Set one up do some SEO and move on to another. 10 blogs making $20 a week is pretty sweet considering itll only cost you $5 or less for blog hosting and $10 or less for a domain name. How many blogs can you make in a week? The more you make, well, the more you make. You have to keep in mind though that you have to do some off page work on each blog in order for it to get any traffic. If you dont have any traffic you dont have anything. Read on and Ill show you how to do it.
The first step is to choose the right domain!!! The domain name is very important and should contain your blogs key terms within it. Lets say were building a blog about metal toasters the best domain name for this would be Using the key term or keyword in the domain lets the search engines know that youre serious about metal toasters Theres four things listed on a search result page; Title, description, the domain and the URL. You want the term metal toaster in as many of these as possible. If its and I write a post about the Cuisinart CPT-160 Metal Classic 2-Slice Toaster the web address would look like this: /Cuisinart-CPT-160-Metal-Classic-2-Slice-Toaster.com Now metal and toaster are in the URL twice. This is KEY to your search engine indexing and results. Not only do you have the URL covered youll also have the description and the title nailed down too. Now metal toaster is all over your site! Sweet!!!
The next step is to find a good blogging program and a bog hosting plan. Hands down bar none WordPress is the best! Theres a lot of reasons WordPress does so well. Finding a hosting company that offers 1 click WordPress Blog Hosting isnt hard the best one click prorgams are offered by Niner Hosting and MyHosting.com WordPress is WordPressa is WordPress, no matter who you buy your hosting plan from its going to be WordPress in the end. Find the cheapest hosting plan gor your first blog.
After you have your domain name and your blog hosting set up you can start to build your blog. For this article lets stay with metal toasters The first thing well do is pick a WP Theme. The them is the layout, coloring and font of your blog. Theres literally thousands of WordPress Themes and plugins. Which is why WordPress is by far the best blogging platform. Choose a light easy to read theme. Something that makes the user feel bright, fresh and clean. Ready to click on your banners and ads. The theme choice is important, make sure you spend some time and find the right one.
After youve picked your theme your ready to start adding the plugins that will make you blog go. The following plugins are highly recommended and will make your blog a ton more successful. From SEO to link color to running your own auctions, plugins rock! Ok, lets get started with your plugins
1. SEO Ultimate This is a must have, first to load plugin. Seo Ultimate handles all the behind the scenes SEO goodies. SEO is by far the most important thing to getting any traffic at all to your new blog. SEO is your life line or your money line. If no one visits your blog no one can click on your ads. Remember, were blogging for money here, not for good times. Those URLS with metal toaster in it. SEO Ultimate takes car of all that for you. With this unreal plugin you can control just about every aspect of your blog and design it all to be VERY SEO FRIENDLY.
2. Easy Adsense Adsense should be your main focus. Normally adsense is thought of as a way to monetize your traffic that otherwise may not have been interested in your product. Instead of just an out click, you got revenue instead. Well this time around lets build a blog for it, hope they click on it but well deal with an affiliate click too. by focusing on adsense and making you affiliate clicks secondary you know youll be paid for a click as opposed to If the sale happens but like I said well take that too. Use adsense on your pages and posts to the left of your writings and two in the right side bar. This is what Ive found to be most profitable. Use banner ads on the side and text ads in the articles themselves.
3. Batch Links This plugin is designed to add links to posts for a predefined list of keywords. It is primary utilized as a SEO tool, so you can use your WordPress-powered blog to boost the SEO rankings of other websites, which you link through the keywords. This is a great way to get your deep linking going. Lets say I have 100 articles on different metal toasters. I dont want to go through all 100 articles and add links to the keywords that I want. Instead I use the BL plugin. Add a keyword attach a link and the plugin automatically finds all the keywords in your blog and ads links to them. GREAT for SEO, search engines love links Both internal and external! (Notice the blue links on this page, thats the plugin at work)
4. Google XML Sitemaps This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog. This is a great tool and a must have plugin that will help you get your blog listed and traffic flowing. A site map helps search engines make sure they get all the important pages that you blog has to offer. Anything that makes indexing and crawling your blog easier is great!
5. SEO No Duplicate This plugin helps you manage your search engine duplicate content, by setting your post pages canonical to the permalink. Search engines hate duplicate content. This plugin makes sure you never have aproblem wih that by changing the URLs. If for some reason I have an article titled great metal toaster twice this plugin will apend a number to the end, subtle but efective, its no longer the same to the search engines.
6. StatPress Reloaded Improved real time stats for your blog. Stats are never a bad thing and StatPress Reloaded is one of the best stat plugins around. You can of course run AdWords as well. But you need at least one tracking method and the more the better.
Thats it. Thats all you need in order to get a blog going and all you need to make it go are those few plugins. Youll find more to enjoy but those are the important ones and theyll more than get you started on your new addiction
So Step are: 1. Domain name: Same as your keywords or key target terms (Metal Toaster) 2. Blog Hosting: 3. Youre theme of choice 4. The above mentioned plugins set and ready to go
Your blog is ready to make money!
Making money with your blog is why youre here. Lets start from the beginning. In order to make any money from your blog you have to have something that people want to read about and search about on the engines. Doesnt do you any good to write about dog breath if no one is searching for dog breath. Not only that no ones paying to advertise anything on the term dog breath DEAD END! What you want to look for is something that people want to read about and something people pay good money for as advertisers. For example; Car insurance. Huge search market, big ad payouts. Youll never get ranked for that key word. Do you have the pull AAA does or Gieco No, so dont try it. Instead work with something smaller, more niche, but not to niche or you wont make anything on your click troughs. It pays up to $50.00 a click on Free Insurance Quote not the same for Dog Breath See what I mean. Gotta find a happy medium of keyword popularity, competition and payout.
Finding the right keywords to build your blog around can be a little daunting. Dont give up, theres plenty to go around! Use Google Keywords Tool to find a good happy medium between competition and ad pay out on the clicks you hope to receive.
Once youve found a good solid niche to blog about and you have a good idea on what the ad pay out is, its time to start getting some traffic.
Getting the traffic you want and so desperately need is easier than you might think. SEO is hugely important to the blogger. Free traffic is the best traffic. Getting traffic is not as hard as it may seem. Content is king! The more content your site has the more chance you have of a page getting indexed, searched and brought to your blog. One of the best way to do this is by using Unique Article Writer (UAW) . This is one of the best ways to get unique content for your blog. Article writing is hugely important to SEO and to traffic. Not only does it create interest and traffic to your blog it also gets you valuable backlinks. This is where UAW shines. Your new blog needs content and backlinks. UAW is a great way to get both!
Now that you have all the plugins and the UAW plugin going its time to start the Off Page SEO, ready? Off page SEO is anything you do thats not on your blog. Writing article, link swapping and social bookmarking. All of these and more combined should be part of your weekly grind. Meaning once a week write an article, tweet something new and add something to your FaceBook page. Never neglect social bookmakings!
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