Griz's make money on blogs lesson 2 is on writing the first article on your blog. Careful on using your keywords, try not to stuff too many in a post.
Basic Concepts of Blogging
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.
Use your Keywords 24 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)
Note: After posting the first lesson on blogging I posted a second article at GoArticles - to see how different the two posts are you can see the second article here Beginner Basics for Making Money Online Using Blogs
If Google finds duplicate articles they will not index the pages that the articles are on. 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)
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.
Milli
