Make Money With Lots Of Free Blogs

Following my previous post I was asked: Isn't it better just to concentrate on one or two money making blogs than setting up lots of them? And how have you got the time to keep them all updated if you have lots?

I do concentrate mainly on a couple of blogs, for the biggest part of my blogging income, but I like to set up new blogs for fun, experiments and to make additional money. I must have well over thirty floating about in different places on the blogosphere.

If I can go back to yesterday's post and the example I gave of the new Helen Flanagan blog. What I will actually do, with this blog, is to try and keep it reasonably updated for about a month. I've so far done 28 posts in 22 days.

After a month, if everything has been done properly (keywords, images, titles etc), it should tick over virtually by itself. It will then only be necessary to do the occasional new post when there is some actual news about Helen - perhaps once a week or fortnight.

Now if you have several such blogs all ticking over, just being updated now and then, it's not a lot of work after the initial thrust of setting up the blog.

You wind them up and then let them go!

Some will perform better than others. Here's a couple of stat charts, for the last couple of weeks, showing the number of hits I've had on a couple of such blogs where I've followed this procedure.


Sometimes the blogs don't do this well. I've some that only get 10 or 20 hits a day. But, there again, some have done better.


If you have been reading Mike's Money Making Blog for a while you'll know that I believe, quite simply, that traffic = money.

And by this I mean any sort of traffic. I don't believe there is any bad traffic, just that some is better than others. Look at the major stores in town. What do most of them do? They run promotions to get people through their doors.

It's the same with blogging.

Going back to having lots of blogs. It's an accumulation thing: the total number of hits on all of the blogs combined. This is what makes money, providing they have been monetised properly.

You can work out the stats yourself. How many hits could you achieve with a number of blogs? Ask yourself if you think that the total traffic on these would outperform one blog. Maybe they will, maybe they won't, but I know what works for me.

Good luck,
Mike.
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How To Get Search Engine Referrals With A New Blog

I was asked: How long does it take before you are likely to get search engine referrals from Google on a new blog?

Answer: 5 days.

Well that's my experience when starting up a new blog.

However it all depends on several factors but these are what I consider to be the seven essential parts of my formula when starting a new money making blog:

(1) Subject matter (niche) of blog
As I keep saying you've got to give people what they want. If it's popular the subject will be searched for but if it's obscure it won't be. Follow the trends, things, subjects that are on the way up and don't plump for an already overcrowded market.

As an example, purely because I thought she could become popular and there weren't too many blogs already, I started a new blog on Helen Flanagan. She's a UK soap star that has just started to get noticed.

Just to clarify the blog was created purely to make money. I don't even watch the soap, Coronation Street, in which she plays the part of Rosie Webster.

I started the blog on the 19th of July and the first Google referrals were on the 23rd of July.

(2) Use of keywords
In the case of my example I used her name as keywords - obviously - and made sure this was in the title of each post and also in the first sentence.

I also used long tail keywords which I got from a Keywords suggestion Tool - see yesterday's post as an example.

(3) Use of images
As the niche was about a person this was quite easy. I made sure that the 'alt' description was always completed and included chosen keywords within this. It takes longer to get image referrals but, by including them within a post, it is building for future weeks.

(4) You must have inbound links
As I understand it, to get picked up by Google the blog has to have some inbound links. If you have more than one blog this is, of course, easy.

(5) Use Tags
Tags, or labels as Blogger calls them, are essential now when writing a post, some of which should be your chosen keywords.

(6) Write as many posts as possible in the first few days
Again this is something I've mentioned previously but the more you write the more keywords you'll have floating about.

If you have a lot of subject matter perhaps you can break this up into smaller segments (posts) instead of one whopper.

(7) Ping
I always ping every new post though some are done automatically, see Technorati for example. Also sites such as Ping-o-matic will ping several services on your behalf.

You can also add your URL to Google but I don't bother with this. I also don't use the websites that say they will submit your blogs etc to lots of search engines. I've tried these and frankly they are a waste of effort.

If you do the essentials blogs will get picked up by the search engines but Google is quickest off the mark. The Helen Flanagan blog has been up and running for 21 days and to date I've had 783 search engine referrals from Google plus 34 from Yahoo, 16 from AOL, 4 from AltaVista and 1 from Dogpile.

I'm sure that SEO experts may disagree with some of my 'seven essentials' but what I try to do, with Mike's Money Making Mission, is to write about what I've personally experienced and not theories.

I could have done better, with my newest blog, but my target was to get 1,500 hits in the first month. I've just checked and see I'm up to 1466 (2834 with reloads) in 21+ days so that's okay as far as I'm concerned.

Good luck,
Mike.

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Free SEO Keyword Tool

A while back I wrote a post about The Long Tail Way To Make Money and on this I recommended a Keyword Suggestion Tool which I found useful. Here's another SEO Tool, which I came across recently, that may be of interest.

This one is called the SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool. Needless to say it's free.

As an example I entered keywords I was thinking of using on my celebrity blogs of 'Amanda Beard' - she's in the news recently.

The tool came up with a massive list of keyword suggestions - far too many for my screen shot below.


It also produced a lot of other interesting stuff as well, such as:

* Estimated number of searches, for the keywords, today on the likes of Google, Yahoo, MSN.

* AdWord estimates and costs.

* Links for keywords to Google News, Yahoo! News, Topix etc.

* Blog Search and Tag Links applicable to the keywords.

* Thesaurus, Dictionary and Encyclopedia links for the keywords.

* ... and lots more besides.


The value of such info depends on the individual but a lot of research can be done with the help of the tool.

I wouldn't use it for every post I write but I've found it effective on occasions. The only danger is that when you start messing with these sort of tools you can easily get sidetracked and forget about actually making money.

Good luck,
Mike.

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Going From A to Z Might Make More Money A to B

As I think I've previously mentioned I've been getting a few ads direct for my various celebrity blogs. This is great as all of the cash is mine and there's no sharing with a third party.

I've set up a separate pages, well other blogs really, with the ad rates. This way I don't have so many emails to answer.

The prospective advertiser only has to send his/her advert details and I then give him/her my PayPal info. Once the PayPal money is confirmed I publish the ad.

Here's an example for my Celebrity Insider.

This really all follows on from my post Making Money On Blogs With Your Own Products. There's a lot we can do for ourselves. Instead of the likes of PayPerPost etc, why not solicit our own reviews or sponsorship?

Or maybe write a sort of advertorial as a post about something that we are promoting or want to promote. All of the clicks and profit are then ours.

Occasionally it's necessary to maybe stand back and think: How could I do things a little differently to make (more) money?

The well trodden path works okay. It's familiar and gets us from A to B. Sometimes, however, we might get from A to Z with a different route and have a whole new more profitable experience.

Good luck,
Mike.

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Ads At End Of Posts 'Perform Well' And Make Money

I just wanted to carry on briefly from yesterday's post and to tie it in with my belief that text ads outperform banners when making money with blogs.

I have written before that text ads, placed within or at the end of an individual post, work well for me. They make more money generally speaking that most banners and widgets which are not specific to a particular blog niche.

I've noticed that Google actually recommend this themselves. They write:

"For example, on pages where users are typically focused on reading an article, ads placed directly below the end of the editorial content tend to perform very well. It is almost as if users finish reading and ask themselves, 'What can I do next?' Precisely-targeted ads can answer that question for them."

I have to agree with this entirely. Try it and see. Not just with AdSense but also write your own small text ads, for whatever you may be promoting, and see if this increases your clicks and earnings/commission.

Good luck,
Mike.

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Make More Money With The Right AdSense Positions

I've been switching AdSense ads around on my blogs to see which positions work best for me and make the most money. No doubt you will have seen the Google Heat Map as below and read their advice.

My conclusion is slightly different to theirs. I have found that the best two positions, that work for me, are as a leader advert (i.e across the page under the blog's title) and at the top of the right hand column.

Google AdSense Heat Map The darker the colour the better the 'ideal'
for placing AdSense, according to Google.
Regarding colours I have found that it helps to change them occasionally if you have regular readers and lots of subscribers. Unless things are altered now and again regulars tend to get 'blind' to ads. It's one of the reasons I have stressed the need for regular new blood to make money.

As I see it adverts above the fold work better than those below. I've tried the same sized ads lower down a column and these aren't very worthwhile but put the same ads at the top of a column and 'ding' more clicks.

I've also never had much success either with those above the page footer as Google suggest.

As I have said these are what have worked best for me, you may get differing results, but I thought I'd pass them on. It's really down to experimentation and the design, number of columns etc that your blog has. It's difficult to generalise.

Good luck,
Mike
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A Good Title Attracts Money Making Traffic

I've been looking through the list of Mike's Money Making Mission's most read blog posts for July. The Top Ten Posts are shown below.

I find it strange that the most read post is about 17 months old and isn't particularly good. It's the title that attracts readers plus it's in a decent position on the Google Search Engine for phrases like making money with chain letters where it's number one, after the sponsored listings.

This illustrates the value of a good title.

MMMM'S TOP TEN MOST READ BLOG POSTS - JULY 08
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How To Make Money With Chain Letters
2
How To Get 90% Discounts On Amazon Products
3
A List Of 40 Free Blog Directories
4
The Two Secrets Of Making Money With Free Blogs
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6
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Making Money With Zlio
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Making Money With Free Blogs - The Truth
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Money Making With Blogs - Part 2