Well I'm finally ready to make real post. I will update you on how my blogs are doing first, and what I've learned from how they are doing.
My blogs have been left virtually untouched for a week or so now. The ANTM blog is getting less adsense clicks than it did in January (a lot less) and it turns out it's getting the same amount of traffic. What I've learned from traffic patterns so far is that weekends produce far less traffic, as do American holidays. For example, today is presidents day and my ANTM website is down to half of the weekday clicks I normally get. Maybe I'll see a rise in traffic as the new season approaches.
One of my un-indexed websites has gotten itself indexed...and then un-indexed...and then indexed...and then un-indexed...and now it's indexed again and it looks like it's for real this time. Another one of my blogs has been getting a ton (well, not a ton exactly) but compared to what it was before, it's getting a lot of google traffic. A lot of people are finding it through google images, I'm not sure why, but it's showing up on google's first page for a few longer keywords I was targeting (yay!). What I've learned from these two is that once you plant the seed you have to be patient, keep watering, and your plant will grow. The better you take care of it, the bigger it will get.
Now on to adsense. I don't remember originally what I was going to say about adsense (sorry - use it or lose it) but maybe it was one of these following things.
When choosing a niche, yes, it is important to pick something that people are interested in. But also keep in mind that you need to choose something that people might click ads for. Just something to think about.
Also, keep track of your adsense earnings. Especially when you're just starting out, I suggest you check them daily. You will start to see trends and it will help you think of ways to improve your site/adsense earnings.
I know adsense is ugly, but don't hide it on your page. Put it right on top where everyone can see it. You want them to click away from your page!
Sorry I don't have much more to report. I've been busy but I'm seriously dedicating tomorrow to getting serious backlinks. Hopefully something will happen and I'll have more to report.
For the time being, Grizzly has made a new site - adsense for beginners. Check it out. Grizzly is really helpful in everything he writes and I'm sure his new site is no exception.
UPDATE: I just realized what was happening with one of my new blogs, the one that I was getting all this google image traffic from. It's pretty cool actually. With that blog I've been targeting about 6 different keywords. The main one I've been targeting, I don't rank for yet. However, if you google the main keyword I'm targeting, and then click on images, an image from my blog is appearing as the 3rd image. I got about 25 unique hits today from that one, and around the same yesterday, which is a huge jump from the 5 I was getting over the weekend. Especially since I didn't do anything. So anway, a new idea - images.
Thanks for reading how to make money online for beginners.
Love, Kblogs
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Saturday, 14 February 2009
Money Making Update
Well, I've been busy because I just moved, so I've been falling behind on my posts and haven't been working as hard on making money online. So I thought I would update you so you can see what happens when you just leave things the way they are and put in very little effort.
Let's start with my ANTM blog. It has fallen on the SERPS (somewhere around 110) but has otherwise been getting more traffic than usual (not by a lot though). I did one quick post last week about a contestant on the upcoming season which has gotten decent traffic. For the keyword (which is her name) I rank between 1-5 on the SERPS and to my surprise, people have actually been searching for her. Yay!
Adsense earnings have remained the same, I think I'm going to try to sell some products on the site and see how I do with that. Hopefully that will amount to something.
As far as the two other blogs I started recently goes, before last week one had just gotten indexed (lets call it blog A) and the other hadn't (Blog B). Sometime last week, blog A started getting google traffic (the kind we want), which means I'm off to a good start. It's averaging about 15 unique hits a day, which is nothing and I'm not even going to think about monetizing it until I get more backlinks up. Blog B finally got indexed, but hasn't really seen much of any traffic.
So I guess what I learned from last week is that initially is when you have to put the most work in. After that, things start to work out for themselves (of course, the more work you put in, the better the results).
In other news, I kept reading on Grizzly's making money blog about making friends and having a little online community to trade backlinks, provide support, etc. I've come to realize the importance of this, and the best way to go about doing it is to comment on people's blogs. You should check out Lucky-King's Achieving Your Goals with Planning and Persistance. You'll find some good and honest information on there which should help you in managing your time and staying motivated.
I promise 8 million to write an actual post in the next few days of things I'm actually trying out.
And I promise to edit my posts so they're easier to read.
Thanks for visiting my how to make money online for beginners blog.
Love,
Kblogs
Let's start with my ANTM blog. It has fallen on the SERPS (somewhere around 110) but has otherwise been getting more traffic than usual (not by a lot though). I did one quick post last week about a contestant on the upcoming season which has gotten decent traffic. For the keyword (which is her name) I rank between 1-5 on the SERPS and to my surprise, people have actually been searching for her. Yay!
Adsense earnings have remained the same, I think I'm going to try to sell some products on the site and see how I do with that. Hopefully that will amount to something.
As far as the two other blogs I started recently goes, before last week one had just gotten indexed (lets call it blog A) and the other hadn't (Blog B). Sometime last week, blog A started getting google traffic (the kind we want), which means I'm off to a good start. It's averaging about 15 unique hits a day, which is nothing and I'm not even going to think about monetizing it until I get more backlinks up. Blog B finally got indexed, but hasn't really seen much of any traffic.
So I guess what I learned from last week is that initially is when you have to put the most work in. After that, things start to work out for themselves (of course, the more work you put in, the better the results).
In other news, I kept reading on Grizzly's making money blog about making friends and having a little online community to trade backlinks, provide support, etc. I've come to realize the importance of this, and the best way to go about doing it is to comment on people's blogs. You should check out Lucky-King's Achieving Your Goals with Planning and Persistance. You'll find some good and honest information on there which should help you in managing your time and staying motivated.
I promise 8 million to write an actual post in the next few days of things I'm actually trying out.
And I promise to edit my posts so they're easier to read.
Thanks for visiting my how to make money online for beginners blog.
Love,
Kblogs
Monday, 9 February 2009
Get Your Blog Up on The Serps
Sorry I've been slacking on my posts and all. I've been busy and I want to update you. And soon I'll have a post on Adsense like I promised. For now though I want to talk about the progress of my ANTM blog. In January the google search volume for keyword "America's Next Top Model" got over a million queries. If you search google for "America's Next Top Model" there are over 10 million sites.
I began working on my site not even a month ago. I haven't invested as much time into it as I wanted to. I'm not making a lot of money from it (around 30 adsense dollars from the past month). I'm not getting a ton of traffic (about 70-100 unique hits a day - most from google traffic).
But the big news is I just checked - if you search keyword "America's Next Top Model" my site is #72. That's right. Out of 10 million sites, mine is 72. And I'll tell you the truth - it's poorly written, ugly as hell and it exists for the soul purpose of making money.
I'm young. I don't know anything about the internet. I'm in complete shock that this crappy site I made is #72 out of 10 million. Holy cow.
Now here's an experiment I'm going to perform. Everyday for the next 30 days I'm going to get one backlink for the site and write one article for it on goarticles. (at least I'll try to!). At the end of 30 days I want to see if traffic has imporved, if adsense earnings have improved, and where it ranks in the SERPS.
In other news, I decided I hat ezine articles and won't use it anymore. I also started another new blog which has yet to be indexed (its only been a few hours!)
I think I'm getting the hang of this and starting to realize how much work is going to go into it. It's going to take probably about a year to be able to sit back and just let the dough roll in, so until then I'll have to devote some time to it. Luckily enough I'm young enough that my parents health insurance still covers me and my only responsibility is paying my rent and my taxes.
I strongly recommend you check out Grizzly's Make Money Online which is responsible for any success I've had. His site has basically been my bible for the past few weeks and will continue to be.
Wow, can you believe it? 72 out of 10 million. I just had to post it.
Thanks for reading my make money online for beginners blog!
I began working on my site not even a month ago. I haven't invested as much time into it as I wanted to. I'm not making a lot of money from it (around 30 adsense dollars from the past month). I'm not getting a ton of traffic (about 70-100 unique hits a day - most from google traffic).
But the big news is I just checked - if you search keyword "America's Next Top Model" my site is #72. That's right. Out of 10 million sites, mine is 72. And I'll tell you the truth - it's poorly written, ugly as hell and it exists for the soul purpose of making money.
I'm young. I don't know anything about the internet. I'm in complete shock that this crappy site I made is #72 out of 10 million. Holy cow.
Now here's an experiment I'm going to perform. Everyday for the next 30 days I'm going to get one backlink for the site and write one article for it on goarticles. (at least I'll try to!). At the end of 30 days I want to see if traffic has imporved, if adsense earnings have improved, and where it ranks in the SERPS.
In other news, I decided I hat ezine articles and won't use it anymore. I also started another new blog which has yet to be indexed (its only been a few hours!)
I think I'm getting the hang of this and starting to realize how much work is going to go into it. It's going to take probably about a year to be able to sit back and just let the dough roll in, so until then I'll have to devote some time to it. Luckily enough I'm young enough that my parents health insurance still covers me and my only responsibility is paying my rent and my taxes.
I strongly recommend you check out Grizzly's Make Money Online which is responsible for any success I've had. His site has basically been my bible for the past few weeks and will continue to be.
Wow, can you believe it? 72 out of 10 million. I just had to post it.
Thanks for reading my make money online for beginners blog!
Saturday, 7 February 2009
Backlinks - howt to get relevant backlinks
I know I said I was going to talk about adsense next, but before I go into that I want to share some reliable ways of getting relevant backlinks.
Backlinks are the most important thing. They get your website indexed and they help it move up on the SERPS (search engine result page). Just getting backlinks from other sites/blogs isn't good enough. They have to be the right kind of links, and I'll explain to you what separates the right kind from the wrong kind.
Here is an ideal backlink - a link to your site from another relevant site with a high PR using a keyword anchor. For example, if I needed a backlink for my ANTM site, I would want one coming from another site that had to do with ANTM (or reality TV or fashion or something relevant) and I would want the anchor keyword to be America's Next Top Model. If the link to your page just says "click here" or has the full url, it's not as valuable a backlink. And if it comes from a page that isn't relevant, say a page about fishing, Google will know and it won't move up in the serps as quickly. PR isn't as important as the link coming from a relevant blog, but will still help it move up in the serps quicker.
So how do you get backlinks?
There are a few ways which have proven to be very valuable. First of all, you can always ask for a backlink. If there's a site that you want a backlink from, email them and ask. You could always offer to pay, sometimes they'll say yes and other times they'll say no.
There are a lot of programs that are sort of newtworks for backlinks. The one I've been using, which is a new network and extremely cheap compared to the other ones out there is called ConnectContent. It is a network based on a point system. You get one positive point every time you link to someone else in the network (more if you have a high PR) and you a negative point everytime someone links to you. You're always supposed to be in the positive. You can search for unused anchor links (links that other people need) by searching through a database which is organized by category, by least used, etc. And then you report when you have used someone elses link. In my opinion, its a really great system. The person who owns it, RT, is very helpful and responsive if you have questions. It's easy to use and it really does work. I highly recommend ConnectContent.
Also by mosting articles that contain your backlink to article directories, you can get backlinks this way. You can buy
Backlinks are the most important thing. They get your website indexed and they help it move up on the SERPS (search engine result page). Just getting backlinks from other sites/blogs isn't good enough. They have to be the right kind of links, and I'll explain to you what separates the right kind from the wrong kind.
Here is an ideal backlink - a link to your site from another relevant site with a high PR using a keyword anchor. For example, if I needed a backlink for my ANTM site, I would want one coming from another site that had to do with ANTM (or reality TV or fashion or something relevant) and I would want the anchor keyword to be America's Next Top Model. If the link to your page just says "click here" or has the full url, it's not as valuable a backlink. And if it comes from a page that isn't relevant, say a page about fishing, Google will know and it won't move up in the serps as quickly. PR isn't as important as the link coming from a relevant blog, but will still help it move up in the serps quicker.
So how do you get backlinks?
There are a few ways which have proven to be very valuable. First of all, you can always ask for a backlink. If there's a site that you want a backlink from, email them and ask. You could always offer to pay, sometimes they'll say yes and other times they'll say no.
There are a lot of programs that are sort of newtworks for backlinks. The one I've been using, which is a new network and extremely cheap compared to the other ones out there is called ConnectContent. It is a network based on a point system. You get one positive point every time you link to someone else in the network (more if you have a high PR) and you a negative point everytime someone links to you. You're always supposed to be in the positive. You can search for unused anchor links (links that other people need) by searching through a database which is organized by category, by least used, etc. And then you report when you have used someone elses link. In my opinion, its a really great system. The person who owns it, RT, is very helpful and responsive if you have questions. It's easy to use and it really does work. I highly recommend ConnectContent.
Also by mosting articles that contain your backlink to article directories, you can get backlinks this way. You can buy
Thursday, 5 February 2009
Adsense, etc.
Sorry for the delay, I've been on a bit of a hiatus and not dedicating my time to my goal of making a living online. But I'm back and ready to update you, as well as talk a little but about adsense.
So since I've written last I haven't really touched my America's Next Top Model blog. I've been averaging around 70 unique visitors to my blog a day which really isn't very much, but isn't very little either. As far as my adsense earnings go I haven't made all too much. Generally I've been told to expect somewhere between 5 - 10% of uniques visitors to be clicking on adsense ads. I have about a click a week! That's nothing and at first it depressed me. I did everything right, I got traffic, I got backlinks, my page is optimized well but no one is clicking on any of google's adsense ads! Why not? Over half of the traffic I'm getting is organic (from search engines).
Well, the conclusion I've come to is that the adsense ads shown on the page all have to do with modeling. How to be a model, etc. The majority of the people visiting my page just want information about America's Next Top Model, which is why they aren't clicking on my ads even though ther are relevent! So what I've decided is that I'll keep adsense on my ANTM page until I have another page up with good organic traffic that I want to put adsense on. Then I'm going to take adsense down off of my ANTM page and I'll explain why in a few moments. But what I am going to do is start putting up some affiliate links and trying to sell a few things on the site. What kind of things you may ask.
Well the way I look at it is this : the people visiting the site are probably mostly young women, interested in things like beauty and fashion. So I'll sell things related to beauty and fashion.
In the meantime, I've started a new blog. I won't tell you my niche because I think it will potentially do really well in terms of utilizing adsense, but I put it up about a week ago and havent had much luck with it yet. It hasn't been indexed by google and I can't figure out why so it's driving me crazy! I have a few original articles on it, I've submitted original articles containing my link to article directories, and I've posted on yahoo answers a couple of times and still nothing. I guess I'm just going to have to work a little harder. It all happened so quickly with my ANTM blog so I guess I wasn't prepared for more of a fight. Over the next few weeks I want to get up at least 20 new blogs. Yes, 20. That might sound ambitious and it is, but I think that I need to commit to this if I'm going to start seeing some real results.
Back to my ANTM blog - good news is it's got a goole ranking. Sure it's a PR0, but at least it's ranked by google now. And it's useful to have blogs that are ranked even if they're not making a lot of money or getting a lot of traffic.
I'm building a farm - and what I mean by farm is that I will have blogs that make money and blogs that don't, and the blogs that don't are useful because I can use them to add backlinks to my other blogs to get them indexed and ranked faster.
Right now this blog that I'm writing on right now is indexed on google, and it's frustrating because I've done a lot more to get my new blog indexed with no success. I guess it hasn't even been a week so I have to be patient about getting my blog indexed by google. It doesn't happen overnight is the lesson I've learned, and when it does happen overnight you shouldn't start to expect it.
Well I thought I was going to be talking about google adsense, but instead I've just been updating you. I think I'll delve into google adsense tomorrow, or later on. For now I'm going to devote some time to getting that new blog indexed!
So adsense tomorrow - here at how to make money for beginners.
So since I've written last I haven't really touched my America's Next Top Model blog. I've been averaging around 70 unique visitors to my blog a day which really isn't very much, but isn't very little either. As far as my adsense earnings go I haven't made all too much. Generally I've been told to expect somewhere between 5 - 10% of uniques visitors to be clicking on adsense ads. I have about a click a week! That's nothing and at first it depressed me. I did everything right, I got traffic, I got backlinks, my page is optimized well but no one is clicking on any of google's adsense ads! Why not? Over half of the traffic I'm getting is organic (from search engines).
Well, the conclusion I've come to is that the adsense ads shown on the page all have to do with modeling. How to be a model, etc. The majority of the people visiting my page just want information about America's Next Top Model, which is why they aren't clicking on my ads even though ther are relevent! So what I've decided is that I'll keep adsense on my ANTM page until I have another page up with good organic traffic that I want to put adsense on. Then I'm going to take adsense down off of my ANTM page and I'll explain why in a few moments. But what I am going to do is start putting up some affiliate links and trying to sell a few things on the site. What kind of things you may ask.
Well the way I look at it is this : the people visiting the site are probably mostly young women, interested in things like beauty and fashion. So I'll sell things related to beauty and fashion.
In the meantime, I've started a new blog. I won't tell you my niche because I think it will potentially do really well in terms of utilizing adsense, but I put it up about a week ago and havent had much luck with it yet. It hasn't been indexed by google and I can't figure out why so it's driving me crazy! I have a few original articles on it, I've submitted original articles containing my link to article directories, and I've posted on yahoo answers a couple of times and still nothing. I guess I'm just going to have to work a little harder. It all happened so quickly with my ANTM blog so I guess I wasn't prepared for more of a fight. Over the next few weeks I want to get up at least 20 new blogs. Yes, 20. That might sound ambitious and it is, but I think that I need to commit to this if I'm going to start seeing some real results.
Back to my ANTM blog - good news is it's got a goole ranking. Sure it's a PR0, but at least it's ranked by google now. And it's useful to have blogs that are ranked even if they're not making a lot of money or getting a lot of traffic.
I'm building a farm - and what I mean by farm is that I will have blogs that make money and blogs that don't, and the blogs that don't are useful because I can use them to add backlinks to my other blogs to get them indexed and ranked faster.
Right now this blog that I'm writing on right now is indexed on google, and it's frustrating because I've done a lot more to get my new blog indexed with no success. I guess it hasn't even been a week so I have to be patient about getting my blog indexed by google. It doesn't happen overnight is the lesson I've learned, and when it does happen overnight you shouldn't start to expect it.
Well I thought I was going to be talking about google adsense, but instead I've just been updating you. I think I'll delve into google adsense tomorrow, or later on. For now I'm going to devote some time to getting that new blog indexed!
So adsense tomorrow - here at how to make money for beginners.
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