Friday, April 24, 2009

Making Money with Killer Content

If your trying to make money online, by now you've probably read in many different places that Content IS King. This is very much true , regardless of what niche you may be trying to reach the top on the whole key to success is writing good, researched, highly informative articles. I would say that good article writing is the fastest approach to having your site rank high in search results above any other single thing you can do . Let me explain this approach. First we all know that keyword anchored backlinks is the one thing that will propel you to the top positions of the serps almost overnight. If you do proper research and have the skills to write very impressive articles around your keywords, other people in the same niche or relative niches are more likely to use your content on their own sites. You can include your keyword anchored backlinks in your articles and have them distributed all over the web in short order if the articles are well written and informative. Submitting articles to to article sites is a good way to have your articles seen by many viewers. A large portion of these viewers will be site owners looking for content for their own sites. The reward for this is two fold. not only do you get the backlink from the article site (which by the way doesn't carry quite the weight of being on a say a pr2,3,or4 blog) you have the possibility of it being used many times over by other site owners. So the next time you sit down to write a article think about this, do some research and also ask yourself , am I delivering good worthwhile information to people that may be searching for the topic that I am writing on.I don't know if you're like me or not but this is one of the things I struggle with constantly . I do research , understand what it is I'm reading , but I have a hard time conveying my thoughts to others. I never was good at instructing others . I keep everything short and to the point. I feel like if I got it, they should to. That's not always the case though. So it's fully acceptable to write a long drawn out explanation of subject matter. Don't be concerned that you're over explaining because a great number of people would rather see the point written and re-written so they can get their mind wrapped around the concept.As far as making money with killer content, I think you can already imagine getting to the top of the serps and getting good relevant traffic is the key to making money regardless of the niche you have chosen. So good luck with your internet ventures and hopefully all of us will see the top someday.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Is Cotton Used To Make Money?

After my recent article about cotton I have received numerous hits on this site from searches for cotton used for making money. I would think that with all the cotton being grown and all the cotton fields and cotton farmers there are in the U.S. it should be obvious that cotton can be used for making money. They're not growing it for their health. But I get it , I know you are wanting to know if cotton is one of the materials used in the paper our money is printed on. So to set the record straight according to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing , yes cotton is indeed one of the materials used in American currency. According to the Bureau, currency paper is comprised of 25% linen and 75% cotton. Linen is made from the fibers of the flax plant.
If you need to know where cotton comes from you'll have to read my previous post on Cotton Balls.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Can You Make Money Online

Can you make money online?
Now there's a question I bet a lot of people would like an honest answer to. Including me.
I just did a Google search for can you make money online and it gave me 206 million results pages. WOW !!! Now I haven't looked at each result but I'd be willing to bet that at least half are trying to peddle some crap to those of us who are wondering if you really can make money online. Now given that somewhere around 80% of searchers never look past page 2 of the search results, I'd guess that leaves about 80 million of the chumps that's trying to fleece us out of our money that haven't figured out how to make money online themselves. Besides the people that really know how to make money online hardly ever write about how to make money online, they're busy doing what they do to really make money. What I do know is if you want to make money online, you've got to find a niche that people are interested in. This is one thing that has been a stumbling block for me personally. Then you create a site around that niche using as many keywords and related phrases as possible. Next you've got to get your site to the top of the search results for keywords related to your niche. This requires getting backlinks to your site so google will see your site as important enough to rank you in their search results. Organic traffic is the best way to make money. Paying for ads can eat up your life savings in a hurry without returning any profits if you don't know exactly what you're doing. Now hopefully after all this work you've picked a niche that people are actually interested in buying products related to it.
Conclusion
I do believe it's possible to make money online. I don't think it's going to happen by spending your childrens inheritance buying crap from online marketers trying to sell you on the idea that they hold the secret to instant online success. I think it comes from lots of hard work and getting your mind wrapped around the concept of online marketing. Apparently some people grasp this concept easier than others as I have been struggling with it for about 5 months now and have yet to make 10 bucks. I'm not one to abandon an idea of give up just because I'm getting my butt kicked, so I'll keep plugging away at it. And if I ever figure out exactly how it's done I'll share it with you. NOT..