Make Money Online on July 4th Independence Day!

Just kidding, go have some fun and watch the fireworks. (if your city is not blocked by fog like mine)

Well, here’s a blog that I have been working on since couple months ago.  As you can see, ProGolferDigest.com has been around almost a year now and I was getting like good decent traffic of around 200-300 uniques per day.  The site went down for couple days due to my lazyness.

Since March, I have been doing about 1-3 posts per day, all targeted at my SEO target keywords but found that this golf is still one of the best kept hidden goldmines.

Basically, the traffic growth resulted all from Google search terms.  Hence, this type of blog is explosive for making money online as a large number of your readers are people searching on Google and other search engines.

I’ve also learned that when you write a post about current events such as the U.S. Open, you get a spike of search engine traffic due to the people who are searching for it.

With just couple Adsense, this blog is making almost couple clicks, which isn’t too bad.

I think with a larger traffic such as around 2000 pageviews per day, this type of blog can make about $50-100 per day due to the “niche” of the blog.  The golf blog world hasn’t even started, there’s not enough golf blogs yet…

By end of this year maybe that could happen if I keep blogging daily about golf…man I’d rather play golf.  (That’s why I end up going golfing because I write about it…works I guess…)

This is my mindset for Multiple Blogs

Grow multiple blogs  and start watching which one grows faster, and then concentrate on those fast blogs to expect some results.

The slower blogs can be slow so really adjust your focus on building the blogs that are “growing” faster.

I think you need to really have multiple blogs in order to be successful at making money blogs as you can’t rely on one subject.

Once you develop couple really interesting topics for you and your niche market, you simply grow it with all the other blogs but watching the results in-between.

Which ever blog is growing faster, meaning more “search engine” traffic increase over a period of time, you need to put all your bloggers and blog posts onto those blogs.

Eventually, every site you run will increase in reputation and rankings if any one site increases due to the “network” structure of multiple blogs.  The opposite can happen, but you can simply deplete that link if the worst comes to worst.

Well, that’s my theory anyways.

If you have a better one, please feel free to suggest and use the comments.

Sometimes on days like today, I just simply can’t think of anything to write about on my blog. (this one especially)

Blogger’s Block is a common syndrome among bloggers so don’t freak out on me now.  Tf you have it, it’s pretty easy to get through.

Creative writing can take a lot of effort, especially if you can’t think of anything to write about.

What to do if you have Blogger’s Block:

1. Go do something else, like for me, I like to go smoke cigarettes and watch the ocean.  During that peaceful break, I consciously and sub-consciously think about which topics would be interesting and also show up on the first page of Google.

2. If you can think of an interesting topic and you have something to write, go blog that “thought” immediately.

How did I come up with this post?

Well, I basically had a Blogger’s Block and went smoked a cigarette trying to think what to write about and there is goes.

Writing is all about what your mind have interests in.  Writing is easier if what you write about is personally interesting to you.  If you have blogger’s block, take action immediately and get through another blog post.

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1. Analyze web pages.

2. Setup custom channels

3. Optimize your ad placement/unit.

4. Maximize revenue from multiple units.

5. Track and measure your results.

I can’t tell you how many times that ad optimization is the key to success.  If you cannot optimize your ads, you will never succeed or at least reach your full potential as an online businessman(businesswoman).

The optimization part might take you 3 days or 3 months, but once you’ve optimize, you can expect to make 3-5 times what you made before.

via adsense blog

Well, recently I got really really sick like a dog and could not “blog” for 3-4 days.  Although I have realized it before, I realize again that making money online rules over any 9 to 5 job.

Okay, here’s some reasons why making money online rules over a JOB (Just Over Broke):

1. You are your own boss.  You blog when and where you want to.

2. Even if you have a job and blogging is a part-time thing for you, you still earn “residual” income.

3. When you get sick, you can stop “blogging” for couple days and still get paid.  (Web traffic doesn’t stop because you stop blogging)

4. You get to go grocery shopping when everyone else is working at a “job”.

5. You are too lazy to wear more than a boxer and a tank-top to work.

6. You save thousands of dollar per year on gas/commuting and you helped save some carbon footprint.

7. You can “schedule” your blog posts up to 3 months in advance and go on a long vacation.

8. Next time someone asks you where you work, you simply reply, “I run a web business.”

9. Even if American economy is bad, you web business is good as your “customers (readers)” consist of people from all over the world, not just the U.S.

10. Your monthly salary gets better, better, and better the more you blog.  (Talk about being stuck at the same job for more than 1 year and getting the same pay???)

Well, that’s just 10 more reasons to make money online than living day-to-day from your job that might just be the worst fall-back insurance if something happens.  (you get laid off…)

When I first started blogging, I had a full time job and I did 30+ blog posts per day.  That was hard life when I got up 5AM to get to work, then get home at 10PM after fighting traffic to do 30+ blog posts.

Although I still have it pretty easy since I don’t have a full time job, I can use that time for personal development such as working on my golf game or spending time with my family.

God, America is probably one of the worst places to get a job nowdays.  It’s the truth.  Unless you got some hookups or you are top 10% of your graduate class, it’s gonna be real hard to get a job nowdays that will pay your rent and more.

Last thing I said to myself before being laid off at my last job, “I will never ever work for anyone ever again.  Employers are masters and employees are slaves.  Why do we repeat the freakin’ high school history over and over again!  Capitalism sucks… not unless you work for yourself.”

Now, if you have been blogging for awhile now, you probably understand that majority of your readers are people who use simple English.

What do I mean?

Well, on all my blogs, more than 30-50% of my traffic comes from international countries other than English speaking countries.

Why is this?

Well, people from those international countries who can speak/read English, are very interested in English written blogs.  But do not assume that those audience can understand your perfect, complex English.

How do I write a blog post?

You need to simply 5 sentences to 1 sentence.  You need to use words that even a 4th grader can understand.

In other words, write short and simple, while taking the trouble not to use big words such as “eponymous”, “advocate”, or any words that might usually be used on an SAT exam but not in real life.

Sure, you are a professor and you need to use big words but do understand if people in the world can’t understand you, you won’t be very popular.

If you are trying to make money online, keep it simpler.  If you are simply blogging for fun, ignore anything I say in this blog.

A lot of the bigger blogs out there “are” targetting English users only but you can differ and get more readership through using simple words and sentences.

Even for me, English is second language, and I can understand that it’s frustrating to look up the dictionary when I don’t understand a word.  (Of course, I SHOULD look up the dictionary but we are not blogging to educate people, we are blogging to provide good information, FAST!)

Do you know why there are so many 13 year olds who blog nowdays and are more successful than most 20 year olds?

Answer is simple.  People in general (as in the Internet population), cannot understand college-level English as they come from all over the world.

Heck, next time you read some of the comments in your blog and you will see that a lot of your readers cannot even write correct English.

Do not worry as this is great if you can get your message across.  Just stay away from becoming an English teacher and do use simpler words.

If you don’t believe me, take a look at icanhascheezburger.com, even their domain name is spelled wrong.  (Btw, the blog grew from nothing to like top 100 within less than a year!)

If you look at carefully at blogs that are successful, you can see the amount of “fresh” content that’s coming out.

That’s what you need to focus on most, fresh content.   Fresh content is the core of blogs, whether you run a sports blog or tech blog, people want to read about something new, not something everyone knows about or from yesterday.  (That’s right, in the blogging world, even news from yesterday is old for some blogs…)

Now, how to go about fresh content?  

First, you need to be in the right mindset.  Get yourself excited and fresh to blog.

For example, for me, I like to blog in the early mornings around 6am to 8am, that’s when my mind if fresh and I can do like 50 blog posts within just 3 hours.

I do tend to get lazy at times and drift down to like 20 blog posts but on my good days, I do try to wake up early and get things done early.  (This is my best hours but it may be different for you so try different times and see what works for ya.)

What do I do the rest of the day?

I go play golf, I don’t need to spend ALL day blogging.  Trust me, you need to find a way to get your mind off blogging most of the time than the other way around.

As a blogger who has blogged almost 2 years non-stop daily, I know that every human being needs to learn how to distract themselves from work.

How long do I blog total per day?

Most days, I blog 4-6 hours depending on how early I wake up and how fresh I am.  But I admit that after doing 20 or so blog posts, my mind is about to burst into flames if I don’t stop blogging.

Find your distraction!

That’s right, you need to learn to distract yourself with fun activities such as going to get a cup of coffee at the coffee shop, work out at the gym, go grocery shopping, or anything that can help your mind get away COMPLETELY from blogging.

Why?

Well, first and foremost, you need to be “super-fresh” to write great content.

Second, you don’t want to burn out and write mediocre blog posts.  Your energy is felt by your readers.  (Even this post, you can probably feel my energy.   Do you feel my power??? )

Third, you need to stay away from the computer at least couple hours a day.   Computers were never made for human nature, only for robots.  If you want to end up an Internet zombie, be my guest but if you want a “life” (as they say, “get a life”), go do something with your life away from that keyboard and mouse.  Besides, it’s only going to help you develop handaches.

Okay, today’s post is about becoming like a warrior to make money online through blogging.

What do I exactly mean?

Well, if you have seen the movie 300, you will notice that there are only 300 warriors fighting off gazillions of Persian warriors, monsters, etc..etc...

Life and making money online is the same thing.

The more you write, the better you write, and if you can blog consistently everyday, you are bound to fight off all your enemies eventually and start making money.

What do you need to do?

Blog, blog, and blog it all like crazy every freakin’ day.  I don’t care if you write about technology, health, etc…, you need to blog all the time!

Picture this okay, you are a warrior and you have just been drop-shipped via a war helicopter to the 100,000 enemies.  In order for you to survive, you need to kill every 100,000 enemies one by one until they are all dead.  (Better yet, make some good allies and you can fight together!)

Well, don’t get me wrong, there are no enemies in the blogging world, it’s just you versus yourself.  But you need to understand that if you just started blogging, there are 100,000 other bloggers who are trying to do the same thing.  The only way you will come on top is by blogging better and faster than everyone else.

Hey, if you don’t believe me just take a look at 90% of the blogs out there today, it’s either bunch of garbage or the blog rarely gets updated.

You need to focus on quality and quantity.  Wake up fresh in the morning and write, write, write, and blog, blog, blog until your hands are bleeding.  Okay, that was just a metaphor but still, hard work pays off and you should only do it if it’s fun for you or worthwhile more than working in a cubicle.

Hey, I am no class A writer, but I know how to get the job done whether that’s pretty or ugly.

When it comes down to it, you need to blog.  A blog is simply a “live” stream of information that’s faster than any other media today.  The only way you will be able to gain lots of traction is through “live” streaming lots of new and great information than other similar blogs.

Well, now the secret is out, maybe I should shut this blog down soon.

Here’s a video of what blogging means to “serious” bloggers:

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A lot of people don’t know that fact about web traffic and the fact remains that you need a special “type” of web traffic to get the people to be interested in your advertisements whether that be Google Adsense or whatever.

Here’s are some facts about what kind of people are more likely to read and click on ads:

1. Blog subscribers are overrated, they are the worst type of traffic that’d click on your ads. Besides, most subscribers are subscribers because they see your blog through an RSS reader, thus they’d even rarely see the ad at all unless you had feed ads.

Blog subscribers are the worst for making money because they know your site layout already, they are “ad blind”, as they say.

2. Traffic coming from Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and social networking are worthless. Most of the time, they will steal your bandwidth and you pretty much don’t make any money unless you can “consistently” make the front page, in which case you will gain a lot of SEO, which is good for making money online.

Most people coming from the social networking traffic are too smart to even read your ads, don’t waste your time building up traffic this way. You might end up with 1000 more uniques per day but if that doesn’t convert, you are the one who end up wasting time. (Whereas if you only had 100 uniques from search engines, you’d probably make more money in comparison)

3. Traffic from Google search terms are the best for making money. People who click through a search engine more than often click out through Google Adsense ads. This is where the money is. If you can somehow increase the number of people coming to your site through Google, Yahoo, or any other search engines, you have the best type of web traffic, the people who read and click on ads.

So what’s the point of this story?

You need to spend 90% of your time blogging, consistently about your niche topic. Do not waste your time with too many social networks as they don’t give you “money” results. The social networks might earn you more readers and traffic but they simply don’t convert to money.

Also, don’t try so hard to get a lot of subscribers. Your subscribers should be subscribing to your blog because they are REALLY interested in keeping up with your blog news.

If you use contests and other methods simply to increase the number of subscribers, it doesn’t really help you when you are counting money at the end of the day.

Subscribers = The worst traffic for CPC advertising

Social Network traffic = Also worst traffic for CPC advertising

Random People who find your site through a search engine = This is your goldmine, if you can get the number of visitors coming to your site up to about 90% of total traffic, that is ideal for making money online.

Other people including blog experts might tell you otherwise but in my experience, this is what has worked and what is working for me. If you have further suggestions, I am ears are always open and you are welcome to comment.

Here’s a fun little titles for making money online sorta like boxing:

24+ Posts Per Day - Heavyweight Class

If you write 24+ posts per day, you are in the heavyweight class and you are gonna make some money soon or later. 24 posts per day means you are scheduling 1 post per hour. This will help Google to crawl your site every hour too.

Basically at 24+ posts per day, you are blogging about anything, everything about your niche blog topic.

5-23 Posts Per Day - Middleweight Class

With 5-23 posts per day, you are still puking out a lot of information out there and if you have very high quality content, middleweight class might make more money than the heavyweight players.

At 5 to 23 posts per day, you are still going to work like a dog for at least a year before you make some serious cash.

1-3 Posts Per Day - Lightweight Class

At 1 to 3 blog posts per day, you are definitely no match for any other middleweight or heavyweight classes. You might as well give up blogging here if you are trying to make money online. If you are on a long term 2-3 year plan, it might work but still, you will either need some of the “best content” in the world or you are already famous.

You need to set a goal of how long it will take you to make money online.

With super niche topic, you might get away with 1 to 3 blog posts per day. It will take you at least a year to get your blog off the ground though. (Meaning 2-3K uniques per day)

To sum it up, you really need to be able to spit out information as fast as you can and start running from 6am to 10pm daily until you start making money blogging.

If you thought blogging was easy, then think again.

Now, this is if you are really serious about blogging and you just lost your job, have only 6 months of rent left, AND you had a baby kid born just few weeks ago. (me) If you are living lavishly and you don’t really need the money, there’s simply not enough motivation for you to blog that much or blog even at all. Just let this information go through your left ear and flow out the right.

Why is this blog not getting updated?

Well, I try to focus my attention on sites that are getting a lot of traffic. Those are the real money makers. I put every other blog that’s not getting enough traffic back on lightweight class.

Here’s the middleweight blogs I’ve been workin’ on:

zedomax.com, keetsa.com, bedzine.com
Here’s my lightweights:

progolferdigest.com, ringoblog.com, laptoppimp.com

Here’s my no weights I really need to get back on lightweights:

sfoneofakind.com, sfblogg.com

I got about 10 more blogs under “secret” development right now but I can disclose them until they really “take” off.

Happy bloggin’ and if you ain’t postin’ at least 5 per day, forget it man. You get in the ring and even lightweights will knock you out in 5 seconds.

Life is hard and competitive. Be faster than the person next to you, otherwise you are gonna be stuck where you are.