Learning How to Blog for Money
Make sure you do plenty of research and find a domain name brings traffic into your blog just on its own.
Domain names and the use of keyword rich names is a great way to get indexed faster and higher by all the search engines! SEO is King! Make sure your up on all your SEO search what's new, what's the best way, what do the search engines look for and like.
Aside from just being a great thing to know SEO can make you money! Think about all the traffic a little SEO can bring to your new blog FREE! And free traffic is where the real profit is.
PPC programs are great and have their places but free traffic is tops! SEO doesn't have to be a mystery...
Just do some research and some reading before you start off in the wrong directions.
Make sure you understand how links, backlinks, page ranking and most of importantly what can hurt your rankings and the possible indexing.
Backlinking is the number one way to get indexed and ranked by all of the search engines.
If other websites show their customers your websites the "internet" thinks your cool! The more links you have from other websites to your blog or website, the cooler you are.
The cooler you are the higher up you'll be in the search engine rankings.
Be careful though, your backlinks must be "white hat", white hat SEO means "Good SEO" not paid links, or banned sites...
Basically any funny business, they'll catch you and penalize your blog! The best back links are links that are relevant to your blog and your content.
A blog about flowers should not have a link on a site about cars.
Make sure you links are on pages that are like yours.
Your blog design needs to be well done and clean, with clean and clear direction to your "revenue making" products.
Remember it doesn't do any good to get traffic if they don't care to click on your advertisers.
Remember we're blogging to earn money not collect smiles.
At the same time your blog and the information on your blog need to be informational and make folks want to read and share.
If folks are interested and passing your content on to their friends there's more traffic and not only that they'll be targeted visitors that have come to your blog to invest some time in clicking on and buy your products! Picking what you sell and how you present it.
We're blogging for money now not just smiles.
Lets pick some good products that people are searching for.
This goes back to the keyword rich domain name and your keyword research you did.
So your new blog is geared towards "blogging to earn money" or "earn money posting links" something like that, our domain is the keyword and we have a great, clean, well managed blog, now lets get some products and some monetized revenue streams.
Placement is huge! Where you put your ad's can have just as much affect on the visitor as the product interest itself.
Good placement can make you more money! The products you choose should be close to what your domain name and your key words are.
Making sure you realize that an advertiser pays way more for an insurance quote than they do for lawn chairs.
Another words if your blog is about insurance quotes and you get 10 clicks or 10 sales your earnings will be much greater than if you got 10 clicks or sales for lawn chairs.
Content is very important.
Search engines love content.
The more content you have the more the search engines will like your site.
Just remember to read, read read.
The more you read and more you understand how the game works the better you'll play and more you'll make!