How To Make Money With A Blog

If you want to learn how to make money with a blog, then you are on the most important post that you’ve read all day.

This post is part of a series of post about how to make money fast from home. In this particular series of post we have been talking about using blogs to make money.

The reason for using blogs is because they are easy to set up, fast to set up, you can do it all for free, and you can monetize blogs extremely easily.

How To Make Money With A Blog – 7 Steps

Today I wanted to give you an overview of how this process goes, and over some future post I will go in more detail on each step.

1. Pick a hot targeted niche market. Your market is important because it will determine how much money that you can make. You want target a market that is looking “how to” do something. The more urgent that the matter they are looking for needs to be solved the greater chances of you being able to make money fast on the Internet. You want to target markets that are looking for “instant gratification”. That are looking for a solution to a problem that they would like to have out of their lives for ever or they are on the verge of buying now.

2. Find keywords for that market. Find the keywords that that niche market would type in to find that solution. You can start your search by heading over to the Google External Adwords Tool. You can find it by typing that phrase in Google. When you pick your final keyword phrase (targeted market) that you want to go after make sure that there is at least 3,000 searches a month for it and that there are less than 7,000 optimized sites competing for that keyword. There can be more, but I am talking about fast money. I want you to see some fruits of your labors in days and weeks not months and years. This is important for you to stick with the program.

Later on you can go after tougher niches. Please listen to this piece of advice. Once you learn this system you can easily repeat as many times as you want in as many markets as you want.

3. Set Up Your Blog. I am not going to go into great detail in the post about how to set up a blog for free because I have covered that in another post. But I will say that your layout should be like this:

…one post per page including the homepage, you should have a two column theme with the content on the left (just look at Yahoo and Google search results), you should have a huge 336×280 or 250×250 Adsense or YPN ad block above every post, each post should only target one keyword phrase, and each post should be at least 300 words long with good content, and your blog theme should be a plain (or minimalistic) as possible. The uglier the better because you want people to leave and click ads, this is one of the oldest tricks in the book. Just look at Google, their stock is over $420 a share in a recession.

They have a search function, two columns, ads above search results, on the side, and at the bottom, it’s has a plain white background and that’s about it. Those are the basics. Look at this blog, it’s simple. Look at the layout. Look at the ad placements. I don’t care if you don’t like it, Google & Yahoo do the same thing because it works.

4. How Often Should You Post? At first, because you want you site to get some content on your blog, you should post twice per week. Then the rest of the time you should spend getting links to each and every post and to the homepage of your post so that you can build authority and increase ranking. Once you are on the first page you can post when ever the heck you feel like it, but at least once per month.

Although I said that your post should only be 300+ words in length, you should really be aiming for 400, 600, or 1,000 or more words. Just look at some of the biggest authority blog networks on the Internet. They reward you for longer post and the search engines love them. I wonder why. Plus the longer the post the more “accidental” rankings you will have. You will see traffic coming in from all types of keywords.

But don’t think of it like school writing, it’s just what comes out of your head about the topic. You can say the same thing over and over again and why not, infomercials do it and it works. lol You can say the same thing over and over again and why not, infomercials do it and it works. lol You can say the same thing over and over again and why not, infomercials do it and it works. lol Okay, I just had to do that.

5. How To Get Traffic. There are a ton of ways to get traffic, but only one that I care about. Free search engine traffic from Google, Yahoo, MSN (Bing). This is how you can really have a high profit margin while also bringing in traffic on autopilot day in day out. This is the source that you should focus on to. The process of getting your site ranked high in the search engines is what we call SEO or Search Engine Optimization. It comprises of two factors: on page optimization and off page optimization.

On page optimization simply means putting keywords that your site is about and that you want to rank for in the correct places on your site. The main places that you want to put your keywords is in the title of your site, the title of the individual post on your site, in the site domain name, the headers, the internal links within post and navigation, in the first sentence and the last sentence, and a few times in a post.

Off page optimization is simply the process of getting links pointing to your site. This is the biggest factor by far for how you will rank in the search engines. You need links that point to your homepage and you need links that point to your inner pages, which is what we call deep linking.

Caution: The links that point to your site must say what you want to rank for. So, for instance if you want to rank for how to make money with amazon, then you need links pointing to your site that say just that. You will rank for what ever terms that link to your site say. You want to rank for terms that will make you money, you want to rank for the terms that you have targeted your blog for.

6. Making Money With Adsense. This is how you will make money with your blog at first. Later after you have a ton of traffic an #1 rankings you can test other methods. But for now this will bring in money fast and is more hands off. Just go to Google.com and click the advertising programs link. Then click Adsense and then sign up. Before you do this you want to have your blog set up and have some content on it.

7. Do it! I just gave you a simple system for how to make money with a blog, but it won’t work itself. You won’t make any money just know what I have told you. Go now and pick a market, find a keyword that you want to target, set up the blog on the Free Blogger platform, get some content on there, sign up for an Adsense account, and start getting links. That’s the short of it.

You can do this. I believe in you. Well, anyway I hope that you enjoyed this post about how to make money with a blog.

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