Make Money Online
Posted by Grizzly on 05 Jul 2008 at 12:03 am | Tagged as: Make Money Online
Welcome to “Make Money Online with Griz”.
Some of you may be familiar with my work online but for those who aren’t let me fill you in on what I do and humbly suggest that you heed my advice before wasting a lot of time and energy trying to earn money online. All because you followed the advice of people who make money off of you but don’t tell you how to do it yourself.
Regardless of what niche you pick your success always comes down to one single and simple barrier - traffic. If you can solve the traffic problem or lack of it that is, then you can make money online. It really does all boil down to that. Get traffic - make money. Get more traffic and make more money.
Simple.
Except…
Getting traffic is the hardest thing to do online. There are millions and millions of websites and blogs dotting the Internet landscape and getting people to come to your site, out of all the possibilities, is the hardest task to achieve.
Lucky for you I just happen to be pretty good at getting traffic. I also like to discuss how I do it. Moreover I give the info away for free. Right now you just said to yourself… “Oh great - free! It must be crappy advice if he isn’t charging for it”.
I’m the first to admit that nobody knows everything and I’m not an expert but I have developed some techniques that work well for ranking high in the search engines for every keyword I target. I will show you some examples below.
There are two schools of thought when it comes to publicizing a website or blog. The popular model is such that you set up a site and then join every social network you can and get yourself seen. Build up friends, who become readers and work at getting your RSS Feed subscriber total into the thousands. This will attract advertisers trying to sell something to your large readership. On paper this sounds good (and yes it works) but it is a lot of work, you don’t make any money for a long time and your readership won’t buy product. They are bloggers just like you and they come for information. They know what an affiliate link is and they sure as hell aren’t going to use your link to buy something - most will use their own. Yes, you can make a decent living following this model but the odds are against it. Only the very top bloggers make good money doing this and they number a few dozen out of millions. The chance of rising above the crowd and becoming one of the few is quite unrealistic for most.
The other school of thought for getting traffic is ranking high in the search engines - specifically Google.
If your website ranks number 1 on Google’s search engine result page (SERP’s) for the word (know as a “KEYWORD”) “Shoes” then you can expect hundreds of thousands of visitors. If you can’t find a way to make money from a site with that many visitors then you shouldn’t be online. Needless to say the site that does rank #1 sells shoes. I bet they sell a lot of them…
This model simply targets highly searched “keywords” and sets about building a website or blog that is relevant to the keyword. This is called search engine optimization (SEO) and it’s what I do. The idea is to rank on top of the search engines for keywords that get searched for by lots of people. Do this and you gain steady traffic that doesn’t change much from day to day and it’s the kind of traffic that is looking for something specific. They buy stuff. They aren’t other marketers and bloggers - just ordinary people looking for something online. Get a lot of this kind of traffic and you can make money with Adsense, Affiliate Products or Lead Generation to name just a few. You can also make a decent buck from advertisers who are after your traffic.
One of the most competitive terms online is “Make Money Online“. It is the holy grail of keywords - not the toughest but one of the most coveted keywords. Ranking number 1 for this term says one thing - your SEO is better than everyone else.
I have another blog that has been around for a year and a half. It is called “How to Make Money Online for Beginners“. If the title isn’t bad enough you’ll love this - it’s built on Blogger’s free platform. It’s a plain ugly free blogspot blog. Cost me nothing.
As of today’s post this is how my other blog ranks in Google for several of the main “Make Money Online” Keywords. I said I could prove I know a bit about SEO and I present the evidence below. These rankings change regularly and may not be accurate at the time you read this.
I rank 5th for the top prize - “Make Money Online” - only 42 million competing pages…
and number 1 for several related terms.
“How to Earn Money Online”
“How To Make Money”
“How to Make Money Online”
“Make Money for Beginners”
“Making Money Online”
“Make Money Online Right Now”
“How Can I Make Money Online”
SEO is what I do.
If you want to learn - for free - start by reading my “How to Make Money Online for Beginners” blog and then come back here and learn the rest of what I do.
ps. That free ugly blog makes several thousand dollars a month.
Cheers
Griz
Monday July 7 - Update.
Rhys asked the following question in the comments below…
“Can we infer from your Domain name that G can separate out(and use) the keywords in the name, without hyphens? Humans often can’t, and I feel not using hyphens leads to confusion.”
Rhys, as you can see G can decipher the words used in a long url. While this may confuse humans I am only interested in how the search engines see my url. Humans are given plenty of visible text in the Blog Title, Page Titles and Post Titles. Url’s are for the search engines. I have said this often - if you want top spot in the serp’s you really do need your main keyword in your URL or else you will need thousands and thousands of links to make up for this deficiency.
Hey Griz, nice blog!
And if I’m not mistaken, that is a rather unique theme you have there - and it looks damn good!
Here’s to the success of this new blog which I know is inevitable - maybe you’ll even knock that ugly blogger blog off top spot with it…
Terry
Gee Thanks Terry,
Seems the theme has your name all over it! Lol Thanks for all the help getting this off the ground Terry. Be prepared though - I have lots of questions for you but will parse them out slowly so you don’t run and hide on me!
Griz on an attractive WordPress theme blog. Say it ain’t so!
Let me know the keywords you want to use here and I’ll put them in a post and on my rotating blogroll.
Best of Luck Grizz,
However, I know realistically luck has very little to do with it. It will be fun watching you grow this blog. Have you prior experience with using wordpress on other sites you have? Just curious? I started messing around with it when I started blogging last Nov. As usual take care.
-D
Oh you are impressive Frank! How the heck did you find this so quick - Terry and I are still tweaking it. Thanks for the help Frank and you can probably guess the main keyword (MMO) but any related ones will do. I have a new post I’m trying to finish for the “ugly” blog which involves you and Terry and a few others so keep your eyes peeled.
BTW - now that I have got you here I don’t have to keep bugging Terry! How does one go about getting the akismet thing going and the fancy comment sections all you guys use - something like Vic’s?
Hey Dennis,
So much for keeping this quiet for the time being! Ha. You guys are fast. My WP experience has consisted of posting blog snippets - setup and code monkey stuff - well I’m allergic to that. Just ask Terry. lol. WP will be a learning experience but I am going to see if I can get these damn sites ranking as well as my Blogger blogs. Should be fun.
Thanks for the well wishes Dennis and I hope all is well with you.
Thought I’d stop buy and say hi. Looks good so far. much better than that UGLY post I was stummbling through to find out that you had a new blog. HMM wordpress and your own domain what has the world come too.
Gotafish
Grizz,
Thanks, all is well.. spent a week in the hospital (siezures- first time in 5 years). I wont say anything about this blog until you “officially” announce it. However, I will add some content for your next “make money online blog”. LOL.. Let me know if you would like me to include this site when I do some BMD runs for my other sites. I use the software maybe once or twice a week. Well peace and quiet is over- time to make breakfast for the 5yr old.
-D
Found you via Frank comment on BU.tv
The funny thing is that I noticed this morning that you were scrap in full for a post that point to my blog.
For askimet, you need an WordPress.com API Key. You will need that for some plugin but just a few.
http://faq.wordpress.com/2005/10/19/api-key/
You will also need Subscribe to thread plugin.
http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/
A list of plugin that Vic uses from Jan 17, 2008:
http://bloggerunleashed.com/tools/wordpress-plugin-list-and-set-up/
Some may not work with WP 2.5.1 or have new version for it
Have fun with the new blog.
P.S. Now have a new RSS feed to subscribe
In Settings, Discussion - Comment moderation, you should put a number of links so that when your will get spammed, readers won’t see those comments.
I theory, my comment above would had be held in moderation since I have 3 links in it.
Steve thanks, but that’s already set - I did that in the basic blog setup. I actually set it to one, but comment moderation is already set to on with administrator to moderate.
Griz, when you log in to the admin panel, the dashboard will show you all new incoming links - a nice touch! You should see one coming in from a certain Honest blog…
Welcome to the WordPress world Grizz. I am really looking forward to reading more of your posts. If there is anything I can do to help with the launch of this new blog, please just send me an email.
-Fred
Hey guys,
Thanks for all the advice and help. Just so you all know it only took me about 6 hours to figure out how to put the stupid screenshots on the post. Man this is work compared to Blogger! LOL.
I appreciate the support guys and I may just list all my problems here in the comments and await your collective wisdom. Nice to have friends online!
Strike number one for WP - I linked to this blog last night from the “Ugly” one and this is still not indexed. It usually takes less than an hour when I do that to another blogspot blog… tsk tsk tsk…
This will be interesting…
Thanks again all of you - much appreciated and I still want to know how Frank found this? Ha.
Well, you’re indexed now. I wonder why it took so long? My guess is its because its a new domain rather than the WP platform. Where Google may index new blogger blogs with in links faster it probably waits a little with new domains just in case its a sqammer.
Terry,
Yup, it’s indexed now. Do you think I’m a little spoiled - complaining because it took 12 hours instead of one! I don’t expect much do I? Lol.
Question - top of the post - my name is linked but goes nowhere - how does one fix this? This is the link:
http://makemoneyonlinegrizzly.com/author/Grizzly/
This is what comes up when the link is clicked:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/grizzly/public_html/wp-content/themes/wilderness/author.php on line 42
This can’t be good.
more questions…
Does feedburner work with WP 2.5 - does it work with Statcounter?
In both cases the setup directions don’t seem to apply and I am not getting any stats.
The Mybloglog widget is another one that doesn’t seem to work.
Am I just doing something wrong or is this all because nothing has been set up to work on the 2.5 platform yet?
Feedburner should work OK with 2.5 WP. I haven’t heard any complaints about it not working.
Statcounter should work, just put in the the footer. I use Google Analytics and Hittail on OpTempo so it should be about the same. Make sure the end of the footer.php file looks something like this:
...your tracking scripts here...
I hope that formats right!
The wp_footer section is important for some tracking to work right for some reason.
The author link should go to the author archive page. If that’s not working then that could indicate a problem in the theme’s code that would need to be corrected. I’ve ran into problems like this with some other themes that required roll-up-the-sleeves programming to fix.
Let me try that code again:
<?php wp_footer();?>
</body>
</html>
Thanks Frank,
Man… ask a simple question and you slap code in front of my face! Ack! Lol
“required roll-up-the-sleeves programming to fix.” - now that is why I love Blogger!
I get the feeling I will spend more time pissing around with “Things” than making money with this but I have big plans for us all so I’m just gonna have to grin and bare it. (Pardon the pun)
I just hope Terry has made a backup of everything because we are gonna need it by the time I’m done hacking around in the dungeons. If things start looking a bit screwed up you’ll know why - This is why I’m not publicizing it yet, I’d better get it figured out first.
Oh Joy…
Thanks Frank - glad you found it - your help is certainly appreciated. Btw - I noticed you are ranking well for Blinkweb. A sure sign G is giving you a lot of authority. Are you seeing good rankings for all those other keywords your targeting - a true multi-niche site. I have noticed that the MMO blog can pretty well target anything - related or not - and still rank well (with a few helpful links of course) Just wondering if you are seeing the same results?
That’s why I like Court’s themes, he (or the Indian he hired?) has already done most of the futzing around with the code. The nice thing about Blogger templates is that they’re one page and pretty straight forward. WP is a dozen or more separate pages but much more flexible. It’s a trade off.
I’ve been seeing good rankings, ie first page in my data center, about 75-80% of the time for targeted keywords. For example, I’m showing up #9 for ‘Bill Engvall Dork Fish’ right now in my DC and I just did that post this morning.
Of course, it depends a lot on the competition. Some keywords/products I’ve targeted have old, long established, sites controlling the first page. Plus there is always eBay, YouTube and Wikipedia to contend with. However, putting an additional long tail like ‘review’ or ‘how to’ will help it rank that way. I would say that right now I’m about 10-20% MMO posts and 80-90% general review posts on OpTempo.
Buddy welcome to the WP world LMAO!!! Now please let me know what term you will be working to the root to get it on the side bar. Frank I also need what term in the “MMO” you are working for Optempo to get it there also like Grizz said would eb cool for all of us in the group to dominate first page in the “MMO” arena LMOA!!!
Vic
Hi Griz,
Nice theme and blog you have here. Looking forward to hanging out and learning some great info from your new second home here:)
So you’re here! I had been looking for you for a while. Why did you leave your “ugly” blog? Actually, I learnt quite a few things from that blog, and I loved it. Anyway, I’ll be visiting this site from now on. Thanks.
Mrinal,
Have no fear - I’m not leaving the “ugly” blog. I’m just expanding a bit. I am hoping to use the ugly blog for what I built it for - to make money off of it’s search traffic. The problem has been that to do this means annoying my readers. Hopefully my readers will migrate over here where I will talk about what I’m doing while I will actually do what I talk about on the ugly blog. Did that make sense? ha.
Sunshine,
Thanks for that and please hang out as much as you want - tell all your friends as well! Let’s just hope I can give you info worth hanging out for.
Vic,
I guess the cat is out of the bag now! Lol
You said exactly what I’m thinking - it’s time the “group” starts looking after itself. Between us all we have a lot of authority and if we do things right we can create many more authority sites for all of us to benefit from - which will lead to even more…
As for keywords - I’m going for the big enchilada here - “make money online”. Thanks Vic. I’m trying to finish a new post that will lay out the groundwork for what we should all be doing regarding the MMO/Blogging niche as I have come to a few conclusions about G and how it’s rankings are now calculated. Stay tuned and I hope you are feeling better Vic. It’s always so damn quiet and peaceful when you aren’t around - some might think Peace and Quiet is a good thing… boring!
Talk soon my friend.
Griz, I’ll look at the code in the author.php file and figure it.
You can copy/paste the statcounter code straight into the footer.php file which you can edit throught the design/theme panels, or email it to me and I’ll add it via http://ftp.
Adding ad code blocks into the sidebar is the same - just make sure you add them above the bit of code that mentions widgets!
Yep, I’ve got a backup of all the files, just don’t go deleting any lines of php!
BTW maybe you’ve already spotted it but when you post, below the text box is a tab for All-in-One-SEO-Pack - you can add keywords to that as well as tags for extra on-site SEO.
WP is extremely flexible, although the WP bods haven’t quite figured out how to get it to make your coffee yet….
Terry,
I thought the stat code could be pasted in but the plugin instructions just asked for a few lines of code and nothing else - didn’t make much sense.
“just don’t go deleting any lines of php!” - why? Is all that gobbly gook important? lol
So can I just slap the Mybloglog code for instance into a text/html widget or does it need to be added elsewhere?
Feedburner requires the following code
to be placed “just above the line
”
in order to gather my stats but the info is for older versions of WP. Where the heck do I place it in WP 2.5?
Moreover the feed subscriptions seem to be working (you can sign up fine) but the feed stats aren’t showing up in the stats either. Something is amiss…
Thanks Terry… aren’t you glad you stopped by? Lol
Let’s try that again…
Feedburner requires the following code
< * script src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/makemoneyonlinegrizzly/ePon?i=” type=”text/javascript” charset=”utf-8″>
to be placed “just above the line < * p class="postmetadata" * >
(remove spaces and *)
Deep breath… Ok, statcounter. First you need to enable the plugin (if I didn’t already do it) from the plugins tab.
Then go to “Settings” and click the “Statcounter” tab. There it gives you step by step instructions in what to add to the three fields below. This info you get from statcounter itself when you create the new project - its fiddley I know but saves pasting code into footers.
Feedburner. Again, activate the plugin if I didn’t do it. Then all you need to do is go to Settings/Feedburner and add the “feed.feedburner.com/yourfeed” url you get from feedburner into the box. That’s a nice simple one!
Mybloglog code - mmmm, I’ve always copied/pasted the code from mybloglog straight into the sidebar as is. You can add that at the bottom of the sidebar code after the widgets if you want it out of the way.
PS: That php file is nasty…
PPS: Fixed the php…
Terry
Good job with your new make money online WP blog.
As with your Make Money Online blogspot, nuggets are also in the comments. Can you add an rss feed for ’subscribe to comments’ please?
Hi Grizz,
First time commenting on your site. Guess I needed to feel at home on a WP blog..though I’ve read everything on your blooger site and of course am still learning how to implement it all. I’m one of Vic’s students if you will - on his tv channel and unleashed site. I need to once again thank you guys and Court,Jason and Frank (luv that comment luv post builder). I’ve been online since 93 and making web sites since 95 but find that I’m still a total newbie when it comes to $$. Starting slowly but really enjoying it - and working it every day.
- I think you’ll love Wordpress!
Bookshop Bruce
Congratulations on the new site. Best of luck in the land of the self-hosted.
Hey Griz: love the site and welcome to the world of Wordpress. When I made the transition from Blogger to WP it was quite the learning experience. Looks like you’ve got folks with experience that can help - goodness knows you’ve helped us countless times!
Terry…
Breathe in… Breath out… ha
The three fields didn’t work for stat counter - it is working now that I stuck the “whole” code in the footer. The 3 fields thing is what buggered me up…
The feedburner “feed” isn’t the problem - it’s that if you want FB to add all the social buttons to the bottom of each post. (Stumble, Digg, etc) The code needs to be added to the template (the code I highlighted earlier). This is easy in Blogger but I haven’t a clue which template/page/sheet/file in WP contains the term p class=”postmetadata” - this is where the FB code has to be placed. You guys probably use something else to add buttons but that would be like learning something new and perish the thought!
Thought I would ask re “MyBlogLog” before doing what you suggested - don’t want to let that nasty PHP guy loose!
Thanks for fixing the author link - hope it wasn’t something I did? Give me enough time…
You know it’s not too late to let me send you some money Terry! I did warn you… lol
Thanks as always Terry - are you playing a gig tonight? Nothing better than a jam session to take your mind off of computers.
Ami,
Thanks Ami. Right - one feed for comments coming up. Now let’s see if I bugger that up too. Cross your fingers!
Hi Bruce,
Thanks for the encouragement although “Love” and “WP” are not found in the same sentence around here yet - maybe one day though… lol
No worries for not commenting on the Blogger site - even Vic hated leaving comments on it. I’m the first to admit that Blogger’s comment platform sucks! I wish I could connect to Vic’s TV channel and join in but my satellite system seems to crash when I try - I can watch the discussion but can’t login myself. Living on an Island in the middle of nowhere does have a few disadvantages - not many - but a few.
Thanks for stopping in Bruce and I hope you comment often now.
Vinny,
Thanks and please wish Terry luck as he still doesn’t know what he got himself into when he agreed to give me a hand. Nice of you to stop by. Much appreciated.
Chanya,
Long time no chat. Really nice of you to stop by. I must admit everyone should have friends like this. Sure makes life easier. (for me - not sure about my helpers though) I hope all is well and you seem to be plugging away just fine with all your sites. Is the money trickling in yet?
Note to myself…
38 comments and I just passed 100 visitors today. Good thing I’m keeping this quiet for the time being… lol.
Hi Griz,
Yep, blues gig this evening and a wonderful diversion from the computer!
Sorry about the feedburner/statcounter thing - its one of those situations that would have been easier had I been sitting next to you as you did it. Problem is the world isn’t quite small enough yet! Even trying to fix problems over the phone is not always easy - one of the chores I used to have to do many moons ago in a faraway life…
I’d love to be able to explain that statcounter thing as I’ve set it up on some of my WP blogs and remember what a pain it was to figure it out in the beginning.
As for putting in the social bookmarks after each post - I know where that goes (in a general sense - this template may be slightly different but the basics are the same) and it will have to go into more than one file - certainly the index.php and probably single.php and page.php too. I’ll have to look. If you email me the code, I can enter it for you.
I have other ideas that I’ll email you with…
Terry,
I’ve managed to get everything going save the social buttons. I now have an idea of what’s going on and see what Frank was saying about having more than 1 page to concern yourself with. The FB buttons will have to go on several files and would this also apply when adding BZ or sphinn etc? Anyway it is starting to make sense. I’ll email you the FB code but it isn’t a priority. More interested in figuring out how to add it than I am in actually using them.
Thanks as always Terry
Question to all:
Vic mentioned that his comment section doesn’t get read by G once long ago (don’t know which post) Just wondering if using a nested comments system means that G can’t crawl them. Too bad if true.
Good to see you switching over to WP Grizz!
Its a lot of fun =)
I’m excited to see you repeat your success on this blog. If you need any help with programming or anything, let me know. I’m not great, but more than comfortable with hacking up WP plugins and php.
I’ll throw you a link from my blogs.
Griz,
It’s really up in the air as to how Google treats WP comment sections and the links in them. On OpTempo I’ve seen comments bring in brand new long tails I didn’t have in the original article. For example, my Sarah Jessica Parker article still brings in a bunch of ‘horsey’ long tail searches.
Griz:
Yes, I just started making a little money with Adsense on one of my niche sites. I’m now working to build up my other sites.
It’s funny - earlier today I re-read your great post on Adsense Smart Pricing at your other site. Not because I think I’m smart priced but because I was considering putting Adsense on another of my new sites and wanted to know what to look for if I got smart priced. Thank goodness I reviewed your article. One mistake I’ve made in the past was slapping Adsense up on sites before the traffic was there. Or putting Adsense up on a site that didn’t have keyword focused content. Your article reminded me of that. I should probably print that article and put it on my refrigerator!
Griz on WordPress, that’s too cool. Looking forward to more great stuff!
Hi Grizz,
Wow, you are real secretive about this new blog. LOL! Glad I caught the link on Justin’s blog else I will be still in the dark.
As you can see, I used my “old” blog link here. It’s an old blog of mine catering for audiences in my country so I don’t publicise it much outside the region as the articles there are quite meaningless to people who do not know what is happening in the country.
Practising SEO is kind of limited in my area as what the SERPs shows over here are not what most will see, so we always gets the the wrong impression about our rankings. LOL.
Anyway, based what I have learned from you, I started an experiment a couple of months ago to see how that nonsensicle blog of mine, which has Page Rank taken away by big G for writing paid posts back when this was the fastest way to make some money, can rank on the term “Make Money” in my region.
I concluded the experiment today with a post I just did before catching this link and coming here.
And people, I personally endorse what Grizz has taught. It worked real well for me.
Grizz yes they do get read and if you are using the all in one plugin it creates a markov including the related comments plugin. Please if you need hep instaling both let me know all I would need is to ftp in and it takes me like 5 minutes to make the changes in your theme and you activate the plugins. Below are ht eplugins I suggest if not using them already.
http://semperfiwebdesign.com/ All In One SEO
http://organisiert.net/yatcp/ Nested Comments
http://rmarsh.com/plugins/similar-posts/ Similar Post
Grizz I am resting most of the day in bed right now but I check emails and BZ and BU at least once a day so please if I can help in something just shoot me an email.
I really like your theme Griz, it suits you.
I also found out about your new blog over at BU TV. It is comforting to know that sometimes one of those Ustreamers is actually you, Griz! Welcome to WP.
Hi Griz!
Welcome to WPWorld, there are some challenges, but lots of rewards.
Can we infer from your Domain name that G can separate out(and use) the keywords in the name, without hyphens? Humans often can’t, and I feel not using hyphens leads to confusion.
I saw a comment recently (Justin I think) that said hyphenated domains look Spammy?
Hope this new site exceeds your expectations - Your readers will certainly be wishing so!
Justin,
Thank you for the support and the link is much appreciated. I will be returning the link favors from the other site as this one is a bit short on PR at the moment. (Only a temporary setback I hope…) At the rate all of you are sending links this blog will be firing on all cylinders in record time. Thanks so much Justin!
Frank,
That pretty much answers my question - I get tons of traffic from the comments on the Blogger blog but have not heard much talk about this from the WP crowd. Glad to know you do pick up long tail search traffic from the comments… now if only I could get some comments on here… hehe
Chanya,
Wow… Fridge reading material - now I know I have made it!! Just how many of those little magnets would it take to have my post printed on them?
All kidding aside Chanya - Adsense performs best with targeted traffic. No point using it until you know that your traffic is querying the exact terms that relate to the ads. This is why it’s a good idea to wait until you start seeing a steady stream of traffic from G. Good luck with the niche sites. If you ever need a hand…
Wayne,
Thanks for stopping in. As a trucker you must just love the price of fuel these days. Any Alaska Trips on the radar this year? I have sent a few people to your site just for the photos alone - great stuff. Hope all is well and please drop in often Wayne.
Costa,
Thanks for the endorsement and the link. You’ve been a good friend for a long time now. Hopefully you can get some of your page rank back. Did you ever write G and beg for forgiveness? Seems if you admit the paid post stuff and promise not to do it again they have reversed the penalties handed out to others. It is worth a shot.
Vic,
I’ll take you up on the offer and give Terry a break. I’m making the poor guy hyper-ventilate! I know Terry has the All in One SEO plugin installed but I haven’t spent time trying to figure out exactly what it does yet…
I’d love to use the nested comments - so much cleaner than this and the Similar Post plugin is a great idea as well.
I will shoot you an email…
Rhonda,
Thanks and I hope it suits me - been living on that island now for 15 years. I appreciate you stopping by and please come again!
Diane,
Thanks for the welcome Diane. The local phone system is trying to get me hooked up to high speed so I’m hoping to join in at BU TV one of these days - it’s a bit frustrating following along and not being able to comment.
Hi Rhys,
I have added a new screenshot to the bottom of the post in order to answer your question. You will see that this blog is ranking 12th for the term “Grizzly Make Money” and G was able to decipher those 3 words out of my 4 word url even though there are no hyphens.
I must say that the new theme really fits Griz. Although the graphics are a bit ‘distracting’ compared to the ugly site. LOL! I think that WordPress will start to grow on you once it’s all tweaked out. Good luck!
Griz,
I didn’t install the Related Posts plugin as it caused me no end of problems on my WP blogs I had it on (with All-In-One SEO). When the two plugins were working together, they were re-naming all the pages and any deep links I sent in were coming up 404s.
Maybe I was doing something wrong, so if you have a parley with Vic, can you ask him about that please?
Thanks,
What kind of trouble were you having with the related posts plugin? I’m using it along with the All-In-One SEO plugin on a couple sites (I don’t have many) with no trouble. There is another plugin (Platinum SEO pack) that I read about that is supposedly “better”, but I haven’t tried it yet.
I found out about the All-In-One plugin @ Courtney Tuttle’s site, and I figured he knew way more than me so I’m using it.
Griz,
Let me know if you need some help with WP. I am running 2.5.1 on most of my sites, we can Skype or email if you need to.
Nice site, and gee, thanks for giving me something else to read!
Elliott
Those are all personalized results. You should probably have logged out and then taken those screenshots
Regular reader, although I don’t comment that much. I have this I want to ask though…
Since you’re going for a highly competitive keyword (MMO), with a brand new domain, are you going to be sandboxed? It would be interesting to see whether or not getting many high PR inlinks will help you avoid the sandbox for this new website, and of course share the results with us
Nice new blog Griz!
Of course, I am well aware that you know your shit so I am sure this will contain a lot of useful information.
I’ll be sure to come back and check it out!
Trent
Griz, congrats on the new site. I was offline for two entire days this weekend so I missed the secret launch. I added this site to the Noovy.com blogroll and will be putting it on a couple others as well. Hope you get WP figured out.
Grizz, I am so glad to have found you. My computer took a crap and I have to do some stuff at my daughters so I will be sending you a link to your new blog. Setting up my Reader Review right now. You will have this blog up on the front page in no time. I will be watching for your new posts.
Best of luck!
Denise
Griz-
Congrats on your new WP blog! Between you, Vic, Terry, Court, I’ve learned so much and am grateful for the mentoring you provide.
Vic says you are the blogspot man so will you one day let us know why the switch? Gonna start selling some .com real estate?
I’ll be checking back often to see whats up…best wishes for the whole enchilada!
Vic- Nice to see you up and around. Hope you are feeling better and getting rest.
matt
Nice digs Griz. It’s a huge change from the Blogger blog. Is the picture on top your home? If so, very nice. If not, it’s still a nice picture.
I’ve added you to my RSS and look forward to learning even more from you. Thanks for all you do to help people out.
Woah. Looks like we have a good ol’ barn raising party here.
I’ll send ya a link too, Griz.
Yup, and I’ve had tons of trouble with the statcounter plugin too.
Hi Gizz,
Welcome to hell, lol. Having always followed your advice I feel comfortable with blogger. However, the other two musketeers (Vic & Court) use WP aaargh.
Using WP is like having a woman with three tits……you don’t which bit to fiddle with next.
I know you don’t need any luck to make this site hit page 1, but just to help I will give you a PR4 anchored link with Make Money online (From z-tel.net). I hope this goes some way to paying you back for all your help.
On a side note, its nice to see a comment from Vic, I hope you are feeling better big man, see you back at the channel soon.
Good luck Grizz, all the best - John
PS - If there is anything else I can do just ask.
For a secret 66 comments on the first post is not bad LOL! I think you may have established your “brand” and got the “attraction marketing” working Grizz! Now you just sent me back to blogger world and you are off doing WordPress I don’t know about that! My ugly blogger niche blog is getting some traffic so I have dared to put Adsense on it: I wait in excitement. BTW I actually really like the theme: is Terry selling his design services ?
Aaron,
Thanks. Yup the damn graphics hardly leave any room for me to stick up that big ugly Adsense block! Not sure how I’m gonna make any money with this.
Terry,
I am creating a Vic list and will add the All in one SEO glitch to the list. If I act pathetic enough I’m sure we can get him to login and wave his magic wand…
Elliot,
Good man. You are welcome! I just knew you didn’t have enough to do…
Max,
Yup I should have but after wasting half a day getting the damn screenshots posted I wasn’t about to start over. As my accountant says - the difference is immaterial - whether I rank 1 or 3rd out of 40m pages makes little difference. The point is still the same. I will remember to log out next time though.
Will,
You my friend are on the ball. I too am curious if I will avoid the sandbox and so far I have. I am ranking p2 for “grizzly make money” so no sandbox yet. This could change but I’m hoping the quality links I’m getting from everyone will help me avoid it. I will of course keep everyone updated. I have noticed my other sites never get sandboxed when they get an authority link or two so this will be a test to see how correct my assumptions are.
Marc,
I can tell you that Vic means you no harm and would help you in a heartbeat. He has his way of getting people’s attention but it’s only to help others in the end.
The first thing you should do is contact Google and ask for your PR back (do this in webmaster tools). Tell them you bought the site with do-follow paid links but didn’t know what that meant at the time. You have since corrected the links with the no-follow tag and would like to ask for them to reconsider your PR. Make sure you tell them that it won’t happen again.
You answered your own question - “Air Soft Guns” is the correct anchor to use.
Good luck Marc - we would all like to see you make your money back and then some.
Trent,
Thanks my friend. You realize of course that you have some of those quality sites that should be on page 1 with us. A situation that we need to make happen…
Steve (Noovy)
Thanks for the link - much appreciated. The secret launch just kinda happened a little ahead of time. Still don’t know how Frank found this site but he did and that was the end of me keeping it quiet. I had planned on working it a bit first but things seem to be working out just fine anyway.
Denise,
Don’t you just love computers - they never break down!
I appreciate the link and I’m really hoping we can get the rest of you on the front pages. Hope you get your computer fixed pronto.
Matt,
I am not leaving Blogger - just expanding a bit. I will be revealing my plans a little at a time - not to be secretive, I just haven’t worked it all out yet. lol. Thanks for your support and all the best to you as well.
John Calvin,
The picture shows part of the lodge. My house is back in the trees as well as the rest of the Lodge and Cabins. I can’t get a better shot as it would require cutting down the trees and I don’t want to do that or my shoreline will start eroding.
Thanks for dropping in and hopefully I’ll have something on here worth an RSS feed!
Nice blog Griz, but this is a good-looking one.
Irene,
I seem to have the statcounter problem solved - I just stuck the whole code in the footer and it works fine. I would like to know if I can put it in the header as well - I have found I get much different results in the stats on my Blogger blogs depending if it is placed on top of a page or the bottom. (Have any of you wordpress folks tried this?)
Thanks for the link Irene - had a visit to the site this am.
Hope the move goes well!
John,
I appreciate the link and support. I will not be giving blogger up anytime soon - I can have 10 blogspot blogs up and running in the time it takes to just register a domain with this self-hosted system. For speed you can’t beat Blogger. WP does have some serious advantages for other stuff though and I want to pursue them to the fullest.
Thanks so much John!
Lissie,
Damn, I knew when I started mentioning names I was going to forget so many of you as I was in a big rush - sorry about that. Ugly Blogger blogs and Adsense work great - I wont be changing that system at all.
Glad you like the theme and Terry should sell his services but the bugger wouldn’t take a dime from me - I shall find a way to repay him though. (Thank Court as well as it’s a modified version of one of his themes)
Btw… are you the Queen of Hubpages? Seems every hub leads to you over there - very well done and very impressive. You sure put a lot of work into your sites and hubs - wish I had your drive.
Venkat,
Ha. I will try and “Ugly” it up a bit. Don’t want you to go into shock! Now if I can just figure out how to add Adsense…
Grizz, nice to see you finally ventured into the Wordpress realm. Look forward to more insight into “Make Money Online”.
Nice theme BTW.
Regards
Are you ever right about the importance of your keyword in the URL. My keyword isn’t in the domain name, but if I title something /political-humor-whoever-whatever/ it ranks 100 times more easily than if I title it /whoever-whatever/
There’s your tip if you don’t have a keyword in the domain name. Choose your post slugs to compensate, but it’s still better to have it in the domain name, and there’s no need to be as conscious about the post slugs you choose.
Personal Finance,
Thanks Ray. More like belly flopped into the WP arena but I’m here now and carnage is sure to follow. Thanks for stopping by and your site looks great btw. Best of luck.
Fiar,
Yup… the URL does make a difference. You can rank well without it but it is so much more work. That’s a great tip btw - thanks for sharing.
Grizzly,
Congrats on the new blog. I’ve been a reader of make money for beginners for a long time now and learned so much from you! I can’t imagine how I would be making money online if it wasn’t for you, vic and court. I’m not a guy who makes lots of responses and therefor you probably don’t know me, but I wanted to grab this chance as a way to thank you. Also a fine list of responses for a first post, I must say! Hope this blog will also be a success (looks like it already is). Looking forward what you bring us in the future. Btw very nice theme, it suits you well, buddy.
Emiel,
I’m just waking up with my morning cup of coffee and the first thing I have read today is your comment. What a nice way to start my day. Thank you so much for that - you have set the tone for a great day indeed. Don’t be shy in the future and let us all know if you ever need a hand. Thanks again Emiel!
Ooh very posh, Griz! My, you are going up in the world! ;o)
Divinyl,
Yes, I am going to be very hard to live with now…
Hi Grizz
so is this site a replacement for your blogger site?
btw, my site is an authority for “living off dividends” - too bad its not a very popular niche like making money online!!!
I Grizz,
I’m guessing that now that you have a WP blog, I’m gonna be commenting a lot more
Heck this is my second comment on the same post! I have something I want to share/ask though!
I have a flagship blog that I had high hopes for in terms of monetization, but that was before I learned all that good stuff about keyword sniping and niche blogs that you, Vic, and Court teach. I have learned A LOT since then! I was reviewing my website, which is a PR1, and I noticed that I have one post that’s a PR3! Then I have one or 2 other posts that have a PR3 and all the other pages except the root domain are PR0.
My question is, is that normal? I was always under the impression that your homepage would have the highest PR, but it clearly isn’t the case for my blog! I would have put up the links but I don’t want my comment to get caught by spam comment filters…
Um there are a couple of typos in my previous comment…
I do have a PR3 page, but the other ones I’m referring to are PR1 (not PR3), and all the pages have no PageRank.
I meant all the other pages except for those mentioned have no PageRank. I swear I’m totally out of it this afternoon! Hogging Grizz’s comment section like that!
Hi how are you,
First time poster here but regular reader, I am keen to learn the SEO stuff you are talking about. So just want to make a comment on your new blog.
MT.
Well I’ll be damned - Griz, you actually got over 100 comments on your first post on a brand new blog! That must surely be a record in anyone’s books, so congratulations are in order!
Hey Grizz, just picked up on this, so best of luck with your new blog. Wordpress is easy, just a short learning curve and it seems that there are many here who can help, me included if needed. Looking forward to more inspiration from this one. Dave.
Hi Griz,
I’m a regular reader of your old blog and your posts are priceless. Thank you for that and now for this, I’ll be sure to stick around!
Congratulations to your new blog, I thought I’d add my kudos to all the others here
If you need any help with Wordpress or PHP, please let me know. I’m doing web dev and I can help you with your theme, such as putting Adsense in and the Social buttons and stuff. Maybe you want something in the header, or a banner under each post’s title on the single pages?
Just send me an email if I can help. I’ve learned so much from you and it’s the least I can do.
Keep it up,
Bob Soap
See, the plan is to use this as a flagship site for his new SEO consulting business.
This is called search engine optimization (SEO) and it’s what I do.
Once this ranks on page one as well as MMOFB, well. What more testimonial do you need?
I’m just guessing at the purpose here BTW, but it’s what I would be doing if I were Grizz.
Which I’m not.
PS, I think Will was just distracted by all the graphics.
Griz — very nice looking blog.
Will — I bet if you check other addresses of your main page you will find one that has a PR3. Google sees different addresses that point to the same page as different pages. For example:
http://somesite.com/
http://www.somesite.com/
http://somesite.com/index.php
http://www.somesite.com/inex.php
could all have different PR values.
what a such wonderful information.thanks for sharing it.i will bookmark your blog.thanks again.
Grizz,
Got any questions or anything I can help you out with, learn, etc. about WP?
My internet is back from the death bed (damn Cinci Bell sucks!) so I am finally getting caught up!
Look me up on Skype or shoot me an email or contact form if I can help ya out!
Congrads on coming over, I knew you would bow to the peer pressure! lmao…
Grizz: you NEED the nested comment plugin Vic pointed u at NOW. You see one of the great things with WP is that you can actually have easily navigable comments LOL
And no Im not the “Queen of Hubpages” thats some marketing woman who has written the eBook - perhaps I should have done so because my excellent hubs barely make the price of a meal out /month LOL
I just found your new WordPress site, Grizzly.
All I can say at this time is that your Kung Fu is greater than mine.
By the way, I highly recommend http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/ so that I can follow along without coming back 100 times a day.
Whoa!!! 111 comments already. I have been a fan of your blog since the asia’h epperson episode. This is an excellent idea to start a more social blog…i will be back for more
Wow, I go on vacation for a week and come back to a new site I’m gonna have to visit frequently
Looking forward to more of your epic posts, grizz.
Living off Dividends,
Nope not a replacement - an addition. I see your blog is coming along nicely. It may not be as popular but perhaps it is more lucrative?
Will,
Thanks for the extra comments - make hitting the 100 mark so much easier! lol.
It is normal to have some higher PR secondary pages - this is actually good and has happened because you have received some deep links to those pages. More than you have to your home page at this point. Eventually you will find that the home page will get more links and a higher PR but ideally you want to keep deep linking. The more pages with PR the better.
Motor Troll,
Always nice to get some of the silent readers joining in. Thanks for stopping in and leaving a comment - don’t be shy in future.
Terry,
100 plus comments is very cool - hard to believe actually. Damn now I’m going to have to produce something worth commenting on…
Griz,
Love your header image. Mine is a beach too but in a different hemisphere.
I’ve been reading your Blogger Blog for quite a while and look forward to your generous sharing to come on this one.
all the best to you.
Rich Hill
http://LinkMoney.org
Dave, (Affiliate Blogger)
Thanks for the offer of help - I will be taking everybody up on that. You will know when I need help - I shall be whining and complaining loudly on here when warranted or whenever I am too lazy to figure something out for myself. I have no pride! Thanks again Dave.
Bob,
Thank you as well for the offer. I will indeed ask for help if need be. Still have some playing around to do but I’m sure to screw something up soon. Thanks for the support Bob.
Fiar,
hahaha… You are not far off at all. You have been paying attention! Oh… I can see how the graphics are going to be a real nuisance and yes - very distracting.
Lee,
Thanks and good point re: Will.
Amirulcyber,
You are welcome and thank you - please come back often.
Good to see you on Wordpress mate. Hope all is well
Elliot, (Niche Blogging)
Thanks for the offer to help - I will take you up on it at some point. I’m figuring on making a good mess of things first and then calling you guys in to fix it. Yes peer pressure… the dark side is strong…
Lissie,
What? You don’t like my comment navigation?? lol. I am planning on nesting the comments asap. You really should have wrote the book on hubs - sorry to hear that it hasn’t been that profitable yet but keep building and hopefully things will improve.
RT,
Well Grasshopper - thanks for adding yet another thing for me to do… hey wait - if you don’t come back 100 times a day how am I going to rank 1 on Alexa??? You will, of course, fix whatever I break trying to add the subscribe to comments thingy…
BTW - does that plug in work with WP 2.5 - the site mentions that it has only been tested as far as 2.3.1? Anyone using it on WP 2.5?