This week has seen some pretty normal progress in this make money online experiment. I published another article, participated in more blog carnivals, and got another link via a link exchange. Pretty normal, run of the mill stuff. Certainly not that exciting and not that glamorous.
What is interesting and exciting is that I got my first real bona fide search visitor this week. Isn’t that exciting?!? Yeah, I know - I should be dancing in the halls and popping the cork on the champagne. In response to this massive search traffic I added a new keyword to my targeting list and wrote a post targeting that keyword this week. I am finding that I tend to simply target one longtail per post and I need to get better at incorporating many different longtails in each post. That way my content has much more for the Bot to look at and I can start ranking for more words.
Here is the current stat of the main site in the my beginners experiment:
Money Stats
- Earned: $0.00
- Spent: $0.00
Content Stats
- Number of posts - 4 (+1)
- Number of words - 5146 (+1348)
- Number of comments - 2
- Pages in Google Index - 5 (+3)
- Pages In Google Index * - 2 (+1)
- # of targeted keywords in the top 100 - 2/134
- # of targeted keyword in the top 20 - 1/134
- # of targeted keyword in the top 10 - 1/134
Links Built
- Carnivals Participated In - 6 (+3)
- DoFollow Comments Left - 0
- NoFollow Comments Left - 0
- Link Exchanges - 3 (+1)
- Blogroll Links - 1
- Post Links - 2 (+1)
- Hubs/Squidoo Lenses - 0
- Web Directories - 0
- Articles Written - 2
Links According to Yahoo Site Explorer - 28 +(18)
Links According to Google - 4 (+4)
…make money online…
For those that are unaware of what I am doing, I am trying to rank for a pretty competitive keyword with nothing but free tools. I might pay for some things out of my earnings from the site, but I will not dip into my pocket before then to buy tools to rank better for the term. Instead, I am going to rely on elbow grease and high quality, original content just like the Big G would want me to.
The reason I am doing it this way is that a beginner just starting out doesn’t really have access to paid tools. If they have the money for it, they don’t know who to trust about what services to use. Too many people in the make money online niche don’t know what they are talking about or are completely into it for themselves, pulling the wool over a newbies eyes to just make $10. I obviously fall into the former camp, but I would recommend that you take some time - maybe 6 months at a minimum - of reading and learning and testing things out yourself before you go out and buy some paid tool.
But that certainly isn’t a hard and fast rule. There are some very trustworthy individuals out there who aren’t just in it for themselves and actually know what they are doing. If you have the pleasure of having them help you for free then you should listen to every word that they say, and do exactly what they still.
Still experiment, but learn from the master how to make money online.