This how to make money online article won’t be quite such a long post as previous offerings, like my last one here at How To Make Money Online SEO Hints, which was a bit of an epic, due to time constraints and the fact that what I want to write about shouldn’t take too long.
I’ve been monitoring what this blog has been doing on Google’s pages and have managed to stay firmly rooted on page one for this particular search term, fast make money, for nearly a week now. In fact if it wasn’t for YouTube and the entry having a double inclusion, I’d be in fourth place! Never mind, the point is, for a PR0 blog to out rank a lot of highly SEO’d make money chasing blogs and websites means I’m doing something right.
So what was I going to write about in so few words today? Oh yes, keywords and the searching and researching thereof to make money fast.
It’s the keywords and your using them to your advantage that get you onto the first page of the SERPs which is where you’ll pick up a goodly portion of organic search traffic from which you’ll make money online – as long as you’re not in the damn make money niche. Because while everybody and his dog are fighting tooth and nail to get onto that first page of Google’s elite, its all for pretty much nought apart from the credibility it gets you, because for the most part, your searchers will be seasoned Internet Marketers who aren’t going to click on your ads in the first place!
I think I might have mentioned that little snippet of information previously, but its so important that I should mention it in every post I make, so newcomers to this game will not be misled into believing they will make a small fortune from putting up a “how to make money online” site and waiting for the dollars to come rolling in on th red carpet.
Anyways, back to the point. Keywords used properly will take you a long way up the SERPs ladder in whatever niche you decide to attack. Including this one. But you are much better off putting your energy into a niche blog where once you have made it to page one, the traffic you’ll get are much more likely to click your ads and therefore earn you some cash!
So how do you find the keywords?
Well its about time he got around to that bit, which is only the whole reason for this ever so short post… Mmm, I use a well known keyword research tool, that’s how. I still have to use my imagination to come up with ideas and possible keywords that not only might produce some returns, but that have some affiliate products worth promoting in the first instance so I can make money from them.
Not much point in coming up with a killer keyword, then researching it to find it gets a thousand searches a day with only a couple of thousand competitive pages in Google (niche Nirvana, by the way) only to find there isn’t a product that you can sell to them (niche bummer, by the way)!
But get the two together and BAM! you have all the ingredients to make your mark (and fast make money) as long as you have a good domain, preferable an aged one, with your keywords in the domain name. Put up a WordPress blog with a good SEO theme, like this one and read my previous informative posts here and (if you can stay awake) over at my other How to Make Money Online site too which will tell you how and away you go.
Now what was that keyword research tool by the way? Oh, its in my sidebar, see to your right and up a bit, with the small image, that’s it – Keyword Elite!
Terry Didcott
How to Make Money Online Hints
Following form the last post here at Make Money Hints, here’s another make money fast related post. Ok, its another of those keyword type titles, which could loosely be construed as asking the question, how to make money fast online?
Well, what the title pertains to I suppose is how quickly you can expect to see your blog up in the high reaches of Google’s search pages for your chosen keyword. In the case of this blog, I’ve been targeting a few long tails around the make money keyword, in order to rank for the long tails first and the obvious make money second.
So how successful has this little campaign been?
Well, I’ve had mixed success. Along with my other How to Make Money Online blog, I’ve been targeting these keywords:
- easy make money
- fast make money
- make money ways
- home make money
Of those four, I got to page one for easy make money, make money ways and now fast make money. Home make money was too competitive and I didn’t get up past page 3. The other thing I noticed is that I slid down again for all of them and nothing stays stable in any of those niches as competing sites are forever pushing to overtake me. Same thing happened with my other Make Money blog.
Right now this blog is kicking it’s ass in fast make money!
Currently (at the time of posting this) this blog stands at No. 7 for fast make money. The reason, then for this post is to try to consolidate my position on page one with another keyword rich article targeting that long tail keyword. The reason being is that this one gets a decent number of monthly searches compared to the rest (home make money gets better, but as I said is much more competitive).
All this working away diligently gathering backlinks and writing like a lunatic is a lot of work for not a lot. This blog is currently PR0 and simply doesn’t have the rank or keyword authority to take on the big guns and may not do for another year or so – even if I do work at it. But I’m not going to ne going full tilt at it, because there are so many other much more lucrative niches out there for me to spend my time developing.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the make money niche is a lot of hard work for not a good return. Unless you are one of the top sites, you’re not going to make money from the make money niche!
So if you want to know how to make money fast online, turn your efforts into a different niche, because this one is saturated!
What’s worse is even if you do finally manage to attract a good deal of search traffic in this niche, you still won’t fast make money because the majority of the visitors to your site will be other Internet Marketers who umpteen surveys have shown do not click on your ads and banners, so they are worthless to you as money making traffic!
…you are in this to make money, aren’t you?
Well, this ain’t the place to make it. Whatever the gurus and A-listers will tell you, unless you have a very big list to use as milking cows, you will not make decent money with a blog and a prayer.
So by all means run a fast make money site or blog and build up a good readership for the practice of writing on the subject, as you will gather important knowledge as you go and make a lot of friends along the way, but just don’t expect to make money by the truckload from your make money blog. You’ll make it in the niches which should make it possible for you to earn a decent living online – and it is those niches that you should be putting all your energy into.
Create lots of free blogs and use them (carefully) to promote your main site in each niche you choose to work. Also create a few Squidoo lenses to also link to your sites and drive traffic to them. Squidoo lenses index fairly quickly and can be created to target single keywords making them tightly focused link juice and traffic providers for your main sites.
So how fast can you make money online?
I dunno, that part is up to you and how hard you want to work at this.
Terry Didcott
Make Money Hints
