Just lately, there’s been a minor flurry of Internet Marketers who are beginning to turn their backs on the supposedly hard and fast rules of making money by building up a huge list of noobs and then pimping all the latest Clickbank crap to them. They are, instead, re-learning the basics of how to make money online with Adsense.

I say re-learning, because so many beginners to the business are put off trying to learn how to make money online with Adsense when they build a great looking blog, slap up some Adsense then sit back waiting for the clicks that never come. They have probably been told in the beginning that they need traffic to their blogs in the first place and that traffic has to be targeted. What they’re probably not told is that targeted traffic is really only going to come from the search engines, and for that to happen, they need their blog to rank for its main keywords first.

Second they need their keywords to attract sufficient searches in the first place. That means a decent number of people coming toyour site direct from the search engines looking for something to do with your keyword. because that’0s how they found you in the first place.

The minor revolution in how to make money online has been sparked off by a few people in particlular, who have all been featured and linked to in this blog in previous posts, namely Griz, Vic and Court amongst others. But there is a method in my own madness here, because while its nice to link out to these guys, its also important to use blog posts to link out to your own sites when they need a little lift. Which is the underlying reason for this post.

You see, in order to rank for your keywords in any niche, you need backlinks form other blogs and static websites that live on different servers (and therefore IP addresses) to your own. It helps if you have access to such blogs so that you can post on them and include a link or two to these fledgling blogs and help them up the ladder. Sort of like this blog is for me. Ok, I’m co-author with Monika, but it lives on a different server to the blogs I’m going to link to and so give them some nice juice to help them on their way.

This is really a part of article marketing which is the Internet Marketer’s bread and butter when it comes to obtaining links to their sites. Unfortunately, the main search engine which drives most of the organic traffic around the place has done something to its internal gubbins that has managed to devalue the link juice coming from the traditional article directories. Which is why posting unique articles yourself by hand in blogs such as this one (because I can and you can’t unless you sign-up) is teh way to go now, because they still carry the most link juice.

So, one self-serving blog post all about how to make money online with Adsense later and my own blog has got its link and is sent happily on its way to ranking in its niche, which will doubtless take a rather long time seeing as how in this instance it is working the highly competitive MMO niche, which every astute marketer will tell you to steer clear of as you are up against too many knowledgeable people who will continue to outrank you. But that’s not going to stop me from getting a foot in the door with a growing network of blogs that will, in good time, make the difference between nowhere and no way, to somewhere and a definite way!

So how does all this tie in with how to make money with Adsense?

Well, 90% of the work is in getting your site ranked in the search engines, and in particular Google. Once you’ve achieved that and the targeted traffic is flowing, then and only then do you put up Adsense ads on your blog. The clicks you will get will be targeted and they will therefore attract the most CPC, meaning you will be making money from your Adsense ads. It helps if your blog is set out with only Adsense, and the ad block is prominently placed. It also helps if your blog is not to fussy - the plainer the better with as few distractions as possible as you don’t want visitors clicking out on other links that don’t make you any money!

It doesn’t take a lot of brain work to figure out that the more traffic you get from the search engines, the more you will make from Adsense. If you can do that for one blog in one niche, then you can repeat it with more blogs in other niches.

How to make money with Adsense demystified or what!

Freelance Writer Terry Didcott
Co-Author of Blogging Web 2.0

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