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.
Griz,
when checking for competing pages, would you put the keyword in ” ” or NOT.
Griz,
I have always ranked your ‘other’ blog, the one that you call plain ugly…as very beautiful to look at! It has a nice open breezy look and feel, and is easy on the eyes for even a longer reading time.
I know that like myself, you have a loyal readership and I did not want many readers to start believing you on this whole ugliness thing; and miss the importance of less is more in design.
Afterthought: I hope it is nothing but humility.
Ciao,
-SH
Hey Griz,
This one is cool too!
I just wanted to thank you for your site. It is obvious that you genuinely want to (and do) offer good advice on how to make money online. It looks like you “fancied” up your free blogger blog with that picture and all
Thanks David. And thanks for the link on your post – I don’t mean to sound unappreciative but any chance of changing the keyword anchor in the link to something more useful than “this article”.
It’s a good post and I will be adding it to my Reader Review section and am curious as to what keyword you would like. Please let me know.
Done! Let me know if that works better
Oh that works just fine – Thanks. Now are you after the same or would you prefer “Affiliate Marketing” as I will be linking to your post from the MMO Beginners blog?
Affiliate Marketing please!
Hello Griz and fellow adsense bloggers.
I just want to ask a quick questions. How do you open accounts for multiple blogs? ( hundreds..crappy blogs for adsense) Wont google notice that you have the same name and details?? can anyone awnser this?
thank you
matt
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High Grizz just like to thank you for the advice on how to rank well in the serps..i am doing not bad on Google but it seems i am not doing so well on the other serps like Yahoo AOL, and MSN is this just a matter of submitting my site to these search engines any advice would be GREATLY apreciated..
Thank you again…
Could you check out my site grizz? i may hav gone over board with the SEO side of it and i would also like to thank you for the priceless advice you give ..
Thanks
Grizz,
Thanks for the information. I am just getting started with setting up my blog. I hear so many things out there that it gets confusing. However, I think I will be following you.
Thanks!
Hi Griz– congrats on this baby’s one year birthday:
July 5, 2008 – July 5, 2009!!!
HI Grizz –
I emailed you and then realized you must get a ton of those so here’s my question:
My blog was ranking on page one for about a month and all of a sudden it’s been banished many pages back. In addition, I was getting a good amount of hits according to
stat counter and now they’re virtually nil as well. Any ideas as to what may have caused this to happen and is there a way I can correct it? I’ve been posting to my blog as well as writing articles and changing them up as per your instructions so I’m not sure if I am to blame.
Any help would be much appreciated and thanks so much for your insightful sites!!
Hi Grizzy….1st thank you for you amazing content I’m so glad I found you and your sites been reading them loads the past 2 weeks..
I can’t rem if its on your site or the other ones where you mention that when searching for keywords on google keywords tools that we should me looking for keywords with numbers in searches from 2000 to 20000 is that global searches or local? and do these numbers still apply when doing hub pages?
hope my question makes sense…
Anyway thank you again for the great quality of your content the world needs more people like you, not those crap scammers
Hi,
I liked very much your article on beginners Affiliate.
Good luck!
Hi Griz
Can you please explain how you get your adsense block into the top left corner of your posts. I have been battling with plugins to do this but they don’t work. I mean they are not there when I try to activate them. I do hope you can advise.
Crafter – I use the “All in One Adsense and YPN” plugin and just insert < *!--adsensestart--*> where I want the adsense to start. (remove the *)
You set up how many ads per post, the type and size first in the plugin.
Hope that helps
hi griz,
how can i register for your “forum”.
thanks, kc
hi Grizz,
Another newbie here. Story so far…
I’ve started my blog, written 3 articles, rewritten them 3 times, posted each at 3 article sites. Should I just keep plugging away here repeating this with this blog? Or should I start creating new blogs in the keyword area?
I also have a product (I prefer an audiobook with planning sheets). I’ll record my audiobook myself (i got the tools and the talent) What’s the best way to sell and deliver this product to my eventual millions of visitors;o)? Clickbank?
Again, thank you for your time. You make it all seem so attainable!!! You ROCK.
jimmyloram
I am a newbie also and I have a question. I work for a company updating their website and working on findability.
We do have a blog and my question is “is it appropriate to email a copy of our blog to our list of emails that we have collected over the years? Is it better to just send an email with a small blurb or teaser and then the link to the blog? Which is preferable or will either one be OK?
Thanks, I just want to be sure that I am doing the right thing.
Jan
I just read my post and want to clarify. By sending a copy of the blog out, I am thinking that it is kind of like a newsletter. Is there a big difference. I do understand that people can comment on a blog, but not on a newletter unless you have a survey or something set up for comments in that fashion.
Thanks.
OK, hopefully it will be OK to put in the website. I did not want it to show up, but it looks like it does not.
Thanks,
I will be waiting to hear.
I have been reading and following your lessons.How can i register in your forum of like minded people in respect of bloging for cash.
Any one with the answer can help me out.
You have been a HUGe help Grizz. It is so simple!!!! Well now that I have learned from you! Thanks!
Really great site that you have built good info thanks.
What is your opnions about the mobile trend? Is this THE new thing where the money is at or do you think you should stick to the traditionall techniques?