If you want to make money online then there are several SEO tips you can utilize to start earning. There are many ways to start making money online (MMO) that will not cost you anything. You can choose later on to spend money to grow your MMO business, but it can be done just as well for free.
The most common ways to start making money are through publishing content online either by starting a blog or a website or writing articles. There are many different options available, you can start a free blogspot blog or you can pay to register a domain name and build a site or host your own wordpress blog. The third option is to write articles online and get paid for it.
You can do this by publishing your content on article sites that display google ads (adsense) where the site shares the revenue from the ads with you, most of these sites require that you have your own adsense account and it works by shared revenue, your ads get displayed a certain percentage of the time and the website owners ads are served the rest of the time. This is a great way to get started. Info barrel is one of the best sites to join as they take less of the revenue than other sites. You could also choose to simply write content for others, this is called copywriting, where you write website copy for others to place on their sites.
SEO tips – Setting up a blog to make money online
You can choose to start either a free blog on the blogger platform or register a domain name and host your own blog. It does not matter which you decide to do because both can potentially make money.
SEO tips – no 1
Before you register/choose a URL for your blog you need to choose a theme for your blog, for search engine optimization purposes you need to choose a topic that has the potential to make money. To do this you need to find a niche that a lot of people search for online but that is not too difficult to rank for. This is called keyword research. Each search term entered into a search engine like Google or Bing is a keyword. There are various free keyword research tools available online that will let you search any number of keywords on any topic and return the search volume for that particular keyword. The Google Keywords adwords tool is the best for this kind of research as it also tells you how much advertisers are paying for any particular keyword.
Type the keyword/topic you have in mind into the keyword research tool and press search to see the results, you can set the search settings to look for search volume from a specific country or worldwide, this will depend on what country you are targeting. The next step is to choose to display the CPC (cost per click) column. This should tell you how much advertisers are paying to display their ads online.
What you want to find is a keyword that has a high search volume and a high CPC. This tells you that the keyword is getting a lot of searches and also that advertisers are willing to pay money to display their ads. From this you will know that there is potential to make money from that keyword. You should do as many searches as possible and write down any keywords that interest you and that you feel have potential.
SEO Tips – no 2
Evaluating the competition – there are many ways you can try to judge the competition for any keyword, some are advanced techniques but in general you should take a look at the search results for your chosen keyword. If the sites listed are large sites with many pages or very popular sites, then you know this keyword is probably going to be hard to rank for. This is why I recommend that for a beginner to SEO you should start with a free blog, if it turns out that the competition is too hard to allow your site to rank high, at least you have not spent any money yet.
If you really want to learn the advanced techniques of evaluating competition, you can either buy SEO evaluation software or enrol in a program that will teach these techniques, but for a beginner, you should just start off with the basics and gain an understanding of how search engine optimization works and how to use it effectively. If you already have a site and know a little about SEO but would like to learn from the experts you can join a membership site like the keyword academy, the first month only costs $1 (you can cancle at any time) and you gain access to training videos, members forum and a lot more. I have been a member for a few months and honestly these guys really know what they are doing.
SEO tips – no 3
Once you have chosen your keyword you can register or choose your URL/domain name. It is important to have your keyword in your URL and your blog title. Once you are set up you need to start posting to your site, you should aim to have several highly relevent (to your keyword) posts, so you need to be able to produce a lot of content for your blog.
SEO tips – no 4
The secret to ranking high in search engines is by building up the authority of your site in the eyes of google and the other search engines. This means you should be producing relevent posts and building links to your site. Link building can be done in many ways, but you need to be careful not to build links that will be seen as spam. Try to get exchange links with other sites that are about the same topic as your blog. Google will rank you higher if the links pointing to your site are from similar sites.