to search? You're going to search Christopher Gardner. So that should be where you focus.
Here's a program that I just signed up for. It does cost money but it's cheap and worth it. The thing I haven't been able to properly do for my new blog is get meaningful one way backlinks. This is a very important step to getting search engine traffic. I was turned on to a program called "connectcontent" which is basically a site you pay $12 a month for or $120 a year, and you log on and give away backlinks and other people give you backlinks. The way it works is as follows:
You become a member of the site. The only rule is you have to give away the same amount or more backlinks as you get (being in the positive). You post your anhor keyword, URL, and title. Viola! It's a good site run by a good man and if you are having trouble getting backlinks I urge you to join. The more people who join the site, the better it is for everyone, and programs like these are often very pricey.
Well, that's all for now.
Come back soon for more how I'm making money by blogging.
Friday, 16 January 2009
Step One - Make Money Make a Blog
So today, day one of making money online, I will explain what I spent the last 2 days doing to get started.
First I made a blog, which is easy to do. Go to blogger.com and follow their simple instructions.
The kind of blogs I will be making are niche blogs, which are basically blogs that have a "niche", or a distinctive topic that has keywords. These blogs often grab onto a topic that is really hot at the moment, and then it kind of cools off. Pick a topic that you think is hot right now.
Here's what I did. When I think hot, I think celebrities, movies, TV, fashion. So I remembered reading a month ago about a new America's Next Top Model program on Oxygen. I also remembered that Tyra Banks has a new show, and that a new season of America's Next Top Model is about to air. So I decided to go with that. It's easy to write about, and has easy keywords like "model" "tyra banks" "photos" "celebrity" and when your niche has good keywords it means that advertisers are going to have ads to put up, and this is how you make money.
Let's rewind for a minute. ADSENSE. This is what we are building our blogs around. Google adsense. It is a program run by google which places ads on your blog or website. Everytime an add is clicked, you make money. Google uses keywords it find on your website or blog and that's how it knows which adsense ads to put on your blog.
Okay, now let's pik up where we left off. You just chose a niche. Mine is America's Next Top Model. Yours is something else. You are making a blog, you go to blogger.com and you follow their instructions. You MUST use your keywords in the url address AND in the title of your blog AND in the description. Let's pretend your name is Gary and your blog is about food. If your URL is "garysfavoritethings.blogspot.com" and your title is "Gary's Favorite Things", google won't know what your blog is about and will put public service announcements on your blog instead of ads, and you won't make any money that way. For detailed instructions on how to set up a blog, go to Make Money For Beginners. This is a very useful site I'm using. My only problem is the guy, Grizzly, who writes this blog is alreday making money. So his advice (which is extremely valuable) sometimes doesn't explain the process. But it is an excellent resource nonetheless.
Back to the point though, so now you have your blog set up. So start writing articles. And remember to use your keyword A LOT. But not too much because then google will get mad and not index your site.
Index your site? What does that mean?
Basically, this is what you want: You have a niche site with a bunch of unique articles (articles that you wrote and didn't copy and paste) and you have ads on the site and people click on them and you get paid. But how do you get people to click on your ads. You need traffic!
You need to get your site indexed by google. Once it is indexed then when people search for the keywords that you use, your site will come up and they will click on it and so on. But it's not that simple. Getting your site indexed is a good start, but for any given keyword there are usually thousands of sites. So you need to beat those sites by getting a better page rank then all of them. And I will explain how to get a page rank later (when I do it).
Right now I'm going to tell you how to get your site indexed, because my site is already indexed. The way I did it was I went to Yahoo! Answers and I found as many questions as possible that had to do with my niche and I answered them and included a link to my blog. My blog was indexed overnight. I also submitted my article to a few article submission sites such as goarticles.com. When you submit articles to article search engines, reword your article without changing the keywords. And make a few of the keywords in your article a link to your blog. That will provide a backlink (which I will explain later but it's the most important thing).
I'll talk a little more about adsense and then that's it for the day. So I made my blog and then I made a mistake by putting adsense on it right away. You want google to index you, and for them to index you you will want them to take you seriously. If they see adsense on a brand new blog with almost no content and little traffic, they will know you set up a blog just to make money and that is a no-no. It wil be harder to get indexed and to get a decent page rank. So do not put adsense on yet. (Do it when you have traffic coming from search engines which won't be for a little while).
But since I made the mistake of putting adsense on right away, I may as well share somethings I have learned.
The title of my blog was "America's Next Top Model Cycle 12" And I talked about cylce 12 a lot. I also talked about models a lot and tyra banks. I had a few ads on my blog about modeling, one or 2 about Tyra, and the bulk of them were about Cycling! Camping! Bicycles! Fitness!
WHAT????
Oh, big mistake. I used the word cycle all over my blog. I have since removed a lot of my uses of cycle, and I have removed adsense from my blog until I start to get some traffic. Right now I average between 25-30 unique vistors to my blog a day. That is not a lot. Once I start to see numebrs around 300 I will consider adding adsense again. How am I going to get 300? I don't know yet. But as soon as I find out I will tell you.
But the point of me telling you my brief encounter with adsense was to warn you to be careful about which keywords you choose. There is special keyword software, I'm not using it as most of it is expensive. Once I start to make money I will start to invest money.
A few other quick tips before I leave - make your blog ugly and boring! You want people to leave your site. There are 2 ways for them to leave, by clicking ads or by clicking back. The less people want to stay on your site the more they will click away.
Also, in order to know how many visitors you have on your site, you need to use a program called statcounter which you can find at www.statcounter.com. It's free and simple to use and set up, they explain it to you.
Well I'll post again soon. Until then, thank for visiting me and learning how to make money online with me.
First I made a blog, which is easy to do. Go to blogger.com and follow their simple instructions.
The kind of blogs I will be making are niche blogs, which are basically blogs that have a "niche", or a distinctive topic that has keywords. These blogs often grab onto a topic that is really hot at the moment, and then it kind of cools off. Pick a topic that you think is hot right now.
Here's what I did. When I think hot, I think celebrities, movies, TV, fashion. So I remembered reading a month ago about a new America's Next Top Model program on Oxygen. I also remembered that Tyra Banks has a new show, and that a new season of America's Next Top Model is about to air. So I decided to go with that. It's easy to write about, and has easy keywords like "model" "tyra banks" "photos" "celebrity" and when your niche has good keywords it means that advertisers are going to have ads to put up, and this is how you make money.
Let's rewind for a minute. ADSENSE. This is what we are building our blogs around. Google adsense. It is a program run by google which places ads on your blog or website. Everytime an add is clicked, you make money. Google uses keywords it find on your website or blog and that's how it knows which adsense ads to put on your blog.
Okay, now let's pik up where we left off. You just chose a niche. Mine is America's Next Top Model. Yours is something else. You are making a blog, you go to blogger.com and you follow their instructions. You MUST use your keywords in the url address AND in the title of your blog AND in the description. Let's pretend your name is Gary and your blog is about food. If your URL is "garysfavoritethings.blogspot.com" and your title is "Gary's Favorite Things", google won't know what your blog is about and will put public service announcements on your blog instead of ads, and you won't make any money that way. For detailed instructions on how to set up a blog, go to Make Money For Beginners. This is a very useful site I'm using. My only problem is the guy, Grizzly, who writes this blog is alreday making money. So his advice (which is extremely valuable) sometimes doesn't explain the process. But it is an excellent resource nonetheless.
Back to the point though, so now you have your blog set up. So start writing articles. And remember to use your keyword A LOT. But not too much because then google will get mad and not index your site.
Index your site? What does that mean?
Basically, this is what you want: You have a niche site with a bunch of unique articles (articles that you wrote and didn't copy and paste) and you have ads on the site and people click on them and you get paid. But how do you get people to click on your ads. You need traffic!
You need to get your site indexed by google. Once it is indexed then when people search for the keywords that you use, your site will come up and they will click on it and so on. But it's not that simple. Getting your site indexed is a good start, but for any given keyword there are usually thousands of sites. So you need to beat those sites by getting a better page rank then all of them. And I will explain how to get a page rank later (when I do it).
Right now I'm going to tell you how to get your site indexed, because my site is already indexed. The way I did it was I went to Yahoo! Answers and I found as many questions as possible that had to do with my niche and I answered them and included a link to my blog. My blog was indexed overnight. I also submitted my article to a few article submission sites such as goarticles.com. When you submit articles to article search engines, reword your article without changing the keywords. And make a few of the keywords in your article a link to your blog. That will provide a backlink (which I will explain later but it's the most important thing).
I'll talk a little more about adsense and then that's it for the day. So I made my blog and then I made a mistake by putting adsense on it right away. You want google to index you, and for them to index you you will want them to take you seriously. If they see adsense on a brand new blog with almost no content and little traffic, they will know you set up a blog just to make money and that is a no-no. It wil be harder to get indexed and to get a decent page rank. So do not put adsense on yet. (Do it when you have traffic coming from search engines which won't be for a little while).
But since I made the mistake of putting adsense on right away, I may as well share somethings I have learned.
The title of my blog was "America's Next Top Model Cycle 12" And I talked about cylce 12 a lot. I also talked about models a lot and tyra banks. I had a few ads on my blog about modeling, one or 2 about Tyra, and the bulk of them were about Cycling! Camping! Bicycles! Fitness!
WHAT????
Oh, big mistake. I used the word cycle all over my blog. I have since removed a lot of my uses of cycle, and I have removed adsense from my blog until I start to get some traffic. Right now I average between 25-30 unique vistors to my blog a day. That is not a lot. Once I start to see numebrs around 300 I will consider adding adsense again. How am I going to get 300? I don't know yet. But as soon as I find out I will tell you.
But the point of me telling you my brief encounter with adsense was to warn you to be careful about which keywords you choose. There is special keyword software, I'm not using it as most of it is expensive. Once I start to make money I will start to invest money.
A few other quick tips before I leave - make your blog ugly and boring! You want people to leave your site. There are 2 ways for them to leave, by clicking ads or by clicking back. The less people want to stay on your site the more they will click away.
Also, in order to know how many visitors you have on your site, you need to use a program called statcounter which you can find at www.statcounter.com. It's free and simple to use and set up, they explain it to you.
Well I'll post again soon. Until then, thank for visiting me and learning how to make money online with me.
Make Money Online for Beginners
Welcome to Make Money Online for Beginners.
You may be wondering how this make money blog is different than any of the other tens of thousands of make money blogs out there.
Well it is, and I will tell you why. First of all, I'm not going to try to sell you anything on this blog. I work for myself, and I don't want to sell you any ebooks or special programs to make money online (at least not yet). And I'm not going to promise you that you can get rich quick.
The big difference, however, between this make money blog and other make money blogs is that so far I have made only 20 cents working online.
So now you may ask: why do I want to read a blog about making money online written by someone who obviously doesn't know how to make money online.
Good question.
Here's the answer. I have been searching for some free instruction on how to get started making money online by blogging, and so far I have come across a small handful of websites and blogs written by people who have been very successful in this field. They have been helpful and informative but there's been this problem:
They tell you how they became successful and how you can do it. But they have already gone through this process and to a certain extent they can't relate to what you (and I) are going through.
So here's what I'm proposing: we go through this process together. We learn how to make money online from scratch. I will update often about what I'm doing, what I'm trying out, what is working and what is not. You will post comments or send me emails of what you are trying out and if it's working or not working. This blog won't only tell you the ways in which to make money online. It will do better. It will tell you the process.
I'm determined to make money off of blogging and I know it's possible. So here is an invitation to you, to jump in my boat with me and look the storm in the eye.
Today, January 16 2009 is the first day of the rest of our lives. We will learn how to do this, and we will succeed.
Thanks for joining me to make money online. Welcome aboard.
You may be wondering how this make money blog is different than any of the other tens of thousands of make money blogs out there.
Well it is, and I will tell you why. First of all, I'm not going to try to sell you anything on this blog. I work for myself, and I don't want to sell you any ebooks or special programs to make money online (at least not yet). And I'm not going to promise you that you can get rich quick.
The big difference, however, between this make money blog and other make money blogs is that so far I have made only 20 cents working online.
So now you may ask: why do I want to read a blog about making money online written by someone who obviously doesn't know how to make money online.
Good question.
Here's the answer. I have been searching for some free instruction on how to get started making money online by blogging, and so far I have come across a small handful of websites and blogs written by people who have been very successful in this field. They have been helpful and informative but there's been this problem:
They tell you how they became successful and how you can do it. But they have already gone through this process and to a certain extent they can't relate to what you (and I) are going through.
So here's what I'm proposing: we go through this process together. We learn how to make money online from scratch. I will update often about what I'm doing, what I'm trying out, what is working and what is not. You will post comments or send me emails of what you are trying out and if it's working or not working. This blog won't only tell you the ways in which to make money online. It will do better. It will tell you the process.
I'm determined to make money off of blogging and I know it's possible. So here is an invitation to you, to jump in my boat with me and look the storm in the eye.
Today, January 16 2009 is the first day of the rest of our lives. We will learn how to do this, and we will succeed.
Thanks for joining me to make money online. Welcome aboard.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)