Make Money has just had a major face-lift as you might have just noticed! So what’s with the clever title, Make Money with Change? Well, its all about how to make money using even smarter SEO, (Search Engine Optimization) than I was before and doing something with this blog that has needed doing for awhile now.
First up is the new theme.
This is Court’s Copyblogger theme if anyone is interested (there are links in the footer for his sites) and it’s highly SEO ready. The visual appearance is not so frilly as before, but I think that’s a good thing for a blog about how to make money online. In fact doing away with the double sidebars in favour of the single sidebar makes it less tempting to fill the space up with rubbish! Let’s face it, the majority of visitors I get here are other Internet Marketers looking for ways to make money online and its a known fact that Internet Marketers do not click on other Internet Marketers’ ads!
So being a Make Money site first and foremost, there isn’t a lot of point in filling the place up with hundreds of flashy banners as they just get ignored. So I’m going with a more minimal look and I’m working more on the SEO angle to boost this site’s standing in the SERPs.
Because it’s another well known fact that organic traffic from Google specifically and the other search engines generally will produce a much better percentage of click-throughs for my ads. So more organic traffic equals more of the make money stuff!
There are a few more tricks up my sleeve that I’ll mention right now, because chances are not too many serious marketers will read this far down so the secrets are pretty safe from all but those who (by reading this far down) deserve to have them!
SEO trick No 1:
Do make good use of your main keywords for your log’s niche, in my case it’s make money, or make money online (either will do, but there is about twice as much organic searches for make money as there are for make money online - go figure which one I’m targeting!)
SEO Trick No 2:
Don’t get mad when spammers flood your comments with their crap, get even! This is the latest super sneaky trick that’ll have you laughing all the way to the bank… Instead of deleting those spam comments, use them to your advantage. The search engines do count comments as part of the content of a site - ok you probably already knew that and the more comments your site gets, the higher it will be placed in the SERPs because it will be seen as more popular. Well, you need to edit each one of those crap spam comments and delete all their crap and write in your own keyword rich comments…
Ah, I see a brightly glowing lightbulb has appeared!!!
Yes, comments from spammers are still comments from visitors to your blog! With your own hosted Wordpress blogs, you can edit your comments! I hope that not too many of you will bother with this, because it just means more competition for me. But because I’m such a lover of full disclosure when it comes to information, I give it to you freely.
That’s because I know that very few of you will be bothered to go to all that trouble in the first place - let’s face it how many of you are seriously SEO’ing your blog posts, let alone faffing around with editing long and fiddly comments from spammers?
Ha! I’m on it right now just to see what results it brings for me and if I can make money from those results. Here’s to how to make money online the clever way!
