Welcome back as its time to explore some more on the subject of how to make money from Adsense. This post will be rather more brief than my usual outings, but that’s not to say it won’t be informative. I’m looking at a certain side of the Adsense revenue accumulation strategy here, so here’s how this works.

A while ago, as most of you probably already know, Court launched the infamous 100 Hubs in 30 Days Challenge. Plenty of people picked up on it and were real champions at it for a while, then most of them faded away. A few persevered and a few of them started to see their Adsense income improve. It was slow at first, then it gradually got better. And better.

I can probably count the successful Hub challengees on one hand, but that hasn’t stopped a minor revolution over at Hub Pages. At first they embraced the challenge, then the social set turned against it with their usual arrogance borne out of ignorance for the logic of the Internet Marketer. But who gives a flying rats turd what social bloggers thing. We’re here to make money from the long hours we spend sitting on our computers, not wasting them chin wagging with a bunch of social types who have obviously got nothing better to do with their time.

Anyway, I digress. Did I not say this would be a short article?

The long and the short of it is that the few who are now making more money from Adsense than they have ever done are doing so all thanks to the logic of the original Hub Challenge. If you’re wondering, yes, I have also been following that same logic hand have watched my own Adsense earnings improve drastically as a result. I didn’t get involved with the challenge as it happened, but I have been pretty prolific in the meantime building not just Hub Pages, but many mini sites across several platforms that all generate Adsense income, such as infobarrel.com as well as my own hosted mini-site hub that gives me 100% of the revenue I generate.

That last statement is where its at. While the original plan to make money from Adsense came about by building lots of Hub Pages, it morphed into the setup that I now work, which is in the linking structure of the plan. Its pretty basic but it works well. I start with keyword research to find good long tail keywords with a decent estimated CPC. Then I write three Hub Pages around the keyword. I link them together in a circle so each gives the next a one way link. I then create an infobarrel page and a self-hosted mini site around the same keyword. The hub pages link to the infobarrel and the infobarrel links to my own mini-site.

I can see the result in the SERPs quite plainly as the Hub Pages will index fast and rank quite well initially. The infobarrel also indexes fast and ranks better than the Hub Pages thanks to the links. My mini-site then outranks the lot of them because of the strong links. Not only do my mini sites rank well and pay me 100% of the Adsense revenue they generate, but they also generate more authority for the hosting domain. As its authority grows, each new mini site I create on there will index quicker and rank better as the host domain passes down some of its authority.

Its a sort of circular authority boosting mechanism that just gets better over time!

Terry Didcott
Blogging Web 2.0

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All newcomers to the world of Internet business want to know how to make money online the quickest fastest surest way by doing the least amount of work and quitting their job at the end of the week regardless. Well lets look at how that can be done, or not as the case may be.

Funny how we’re all attracted to those magnetic, almost mesmerising ads that promise to show you how their author’s just made three grand in a week by pressing a few buttons and sitting back in their chair to wait for the money truck to roll up outside their door! As newbies, we all sat there marveling at just how that could happen and wondering just how easy it would be to pull off. Yes, we all believed that hyped up crap when we were first initiated into the ways of the Internet money-go-round. And the few of us that managed to resist temptation by keeping our credit cards firmly locked away are probably the ones that survived to tell the tale.

But what is the reality behind all that hype? Can you really make money online as easily? Well, there is no definitive answer to that one, because although the resounding truth of it all is that no, you cannot easily make a lot of money online so quickly, there is a way to bend that truth.

What I’m saying is that there are ways to make a lot of money online in a short space of time. But that takes intelligence, knowledge and guile. So looking at the title of this post, you now know why I worded it in such a way that this post might be ale to show you how to make money online with guile! And you’d be right.

The knowledge can be learned by anyone willing to put in the time to do it. You have to be able to filter out all the horseshit from the nuggets of truth, but with intelligence you will be able to do that. And let’s face it, you wouldn’t even be here looking at how to make money online if you weren’t already blessed with the intelligence to realise that it might be possible!

There is some work involved, but you have to box a little clever with this. You will need to set up a series of free blogs on different hosts,such as blogger, wordpress, blinkweb, squidoo, hub pages etc and there all going to be loosely based around the topic of celebrity news. You are also going to have to nominate one blog, or a hosted domain as your main money site. The work involved will come from you populating all those free blogs with content that is mostly original and relevant to that topic. As you can see, celebrity news is a very wide topic, so you have an enormous amount of latitude for what you can write about. You can also cheat by using spun articles - you write the original, set it up in spin notation and run it through a free spinner such as jetspinner. You get 50 articles that you post around your free blogs.

There is some time involved too. You need these blogs to all get indexed by Google along with their posts. That means you’ll have to get links to them all from sources such as social bookmarking, blog comments, forum posts, article marketing, pligg site submissions (such as digg, bloggingzoom etc) the whole nine yards. This will probably take you three months or so but in that time you will have acquired a collection of blogs that will assist you in making that fast, easy money. As to your main site, that will be populated with only original, relevant content and you’ll be getting more links to it than the others from whatever sources you can. Also submit it to as many RSS syndication sites as you can. Post as often as you can about any celebrity that is in the public eye at the moment, no matter how crap the story is. You should also go about getting blogroll link exchanges as a good way to boost its authority.

But this is not what will supercharge it into making the money for you. That comes a little later.

Once your main money site has ranked for some of its longer tail keywords and is attracting some traffic from Google and the other search engines, its time to put Adsense on it. Check out my previous post about how best to do that: How to Make Money with Adsense. Once all the preparations have been made you can begin in earnest. How?

You wait and watch.

What you are watching for is breaking news about a high level celebrity, whether they be movie or TV, sports, political… any high profile well known name will do. The breaking news will be something big that a lot of people will want to read about. And you’ll be ready.

Quick as you can, write a 250+ word article outlining the breaking news story, entitle it with the most relevant phrase concerning what they are in the news for (it must also contain their name) and publish it on your money site. If you can upload an image of the celebrity into that post do it and put their name in the alt field. Use Onlywire to bookmark it and a good ping service to ping it to as many blog services as you can. Now edit ALL your free blogs. Take a recent post on each and change the title to include the name of the celebrity you are now targeting, add a link in that post straight to the post on your main site anchored with the celerity’s name and maybe the phrase that is most prevalent in the news story about them. No need to write any more articles, just use what you already have as it will be generic anyway. Publish and ping each free blog, then Onlywire the post you just changed.

If you get all that done quickly enough and beat the big syndicated news sites to the drop, your money site should enter the SERPs on the front page, maybe even take the top spot. If the phrase you chose is the one most people will search on, then within the next few hours your traffic should explode into many thousands. If your Adsense is optimised as best you can for that kind of site, then you should get a big flow of clicks that could amount to a lot of money in a very short space of time.

Let the site run as is for 48 hours max, or until the story dies down and your traffic drops off, then remove Adsense from your main site. This will help prevent you getting smart priced.

And that’s how to make money online with guile! Ok, it also takes work and preparation and then some luck, but its doable and repeatable. And if you do it, you just proved the myth that you can make a lot of money online in a short space of time!

Freelance Writer Terry Didcott
Co-Author of Blogging Web 2.0

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As a follow on from my last post Make Money by Working With Search Engines,where I looked at several methods of working with the search engines rather than against them, I’m going to mention a linking strategy that you can use to boost the authority of your main site from which you make money online while remaining within the guidelines of the search engines.

First and foremost, you have to understand that this is by the book and legitimate, but the trade off is that it takes quite a lot of work on your behalf.

Ok, now that statement has probably frightened of the tyre kickers, the serious contenders can read on…

This idea of how to make money with a linking strategy is simple, obvious and actually quite simple to set up. It just takes time and some planning and using what we know about SEO to make money online. Time is something we all have plenty of, its just that a lot of it is wasted on non-essential pursuits, so instead of checking your stats 20 times a day, use that time to do this. Find a niche that you believe you can make money in. Avoid the Make Money Online niche as it is saturated and very competitive. Find a less competitive niche. You’ll have to do the research and come up with one that has several well searched keyword phrases that combined, will generate sufficient traffic for your main website or blog to make money. Then you need a plan.

Build Your Plan:

If you have the basics on how to use a spreadsheet like Excel (or if you prefer free, Open Office’s similar offering) then crank it up and make yourself a simple spreadsheet. On this you are going to make a list of blogs in the left hand column. Those blogs are the ones you are going to create on different platforms but in the same niche. Use free blogging platforms like Blogger, Wordpress, Blinkweb etc and create set of around 8-12 blogs. Divide them up into two groups and split blogs on each platform up as best you can so you don’t have, say all Blogger blogs in one group. They need to be split across various platforms for this to work best.

These are your first tier sites and they are going to be fairly general themed around your main niche. They are also going to provide your main site with the links it needs to dominate the SERPs for your chosen keywords. Getting the keywords part right is one of the methods of how to make money with SEO and has been covered in provious posts here and at the sites that are linked to in this post. Of course, the number of first tier sites you make will depend upon how competitive your niche is. So look at the top 3 sites in Google’s SERPs (this is the search engine you need to rank in by the way) for the keywords you want to rank for and find out how many anchored links they have pointing at them. You can do this with software like SEO Elite.

The strategy is simple in that you need more links than your competition to beat them in the SERPs.

Now build up each of your new blogs with posts, using relevant content. It doesn’t have to be quality content, just mostly original and relevant including your keywords both in the title and text of your posts. You can get links to these sites using the common variety of methods such as dofollow blog comments, forum sigs, article submissions, pligg site submissions etc. Once they have been indexed by Google you can start including links to your main site in each post.

You can also link some of the first tier blogs together but not all of them. This is why you split them into two groups. Only link blogs together within each group and do not link to blogs in the other group. Better to be frugal with interlinking and don’t daisy-chain them together but rather link out to maybe only two other random blogs in the group from each blog.

Why?

There is every chance that even though your blogs are perfectly legit, a competitor in your niche might not take kindly to a new site coming along and knocking them off their pedestal. They may check the back-links coming into your site and if they see a large group of blogs that not only link to your main site but are also interlinked, they will smell a rat and report your blogs as spam. Now, even if they are not spam, Google will shoot first and ask questions later and your blogs may get de-indexed until the Google visual inspection team can satisfy themselves that they are legit. During this time, your links will be discounted and your main site will drop out of the index.

It takes a while to get it back there and in that time you will lose money. So by not interlinking all your blogs, you minimize the risk.

Ok, now to the linking strategy itself and how off site SEO works its magic. All links must come from within posts. So no blogroll links. The links must have a keyword text anchor and either point directly at the homepage of your main site for its main keywords, or point to a post on the main site with the title of the post as the anchor. The title of each post in both first tier blogs and main site must include your keywords. This is highly important and what will help you to beat your competition, because chances are if the niche is not competitive, they will not know what you now know. Generate a mixture of links all containing variations of your keywords to make it look more natural.

Don’t overdo it. Keep it to a maximum of two links out from each post and work of a basis of one link per roughly 200-250 words for maximum link juice.

Well, that’s the strategy. It works but it takes time. Google take their time indexing sites, indexing posts within blogs and counting links. Several months may pass before your links get counted and your main site rises up onto the first page in the SERPs, let alone takes first place. So you need plenty of patience and keep diligently working all your blogs to keep providing fresh links to the main site.

Good luck, be tenacious and stick to your guns and you will succeed.

Freelance Writer Terry Didcott
Co-Author of Blogging Web 2.0

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I’m going to link back to the second of my posts that dealt with online SEO, entitled: On Site SEO Update, because it provided proof that when you go about something single-mindedly and mean to do it successfully, you usually will.

I said I’d get this blog onto the first page of Google for the term on site SEO and I did just that. So what about off site SEO? Well, that’s not an impossible task either, because I only have to repeat what I did for the previous project to rank on page one for off site SEO. In fact it would be an easier task as there are less than ten thousand competing pages for”off site SEO” so to attack that particular keyword niche would be a bit like using dynamite in a small lake to catch a fish.

So, while this post will indeed rank on page one for the term “off site SEO” within a few days, that’s not going to be the reason for the post. I’m going to talk about one aspect of off site SEO that is probably the most important when it comes to ranking your site on Google’s page one for whatever keyword term you intend to rank for.

Its no big secret, either. They’re called one way inbound links, otherwise known as backlinks. But I’m not talking about any old backlinks here, although it is true that quantity of sheer numbers of crappy backlinks still count and will make a big difference to your position in the SERPs. No, I’m going to talk about the best quality backlinks you can get your grubby little hands on!

These are top quality links that come from authority sites within the niche you are targeting with the added imporatnt factor that they must include your main keyword in the anchor text. That’s the most important part of any off site SEO you can do with any backlink you can get pointing to your site or blog.

I can’t hark on about this with enough emphasis - it is absolutely vital if you want to get up onto page one of the SERPs to have as many keyword anchored backlinks as possible, especially when there are other competing pages that also know a thing or two about on site and off site SEO.

Why?

Because the more authority sites that you can get to include your keyword in the anchor text of the backlink they give you, the more authority your blog will have in Google’s eyes for your main keyword and therefore the higher it will place you in the SERPs. Google ranks authority sites highest, above sites with high page rank (PR) and above sites that are full of great content that do not have keyword anchored backlinks and therefore are seen as having less authority. To add to this, it is also important to vary the keyword anchor slightly to include other related long tail keywords, as this will make it look more natural. There’s more… getting keyword anchored backlinks to some of your deeper pages in your site count highly for off site SEO as well - giving your site even more authority.

That’s the long and the short of it. So you may ask, “where do I get these coveted authority keyword anchored backlinks from?”

There’s the rub - its not easy else everyone would be doing it. Most site owners that mean business and are determined to dominate their niche will buy them, pure and simple. They’ll use services like PayPorPest or other so-called paid review service, or Textlonk Ads (deliberate misspellings, there) to buy their way to the top of the SERPs.

But you can do it more legitimately if you have several sites or blogs of your own that all occupy similar or related niches. Even if they do not have high PR or a whole lot of authority, if you can use each of your other related sites to provide one keyword anchored link to the site you want to dominate your niche with, you will do it a lot of good by raising its keyword authority. That’s your off site SEO taken care of without having to resort to buying links. You then need to do your on site SEO by writing lots of keyword rich, relevant content and keep writing it often so Google sees the constantly updated content and the authority links and will then continually improve the position of your site in its SERPs.

That’s how you you do your off site SEO and combine it with good on site SEO to compete in your chosen niche. The rest is up to Time (it takes some) and the search engines to spider your site and recognise the links and content.

Lets see what happens with this site…

Terry Didcott, owner of Saturn Directory
Blogging Web 2.0

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I just couldn’t resist this… After posting about On Site SEO three days ago which was, unsurprisingly all about on site SEO and only seeing the post make it onto page three yesterday, I just checked Google.com for the search term on site SEO and after all my initial concerns that we might not make it to page one, I was presented with this absolute gem that really made my day!

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That’s us, highlighted in yellow. So now I don’t have to eat my hat, for as you can plainly see, we made it to number seven on page one of google.com (the one that matters)!!!

There’s undeniable proof that on site SEO works better than many people think.

How many keyword anchored back-links does that post have, by the way?

One.

I linked to it from my PR3 Make Money site on the same day I posted it here. Unless anyone else linked to it, then that was the only back-link which sort of shows how important getting the on site SEO right really is.

Ok, we won’t be breaking out the champagne just yet, but it shows what can be done with long tail keywords. Griz mentioned this in a comment - that we could do well with this site by targeting some vaguely related long tail keywords and doing some good on site SEO to rank for them. He’s right of course and this is something I’ll be thinking about now - what other easy targeted keywords should we attack? Whatever, it will start to bring in a trickle of organic search traffic to begin with and build up to a flood!

So here’s raising my glass (ok, cup of coffee this early in the morning…) to on site SEO!

Terry Didcott
Blogging Web 2.0

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On Site SEO tips are always useful, as much here at Blogging Web 2.0 as anywhere else, especially when you’re not making any waves in the SERPs, but more like small ripples that don’t even make it to the other side of your pond. In Monika’s last post How I Managed to Land on Google’s Page 1 in 1 Week, where she got her new site to page one of Google, she describes how clever use of on site SEO helped to put her there - now I’m going to elaborate on this technique a little here while giving this site a little keyword boost in the process!

While the majority of what will get you high in the SERPs is all off-site SEO in the form of link building, which of course is all-important if you want your site to rank for certain keywords, you can also be getting busy with some strong on site SEO that is simple to do and effective in pushing your site up those search engine pages.

On Site SEO

On site SEO consists of many techniques but one that is easy to do is to choose the keywords you want to rank for and promote the hell out of them. Do that by placing them frequently in your content. This SEO technique works very well in blogs, as the content is constantly changing and being added to, so it’s a simple task to add keywords to on site SEO every new post you make.

I’ve done this on site SEO myself with incredible results with two of my “make money” blogs. One of them (which is only PR3) is on Google’s page one for a long tail keyword that gets a good 11,000 searches a month - well worth being there for. The other hovers around the 20 mark for the same keyword, but its only PR0!

So how am I beating off literally hundreds of thousands of other sites to get onto page one with a lowly PR3 site that is only a subdomain at that?

I’ve been using this simple on site SEO technique of liberally spreading the keyword I want to rank for throughout each new post, but more than that, I’ve used the keyword in the title as well as tagging it. But to increase the keyword authority, I’ve also been going back through older posts and adding some more instances of the keyword in posts that are relevant to the keyword to further boost the site’s keyword authority. Then I simply link to the post from another of my blogs with the keyword in the anchor text to give it keyword authority.

You might have noticed that in this particular post, I’m using the phrase on site SEO quite a lot. Well, that’s what this post is going to rank for - on site SEO! The use of some h3 tags also goes some way to helping the cause!

Why not just SEO?

Aha, there’s the trick. You work on a long tail keyword first and get that into a strong position in the serps. So you should expect to see this post get ranked for on site SEO in the next day or so. Then you make further posts (or go back and update older posts) on the main keyword SEO and over time (it all takes time) the site will begin to climb for the main keyword SEO.

Of course to go up against a lot of stiff competition (which SEO is probably one of the stiffest) your site will need to attract a lot of quality back-links with SEO in the anchor text before it will rank for that keyword. But it can be done.

So in the mean-time, I’ll settle for on site SEO and see where we can go from there!

Terry Didcott
Blogging Web 2.0

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Not kidding, I’m currently sitting on number one page of Google for my new local news niche blog the Yeppoon Chronicle. To do this I followed through with what I have learned since being online and mainly for the last 2 month from Blogger Unleashed, Vic Franqui’s blog about make money online.

I knew about the concept of using highly targeted keywords which will help with the ranking. The blog got indexed within 38 minutes and if you don’t believe me you are welcome to read my post on how I got a brand new blog indexed in 38 minutes.

The concept I used for this was all thanks to Vic and his unlimited pot of knowledge and to prove all nay sayers wrong, the proof is in the pudding as they say.

To get on the front page of Google was achieved by applying basic SEO rules when writing blog posts and descriptions. The one thing that will go against my carefully grafted blog is the domain name since it is brand new.

Because I hail from a very small place (to USA standards) of Australia, the chances of finding a pre-owned domain with my town’s name in it were next to none. A quick search on Tdnam quickly revealed that my initial thoughts were right.

So buying a new domain will eventually throw me into the sandbox which means I’ll disappear from Google for a while. The secret to staying there is getting enough incoming back links that will cement my position. But as some of us know, this process is a lengthy one which will take time.

Couple this with great SEO and you will have a winner.

If you know how, it really isn’t that hard to do. The hardest part of the whole equation is to stay at it until…

Until next time..

Monika

Blogging Web 2.0

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