Archive for February, 2010

easy steps to earning just the little bit more from Google adsense

Sorry I haven’t posted in short while, I have been quite busy catching up from the Christmas holidays and being a little bit to obsessed with call of duty MW2 so I thought ill do a post on how YOU can earn a bit more from Adsense and make your websites pay for itself.

The steps are quite easy and shouldn’t take long at all but feel free to comment below if you think I have missed something out. Remember this article is a no frills and simply covers the basics:
1. Picking a product Keyword

  • Picking a niche that you like is better than picking a niche that has the highest payout, the main reason is that you can quite easily right up a article about a “Bongos” for example but you will easily get bored and if you get bored then your traffic drops. Make sure you pick something that will be of interest to you so you can keep your interest and keep the content fresh.

If you really are stuck then look my article on finding a niche

2. Finding the right long tail keywords

  • Long tail keys are also vital to the future of your adsense income – This is when people search for a term i.e. “How to play bongos” so you use your main keyword “bongos” as well as How, Play.

Read my article on finding longtail keywords

3. Researching your Competition and CPC

  • This is where Google can be your friend by taking advantage of Googles keyword tool to check out how many people are searching for a certain keyword and also find out how much a keyword could be worth per click. I tend to only pick keywords that are over a $1 else its just not worth it.

4. Choose a simple and easy to use theme or template.

  • Only use simple themes for your blog or website that are easy to use, not cluttered with adverts and defiantly do not have tool bars and popups as this really does affect your traffic.

5. Write about 300-400 words of content on your product

  • Write about 3/400 words in a article about your product, try not to go over board as people get bored of the article is to long.

6. Build 20-40 backlinks weekly

  • Even though article marketing seems to be slowing down as the market is flooded with low quality articles that have been spun over and over again, you can get some good strong backlinks from Ezine and other article directories. You must make sure not to use the same articles from your website as your site will then have duplicate content. Other options are blog commenting and forum signatures to help build up the backlinks in a timely manner!

That’s pretty much it to setting up your website for adsense ;)

How to gain traffic to your blog

The number one goal for a blogger is for people to actually read there blog. Without guests they have no way of gaining traffic to there new blog. Although there are many ways to gain traffic to your blog, there are a few ways that stand out from the rest.

Here are some tips to gain traffic to your blog:

1. SEO Optimize your blog – SEO Optimizing means setting your blog to use keyword friendly URL’s, depending on your blogging software you can set your blog to use search engine friendly URL’s. If that is not an option, you should look for a program modification that will perform this task. Remember to target keywords in your post names, so that you can gain traffic from google, when people search for those keywords.

2. Build Links – This also goes with tip #1 because when you build links it can also help you rank higher in the search engines for your targeted keyword. A few ways to build links are: (a) Signature Links – Links on different forums, are great because it gives you a link on every post that person makes (b) Exchange Links – Find alike blog’s and build traffic together, it’s a great way to become friends with the competition.

3. Social Bookmarking – Did you know that when you make a tweet on twitter, it is reverberated by tons of sites, which display your tweets as while? Even Google actually picks up your tweets. Tweeting your URL’s can provide a mass traffic surge, so remember to tweet your URL’s. Another “bookmarking” tool is to “digg” your posts; this will help you get targeted people from Digg. Ask your friends to digg your posts as while, that way you can get a higher digg ranking.

4. Article Directories – Submit articles, to different Article Directories, when people like your writing, they may take a visit to your blog because they want to learn more. This may gain you return visitors who want to read your great writings.

5. Many More Ways – All of the ways and tips I have given you are just a start to gaining traffic to your blog, the truth is there are a lot more ways of building traffic, but you need to discover the best way, because every type of site is different, so every way to build traffic is different to.

I hope this article helps gain traffic to your blog.

So is onpage SEO really that difficult?

“SEO” maybe a term that could either confuse you or just something that your are not that interested in doing, but I’m sorry to say that you do need just a little knowledge about SEO or your website will simply fail. Getting traffic is not as hard as you may think and the hardest part of SEO is really quite simple.

The main part of SEO is what most “SEO experts” called on page optimisation and this is finding keywords that are suited to your website or “niche” that you think people would be searching for on the search engines like Google or Bing. A lot of website owners should do on-page SEO when they build the website by using the <*title> tags or building a article around certain words that you think could draw attention to your website.

When choosing keywords you need to find out what you think your potential viewers would be searching for and then placing those keywords into your website. You can pay companies or experts hundreds if not thousand of dollars but with a little bit of time and research, you can do the same job and more than likely have the same results than any expert can do for you.

The most important start to optimising your website is by using the title tags, and if your unsure what these are then you really need to research the basics of html before your attempt to get a website up and running, a website without the proper coding or meta tags can cause huge damage to your website.

A example of meta tags that you should be using for your website:

<*meta name="Description" content="This would be something about your business
or website, keep it short " />
<*meta name="Keywords" content” Any keywords that you think would benefit your website,
but don’t use loads of keywords " />
<*title>This title tag is very important but you need to have different title
on every page of your website while keeping it short and to the point.</title>

Now you have your meta tags set up, you need to do some keyword research and you can do this with ease, with the help of Google Keyword Tool while also using Google for your researching also. Go over to Google Keyword Tool and work out which keywords you think would be useful for your website, if you have a website about Dogs then you might want to target keywords like:

+ How to look after a dog

+ How to feed a puppy

+ My puppy has worms

What I tend to do first is search is Google for a term I think might get traffic to my website, if you Google “My puppy has worms” and all you get in the page listings is Yahoo answers, Ezine Articles or forums then you know that you can dominate that keyword phrase as there isn’t many websites using that phrase, then you need to have a look in the Google keyword tool to see how many people would be searching that phrase, if you find its only a small number searching for those keywords then you will be wasting you time but if you see that Google shows that thousands of people are looking for the term” My puppy has worms” then you know that you can use those keywords on your website either in your title tags or using the words in a article or write up about your product. Once you have filled up a page using this method of keyword research then you  can do the same on your other pages, this takes a bit of time but the rewards can be fantastic and the main thing about doing this is that you are saving yourself a lot of money.

I hope you enjoyed this article

p.s please remove * from the tags if you wish to use them

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