Work At Home

In a previous post here at Work At Home, I said I was going to expand on the point of getting your blogs ranked in the search engines and how to do that. Well, here goes…

If that wasn’t enough, you also have to be thinking about keywords. What? These are the terms that people are going to key into Google in order to find your site. Here’s a timely tip. DO NOT START A BLOG ABOUT HOW TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE! There are too many people doing the same thing and to get anywhere, you will have your work cut out for you, so its better to avoid that one for starters and concentrate on keywords that are less competitive.

Take a product that people are likely to buy online, or a service that people are likely to search for. Anything that people need. Where there is a need, there will be websites providing a solution or in some way filling that need. Then look at the competition. Are there millions of competing sites for that keyword phrase, or are there just a couple of hundred thousand? The lower the number of competing sites, the better chance you have of competing yourself.

Then create your main blog targeting this niche. Write your posts with originality and include a liberal smattering of your main keyword as well as some longer related keywords (known as long tail keywords). Here’s an example: Say you decided to target the finance niche (not really recommended as it is also highly competitive). If your main keyword is “Refinancing Credit” then you could also look at similar terms, such as “refinancing home credit” “refinancing personal credit” etc.

Then create several similar blogs on more general aspects of finance and write posts that contain a link to your main site. Make sure the link is anchored, or don’t just link to the url of your main site, but include the keywords in the anchor text of your link. This is important in the nth degree! This will improve your main site’s chances of rising in the SERPs because it has authority. Without the keyword anchor, you will not pass on authority for the keyword, so it is important that you do so!

It will take time, granted, because the search engines and in particular Google are quite slow at counting inbound links for a site, but it will happen and when it does, your site will have authority enough to launch it to wards the front page of the search results, which is where you want to be in order to attract sufficient traffic to make money online from your main blog.

This is how to work at home and how to make money online from your efforts. The process is a long difficult one, but once you get past the initial setting up and promoting stages, the rewards will start to be reaped if you’ve done your work properly.

Isn’t that worth going the extra mile for? See you next time.

Terry Didcott
Work at Home

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Work At Home to Make Money Online is a general need for many people for many different reasons. After my last post Content is King, I will look at this need now. Some need to do this because they lost their job, or because they got fed up working for a dickhead who demanded more than they should reasonably expect. You could be a busy mother who prefers to stay at home and look after the kids while making some extra income using the Internet and its vast array of money making possibilities.

At its most basic level, people are looking at the idea of how to work at home to make money online as a viable business precept. It can work and in some instances can work very well, but the person doing it has to spend a considerable amount of time learning the ropes and also avoiding the many scams and misinformation that is prevalent online.

Often then, success can be had as long as you take the time to do the ground work and learn from the ground up how to make money online and then apply it to your daily routine when you decide to work at home.

Well, one of the easiest ways to earn money online is to build some free blogs and put up adsense ads on them. If that sounds over-simplified, then it is to a point. The basic mechanics of creating the sites are the easy part. You can use blogger or several other free blog hosts which are simple to figure out and get started quickly. But you have to be aware of some things from the very beginning and this post will help you there.

Not all free blog hosts allow you to place ads on your blog

Not all free blog hosts allow you to link to other blogs you own

Not all free blog hosts should be trusted with your content (they may be here today and gone tomorrow)

With these three points in mind, then it pays to start creating your blogs on hosts that allow you to place your own ads and to link out to other blogs you own (this is important). It is also worth mentioning that many free blog hosts will place their own ads on your blog whether you want them or not. You can apply your own adsense code to some of these, but the owners will take a share of your revenue for the privilege of using their hosts.  So you need to know who you can use that will:

Allow you to place your own ads

Allow you to link out to other blogs

Not put their own ads on your blog

Not take a share of your adsense revenue

Here is a short list of such free blog hosts that you can do that with:

Blogger

…erm, very short, it seems… that’s it I’m afraid! There are other good free blog hosts but they all have some restrictions or other that will strangle your attempts to succeed.

Other free hosts that are ok to use are:

Wordpress (you can link out but you can’t display ads)

Blinkweb (allow ads and links but they take a share of the revenue)

Blogetery (also allow ads and links but they take a share of the revenue)

Why would I show you a host that you can’t display ads on? Well, with Wordpress, you can create a few blogs that you won’t be monetising, but as a part of the process of how to make money online, you’ll be using to provide links to your blogs that you will have ads on. This improves their authority and gives them a better chance of ranking in the search engine pages (SERPs).

Oh, did I mention you need to have your site listed high in Google (and the other search engines) in order to attract organic search traffic to them? Well, I just did. You need that to make money online. That’s where you need to be getting links to your blog with ads so that people go there. If you don’t get anyone turn up at your site, who will click your ads to make money for you? Mmm… see its starting to get more complex now. I’m going to expand on that in my next post…

Terry Didcott
Work at Home

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