Make Money Online by Purchasing my new ebook on Niche Blogging! Receiving money from Adsense
Beginning of Setpember i received yet again a letter from Google with a nice small Cheque in it of €81.5 which represents approximately $120. Even though the amount is rather small, it is still nice to receive a Cheque through the post!
End of July i started posting articles again on my blogs and used certain seo techniques to get more traffic and more importantly traffic which converts well. As a result i expect my next cheque to be around $200 which is basically a 66% increase in earnings? You see earnings can climb up quickly if you have the time to write articles and promote them. Meanwhile for the the cheque after this one, i expect ot have lower revenues as in August i did not post a lot of articles due to holidays (as you can see also on this blog the number of articles posted in August and September is rather low due to holidays).
Well thats about it folks, im about to be off to an e-business forum in Paris. Today i have a conference of 1h with Google about Adwords and how it can be useful and profitable to use their services!
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How To Promote Your Niche Blog
Finding a niche blog is only one small part of the process of becoming succesful with your blog. Having a niche blog is good, but is useless unless you have traffic. Yes promoting your blog is the most essential part whether you are on a niche market or not. In this article i will explain my best technique which helps me promoting my blogs, getting traffic and increasing my revenues. This even works on brand new blogs, even though it is recommended to have a few articles on your blog before trying it.
So what is it then? Well in fact it is a lot more easy than you think. Previously, i talked about the Top 10 Link Building Techniques. In this article i talked about forum posting and the importance of having income links that are keyword relevant. Well just with this you can get a small amount of traffic, but which will convert very well. I launched recently in August a new niche blog, and am already making some small amount of money with it. In fact i making now the money i usually make with a blog but 3 months after it has been launched. In my case it worked in less than a week! Sometimes i wonder why i did not apply this method before. I also decided to use this method for my other blogs and guess what my traffic increased and as a consequence my adsense revenue also! If you are lucky to find niche markets with clicks around $2 then you will be amazingly suprised how this can be profitable!
Nevertheless what you need to know is that you must absolutely not spam your website on relevant forums. So what you have to do is find forums which are related to your niche blog topic, read messages that forum members have posted and when they ask a question, suggest an answer and offer to go and see your blog if they want more details. To be able to answer people, you will need to have some knowledge on the topic, so that is why it is recommended to launch blogs about topics you like and know things about. Do this on a daily basis, and you will se that traffic will come, that your adsense revenue will increase!
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Google and Keyword Density
Yesterday, i was watching a documentary on television on a french channel. I was actually suprised to find out that they started talking about Google and keywords. During the interviews of the documentary, i heard some valuable information which i thought i would share with you as it related to my previous post on the software Internet Business Promoter.
During the documentary, they explained how Google worked, and went in details about the competition around keywords. The example they were showing, was about jewlery, so no any interest for me, but they showed how the competition for some keywords could vary considerably. What was interesting was when they started analysing a particular website, on the demand of someone who had taken legal action against them and a competitor. The website was for eye laser surgery (youhou i have a blog on that so this started to be interesting). In fact that website had dropped down in its ranking because a competitor was in a certain way spamming google, as on the bottom of the competitors website were a list of keywords such a lasik surgery, but with mispellings (Lesik surgey etc…). With this method, the competitor was getting a whole load of traffic that the other website was not. In fact even though this could be considered as legal, it is not, as it is basically profiting from breaches in the system to create a false ranking of your website. Google said that these sorts of attitudes could be severly punished as they do not tolerate this!
One very interesting part, was when they started talking about keyword density. The nice thing about this documentary is that the guy from Google actually said what was the keyword density % they accept! So you probably want to know how much it is? Well they said that 15% was the maximum they tolerated. The indicated that websites between 10% and 15% were often checked to make sure that the website was not misleading the search engine. The reason why i said this was related to one of my previous articles, was that the software Internet Business Promoter, gives you a complete report on the keyword density on your blog, and compares it to competition so that your website is totally optimized. This software is really cool, as it really takes into account what Google considers as key elements for their rankings. I clearly recommend buying it,as it could prevent you having ranking issues, but also help you increase considerably your ranking in Google and other search Engines! You can buy it here: Internet Business Promoter 10!
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Niche Blogging Tip
While surfing on Digital Point forum, i fell on another useful tip on niche blogging, so i thought i would share with you. In my previous post i talked about using tools such as Keyword Country or Google Keyword Tool. I have just found another way to find your niche.
Its a very simple and effective method which can be used in a complementary way with the tools mentioned above and in my previous article. So what you have to do is simply use the Google Suggest Lab search page and not the usual Google search page. The Suggest Lab page will give keyword ideas. Below i have put a screenshot of it, entering “color contacts“.
On this screenshot you can see that a list of keywords appear. The first good point with this is that it gives you good ideas for keywords. The second good point is that the results are apparentely classified by amount of searches! This is actually extremely good, as they show you the number of results but also tell you those which ones have the most searches! This simplifies everything as it allows you to know which keywords have a potential and not a lot of competition!
This tool confirms why my Color Contacts blog is working. Very little competition (results) and i talk about the keywords mentionned above (color contacts acuvue, freshlook and guide)! Also i wanted to tell you that based on my experience, for a niche you need to have less than 800,000 results under Google. I would recommend around 500,000 results is ok, there will not be too much competition! So have fun with this tip and keep me informed of any nice niches found or blogs launched!
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Make Money Online with Niche Blogging
If you want to earn some regular money by blogging, then niche marketing is for you. Niche marketing consists in finding niche markets (topics), where there are many searches but very few results in search engines. Basically this means finding a topic where there is not a lot of competition, but people want information on it. Finding a niche market is not so difficult. In order to find a niche market, you should use tools such a Keyword Country or Google keyword tool. With them you will be able to find niche topics. To check that information is accurate i recommend doing a search under google and checking that number of results are inferior to 1,000,000. One of my niches has less than 700,000 results under Google which is good.
Nevertheless finding a niche market does not necessarely mean that you will make money easily. To have a successful blog on your niche topic, you will first of all have to post regularly. This is why it is important to find a topic where you have some knowledge and which interests you as if you dont then motivation for writting articles will dissapear. When i talk about posting regularly i mean you must post around 1 article every 2 to 3 days at least a the beginning during the first few months. Furtheremore, you will have to create backlinks to your blogs by posting comment on dofollow topic related blog articles in order to increase your visibility and ranking in search engines. Only after several months (generally 6 month to a year) will you see results with vistors and adsense revenues increasing. Please also note that when choosing your niche market it is recommend to choose a niche about a product or certain types of products (for example i have a blog on color contacts). When it is about products rather than general information people are often searching for information for their purchase. As they are in a purchase mood they will be more chances seeing them click on one of your ads.
Thats about it, even with a free blogger blog you can make money online! Dont forget to ping various websites to inform them that your blog has been updated. Also and this is my recommendation, choose a topic which interests you or will fail to post regularly. Do not forget that someone is reading your blog, and that if you do not write quality information, then people wont come back and read your blog which will therefore have a bad reputation!
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My Adsense blogs
No major updates with my adsense blogs and earnings. All is rather regular. Nevertheless i have decided as it is the summer holidays to post more frequently in order to make money online. I will try and post on my top blog “The Color Contacts” every 2 to 3 days. For the others i will try and rotate depending on what i can talk about and whether i am imaginative or not. I have also planned to get more traffic by posting comments to articles on blogs with similar topics. If i manage to do this on blogs with high traffic, and am convincing in my comments, this could help me get more visitors but also increase the amount of sites which link to my blogs. I have also subscribed to digital point forum in order to discuss and improve my blogging techniques.
I have launched a new blog “Aspiring Lawyers“, but i guess it will be difficult to get traffic for such a topic. But i am rather confident, if i post regularly and manage to get backlinks it should be ok. Furtheremore lawyer related topics have generally a higher click value so i hope than i a couple of months (3 to 6) i will see good earnings coming in. What i appreciated with lawyers is that it can regroup different sectors such as criminal lawyers or mesothelioma lawyers, so it can diversify earning rates and secure a good average. I also decided to configure differently the blog. I decided to put only one article per page, and place google adsense ads above each article and in the right menu. Hopefully i should be able to make money online with this new blog!
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Another Adsense Cheque
As you may have noticed, the frequency of my postings is become really awful as i really do not have much time for my blogs recently. Nevertheless, i have yet again received a small 64€ adsense cheque in April after a €70 one received in March! If you look at some of my blogs i have not been posting since february :)! So basically i am making money online (little i must admit) but doing nothing! Here is a nice picture of the google adsense cheque i received!
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How a dumb blog can make profit
It has often been said the key elements to making money online with a blog is to have regular quality content on it and an attractive design. This is surely true for the top range blogs such as Problogger.net, JohnChow.com, but i can prove you that a small free blogger blog can make you money!
The blog i am talking about is The Color Contacts blog i own. As you may see it is hosted on blogger.com the design is a free awfull template, and content on it is rather basic. This blog can earn me up to $77 dollars a month depending on how many posts i do per month (max 3 or 4). You may ask me how did i manage to make this money with a such a dumb blog? Well i will answer it may not be so dumb than you may think it is.
First of all, i used various softwares available online in order to compare keywords and try and find a niche market (where searches are high and results are low) where adsense click rate is ok (above 0.2$ average per click). Once this was done i created a free blog and chose a free template which had colored circles, a bit like color contacts actually!
The second part of my job was to optimize it for adsense. For that i simply used the blogger plateform, gave my Google adsense account and placed my ads where i wanted. The most important part was chosing the right place for my ads. First of all i placed a skyscraper ad in my left menu and used colors so that it would look as if it was part of my blog. I guess people think it is a menu and click on my ads ! Secondly i placed ads after my posts so that once people have read my article well they read my adsense ads and often click on it!
The third part was writing the content. Well that was quite easy, just go on google, surf around found interesting articles about color contacts, and then just write about what you remember! This was very easy to do! The content of my blog is surely not of a great quality but it is basic and sufficient in order to be read!
Last of all, was how to get traffic…. Well first of all, you need to be patient, and posting regularly as it will take you time before earning money! You need to have been posting for several months before starting to earn! I also used this blog in order to promote my Color Contacts blog. I also pinged directories using pingomatic.com!
All in all this simply shows you that even a dumb old blog can make money! So if you are not making money with your blog, then you should think again about it and try and optimize it and i am sure you will be able to get profit out of it!
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Adsense Earnings
As you may have seen my DollarJames blog was offline for quite a time as i unforunately did not have time to work on it. My adsense blogs were also put aside, and this caused my revenues to decrease drastically. Since christmas i have restarted posting a coupe of times in my blogger adsense blogs which have allowed revenues to come back in January and hopefully more in February.
As usual it is The Color Contacts blog which is my most successful blog, and the other unfortunately do not seem to be working very well. My total adsense earnings for January is $33.5 which lets me hope that i will be able to reach the $60 easily in February! The Color Contacts blog has earned me $31.45 in January and My Color Contacts only $1.88 ! My other blogs have earned me the few cents left! For February i am already at $13.03 which is a good start! I will continue posting regularly during the month to see what will happen!
Also i have inserted Google Analytics in order to be able to do some keyword optimization. For example it will allow me to know which keywords visitors have typed in Google to come to my blogs, and all sorts of other information such as where visitors come from. With this i hope to be able to optimize my blogs in order to increase website traffic.
I have also launched a new blog on Eye Laser Surgery, so i hope that in a couple fo months this one will be working and that i will increase web site traffic, but i need to pst regularly which i seem to have difficulties too lol! I will keep you updated!
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Adsense niche search
Recently, i read an article on how to find niche adsense markets. I found it really interesting as it was a different approach from how i usually do. It is not simply based on using a software to find best keywords in regards to google searches or results, it helps you find directly potential subjects for your blog.
The method consists of going on ebay, and looking at hottest products for each category. Once you find something interesting, well searching in the category for a subcategory is the best. Then search particular products which you will be able to talk about in your blog! This is good as you already know what you have to talk about!
After this make a .txt document with the keywords you find. Make a good list. Then use the brainstorm generator trial for the keywords of your list. You will then find those that have a potential.
Using this method i have created two new blogs which i hope will be successful on the long term. One which has the less potential is “Cat food & treats” , which has small searches under google but also very little results, so we will see if it works or not. The second blog is “Necklaces & Pendants” which seems to have a good potential. I cannot expect to have results straight away. I will need to post regularly the first few months, then hope to have some traffic increase in order to be able to make some profit. I will keep you updated about this! Wish me luck!
