Making Money Online through Blogging

Have you thought of making money online but doesn’t know what and where to start? Or you already have an idea of a certain topic that you wanted to have for your website but doesn’t know how to create a website? These are just some of the common problems that a lot of people are facing today that wanted to start an income through online. If you consider yourself having problems similar to these I have mentioned, then you probably wanted to read this article. In this very first step you should consider choosing a certain topic that you think it is profitable or that is a trending issue that is something related to business or any money-making matters. “AND THEN, JUST HOLD THAT IDEA FIRST, IF YOU ALREADY HAVE.” – If not, continue reading below.

How to Choose a Profitable Topic

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In these very initial steps of making money online business campaign, I suggest you to stay focused and understand all the important details prior to starting to create your own niche topic for your website. Having a better understanding on this very initial steps of making money online can help you plan your overall campaign and consider some steps that you may want to prepare in order for you to prevent future issues that you can consider along the process of your campaign.

A profitable topic is one that has a great deal of demand (searches) and minimal supply (existing sites). And one way to determine how profitable a topic is to start with the search engines. Search engines such as Google.com and Bing.com are one of the great resources to look for a good topic for you to use in your website in making money online. These search engines that I have just mentioned are one of the few that a lot of people are using. With these search engines, you could get an idea on what topic is a good to start in our website since a lot of people are using these for their everyday online business ventures. I assume that you already have your own profitable topic chosen and now, JUST HOLD THAT IDEA FIRST but not your breathe, just continue reading below.

Making the Plans: The Foundation

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5 Ways to Make Money Blogging

So before you jump in with your “great idea” you need to stop and think about how people are going to find your site. They don’t just stumble upon websites because they are on the Internet. They find them through things like search, social media and word of mouth. This is very important to consider because if your website has no or a few visitors only, then you would not be making money online with your blog. Making money over the internet with your website/blog, requires a lot of visitors or visits in order for you to generate an income through ads or online selling. Your visitors or readers are considered as the heart and soul of your website as they are the reasons why you are making money online. Now the question is, how to generate a lot of traffic going to your website? Or how can you direct those readers/readers going to your website?

Choosing a topic for your website is not that really hard. What makes it challenging is how to create a vast number of traffic going to your website. If you can figure out how to generate great number of visitors to your website, then that is the time that you can decide which topic are you going to use for your website niche. You need to find a way and establish a funnel of traffic to your site first, in order you can decide for the best topic for your website and not the other way around.

Mostly this is the main reason why a lot of people failed with their making money online campaign even if they already have all the resources needed for hosting a website. They choose a topic for their website and without any considerations and plans they just wrote whatever contents for their website and then at the later part, they just don’t know what to do next. They didn’t have a plan or direction for their website and that makes them to fail.

It’s like a ship that has no direction which eventually sinks in the middle of the ocean. A great waste of resources that you have spent. This includes time, money and energy!

Now let me ask you, was the topic you have been holding awhile ago is still that topic you may want to use for your campaign? If you’re wondering why I let you choose a topic first and then let you find a way how to create a traffic to your website, it is because this is the most common issue that most people failed with their campaign.

How to Make Money Online: Maximizing Your Google AdSense Estimated Income

From the last article written about “How to Make Money Online with Your Google AdSense Account”, this is the continuation. With this new episode of my article, I’ll be sharing with you some tips and advices on how to start your campaign with your Google AdSense Account and start earning. Before you can monetize your Google AdSense Account, you should have your own website where you can begin and post your ads.”
Before you even begin your site, make sure you’ve come up with a topic that you feel you know plenty about. That way it will be easiest to write a lot of content. The more content you have, the better chance you have getting accepted into the program. Also, the more content and traffic the greater the earning potentials would be.If you want to make a lot of money, prepare to write a lot of content and learn how to market your site. Don’t expect to throw up a 10 page site and make $1,000 per month. That’s unrealistic. Now let’s talk about building your website.

Tips on How to Increase Your Google AdSense Earnings

Creating Your Site

Get a domain (greengeek420.com) and then sign up for a web host and build your pages. I highly recommend using WordPress to create your site because you just pick a theme and your site is up and running. Once you have selected your theme, you can add AdSense ads by either using a free AdSense plugin or you can use the WordPress Text widget to easily add ads to your sidebar.

How to Join AdSense

Once you have 20-30 pages on your site, go to http://adsense.google.com to apply. When you are accepted, simply copy and paste the provided HTML code into any page that you’d like to show the ads. You can opt to display text ads, image ads, or a combination of both. It’s up to you.

You can either display the ads vertically alongside the page like Google does or in a banner-like formation horizontally across your pages. You can even customize the colors to match your site’s theme.

Tips on Succeeding With AdSense:

• Build Traffic
  You’re not going to make anything with your Google Adsense Account if you don’t have enough traffic. You still need to work on driving more traffic to your website.
  
  
• Do Some Experimentation With Your Designs
  Test ad sizes, images vs. text, play around with colors, you name it. I personally like to have my ads match the background of my site so they blend more. Some people prefer to make their ads stand out by using bold/contrasting colors, but that never worked well for me. I think it’s because they look so much like ads.
  
  If you have knowledge in HTML programming, you can modify how you would like to appear those ads in your website through embedding the AdSense codes right into the articles of your webpage by adding these codes:

  <table align=”right” width=”300> <tr> <td>Your Google AdSense Codes goes here…</td> </tr> </table>

  You can change the width of the table to suit your needs, just remember that it needs to be wide enough to fit whatever AdSense code you selected. You can also switch the alignment by changing the align attribute from “left” to “right.”

• Create Your Customized Channel
  
  

  

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  Channels allow you to see what units are working best. So if you are adding an AdSense unit to your header, you should create a channel called (name it Header, for example) so you can track its performance in your reports. I think it’s important to maximize your click through rate (CTR) so you can attract more advertisers (just my opinion based on logic). So I remove channels/units that perform significantly lower than others. Advertisers want to advertise on sites that will give them the most clicks, right? So it makes sense to optimize your account’s CTR as much as you can.
  
  

  

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  When you are creating a new ad unit, you are presented the option of creating a custom channel on the first screen. Set Units to “Targeted”. When you target your custom channel units, you make them available to Placement advertisers who may want to advertise on your site directly. These advertisers pay more so you earn more per click.
  
  Just click “My Ads” from your account, then select “Custom Channels”. Click the channel you want to target and click the box for targeting as illustrated at image 2.

How to Define Driving Traffic and Optimizing Website

​Driving traffic and optimizing certain affiliate websites/products that we already have setup must be handled or managed in a custom way the (Green Geek 420) way, depending on a certain product or whatever you are trying to make sale of.

First, I would like to clarify these terms before we proceed and to avoid confusion. We must be able to define what is "lead generation” and "website optimization" because if we can't define these 2 terms, definitely or mostly we would be thinking directly of creating backlinks from other blogs; community websites; forums; social media accounts other niches on the internet by dropping off hyperlinks/backlinks that would direct readers going to our website. If that is the case, it is not driving any good traffic to your website. What we are looking for are those potential buyers/customers that we could convert into making a sale for their each visit to our website.

To define, "lead generation" it means determining who those potential buyers/customers that could make a sale in our website through buying the products that we are trying to advertise! If an affiliate product is about beauty products andcosmetics, then possible target buyers are females with age around 18 to up or depending if you conducted a survey for it.

Where to Find them: Facebook or any social media accounts that we could think of that has great population on female subscribers. If you are to find female subscribers that ages around 18 - 30, then definitely you won't find them on fuckbuddy.com or any pornographic site niches.

"Optimizing" business website is much more complicated and takes a long time to achieve or maintain it main pupose. "Website optimization" or SEO is a process wherein you need to create a good reputation for your business website and promote integrity in order for Google to rank your website from the keywords related to your website’s content. So this means no black-hat strategy and it would take time for you to earn page rank value from Google. You don't need any backlinking in order for Google to determine that certain keyword is merited to your website. Being consistent and following the Google Guidelines, surely your website gets great ranking on its SERPS.

This is a conjunction to my previous blog post on "Understanding the Different Concepts of Online Marketing and SEO" --- These are just some of the ranking factors that Google may be considering in Ranking a Website or Webpage.

How to Optimize a Website: Initial Steps and Procedures

Optimizing a website whether it is a newly fresh created website or have been around for quite some time, it is very important to conduct a full analytical review of the overall website status and gather all crucial data that can be considered to have a great affect to the whole process before performing any SEO methods. In this way, you will have a solid reference in determining the effectiveness of your formulated SEO campaign method. I explicitly mentioned FORMULATED as it is because I believe to the webmaster’s point of view on SEO matters and the best way to have better rankings for your website is to follow proper SEO procedures that Google wants us to implement.

Website Optimization

Here are some steps that I have been following which I find very effective:

1. Analyze the Target of the Business Website

   In order to have a better idea on what the website is all about and other matters you need to know before getting your hands into working,
   1st Determine what the services/products that the business is catering to its clients and this could be found usually on the “about page” of the website where the list of products/services are found. --- In this way, you can determine the generic keywords needed for keyword analysis and research using the Google Keyword Planner tool and generate relevant data to be use in the overall SEO process.
   2nd Determine the target location of the business. It is very important to know where the business target is focused and the area scope in order for you to know where your limitations can go in marketing the business. From the given results, you can determine what kind of SEO approach you will be working on. If the business only caters on the local area then, conduct local SEO methods.

2. Analyze and Research Keyword Development

   Keyword research and analysis is the best way to provide accurate data we could use in order to perform effective SEO campaign. From this step, we could gather or analyze certain data ranking factors that we could use as our guide for the SEO campaign. Best example for this is to determine which keyword does have more searches used and which does has more competent value.

3. Check for an Existing Google MyBusiness Page or if it is Properly Set Up

   The most important element in order to get your business get listed on Google is having a Google MyBusiness Page account that represents to your business. All of your business information can be publicly seen on your GMB Page account. In this way your clients can find your business through your GMB page by searching on Google.

4. Determine at Least 5 Competitors of the Business

   This step may or may not be necessary depending on its actual business area location. In areas where multiple similar businesses exist or you have neighboring business entity you consider as your competitor, it is best that you could determine and analyze metric distance measure from your location are to your competitors and other relevant factors that you consider to stay up ahead with them through search engine results.

5. Check for Crawlable Business NAP Information on the Business Website’s Landing Page

   On the website’s actual contact page content, it would be best if the presence of the business NAP information and Google Maps linking to its GMB page account could be visible on the contact page of the business website. Also, it would be great if the business NAP information can be seen on the footer area of the website which can be made visible to every pages of the website. Business NAP information should be found as one entity on every business website along with its schema format embedded programmatically to the website.

6. Check the Consistency of the Business NAP Information from the Google MyBusiness Page to the Business Website

   This is also very important to make sure that the business NAP information on the website should be consistently similar from the Google MyBusiness Page account. This is one way to help Google determine that the Google MyBusiness Page account is correlated to the business website that you wanted to get ranked on Google’s search engine results.

7. Determine the Consistency of Structured Citations from Other Citation Websites

   Though it is not necessary to use some certain 3rd party/paid tools to gather a number of listing citations that can be found on other citation websites, my best recommendation would be to find those listing citation and determine if they are posted with the correct or consistent business NAP information similar to the business’ GMB page account. To optimize in local SEO, it would be advisable to register for these citation listing websites to help Google determine that your business really exist but to overpopulate. I suggest registering only to those citation websites that has good reputation.

8. Use PageSpeed Insights from Google’s Webmaster Tools

   Though may not be greatly necessary but still the best way that could be use to eliminate certain elements that are not necessary for the business website. The higher point results it shows, the better.

9. Verify Google MyBusiness Page linked to the business website through webmaster tools

   This can be done through several methods depending on which you prefer or which best applies to verify the link relationship between the Google MyBusiness page account to the business website through the Google webmaster tools account. Linking the two accounts could increase the authority and ownership value of the business website to its Google MyBusiness Page that could gain trust value from Google and thus increase the some values to the ranking factors used by Google.

10. Correlation Social Media Accounts with the Business Website

    Same as to the step 9 but this time it adds up domination over ownership and authorship value from all over the internet and increasing reputation and domain value for your business website. In this approach, correlating every account with each other is to use 1 single email address to register for all accounts. Typically the email address used to manage the business website’s GMB page account.