FREE Blogging For Profit.

FREE Blogging For Profit.
Introduction
If you are looking for a way to start making money on the internet, and you
have a budget that is very small or zero, blogging is a great way to get
started.
Blogging has become very popular lately. For one thing, it’s free. For
another, you don’t need to have any technical skills what so ever to get
started. If you can read and write, you can blog. So what is a blog? A blog is
a simple web page that anyone can set up in minutes. People use them as
journals, diaries, and sales pages, like you will learn to do here.
You may be wondering how you can make money with a free blog. The
answer is by adding Google Adsense, and promoting affiliate products.
You will not make money overnight with this system, but over 2 to 3
months, you can expect to start making some decent money. Remember, the
cost for all this is absolutely nothing (other than the cost of this ebook).
For our purposes, we will be using “Blogger”. Blogger is owned by Google,
which is one reason we’re using it. Blogs are crawled by the search engines
regularly, so you can get indexed very quickly.
Wordpress blogs offer more features and are far more powerful. To find out
how to make money from Wordpress blogs click HERE
Getting Started
It is always best to try and make money from what you know. It is far easier
to write about what you know than to try and make money writing about
other things. However, having said that, you can find free content on almost
any subject, so you can pick a subject that you think would be profitable, but
you don’t really know anything about.
- Adsense Research
We will start by finding out how much the maximum bid is for a keyword.
Please note that you will not likely get anything close to this value as this is
only showing the highest bid. The visitor may click on lower paying ads.
Also, there are two types of PPC advertising. They can advertise on the
“Search Network” and/or the “Content Network”. If they don’t advertise in
the content network, the ads won’t show on your site. This is the best
information we have, so it will give you a general idea of the money
available for this keyword.
You can find the tool here.
Here are the results for a search on credit card:
It appears that this would be a lucrative niche however you need to find less
competitive keywords to be successful with this method.
When you roll further down the page you will see some further analysis.
Using the information provided above we can figure out a ratio to see how
competitive the keyword is.
You will now do some division to come up with a ratio. You take the
number of searches for that phrase and divide it by the number of search
results for Google to get a ratio of searches performed. In this example, that
would be:
8406716 (monthly searches) / 211000000 (Number Of Google Results) =
which is .03984
Now we need to repeat this process for a large list of related keywords.
Go Here and search for the keyword or key phrase that you are targeting for
your niche. For instance, if you are targeting “credit card”, you would key it
in below as shown.
Do the same for all of the results. You will then take the result with the
highest ratio and optimize your blog for that content. This will be the
keyword which is most likely to get you listed high in the search engines.
Included in the zip file is a spreadsheet that you can plug the results into.
The spreadsheet will open in Microsoft Works and Excel.
Below is a screenshot of the included Spreadsheet on the keyword credit
card. These are not real numbers, but example data so don't use it.
The formula is already in the spreadsheet. You key in the keyword, the
number of searches and the number of Google results.
Finding Content For Your Blog:
You can find free content for your blogs at article sites. You must follow the
rules outlined in the article site. This usually means keeping the author’s
contact information and links in place. Below is a list of links to article sites:
http://www.goarticles.com/
http://www.articlecity.com/
http://members.tripod.com/buckcreek/
http://www.fripp.com/articleslist.html
http://www.arcanaweb.com/resources/article-directories.html
http://www.articledepot.co.uk/
http://www.dotcomwomen.com/free-content.shtml
http://www.valuablecontent.com/
Though this will give you a start, it is always better to write your own, or
buy some from someone else. I have found a great resource that will create
100% unique content for you.
Here is the link:
http://www.need-an-article.com/
Once you have found content you need to modify it to fit your keyword. For
instance in the example above if your ideal keyword was “uk credit card”
everywhere you see the word “credit card”, change it to “uk credit card”.
While you’re doing this, make sure the sentence still makes sense. If not,
reword it so it makes sense with the keyword in it. You should also sprinkle
the article with each word individually if possible. From the example above,
that would be “uk credit card. Credit card, uk credit, ul card”. You will need
to do this for every article you post.
Creating The Blog
We will be using the free service Blogger. Go to http://blogger.com and
open an account. I suggest you use the new Blogger. You need to set up a
Google account to use the new blogger. The reason I suggest this is because
the new Blogger has many new features.
I will not go into a lengthy explanation on how to use Blogger.
They have an excellent tutorial at http://help.blogger.com/. You can play
around with it yourself until you are comfortable with it.
Once your account is open, create a new blog using your chosen key phrase
as you Blogger sub-domain, so if we used “credit card” as our subject, and
“uk credit card” was our best ratio it would be:
http://uk-credit-card.blogspot.com or
http://ukcreditcard.blogspot.com
Make sure you use the keywords in the blog title as well.
Here is a picture of the “Dashboard”,
Click the “Create Your Blog” link at the top to begin.
Select a template to use. I like to use the “Minima” layout but you may use
any layout you want to use.
If you do not have an Adsense account you can apply here.
Once you have an Adsense account you will need to add the Adsense code
to your page. To do that click on “Template” and “Page Elements” then
“Add A Page Element”. A list will appear with a number of elements you
can select. Click the button as shown below.
Verify your account and pick your ad layout.
Go to http://clickbank.com http://cj.com, and http://paydotcom.com and
create accounts. Find affiliate programs for high-quality products in your
niche. Create affiliate links for these products and insert them into your
sidebar on the template where it says “Links”. Periodically, post a full
update with an advertisement that explains the benefits of a particular
product.
Post another piece of private label content every two days. Search forums
with related content - quote and link to pertinent information about your
niche.
Insert links to other blogs, related news, etc. at the bottom of each post using
your key phrase somewhere in the anchor text of the link.
Get Your Blog Listed On Search Engines and In Top Blog Directories
Once you have posted your first piece of private label content, inserted
Adsense ads, etc, it is time to promote your blog.
Go to http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/ and submit your blog to as
many of these blog and rss feed directories as possible. Some of them may
not accept your Blog. Use your key phrase in the title and at least once in the
Description if you are able to enter one. This is going to take many hours,
but the effort is well worth it.
Go to http://yahoo.com and set up an account if you don’t already have one.
Add your RSS feed to your "My Yahoo" account as a news feed you want to
monitor.
You will need to add RSS Beta to your My Yahoo content if you don't have
it. For more info on how to do that, go here:
http://my.yahoo.com/s/rss-faq.html and add it.
You will now add your blog into the RSS feed in my yahoo. To do that,
click on edit in the RSS feed section.
Enter the url of your blog.
Go to MSN.com, create an account, and do the same.
To do that, enter your blog URL with “atom.xml” appended to the end of it
where it says “Search for content to add”. I am using one of my blogs to
demonstrate. The URL I will enter is:
http://verifiedpaypalforsale.blogspot.com/
The next screen you will get looks like this:
Tick the box as shown above and click “OK”.
You can now see where the feed appears below at the bottom of the picture.
Submit your blog to:
http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
http://beta.search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
Go to http://pingomatic.com and submit your blog. Remember
to use your key phrase in the title and at least once in the description.
Repeat “the Ping” every time you post new content to your blog.
You can use THIS software to post to blogs automatically for you. This will
get you a lot of inbound links and move you up in the search engine listings.
Remember, one way linking is very important. Reciprocal linking has
become less important so you need to maximize your one wat links. THIS
tool will get you lots of one way inbound links fast.
Monitor Your Search Engine Rankings
Once you have been indexed by search engines periodically check up on
your blog’s rankings within its niche. You do this of course by searching on
the key phrase you used for optimization.
If you picked a penetrable niche, you should be able to get onto the first
page (at least on Yahoo) within a month, but if not, you will need to:
Search out link partners in your niche and setup reciprocal links. Simply find
high-ranking websites in your niche on Google and Yahoo and offer to
exchange links with them.
That’s all. (I know, that was a lot of work.)
Now, do it again with a different Blog and a different subject.
Remember for full information on creating money making Wordpress blogs
click HERE.