dog trick high fiveFor those who have the desire to create a blog that will earn cash you need to have a specific keyword focus to your articles. Fresh distinctive or unique content today isn’t really an option, it is a requirement. This is in part due to greater expectations from search engines like Google but also from humans like you and me.

Know that each of your articles has to earn money meaning it’s worth your time and effort to optimize those articles for your traffic. If you haven’t been doing this you need to start today and even return to published articles and optimize those as well.

What I Do To Come Up With Quality Content

1. I Write Down All My Ideas

For the longest time I would get ideas that would just come and go. If I didn’t write them down I may never think of them again. Eventually I started carrying a pad and pen with me so I could write those money making ideas down for future use.

I go for long walks for health reasons. It’s great and my mind can be free to wander. This is the time I get answers to different questions I’ve had and if I don’t write them down it’s unlikely I will still remember them when I return home. So I write them down, immediately. I carried a small recorder for a while but felt kind of weird talking into it while walking.

2. Niche Focused Magazines For Ideas

Magazines are one of my best methods for coming up with fresh ideas for my blogs. I make a list of my niches and give them to family members as suggestions for Christmas and birthdays, so when I am hurting for an article I can open one of my magazines and refresh my mind.

I am not suggesting you copy the content, that would be very wrong but there is nothing wrong with using them to trigger ideas of your own. Put things in your own words and mix it up a bit so that you have unique but keyword focused content.

3. Take Part In Niche Forums

The forums that exist within your niche can be a great help and full of ideas you can spin into your own content that’s still yours and unique. But Be Forewarned as forums can be really addictive and a lot of time gets wasted just chatting and hanging around.

Get in, get out and get publishing. You can visit the forums again when your work for the day is complete. I used to spend some late nights on forums where I worked during the day and then returned to chat and goof off all night.

The ideas listed above are great ways to come up with ideas for content and should keep your readers happy for a long time. But I have multiple blogs with the same niche focus and don’t like using duplicate content.

Google does care much for duplicate content either so I need to come up with even more content but instead of working night and day to get that content I put my article spinner, The Best Spinner, to good use spinning content for my sites while keeping unique.

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Where To Start For Affiliate Marketing Success

affiliate marketingYou know it’s a whole lot easier to make money with affiliate marketing than many believe but it does take the right action for the best results. Even the little work from home marketer can do this and make money.

I utilize article marketing along with affiliate marketing to make money online. How much you make will depend on how much effort you’re willing to put into affiliate marketing and the goals you have set.

Clickbank Marketplace Is The Place To Learn More

When I am learning something new I head over to Clickbank so that I can look through the Clickbank Marketplace to find the exact ebook I need to learn how to do something. Don’t worry about purchasing an ebook that’s poor quality because you can request, and receive a refund and then get another ebook.

Most people today, whether a big player or not, use banner advertising to make extra income. For me personally, I love using affiliate banners as well as affiliate text links on my sites and in blog posts. I also include a few affiliate niche related advertising banners and links on the side bars of my blogs for my readers to see while they are reading.

Where To Start With Affiliate Marketing

For those of you who are only just now learning about online marketing it’s going to be important to find affiliate programs with products available for your niche. For most niches you’ll find plenty affiliate programs and networks to choose from.

When I am searching out new affiliate networks and programs I use a Google search to help me locate them. Here is the way I construct my search criteria.

Using quotes I put in my niche, like: “puppy house training”, next I put a space, then a plus sign. Immediately after the plus sign I again use quotes to add the phrase affiliate program, or affiliate network. So the resulting search text would look like the following:

“puppy house training” +”affiliate program”

I would do the same thing for my fishing related niche.

“bass fishing” +”affiliate program”

For me blogging to make money is just article marketing which includes affiliate product links and is a pretty cool way to make a living, if you’re dedicated. It’s a business you can start in your spare time and could grow into a full time business like it has for me.

Where To Start With Online Marketing?

affiliate marketing workInternet marketing has become a global phenomenon today. It has a very strong appeal in a world of collapsing economies. It’s an opportunity to make a living in places there are just no jobs. All one needs is a computer to access the Internet and you have the potential to earn a living online as an affiliate marketer, like myself.

As for myself I’ve found it’s best to stick with what I know, although since starting my online business I have learned many things that have allowed me to earn more money from my work at home business.

Let’s start by creating a list of things you know that could potential help you earn money. So, what’s your talent or skill? What do you love to do that you could make money with?

STOP!! Don’t POO POO On Your Ideas

It’s important that you do not start knocking things off the list because you don’t feel you can make money. Most people will think they don’t know anything that will help them make money online. Well they were wrong and you will likely be wrong as well. So just make a list of your talents and skill.

Carry a pen and paper around with you so you can jot things down as they come to mind. I found that I took about 2 weeks and I was still coming up with things I enjoy. Just couldn’t think of them all at one sitting.

As you build your list of potential money making ideas you can start looking online for ways to make money with those ideas.

What?? You’re Not An Expert, That’s Cool

I have to make a confession. I am not an expert in any niche I market to. However I do make money with affiliate marketing. After saying that I do know stuff about the niches I promote to.

Affiliate marketing doesn’t mean you have to be an expert in your niche but it helps to know your niche because there are so many in each niche that do know their niche.

Share Experiences Makes Money

I love fishing, gardening, my dog, cooking, traveling and so many other things. I also found that people love to hear stories. The thing is they love to hear stories about things that interest them. That’s where niche marketing comes in. You only look for traffic from those who are interested in what you are saying and offering.

Example: Yes I really do love going fishing. I don’t own a lot of fancy fishing equipment. I have never been in a fishing tournament, heck I don’t even own a boat or a canoe. I do own a float tube that I love fishing from.

The thing is, even without top of the line gear I usually win the day because I pay attention to everything around me. Even my fishing buddies lamb jokes.

How do I make money in the sport fishing niche? I share stories along with pictures and of course I include affiliate links to the things I am talking about in my blog posts. Always remember a picture is worth a thousand words so use images that compliment your article.

So if I went fishing on a cloudy rainy day while the water temp was 54 degrees and caught fish using a Red Devil my readers want to know, everything, so they can duplicate my success. This quite often means they follow my affiliate to purchase products I used fishing that day and I make money.

Making money through affiliate marketing is actually quite simple, until you try to complicate it.

Personally I share stories about my fishing adventures or whatever my niche is about. Even though I am not a very talented writer I like to share my days of fishing as stories and that works for me. I just share truthful information about my niche that can help my readers do better and they click and follow my affiliate links.

Write, Link And Publish Niche Articles

So you start an affiliate related site and create quality and focused articles with affiliate product links now what?

At this point it’s important to get links pointing back to your pages. So start writing quality articles that match the content on your pages and link those articles to your important pages.

Now you could do what I did for the first few years I was affiliate marketing and that is to write and then rewrite your articles so they remain unique and then publish those unique articles to the top article directories.

Also start guest blogging, always use unique articles.

Article Spinning To Gain Backlinks

I just said that I used to write all my articles by hand but today I have more niches than I could keep up with if I continued writing and rewriting articles manually. What I do now is use The Best Spinner to rewrite my articles.

I also use many articles written by others through a variety of free sites. The thing is I reject more than 90% of the articles because they are crap. The resulting crap articles are a direct result of using article spinners, the wrong way.

I can not stress enough just how important proof-reading and spell checking your articles is if your goal is successfully earning money online. Personally I read every article I publish and if it doesn’t read like I wrote it I’m going to reject it.

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5 Common SEO Mistakes To Avoid At All Costs

search engine optimizationAs a blogger or site owner you can definitely improve your page rank by using proper search engine optimization strategies in your article marketing and blogging.

The thing is you need to get your SEO right or you may not see any positive results. Getting your SEO wrong can actually drag your site down in the rankings and search engine positioning, so it’s worth learning right.

Take the time to look at other online marketer’s web pages, successful marketers of course, and see what they do with their content that makes it work for them. It can keep you out of a lot of trouble while you’re learning the success strategies.

1. Never Resort To Keyword Stuffing

My first experience with keyword stuffing was with a local minister who was eager to have a web presence. I explained the importance of keywords. I even helped him with his keyword research and then asked him to write up a few pages of content for his new site.

Well the content I received back after a day or two was nothing but keywords. There was no flow to the content at all, just keywords that were formed into what looked like paragraphs. I actually burst out laughing. I had never seen anything like it.

Well I called him about his content and explained about keyword density and keyword stuffing. We had a good laugh and he rewrote his content into what is now a great performing page.

I have seen many websites that just don’t get any real attention to their websites because they tend to use their keywords as every other word on their site. Makes it tough to read.

Online success does not require the use of keyword stuffing as you will do just fine with about keyword density of about 3-5 percent. Keyword stuffing can actually destroy any page ranking potential your site has so avoid it, completely.

So if you NOW realize that keyword stuffing may be the cause of your poor page rank then get to work and un-stuff your pages.

Using synonyms is a great way to stay on topic, get the point across and all without over using your keywords.

So if you are aiming for 5% keyword density then you only want to use your keyword 5 times per 100 words.

2. Stay on Topic For Each Page

This is something I’ve been guilty of in the past. I would write articles that were off topic, which dilutes the focus of your site in the eyes of the search engines. If your site is about acoustic guitar write about topics revolving around acoustic guitars.

Your acoustic guitar site may not be the place to talk about your dog’s skin problems.

3. Do NOT Go Black Hat SEO

I made this mistake a number of years ago and had a couple of sites actually banned in Google. I was completely shocked, even got a bit depressed actually. I had been warned in other articles I had read about white, grey and black hat SEO but didn’t think it was as dangerous as it can be.

The majority of grey or black hat SEO practices go against the terms of service for Google and Google is King of search engines. They will come down on you, hard.

Learn to work within accepted parameters and your business will get and keep better rankings.

4. Forgetting The ALT Tag

Today I include an ALT tag with each and every image I put on my web pages. I make sure I get an image that can speak to my visitor as a picture can be worth a thousand words but I don’t leave it there. I also use appropriate keywords in the ALT tag as search engines can read the ALT tag text.

I don’t do any keyword stuffing in ALT tags, as that will lead to problems with Google as well.

Example: <img src=”/images/yourpic.jpg” ALT=”a brief description of the image using a keyword or two” width=”100” height =”100”>

5. Use The Title Tag in Your Hyperlinks

Just like images can have an ALT tag hyperlinks can have a Title tag, which is basically the same thing. It’s an opportunity to include more detail about the link without making the link text longer and spammy looking.

Example: <a href=”http://www.yoursite.com” TITLE=”a brief description and keyword”>keyworded hyperlink</a>

Following the rules for SEO doesn’t mean you have to suffer with poor page rank, not at all. There are plenty of ways to optimize your pages with keyword stuffing or any grey or black hat. It just takes time, planning and action.

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Google AdSense

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People have been using Adsense to make money online since it’s been available which has been about a decade now. But it’s not that easy, so most don’t make much at all, if anything.

Many have tried the automated setups for Adsense sites but then wonder where the money is. Perhaps those people should have modified the content before publishing, to make it unique.

The resulting websites clutter the web with duplicate content which can be a death sentence for any income opportunity as Google doesn’t like duplicate conent, at all.

Think About The 100K Adsense Blueprint

The best advice I can give you is to forget about using those pre-made Google Adsense sites or at the least take the time to modify every single article on the site, immediately. Better yet for that and just take a look at the 100K Adsense Blueprint.

The 100K Adsense Blueprint Isn’t Going To Make You Wealthy Over Night

Get rich quick schemes may have worked in the early years of Internet marketing but not today. Really you are better off creating your own content for your Adsense site and get rich slowly, over time, the natural way.

Using the 100K Adsense Blueprint other marketers have success with is the way to grow your income over time. In just 3 months you can start making money that will continue each and every month for years. It’s all about the content and traffic you can gain from search engines and other sources.

Stop thinking about faster methods of making money and focus on making money effectively with the 100K Adsense Blueprint. Learn from those who have already become successful with making money using Adsense sites.

Taking Time To Profit

Adsense with Look at the testimonials on the main 100K Adsense Blueprint site and see what people are saying about the learning system that will help you start earning a real Adsense income.

You are going to learn how to increase your click through rate (CTR) and that’s where the money is. Once you know how to increase your CTR you have a lot more control over your income.

It’s like anything in regards to Internet marketing and making money online. Learn how to make money with one site before creating many sites. I am talking from experience here my friend. I was up to more than 30 sites, making only a few hundred a month before I came to my senses.

It All Starts With Locating Niches That Make Money

The first thing one needs to learn is how to locate those profitable niches and you will start making money with Adsense. Words are what makes the Internet go round and round so finding the best keywords can be gold.

Have I mentioned the 100K Adsense Blueprint enough yet? Well then get over to Clickbank’s Marketplace and check it out. You can’t go wrong with this $47.00 dynomite product.

Note: The 100K Adsense Blueprint is a product on Clickbank which means you have plenty of time to see if the program is as good as the claims because you have a full 60 day money back guarantee if it doesn’t perform like I say.

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Make Some Extra Income Using Google Adsense

Google AdSense

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Do you work from home and would like to make some extra income? Well Google AdSense is just what you need for your site as it can be quite productive.

How Does One Use AdSense?

Google Adsense is a very sophisticated program that allows the webmaster to place ad blocks on their web page to generate some extra revenue which is split between you and the publisher.

You are not allowed to click or ask others to click Google Adsense ads but when others do click those ads you make money. Of course like most ads you don’t usually get clicks unless your content is good, otherwise people tend to leave the site without clicking anything more than the back button.

Takes Practice To Get Clicks Consistently

For most niches the click value is very low so you won’t earn a lot with just one click. For this reason it’s important you learn how to more clicks without asking for them.

Note: Do Not Try To Play Google. If you think you can get away with secretly asking others to click your ads you looking for trouble because when Google finds out they won’t be happy and you will lose your account.

Adsense is free but be before you try to get your free Adsense account have your site setup and ready to go otherwise you will not be accepted. Do not make your site look spamming by using a lot of banners and ads. It may just get you rejected.

As soon as you’re site is accepted you will be able to add the Goolge Adsense code to your site and you’re on your way.

Google Adsense Displays Relevant Ads

I have tried alternatives to Google Adsense and quit every single one I tried as they didn’t show relevant ads like Google does.

So now you have ad blocks in key places on your web pages so that when your readers click an ad you get paid. I’ve already said that you may not make much per click but over time, as your content grows so should your income. All you need to do is work from home to write compelling copy that keeps your readers reading and hopefully clicking on relevant ads.

Quality Content Is King

We’ve all heard that content is king but really it’s quality content that’s king. That’s your first step in becoming successful with Google Adsense. It’s the quality content that brings you readers from the search engines, targeted readers actually. Without readers you have nothing, right.

Also the content you use determines the ads that will appear on your pages. This means you need to have a good handle on your keywords or you may have ads that don’t match what you think they should. This usually means you don’t get the target traffic you’re expecting or the clicks you expect.

Don’t Use Poorly Spun Content

I see a lot of spun articles today, articles that just plain suck. Going wild with article spinning in the hopes of making Adsense income usually ends in disappointment.

The reason poorly spun articles don’t work to make Adsense income is because the read most often gets frustrated trying to read you spun to death content which has too many NON relevant words and phrase.

You can be sure they are not going to click an Adsense link to leave your page.

Once you have quality content on your site you’ll start seeing target traffic coming to your site. You can help the numbers increase by getting more and more keyworded backlinks to your pages and make even more Adsense income.

The key to continually making money with Adsense is to be certain you read every word of their TOS and don’t mess up. The results of violating the TOS could mean losing your Adsense account, permanently.

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