Make Money Online With A Simple Website

Make Money Online with a simple website ? Many of the top bloggers online tend to say and think that making money online with a website requires you to have a good looking design and some quality content. Even though having a nice looking website or blog does allow you to get decent traffic and money, it is not necessary  in order to make money online.

A few weeks ago, the e-marketing B2B teacher from my e-business MBA course, showed us one of his websites (in french) which earns him about $200 a month with Google Adsense. He has accumulated around $10000 in 4 years. This is not huge, but considering the look of his website and the small efforts put into it, we can say that the ROI is really high.

His website, Veranda Conseils, is a simple HTML website with only a couple of pages. No background, no images, just plain text with Google Adsense. The question is how does he make money with such a website ? In fact he has been very intelligent, choosing his domain and keywords carefully where there was little competition in order to be ranked for many keywords on the first page of Google. In fact he has carefully optimized his website for search engines (SEO) and created just a few quality backlinks in order to get well ranked under Google. I will not talk about his SEO strategy today, but I invite you to come and visit my blog in the next few days as I will be analyzing his website in details and will be giving useful SEO tips.

Being a competitive person, I launched VerandaConseils.com in order to compete against his website. I am currently ranked 2nd just behind him for the keywords Veranda Conseils on the french Google search engine. I still need to work on optimizing my website for keywords such as prix veranda. I will keep you updated on wether I can beat him or not.

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