Well, I wasn’t going to start a new blog for awhile but since the new Google Chrome browser is out, (and I think it will be very successful) I decided to pounce on this opportunity and start a Google Chrome Hacks Blog.  For the reasons on why I started this blog, you can check out my post here at Zedomax Blog Network.

This is one of those topics I’ve been banging my readers about, finding a niche.  (a new niche that just started)

Google Chrome is probably one of the best “new” niches for blogging.  (Okay, don’t start one now, I will have to kill you then. :op )

I will try to update on the results of such spontaneous blog creation and of course, the monetization of it too.

Where did we get the idea for Google Chrome Hacks Blog?

Well, you should take a looky at iphone-hacks.com and their stats.  (It’s like they simply took a knife and stuck it on a whale before the it leaped)

via Zedomax Blog Network

I do admit to experimenting with Chitika Premium Ads of lately.

In my initial testing with Chitika Premium ads, I didn’t really get good results.

As with AdSense, I decided to do some ad-layout changes and resulted in 5-7 times more revenue from Chitika.

Here’s how to do it:

Place your Chitika code before your blog post on the top-left hand corner of your website.  (Below is an example of when Chitika ads show up on Zedomax.com)

(Notice that Chitika ads only show on search traffic and disappears for regular readers)

Even though Chitika’s free e-guides tell you that readers like to read the post then see relevant ads, in my experience, that did not result in any sizable revenue.

Instead, I placed the Chitika ads before any content.  Since Chitika Premium ads only show up when a visitor comes through Google keywords, the ad itself is invisible to your regular readers while giving the best chance for people to read and click ads.

Will having Chitika ads along with Google AdSense decrease my AdSense revenue?

The simple, good answer is no for this question.  I am still making the same amount of money from AdSense after adding Chitika Premium ads.  Chitika is a great way to boost your overall revenue, 25% in my case.

So if you have been making $1000/month with AdSense, you can expect an additional $250/month by adding Chitika Premium ads in the right places. (top left corner)

I will do some more testing and let you know if there’s even better way to optimize Chitika ads.

If you haven’t, sign up for Chitika under this link and help me out too.

One of the best ways to increase web search engine traffic is to write a blog post about something no other “blog” has written about.

How to go about this?

Well, first you need to research which search terms are currently giving you the most web traffic.

For example, if your blog is about travel and gets 20% of daily traffic from the search term, “best hotels in america”, you need to consider the fact that your one of your blog’s strength is about “best of something in somewhere”.

After finding out what search terms your blog gets most, simply change the wording around to something like, “best inns in south america”.

Then, do a Google search on, “best inns in south america”.  Now, if you see a lot of results that point to blogs, this isn’t a good title for your next blog post.

However, if you see no blog results, this might be a great title for your next blog post as there’s no competition for that search term.

Now, you do this process over and over for all your top-ranking search terms and I guarantee you that every blog post you write is super-niche and you will likely to show up before anyone else on Google.

In other words, “Write about what noone is writing about“.  It’s really simple as that.  But do keep in mind that the target search term would be something that would be searched a lot.  Don’t write about something that no one would search for, that’d be stupid.

By misspelling, you can bring extra traffic to your blog.

Why?

Well, if you misspell a word, it’s most likely that someone will be misspelling that word while searching for something on Google.

Now, your chances of getting the “misspelled” traffic is good if you are one of the only ones writing the blog post.

How do I bring more traffic by misspelling?

It’s simple.  Do not correct your misspellings.  If you want to, simply use the cross-out function to correct your mispellings.

I’ve had so much more traffic by misspelling something by accident then if I had spelled it right.

A lot of probloggers tell you to spell correctly which is good for reading but as I have explained here, you can get some extra traffic by not correcting your misspellings.

Heck, there’s even a blog about misspelling just launched over here.

Apart from making money on the internet, blogs in general are probably the most powerful communication medium today.

Why?

1. Blogs are faster than radio, television, and newspapers.  A blog post can be written in about 30 seconds and searched by Google in matter of minutes.

2. Blogs are organic communication medium because they are made to “grow”.  Everything about a blogging software platform has been designed for viral-spread of information.

3. Blogs are mentioned everywhere these days even in radio, television, and newspapers.

4. Blogs can be made and run by any person with slight knowledge of internet unlike any other traditional media.

5. Blogs stand for freedom of speech by individuals, not by greedy media companies.

6. Some blogs are worth more than some radio/TV stations.

7. Blogs can keep track of its past articles unlike radio, TV, and newspapers. (archives)

8. Blogs are closely connected with search engines and SEO.

9. Blogs rule the internet world in terms of speed in which information is spread.

10. Blogsphere makes up a large portion of information we read today.

As you can see, there are many reasons why blogs are taking over traditional media.

Now the biggest challege is, “How do we keep traditional media from taking control over blogs?”

I don’t think traditional media will ever get to take over the blogsphere but if they try, we need to fight back and tell them to shove it up their as*.

Well, this one is pretty simple but a lot of people do sell links on their blogs.

Why?

Well, to simply put it, if you want to make money with Adsense, you need Google search term traffic.

If you sell links, Google will eventually dump your blog and your Adsense traffic will drop dramatically to a point where it will affect your Adsense revenue.

Why bother selling links anyways when it’s unethical?

There are thousands of sites that help you sell links but I highly advise against it if you are serious about making money in the long run.

Of course, if you want to make some quick bucks and get out, that’s fine too.  But remember all your hard work and all that search traffic might just be gone one day if you start selling links.

Why is it unethical?

Well, think about it this way.  If you had all the money in the world, you could buy up all the links and show up first on Google.  Now, that wouldn’t be fair for others who write original content, would it?

It’s really common sense.  If you want to play the Adsense game, you need to stop and don’t sell links at all.  If you want to play another game such as affiliate sales, then it might not matter as much.  But the answer is simple.

I probably get at least 10-20 requests to buy links.   They all end up marked as spam.  I don’t want to be part of it, leave me out of it.

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.

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.