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.

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