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.

A blog is an organic thingee.

What does that mean?

Well, a blog is not a static “website”.

You don’t set up a blog and call it quits.  A blog is a continuous stream of information.

A real blog is backed up by a blogging software that has been designed for the blogger to write a new blog post daily, hourly, or even every minute.

Why is this good?

Blogs are called “Web 2.0″ because of their organic nature.  Since blogs are constantly updated, it forces search engines to “crawl” the site, thus giving the blog a stable increase in web traffic.

Let’s say you stop blogging for 3 months due to personal emergencies or vacations.  The blog still maintains the average web traffic you have been receiving and simply won’t grow until you get back to write more.  Of course, you web traffic could decrease a little but because of the “organic” nature, a blog will maintain its search term traffic even if you stop blogging.

A blog is organic because it keeps growing no matter what you do, unless you make the search engine gods mad.

Of course, there are other software that is similar to blogging that you could call organic but no other type of writing platform software gives you all a blog has to offer including blog search engines, pinging, trackbacks, etc…etc…

Blogs will take over the world of information eventually.  (if they haven’t already)

Go to the bookstore and open up “any” magazine and I bet you there’s at least 1 mention of a blog.

Watch MTV all day and there’s a mention of a blog.  (probably more)

Blogs are great business as they are not completely affected by the U.S. economy.  Your readers consist from international readers.

Why you should be blogging?

It’s been getting harder and harder to get a real job in the U.S.  Even when I graduated from college years ago, there were no jobs and there are no jobs now.

Of course, if you finish at top of your class, you would be guaranteed a job but what about the other 99% of college students?

That’s right, the real world is not fair.  No matter how good of grades you get, you are not guaranteed to even get a job in this real world.

So, what are you waiting for?  Go start a blog.  At least you have a backdoor out of the real world.

Start living it up in your home office, save time and carbon footprint by not having to commute 2 hours per day.

There are 18 year olds who are making more money than Stanford MBA graduates these days.  The possiblities are still endless on the internet.

Find a niche, blog, blog, blog, optimize ads, and work from home.

It’s the new world of media, unfiltered, and pure than TV, radio, newspaper, and any other traditional media.

The most important thing about making money with Adsense is the fact that amount of money you make “ramps” up with the level of web traffic you get.

For example:

If your blog gets around 0 to 1000 unique visitors, chances are likely that you make somewhere around $0 to $5 per day.

But then, if your blog gets around 1000 to 3000 unique visitors, chances are likely that you make somewhere around $5 to $100 per day, depending on your niche market.

Now, if you look at the big spectrum of things, you will notice that the there’s almost 20 times difference between $5 and $100.

That’s right.

At a certain point, the number of your web traffic + number of clicks + CTR “ramps” up.  I am not exactly sure how this happens but trust me, it does.

That’s what you should be targetting for, a steady growth of search engine traffic.  Now, once you reach that “ramp”, you will suddenly start making 3-10 times more money.

If you are still struggling below web traffic of 1,000 uniques per day, it’s going to look REAL HARD to make a lot of money on Adsense.  Once you get past 2,000 to 3,000 uniques, you might start actually making some decent money.

Well, that’s all for today folks.  If you got some facts to point out, please use the comments form.

If you have noticed, I’ve put on some Adsense ads finally on this blog.

Where is the best placement for the highest paying Adsense ad?

Well, it’s simple, it’s the 336×280 pixel size right on top of your post.

Although I’ve proved it to myself already, there’s also this blog post you can check out that shows which ad performs the best.

What are my goals?

Well, I will attempt to start making money on this blog, talking about how to optimize your ads to make more money from your blog.

Other things I’ve done to increase CTR

As you can see in the above screenshot, I took the motorcycle out.  It’s because it takes up WAY too much valuable advertising space, which is the top-left corner.

With those changes and Adsense ads on top/bottom of post plus a 160×600 sidebar ad, we will see how much money we can make over the next year or so.

Mind you, I probably won’t make that much money with this blog as there’s literally not enough traffic.

On the next post, I will explain further how to make more money with web traffic and show you how it correlates to everything.

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.”

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.

As a blogger with 2 years of experience in many niche blog topics such as technology, home, and others, the one thing I can tell you is that you need to be passionate about blogging.

What is passion?

Well, when I get up in the morning, I can’t wait to do 50 blog posts on my various different blogs. There’s so much information and I want to tell the world about that through my blogs.

Do you have passion?

You need passion to make money blogging. If you don’t have it, it will show up on your writing and your readers will feel it too.

If you don’t have passion, the desire that blogging is one of the most fun things you can do to make money, you should go get a job and stop wasting time.

However, if you are passionate about making money, do 24+ blog posts per day. That IS a guaranteed stable way to build web traffic.

Go look at the top 100 blogs in the world, there’s not a single blog that does less than 24 blog posts per day. Some blogs even do like 30+!

I am sorry, but the truth and the secret is out there, you just need to blog, blog, blog, and blog about it.

If you are not willing or too lazy, forget blogging, you might as well work for some corporation who’s going to slave you away for rest of your life.

Yes, life is tough, blogging is tough. Stop wasting time, you should be able to write 2-3 blog posts in the time you’ve read this blog post.

Get serious now, take action, that’s all I can tell you.

Well, in a recent interview with John Chow, I did get some great secrets from John on how to monetize my blogs.

I went from losing money every month on server fees to making almost $6K per month in just a month.

Now, what did I learn from John Chow?

He did tell me that RSS subscribers are the key to making money with blogs.

But I beg to differ.

It really depends on “how” you are making money online. Let’s say you do that mostly through affiliate programs and CPA deals, you will probably be better off with lots of RSS subscribers.

Now in my case, I have low RSS subscribers on most of my blogs yet I do get some good traffic, total of about 30K uniques per day as a network.

I also did research on some blogs with very high RSS subscribers, around 10K-20K, and found out that high number of RSS subscribers doesn’t always equal high web traffic.

For example, my Zedomax.com gets almost 7,000 uniques per day yet I only have 900 RSS subscribers.  99% of my readers are super bouncers and I don’t rely on my readers to make money for me, I rely on the new people that come to the site to make money.

For me, I’ve built my blogs on a network model planned to drive up web traffic, not subscribers.

Because of that model, I get about 90% of my traffic from search engines like Google. Now, I don’t have many subscribers but I do get lots of new people to all the blogs as 90% of the web traffic is new people through Google search terms.

John Chow sells lots of private advertising and lots of affiliate programs with tiers.

Now, the secret John Chow told me personally was not the fact that I need to raise number of RSS subscribers, but he said to me, “Drive Traffic and Maximize Income!”

Well, I took that to my heart and started moving around Google Adsense ads.  Within 4 weeks, I went from $1000 revenue to almost now $6000.  (the check should be coming soon)

With more fine tuning and optimizing my ads, I am pretty sure I can get near $10K/month range by the end of this year.  Not too bad for changing and moving around your ads.

RSS is not overrated, but it is overrated for people like me who build sites for traffic, not subscribers.

The great part about building natural search traffic is that those people who use Google to find your site are also the most likely people to click out of your site using your Adsense ads.

What I’ve learned in the last few weeks is that there’s never one way to skin a money making cat.  The most important thing you have to do is to spend a lot of time to adjust and try different things until you can maximize the income from your blog.

That’s what John Chow did and I just proved it to myself AND told you about it.

Now go take my medicine and try it yourself and see if you can double, triple, or quadruple your income!