Makin The Money

Today I’m getting some cash. Unfortunately most of it will go to a Laptop and getting my car fixed, but some of it I will invest in my blog. I would love to put it toward this blog, but unfortunately this is a very expensive niche and since this is not where I make my money I’ll keep this blog as mostly a word of mouth and free advertising thing.

Most people don’t realize this part of the whole make money blogging thing, you actually have to get traffic to your site and get people to stay in order to make money. Yes you can do paid posting or ppc ads and make some cash, but trust me the big bloggers spend money advertising. They look at the big picture and not the small one.

I have decided to spend most of my advertising money on my home decorating tips blog as I think this one has the best potental to be a big deal. It’s also a hard niche to get into but it’s not something where your going to get the exact same information over and over.  So again I’m going to let all of you know how this works for me. I figure you at least can learn from my mistakes right?

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I have decided that I’m going to try something that other Make Money Bloggers have done. I’m going to put a few pictures of celebriatyes up and see if my traffic increases. Yes thats what those pictures are on these blogs for, not just for you men to stare at. My first one is Of Angelina Jolie, because I like her, she’s an awesome actress and if I was a guy I would want to sleep with her so she’s first. For the women who read this blog. I will be adding a guy very soon I promise.

Angelina Jolie

The reasion I want to try this is simple, does it really work. Right now I am not doing any advertising for this blog besides entrecard.  I will let you all know if it works at the end of the month.

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So many people talk about page rank. You would think it actually meant something, yes that’s right it doesn’t mean anything. Yes some advertisers use it, but the big names that you want on your website or blog do not care about page rank. What they do care about is how many people actually read your blog or website and click on the links you have. That is what gets them sales, that is what makes them money.

If you have a wordpress blog you need to install the all in one SEO pack. This thing is a lifesaver and makes SEO very easy. You still have to get links and everything for yourself, but if you stop looking at page rank it will be very easy to do. Also if you find out how much competition you have for keywords it will allow you to chose keywords that are not as competitive. Example. My Interior design Blog where I have home decor tips is ranked in the top 100 in both yahoo and Google. Not bad considering it was once in the top 15 in yahoo without me doing any SEO. What I have done though is found that not many people search for interior design tips, but they do search for home decor tips. So I have changed my keywords to fit that topic.

I have been doing this for about 3 weeks. During the last two weeks I have been asked by 3 companies to do reviews for them. This is what brings you traffic and can get you clicks on not only the compines links that asked for the review, but maybe even those affiliate links you have hidden on your site.

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One of the most important things that you need to do when trying to make money online is to make sure your website or blog is actually seen by people searching for your topic or product. Many people just search the keywords they have and hope they can find their site. This takes time and can be very annoying if your site is not listed on the first or second page.

There is a better way to check these things the one I like to use is the Fire Fox add on Rank Checker. It gives a ton of information on any site and keyword you choose. My design blog ranks 97th on Google and 11th on Yahoo for interior design tips, I consider that very good considering I hadn’t been targeting that keyword. This blog doesn’t show up for anything. I was expecting that as I also have not done a lot of SEO on this blog either. It’s also a very competitive market and since I’m not trying to make money with this blog I’m not going to stress about advertising it. Hopefully people find it helpful and tell others or link to me.

For my other blogs and my get paid to post forum, traffic is very important. So I am checking to see where I stand and what I can do to improve it. Right now I’m concentrating on my design blog and the keyword interior design tips. I’m also working on my forum with the keywords get paid to post forum, and make money online forum. You have to know what keywords you want in order to even start a good SEO project. Having the Rank Checker tool can really help you do this, that way you can start on words you may already have a good rank in, but not a great rank.

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The bad thing about blogs and websites is that you have to keep your traffic up. I have noticed a huge decrease in my traffic on all of my blogs the last few weeks. I know a lot of this has to do with summer and everyone being outside and enjoying life, but that doesn’t mean that my work is done. I still have to get visitors to my site so that I can make some cash.

I am trying a few new things, like ppc advertising for one blog that I didn’t do before. I’m also joining several more social networking sites and putting up rss feeds on them. These are two very good ways to get some more traffic to your site and I recommend to anyone who can do this to do it.

Remember having a website or blog is work, you can’t just put it up there and expect to make millions without doing anything.

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I have now found out that I can not buy a house until I pay off most of my debt. So I will hopefully be benefiting you more by adding to my money making arsenal. I’m working on a few things that I will be telling you more about later. Hopefully they work out okay.

One thing I have to stress is that making money online is not easy, it involves a lot of work, time and some money to start. Yes you can get a blogger blog for free and do paid posting and sell advertising and have adsence on there, but eventually if you want to be taken seriously you will need to by your own domain and have hosting.

One way I am going to help this blog out is to write about making money online for articles I will be submitting to websites. Hopefully I can help some people along the way, along with making my self more money. Articles are a great way to get people to check out your website or blog and maybe even buy a few things if your selling anything. Try it, but make sure what you write is good, clean of affiliate links and benefits not only you getting traffic, but the person reading it.

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I wrote the other day about not being able to get traffic to many of my blogs. Today on my design blog I have gotten over 700 visitors because of one post about self watering pots. Apparently I just need to find more interesting and new things to talk about!

The best part about all of this unplanned traffic is that I have used widgetbucks ad’s on that site, but Saturday I switched to a large banner where I get paid per visitor. So I should be seeing a large increase in my commissions within the next few days. I love their new widget. I have made much more now then I did before.

Oh and did I mention that post also got over 400 visits yesterday.

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I have noticed a drop in my traffic on most of my blogs. I think a lot of it has to do with my lack of time to write, that will only last another 2 weeks and then I’ll have more time. Until then I have decided to try another new way to get my sites out there. Blog upp is a new way I have found to get my blogs advertised for free. Right now I don’t have money to pay for advertising and I probably won’t for a while, but thats okay since you can find many ways to advertise for free.

The best part about Blog upp is that you don’t actually have to sign up for anything, you just place the widget on your site after you give them your URL and that’s it. As you can see I am testing it out with this blog. It hasn’t done much yet, but I just put it up yesterday.  I’ll keep you updated as to how it goes.

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