Hello and welcome back to How to Set Up Your First Blog And Start Making Money! If you're here to site this for the first time, please don't start with this page as it's a pop quiz! Follow the link on the side to the right and return to my intro page that says...yep, you got it...How to Set Up Your First Blog And Start Making Money!
For those of you brave soldiers returning for another grueling lesson, I have a surprise for you. Pop quiz! No, not really. However, I felt like this was a good time to stop and take a break and just review a few points. I also might have a couple of new points to add here, just to make sure you're on the right track.
By now, all of you should have completed your first post. Many of you will have created more than that first post although you may have just saved them to draft and not published them yet. Or you may have published them too. Either way, it's okay, If you're anything like me, I will edit and re-edit and re-re-edit my posts aiming for perfection. I hate typos. I bet I still have some now and therefore I will continue to edit my posts.
In order to make sure we're on the same page for those of you hoping to earn extra money from your blog there a few things you need to make sure are included in your blog. So please read the following lists, go back and check your posts and if you find any inconsistencies within your posts, correct them now.
1) Is your keyword in your blog title and your post title?
2) Are you using your keyword throughout your post frequently enough? Make sure your keyword is mentioned in your post at least 5 or 6 times for every 100 total words. It might help if you check out a few websites for a free word counter...google 'free online word count tool' and it'll help you find one. This will give you a total word count for your post. I don't know about you but it's much easier than counting my 'normally 2000' word posts. You can also go to a website like 'wordcounter' and it will break down the words for you and give you a total count on how many times each word is used.
3) Be sure to use your keyword in your first and last sentence of your blog.
4) If you can 'bold' your keyword once or twice in your blog, then do that as well.
5) If you already have your adsense account approved and you've followed their instructions to activate your blogs with their ads, take a look at them and make sure they apply to your content. If they're way off, then you need to go back and see what happened.
I realize I'm pounding you mercilessly about your keywords, but I want to remind you about what I said earlier about spamming your blog. You do not want to labeled as a spam blogger by G. So try to stick to these instructions as closely as you can. Just as it's possible to do too little, it's possible to do too much also.
I'll wait right here while you catch up. Now is a good time.
By the way, if you're wondering why I didn't emphasize all of these things earlier, before you started writing your posts, I'll tell you. I really wanted you to concentrate on the quality of the content in your posts. I gave you enough information at the start so you wouldn't be too far off and some of these 'rules' would already be in place. Now that you've jumped that hurdle, you can go back and tidy up everything. Not only that but it gives you good practice on editing your material and getting it just the way you want it.
I encourage you to review and review again your blog. Making money will be so much easier if you have a few set things in place.
Okay, that's done! That wasn't too bad was it? You passed! I strongly encourage you to refer to this list often and keep consistent with it in all your posts. No, I don't mean the privacy policy, who cares if the search engines crawl that, right?
So, if you're ready to get back to learning how to make money with your blog, we can move forward and I say Let's Do This!
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