Money Hints

Well, its been awhile with no posts in here, but this lean spell has been created by my having several large freelance writing assignments to wade through and they pay the bills! So following belatedly on from the last post entitled simply: Content, where I not surprisingly wrote a lengthy article all about the need for good, keyword rich content to boost your site’s overall credibility and authority, I will now look at the other side of the SEO coin, links.

By links, I mean the inbound links that your site attracts from outside sources, namely other websites, blogs, Squidoo lenses, Hub Pages, free blogs, and social bookmarking tags. Inbound links from all of these sources will create authority fro your site, so it is important if you want to rank well for certain keywords that you procure as many of these backlinks as you can.

Authority will eventually get you a highly coveted placement on page one of the search engines, but to get there, depending upon the niche you are targeting, you need to have a lot of authority. Well that’s certainly true for highly competitive niches like make money online, or payday loans, or finance, mortgages, credit cards etc as well as some of the more visciously fought over scraps from the technology world with items like iPods, digital cameras, camcorders, mobile phones etc. I think I’ve made my point here.

Of course, if you are targeting less competitive niches and especially for long tail keywords, you don’t need anything like as many backlinks to rank well, as long as the competition as is does not have them either. All you need is a few more good strong keyword anchored links more than the site occupying the top spot and you will overtake them. Thats a fact and so many people still don’t see it.

I’m not going to try to tell you how to compete with the how to make money online brigade, because it takes huge resources in time and money to do that and in the end its reall not worth it. So I’ll instead look at how to overtake much less stiff competition in a smaller niche.

Now, I can’t go telling you which niches to target, as all the ones that I know that make money fast for me will stop doing that if a load of competition turns up at my door and ups the ante!

So I’m going to have to be general here about niches. But suffice it to say there are literally thousands of untapped long-tail keyword niches out there that anyone who stumbles over them will make easy money if they work it right. As I’ve already said, its all about procuring more strong, keyword anchored one-way backlinks than the sites at the top of the list you are targeting.

So how do you know how many of these links you’ll need to overtake the top site in the list?

In a word, you’ll need a good software tool that will tell you how many links a competing site already has, so that you can go ahead and beat them. There is only one software tool that I personally use and swear by and that SEO Elite. You can look at any other website or blog and it will tell you how many inbound links a site has, the text anchor used for thsoe links and, importantly the PR of the sites providing the links.

Armed with that knowledge, you will then know exactly waht you need to do in order to overtake that site, by obtaining more of the same links that the other site has. Now you probably won’t be able to get those links from the same sources, so you need to get creative here.

Find sites that occupy the same niche

Find the sites with the same or higher PR

Find the sites that will give you a keyword anchored link as opposed to a crappy unanchored one

Find sites that will not require a reciprocal link

Go outside and see the pig flying across your neighbourgood!

Yep, I didn’t say it would be easy, but that’s what you have to do. But you don’t always have to go cap in hand and beg borrow or buy those links, although do it if you can. If you’ve been following this blog since its re-entry into the world wide web, which is about 7 or so months, then you should have been diligently building periperal sites of your own that can provide those links for you. By having your own sites with PR and authority, you bypass most of the problems that your competitors will have in obtaining sufficient links to beat you to the top spot.

Ok, you’ll still need to get external links if the top site you want to overtake has a lot of good strong links, but they don’t always. Sometimes you can take that top spot with a mere handful of correctly anchored links versus the other site’s larger volume of un-anchored links even from higher PR sites than you. That’s because when it comes to links, it is all about keyword authority. If your site has greater keyword authority than your competitors, then you will overtake them in the SERPs.

The greatest keyword authority comes in the form of links from high PR sites in the same niche as you that place your keyword in the link’s anchor. One of those will outweigh many links from unrelated sites that are not correctly anchored. If your sites don’t have high PR, then even a PR0 site can give greater authority links than a higher PR site in an unrelated niche that gives a straight un-anchored link.

So with that in mind, you can actually beat any competition in any low competing long tail niche if you have sufficient indexed websites and blogs occupying the same niche that you can focus links to one main site from.

And that’s how to easily make money online without spending it on buying links that could, even the next day lose their juice through a slap if they’re caught selling links! Think about that.

Terry Didcott
Make Money Hints

As a nice follow up to my last post here at Make Money Hints, which, believe it or not was all about how to make money fast by getting your site up to the top of the serps using a combination of on-site and off-site SEO techniques, I’m going to continue the theme of using everything you have in your armoury that is legit to keep up the pressure.

One of the most consistently successful make money fast ways of keeping your site on that first page of teh SERPs once you got it there is to keep the content fresh and new. You want to make money fast from organic traffic, as I’ve said countless tinmes in this blog and to do that you need to be on page one of the SERPs.

Google is constantly on the look-out for sites that have fresh, new and relevant content to the topic they are about. And whether that content is really radically new and exciting never heard before kick ass information, or whether its the same old same old rehashed and repackaged like just about every Internet Marketer out there including me is doing, they will always lift the sites that provide it over the ones that don’t.

Simple fact of life. Keep yoru make money fast content fresh any way you can and your site or blog will stay high. Ignore your site and don’t add any fresh content in there for a while and watch your baby slide down the chute into the nether regions of obscurity with all the rest of the lazy, couldn’t be bothered to write some stuff once in a while on their sites!

Oh, and one other make money fast thing about that content. You want it to contain enough of your main and secondary keywords (as in this case fast make money) as you can without overdoing it and keyword stuffing your content. That’ll just get your site flagged as spam which you definitely do not want if you desire any chance to make money fast with it.

But as for your easy make money ways content itself. You want it to be readable, of course or you’ll just end up with all the Eastern European badly written English unintelligible crap sites on page two hundred plus. You know the ones I mean? yep, they’re the ones you come across when you’re searching for your new site in the SERPs and keep going down page by page until you find it eventuall…

Ok, that’s a bit unfair, but hell, it happens!

When your site is new it won’t suddenly jump out and appear on page one! No matter how many make money fast back-links you have in the beginning. The search engines take time to spider all those links and even then if the big G thinks you got them too fast… Wham! your site is gone to the sandbox!

So back to fast make money ways content. Yeah, I know I keep slipping in those easy make money fast keywords all over th place but I’m doing it because that’s what keeps this site on page one and not writing the best grammaticlally correct English. Why? Because easy make money fast is a phrase that doesn’t easily lend itself to fitting nicely into any grammar I know, so it just has to stick out like a sore make money fast thumb wherever I can insert it because I want the search engines to know that they are my main keywoprds for this site.

W hich is how you will also get your site onto the front page my friend. Not by courting hundreds of loyal readers from stumbleupon and digg, or collecting hundreds of loyal feed readers. They will get you jack shit, unless of course your only motive is to be read and not to make money (fast)!

To make money fast in this cut-throat game, you firsdt need to have your site or blog in another niche than the not-so-easy make money niche. Why? As I and several other marketers have repeated over and over gain, you will not make money in the anything but easy make money niche. Its crap. The only people that read make money fast blogs are other marketers trying to find the holy grail of how to easy make money fast for themselves.

Ok, you might attract a few noobs and maybe they’ll buy an affiliate eBook through your link, but most noobs only read the sites that are at the top of the SERPs and those sites are SEO’d up to the hilt by expert marketers all vying for that front page spot so they can make money fast from them. If you’re just starting out forget it. You have absolutely no chance of breaking in there for a loooong time!

Instead, direct your energy and enthusiasm into a less competitive niche where you stand a better chance of getting onto the front page and attracting genuine organic search traffic that will click on your ads and affiliate links (mainly because they don’t know what they are) and that way you will make money. Fast?

Maybe not, but it will grow steadily over time, which is the only way to do it after all.

Terry Didcott
Make Money Hints

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