Blogging for money - the beginners step by step guide

I am going to take you on a step by step guide on how to make money online from blogging. These steps are based on my personal experience and I would follow the same procedure again and again if I had to create a fresh blog once more.

Step One: Pick a Blog Topic or Niche - Picking a topic is the most important decision a blogger needs to make and I would recommend the following few things below: 

a. Pick a topic on something you have average and reasonable idea on. 

b. Select a blog topic in the field of your interest area and as vast as possible. Let’s take for instance; instead of narrowing your topic down by making a blog on weight loss hints, it would be wiser to make blog on a more collective topic like Health and Fitness. The reason for selecting a collective topic like that is plain – you focus a wider audience and thereby increasing your chances of getting huge visitors. It is important and very necessary. Get the point I made there?

Step Two: Establish a regular routine for yourself. Though it may not be possible to blog everyday, but make a decision of how much of your time to put weekly or if possible daily on blogging and similar online activities. A lot of people have full time jobs, and for this type, I suggest writing at least 4 to 6 blog posts per week. One per day with at least 350 words or more would be excellent.

Step Three: Submit your post to http://blogcarnival.com. This can be easily done. Its importance includes – it helps to drive valuable blog traffic and it also increases your page ranking. Taking these minor steps will have enormous effect on the amount you will make online through blogging.

Step Four: When you must have posted about 20-26 articles in your blog, go and get account each with the following because they will be helpful in actualizing your dream of making money online from blogging.

1. Google Adsense Account - Sign up for an adsense account and come to the section on this blog that shows free tips on making cash with google adsense. This should be your early source of making money from blogging.

2. Paypal Account – This account is necessary for making and receiving some payments from transactions you make online.

3. Hubpages – This can be considered optional, but it helps a lot in Search Engine Optimization and traffic issues.

4. SiteMeter or StatCounter – They are useful in monitoring your daily traffic to your blog.
Now I believe I’ve touched the necessary steps. When you properly follow my above steps, some positive action will definitely commence. Start watching and study your daily traffic to know the specific keywords that brought them to your blog.

Step Five – You may want to sign up with affiliate programs and marketing network when your visitors begins to reach 50 to 150 per day though this may seem too early but there is nothing wrong with giving things a trial. Just set a target for yourself.

Secrets to get page rank 3 in one month

The page rank update done by google comes every three months and four times in a year. Getting a better rank is one of the most difficult problem. The number of backlinks your blog have is a key factor here. You experience better page rank soon as google give importance and priority to your blog. You have to work hard and follow the right track in other to get a nice PR. After a thorough research, I discovered some useful secrets to get Page Rank 3 from google which could only take 30 days when lots of effort are applied. So here are the secrets to follow for good page rank:

1. Always submit your blog url in top directories. Go to addurl.nu and there you will get a list of many directories to use.

2. Make a Ping of your every post via pingomatic.com. It doesn’t matter whether the post is good or bad.

3. Make sure you also submit your blog url in search engines most specially in google, yahoo and bing. They help a lot.

4. Sign up and participate in forums and leave your link through your signature box.

5. Do link exchange of your blog with other bloggers with the related topic.

6. Try and Submit your blog feed in feed directories.

You will definitely see result when these tips are properly followed as soon as google updates its page.

4 excellent strategies to appear in google's first page

PDF Files method – If you are an observant type, you’d notice that PDF Files easily get ranked on the first page of Google. If PDF files are added in your webpage with same title as keyword you are targeting to get ranked on, you will appear within the first page of google. Adding your websites URL and Keywords in anchor text will also help you get the file to show up on the first page for your keyword.

Video method– Adding video links or real videos is a nice method to include rankable material to any web page. The video should contain and titled with the targeted keyword string and link back to a YouTube video that has your keywords in its anchor text along with your blogs url. To facilitate the possibility of appearing fast, make between 5-10 backlinks to the videos depending on the competition to that specific keywords.

Google Place Pages method – Place Pages are a new invention of Google that is designed to offer as much information on a geographic location as possible. You can use your business address and create information about your products, services, or other general information about your company using the keywords you want to get ranked on.

Shopping Comparison Links method – If you have a product based website, you should submit your products to all the major shopping comparison engines including Amazon, Yahoo Shopping, Google Base, Biz Rate and EBay if possible. The trick here is to title the products with the specific keyword you have in mind and then link them to specific pages on your site sharing the same Keywords in the pages Page Title, Meta Keywords, Meta Description, and Meta Title. It’s possible to get two or three products ranked in the shopping results on the first page of Google for your keywords. You should also build a few backlinks to the actual product listings in the shopping comparison websites. This will help Google Identify your website and products as more authoritative and relevant if others are linking to them.