You should write a new post each day about the topic, remembering to use the On-Page SEO requirements from step 6. You would then have an on-line presence with potential ad-revenue. You are focused on correct keywords for each of your topic, picking from the words you researched in step 2.
However, AdSense revenue tends to be skimpy. If you have a niche with high-paying keywords, then maybe your revenue will be better. But personally, AdSense is just to keep the lights on. The real money comes from Affiliate sales, and later, selling your own product.
But regardless of whether we stop with AdSense, or continue on to sell Affiliate Products, you now need to MARKET your site. You’ve successfully created some real estate on the web with profit-potential. Now you need to drive customers to your site!
Marketing Your Site
1. Go to Socialmarker , check on all of the bookmarking sites. Pick your most recent post’s URL (be sure to use the URL of the individual post, not the main blog site. Click on the post title to go to the individual page.), add some keywords, a title, and a description. Hit Submit. The first time you do this you will have to signup for an account on EACH site! It’s a pain. Use the same login name (8 letters or more to cover all sites), and the same password (again, 8 or more, letters and numbers). Sometimes one of the sites will log you out and it can be a pain to remember them all. Follow the Submit process for each site, using the information prefilled or stored at the bottom of the screen by Socialmarker. This creates traffic and links to your site in a very, very powerful way.
2. Search google for forums related to your keyword (ie: “horse care forum”). Sign up on forums
and make sure you read their terms. Some sites hate spam and don’t like people posting links to their own sites. Search for relevant questions that your blog actually answers. (If you wrote a post on which type of bedding makes the best material in a stable, search the forum for “bedding”). Then answer the question partially, and mention that there’s a bunch of information at the following link. Then insert the link to the relevant blog post (not the home page). If you have the option, make sure to make the “anchor text” (the text that is shown to be the link) match your keywords. In other words, don’t just paste the URL to your post, write out the keyword phrase and make that phrase hyperlink to the relevant URL. (See my post on Anchor Texts.) Lastly, modify your signature to include a good keyword anchor text with a link to your blog’s home page. Your signature will appear at the bottom of any message you post in the forum. This step creates traffic and inbound links.
3. Article Marketing - Write articles (500 words or more) and submit to article directories. Make sure they are a little differently worded from your blog posts (though they can be similar), and make sure you include links to your site in both the content and the author box, again, with proper anchor text formatting. This creates traffic and inbound links. (And the articles get picked up and put on other people’s sites, creating many links for every one article you post.)
4. Comment Kahuna - Go to Comment Kahuna, download it for free. Use it to post comments to other relevant blogs with links, for both traffic (tiny) and inbound links. For more details, visit my Comment Kahuna Tutorial.
5. DoFollow Blogs - Go to Wibbly’s Do Follow blog search, and search keywords relevant to your blog. The blogs found there all have the ‘DoFollow’ tag, which means that Google’s bot will count the link from their site (when you post a comment). (Many sites use a NoFollow tag, which means Google doesn’t count the link. That’s to keep spammers away.)
There are many more ways to get traffic to your pages, which I discuss in the Marketing section of this blog, but the 5 above are a quick start.
The very next thing I would do is start selling Affiliate Products. This may be easy or difficult, depending on your niche, but almost every niche has at least a few affiliate programs.
More Income from Affilates
1. Sign up at Clickbank. It’s free. Search for relevant products to sell. Clickbank is one of the easiest affiliate companies to work with.
2. Signup at Paydotcom. It’s just like Clickbank, but with different products.
3. Signup at Commission Junction as a Publisher. A little less user-friendly, but very good affiliate products.
4. Search google for your keyword + “affilate” and your keyword + “webmaster” (horse care affiliate, horse affiliate, horse care webmatser). This won’t always work, but many times you’ll find products to market related to your keyword. Sign up for all the programs you want.
5. Create at least one post related to each affiliate product. “Reviews” of multiple products work well, too, if you can be honest about each product.
6. Go through the marketing process above (Socialmarker, etc.) for each new post you submit. Just pace yourself…don’t bombard the social bookmarking sites with 10 links in 10 minutes, or you’ll get blocked.
Congratulations!
You now know how to create a site, with no money invested, that can make money for you!
However, AdSense revenue tends to be skimpy. If you have a niche with high-paying keywords, then maybe your revenue will be better. But personally, AdSense is just to keep the lights on. The real money comes from Affiliate sales, and later, selling your own product.
But regardless of whether we stop with AdSense, or continue on to sell Affiliate Products, you now need to MARKET your site. You’ve successfully created some real estate on the web with profit-potential. Now you need to drive customers to your site!
Marketing Your Site
1. Go to Socialmarker , check on all of the bookmarking sites. Pick your most recent post’s URL (be sure to use the URL of the individual post, not the main blog site. Click on the post title to go to the individual page.), add some keywords, a title, and a description. Hit Submit. The first time you do this you will have to signup for an account on EACH site! It’s a pain. Use the same login name (8 letters or more to cover all sites), and the same password (again, 8 or more, letters and numbers). Sometimes one of the sites will log you out and it can be a pain to remember them all. Follow the Submit process for each site, using the information prefilled or stored at the bottom of the screen by Socialmarker. This creates traffic and links to your site in a very, very powerful way.
2. Search google for forums related to your keyword (ie: “horse care forum”). Sign up on forums
and make sure you read their terms. Some sites hate spam and don’t like people posting links to their own sites. Search for relevant questions that your blog actually answers. (If you wrote a post on which type of bedding makes the best material in a stable, search the forum for “bedding”). Then answer the question partially, and mention that there’s a bunch of information at the following link. Then insert the link to the relevant blog post (not the home page). If you have the option, make sure to make the “anchor text” (the text that is shown to be the link) match your keywords. In other words, don’t just paste the URL to your post, write out the keyword phrase and make that phrase hyperlink to the relevant URL. (See my post on Anchor Texts.) Lastly, modify your signature to include a good keyword anchor text with a link to your blog’s home page. Your signature will appear at the bottom of any message you post in the forum. This step creates traffic and inbound links.
3. Article Marketing - Write articles (500 words or more) and submit to article directories. Make sure they are a little differently worded from your blog posts (though they can be similar), and make sure you include links to your site in both the content and the author box, again, with proper anchor text formatting. This creates traffic and inbound links. (And the articles get picked up and put on other people’s sites, creating many links for every one article you post.)
4. Comment Kahuna - Go to Comment Kahuna, download it for free. Use it to post comments to other relevant blogs with links, for both traffic (tiny) and inbound links. For more details, visit my Comment Kahuna Tutorial.
5. DoFollow Blogs - Go to Wibbly’s Do Follow blog search, and search keywords relevant to your blog. The blogs found there all have the ‘DoFollow’ tag, which means that Google’s bot will count the link from their site (when you post a comment). (Many sites use a NoFollow tag, which means Google doesn’t count the link. That’s to keep spammers away.)
There are many more ways to get traffic to your pages, which I discuss in the Marketing section of this blog, but the 5 above are a quick start.
The very next thing I would do is start selling Affiliate Products. This may be easy or difficult, depending on your niche, but almost every niche has at least a few affiliate programs.
More Income from Affilates
1. Sign up at Clickbank. It’s free. Search for relevant products to sell. Clickbank is one of the easiest affiliate companies to work with.
2. Signup at Paydotcom. It’s just like Clickbank, but with different products.
3. Signup at Commission Junction as a Publisher. A little less user-friendly, but very good affiliate products.
4. Search google for your keyword + “affilate” and your keyword + “webmaster” (horse care affiliate, horse affiliate, horse care webmatser). This won’t always work, but many times you’ll find products to market related to your keyword. Sign up for all the programs you want.
5. Create at least one post related to each affiliate product. “Reviews” of multiple products work well, too, if you can be honest about each product.
6. Go through the marketing process above (Socialmarker, etc.) for each new post you submit. Just pace yourself…don’t bombard the social bookmarking sites with 10 links in 10 minutes, or you’ll get blocked.
Congratulations!
You now know how to create a site, with no money invested, that can make money for you!
