Before you begin making a website, you must first do some keyword research. I don’t care if it will take you 3 hours to do your keyword research because this is the key to make money online.
First, you need to go download a free SEO plug-in for Firefox browser. You can find it on Google by typing in “seo for firefox” and it should be the first site in the search by seobook.com. You will need it to instantly figure out the competition of a keyword that you want to rank high so you can save time. The plug-in is absolutely free so I suggest you get it NOW so you will understand this guide.
After you install the program, take a quick look at the guide. I believe it comes with video instructions. Once you have the plug-in to work, you can start to analyze your competition. For example, if you want to rank high in the search engine for “make money online” keyword, then type that into Google. You will see a blue toolbar under each link. The first one will say “PR ?”. Click the question mark to instantly figure out the pagerank of that site.
The first link is moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com with the title tag Make Money Online. The pagerank is 4, and the title is fully optimized 100% for the phrase Make Money Online. If you have a pagerank 4 site that is in the same niche, but your title is Make Money Online – Learn To Make Money Now, then moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com will most likely beat you because his title is 100% relevant to the exact keyword. I want you to read that again because that is VERY important!
The second link is entrepreneurs.about.com/od/homebasedbusiness/a/makemoneyonline.htm with a pagerank of 5. Why is moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com ranking #1 with pagerank of 4? If you remember what I said above, this second link’s title is not optimized for “make money online”. The title says Make Money Online (Without Spending A Dime).
The third link is 101waystomakemoney.com/ and the title is 101 Ways To Make Money
How To Make Money Online Fast & Easy. That title is nowhere near 100% relevant to Make Money Online, but it does have a pagerank of 4.
The fourth link is makemoneyforbeginners.blogspot.com/ and the blog owner calls himself Grizzly. He is very famous for dominating a niche. His current site has a PR 3, but his title is not fully optimized for “make money online”. His title is How To Make Money Online For Beginners. If only he would change the title to Make Money Online, he could easily get on #2 spot.
Besides keyword research, the second problem is building links. Typically, I see everyone in the MMO niche build anchor text links “Make Money Online”. Google knows that is not natural so even if you have million backlinks with that same anchor text link, you will not rank in the first page of Google.
What you need to do is use Google’s free keyword tool. You do not need to buy any keyword tools out there to do keyword research. People who recommend you keyword tools are usually trying to make a commission off you. The free keyword tool is here and I want you to go on it NOW:
adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Now that you are on that page, type in “make money online” in the box. After the results finish loading, the FIRST thing that you need to do is set the Match Type to “Exact” instead of “Broad”. The “Exact” gives you the right estimate for how many times people search for that EXACT phrase per month. “Broad” gives you a false reading because it also covers for “Make Money Online Free”, “Make Money Online For Beginners”, etc. so that is why the search volume is so much higher when you leave it on as “Broad”.
You need to sort the Global column from highest amount of search to the least. As of today, the global monthly search for Make Money Online is 246,000. The second one is How To Make Money Online with 49,500. The third one is Making Money Online, but you will skip this phrase for now because Make and Making are two different words. The fourth one is Ways To Make Money Online, and the fifth one is Make Money Online Free.
What you want to do is vary your anchor text links with those four that I listed above. That will look much more natural to Google, but the MAJORITY of your anchor text links will still be the first one.
If this is your first website, I STRONGLY recommend you stay away from this niche because it will take you more than 2 years to even get a chance to be on bottom of first page of Google for that phrase. Why? Because the #1 site has 100% relevant title with a pagerank 4, and all the other sites on first page are fairly strong. You want to build up small niche sites with medium volume of search and low competition like I do.
How to figure out small niche sites? You can easily brainstorm ideas when you get on Amazon or eBay. There are many products that are listed. You can also simply type out one word in the Google keyword tool, and many ideas will come up at the bottom. Your SEO for Firefox tool should show you the blue box to check the PR of each site.
Without looking further down to do more research, I know this one is an easy one. You will not get top spot in less than half a year, but maybe 9+ months. Nothing is really easy if you don’t put the work into it and have a bit of patience
Also, I didn’t go over the domain name with you. The keywords in domain carry weight, but it is only one of the factor to rank high. When you have the right title, the right keywords in domain, and the right anchor text links pointing to your site, you will rank high easily.
Google does not care if your site is a .net .org .info .whatever.
You do not NEED to know your niche to make money online or rank on first page of Google. There is plenty of free information on the internet for you to do your research. Get some information from ezinearticles.com, Wikipedia, etc. Simply paraphrase what others are saying in the same niche.
-You MUST do keyword research first! Don’t make a website, and then a year later figure out why you are not making money with the website.
-You must vary your anchor text links. Use the Google’s keyword tool to figure out variations of your main keyword.
-When searching for the keyword, always set the Match Type to “Exact”.
Many so-called “SEO” gurus will tell you the WRONG way to do your keyword research. They will tell you to go on Google search engine, and type in your keyword with quotes. That is absolutely wrong. That just shows you how many sites have the phrase “make money online” shown in the title, posts, domain, etc. There are phrases in quotes that come back with less than 20,000 search results. You might be thinking to yourself, “WOW, this must be extremely easy to rank!” You are wrong! If the first 20 sites are SEO masterminds who know how to do keyword research, link building, and know how to fully optimize their site, you will have a very tough competition.
Stop spending money on these bogus $100+ SEO guides. I am tired of people recommending SEO keyword tools when Google itself provides the best one out there for FREE. Most people recommend stuff to make commission. They tell you that it is a “MUST NEED” in order for you to make money. Everything that you need to dominate a niche is free.
The SEO for Firefox plug-in is free.
Google keyword tool is free.
Post by Kai Lo As I searched through the web I came across this Post written by Kai Lo and I post it here on my blog because it may be of interest to many of you who are looking to improve their pagerank. I myself do not use Firefox plug-in nor SEO keyword tools BUT because of the fact that I do not want you all to spend your money on these bogus guides., when you get get all the info FREE so I hope this post will be of help to many of you who look for bloggin tips on how to improve your page rank.....Be Sure to Leave Your Comments! Also be sure to subscribe to my feeds
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