How To Make Money Online Blogging
I wanted to share with you some tactics that have given me great results when it comes to search engine traffic and making money online with blogs. Seems like a lot of people have trouble getting organic traffic to their blogs so I decided to give you guys a few pointers that can help you make money.
If you want to get traffic to your blog posts that actually looks at your Ads and makes you money, you have to target keywords within your blog posts. There are quite a large percentage of people that think that if they tweak their posts to get more SEO traffic to their blogs, their readers will run away screaming for mercy. The truth is that you do not have to repeat your targeted keywords over and over again to be able to make a fully SEO optimized blog post. So how can you write posts that does not look like nonsense to your readers and that actually have a chance to rank in search engines?
1) Use your title tag. If you are concerned about putting off your readers or perhaps the titles of your posts not sounding interesting to your readers if you drop a huge long tail keyword, you can at least use the title tag. The title tag is the single most important on page SEO factor in any web page. It has even more weight that keywords inside the actual content. Use it to your advantage. The truth is that a lot of people that are landing on your site through a feed do not even look at your title tag. Most of them look at your post’s title. The title tag used for SEO does not affect in any way your post’s content or how it appears on feeds, it does affect click through rate on SERPs though.
Let me give you an example. If you are writing a post about your experience when you visited let’s say China and you post your blog tittle like: “I am back from China” it may appeal to friends and readers but besides your regular readers you will get no organic traffic. You can use common plug ins like the all in one seo pack to change you SEO title tag to something that may be more relevant for example, “China Tourism - My Adventures When I Decided to Travel to China”. Of course, this is just an example I made rather quickly for the purpose of this post and it sucks but I know you will get the idea I hope. Those phrases have a lot of competition but if you point anchored links to that page you have more of a chance to get some search engine traffic from long tails if you can’t rank on page one for the targeted terms.
2) Take advantage of your URL. Another little tweak that you can do to your posts to help you make money online is to take advantage of the URL. If you are using wordpress as your platform you can change the automatically generated URL to one that is more suitable. This automatically generated URL will just take your post’s title and transform it into an URL. So if you are following the example above you can probably predict the url will look like this: http://www.yoursite.com/i-am-back-from-china or even uglier if you are using a permalink structure that uses dates or stuff like that. You can at least change the i-am-back-from-china part of the URL to something like http://www.yoursite.com/travel-to-china or perhaps http://www.yoursite.com/china-tourism.
3) Use WP tags. Tags not only add to the overall navigation structure of the site but they are also picked up by engines such as technorati. Which…. Gets you links!!!! They also appear on your blog’s technorati page like categories. You can use tags to drop keywords that you are targeting without annoying readers. Mostly everyone does this but a lot people tag with the first thing that comes to mind. Use targeted keywords instead. This little techniques is very useful if your post has a very low keyword density. You get double the fun if you have a tag cloud in your site. By the way if you have been following the SEO niche recently you may already know that no follow page rank sculpting is dead. Matt Cutts announced it recently. If you have your categories and tags set to no follow the corresponding page rank does not stay within your site. It just disappears instead of remaining within the page. Yep, even no follow links lower your page rank and this includes no followed blog comments and there is nothing you can do about it if you have a blog. Unless you close the comment section, which is not a good option if you ask me.
4) Interlink your posts. One of the best ways that you can help your blog get better search engine traffic is to interlink you posts. You can use targeted anchor text from new posts and you can modify older posts to point links to your home page or any entry that you may want to get more link juice. I usually modify very old posts to point to other pages in my sites. It is even better if they already have some page rank. Try to find entries that have page rank and point links to them to your home page and you will see what happens. A tactic that I usually use on my niche sites is if my blog is targeting something like: used cars, I write a post targeting cheap used cars. Then I use article marketing to give this post some link juice and anchor text authority for phrases like cheap used cars, affordable used cars. Then I build links to this post with the anchor used cars. Finally, I link from this post to the home page with guess what anchor? Used cars. The idea is that if your home page is ranking for used cars and you make a post rank for the same term even if its 200 results deep and you link to your home page that is ranking decently for the same term there is a high chance that your home page will move higher and make you more money depending on the authority of other sites competing for that phrase.
5) Use your keywords wisely within your posts. One of the first things I mentioned in this post is that you do not have to repeat the same keywords over and over. One of the best ways that you can optimize your content is to use related keywords. If you use the Adwords tool you will find many just by running a search for the top level keyword. Then if you find one that is related to what you are writing about then put that keyword in the search box and run it again. The system will give related phrases and long tails that you can use inside your content. Export a list of words so that you have a reference as to what different words you can use that are on topic and that have traffic. Having a small list of 10 words is more than enough to help you create a post that flows and does not look ridiculous in the eyes of your readers. You do not have to use all the words just a a few. Use them when appropriate. This way you have more chances to make money blogging about whatever you write about even if your blog is a general niche blog. Hey, I have friends that post about whatever they like and get a lot of organic traffic because they research their topic and tweak their content before posting.
Now if you made it up to here reading you should have an idea on how you can tune up your blog to help you generate a little more blog traffic. If you use these strategies wisely you will find that they will help you make money with Adsense or whatever you are promoting. Eventually, if you are getting more people to your site, you will get more blog readers if you are trying to be famous. So that is it for now folks. Tweak your posts and make money online now.
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Making Money Online - The Most Efficient Ways to Waste Your Time Online
Have you ever felt that you are spending your time online and yet the rate of growth of your business is minimal? Here are some of the most common ways that webmasters and bloggers waste their time online unproductively.
Building a Digg profile in hopes to become the next top user. Almost a year ago there was this huge buzz around how hitting the top page of Digg could easily send thousands of visitors in just a single day. Quite a lot of bloggers (including yours truly) engaged on a mission to create a huge Digg profile hoping that if the friend count increased one day their blog would get enough votes from friends to send a post to the front page and score a massive amount of hits. First of all traffic from Digg does not convert. Second, if you are an Internet Marketer, the Digg community already hates you. Third, if you are on a shared hosting and you hit the front page, your site will go down due to CPU overload. Fourth, Diggers have a tendency to visit, look and Digg and hit back on the browser.
Trying to sell products on traffic exchanges. Traffic exchanges are good if you are trying to build a list. However if you try to sell something on them you are just wasting time. If fact the vast majority of people that have had success with them just put on a micro squeeze page with just some catchy bullet points and a form to capture emails and names. The ones that are not successful usually list niche blogs on them with Adsense and end up banned by Adsense for invalid impressions, put on a blog instead of a squeeze page to try to capture readers or just put up a page with a few banners on them hoping someone would click. Note: People participating on traffic exchanges are just looking to get traffic to themselves and are waiting impatiently for the counter to get to zero. If you want to have a chance to get something from them set up a squeeze page with a few words offering them some free crap if they sign up to your “news letter”. You even get more chances for sign ups if you put on a video or some audio content.
Trying to get recurrent traffic from Stumble Upon. Been there, done that. Waste of time. Leave the stumblers alone. Stumble Upon is fun, just that.
Check your Adsense account every 15 minutes. If you spend most of your time online checking your Adsense account you are losing valuable time that you could be spending writing content and building links to your sites.
Check you web stats 10 times a day. While stats are a very important indicator of your sites performance checking stats multiple times a day is just losing time. It is better if you check them a few times a week or even better, once a week. This will help you spend your online time more efficiently.
Read a thousand blogs. This happens a lot when people read too many make money online blogs. Every marketer has an unique way of making money online and some of them contradict what others say. If you spend to much time reading every blog you find you will end up hit by the analysis paralysis. It happened to me at some point and some times it happens again but now I have only hand full of selected blogs that I read on a constant basis on my reader. I also unsubscribe at lightning speed from blogs and lists that alternate from a post and a sales pitch an a constant basis. Not only are these blogs a waste of time, they are also after your money.
Read a ton of free or even worst, paid ebooks on the same subject. Ok, reading ebooks is nice but if you are reading 5 ebooks on Article Marketing you will notice that most of them say the same thing. There is no secret technique just write a lot of interesting articles to and you will get traffic or, write a lot of boring articles and you get at least links.
Trying to build your “brand” by having a beautiful blog with a theme that cost you a thousand dollars and all that stuff. I have seen bloggers that have paid some thousands for some logos and a theme only to announce that they will be selling their blog a few weeks after they invested a lot of money. Again this not exactly a time waster is mostly a waste of money. I wanted to mention it because there are a lot of people that think that you can’t make money from a blog if you use a free theme. Totally False.
Changing you blog theme more than you change your underwear. Changing a theme is not as fast as they say since widgets appear move to where they want or just suddenly out of nowhere you have the same one two times on your blog. Find a theme you like, tweak it and leave it like that. Changing your theme will not make you rich.
Focusing on a sole make money online blog. Make money online blogs are profitable if you have an enormous amount of social traffic or if you have decent search traffic. Niche blogs are profitable with as low as 50 visits a day from search engines if you manage to monetize them correctly. Build lots of them.
Hang around too much on webmaster forums. Webmaster forums are nice but they can also be misleading be careful what you read there and do not spend too much time posting. Build your VRE not somebody else’s.
Read too much on how to blog. Don’t just read about it, do it! Writing techniques are interesting to implement and help create engaging content but are more useful if you actually use them.
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Make Money Online Without a Site
Most of the stuff we read about making money online involves creating blogs web sites and using PPC. Let’s face not all people are interested in becoming a blogger or the “SEO Guru” of the web. Here is a list of sites from which you can earn some bucks if you put some effort into it. These sites pay you for writing different types of content such as from building one pagers ( Hubs or Lenses), selling your content, writing reviews, giving opinions and sharing experiences. I posted this in order to demonstrate the you can make money online without a site. Contrary to what people think some users of these sites earn more that a thousand dollars a month. It all boils down to how you work them and the effort that you put in them. Some keyword research also helps to get the most out of the ones that pay for views like Associated Content. In fact with just a few articles on AC you can make make a little money online at no cost that actually grows as you write more content.
One pagers or Hub Building Sites:
Squidoo
Note: Lis on her blog: Passive Income Online teaches how to make money online with Hub Pages she is experienced on the subject and has a nice portfolio of Hubs about making money. The same knowledge can be applied to Squidoo Lenses
Make Money by Writing Articles, Reviews and Selling Content
These sites offer you money for publishing your content on their sites and have different payment plans. Be sure to read any terms and research each site to check how their system works.
Constant Content (Selling and Buying Content Only)
Associated Content
eHow
My Essays ( Buy and Sell Essays)
Helium
Niche Blast
Triond
Gather
My Lot
Xoomba (requires adsense account)
Review Stream
Rate It All (requires adsense account)
ePinions
Day Tipper
Ciao Some Countries Only
Dooyoo (Uk and Other European Countries)
Conclusion: If you are not interested in becoming a webmaster there are many ways that you can actually make money online without a site. Keep in mind that developing a residual income from these sites is also hard work. Nothing in life is easy. Some of the sites pay you on a per view basis, other pay you a percentage of the money generated by the ad clicks of visitors, others like connect content are used for selling your content which is more appealing to freelancers. So there you have it folks some good sites that you can use to make money online without having your own website. The truth is still the truth there is no way on the internet that you can make money online immediately you can try paid surveys but still they require a lot of work and they are not really worth it. And their claims that you can make huge money online are false.
Hint: If you are and Article Marketer and have a bunch of content that you used to submit to directories to promote a site that no longer makes you money, send them to Associated Content and get a few bucks a month from them if they are keyword targeted. Just use the Dysplay Only option when submitting and remove the resource box. Works like a charm. 
Believe me.
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Making Money Online - The Importance of Establishing Good Relationships
Making money on the internet is one tough journey. There are plenty of skills to learn including building sites, writing, SEO and all of the mayor and minor bells and whistles associated with it. Yet one of the most overlooked skills is that of establishing relationships. Lets face it if you go from site to site you will notice that there are not many people that are willing to help. Sadly, in the make money online niche help is almost equivalent to a sells pitch. In one of my older posts I wrote about do follow blogs and SEO. The point of that “rant” was to illustrate and hopefully get you to rethink about how you use this strategy for link building. Now to avoiding repeating the same article. I will resume it in some sentences. If a do follow blog does not allow keywords you are just wasting your time. You may get some page rank but you get almost no benefit from it when it comes to rankings. The main idea was to get you guys to reconsider how you comment on blogs.
Every blog is a whole community by itself even if you are the only commenter and the only discussion is between you and the blogger. It does not matter how big or small the potential to establishing a business relationship is there. So what can you gain by being a friends with a fellow webmaster? Some of the most important things that you can obtain from a fellow webmasters are support, online help and even links. But a true online business relationship requires some effort in your part and most of the time is giving something without expecting nothing in return. That how real friendships are made and how they are maintained.
One of the worst things in the make money online niche and the make money blogging niche is that people are more interested in becoming huge blogging celebrities and lose the social side of making an income online and by this statement I am not referring to social media traffic or any other waste of bandwidth. I mean the aspect of growing bonds with like minded individuals and succeed as a community. Not just trying to succeed as an individual, but helping others and getting helped at the same time in different aspects of the journey including motivation.
This way it would be a win-win situation instead of a rat race to see who gets on top first. When you approach a blog rethink about commenting, do not drop a comment for the sake of traffic. Share something, work that blog and become a part of the community, help when you can expecting nothing in return. Some people will only get an ego boost if you help them in some way, in fact the vast majority of them only do but others will take notice of you and help you grow too. At the end of the line, he who succeeds is the best marketer. So market yourself to others and prove that you are worthy of their ever valuable time and eventually, good things will come. Then you will succeed as an internet marketer, by building the credibility you need to get others to notice you and help you back perhaps even promote your sites to their readerships, maybe a link. The possibilities are endless.
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The Site Build It Scam Controversy
Last post was something of a rant. I blogged about how I lost time and money listening to the A listers and how much crap products I bought last year. The problem in the make money online niche is that people react like a big flock of birds. If someone promotes a product a lot of people buy it and promote even if it is in fact… A piece of shit! I have learned a lot online and as you can see from my now more down to earth language. I do not what to be or need to be an “A lister”or some big blogger. As a matter of fact I now blog for fun and to share my experiences on the online affiliate marketing world. And I concentrate my work on my other blogs that are the ones that are making me some money.
Now returning to the main topic. I want to prove what I said about the scam chain reaction on crap products. Take for example Lis’s post titled Site Build It Scam Review. In this post, Lis states that SBI is overpriced and that they are just selling a pipe dream to noobs. Now if you see the comments you will notice that there are a bunch of Site Build It users that have crap sites bash her and saying that they make a lot of money with their site.
There is a video response by Vic from Blogger Unleashed, a blog about making money online by a guy who really makes money online. Vic talks about one of those sites which is owned by one of the guys that is bashing Lis and explains why that guy is a faker. Check the video about that guy’s SBI site in this post : SBI Noobs Are Funny.
And of curse Griz’s take on the subject in : Site Build It Don’t Buy It .
Now, a single SBI site cost saround $300 dollars. Do your really need to spend that amount of money to make some extra income online? If you want to spend that amount of money starting a business online and waste your money efficiently you could register hosting for two years and get a few domains for that amount and have a lot of sites to work with. Guys, the internet is full of shit. Before deciding to buy something analyze all possible options and be careful who you take advice from. One of the basics of business administration is handling money efficiently. Don’t fall for scams. There are a lot of fake Site Build It Reviews around so watch out. Invest wisely and keep it real.
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