I have been trying to find out more about making money on the internet as a result of a little google ad that popped up next to one of my articles.
Since then, I have been sucked into the world of internet marketing and while I’ve learnt a lot, I can’t say I’ve really enjoyed myself. I like writing for the sake of writing and to have to keep adjusting my point of view to slant it a little towards a product I was trying to promote just took the fun out of the writing.
Not to mention having to think about these important things called keywords so google would find me. It drove me nuts trying to remember to mention a keyword, and not make the whole article sound like I was trying to mention the keyword.
But I ramble on. Actually, what happened was, I tried to create a blog on personal finance. I figured that maybe if my content was about money, maybe people would put all sorts of nice google ads about money on the site, and I could promote the internet products helping people to get rich.
I have since realised my flawed logic.
1. Money is an interesting topic. Personal finance is not. I was half-way through my blog when I learnt about this thing called doing keyword research and the number of people who actually search for blogs under personal finance are a tiny fraction of people who search for money blogs, of which there must be millions of them, mostly trying to sell something or other.
2. I don’t believe in the stuff I was supposed to be selling. I don’t believe in get rich quick schemes. But try advertising a product that tells people they can get rich slowly but surely, and in the most boring way, by saving, researching, investing etc and see how many clicks you get !
3. I changed my name of the blog from Why Money Matters – A blog on Personal Finance to Grow Rich Along With Me – The Best Is Yet To Be, and google found me ! Under “get rich blog”, google has decided I can come on its first page. Of course, once people come and visit and find out it isn’t something quick, they leave soon after. Oh well.
4. I failed a number of blogs created for the purpose of trying to make money. Actually, el cheapo me used blogger for most of them so google reviewed me and almost took one of my blogs off. Paid for another one but have since returned that !
5. My lack of savvy as a marketer became clear when I tried to sell Think And Grow Rich by Napolean Hill through Amazon.com, only to find after a few posts on it, someone else was advertising to give away a free version in the google ads next to my advertisement to sell the book !
Oh well. Have since become addicted to flooding cyberspace with blogs just for the fun of seeing them published. Have also littered the same cyberspace with articles meant to help promote my blog, but have found people read the articles, but don’t visit the blog ! Have also started a new blog on my internet marketing experience, separate from my personal finance blog, which is slowly gaining some regular readership.
Making money with Google Adsense isn’t that difficult if you stay focused on what matters, and what matters is ranking high in the search engines result pages of Google. The rest doesn’t really matter, and will take care of itself. For example, a lot of people attempt to rank high in Yahoo and MSN, making changes that actually make it more difficult to rank in Google, where you make the most money.
Just think like Yahoo and MSN. If you want to improve, you would start to copy what Google is doing to get better search results. Yo can count on that happening, and it is happening now.
Follow this instructions!
1 So the first step in conquering the search engine result pages is to focus on Google search results alone. Don’t try to target all of thesearch engines as it’ll hurt Google results without being able to make up for it with the few extra hits you may get in other engines.
2 Next, you focus on giving Google search what it needs and wants, and that is highly targeted keywords placed in the proper places in your post title and content.
3 Remember, Google can’t distinguish phrases, it can only identify individual words you put in your content and give results based on that. That’s the secret behind placing keywords where they need to be to get the best results.
4 So write for Google Adsense or search engine results, rather than for readers. If you write for readers, your text may read great, but nobody will be reading it if you don’t place keywords where they need to be so Google can index them properly.
5 Along with in your post title, include you keywords in the first paragraph of your post content as well as the last. The reason why is Google reads content in that way, so you’re helping them discover what your content is about.
It also helps them place the right targeted Adsense ads on your blog. That increases click-through rates.
6 Finally, scatter your keywords throughout your post text, without doing it so much you may get penalized. This is a good reason to write longer posts so you can have a lot of keywords for Google to find, without incurring penalties for ‘stuffing’ keywords in an obvious attempt to game the system.
7 This is about all you can do to optimize your blog or website for Google. Once that is done, spend the rest of your time building up backlinks, and your entire Google Adsense strategy is in place, and you’ll start to make some serious money over time.
Have you read about ‘Muhammad Yunus’ and his idea of micro-financing? Though micro-financing has been there for ages… It is fascinating to know that he has 6.6 million borrowers of whom 97% are women, that’s a huge number for someone who is into micro-financing. I started reading more about micro-financing and came across a article by an advertising agency which talks about ‘Seventy Things to Watch in 2007′ and interestingly of one them is ‘Web-based Micro Financing’.. I googled around and found this website ‘kiva.org’ it is quite a successful business today. ‘Web-based Micro Financing’ is a wonderful idea.. I am curious to know how much would these micro-lenders earn, like what would be the percentage of profit…? and would you invest in such ventures to get good returns…? How much do you think the website owners(kiva.org) are making money..?
I think you just need 3 things to build a company like ‘kiva’.. 1, Technical skill to build a website. 2, Build contacts with local micro-financiers 3, Most importantly you need to have financial (‘banking/micro-financing’) background to understand and run this business or may be degree in finance. I can build such a website with in a week and build contacts with micro-financiers – So, if anyone wants to start something similar to kiva then I would be interested to become a partner but your business plan should interest me.. I see a great opportunity in micro-financing esp India .