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.
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?
Million Dollars,
Glad you like it and please come back often. This will certainly be more social in nature.
Medic,
Vacation? Geez…
More epics coming up and thanks for dropping in. Hope the vacation went well.
Rich,
Thanks for the support and I wish you all the best as well. Why do I get the feeling your beach is usable year round?
Hi Jason, (TUK)
Thanks for stopping in and all is well. Thanks for asking.
Yes, Griz, that plugin works with 2.5+ because I’m using it. It shouldn’t break a thing but if it does, just holler.
Thanks RT.
Hi Griz,
You don’t know me but I have been reading your blog, Vic’s and Court’s. Nobody knows me, but I kind of know you. I’m very new to blogging so I went on the search for advice and wound up with you guys. My blog isn’t monetized I just write what I want to write and have fun with it. I’ll monetize sometime when I know how to do it right. It’s a wp blog; codes and more codes, so I understand why it will take time for you to get in the groove. I’ll be reading and wishing you the best. I still read your old blog too. Cheers!
Sonni
Thanks for dropping in Sonni and nice to meet you. Please let us know if you need a hand when it comes time to make some money.
Good stuff, Griz, as always. It’s so funny, I’ve been doing so good with Blogger blogs due to all that you have taught me…I was almost offended when I saw that you had created a WordPress blog (LOL). I had a quick flashback to the post where you talked about the “prevailing WordPress snobbery”, and I chuckled because I realized that you’re simply expanding your dominion, so to speak. Once again, many thanks to you for all that you have taught me; my Adsense earnings are consistently growing. To any newcomers out there, read ALL of Griz’s posts from MakeMoneyForBeginners, and tune in to his future posts here! This stuff WORKS!!!
Hi Grizz,
I just found your new blog. I like your bear gravatar alot…
I have been busy setting up my first wordpress blog as an eBay affiliate site with help from Janet at “antiguawebsolutions”…
Dunno if you have any experience with eBay affiliates sites?
Thanks for your comments on my indexing issue. I’m just an old guy who decided to starting blogging for $ during retirement. Man, you and Vic have my head EXPLODING. Your Beginners blog has me up in the middle of the night, and now I’ve got this one to keep up with. Could be the end of beautiful 51 year marriage! Nah! If the golf didn’t wreck it, nothing will. Gotta go link to your blog. Best.
Hi Grizz,
This stuff has my head spinning — I’m dreaming about SEO at night, and spending way too much time thinking about it during my day job
. I’ve got a few small sites up, just waiting to be indexed, adding content and being patient.
I’m interested — when you’re trying to make a blog that draws search traffic to click on your ads, do you ever mention products by name, or websites by name? It would seem that you don’t want to give traffic any other out than clicking on your adsense adds.
Thanks for opening my eyes to the REAL world of online advertising.
Hi Griz,
What a beautiful blog! Terry did a great job on it.
I’ve been studying blog security lately, spurred on by finding malicious code in all four of my blog templates. (The designer had the templates rigged so that every time someone bookmarked one of my pages, he got a link.)
Anyway, one of the things I learned in my studies is that a blog is slightly less hackable if you remove the login link under “Meta” in your sidebar. I don’t think it’s a big deal, but you might as well not give those swine any advantages.
Why thanks Carla! Its nice of you to say so.
Yes you’re right about the hacking thing. When I was still new to this I left it there and got hacked on a few sites. Wasn’t nice and led me into all sorts of problems.
Griz, to get rid of it you don’t need to take out the Meta widget in your sidebar – just go into Settings, General then make sure the box next to “Membership: Anyone can Register” is UNchecked! That gets rid of the Register link in the Meta box.
By the way, the natives are getting restless in the forum with recent events in some er, agricultural areas… may need your steadying hand when you get a minute or so…
Griz,
I figure I needed to add a comment to your growing list! The kids have been keeping me away from the computer this summer so I am not up to date and in the know.
I, too, was surprised to see you using WordPress! I need to backtrack to your other site and catch up on what I’ve missed.
Grizz why am I so late to showing up over here? Maybe its because I am busy making money. I dunno? LOL!! I hope you continue to post once in a while here.
sprung for hosting an everything huh? Good deal, subscribed
fyi, you are showing up #1 on MSN for Make Money Online
=P
Justin
Just shows you how crappy MSN is when it comes to search engines. I’m not complaining but a 3 week old blog in number 1 spot for a highly competitive term… ?
Nice design and congrats on the new blog.
JR
Grizzly, I remember you say the uglier the site, the higher the percentage of clicks? But this one looks decently pleasantto me. Or are you not monetizing this blog, and why are you using a paid domain this time around? Hope to sell it one day, right?
Anyway, all the best to you.
Just doing what I do. There is no reason I can’t have 10 blogs on page 1 for every serp keyword I target. This is how you dominate a niche. Build up one authority blog and then use it to build up more authority blogs.
Btw – sell it? Perish the thought. It’s a tough sale trying to sell a blog built on a personality. Who would read John Chow if he wasn’t the owner? Of course, why people read him anyway is another question…
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Hi,Grizzly
Can you help me?i want to unite the world(and mankind will be happiness,certainly).perhap you think that it’s crazy idea.but i’m going to live with it unless i die.can you help me?
Commendable…and how can I help?