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2010-03-19T15:35:00.000-05:00

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Make Money Blogging - Lesson 4

2008-07-21T21:45:00.006-05:00

Make Money Blogging - Lesson 4

This lesson is short and simple. As I've been watching my blogs climb to the top pages in the Google search, one thing became very clear to me. When you're creating your blogs as layed out in one of the earlier lessons it's very important to select your header words very carefully. Below is the header written for this blog

Welcome to Make Money Blogging 101, this blog provides basic information to optimize your blogs search engine results and tips on how to make money blogging. This blog is affiliated with the YoMammy.com Blogging Network!

This header was changed from the original header. The new header maximizes the use of key words and attempts to DRAW the surfer's interest to the link. Remember, it's important for the surfer to click your link once you've been successful in moving your indexed link to the top pages of the search engines. If the link isn't viewed what's the point in all this effort!

This seems like an elementary point. However, I blew by the importance of the header initially and saw the error after the link started moving to the top.

Tip - The "header" text, in the Blogger.com format, is what the search engines list in the search results.

Note: see the back links that were created for this blog in the last entry. (prior lesson)

Making Money Online - Article

2008-06-30T00:33:00.002-05:00

This Article was written for GoArticles.com on 6-29-08.

Making Money Online! Another quick tip - As I sit her looking at a blank page I ponder about what I should write about. It suddenly hit me! QUALITY CONTENT. We all know that quality content on the web is king and critical in steering people to your niche target. My niche area for "Quality Content" is Internet Marketing and Making Money Online . As I think about these concepts a number of things come to mind. Some of the important issues for me as I write about Making Money Online are, back links and page placement. Most people that write articles, do so, to also create back links and to improve their search engine placement. Content can be created by personal experience or a little research. I like to review other blogs posted on a variety of blog sites. As I review blogs, I get ideas to write about and then proceed to compose my masterpiece just kidding). Sometime, I find myself searching Google with special keywords. As an example, last week I was researching for one of my blogs and I searched Lakeshore Property on Google. As I looked at the links I wrote down several topics that came to the top of the search. After reviewing the topics I put together a nice 600 word article about Lakeshore interests; attractions and rentals fit nice into my back linking efforts that follow a well writen article. I hope that you've enjoyed this short but simple example of how to create original and helpful content for marketing your blogs and Online Empire! Alpha Wolf - YoMammy.com

Making Money Blogging - Lesson 3

2008-06-26T13:05:00.006-05:00

Making Money Blogging - Lesson 3

I'm going to switch gears for a minute and introduce you to another quick way to Make Money! I currently took approximately 250 domain names that I own and parked them at Parked.com. The domains are setup with appropriate templates that match the domains keywords. The site (Parked.com) is very user friendly and has generated good daily revenue since I've moved these domains to their site several months ago. After placing my domains on Parked.com I created a simple web site to link the domains to. This new site is called YoMammy.com. YoMammy.com provides quick reference links for all the domains that were parked at Parked.com. After watching the performance of the domains I linked the domains that produce the highest click through traffic, and that produce the highest revenue streams, at the top of YoMammy.com. As you can see, there are categories for all interests. The latest links added are for Hybrid Autos and Healthcare needs. The obvious objective I face is marketing YoMammy.com. As I continue to build out blogs as noted in the first two lessons, I will add back links for YoMammy.com from these blogs. Hopefully, the back links will generate additional traffic (wish me luck!) Please read the other lessons on this blog if you haven't.

Note to reader, YoMammy.com later became what is now known as the
Planet Blogging Network!

Blog on good peoples - Alpha Wolf

Make Money Blogging - Lesson 2

2008-06-26T10:46:00.006-05:00

Making Money Blogging - Lesson 2

I hope all of you are doing well and have created your blog(s) through blogger.com. I also hope that you have taken the time to opened up an account with goarticles.com. If you haven't written an article yet what are you waiting for! If you need a review on creating blogs and back links checkout the previous steps outlined in Tip 1 noted below!

As for today I want to stress the importance of familiarizing yourself with the following web sites: technorati.com and feedburner.com. To take the next step in blogging you must take this leap of faith and visit these sites, and open up accounts.

Why Technorati? Technorati's the Google for Blogs (that's why).

Why Feedburner? Because FeedBurner offers the biggest, baddest advertising network for blogs and RSS feeds you’ll find anywhere on the planet (that's why).

There will be more on this later. Have a nice day, Alpha Wolf.

Make Money Blogging - Lesson 1

2008-06-01T17:17:00.015-05:00

Make Money Blogging - Lesson 1

Welcome, I am Alpha Wolf, the editor of Make Money Blogging 101 and PlanetBlogging.com. These sites will provide tips and techniques for beginning bloggers. The tips will assist you in making money online. If you have questions not covered in Make Money Blogging 101 please feel free to contact us at PlanetBlogging.com

This blog will assist beginners that want to Make Money Blogging! This blog is new and will effectively present proven concepts and ways to better your strategies in making money on the Internet. This blog is intended for beginners. However, we will discuss other advanced issues like the importance of back links and how page placement can be improved. First, you have to create a blog to Make Money. I believe that Blogger.com (owned by Google) is the best medium to launch your blogging career! After going to Blogger.com you will have to create an account. Once you create your account you'll have to select a blog title and blog URL. Please give some thought to these titles and URL links because they will become your keywords. Your blog's title will appear on your published blog. The URL you select will be used by visitors to access your blog. Remember, the blog title and URL should have some commonality. It is very important to use your keywords in your Blog's Title and URL Address. It will greatly assist you when it comes to search engine rankings, indexing, and later Making Money.
This may be the best way for a beginner to start out. Build a blog on a specific topic and create good quality content for it. Google will then index and rank your blog page and all you have to do is kick back as Google sends thousands of visitors to your site. This approach works well because you will learn more about Internet marketing as you go and this approach is FREE!

After creating your account on Blogger.com and establishing your keywords (Title and URL) you'll be asked to select a template. Our blogs are layed out on a Minima template. This template works well for our use.

Thanks for tuning in and please look for our next article on Make Money Blogging!

After you create your Blog on Blogger.com there are several settings that you should change. First, go to the "Basic" setting and create a description for your Blog. This description should use keywords to again remind the reader of the blog content. Secondly, go to the "Comments" setting and change the comments to include "anyone". This will allow anyone to comment on your Blog (no restrictions). Now the fun starts............. check the "Customize" link in the upper right portion of your blog. It is here that you can make custom changes to the layout.

Now for advertising and Making Money. First, you'll have to open up an AdSense account with Google. After creating the AdSense account we suggest that you place ads in three strategic locations of the blog. First, place a vertical 200 x 90 wide button in the upper right margin. Secondly, place a 728 x 90 Leaderboard banner on the footer margin and lastly, place a 468 x 60 banner below the blog posts area on the blog. This format displays symmetry, balance and effective locations for the AdSense advertisements.

Now that we're setup and ready to Make Money we'll have to get indexed by Google. The simplest way to see if you're indexed is to view your blog and copy your URL from the browser and paste it into the search engine of Google.com. You'll be indexed if a link back to your blog is located through Google.com. Simply put, does the search engine know that your site exists? If you're not indexed how do you get indexed? Good question.... Start providing fresh content on your site/blog. Google doesn't like a copied and pasted content when it comes to indexing.

Now lets look at a few other things. Page content, Google likes original and unique content. You will get indexed quicker using original content on your blog. If you copy and paste content found elsewhere on the Internet you may not get indexed. Keywords, are very important. The rule of thumb is that you want to use your keyword 6 or 7 times per one hundred words. (keyword density should not exceed 6-7% of your total article) This is very important. Content Volume, Google likes volume. If you're blogging about making money Online you could write about a variety of ways to make money on the Internet. You could write about blogging and advertising. You could also write about good marketing strategies. This holds true for writing about hunting or fishing as well. Remember, use your keywords 6-7% of the time when writing about your topic of interest. Page Ranking & Back Links, How do you get on the top/first page at Google? If you had a page rank of 10 you would be on the top page. Google ranks pages 1-10. If you're recently indexed with limited content you may have a 1 page ranking. This ranking can be improved with back links. What are Back links? Back Links are links placed on other websites, blogs, forums or directories that connect people to your site. Here's a good guide to follow: As you write your article try to use approximately 400 words. Try to use your keywords approximately 24 times. Remember to use your keywords in the Blog post title, first sentence, and last sentence. Put your Keyword in bold type at least once in the article. Put your link in the link field (of your blog) so that the post links back to your site/blog.

The link would be http://yourblog.blogspot.com - replace "yourblog" with your sites url name. Post your article on your Blog. After you have finished posting on your Blog go to GoArticles.com and post your article on their website. First, you'll have to create an account (it's quick and easy) secondly, post you article. Remember the article has to be somewhat original. Change a few words around and then link your keywords back to your original site. Google now sees links back to your web site from GoArticles.com...congratulations you've just created your first back link.

Note - For the GoArticles post. When linking back to your site (back links) use the text noted below to create the hyperlinks. If you have a hunting article and want to link back the keywords "great hunting" to: makemoneyblogging101.blogspot.com it would look like this. When the below text is published it will show only the words "great hunting".

<*a href="http://makemoneyblogging101.blogspot.com/">great hunting <*/a>

This is the code to make a hypertext link - the two * should be removed as I had to put them in as spaces for you to read this code. With out the * you would see this great hunting If you hover over the link you will see the back link pointing to makemoneyblogging101.blogspot.com in your browser window.

Alpha Wolf