I have to say, having someone do the content for the niche sites really allows me to focus and concentrate on the things that need to be done. My problem since I started trying to earn money with Google is getting sidetracked all too easily because their is just so much you need to do in the Make Money Online game if you want to succeed.

Joining the Keyword Academy and following the structure they set out has really helped along with learning to use Excel spreadsheets to organize my work. But having someone else to share the burden of work has been excellent, I suppose I’m starting to understand why serious Internet Marketers get so excited about outsourcing their work to other people and its something that I can see myself going a tonne in the future to make things easier.

Anyway I thought I would take ten minutes tonight to have a look and see how this site was doing in the Google search engine results pages. I’ve also been having a look at my statcounter traffic stats to see where my visitors have been coming from and trying to figure out a way to boost my traffic up a notch.

Google Traffic To Adsense Make Money Online

At the moment we’re getting about 35 unique visitors a day to this site which isn’t too bad considering I haven’t been promoting it very vigorously at all. I put the reason it has been moving up the Google search engine results pages down to the fact that it is starting to age more than because I have letting loose on it with my special ninja SEO skills.

From looking at the keyword analysis on statcounter and can see that I’m starting to rank for a reasonable number of longtail keywords related to earning money online and how to earn money with Adsense. We’re sitting at 8th to 15th in the SERPS for the following keywords:

• earn money with google
• adsense make money
• how to make money with adsense
• earn money from google
• earn money with adsense
• earning money online
• adsense money

Keyword Analysis From Statcounter

Plan Of Action For This Site

I suppose if I want to make progress I am going to have to make a plan of action. Like I said I’m busy with other money making projects at the moment so I’m have to limit myself to about an hour a week on this blog which means I won’t be able to post much due to time constraints. I’m going to use all the time I have available to start getting quality backlinks from all available sources with anchor text that matches the keywords I am targeting.

A Word On Anchor Text

You should know that the anchor text used in the backlinks that link to your site is extremely important in how well you rank in Google and what keywords you rank for. Google uses the anchor text to try and figure out what your site is about so make sure you manipulate this fact to your advantage by getting people who link to your site to use relevant anchor text.

What Will I Do To Get Backlinks

I haven’t done much to publicize this blog since I set it up so there are plenty of things I can do to get extra backlinks. I’ll write a few articles for the likes of ezinearticles.com and maybe do a couple of hub pages. More importantly I’m going to try and find some friends in the earn money online niche who are interested in a link exchange. This is a quick and easy way of getting backlinks that won’t take up too much of my precious time.

Adsense Make Money Online Needs Your Help

Like I said time is short and I need links to get this baby up to the top of Google so if you have a website that deals with any topics that are a vague match for this blog it would be great if you could throw a link with some nice relevant anchor text my way. If you email me and tell me about the link I’ll repay you with a link from elsewhere, I would greatly appreciate any help!

That’s all for this time, hopefully the next time I post I will have built up a few quality backlinks and will be moving in the right direction in the search engines.

So I made the post and got a couple of links anchored as “monetize blog” from a couple of other sites to let Google know that the post existed and to re-enforce the topic it covered. I had planned on getting more quality backlinks to really give it a boost but I have been busy so that’s all it got.

At this point when I search for Monetize Blog from the UK I’m 7th in Google but only 33rd from the USA. Not a bad result I suppose and I’m going to put in a little more effort to see if I can get closer to the top, but why would I go to all this trouble to get ranked in Google for a keyword that isn’t much cash?

Considering the “Make Money With Adsense” and “Make Money Online” niches are such hard nuts to crack I don’t think I can hope to get anywhere near an interesting position in Google without doing things in a roundabout way. I figure that if I can start to rank for easy keywords first then Google will maybe sit up and take notice and maybe at some point in the future I might be able to start making tracks in the Make Money Online results pages.

Although I never started this make money blog with the intent of crushing the MMO SERPs it will make an interesting experiment for me at least, if not for anyone else.

I’ve done some searches in Scroogle.org just to see where I’m sitting at the moment for certain terms so that in the future we can check up to so how things have progressed.

1. How To Make Money With Adsense — 9th in SERPS
2. Make Money With Adsense — 12th in SERPS
3. Earn Money With Adsense — 8th in SERPS
4. Make Money Online — 211th in SERPS — I’ve got a little bit of work to do here!
5. Monetize Blog — 9th — Woot!! I’m going to try and take Steve Pavlina’s No.2 spot for this keyword just for fun.

As an aside, I have to say that I’m pleased with the increase in search engine traffic that I have seen over the past few weeks on Adsense | Make Money Online. A lot of it has to do with fact I have installed the KeywordLuv and dofollow plugins on the blog meaning anyone who leaves a comment on a post gets a valuable link back to their own site. Other traffic that finds its way here is searchers from Google who are using long tail keywords relating to a few general topics, namely:

1. Make money with Adsense / Google
2. dofollow links
3. The Keyword Academy

Recent Keywords used to find this site

You probably noticed that in the first sentence of this post I linked the Keyword “Monetize Blog” back to my old post with the same name. Hopefully by doing so I’ve given Google more information to chew on which will result in that post ranking higher. If I can combine that with getting a few more quality backlinks we should see it climb up Google a few more spots.

Well, April was a bit of a let down as far as making money with adsense was concerned. I had server problems which I posted about earlier what cost me a few days of earnings on my documentary site then my loans site was dropped 100 places down the Google Search results for 3 weeks.

My sites are all back to normal now but results were affected and last months Adsense Money was down to a paltry $116. Not exactly the results I was looking for but I suppose this game is going to be filled with ups and downs.

On a positive note I’ve been following the Make Money with Adsense advice of Court and Mark over at the Keyword Academy and feel like I’m making good progress. I’ve started sites in 4 more niches this month: exercise, coffee, kitchen and insurance. Its going to take a while to be able to tell if my efforts have been worthwhile but it feels like I’m getting somewhere. Hopefully by July I’ll start getting some Adsense income from the new sites.

What’s Required To Make Money Online

My plan of action regarding making money online has really changed recently as I become aware of the hard work that is required to make it in this game. There are no shortcuts to make money online like we all dream of. What we need to do if find a way to make money that has actually proven to work in the past and follow that religiously until we start to make money. The problem is that we are unwilling to put in the required work without seeing results for a few months, but the reality is that online money doesn’t just start flooding in after you throw up a few crappy websites.

We all need to realign our beliefs about what is required to make money online. We need to put serious amounts of work into our sites, then we need to allow them to mature and let Google build up a little trust in our sites. We have to build content, build support sites, work our ass off getting as many backlinks to our sites as we can. Making money online is not glamorous and its not easy, at least not to begin with. Hopefully by the time you’ve been working your fingers to the bone for 12 months you’ll begin to see the fruits of your labor and your sites will start to generate you some nice passive income.

Making Money Online Is All About Quantity Not Quality

I used to dream of building a website and sitting back and watching the money roll in, but I’ve come to realize that if you want to have a good chance of making money online you need to build a mountain of sites. Some of of your sites will make you no money, some will make a few dollars a month and if you lucky you’ll end up with a few sites that put real cash in your pocket.

So if you want make money online stop playing at it and get real. Put in the hours required, build as many sites as you can following good keyword research and learn how to optimize your sites for the search engines. The more I learn the more I realize that SEO is more about building backlinks than anything else so building networks of friends who can help you out with links when you need them is going to be worth pursuing over the long run.

A final note: I really feel like I’m starting to see the light with regards to making money online. This could be a false dawn of course but I can see that I have learned a great deal in the last few months and even if the sites I’m building at the moment don’t turn out to be winners none of this will be wasted time. My SEO skills may not be the best on planet yet but I’m improving all the time. When July rolls round I think I’ll have enough skills with search engine optimization that I should have the ability to, at the very least, offer SEO services to business who don’t have a clue what they are doing online. Regardless of what happens, I’m determined not to find myself back in a J.O.B. any time soon.