"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.

Well Another Month Has Come And Gone!

Well the month of July 2007 has come and gone and according to my adsense earnings for the month of July I reached the minimum amount needed to get an adsense payment. The minimum amount that you need to earn to get an adsense payment is $100. If you don't make $100 for the month then the amount that you did make will be rolled over to the next month and it will continue to roll into the next month until your adsense earnings reach $100.

So far this year I have managed to make the minimum amount necessary to receive an adsense payment. I have been able to do this every month this year so far. And my payment for my July 2007 adsense earnings will be my highest payment yet! That means that besides this being my highest adsense payment it also means that my earnings are growing on a continual basis.

I do want to stress here that my adsense earnings are coming from this blog and my first blog and a few of my websites.

I want to stress this because a lot of people seem to think that you have to have over 100 websites or blogs or be a big company in order to make a good amount of adsense earnings. With my websites and blogs I have managed to make the $100 minimum each month so far this year. For the last 2 months I have used my adsense payment to splurge on getting take-out - usually pizza and I pay some of my bills with the rest of it. My adsense goal is to make at least $2,000 a month. That is my immediate goal. Once I reach that I will set another goal of $5,000 a month.

But I want to emphasize here that you don't need a lot of blogs or websites to earn adsense money. I have seen people posting saying that they have had adsense for a year and haven't earned anything! It took me 2 months to get my first adsense payment. Actually I was disappointed because it took me that long to get my first adsense payment. But when I talked to others online I found out that they said getting a payment after your first 2 months was good. And since then I have read a lot of posts from those who say they haven't earned any adsense money even though they have had adsense ads on their site for over a year!

I became an adsense consultant because I have seen that so many people are having problems with their adsense account. I think part of the reason is because they are excited about being able to earn legitimate money online that they try too hard and then get easily frustrated.

A lot of people think that since they haven't earned any money with their blogs by using adsense that they won't be able to earn any money with their blog which is not true. You have to remember that there are many different types of blogs out there earning adsense money. You just have to know how to optimize your own blog to earn as much adsense money as you can.

At least that is what I'm doing with my blog.

Continue to watch my counter as the numbers grow and I will continue to tell you about the adsense progress of my blogs and my clients blogs as well!

The Computer Dude Is On Page One Of Google's Search Engine Results!

Since The Computer Dude is one of my clients, I checked where some of his traffic is coming from today.

Someone did a search for "computer dude" and my client's blog address came up on the first page of Google's search results! That's good for him and good for me because it lets me know that I am doing a good job as far as the client is concerned as far as optimizing his blog for the search engines!

I read somewhere that 50% of a site's traffic comes from the search engines so optimizing your website or blog for the search engines is a DEFINITE MUST if you want to optimize your site to earn as much as you can from adsense.

The Computer Dude Is On Page 1 Of Google's Search Results!

Imagine my surprise! I didn't think that The Computer Dude's blog would show up so soon!

How amazing (at least I think so) for a blog that is just a few months old!

Remember when I said in my last post that the next thing that I would have to work on for my client was to help increase his traffic? Well I think that this is a great start!

Blog Review - The Computer Dude!

A while back I mentioned that I had my first (paying) client (besides myself of course). This client was totally new to blogs and blogging. Of course he had seen blogs all over the internet but he just thought that he would never have one. Well I changed all of that! Now The Computer Dude has a blog of his own! As you can see he is into computers and computer repair. He has told me that he doesn't seem to get much business mostly because people don't seem to want to pay anything. I have told him that I have had potential clients like that and I am sure that this is true in almost every profession there is out there!

I explained all the advantages to him about having a blog. The most important of which is that people all over the world will be able to see his blog, find out more about him and even be able to ask him questions! It also gives him a good business identity. He can put his blog address on all of his business materials including his business cards and any other promotional material that his business has.

Take a good look at his blog. I chose one of Blogger's layouts but of course the layout can be changed to almost any way that he wants. There are many different websites that have Blogger-type layouts that one can use.

The adsense ads have been added to his blog and I incorporated the adsense ads so that they blend with the color scheme of the blog.

Still in it's beginning stages, the blog lacks content and I would recommend that he (and any other bloggers) add at least 2 entries per week. Even more would be better but if you're new to blogging, adding 2 entries a week is a good starting point.

I would also like it if the blog had more content on the right side of the blog just to fill it out more. Depending on your style, interests, etc. there are widgets out there that you can add to your blog to make it look more like your blog (plus it helps to fill some of the empty spaces). Don't have your blog look too bare but don't have so much stuff on there that makes it look crowded.

I have also included a counter and a stats tracking code so that the blogger can track his traffic and see where his traffic is coming from.

Since I am giving this client the full-blown treatment, the next thing to work on is increasing his traffic.

I will post more on the progress of this client here on my blog.

I think I did a pretty good job so far, don't you?

Question - What Kinds Of Sites Are Accepted By Adsense?

You can click the link above to go to Adsense's very own help site. There you can read Adsense's official policy towards the kinds of sites that they will and will not accept for their adsense program.

I do know that adsense doesn't accept gambling, illegal and adult sites. Although some people have said that they have seen adsense ads on adult sites I wouldn't risk it! And neither should you!

"My Pet Hamster"

I read someone saying that if you started a blog about your pet hamster that you could forget about being able to make money with adsense. I don't agree with that statement. First of all I have come to realize that almost anything is possible! Furthermore I also know that the pet industry is a billion dollar a year industry and that just goes to show you that people love their pets and are willing to spend a lot of money on their pets.

Now how does this relate to you and your blog about your pet? If you talk about your pet on your blog then you are going to get adsense ads about pets (if you word your content right). Putting up pictures of your pet also helps because people like to look at other people's pets. Others may even have "pet" blogs of their own and you and them can link to each other. Let people leave comments on your blog and you leave comments on other people's blogs.

Don't let people dictate to you what kind of blog you should have. The only real advice that should be followed is that your blog have a theme or niche. Having a blog about your pet hamster is a pet-related blog and falls under the heading of your blog having a theme. So don't let people tell you what kind of blog you can have.

You can have a money-making adsense blog about your pet hamster. You just have to know how to word the content of your blog so that you get higher paying advertisers!

Keywords!

In order to have your site at the top of the search engine rankings you need to decide which keywords will bring you the best results! Now I did some work and found out that the term "adsense consultant" showed my page on page 2 of Google's search engine results.

However to help my blog go even higher in the search engine results, I found that these keywords were the ones that I should concentrate on:



As you can see these keyword search terms relate a lot to what my blog is all about. Once I start implementing them into my sites, my sites should show an even higher result in the search engines!

Now this is exactly what YOU have to do if you want your site/blog to appear high on the list of search engine results.

My Blog Was Locked!

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Your blog is locked

Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (What's a spam blog?) Since you're an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and we sincerely apologize for this false positive.

We received your unlock request on July 17, 2007. On behalf of the robots, we apologize for locking your non-spam blog. Please be patient while we take a look at your blog and verify that it is not spam.

Find out more about how Blogger is fighting spam blogs.

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The next day, later in the afternoon I got an email from them:

Hello,

Your blog has been reviewed, verified, and cleared for regular use so that
it will no longer appear as potential spam. If you sign out of Blogger and
sign back in again, you should be able to post as normal. Thanks for your
patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

Sincerely,
The Blogger Team

What a relief!

Search Engine Optimization - SEO for short

What is search engine optimization? It means that you are optimizing your website (or blog) so that your site's url shows up on the first few pages that the search engines list. Of course the ultimate that you would want to achieve would be that your site shows up on page one of the search engine results. But you have to realize that the internet is constantly changing. New websites (or blogs) are being put up on the internet every day!

So how do you increase your site's rankings. And a lot of people would like to know how you can do this kind of thing for free!

The first thing you should is to let everyone you know know about your site (or blog). Tell them, send them an email and make business cards with your site's url on them! Heck why don't you make a flyer to announce your new website (or blog!

Now my blog has a pretty good counter/visitor number (which reminds me that you should also include a counter on your site - that way you can monitor how much traffic you are getting. If you get the right stats tracker you can also see where your site's visitors are coming from).

Any and all advertising that I have done has been free!

Since my blog is about being an Adsense Consultant then my target market is those people that are new to Adsense and need help with it. And that is to whom I market and advertise to. I let my counter number speak for itself as to how successful I have have been so far.

Another piece of advice for optimizing your site for the search engines is that a lot will depend on what your site is about.

You have to ddfine who your target market is - who is most likely to be interested in your site - your answer to that would be your target market and those are the people that you will have to go after.

Another thing that I forgot to mention about optimizing your site is that a lot of visitor traffic comes via the search engines. So you want your site to show up on the search engines as high as possible. Let's take my blog for example. Even though my blog is a few months old I am already on page 2 of search engine results for the key phrase "adsense consultant" - which I think is very good for a blog that is about 4 months old! How did I do it? A lot of it has to do with the wording and content of my blog. A lot of times I have been quite lucky (remember the Internet is always changing with adding new sites all the time!) and a lot of times it is the result of the work that I put into the blog.

While getting to be on page 2 of the search engine results is a good achievement of course I am working on getting my blog to page 1!

Can You Change The Font That Appears In Your Blog?

Here's an interesting little question: Can you change the font that appears on your blog?

In a word yes you can but the problem is that whoever is viewing your blog must have the same font. So if you put in a font like Antique then the person that is viewing your blog has to have the same font installed on their computer.

Actually this is a lot of fun but it does require you knowing a little bit about html coding.

It's fun to experiment with different kinds of fonts and colors and sizes

But remember the person that is looking at your blog has to have the same font installed on their computer.

Getting More Traffic To Your Site (or blog)

"How do I get more traffic to my site?" is an often asked question. First you should understand that you not only want more traffic to your site but you want the RIGHT kind of traffic to your site. If we're talking strictly getting more clicks on your site then you have to get more visitors who are interested in your site and what your site has to offer them. To put it more simply you have to define your target market. Your target market is the group of people that your site would most benefit.

Let's take my blog for example. My target market (or at least one of them anyway) are people that are new to adsense and want to know more about it. I want to educate them more about adsense and hopefully drum up some business for myself. As you can see from my counter that is at the bottom of this blog my traffic numbers are good and growing! I do no paid advertising and I work at getting more visitors to my site.

That is the same thing that you will have to do if you want to increase the number of visitors to your site who will (hopefully) click on the adsense ads.

Once people get a taste of earning that adsense money they start to do more and more to increase the number of visitors to their site. There are a lot of free things that you can do to increase the number of visitors to your site. In fact there are a lot of sites out there that have a lot of helpful tips for doing just that!

Getting more traffic to your site will require some effort on your part but just think of those added adsense rewards!

You Can't Predict Your Earnings Daily - It's Impossible!

I checked my Adsense earnings for yesterday (Saturday) and found that it was one of my highest earning days for June. However what's striking about this is that it wasn't one of my highest impression days. You would think that the more visitors to your site the more click-thrus and thus the more money you would make. Not so in this case.

Some of my cpm's were very high for that day. One was for over $400! I have had cpm's as high as $1,000 but not very often.

So it's really true what they say and that is for you to concentrate on the content of your website or blog as opposed to trying to get the highest paying keywords. I know its slower this way but it is for the best!

Well My Adsense Payment For May 2007 Finally Came And.....

I went on a mini shopping spree! (I didn't spend all of it however). But here I am back now.

Since this isn't the end of June I still have a few more days to go before the month tally for June is complete.

A lot of you that are new to Adsense will probably do this kind of thing too - especially if you're anxious to get to that $100 mark that assures your Adsense payment. You will keep checking back to see how well you have done and how much further you have to go.

One thing I will say that this month my daily earning average has gone up a little and I suspect that the longer my pages have been up the more earnings I will get though it doesn't always work out that way. There is no sure fire way to predict how how your earnings will be affected. Your earnings may go up or down with no way of you possibly knowing how it happened. Even though there seem to be a lot of so-called Adsense experts out there no one can predict the future. So one of the best things that you can do is to remain true to your blog or website and provide very good content.

Remain True To Your Blog!

I know that once you get a taste of that Adsense money coming in you may try to find a way to "speed it up". Thus the onslaught of blogs that don't have too much content but what they do have is minimum content and sometimes these sites look like they just have lines of text containing words that they think will bring in the bigger paying keyword phrases. So you get a lot of blogs (and websites) with a lot of gargled content on them.

I hope you resist the urge to do this. Some of the more successful Adsense publishers managed to earned a good deal of income while remaining true to the contents of their site(s) and you could do the same thing too! The most important part of this - I think - is having a theme to your blog. No matter how insignificant you think your subject matter might be there are probably a good number of Adsense advertisers that will appear on your site.

Remain true to your blog. If you add your content the right way you will increase both your traffic and your click through rates. There are a number of profession content providers out there and I am one of them. We provide content to your blog or site that will help increase your Adsense revenue by providing relevent content to your site. Say for instance you have a post that you are ready to add to your blog but you want to optimize it for better Adsense revenue - you can submit your posts to one of us professional content providers and your content will be re-worked to provide better optimization and still keep with the purpose of remaining true to your blog.

So many people have posted saying that the ads that show on their sites aren't relevent to the content of their sites and all that they have to do is re-word that content so that the ads that do show will be relevent to their site. It may seem hard at first but once you get the hang of it it will prove to be quite fun!

Click Through Rate

I'm striving for at least a 10% click through rate with my adsense ads. Sometimes I have gotten as high as 50% but 10% is what I want to at least average and I think that 10% is a good starting goal for those that are new to adsense.

That means for every 100 visitors to my pages at least 10 of them will click one of the ads.

I have got some surprising results such as one visitor clicking on more than 1 ad and then my stats showing that my click-through rate was more than 100%!

One thing that you're going to find out when you're looking at your adsense statistics is that you're likely to get different kinds of stats. For instance the Memorial Day weekend proved a little bit disappointing as far as my Adsense clicks went but there is no truth to the rumor that you won't get any visitors during a holiday weekend! On one of my pages I have this widget that says how many people are online and the number is something like 2 BILLION! That's a lot of people on the internet! And that is a lot of potential visitors to your website or blog!

Niche?

It is to your advantage that your website or blog have some kind of theme going. It can be anything from about where you live to about your pets. For instance my first blog is about interesting things that I have found on the Internet. This blog that you are reading now has one theme in mind and that is Adsense.

So give your site a theme. It's a better way to make the most out of the Adsense Program.