How to Make Money Online Lesson 1

Make Money Using Blogs - Lesson 1

Originally Posted, Tuesday, February 6, 2007

How to Set Up a Blog on Blogger.com

    This post was originally created in early 2007 and there have been numerous changes done to Blogger since that time. Most of these lessons are still applicable but there have been some changes. Rather than re-writing them all from scratch I have added little "Update" sections (in March 2008) where necessary. If the Make Money Using Blogs posts (There are 5 of them) seem a little contradictory at times this is the reason why. If I have missed anything or you find something that just doesn't jive please let me know and I will fix it. Thanks and if at anytime you don't understand something please leave a comment.

    Griz.

Note - As of 2010 I have removed the final 3 lessons as they are now too outdated to be of use. I am attempting to spew forth a complete up to date beginners course which should be done as soon as Golf season ends. :-)

Judging from the emails I have been receiving, a lot of my readers are a bit overwhelmed by the online money making business. You probably don't know where to start and it's hard to get anyone who knows what to do to spill the beans. This is by design as letting everyone in on what works and how to do it is thought to be a death blow to all those currently making money online. I don't share this view. There are potentially several billion buyers out there and estimates of about 150,000 online marketers. There is room for every one.

If you are starting out, you probably don't know how to go about setting up an online business.

You have lots of questions;

Do I need a website?
Do I buy one or build my own?
How do I build my own?
What do I put on my site?
How do I find a niche market?
What is a niche market?
How do I sell stuff?
How do I set up adsense?
What is adsense?
What is adwords?
What tools do I need?
How do I generate traffic (visitors) to my site?
What's the secret behind making money?
etc ...

I'm sure the list could go on for a while yet.

The point is most of you want to know where and how to start an online money making venture. The trouble is that all the online marketers are only too happy to tell you what to do ... as long as you buy the product (s) that they offer. Everyone has a different scheme for you to try. A sure-fire guaranteed way to get rich! You have heard this enough I'm sure. Who do you trust?

Let's get down to the basics, before you start spending money needlessly. Forget about websites, forget affiliate marketing, forget adwords, forget MLM and JV's, forget everything and start from scratch.

Let's start with "Google Adsense" and Blogs.

This is the cheapest and fastest way to get started making money online. You can set up a blog for free. Google will provide advertisements for your blog for free. You will earn an immediate commission from Google each time some one clicks an advertisement on your blog. Once you get your blog up and running you can diversify with affiliate marketing and other methods of making money. A blog is very simple to manage. The new Blogger (just out of Beta) program (owned by Google) is a beginners dream as a complete computer illiterate can set up a blog just following the onscreen directions. Once you have a blog you will then learn how to market it - get traffic to your site. When you have learned how to do this you can transfer this knowledge to websites and other online ventures. A blog will teach you the basics and you can learn without spending gobs of cash in the process.

I'm sure you have seen screenshots of people who are making hundreds of dollars a day from adsense. Is this bullsh * t? Nope. They earn what they say but beware that they are not telling you the whole story.

There are several strategies for making money with Google Adsense but let's look at the two most common.

1) Using Adwords or other paid advertising to generate traffic to your Adsense sites and hence generate Adsense clicks.

2) Getting free traffic using SEO techniques (Search Engine Optimization) and harnessing the power of multiple Blogs to generate Adsense revenue.

So what is the trick?

Using Adwords

This is what they don't tell you.

A lot of those screen shots show you the money they brought in. They never tell you how much they spent to earn that income. They may make $ 600 a day but if they are using adwords to generate traffic then they likely spent several hundred a day as well. They always show you the gross, not the net. This doesn't mean that they aren't making a profit - they are or they wouldn't continue day after day - but that their profit is a lot less than they lead you to believe. This is done in order to make you believe that the product they are selling will help you generate profits of $ 600 a day. If they were completely honest they would admit that it might generate SALES of $ 600 a day - not PROFITS.

Using free traffic

This is what they don't tell you.

This is the best way for a beginner to start out. Build a blog on a particular niche (topic), create good quality content for it, have Google index and rank your page high for your keyword (topic) and sit back as Google sends hordes of visitors to your site. Finally, count your money from all the Adsense clicks. Right? Well almost.

This is the procedure but they don't tell you that to make serious money at this you will need to create dozens of blogs. Yes, you heard right. Your main blogs will have decent pages addressing the needs of your visitors and suitable for marketing products. The majority of the blogs however, will be set up to simply generate Adsense clicks. The articles will be unique but crappy and visitors that end up on these blogs will quickly leave - hopefully by clicking an ad that will take them to where they were trying to go in the first place. This is called spam blogging and as unethical as it seems, it is how many people make a lot of money with Adsense. No one talks about this aspect of making adsense profits. No one wants to admit that they use this tactic and yet this is the main method of generating decent money with Adsense with out spending money to get traffic.

This is also the system (modified a bit) that I recommend to all beginners. It's the cheapest way to start earning cash, it will teach you all the main aspects of Internet marketing and you can start immediately. However, you will have to decide if ethics or making money is your top priority first.

Decided?

Let's begin.

We will keep this simple to start. In future posts I will explain more and more techniques as we go. For now we need to get a few blogs set up.

Go to Blogger.com and set up your account.

When you have completed this we can begin.

Before creating your blog you will have to find a topic. This is called a niche. There is a lot to learn about finding the right niche but for now just pick a topic you like. Let's learn how to set up a blog before we worry about what kind of blog will make money.

I will set up a new blog with you so you can see how I do it.

In blogger select Create Account.

Select a name. Try and use your keyword in the name and the blog address. (Use Capitals in your name but only lower-case in blog address.)

ie. I want to call my blog "Blogger Basics for Beginners" using the following address "http://bloggerbasics.blogspot.com". When I checked the availability I was told this address was already taken.

When this happens try using a dash like this;
"Http://blogger-basics.blogspot.com" - notice the dash, this is a way to still use your main keyword by adding a dash between them. As it happens this address is also taken.

Next I try this;

"Http://beginner-blogger-basics.blogspot.com" - This address is available and I am still able to use my keyword in the address and my title which is "Blogger Basics for Beginners".

Note: The more popular the niche the harder it will be to get an address for your keyword. If you are doing a "shoe" blog I can assure you that all possible "shoe" combination's are gone. If you are using "Pre-Cambrian Rock Formations" as a keyword you can probably get it for your address.

It is important to use your keyword in your Blog's Title and Address. This will greatly help you when it comes to search engine rankings and indexing. This is a big topic that I won't get into right now - just trust me on this.

Fill in the word verification and hit continue.

Note: The reason for the word verification is to stop automated programs from setting up thousands of blogs. Basically it is there to stop you from doing what I am going to show you how to do. Don't worry, it doesn't stop the automated programs, they have evolved to take this delay in hand and let you work around it.

March 2008: Update. It now appears that Blogger has a new flagging system that can catch most auto-software trying to set up multiple accounts. As you can no longer use link farms effectively this is a moot point and you should only be creating 3-4 blogs per account. Do not use the same keywords in each blog. ie. Don't create related blogs in each account. If you want ten blogs targeted to 1 niche then put each blog on a separate account.

You will now be asked to select a template. Later you can experiment with all the different templates but for now just choose Minima as you will find it easier to follow along with me. (It is the first choice and it should already be selected automatically) I have found this to be the most professional looking template and I use it frequently. You are reading this post on a Minima template. It is also perfectly optimized for SEO without having to tweak it.

Hit continue to select the Minima Template.

Next you will see a page that says "Your Blog has been created".

That's all there is to it.

Hit "Start Posting" and we will begin the next step.

Before posting let's go into "Settings" and make a few customizations.

Fill in your description. Make sure you use your keyword at least once in your description.

After your description scroll down the page and hit "Save Settings". Don't change any of the yes / no settings. Leave them on default.

Select the "Publishing" tab.

Select "Yes" where it says "Notify Webogs.com" and hit "Save Settings" (the default is NO) This will help notify the outside world each time you post something to your blog.

Select "Formatting"

Change "Show" to 1 posts on the main page. (Default is 7)

Select your time zone.

Set "Show Link Field" to Yes.

Leave everything else as is and hit "Save Settings".

Select "Comments"

Select "Show" for Backlinks.

Select "Yes" for Pop up Window.

Select "No" for Word Verification.

Enter your email for comment notification.

Hit "Save Settings", and leave the rest of the options on default.

Select "Archiving"

Make sure the frequency is set to "Monthly" and the "Enable Post Pages?" Is set to "Yes".

Hit "Save Settings"

Select "Posting" and we are ready for your first post.

You will notice that you have a Title Field, a Link Field, and a big box where you will type in your post.

It is important that each and every title you use has a keyword (a term you want to rank for) in the Title. (Again this relates to SEO - and again just trust me without further explanation at this point.)

In the link field you want to type in your blog address so that the post links back to your blog (your home page or the post page).

My link is typed as follows; http://beginner-blogger-basics.blogspot.com/ - this is the URL of my homepage.

Replace beginner-blogger-basics with your address.

My first post is short and to the point. It will mention my keywords at least twice.

It reads as follows;

Welcome to Blogger Basics for Beginners. This site provides tips and techniques for beginning bloggers in order to make money online. If you have questions not covered in Blogger Basics please feel free to email your question to bla bla bla

Make your first post the same way. Use your keywords a couple of times and then hit "Publish".

Then hit "View Blog"

Congrats - you are now a blogger. Simple wasn't it?

Now you can customize your blog. You will notice that your title is a hypertext link pointing to your site. On the right hand side of the page is a section called "Blog Archive" and below that is an "About Me" section.

You can add and remove any section you like by selecting "Customize" from the top right corner of your screen.

I am going to remove the "About Me" section and add a new section for Adsense. Always leave the "Blog Archives" so that visitors can find your previous posts.

Select "Customize"

Click the edit link on the "About Me" box. I am going to select the "Remove Page Element" option to get rid of this but if you want to keep the "About Me" section just fill in the info boxes and click "Save Changes".

Let's Add a Page Element. From the main customization screen click the link that says "Add a Page Element" (Use the right hand column box - not the one on the bottom of the page.)

You will get a pop-up screen with a lot of Page Elements listed on it.

Let's add Adsense to our blogs. Click the Adsense "Add to Blog" button. If you don't have an Adsense account follow the instructions to get one. You will get a publisher ID from Google that will enable you to post adsense ads on your blog. Once you have this pick a Format and use the Blend Template option regarding colors. (It's the default).

Update: Note - if you want to use adsense channels to track your blogs then you will have to create your Adsense code in Adsense Setup in your Adsense account and then copy / paste the code generated into your blog manually. Don't use the "Adsense" element for this - use the "HTML / JavaScript" element and paste in the code after the box opens.

Update: As of February 2008, Google requires all blogs using Adsense to post a Privacy Policy on their blogs. To see what this entails view mine in the sidebar A Very Boring Privacy Policy "

For right hand column ads I stick to the 160 x 600 vertical Banner Format.

Click "Save Changes" and you will notice that an Adsense box has been added to your right hand column at the top.

Click "View Blog" and see the results.

It takes a little while for Google to recognize your content and place corresponding ads on your site. At first you may only see public service ads or nothing until Google figures out your keywords. Just be patient as this is normal. Having said that, I was given ads related to Blogs / Make Money immediately and you may have got appropriate ads as well if you followed my instructions. Why? Remember I told you to use your keywords several times in setting up your blog. I did this so that the Google bot will have no problem figuring out what your blog is about. If your keyword is about something that has advertisements Google will find the ads. If you used the "Pre-Cambrian" keyword you may never get anything but public service ads as I doubt that there are many advertisers selling anything related to this keyword ... I could be wrong though.

Let's stop for today and let you concentrate on the next lesson. You will have to sit down and write one decent article about your keyword. (I can hear you non-writers cringing at the thought) Later I will show you how to get unique content without writing your own but for now you will have to bare down and do a little typing.

Before leaving go to my just created Blog "Blogger Basics For Beginners" and make sure that yours is set up like mine.

PS. Don't be afraid to add and delete elements / Widgets on your blog in the meantime. Play around and learn how to use the Page elements. You can also edit the Blog's type, fonts, colors and element positions. Experiment a bit. Just don't delete your initial post.

200 comments:

hawthorn said ...

Hi

I dont know who you are, and just got here from a link somewhere on or from Whydowork site, but I have to say Ive just partially read your first lesson on creating a blog and have to compliment you on its simplicity and clarity. i have a blog from which ive made an amazing € 1.03!! But I just threw it together, and Im now going to read carefully your first 3 lessons and amend it, or even start a new one! Will there be more lessons?

Thank you for a great page!

h, ireland

August 10, 2007 10:09 AM

Grizzly Brears said ...

August 10, 2007

Hi Hawthorn,

Thanks for the comment. I will be doing more posts but have been waiting for the latest Google Page Rank update (every three months) which is occuring right now and will slowly crawl along for the next week or two.

For those of you waiting please be patient as I have several test blogs in the works that have been set up to see which is most effective regarding all the new rules Google imposed after it's latest Google Slap. (Changes to the Google algorithm)

Upon completion of the current Page Rank update I will know which way to proceed with future lessons. The current lessons are still valid as far as how to set up and optimize your blogs. The changes imposed by Google relate to page ranking and traffic generation techniques.

For now continue to set up your blogs as outlined in my lessons but don't link them together. This is blog farming and Google will now penalize sites that do this from the same ip addresses. All blogger blogs are on the same ip address.

Other than this just follow my directions and get your blogs started - I have a number of new techniques that I will share with you but will wait until I have some page rank confirmation.

Grizzly

August 10, 2007 11:28 AM

Anonymous said ...

Hi Grizzly,

just came across your website sounds really god. we are interested in setting up a blog to satrt earning a little money. Can we really make money from a blog? and can you tell us how you get paid the money you earn and wether we are responsible for our own tax etc.

thanks Grizzly

wales uk

October 16, 2007 8:35 AM

Grizzly Brears said ...

Hello you with no name ... grrrr

Yes you can make money with a blog. I do all the time. I typically create a niche blog, optimize it for the search engines, make the front page in the serps and then collect money from affiliate programs like clickbank or commission junction. I also make a fair bit from adsense ads. I am either paid directly from Clickbank, Google etc. by check or receive payments directly into my paypal account. I pay taxes on my earnings in Canada and suggest you follow the tax requirments in the UK. Not worth getting caught cheating.

Hope this helps.

Grizzly

October 16, 2007 9:52 AM

ih said ...

Hi Grizzly,

I did not see the button "notify weblogs" under the publishing tab. Has the site been redesigned? Please tell me how I can make sure weblogs will be notified.

November 29, 2007 7:27 PM

Grizzly Brears said ...

I really have to update these posts one day.

What you are looking for is now located under "Settings" - "basic" and the fields "Add your blog to our listings?" And "Let search engines find your blog?" Should both be set to Yes. This replaces the old weblogs tab.

November 29, 2007 7:37 PM

Andy said ...

Hi Grizzly. I have yet to actually reap the benefits of making money through, blogging, but if this first post is any indicator, it sounds very easy and fun! Thanks for providing the resources to those of us who have no idea where to start!

January 21, 2008 1:08 PM

Grizzly Brears said ...

Thanks Andy and you are welcome - patience, a little hard work and the benefits will come.

Thanks for stopping in.

Griz

January 21, 2008 1:10 PM

gel said ...

hi! thanks for creating this page and posting these things!

January 31, 2008 9:53 AM

Manuel Viloria said ...

Thank you for this wonderful post, Grizz.

I noticed that while you have a tutorial in text format, you don't seem to have one in video format (Camtasia screencast).

Is this deliberate, given that search engines love text?

February 22, 2008 9:32 PM

Grizzly Brears said ...

Manuel,

You answered your own question - it's all about content and text is the only content Google reads.

February 23, 2008 4:35 AM

blogging said ...

Hi,

I am terrible at blogging and enjoyed your article! You have extremely good content. My question is: Once you sign up with blogspot.com why do you need to grant them access to your adsense account? I couldn't find an answer to that anywhere on your page. My apologies for the long post, but this is what the email said: In order to use AdSense through blogger.com, you'll need to grant blogger.com access to the ad code and reports in your AdSense account. To offer you special features for displaying your ads or viewing statistics on their website, partner websites ask our system for access to your AdSense account. We then require your confirmation for this request. While you're free to choose whether or not to grant access, please be aware that this access may be required in order to display ads, generate revenue, or view reports on the partner site. Should you decide to grant access, the partner will be able to manage some parts of your account on your behalf and access certain reports to display them for you. Note that they will never be allowed access to personal information such as bank account or payment history.

The website blogger.com has requested access to your account:

Yes, allow blogger.com to access my account

No, do not allow blogger.com to access my account

! Important - you are choosing to deny blogger.com access to the ad code and performance information in your AdSense account. If you continue, you will not be able to manage your AdSense account through blogger.com.

Note that for services that blogger.com provides, they will keep a percentage of the revenue that you accrue on their website as described below ...

Just sounded strange to me ....

March 09, 2008 11:11 PM

Grizzly Brears said ...

Blogging,

You don't have to allow Blogger access to your Adsense account but this is a feature that Google has added for convenience. Google owns Blogger and makes it easy to use Adsense right from the page elements in Blogger if you give Blogger access to your Adsense account.

There is nothing shady going on - it's just a fast way to apply Adsense if you want to use it.

March 10, 2008 5:39 AM

knc42 said ...

Hi Grizzly,

I'm brand new to blogging and making money online. I've just read your first lesson and created a blog on running. I don't know if it will make money or not but It's something I love to do. I've also been reading your other articles for making money online. Hopefully I'll find a niche that works.

Steve

March 10, 2008 2:29 PM

blogging said ...

Grizzly B.,

I just wanted to send a big thank you for all the lessons. I wrote my first blog yesterday that actually worked, and already had a lot of traffic / clicks to my blog. I am on to lesson 2 & 3, and I just finished 2 more blogs. I can hardly wait to see the results! Thanks again for making this so easy to understand, and for the fast replies too.

March 10, 2008 3:23 PM

Anonymous said ...

Wow!! What an eye opener!! I have several WordPress blogs but they don't make much $ $ $ $. I was writing posts that were interesting but now too SEO. I listened to some other blog hotshots (supposedly). This is exactly what I needed!!

Awesome blog ... awesome articles!!

Can you please write a post on selecting keywords?

I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks,

Kevin

March 12, 2008 2:04 PM

Javi said ...

I actually was doing what you mentioned and I thought I was nuts to even be doing it. By this I am referring to creating a lot of blogs. Your article is an affirmation that I am on the right path. Of course I also ensure that those I have created will not be considered splogs so I kinda do a little bit with them. Hopefully, as I move along, these will bring me to where i want to go. :)

March 17, 2008 4:05 AM

Good Free RPG Games said ...

Can I ask why you say "In the link field you want to type in your blog address so that the post links back to your blog." Why wouldn't you want the article to link to it's own page?

March 28, 2008 5:48 AM

Grizzly Brears said ...

RPG Games,

You want every post to link back to the homepage. Eventually all your old articles will / should develop PR and keyword authority as they age and you want that link juice pointing back to your main page in order to increase it's PR and keyword authority.

March 28, 2008 6:27 AM

Veks said ...

Thanks Griz, i just set up my first ever blog and it was indexed with relevant google ads displayed in two days. No money yet but ive gone from no idea to some in one weekend of solid reading thanks again for the no BS way to make money online.

April 02, 2008 3:08 AM

Shad said ...

Dear Grizzly,

I just wanted to thank you for posting these articles.I 've been interested in doing something like this for a while now but you made it so simple and you generously did it with no strings attached. I'm in the process of making my first blog ... Thanks Again.

Shad.

April 02, 2008 5:46 AM

Grizzly Brears said ...

Veks and Shad,

Thanks and I wish you both the best. Write good content, get lots of backlinks and above all be patient.

April 02, 2008 7:21 AM

Rick S said ...

Hey Grizzly,

This is probably a stupid question.

In the create account on "blogger.com" the first item to enter is an e-mail address. Do I need to set up a new e-mail account with Google? My only e-mail address is with Yahoo. It's no big deal. I just don't want to screw up.

thanks,

Rick from Tampa

April 07, 2008 9:52 AM

Grizzly Brears said ...

Rick,

There are no "Stupid Questions" so if you aren't sure - just ask.

You can use any email address you like. Just use a different one for each Blogger account you open - if you get to that stage. Remember no more than a handful of blogs on any one account.

On a side note:

If you intend on using Google's Webmaster Tools then make sure your email addresses are valid.

April 07, 2008 11:26 AM

Rick S said ...

Grizzly,

With your guidance I just published my first blog. You made it very simple, thank you, but I still screwed up. At the end of the blog it says it was posted by "Baby's First Toys". Help, where did I eff up?

Rick

April 08, 2008 2:06 PM

Grizzly Brears said ...

Rick,

The name used in the posts is set by you.

Go to your Dashboard - then click Edit Profile (Top Right Corner of Page)

Go to the Identity section.

Under "Display Name" enter the name you want showing at the bottom of your posts.

That's it.

April 08, 2008 3:24 PM

Prince Hanniel said ...

Hi,

I am grateful for the good information that you have given about making money using blogs. I started a blog last year (2007) and I am realizing that I can make money using it now!!!

I just wanted to know how I can add links of other websites and blogs in my own blog. (That is, in my blog there be links that if you lick them you can visit another blog, web page etc.

Thanks

April 15, 2008 6:37 AM

Grizzly Brears said ...

Prince,

It's called a hypertext link - meaning that someone can click it and be taken elsewhere.

You can see how to build the link in Lesson Two. Just scroll down the page until you see the example posted using "Dog Grooming".

April 15, 2008 7:02 AM

Leo said ...

Hi there grizzly, may i just say that you have really great content.

But im facing quite a problem.

You see im from the philippines, and Im 16 years old and i'm quite knowledgeable about blogs / websites and anything computer related ... and I was wondering how can i get the money i make from my blog? you see I am underage T_T

Thanks in advance and keep up the good work!

April 27, 2008 2:10 AM

Sabee said ...

Griz,

thanks for your great posts! They really helps!

I've recently started and wondering why the AdSense box is totally empty on my newly created first blog? It doesn't show any ads at all!!! I don't understand it. (I've managed before succesfully using adsense codes on my other sites, so I thought I'm not a beginner in AdSense ... but now I really don't understand this)

May 02, 2008 8:15 AM

Sabee said ...

Oh, silly me! I forget the Adblock Plus plugin in Firefox ... That's why my ads aren't visible to me ...

May 02, 2008 3:39 PM

Project Payday Mentor said ...

Great advice, but in the end of the day it is clear what brings in quality traffic are quality posts like the one you just wrote. This week was my first week of writing quality posts, and I already have gone up to 100 uniques a day.

CONTENT is the key. If you have what to offer, word will get out

http://www.projectpaydaymentor.com/

May 09, 2008 2:25 AM

citizenk said ...

Hi Grizzly;

I came across your site a few days ago, and was realy interested. Originally I wanted to learn how to make money, but I just finished setting up my blog and if money come cool if not, no biggie! You have succeeded were I in my most enthusiastic have failed; you got me to actually write some thing! Grizzly; you are a legend!

K, South Africa

May 14, 2008 3:46 AM

NVK said ...

it is great lesson, i am learned a lot. thanks. i did a blog with help of ur lesson. the name is www.make-money-online-tips-tricks.blogspot.com

May 16, 2008 3:41 PM

The Old Vic said ...

Hi Grizzly - thanks for the excellent blog but I have a question. If I understood you right you say to only have 3 or 4 blogs in an account, but that you need hundreds of blogs to make money, so that means having 50 or more accounts. I remember when I set u my Google account it was a long and painful hassle that involved receiving stuff by snail mail and giving codes over the telephone. Is this really what you mean? Or have I misunderstood?

May 16, 2008 8:21 PM

Watcher of the Watchers said ...

I would like to know what type face (font) you use on your blog, also does it matter what the font is, some is easier harder to read, can that help, also I want to know how we go about setting up multiple accounts so we can create many blogs.

June 01, 2008 4:56 PM

Grizzly Brears said ...

Like always I am a bit behind on the comments .. sorry folks.

Watcher - I use the Georgia font as it looks clean and as you noted it is far easier to read. Readability is definitely important as you surmised.

You set up multiple accounts using multiple emails.

This post is quite old and is in need of some serious re-editing since the days of using blackhat software for creating hundreds of accounts are over. Rather than explaining my current methods in the comments I am working on an updated set of posts to replace these lessons. In the mean time you folks might benefit from joining our private forum where we have been discussing these matters in depth without having the big G snooping in on us.

If anyone would like in please send me an email with "private forum" in the subject line and I will send you instructions.

June 01, 2008 5:14 PM

Watcher of the Watchers said ...

You missed one, What about this one on comments.

Backlinks Default for Posts

yes

no

which one do we pick?

June 07, 2008 12:23 PM

Grizzly said ...

Watcher,

Set it as "New Posts Have Backlinks" which should be the default. If you want people to see who is linking to you then select "show" for "Backlinks". The default is hide.

June 07, 2008 12:49 PM

antony said ...

Hi Griz

I am new here, although it has taken me about 2 weeks to read every single post you have made!! Fantastic stuff. I have taken action and set up a single test blog as you have laid out. It was indexed in 3 days and all my posts continued to be indexed for the next 12 days, some within 3 minutes of posting. Then my older posts did not show up in the index for 7 days, now some of them are showing up again. Is this normal to happen in a blogs early days?

I think the key word is patience, oh, and content!! Looking forward to more of your posts.

June 09, 2008 6:11 PM

David O said ...

I couldn't find where it says:

"Notify Webogs.com"

Has something changed since you writing this?

Thanks,

Dave

June 20, 2008 6:54 PM

Grizzly said ...

Hi Dave,

Yup they have changed the layout.

Go to ...

Settings - Basic - Let search engines find your blog? = Set this to "yes"

This will auto ping weblogs each time you post.

June 20, 2008 8:24 PM

Don Simkovich said ...

How do you create the pipe sign and is it more valuable than a forward slash?

June 20, 2008 11:21 PM

Grizzly said ...

Don,

The pipe sign is located above the backward slash "\" - at least on my keyboard. Looks like this "|".

It is used to replace all the conjunctions that G doesn't read anyway and makes things tidier for the bots. (Ie. use it instead of "and" or commas etc.)

You can see how I use it to list all my keywords in my blog description up top.

June 21, 2008 6:02 AM

Don Simkovich said ...

Griz,

thanks for taking time to answer my question. I'll have more. I keep returning to study your site.

June 21, 2008 9:16 PM

LKiewra1 said ...

Hi Grizz,

I am new to this whole blogging concept and have heard about you from other bloggers and seen you on bloggingZoom. Thanks for the great content. I am going to be a frequent visitor and I know just from reading your first lesson I will lear a lot. I have also subscribed to your feed as well.

Thanks so much!

July 25, 2008 8:46 AM

Kenth Kristoffer Lachica said ...

Hello,

Can I join your private forum?

I've sent you an email a few weeks ago but I guess you did not receive it.

this is my email:

kenth.mp [at] gmail [dot] com

August 18, 2008 5:04 AM

Anonymous said ...

hi grizz i am realy pleased with what i read on your blog and eager to try it out but there is something that i am wondering about how do i set up how i get paid could you tell me the steps to do as i am a complete beginner thanks grizz.

August 20, 2008 6:37 PM

'Injun' Kayl Khan said ...

Howdy Grizzly, I appreciate your straight forward info.I have been wondering for a while now, how do you and other blogger users get your comments to show in the blog page?

I really want my readers to be able to post visable comments. I would love to know.

Anyhow, thanks for the good advice. I will be sure to click a link or two ;)

August 21, 2008 5:13 PM

Debt Free Hispanic said ...

Yes, I believe its important to be straight forward with people. It took me a couple of months before I made any kind of money.

August 26, 2008 3:29 PM

yeze said ...

hello friend, why couldn't i register a google adsense account with my blog sit: http://successlog.blogspot.com/

? google said i am not qualified with it. why? why did you say it is very easy to pass through the application or is it added by google automatically?

Thanks for your time advanced.

September 02, 2008 10:23 AM

Grizzly said ...

Yeze,

Have you asked Google why you don't qualify?

September 02, 2008 11:35 AM

rabid said ...

Hi grizz.

I really appreciated your lesson, i'm a beginner in blogging and i've searched long time to find a way to make money online. i'm on my way to create a blog now. thanx

September 09, 2008 12:39 AM

Grizzly said ...

Rabid,

Thanks Rabid and best of luck online. Just be patient and don't give up.

September 09, 2008 6:23 AM

Kenth Kristoffer Lachica said ...

Hello Grizzly,

I have set up my blog and followed every step in Lesson 1. Except the part about privacy policy and inserting Adsense codes.

Can you help me with writing up a Privacy Policy section?

September 10, 2008 10:56 PM

teach'em said ...

Hey ~

I just found your site this week and I have been doing a lot of reading.

I first want to thank you for the FREE information. Second, I have a few questions. I have an existing website, will this work on website and not just blogs? And if I'm understanding correctly can I write articles for GoArticles and get backlinks to my website and not my blog?

Thank you again!

September 20, 2008 2:20 PM

pendragon said ...

Hi

I was just wondering how to wright a privacy policy for adsense on my blog

October 06, 2008 6:43 PM

Grizzly said ...

Re; Privacy Policy,

Folks you can just copy my privacy policy. Just be sure to change the particular links to your own.

October 06, 2008 9:40 PM

sheba77 said ...

Before I post anything I would like to make one thing very clear before it becomes obvious. I am new at this.As a matter of fact this is my second post to someones blog. Not that I think that, that in itself is flattering I am just reiterating the I'm new at this statement. That being said I have been reading your post off and on for a few weeks How to Make Money online for beginners.I find it informative to say the least. I believe I will have to camp out here for a while to get a better education. I have tried making money online with not so much luck so far. I made a page on blogger about a People Search affiliate program I joined. At any rate it's just one page that took me about a week to complete.Ive submitted on ppc because it links to the People Search program. I have determined that I can't afford to do that often. (Or Ever) So I took some advise and started looking thru forums and looking for free advertising sites. I have been getting some traffic but nothing much.However the other day I was looking, (Quite frankly I'm not sure where), and I saw my whole page being advertised word for word and It wasn't by me! After a closer look I realized someone had taken my name out and replaced his where it appeared he wrote it.I had installed a copyscape button on it and when I clicked it, it showed 5 different classified sites and some blogs with my entire page on it.I wasn't sure if I should be mad or flattered (so I settled on both). My problem is what if anything should I do about it, as I have stated I haven't been getting a lot of traffic with it but it was my first page. I guess I kinda got a little attached to the damn thing.In closing if you have any suggestions I would appreciate it. Thanks

If you want to see my page it's at http://monetizingpeoplesearch.blogspot

October 13, 2008 8:26 PM

Lost Ball in High Weeds said ...

In the link field you want to type in your blog address so that the post links back to your blog (your home page).

Do you still recommend to enable this in the Blogger settings? Seems counter productive to do this for every post. Wouldn't you want the URL to be more keyword stuffed? Why would you want every post title to link back to the homepage?

October 14, 2008 1:51 PM

Cookies said ...

I came across one of your blog posts earlier today and think I have spent the last 3 or so hours reading through your blogs and all your GREAT information. Just wanted to thank you sooo much for the time you put into this! I have learned so much already (mind you I am SUPPOSED to be working, haha) and decided to start my first "practice" blog. I followed your first set of steps and plan on reading through the rest of them, but in the mean time I just wanted to say thanks and that I really enjoyed your stuff.

November 13, 2008 3:06 PM

George said ...

Hi,

I "accidentally" came across your blog, and it is wonderful.

I just have one little question. At the beginning of Lesson 1, you state that "you will need to create hundreds or thousands of blogs." At the same time, it was my impression that you do this on a part-time basis and earn very well. How in the world can you do that and also write for and manage hundreds, let along thousands, of blogs? I cannot even conceive of doing such a thing.

Vero

November 18, 2008 10:04 PM

kouji said ...

thank you for the privacy policy template. :) I just set up my first niche blog, attempting to follow your instructions, and will add to this over time. :)

November 20, 2008 11:46 PM

Anonymous said ...

Hi Grizz,

I know you said that in order to avoid the sandbox one should not monetize their site prematurely. Does this mean I should wait until I have keyword authority before adding the Adsense feature to my blog?

December 11, 2008 2:46 AM

jagz033 said ...

hi ...

i am an indian.i tried to signup for google adsense.but i am not able to create one.please help with some advices ...

December 11, 2008 4:38 AM

Grizzly said ...

Anonymous,

I have a brand new post (Dec 08) that you should read about this topic - see http://makemoneyforbeginners.blogspot.com/2008/12/knowing-when-to-add-adsense-to-your.html

December 11, 2008 6:48 AM

Grizzly said ...

Jagzo33,

Rumor has it that you may need a self hosted blog in order to sign up with Adsense these days. I'm not positive this is the case but have had a number of people mention this. (I signed up years ago so things might have changed)

If so - buy a domain name and get a hosting account and then apply to Google. (You can get a domain name at GoDaddy.com and find hosting at Hostgator.com - just a suggestion as I use them but there are lots of alternatives.)

December 11, 2008 6:53 AM

Anonymous said ...

hi gizzly i tried to create an adsense account.but they are replying like this what are the changes i have to made in this ... plase help me ..

Hello DREAMZ,

Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after

reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into Google

AdSense at this time.

We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below.

Issues:

- Account information incorrect or not provided

-------

Further detail:

Postal address incorrect or not provided: We've found that the account

information provided on your application is incomplete or incorrect.

All applications must include a valid and complete address where you

can receive mail. It is important that this information is entered

correctly since payments will be issued to the payee name and checks

will be mailed to the address as listed on your application.

-------

For a complete list of AdSense criteria, please visit:

https://www.google.com/adsense/policies?hl=en_US

https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms?rc=IN&ce=1&hl=en_US

To update and resubmit your application, please visit

https://www.google.com/adsense?hl=en_US and sign in using the email

address and password you submitted with your application. Our

specialists will review your account for compliance with our program

policies, so please make sure to resolve all of the issues listed above

before resubmitting.

Please contact us at adsense-support@google.com if you have any

questions.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

December 13, 2008 12:43 AM

Grizzly said ...

Anonymous,

Did you forget to give them an address to send the checks to?

December 13, 2008 9:16 AM

carol said ...

What a great blog and great lessons

thanks .. please visit my site when youhave time thanks again

Carol

December 24, 2008 9:40 PM

monto said ...

Hai grizzly dis is monto

wow what a wonderful article u hav written, u have fairly helped people like us who are the beginners in dis field.i appreciate u.

i have a query for u .. when i registered for google adsense they said me that your must have completed atleast 6 months to join the google adsense .. so what 2 do .. shouldi wait til my 6 months get over ....

please plz plz help me on dis dnt let it ..

December 31, 2008 8:33 AM

Jamie said ...

Griz,

How do I add (linked) pages to my blog? For example, I added a privacy policy as you suggested (copied / pasted yours with your blessing) but unlike yours, the entire policy shows up on my first page rather than showing as a link to a new page. How do I do this? How do I add more pages?

Thanks again!

January 02, 2009 9:18 AM

Abhijit said ...

very informative and helps the beginners!

helps the experienced as well ........ thank u for posting

January 02, 2009 12:57 PM

Jude said ...

Hey grizzly this is jude. and i want to thank you for your post. it has help me make sense of some issues i was having. you are a great content poster.

thank you.

http://www.blog.successmagnet101.com/blog/

January 02, 2009 7:18 PM

Anonymous said ...

Hi gizzly i got an adsense account just 3 weeks ago.now i got a mail that my account has been suspended. i didn, t do invalid clicks is tthere any way to reactivate my adsense account.

i got the mail like this ..

Hello Susheel Kumar,

While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense

account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Since

keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage

our advertisers in the future, we've decided to disable your account.

Please understand that we consider this a necessary step to protect the

interests of both our advertisers and our other AdSense publishers. We

realize the inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you in

advance for your understanding and cooperation.

If you have any questions about your account or the actions we've

taken, please do not reply to this email. You can find more information

by visiting

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57153&hl=en_US.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

-------------------------

January 09, 2009 8:42 AM

Anonymous said ...

Hi Grizz. What do you think of me buying an adsense site already up and running with

ads on it. I don't want to post the link. Anyway I can send it to you and you can give your opinion?

Thanks, Rod

January 12, 2009 3:44 AM

tilak said ...

hi, I hope ur content will be very useful.I followed ur instuctions.

but please explain me about this.

Update: Note - if you want to use adsense channels to track your blogs then you will have to create your Adsense code in Adsense Setup in your Adsense account and then copy / paste the code generated into your blog manually. Don't use the "Adsense" element for this - use the "HTML / JavaScript" element and paste in the code after the box opens.

Update: As of February 2008, Google requires all blogs using Adsense to post a Privacy Policy on their blogs. To see what this entails view the bottom of this Blog - Look for the Header, "Privacy Policy"

January 12, 2009 9:29 AM

log home guy said ...

I can't find the privacy policy header here. Does G still require this on our blogs?

January 18, 2009 11:34 PM

Grizzly said ...

Sorry about the confusion re: Privacy Policy. Yes you need a policy if using Adsense. I moved the post to it's own post page and you can access it from the sidebar link titled "a very boring privacy policy" (just below the "about me" links.

January 19, 2009 6:19 AM

log home guy said ...

Thanks Grizzly

I should have seen that!

I got through lesson one and adsense is already enabled on my blog.I just don't know how to move my Privacy Policy to "it's own post page" on the side bar.

Realize you don't have time for dumb questions, I just need some direction.

January 19, 2009 9:29 PM

MSF said ...

Hi Grizzly,

I found your blog (s) last night at about 11:00 pm.

I could not stop reading. I stayed up way too late for my own good. Thank you for putting out "real" and usable information.

I'm at the end of lesson one and am also stuck on the privacy policy thing. I know to copy yours and edit it as appropriate. What I don't get is how do I add it to the right sidebar as it's own page with a text link, as yours is? I tried a text widget, that did not work (it put the privacy policy on the sidebar, not as a link on the sidebar).

Thanks in advance for any assistance you may be able to provide.

Keep up the great work!

MSF

January 23, 2009 5:08 PM

Grizzly said ...

RE: Adding the Privacy Page.

You will have to post the Privacy Page just as any other post (you can backdate it if you don't want it to show as your current post or have a second real post ready for posting in order to knock the Privacy post off the home page - assuming you have set your blog to show only 1 post per page)

Once you have posted it then add a link in the sidebar pointing to the privacy post page URL. (The URL in the archive - not the homepage URL if it is showing as your current post)

January 24, 2009 10:33 AM

airwolfe777 said ...

Griz,

You wrote:

As you can no longer use link farms effectively this is a moot point and you should only be creating 3-4 blogs per account. Do not use the same keywords in each blog. ie. Don't create related blogs in each account. If you want ten blogs targeted to 1 niche then put each blog on a seperate account.

- I don't understand this, you are only supposed to have one adsense account. So I can only make 3 or 4 sites with this account??? Or are you telling us to have 3 or 4 blogger.com accounts? Can I use the same adsense password or various blogger accounts??? I am not creating "link farms" - the sites I am creating are all going to have articles that are original and that I wrote myself, If I am doing this can I have like 40-50 sites on the same blogger account?

Please advise ...

Michael-john Wolfe

http://www.residualsandroyalties.com

January 26, 2009 7:08 PM

Dano said ...

Great Job on helping a newbie like myself. I would love to post a link on my blog directing people to your blog for help! I am learning a bit each day and hope to learn more than earn for the first couple of years. Thanks a bunch.

Dan in East San Diego County

February 03, 2009 7:24 PM

Christy said ...

Thanks for the great info!

February 08, 2009 9:31 PM

slym said ...

This article is really great and covers most of the aspects which comes in the mind of a beginner like me. I fond answers to many of my queries over here also found new ideas which were not even thought by me. I will try to experiment with those as well. Good job

February 10, 2009 10:48 AM

AGHA SARMAD said ...

Hi, thanks for nice and clear lesson. I have a blog and with help of your lessons it has improved much. Thanks again.

Thats my blog http://beginners-make-money-online.blogspot.com/

February 11, 2009 1:50 PM

The Skeptic said ...

Hey Griz

I am a student. I had SO MANY EFFING QUESTIONS about starting a money making blog. I have gone through lesson 1 and I'm now waiting on my adsense account ID I'm going to scratch out a few posts and read ahead into lesson 2. I won't be dicking around with very many other MMO blogs from here on out. Thanks, Man.

February 17, 2009 10:47 AM

making money online said ...

Very interesting post bro, I just started a new blog at blogger and all your lessons are really helpful to me, thanks for sharing

February 20, 2009 8:31 AM

survey said ...

Thank for the honest and straight forward article. Everyday, thousands of newbies appear online looking for any opportunities available online. They start creating blog without much knowledge. The aim is only getting money without knowing the fact that information is everything in online business. Eventually they give up and blame that blogger are cheating them. My advice is keep on reading and looking for a real fact and you can start earn money then.

February 22, 2009 6:25 AM

John said ...

Don't think only at the money. Do it only if you like it, do it with passion. Then maybe money will come too ...

John

February 26, 2009 1:40 PM

Grizzly said ...

John,

This blog isn't about maybe's and passion - it's about making money online and I only think about that. There are enough people starving following their passion.

February 26, 2009 2:02 PM

Neil said ...

Thanks Grizz.I have just opened e new blog on my related niche on Bloggers.I have also got some adsense ads ......... All within a few minutes thanks to your step by step post.It is already quite late and tomorrow is another day . More adventure waiting for me.

February 28, 2009 11:43 AM

SFCMD said ...

Making money on the internet can be easy or it can be tough. I think you have some interesting ideas - I like them - but I'm not sure how to implement them, yet .... maybe I should copy your technique ... my blog at http://sfcmd-makemoneywithgoogle.blogspot.com/ could use some tweaking then ...

I will check back for some updates! Cool!

March 03, 2009 2:17 PM

CHRISSY SMITH said ...

Help!!!! I started a blog as in Lesson one but signed up for Adsense, and I see later on that you say not to do it until you have traffic coming to your blog. Ok so what can I do now to remedy this???

Please respond. Thank you Thank you very much

March 07, 2009 3:59 PM

Preston K Redlon said ...

I got started a few weeks back and I would like to thank you Grizzly for your wealth of information.

March 08, 2009 5:48 AM

NLantz said ...

Heyyyy Griz

Ive been following your lessons and have a question about back links.

The niche i have chosen comes out with a buyers guide once a year. I was thinking of Starting a post on my blog Yearly that is a buyers guide and want to know if it would be worth wile to email or phone call the places listed in this buyers guide and offer to place there business into the listing "free advertisement "on my blog in exchange for a link to my" how to "blog on there website. You think it would be worth wile?

March 22, 2009 10:49 PM

Guitar said ...

I have had a guitar teaching site for several years now and want to increase reach and revenue. Thanks for all the ideas. Just realizing that I really need backlinks a lot. Site specific suggestions from anyone would be appreciated. guitarkitchen.com. Thanks.

March 29, 2009 12:57 AM

Pete said ...

Hey Griz

You mentioned that it would require hundreds, even thousands of shit blogs to make a lot of money with Adsense. Do you follow this? Would people who do this go through the same processes that you have outlined in your lessons (GoArticles, 400 word post, intro post, etc.) Or would it be more of create a blog, use content generator, slap it, move on?

March 29, 2009 1:26 PM

Cool guy said ...

Hey Griz

This article is a wealth of information. Thank you. You should sell this as an ebook, he .. he ..

Hope you have more free money making tips for us beginners. Good day.

March 29, 2009 10:50 PM

Anonymous said ...

The information you have here is unbelievable. I have read endless articles on the web about making money online but I have never come across such a wealth of information and tips that are not cryptic and make sense. Great work, thanks.

March 30, 2009 2:38 PM

Camilla said ...

Grizz,

Thank you sooo much for these lessons! I am a young mom on a serious quest to find out how to make money online, thank you for sharing what you know in such an honest clear cut way. I just started my blog and will continue on with your lessons! QUESTION: so far, all your blogs that I have seen are semi black and white, is there money behind this decision?

www.mom-workfromhome.blogspot.com

March 31, 2009 8:55 AM

investment-gan said ...

I think its important for bloggers to know that it requires LOTS of time and effort before you can see real hard cash!

April 05, 2009 1:52 AM

Abe Arceo said ...

Just wanted to say thanks for all the tips and info. Came across your site earlier this week and used your tips (and will continue to) to start up my own blog.

Thanks!

-Abe

April 11, 2009 10:30 AM

Sheila said ...

Hi just want to say many thanks for the free lessons. i've almost lose hope of finding information on the net on how to earn money for free. This i I have read the 5 lesson and I am rereading it now for the 2nd time just to make sure that I'm on the right track. For sure I'll be busy for the coming weeks to read all your articles. Thanks again.

-Sheila

April 19, 2009 7:55 AM

Kary said ...

I could use some help with how to get the privacy policy posted - the way I did it took up half the silly page. Please and thank you!

April 21, 2009 12:23 PM

Anonymous said ...

Hi Grizz,

You wrote "As you can no longer use link farms effectively this is a moot point and you should only be creating 3-4 blogs per account. Do not use the same keywords in each blog. ie. Don't create related blogs in each account. If you want ten blogs targeted to 1 niche then put each blog on a seperate account. "

I do not understand why you should create a different account for each post that is in the same niche.

Isn't it the point to relate them as to send traffic to that page or use the keyword often to generate traffic those pages.

April 27, 2009 6:27 PM

Elisabeth Lanyi said ...

Thank you for all the information you put up here. I am just beginning to read through it.

Already have a few questions, for example: is it important to have only one topic for a blog?

Can't I have one blog with multiple interest, include the keywords in the name and URL, and make money from it as if it was many blogs?

(Sorry if this is answered somewhere later, I haven't gotten that far yet, but want to set up my first blog)

Thanks, Elisabeth

May 09, 2009 1:11 AM

Walter Brown said ...

Hi Griz,

Thanks for the awesome info. I have been following you for a little less than a month.

I wish I had found you a few years ago. You would have saved me beaucoup money and time that I wasted on scam meisters.

I have been trying to make money online since Ferurary 2005.

As Lis says, "How come you're still around". LOL

I'm either stubborn or stupidly persistent, or both, or something worse, I guess, but what else can one do when they retire and lose a chunk of their nest egg in the market and was a terrible programmer in the last reincarnation. I can do the techie stuff, but it detracts from marketing, back links, reading your info, etc ..

I've got 50 + websites not counting Squido, blogspot and Hubpages. I have very few back links. Duh!

I make a little over a buck a day and that's up quite a bit since I started following you - mostly adsense.

I started out with SBI and still have one site there, htt [:/ / www.capecod-beaches.com/, all of my other sites are done in WordPress.

One of my sites, http://www.gettingridofwoodpeckers.com/ gets over 1K uniques day. I have Amazon ads on it related to repelling woodpeckers, but not much luck with the clicks, so I'm wondering if I should add AdSense to it or would that detract from the Amazon ads? Probably not since I make nothing on Amazon.

I am creating a blog called Adsense Blogging for Neophytes.blogspot.com /. Not that I am a real expert, but I know a little. I have to monetize it now.

The information you present is mind boggling, to say the least, and I have not been through it all, yet, but I make a little progress every day and between you and M & C I hope to be making more as I learn more. This month I will get a check for a little over $ 100 from Google and a couple hundred more from affiliates - not much, but a lot more than I made last year.

Thanks You for putting me in touch with Mark and Courtney of Keyword Academy. The seem to be strait shooters like you.

I can't thank you enough for showing me a way out of the internet wilderness and rescuing me from the slough of despond.

Back to Work,

Walt Brown

May 09, 2009 5:30 PM

Renee said ...

Thank you Grizz for posting this info. So much Garbage online, buy this ebook, do this, do that. None of it duplicatable, and it is so frustrating taking advice from certain "gurus" who seem to disappear when a real question is asked. I appreciate you.

Thank you

Renee

May 11, 2009 6:15 PM

entrich said ...

Thanks for the awesome info. I have great time reading it.

May 25, 2009 4:48 PM

Saiful said ...

Hey Grizz ..!

There's something different in your blog to get engaged your readers. That's true!

Thanks a lot for your post!

June 03, 2009 1:25 PM

garagephd said ...

Do you still have the private forum?

June 06, 2009 11:15 PM

karaberky said ...

Thanks for the post!

Very helpful to me.

July 09, 2009 7:33 AM

clarissa said ...

hi Griz. please help. I've set up a blog using a wordpress template updated to my own server. here's the site www.quick-weight-losstips.com

Can you review it for me? I've got some marketing done on it with ezine articles, but the topic weight loss is so competitive a lot of times I don't have much confidence this thing will get off the ground.

July 27, 2009 3:49 PM

Danny said ...

Hi Griz,

Thanks for a great site with tons of useful information. I haven't started yet because I'm not sure if Blogger or my own site is best. Clarissa's site looks like SBI, very nice design. Perhaps, if you haven't already Griz, you could talk a bit about the advatages of having your own site (s)? Or aren't there any? And the questions above regarding how to manage the 100 + blogs deserve some attention too. You've probably answered these questions in your posts, so I'll get back to reading!

Thanks again for the great information.

July 31, 2009 7:31 AM

jagath said ...

Hi gizzy I had got an adsense account but it got disabled.Can i get another adsense account ...

please help me ....

July 31, 2009 11:03 AM

Steak Enthusiast said ...

Hey Grizz,

I already have a blog but I decided to start another one on a completely different topic. (Thanks to you for inspiration)

I wanted to know how to set up adsense on my second blog. It is under a different email account with blogger. I know you mentioned briefly how to do it but a more in-depth explanation would be wonderful.

Thanks,

SE

August 04, 2009 8:13 PM

MagicStarER said ...

Just a quick question: You say not to link your blogs together if they are Blogger blogs or Google will see it as farming - But is it ok to link blogs together if they are on different servers?

btw: I bet you like fishing - please go see if I did my keywords all right at http://WesternKyFisherman.bravehost.com/

(I am practicing for "the big one" LOL!)

Don't worry, it's not boring! Check out the fishing in Western Kentucky (and a hillbilly or 2! LOL!) You are very welcome to a fishing trip to Kentucky - we'll show you all the good fishin 'holes! :)

Thanks again for all your good teachings - it's really helping me! I am so busted flat broke, I hope all this will work! I'm in the throes of jumping in with a new blog - won't be long now, thanks to you!

August 06, 2009 5:09 PM

le_coq_hardi said ...

Thanks for the free info Grizz. I would like to join the private forum but somewhere else I believe you stated that you are getting too much email (this was posted by you back in 2008). I am not sure even what your email is. As of August 2009, how would someone get onto the private forum?

August 07, 2009 8:42 PM

Grizzly said ...

Unfortunately we closed the forum down - too many spies reporting our activities (and sites) to Google. So much for trying to help people - there are always a few bad apples ...

August 07, 2009 9:06 PM

vinod said ...

Hey gizzly i created a blogger as you said but i can not create an adsense account.

is google is still giving adsense account for blogger???

August 11, 2009 9:53 AM

Grizzly said ...

They are but you will have to pass a visual inspection these days as they are weeding out spam sites. Don't apply for adsense until you have 10-20 legit (original content) posts up on the site. You don't want to look like you are just creating a blog for the purpose of slapping adsense on it. These days you can only get approved for a legit site so be sure to add an about me page and even a few blogroll links to legit sites in your niche.

August 11, 2009 10:12 AM

ralutz said ...

This is probably silly, but I set up a blogger account and did my first blog. When I want to do anotehr blog do I just 'post' another blog, or do I actually go in and set up a new titel, description etc?

Do you have or do you recommend any liability insurance for a money making blogger?

How many blogs entries should a new blogger start with.

I really appreciate this detailed post, but about re-writing articles before posting to article directories, what if after posting to my blog i wait for some days for google to index the page before posting to article directories. This was adviced in atomic blogging 3.0 and that is how i have been doing it. What do you think? should i keep to it or you suggest i re-write the articles?


Re-write the articles. It will give you the best results even though it means more work. My theory is do it right the first time and it will be less work in the long run.


This is my first-time post here but I have been a silent student and lurker here for quite some time.

Make Money Using Blogs – Lesson 2

Basic Internet marketing Concepts when Blogging
The goal of this exercise is to provide beginners with a solid foundation on which to build an online marketing business. Most of you are eager to DO something online but you just don’t know where to start. As I mentioned in the first lesson, the best place to begin is with your own blog. Why? Simple… Blogs are free and they are an excellent way to learn the basics of online marketing without spending money to do it. Start with one blog and learn how to tweak it using SEO techniques that I will give you as we move along. Ultimately we want your blog indexed by Google. If you do this correctly, Google will eventually start sending traffic to your site. How long does this take? It depends on many factors but I have found that my main blogs have all been indexed within a few weeks and in one instance – 3 days. (the blog you are reading now)
Before moving on let’s clarify a few terms so you have a better understanding of what we are trying to accomplish.
Indexing – This term refers to the search engines. Simply put – Do the search engines know that your site exists? If they do then you have been indexed. How can you tell? Just query the search engine using your URL address ie. http://makemoneyforbeginners.blogspot.com – if they find your site then you have been indexed. If it says that no page exists by that name then you aren’t indexed.
There are many search engines but we are only interested in the top three; Google, Yahoo and MSN. These 3 engines account for 75% of all search engine queries carried out on any given day with Google processing the most queries by far. (50% estimate).
If you go to Google and type in a query – let’s say “how do beginners make money online” – Google will look through all the pages it has indexed (read and recorded) from all the sites it continuously crawls on the Internet in order to present you with a list of the most relevant sites concerning your query.
The brains at Google have come up with algorithms that determine relevancy based on several factors, some we know about and some we don’t. The factors we know of include things like page content, the age of a site, keywords, sheer volume of unique content, page rank and most importantly, relevant back links.
Let’s look at these factors a bit more closely.
Page Content.
Google likes unique content. You will get indexed fast if you use original material on your blog. If you copy and paste content found elsewhere on the Internet you won’t get indexed very fast and usually not at all. You can also get into copyright troubles doing this.
The age of a website or blog
The older the site the better. This is not crucial but Google will give older sites a higher preference over new sites simply to eliminate all the spam blogs and sites that are created daily from dominating its index. This can be overcome with the proper technique.
Keywords
The term keyword simply refers to what your topic is. If I wanted some info on Ugg boots, I would type in “Ugg Boots” on Google and it would present me with a list of sites related to Ugg Boots. Google uses keywords to generate its search. If you have a website or blog that discusses Ugg Boots and you have used this keyword enough times in your posts then Google will rightly assume that your website is about Ugg Boots. If you only used the keyword once while talking about Australian fashion then Google will probably not use your site in its list for Ugg Boots but may decide that your site is about Australian fashion instead.
Keywords are very important for getting your site listed in the proper category. If you are starting a blog that sells Ugg Boots then you had better make sure that the search engines know what your site is about. This is done by using your prime Keywords in your page titles, post titles and sprinkled a few times in your articles. Beware that using your keywords too many times will get you into trouble as Google will see your site as a spam blog and delete you from its index. The rule of thumb is that you don’t want to use your keyword more than 2 or 3 times per one hundred words. (keyword density should not exceed 3-4% of your total article) This is very important.
Content Volume
The more pages you produce the better. Search engines like content – the more the merrier. If you keep adding pages to your blog or website, the search engines will crawl you regularly and your site will get listed more often when your keywords are queried. Why? Think of it this way. If you write just one article about a subject, how much info can you give in three or four hundred words. A bit but you will leave a lot of pertinent info out. Take Ugg Boots for example. My first article might discuss the history of Ugg Boots and where to buy them. This is fine and I may get listed whenever someone queries the following keywords; “Ugg”, “Ugg Boots”, “Ugg History”, “Ugg Purchase”. The problem is that I won’t get listed if someone queries “Types of Ugg Boots” or “How to remove stains from Ugg Boots” or “Colours of Ugg Boots”. Are you getting the picture. The more articles you write the more content you give the search engines to list your site under. If my site has a thousand pages on everything there is to know about Ugg boots then I guarantee I will get listed for every query made about Ugg boots. The more you get listed the greater your traffic will be and the more clicks your adsense ads will get.
Note: I have used the Ugg boot keyword so many times in this article that it will fool Google into thinking this post is about Ugg boots and it will get listed for that query – the unfortunate user will find out that this is really about making money online with blogs. My apologies to anybody who found this page while searching for boots.
Page Rank and Back Links
Update 2009 – Over the past few years Google has removed the weight it used to give to pages with high page rank. As a result page rank now has little to do with how well your site will rank for a targeted keyword. I have left this info on the page but it no longer is of much concern. I have dominated many keywords in the search engines with low PR sites and pages.
Page rank is closely associated with back links. To separate the wheat from the chaff Google has devised a page ranking system that it uses to determine how important your pages are. For example, if you followed the first lesson then you have now created a blog on Googles’ Blogspot.com. At present you only have one post on it and it should resemble the post I left on my new blog Blogger Basics for Beginners. It is highly unlikely that Google has found your blog yet but if it has then you would be indexed for whatever topic you picked. Someone looking for your post using Google search would likely find your site listed a couple of hundred pages deep in the search listings. This is effectively like not being listed at all. I have had traffic come to my sites from as deep as six or seven pages back in the Google listings but most people will not search more than the first two or three pages. Ideally you want to be on the first page to get the most traffic. To get on the first page you need, above all else, back links. Only the sites that Google deems as highly relevant get on the first page.
Let me explain this further.
Every site is ranked between 0 and 10. The higher the number the more important your site is. If your site is a 10 then I guarantee your site will be listed on the first page and no doubt in the top position. Currently the new blog you set up has a ranking of 0 (zero). Content and the age of your site will gain you some ranking over time. If you do nothing else but post unique content then you might get a ranking of 2 in a year from now, possibly sooner. A ranking of 2 will not get you much traffic. How can you speed up your ranking? Simple… get back links and get lots of them.
Back Links
What are back links? They are links placed on other websites or blogs or forums or directories that connect people to your site. In other words they are click-able links that point back at your site (called hypertext). The theory is that the more sites that have links pointing back at your site the more important your site must be. This makes sense. If other sites are sending traffic to your site then you must be some kind of authority for your niche or topic. As a result Google will give you a higher page rank because of your importance. With a higher page rank your site will then get listed higher in the searches.
There are some rules to this however. The back links that count must be relevant to your topic. If your site is about “Dog Grooming” then links from pet sites and animal care sites are great. If you have links from a site like mine then Google will ignore the links because my site is in no way relevant to dog grooming.
The page rank of the sites giving you links is very important. If you get 1 hundred links from pet stores to your dog grooming site but all the incoming links are from sites with o page rank then you might get a ranking of 1 or 2. If you get half a dozen links from relevant sites that have a page ranks of 5 or higher then you will end up being ranked a 4 or 5. If you can get a link from a page rank 7 or higher you will vault up the rankings quickly and the age of your site will not matter.
Note: You can get thousands of links from sites that have no relevance to your site and this won’t help you much. I mention this to caution you against using link exchanges or link farms. These types of links worked in the past but no longer as Google ignores them. By the way if Google catches you linking to sites that are not relevant to your site you will be penalized and lose ranking. This is how link exchanges work – people buy or sell links to anyone else regardless of relevancy. Stay clear of this.
One last thing. You will gain more from one way links. Lots of sites that are relevant to your site will trade links with you. They link to you and you link to them. This is called a two way link. Don’t bother as this won’t help you much. The exception would be if the other site has a high page rank. In this case go ahead but in reality high page rank sites only want links from other high ranking sites. They will not link to you unless there is an advantage for them. One way links are the best because Google sees them as a confirmation of your importance, ie. other sites think you important enough to give you a link without getting one in return.
The good news is that it is easy to get lots of relevant backlinks. I will get back to this shortly.
The Google Sandbox
One more – one last thing… You may or may not of heard about the sandbox effect. When it comes to Google nobody really knows the whole story on how they tweak their system. One of the most confusing programs they employ is the sandbox a system that keeps your site off the charts for a indeterminate period of time. This is in order to stop spam sites from getting listed fast. A new site may sit in the sandbox for 6 months collecting quality backlinks and lots of unique content and still not get listed in the searches. Then one day you find Google suddenly recognizes all the back links and content and bumps your site way up the charts.
I have several good sites that have been in the sandbox for several months now. This is normal and I have learned to be patient and use the time to get good backlinks and keep adding content. The confusing part is that this particular blog you are reading spent zero time in the sandbox. Google indexed this site in 3 days and has credited me with 135 backlinks already. This has meant traffic has been coming from the search engines since practically day one. I still don’t have a ranking yet (all the backlinks are from O page rank sites) and yet my keywords are being placed on the first few pages of the listings. This blows me away as this blog is less than two months old and I am already high in the listings for certain keywords. I should mention that Yahoo and MSN has me even higher. (it’s normal to get listed in Yahoo and MSN long before you get any listings in Google).
I mention this because I know what I did different in this blog and my guess is that Google approves and has rewarded my efforts. This is the same technique that I am going to teach you.
I received an email asking how much I was going to charge for these lessons. Apparently the fellow thought I was going to give away a few tidbits to get you all hooked and then hit you up for money before I gave you the really good stuff. Don’t worry – there is no fee and there won’t be one. Spreading this knowledge around doesn’t hurt my business at all and to be honest these lessons will make great content for my blog.
OK, that’s a lot of background and we haven’t got around to today’s lesson. Actually it’s pretty simple but you will have to make yourselves do it. Write an article about your Blog’s subject matter and post it.
The rules
Try for about 400 words. (Longer is also good but not necessary)
Use your Keywords a couple of times throughout the whole article.
Use your Keyword in the Blog Post Title
Use your Keyword in the first sentence.
Use your Keyword in the final sentence.
Try and Put your Keyword in Bold type at least once in the article – a sub headline is a good way to do this.
Put your link in the link field so that the post links back to your site.
Your link is http://yourblog.blogspot.com – replace “yourblog” with your sites url name.
Post your article on your Blog.
After you have finished on your Blog go to GoArticles.com
Select Submit/Edit An Article
Fill out the info to join GoArticles.com (It’s free) and then I want you to re-write your article leaving all your keywords the same but use synonyms for all the rest of the main words. Synonyms are words that mean the same thing as the original word. ie. “New” is a synonym for “Original”. (Sorry if I am insulting your intelligence but some people won’t know this)
I’m asking you to do this so that you have two articles that say the same thing but are written differently. You will post the second article on GoArticles.com. (It’s easy to do and the site explains how)
If Google finds duplicate articles they will not index the pages that the articles are on. (This is the theory at least but isn’t quite true – a story for another day) This way you will get your blog indexed. The GoArticle posting is what will get you those free and easy backlinks I was talking about earlier. I will explain more about this in the next lesson.
Before posting the second article I have to show you how to embed your sites backlink in the first sentence of the article. I will explain the reasons for this next lesson, for now just follow my instructions as this is very important.
Example. Let’s say your keyword is “dog grooming”.
Your Blog Post Title should be just “Dog Grooming”. The less extra words the better. You could add more keywords though… like “Make Money Dog Grooming” or “Dog Grooming for Profit”
Your Sub Heading should be something like “Everything you need to know about Dog Grooming”. Remember to put this in bold print in your blog post. (GoArticles will not let you make it bold.)
Your final sentence in the article would be something like, “Thanks for visiting my Dog Grooming site”.
And now the important sentence… the first sentence would be like this…
“If you think dog grooming is hard then please read this article.”
I will now show you how to put your sites link where you typed “dog grooming” (this is only for the GoArticles post – not for your blog post.) You can see what I mean in the first sentence of my GoArticles post here Beginner Basics for Making Money Online Using Blogs
<*a href=”http://makemoneyforbeginners.blogspot.com/”>dog grooming <*/a> (replace dog grooming with your keyword and “makemoneyforbeginners” with your sites url name)
(Update – I have removed the working links in the following examples for SEO reasons but the information is correct – just no example. )
This is the code to make a hypertext link – the two * should be removed as I had to put them in as spaces for you to read this code. With out the * you would see this dog grooming If you hover over the link you will see the backlink pointing to makemoneyforbeginners.blogspot.com in your browser window.
Highlight the entire block of code, copy it and paste it after highlighting the keyword in your first sentence. The final sentence will look like this;
“If you think dog grooming is hard then please read this article.”
You have now put a backlink into your article that will point back to your site from whatever sites end up downloading your article and posting it as content on their sites.
Note: GoArticles has an authors box that allows you to put a backlink to your site in it. When people publish your article on their site they are required to post the whole article and your Author Bio (containing your link) as well. Sadly a lot of sites will just post the first few lines of your article and tell their readers that they can find the rest of your article at Goarticles.com by using a link that says “More, click here”. This effectively cuts out your backlink in the author’s bio which is located at the end of your article. By putting your link in the first line of text they can’t eliminate your back link if they don’t publish your whole article.
If you haven’t figured it out yet, this is how you will get lots of backlinks to your site – one way backlinks, the best kind! You will be surprised how many times others will use your articles as content on their sites. (you can see how many times my articles have been downloaded here… GoArticles Top Authors – I’m number 7 last I checked.) People don’t want to create their own and are happy to download someone else’s work. Keep in mind that you will be downloaded more often if you have picked a popular niche. If you are still writing about “pre-Cambrian rock formations” you may not get any downloads.
Another Note: The sites using your article will likely not get the page indexed as Google will hit them for duplicate content. You won’t have to worry because the GoArticles post is different from your Blog post. While your competition is busy not being indexed using your article you will be getting indexed because of your unique content. Your competition actually helps you by giving you backlinks while you hurt them by giving them duplicate content. Imagine there were only ten sites on the net that competed for dog grooming. Your site uses unique content and you supply the other 9 sites with duplicate content embedded with backlinks to your site. What would Google see? They would rank you at the top as the authority because all the other sites are pointing at you.
Obviously you will never get all the competition pointing to you but out of every 1 million competitors for every keyword I bet 99% use duplicate content which is how the 1% that use unique content get listed on the first few pages. Out of a million competing sites you really only have 50 to 100 real rivals, others that know what they are doing and are working on their rankings. You just have to out perform these sites to get top ranking. Stick with me and I will show you how.
That’s enough for today, my fingers are tired.
Tune in again for lesson three of Make Money Using Blogs
(notice how I snuck my Keywords into the last line – and bold to boot)
Later folks.
83 comments:
Anonymous said…
Great stuff. Thanks for the info.
Are you going to talk about how to create 1000 blogs? I don’t know how this is possible but I made my first blog and it was easy like you said.
I don’t know what niche to go after so I hope you discuss this soon.
Anyway just wanted to say that your site is great.
Don
February 10, 2007 10:52 AM
Anonymous said…
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February 10, 2007 11:03 AM
Anonymous said…
When is the next blog lesson? Don’t mean to rush you.
DJ
February 11, 2007 5:18 AM
Dena said…
I am constantly floored by the quality of your posts!
I actually LEARNED stuff from these blogging posts…LOL
Take care and thanks for all the great traffic.!
July 09, 2007 6:16 AM
Ibrahim said…
Hi,
I thought of a new way to get backlinks, but i dont know if it would work. What i did was i searched for groups on face book related to my niche and posted my link on it. Would it help to get my page indexed and get a better ranking.
August 22, 2007 8:21 AM
Jasa said…
Hey, honestly, this has to be the most workable thing on making money I’ve read. And the best part, its free!
I tried a few other stuff that I paid for, and none worked. So wanna give a shout out to ya. Search for essential web design tips Didnt thought your tips would work
Anyway, its now optimized for a narrow keyword base. How do I optimize it for like a larger one, say “web design tips” instead of “essential web design tips”? More tips?
September 17, 2007 4:35 AM
JohnT said…
Hi Grizzly,
I have just purchased ‘Super Tips & $7.00 Secrets’. The only reason I purchased them, was to pay you back for the help I have recieved from your blog. I purchased them between 10 and 12 GMT. I would be interested to know if you recieved the money and if the abover plans are for real
All the best – John
February 11, 2008 6:13 AM
Grizzly Brears said…
John,
They are for real – it’s how I do things online.
February 11, 2008 6:28 AM
John said…
Hi Grizzly,
Sorry to be a pain. You said to put a back link in the first sentence of your goarticles article, but not on your blog post.
However, in answer to a comment on your ‘Content Theft’ post, you said to put a link in your blog post as well.
As I am following your advice to the letter, I was hoping you could clear this up for me.
Thanks for your help. All the best – JohnT
March 11, 2008 8:50 AM
Grizzly Brears said…
John,
I really need to update these lessons one day. At one time I only had problems with people stealing articles and using the link in the first paragraph was a good way to get a backlink from people who only post snippets of your article and leave out the “about” box.
It is now common for people to steal blog posts as well and this is why you should add a link in them as well.
Essentially put a link back to your blog on everything you write.
March 11, 2008 9:17 AM
mrbreze said…
Grizzly,
My first post,published Tuesday
April 8, showed up this morning with 4 actual relevant Adsense ads.
I wrote my 400 word post yesterday and
hit the preview button.
The post appeared
like I wrote
it,
but it printed
out like
this.
Where did I go wrong?
Thanks for your help,
Rick
April 11, 2008 9:28 AM
Grizzly Brears said…
Rick,
Did you compose the article on an editor like notepad or similar?
I usually just write my posts directly on blogger to avoid transposition problems when moving text over from another text editor.
If this isn’t the case you’ll have to let me know.
April 11, 2008 9:35 AM
mrbreze said…
Thanks for the quick response Grizzly.
I wrote it directly in the Blogger posting box. I put spacing between the paragraphs so it wouldn’t like one long 400 word sentence. It looked fine when I finished, but when I hit preview some lines had 10 words, some maybe 1 or 2. I tried for 2 hours this morning in Blogger to correct the problem. I joined the help group they have on site, but saw nothing that could help.
I am a very raw beginner, but I know how to type a sentence. I don’t, however, know much about the editing/layout/formatting side of things.
I was ecstatic when I saw those relevant adsense ads (my keyword: babys first toys), but this is frustrating.
I’m sorry to be such a pain in the ass, but I don’t yet have the knowledge to solve this problem.
Thanks again,
Rick
April 11, 2008 12:44 PM
Grizzly Brears said…
Rick,
When composing your post – which tab were you in – the “Edit Html” or “Compose” Tab?
You can toggle between these two tabs at the top right hand corner of the box you do your writing in on blogger.
The current Tab will be the Tab that is shaded without an underline under the term.
April 11, 2008 3:15 PM
mrbreze said…
Grizzly,
That’s a good question. I wish I had a good answer, but I don’t know.
I got the title and keywords set up and selected the template and stuff. I know what box you’re talking about but I ignored it and just started writing.
Where should it be set and if that is the problem, will changing it work?
If not, I’ll just re-type the post. I’m just trying to avoid making the same mistake.
As always, Thanks for the help
Rick
April 11, 2008 4:37 PM
Grizzly Brears said…
Rick,
I have found if you switch back and forth between the two modes things can get a bit scrambled. As such I usually write the whole post in “Edit HTML” mode and publish.
Rewrite it and try again – if still having problems email me the URL so I can see.
April 11, 2008 5:35 PM
mrbreze said…
Grizzly,
You’re gonna shoot my dumbass. I brought the problem on myself.
While writing, I would hit the enter key where “I” thought the line should end instead of just typing the complete sentence and letting the software work its magic. My apologies. It took about an hour, but I got it sorted out and published. First line indentation for a new paragraph didn’t take, but that ain’t no thing. I’ll figure it out.
Can’t thank you enough for your help.
Rick
PS: any tricks at GoArticles I need to know?
April 12, 2008 10:29 AM
Grizzly Brears said…
Rick,
LOL. Hadn’t thought of asking you that. Glad you sorted it out – hey it’s all a learning experience.
What makes you think I have a few tricks at Goarticles? My outrageous downloads perhaps?
I do have a few secrets but forgive me for keeping them to myself for the time being. It’s the kind of trick that only works because only 1 person can do it – as soon as anyone else does it – it won’t work so telling you wouldn’t help anyway or I would.
April 12, 2008 10:37 AM
mrbreze said…
Awww hell Grizzly,
That’s awright.
You give away enough great information as it is.
Just keep that coming and we’ll figure out the rest.
Many Thanks,
Rick
April 12, 2008 12:03 PM
Watcher of the Watchers said…
I’m trying to get indexed and get backlinks, posting on forums seems a good way perhaps, is it important to have the link as a keyword, that links, if so, you need the code for a web page, but not for a forum, is it important, can we just stick in the http://www.yoursite.com in the forum post, or is it best to have keyword clik on that and it links to site, that way you are indexed to the keyword, if so, adding the code we need for a forum would be good, that way, when we try and post our blog at places like Yahoo answers, we are doing it right.
May 27, 2008 7:40 PM
Don Simkovich said…
I also have articles on Associated Content, Helium and Hubpages. Are these as valuable as GoArticles? I hadn’t heard of GoArticles until now.
June 21, 2008 12:29 AM
Grizzly said…
Don,
Anyplace that gives you a keyword anchored backlink (ie. let’s you use a do-follow link) is valuable. The more sites you find the better.
June 21, 2008 5:54 AM
Grizzly said…
Watcher,
Yes it is better to use your keyword in a forum link than just your URL. I will put together a post of odds and ends including the BB code used for forum signatures.
June 21, 2008 5:56 AM
Ameya said…
Hey Grizzly,
Just wanted to say thanks! I’m on my second or third blog attempt following your instructions (trying to get at least one really up and running) And i started my newest one late last night, and when I woke up this morning, vioala! indexed! I’m quite surprised indeed, and all the more determined to go all the way with this thing.
thanks again!
June 24, 2008 9:36 AM
Grizzly said…
Ameya,
Glad to hear you are making progress. Patience and a little persistence always works for me. Good luck with the blogs and thanks for dropping in.
June 24, 2008 9:41 AM
EnergyPop said…
How can you tell if Google has indexed your site? If I search for my URL, it doesn’t find it. I have an old blog from 2007 and I get the same result with that. However, I search by typing site:url it DOES find the old blog, but not the new blog. Also, how can you see your PR and how can you tell how many backlinks G recognizes for purposes of giving you higher PR? Thanks.
July 26, 2008 1:16 PM
Cedric L said…
Hi Grizzly,
First of all thanks a lot for the great material you’re posting. Much appreciated.
In your article you are talking about the fact that this blog didn’t get sandboxed because:
“I mention this because I know what I did different in this blog and my guess is that Google approves and has rewarded my efforts. This is the same technique that I am going to teach you.”
Now, I am wondering, what exactly did you different than with your other blogs? Is it about the post volume that you mentioned on Vic’s blog? is it about not putting adsense on too early?
I’m really interested to know. Thanks in advance.
best regards,
cedric
July 28, 2008 6:16 PM
lollybaby said…
Well after months of tapping in stuff like ‘working from home’ or ‘online jobs’ and usually getting directed to a piss poor one page site full of links to other piss poor scam sites I finally find somone who doesn’t want to sell me an e-book or sell me their secrets for 39.99 !!
Having read the first two of your lessons I started going “Oh I get it” and similar. I don’t know why you have decided to be so public spirited but my faith in human nature has been restored a little.
I just set up a blog so I can now see another the use for it.Thanks for being a decent human being and not a money grabbing sh**e.
August 30, 2008 11:37 AM
Grizzly said…
Lollybaby…
You are welcome.
Btw – I’m just building up your trust so I can empty your wallet at a future date. Just haven’t figured out how yet. lol
All the best and good luck online.
August 30, 2008 11:40 AM
Anonymous said…
Thanks you are a great and generous man and I’m sure you know that “what goes arround comes around”. Keep it up and be happy.
September 11, 2008 9:17 AM
sameera said…
This a very good stuff for a beginner. As a beginner i have found it very important for me.
October 10, 2008 1:13 AM
The Punisher said…
Hello Griz,
I dont know if your syill following comments made on this post but I would really appreciate if you could answer some questions regarding this post.
Once we have setup our blogger page, optimized for that keyword, then you say to get listed and ranked all we have to do is post a rewritten form of that article to goarticles.com…
Would doing only that be sufficient to get ranked on the first page or can I do more?
Thank you
November 04, 2008 11:37 PM
Kamatchi Jeyaraj said…
Really a boon to the beginners.
November 05, 2008 3:50 AM
Grizzly said…
Punisher,
You will need a lot more than a single link to get on page 1 of the serp’s unless the keyword you are targeting has no competition.
A single link from another site will get you indexed as the Google bot crawls the linking site and finds yours.
You will be ranked but probably deep in the bowels of the serp’s – depends on the keyword of course but yes, you will need lots of anchored backlinks to move up.
November 05, 2008 5:01 PM
The Punisher said…
Thanks for the reply Grizzly. The keyword I am targeting for your method has a competition of 25,000. Should be easy to get #1.
I have an articlemarketer.com account but the problem with them is that they have very strict rules and an article where the keyword is repeated is rejected. The only articles that get accepted are the ones that rarely have my keyword in them :/
Ok so ArticleMarketer is out. Aside from Goarticles what else should I try, should I comment on dofollwo blogs with my anchor text? Will that work?
What else can I do to rise up the serps??
Thanks again for your replies, Griz
BTW, how down am I on your TO DO list??
Just a friendly reminder on the mail I sent you
November 05, 2008 10:19 PM
Grizzly said…
Punisher,
Here is a list of Link Resources – http://makemoneyonlinegrizzly.com/link-resources/ that you can use.
Here is a list of bloggers who are interested in exchanging links for niche blogs. http://makemoneyonlinegrizzly.com/niche-support/
A quick check puts your email in the mid 30′s as to my “to do” list. Hate to say it but my email runneth over – as soon as I can…
November 06, 2008 8:36 AM
how to make money online said…
It might be worth your readers knowing that not all article sites are equal.
For example if I submit an article to goarticles I get a few backlinks from a page with PR10, however if I submit an article to ezine articles (which Google seems to love) I get a couple of backlinks with anchor text from a a page with PR4 – 3.
I tried out one of my blogs using go articles and one using ezine. I was on the first page in a month by using ezine articles. Obviously I hammered out 20 or so articles.
I’ll only use that site from now on and would never pay people like article marketer. All you get is thousands of backlinks that drag your site down the SERPS instead of up.
Just a thought.
November 25, 2008 2:48 PM
L J said…
Ok, I’m on lesson 2 now and I’m blown away!! This education to me, is worth it’s weight in gold; yes, I did say gold! I’ve been working away at trying to learn internet marketing for over a year now, and I hadn’t learned any of this stuff. I bet I spent over 2k on crap I don’t need or cant use anymore (out dated). “GRIZZ” your AMAZING!!! Thank You. I just might move back to Canada now… maybe not.
February 16, 2009 5:41 PM
Jahz said…
thank you very much sir i mention you in my blog for i have been encourage to pursue bloggin again..God Bless! ^_____^
February 19, 2009 3:10 AM
zak! said…
Hey Grizz!
Been reading quite a few of ur blogs lately and i must admit im impressed. U seem to really know ur way around this whole internet marketing system. Im taking u up on ur advice and trying to start my own blog. However I wanted to ask if u or anybody else knew anything about this program called ppc classroom. Its run by a guy called amit mehta and claims to sky rocket ur profits by using PPC. Have u ever heard of this guy and do u know whether him and his program are legit or not?? Would really appreciate any feedback.
PS I have to say ur lessons are superb!! Youve made the world a better place!
February 20, 2009 1:31 PM
Grizzly said…
Zak,
Stay away from PPC – you can lose a lot of money playing that game. I don’t know how legit that program is but buying adwords ads to sell affiliate programs is a tough go and if you don’t know what you are doing you can lose your shirt.
Learn how to make money without spending it first.
February 20, 2009 1:37 PM
Michael said…
Hey Grizz,
Great blog! I have a question and I’m really hoping you can help me out. As a newb, I made a big mistake of publishing my original content from my blog onto ezinearticles, without revising any of it. I was not aware of the duplicate content filter at the time and was thinking I was simply creating valuable backlinks. My ezinearticles have had over 27,000 page views, but only a fraction of that has clicked onto my site. I know realize that my content on ezinearticles.com is overshadowing the content on my blog and I’m only receiving a fraction of the traffic I should based on the rankings of my articles for a multitude of key words.
Question: Should I just go and delete my ezinearticles or try to edit them in some way. And if I should edit them, to what extent should I revise them to make sure it is not duplicate content? Is there any way to salvage this situation? Thanks in advance for your help.
March 06, 2009 5:40 PM
connee said…
Okay, I just have to say I’m so excited! I got indexed on Google after only one week! Great tips on this blog, obviously. Now I just have to work on getting a better page rank. I just wanted to express my great joy! Hooray! I feel like I’m actually accomplishing something here!
March 26, 2009 1:44 PM
Connee said…
Correction as of 3/30/09…I WAS indexed on Google for a couple of days but then my site oddly disappeared from Google’s SERP. What gives? Anyone else experience anything like this? Wow, what a letdown. I thought I was doing everything right, then, boom…I’m cut off at the knees. Any advice, opinions, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Contact me at www.justfreebies@hotmail.com. My blog is http://weluvfreestuff.blogspot.com.
March 30, 2009 4:45 PM
BoxieBlue said…
whew! this was a long one! i not only read this article in its entirety, but i also read ALL the linked articles…took me the better part of an hour….lol
there is a thing to be said about duplicate articles though. i have written 3 original articles and all of them are on mu;ltiple sites (3 sites, actually) without ANY changes at all (no article spinning)
however, tthey still rank on the first, or at least the second, page for their targetted keywords.
why do you think this happened? from what i hear Google doesnt like duplicate articles
April 03, 2009 12:10 PM
Renee said…
Great Information! Thank you so much for making it free.
May 12, 2009 11:51 AM
CJ said…
Thank you for creating this blog, you have given me a lot of insight into what can be done to succeed online. I’m a newbie and it seemed very overwhelming at first but your expert knowledge of the subject made me feel at ease. I feel like I can finally kick start my career as an online blogger. Your lessons truly are valuable and if you chose to sell them tomorrow, I’d buy them. Please keep up the good work. I wish you all the best with your future endeavors. I’ll keep in touch and try to follow this site ardently. Thanks again for your help man. Later!
July 22, 2009 7:12 PM
CJ said…
I know you’ve got to be pretty busy being as successful as you are with help countless beginners like me but I’d like you to give me some feedback on my blog. I’ve set it up and customized it a bit but I’m having trouble getting traffic. I’ve already been indexed but I want to improve my ranking and get onto page 1 asap. Thank you in advance for your help.
You can email me at vibzman01@gmail.com.
July 22, 2009 8:42 PM
vidhu said…
Hi
i want to know a simple thing please help me..
the thing is that in some vebsite i had seen that google is not accepting the adsense account for blogger…
is it true..
if it so help me with a way to get an adsense account..
July 31, 2009 11:09 AM
Ashley Carew said…
Hey thanks for all the advice, much appreciated. One question; if I rewrite my article for go articles, can I use the same version on all the other article websites? Will I get link juice that way?
September 21, 2009 9:44 PM
Rhyme said…
Fact is that every one is giving thousands of advices but no one is giving the actual thing. This is the blog one where I am actually learning the things, thanks
October 21, 2009 9:04 PM
DCnuebe said…
This blog is awesome!!! tow thumbs up… keep up the good work and those info’s for us newbie bloggers… You Inspire me a lot! Cheers!
October 22, 2009 3:29 AM
R said…
Hi Griz,
Just started reading your blog yesterday, and I am hooked! Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom, I have heard about blogging of course, and have tried a few blogs about random things.. But I want to make a little money out of it, and your blogs teach so much. In this world where practically nothing is free, I’m glad I found your site!
October 28, 2009 9:55 PM
scheng1 said…
I have a few questions on this section. Blog PR is not important or per blog post PR not important?
Backlink to blog is more important or backlink to each blog post?
November 07, 2009 10:05 AM
Tassos said…
Thanks for the usefull info you provide. I recently built my blog about web site construction and web hosting.
November 16, 2009 10:36 AM
Anonymous said…
Hi Griz! Great website, I’d like to ask for some advice! It’s concerning backlinks – not really sure how to do one! I’ve done all the steps leading up to that, created a blog and and an article, but I just don’t understand how to make the connection, how do I get the word to highlight in Goarticle? And in this process, my blog has disappeared! only to be replaced by a direct link to goarticle! Help would be much appreciated!!!
B
November 19, 2009 4:41 PM
slim said…
I only have web based email, an goarticle no longer accepts them! I have been going step by step until I hit this road block and now I don’t know what to do.
November 19, 2009 10:34 PM
Anonymous said…
Well, I’ve got the same problem as slim….Goarticle wants a non-webmail address, and I don’t have one, nor do I know where to get one! : /
How can someone get a non-webmail address for free?
Please help, I love your blogs!
November 21, 2009 11:26 PM
Vijay said…
Oh hey guys I just solved my problem. Make an account on Mail.com (and change the default mail.com ending to something like techie.com or usa.com)
It’s working! Hope it works for you too slim
November 22, 2009 12:34 AM
Tony Burke said…
THANKS FOR HELPING ME AND EVERY ONE OUT.THIS REALY COMES IN HANDY AT THE RIGHT TIME.I WANTED TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO TRY AND MAKE MONEY BUT NEVER GOT IS DONE.SO THANKS TO YOU THIS IS MY LUCKY DAY. BLESS
December 20, 2009 5:40 PM
Money Online Venture said…
Thank you Griz,
I really needed this info.
i realized i messed up with my keywords (i don’t know a single thing about this). my main problem is to write unique content with rich keywords. do using synonym at GoArticle will really not make my blog post considered as duplicate content?
December 28, 2009 7:05 AM
Anonymous said…
Thanks for helping me out Grizz. I just started my first blog and it is addicting.
December 30, 2009 3:18 PM
Swathy said…
One more clarification is that does a blog have to be up and active for 6 months before you can get an adsense account. Is there a way to earn money without having an adsense account.
January 15, 2010 4:14 PM
Make Money Online – Christoph said…
“The sites using your article will likely not get the page indexed as Google will hit them for duplicate content. You won’t have to worry because the GoArticles post is different from your Blog post. While your competition is busy not being indexed using your article you will be getting indexed because of your unique content. Your competition actually helps you by giving you backlinks while you hurt them by giving them duplicate content. Imagine there were only ten sites on the net that competed for dog grooming. Your site uses unique content and you supply the other 9 sites with duplicate content embedded with backlinks to your site. What would Google see? They would rank you at the top as the authority because all the other sites are pointing at you.”
Hi Grizzy, just a thought, if Google dosent index this page then surely that also means they wont recognise the backlink and thus not credit you it?
Secondly, do you need to change each article for each article submission directory or can it be the same?
January 16, 2010 4:01 PM
Kingston Investments LLC said…
Great training, I was born in Winnipeg,lived in Churchill, great province to be from, in Florida now. Question I got this message “Sorry, we could not verify your AdSense account. Please check that the URL in your web browser exactly matches the URL in your confirmation email.”
How do I fix that?
January 20, 2010 11:34 AM
Anonymous said…
Just wanted to see if the comment box would work
February 11, 2010 3:30 PM
Grizzly said…
And it does work anon…
February 11, 2010 4:20 PM
Kris said…
Grizz,
When you say put your link in the link field, does this mean you’re creating a custom link field in the bottom and then changing the meta data to include this link in the post? Or is this as simple as just writing your link in the bottom of your post?
Thank You very much,
Kris
February 20, 2010 12:33 PM
srtr4k said…
Hey Grizz – Great stuff! I’m definitely coming late to the blog party, but hopefully there are still opportunities to make money. I’m interested in blogging, but more so for generating traffic to an online site. After reading the first two lessons, I have a better idea. However, I’m wondering if this information is still valid considering web trends change so much and this content was written 3yrs ago. Will these techniques still work with Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Also, does this information work for new “social” sites – e.g. personal change, classes, product reviews, local news, dating, social network clones, etc…
March 12, 2010 11:05 PM
Hamisi said…
Thank you so very much. Your tutorials helped me a lot to improve my new blog.
God bless you
March 13, 2010 2:35 PM
Michael said…
Hey Griz. I just wanted to ask. Which would is better when getting backlinks? goarticles or ezine articles? Thanks.
April 22, 2010 2:43 AM
Grizzly said…
Ezine has more clout but you should get links from both. It’s not one or the other – you want as many links from as many sources as you can find.
April 22, 2010 7:14 AM
Al said…
Great Info here! I love it!
One question though that has already been posted, but not answered, “do you need to change each article for each article submission directory or can it be the same?”
In other words, can the very same article you use for submissions, be submitted exactly as it is to multiple directories? Thanks.
May 31, 2010 10:16 AM
Online Money Secret said…
Where are the other blogging lessons ?
Part 3, 4, 5….
June 29, 2010 12:38 AM
Card Guru said…
Online Money Secret-
I found lesson #3 here…
http://beginner-blogger-basics.blogspot.com/
It doesn’t say so on the page, but the link that got me to that page said it was lesson #3.
July 30, 2010 11:43 PM
Helen said…
Hey Grizzly,
It’s been a while since I showed up here. I quick search for ideas led me to your blog once again. Just reading through this long post reminded me why I like your blog the first time.
Nice to see you’re still rolling.
I have now updated my blog as well and have seen increase in traffic as well as income.
Thanks for the great post.
Helen Neely
August 08, 2010 3:40 AM
Anonymous said…
Hey Grizzly!
Just wanted to thank you for these lessons they are really spot on! Always had the problem of lacking the “know-how” and always tend to find really lousy webpages. This however is great! You make it more down to earth!
Alexander
August 09, 2010 1:54 AM
YusufJaafar said…
Now I understand that to be love by search engine, the content must be unique and all SEO effort must be natural as possible. That is the basic that many people tend to forget.
Your blog got top spot on keyword “make money online blog” which is very competitive keyword. And also in 329,000,000 results. I am amaze with this.
Problogger.net also lose to you. Haha XD
He got PR 6 but you only got PR 0. How you do this anyway?
p/s: I hope you don’t mind I put my website link here.
August 10, 2010 6:50 PM
Kawika said…
Like your ideas .. working on a blog now..
http://paradisebusinessresources.blogspot.com
Looking forward to getting the results you have..
Keep up the great work
August 12, 2010 4:27 PM
suroz said…
Hi Grizz,
I really love your post, and I wanna ask you one question:
How do I get many backlinks from relevant sites fast?
I mean, blog commenting is a great way to get backlinks but it takes long time…
Do you have any suggestion?
September 03, 2010 4:18 AM
Anonymous said…
Hey Suroz,
Griz is right on about go articles. The problem is you have to be willing to write. With articles, the more you write with you link included, the more backlinks you can get.
There are many ways to get backlinks and some are better than others. I would take the griz approache and start with articles and then move up to other link building methods.
Blog comments are an ok way of getting backlinks however, like vic or court will even tell you, you have to have alot and be willing to put in the work.
Backlink building will also depend on your niche and keyword selections. Sure you can rank for guitar one day but it’s going to take years and alot of effort. And why would you want to anyway, it’s too general.
Check out Courts keyword course. He has pleny of idea’s on how to get backlinks.
Also check out others like Eric ward when you want to build authority links.
You really just have to learn how to do it and then do it and see what happens.
The biggest and best thing anyone can take from Giz’s teachings is backlinks and amount. Amount being how many pages you have on your site or blog. The more the better.
Todd J.
September 11, 2010 11:28 AM
Vladimir Grashnov said…
After reading the post, It seems that blogging is all about battle with the most accumulated amount of backlinks. I just wonder if internal links are also considered as a backlink.