I've been blogging for a while. But, it was just for kicks. Mostly I'd just rant and wasn't worried about whether anyone actually read it or not. Things have changed.

The other day an idea came to me. There is a subject I'm knowledgeable in that is very targeted at a large niche where people are hungry for information. So, I've started a second blog on this subject. I'm probably going to use Adsense for the ads. But, I know I can't earn any money unless I can generate traffic.

Is commenting on other sites and leaving a link to my blog the only way?

You could always pay a web provider like Google to list your website first on their search function, if someone searches for your subject.

I'm not sure that would do the trick or it may be too costly. What I'm doing is similar to writing cheat codes to games. I think the games themselves would be willing to pay a rate above what I'd be willing to pay.

Although, this has given me an idea.

Thanks!

Key words, page titles, descriptions etc. are important for your page to show up on search engines for free traffic.

You can loose a lot of money buying adsense ads if you don't know how to use it, and there is a lot to learning that. What you want is free traffic.


There are regular marketing blog designs, some free, some cost money or individual plugins that let you optimize your pages for search engines with page titles and descriptions.

I have discovered that page titles are extremely important and that has to be IN THE CODE OF THE PAGE.

Like so: <title>Gloria Jean, Original Art</title>


If you are building a web page you can put that in the code, but blogs don't usually have a way to do that unless you have certain plugins or marketing blog designs. One I use is called Socrates.





Here is some info about Socrates: It costs money though, and you have to upload it to your server etc.

http://www.socratestheme.com/downloads/

P.S.

I hate scammers who make stupid comments on my blogs just to get a link to their page for traffic. I go into my blogs constantly deleting comments or I don't even allow comments on my blogs because all I get are scammers.

Don't be a scammer. They also post such stupid comments that are generic and make no sense. I hate that crap.

I have been paid by SEO experts for putting just a link to a site they are optimizing. They pay me $85.00 - $125.00 just for a link.

A link from my home town website to a new site will get it listed on google pretty fast. But a youtube video with a link to your website will also get your listing on google fast.

I'm currently using Blogger by Google. I have access to the HTML code with it. So, that's a simple detail to make sure of.

I may change it over from a blog format to something less sequential after I come up with more content. But for now, since it's free and I've already got it going, this will do.

If I leave a comment, it will be thoughtful and relevant to the topic.

If you really want to start making money from your blogs and you succeed, you probably want to get your own web site server and own it. I use hostgator and have for years. They are good and have great customer service.

I make a little from google adwords ads on my sites, but only about a hundred a month.

I never had any luck with affiliate products.

The most money I have made via the Internet is selling my tarot cards and my art and selling things on Ebay. My cards always sell on Ebay and I have a website for them too. I sell them world wide.

Well, my product is information. I may write an ebook later and sell it, but for now I'm just going to put info up for free and have ads to sites that offer the service I'm blogging about.