Make money online with Keith Rich

Lately I have been getting a lot of questions to how people make money online with a blog or site. Being a marketeer and webdesigner for a long time I know a lot of tips & tricks that could provide useful information. First I started out with helping a friend getting his site more traffic and added some advertisement to see how people would react to it.

In 2-3 months I was able to add 40% traffic to his site and made him an extra 1000$/month.

Since we all want to make a few extra dollars I have made a site for everybody to learn the tricks of the trade. enjoy!





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6. Get a high google rating

Note: Google gives a pagerank to every single page you have on your website.

Google rating: a rating that google can give to your site depending on your site’s popularity and links. Getting linked by other popular sites who have a high rating is the best way to boost your rank. Don’t bother about getting linked by small sites with a relatively low rating and focus on the big ones. These are trusted sites and boosts the rank a lot more.

The ratings go from 0 to 10. On average about 10% of all websites have a rating of 9-10 and about 10% of all sites have a rating of 0. All the rest is in between.

It’s fairly easy to check the pagerank of a website by downloading the google toolbar. http://toolbar.google.com/T4/

This toolbar gives an indication for the rank but it’s fairly accurate. When sliding over the pagerank in the toolbar you will see that the bar shows a certain color.
When the bar is grey, the page is not yet in google’s directory. When the bar turns white the pagerank is 0 wich is an indication that the page is probably punished, most likely for spamming or not following google’s rulebook.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

Here are the rules taken from the site above:

-Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
-Don't employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.
-Don't send automated queries to Google.
-Don't load pages with irrelevant words.
-Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
-Don't create pages that install viruses, trojans, or other badware.
-Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines, or other "cookie cutter" approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
-If your site participates in an affiliate program, make sure that your site adds value. Provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first.


You can also check on the link-popularity the page has. This means how many times the page has been linked by other sites and by what sites. Maybe you can get linked by those sites as well? Or get linked yourself and check it out yourself.

Other factors that could add to your pagerank are the keywords you use. As for example when google searches through your site it gathers information from the title, headings, content, and MetaTags such as description or keywords. This has its importance when a search is being done with e.g. google.

More on this in the next chapter as to how to use this in your advantage.

5. how much money can you make from ads

How much money you will earn will be depending on a couple factors. One of course is how many clicks the ad gets. But the revenue can also change when your site gets more individual clicks a day. The advertisers will offer more money for the ad on your site as your rating gets higher. On average, one click an add earns you 0.15$.

So imagine people click 100 times on an add. Each month this will earn you 15$
When people click on it 1000 times a month you will earn 150$

Not all Google Adsense Ads require clicks to make extra money quickly for you. This is because many ads are CPM ads for which advertisers pay you money per 1000 ad impressions.
CPM stands for “cost per 1000 impressions.” Advertisers running CPM ads set their desired price per 1000 ads served, select the specific sites on which to show their ads, and pay each time their ad appears.

But there is a catch to it. Advertisers only pay 25 cents for 1000 impressions...and I always stay away from it. Only one advertiser takes control and they pay you so much less.


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4. ads on your site

After making your site or blog and you have a good feeling about the popularity and traffic it is getting it’s time to make some money. This is passive money meaning that while you sleep people will still be coming and clicking your ads.

Google adsense is a good way for making money because it is a content ad. This means it will search trough the content of your pages and adds an advertisement based on your words. For example if you made a site about traveling the google ad will probably be a link to ‘travel to spain’ or ‘take this airline’…

You will be payed when someone clicks on the ad

An other example of a site that can give ads is http://www.bidvertiser.com/
Their ads don’t search what kind of ad they will post based on your words but you can block any unwanted ad if you are not comfortable with it.

I do not advise adding pop-ups to your site because many users find this annoying, espescially if they keep showing up even when you close them. Make your site an enjoyable site.

Flashy banners might work just…not too flashy.

3. get more traffic on your site or blog

Most of the sites get a lot of traffic because they are aware of what the publics intrests are, they have been in the ‘scene’ for a long time now and their posts are consistent and well thought out. But even the better writers don’t get a lot of traffic. This can happen because of various reasons and I will give some tips how not to end up a small fish in the sea.

You can also buy traffic. Many sites these days are selling visitors to your site. They start an advertisement campaign for you and this campaign will end one you have had the promised traffic. Here is an example from http://www.fulltraffic.net/

Visitors Price
10.000 $15
25.000 $30
100.000 $60
150.000 $80
250.000 $100

Now i have never tried a site like this before so proceed with caution. And please, for your own good, try and make it on your own first.



Here are some basic tips to try getting traffic on your own


1) Make sure your domain name tells what your site is about e.g. http://www.moneydollaronline.blogspot.com/ is about making money online.

2) Try to be timeless. This means that you try and make posts that are intresting enough for readers to check on 2 years later.

3) Answer your email, respond to questions and participate in other blogs or forums.

4) Most of the traffic comes through search engines so make sure your titels and domain name are appropiate to what they search for.

5) Make your site attractive and well recognisable. Make it a fun place to be at.

6) Try to get people to link your site. A link is direct traffic and the more popular their site is the more traffic you get. Do this for them too and develop a good relationship between both your sites.

7) Word to mouth is also a good way to keep your site growing. When you made a good site, people will tell other people and often provide the link to them.

8) You can advertise your site on other sites. Did you ever see a link that says: ‘your site here’? Of course they will ask something in return, either a link of their own on your site, or a small/big payment depending on their sites popularity. Sending a nice email alone will mostly work out great.

9) Use extensive tagging and keywording inside your articles.

10) Try not to get discouraged in the first months of making a high traffic site. Look at what you can do to improve it. It's normal for a site to get low traffic when they first started out.


search engine submission

2. what content should be in your site/blog

The most important thing about your site would be content that appeals to alot of people. If you want to be successful and earn a lot of revenue from your ads you need a good idea on what you want to say, how you will say it and how much time you are willing to spend on it.

Imagine you would make a site about the technological advancements made in 1750 or a site about girls showing their boobs. Well it’s easy to see wich one would become the most popular when you visit Alexa. Alexa is a site wich shows you the most popular sites across the globe. Go to http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500?qterm and put either of the sites you found to compare in the search box. The results will tell you the rankings of the sites and will clearly show what topic is more appealing.

A good idea is also to check what the most used keywords are for google or yahoo

Here is a short list of popular keywords.

1 myspace
2 google
3 ebay
4 yahoo
5 myspace.com
6 games play
7 akon
8 game cheats for ps2
9 yahoo.com
10 mapquest
11 paris hilton
12 girls
13 antonella barba
14 anna nicole smith
15 ps 2 game cheats
16 youtube
17 britney spears
18 naruto
19 jenna jameson
20 dogs

A handy tool is http://www.google.com/sktool/# , it searches popularity versus copetition for every keyword.

So writing something about these subjects might be a good idea as they are searched the most worldwide.

Also make sure you are intrested in your subjects as well. Writing about something you don't care, can drop the quality of your articles. Make it intresting for you and your readers.

1. Make a site or blog

A blog:
A blog is an easy to use website in wich you can share your ideas and thoughts to the rest of the world. Setup takes about 5 minutes and you can practically begin posting right away. A good blogsite is http://www.blogger.com/ and it is absolutely free to use.
Readers can leave their comments providing an easy communication between the writer and the readers.

A usefull tool is "Blogger for Word", a free add-in for Microsoft Word. This add-in allows users to save a Microsoft Word Document directly to a Blogger blog, as well as edit their posts both on- and offline. A blog is the most user-friendly site you can make and you can put advertisements on it. More about this in next posts about making money with ads.

Website:
For making a website there are two approaches, you can either build one yourself, or you can partially make one yourself. The difference between the two is that making a website on your own will cost you a lot of time and work because you need to understand the use of html. A good site to learn this is http://www.make-a-web-site.com/

To make a website you need a host. Rather then using a free host for your site you should make your own domain (yoursite.com). There is a reason why some hosts are free and that is because the support is just awful. Believe me on this one, I tried it and there was little to none support.

A web host, one that is not free, provides you tools, space and good support to help make your site succesful. These host will charge you a few dollars a month depending on how much space you need and what services they provide. When looking for a host search the web and evaluate them. The price range will be between 1$ to as much as 250$ a month

You can search for a host right here or look for one yourself http://www.findmyhosting.com/

Price, reliability and costumer support are the key words. Also the tools they provide for making your site can either make it easy, or give you headaches.