"I Created My Blog. Now What?"

Okay. You created your blog now you are ready for the whole world to see it! The only problem is that you don't know how to get the whole world to see it!

Of course one of the first things that you should do (and it should be one of the easiest things to do) is to TELL EVERYBODY YOU KNOW ABOUT YOUR BLOG! Sounds simple doesn't it?

Take for instance if you have a professional blog like one of my clients, The Computer Brother. If your blog is going to be a professional blog then one of the things you should do is to include your blog's address on all of your professional paperwork - including your business cards. Remember the point of this is to promote your blog.

Another thing that you should do is to optimize your blog for the search engines. I read somewhere that 50% of a blog's traffic comes from the search engines. So when people are looking for relevent content you will want your blog (or site) to show up as high as possible on the search engine results.

I have made a few postings here about how a link to my blog is currently on page one of Google's search engine results when certain search terms are typed into the search engines. So far I have managed to accomplish this by working with the content of my blog. While a lot of the search engines have links to where you can add your blog or site manually, that's something that I haven't done yet. But that's not to say that you shouldn't do it - by all means manually add your site to the search engines. However you should know that this won't result in your site showing up right away. Some search engines can take a few months before they get to your site to manually add it.

Another thing that you should know that besides my blog site showing up on page 1 of google's search engine results, I have noticed that a lot of "indirect" links to my sites show up as well. One of my feeds shows up in the search engines as well as a few comments and replies that I have posted elsewhere on the internet have shown up too.

So tell everyone you know about your new site and watch as the traffic grows!

PS - Don't forget to add a counter to your site so that you can track your site's traffic. There are a lot of free ones available on the Internet.

Client - The Computer Brother's Blog - Blog Progress

The Computer Brother has become quite involved in his blog. He is adding more and more longer posts into his blog. And he is also getting more familiar with how to add entries to his blog. He has now started to post entries to his blog via email. While he gets comfortable with working on his blog on a regular basis there are still some things to do to his blog.

As I posted before The Computer Brother's blog was approved for Adsense just this past weekend and you can sss that the adsense ads are now appearing on his blog. His adsense account has been created and now he will be able to check his earnings daily.

The next thing that has to be worked on is on the blog itself. As you can see on his blog while he has long posts on the left side, the right side of his blog has a lot of empty space on it that should be filled up - but not to the point where the whole blog looks crowded.

You want to have your blog look as finely tuned as possible. By that I mean that you don't want to have too much empty spaces on your blog. Just fill it up a bit so that it looks nice and pleasant.

So that is the next thing to be worked on.

Stay tuned and watch as The Computer Brother's blog progresses.

Client-The Computer Brother Has Been Approved For Adsense!

The Computer Brother's Blog has been approved by adsense and now the adsense ads are up!





Like I said before when you first sign up for adsense your blog or website has to be reviewed by them. In this case it too adsense just 2 days to send the email to my client saying that their blog was approved. After getting the news I immediately added some adsense ads to my client's blog.

If you take a good look at The Computer Brother's Blog you will see that the adsense ads match the content of the blog.

Now since the adsense ads were just added last night there aren't any numbers to report as to how much the client has made so far. And since this is July 30th and there is one more day left in the month of July their numbers may be small.

But the client is excite and I am excited too!

We're both anxious to see how soon those adsense numbers start adding up.

The next thing to do is to work on The Computer Brother blog's traffic! I have a good idea in mind to help with that process but I will have to implement it first before I post the results here!

In the meantime, if you'd like to see the kind of work that I do then just visit The Computer Brother's Blog. Look at the adsense ads. Take a look at the counter and note the traffic so far and look and see how well the adsense ads blend in well with the layout, look and color scheme of the blog.

Don't Give Up On Your Blog!

I see a lot of posts from people who talk about how they have had their blog for a year and have yet to make at least the $100 minimum to get an adsense payment.

First let me tell you that I reached the $100 minimum earnings in my 2nd month! And this was before I started this blog!

Almost any blog (or website) can be worked to optimize it for more adsense earnings!

One of the best ways to optimize your blog (or website) for more adsense earnings is to think of your site as a learning manual. It almost doesn't matter what the subject matter is as long as there IS a subject matter. It is very important that your site have a theme or niche because that is one of the best ways to get the right kind of targeted advertising.

Take a look at one of my clients, The Computer Dude's Blog. If you take a look at the ads on the right you will see that the ads match the content of his blog. It may surprise you to know that one of the keywords that adsense crawled for on this blog resulted in a cpm rate of over $100!

You would think that a site that talks about computers would get a low advertising rate because there are so many other sites online about computers. But it all has to do with the kind of content that you put on your site. Now if this kind of stragedy can work for a blog about computers, you can apply these same stagedies to a blog about being a single woman, a blog about your life or even a blog about fishing - YOU JUST HAVE TO KNOW HOW TO PROVIDE THE RIGHT KIND OF CONTENT IF YOU WANT TO MAXIMIZE YOUR ADSENSE POTENTIAL AND MAXIMIZE YOUR ADSENSE EARNINGS!

Here is a link to a previous post about how much some people are making using adsense:

A List Of Blogger Earnings!

If you take a good look at this list you will see that there are many different types of blogs and many different kinds of sites that are earning a lot of money via their adsense earnings. And its not just big sites that are earning good adsense revenues. There are a lot of individuals that are earning $2K and more a month using adsense.

So you don't give up on your blog! For one thing your blog has already been established and it will take you more time to build up a new blog and optimize it for adsense. Secondly if you take a look at the list that was mentioned above you will see that all different kinds of sites and blogs have been able to earn good adsense money - why would you think that your blog couldn't do this too?

As long as your blog or website has a theme or niche it has a good adsense earning potential!

The Computer Brother

Well The Computer Brother has his blog up and ready and recently applied to Adsense so that they could join Adsense. This was just done yesterday and we are both awaiting work on whether or not his blog has been approved for adsense.

Once approved then the ads can be added to his blog!