Blogging for Dollars
The concept behind blogging for dollars is really simple. By putting up a website, and posting articles about interesting topics, you end up with traffic. The more articles you post, the more ‘keyword phrases’ you’ll end up being ranked for, and the more traffic you’ll get from the search engines.
According to Google, over half of all search terms typed in by visitors to their site have never before been typed in! This means that by merely typing in a wide variety of text on the topic of your choice, you have an excellent chance of appearing on the very first page of Google for unusual keyword phrases. This site, for example, will never see page one of Google for “Make Money Online” – just isn’t going to happen. But I have a 100% chance of appearing on the first page for long-tail keyword phrases from the articles I write – indeed, the chances are excellent that you may have first found the BurningKnife website from a Google search… I get 70% of my first-time visitors from a Google search.
As well as ‘blindly’ typing in long articles for the different long-tail keyword phrase possibilities, you can also target specific keyword phrases. This involves a little bit of research beforehand, looking for keyword phrases that aren’t targeted by very many websites. The best way to do this is to use Google’s Keyword Tool, start by typing in your basic topic keyword, then make a list of interesting possibilities. You want keyword phrases that are at least 3 words long – and that have at least 100 searches a day. Then use: allintitle:”keyword phrase” as a Google search… the fewer results, the better the chances that your article will hit page one!
You can also ‘rework’ articles or posts you’ve already written – changing the title to reflect a better keyword phrase, and adding the long-tail keyword phrase into your first and last paragraphs. Keep in mind that the longer your article or post, the more long-tail keyword phrases Google will find and rank you for.
Once you’ve gotten some posts up to the first page of Google and other search engines, you start developing traffic from organic search results. This traffic can be turned into money as simply as having Adsense ads on your site. Or you can direct visitors to affiliate products where you can earn even more money. But the key is the initial traffic, if you don’t have traffic, you can’t earn money.
Now, the real trick to this procedure is patience – most people today operate at ‘warp speed‘ – everything has to happen now, and if it takes weeks or months – it’s presumed that it will never happen. But good websites don’t start getting thousands of visitors in the first few days, or even the first few weeks or months… this is a project that you must plan on devoting 6 months to a year before you see the sort of results you can dream of.
Your blog must have new posts added on a regular basis – you should do one post a day until you have at least 100 posts up – then you can drop to doing just 1-3 new posts each week. Every post should be long enough to be interesting, but not long enough that people won’t finish reading it. I usually try to shoot for posts in the 500-1,000 word range.
Once you’ve started a good series of posts on your blog – you need to start developing backlinks to your new blog. The best way to do this is with article directories – simply write shorter (250-350 word) articles on the same topic as your blog – and include a ‘resource box’ that drives people back to your site. While you should get traffic from your articles, the more important contribution they make is providing a link to your site. Google, and other search engines; value these links highly – and will move your blog higher up in the ratings the more links you have.
This is a very simple sketch of what you need to do to earn money by blogging – and the sooner you get started, the sooner you can tell your boss “Goodbye”…
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