Welcome to Google’s world. A long time ago, but in a land close by, Google reported what search phrase the user entered into Google search before clicking on the link to your website. As you can imagine this data was enormously valuable to web publishers and content creators. However, Google does not like giving away … Read more
Have you ever just gotten started on Twitter and several tweets later you think, “This should have been a blog post?” Yeah. Me too. Presenting my Google helpful content update tweets, now in blog format. Writers and Google Helpful Content Update Google has a new “helpful content” update coming out. The goal, according to Google, … Read more
When you start trying to earn money by writing online, there are a lot of things to learn and keep straight. However, the most useful online writing tip to make money is the simplest. Just write something. Current and Fresh = Active and Used When it comes to earning money from your website content writing, … Read more
One of the keys to making money by writing online is to get enough traffic to your money making websites. Ranking highly in search engines for frequently searched terms is one way to accomplish this. While Google updates the algorithm that chooses how to rank websites on their search engine results pages (SERPs) on a … Read more
Whether your are new to writing online to make money, or you have been using your online writing skills for profit for a long time, you probably have put some thought into keyword research. Keyword research is the act of looking at various keywords and key phrases to determine if they will be profitable, or … Read more
Earning money with AdSense relies primarily on getting enough traffic to make it work. If you get enough traffic, most of the rest works out on its own. Of course, that isn’t necessarily true for a large, multi-writer, website, but for us writers looking to make money writing online on our own, that’s how it … Read more
I make over a $1,000 per month blogging on various websites. Technically, I make over $1,000 per month from AdSense and not blogging, but it’s the blogs that bring in the AdSense money, so I suppose it is all relative. The point is that there is an amazing array of SEO tools and traffic analysis … Read more
Interesting post over at the PotPieGirl today. In watching several keywords, she noticed that one of the highly ranked webpages for the very competitive term “make money online” is an EMPTY WEBPAGE! This has apparently been going on for some time, now as well. As it turns out, it used to be the website of … Read more
I use Google Alerts as one of the ways to keep track of when and where my content, on my blogs or elsewhere, gets indexed, or otherwise shows up around the web. For example, I have alerts for both makemoneywritingonline.com and “make money writing online.” The idea is that whenever something I write here gets … Read more
I’ve put some additional effort into tracking some of the various keywords that I write about for some of my clients. One of the new tools I’m using shows Bing rankings in addition to the more traditional Google rankings. What I’ve noticed can only be considered anecdotal at this point, and has only been observed … Read more
What happened to WonderWheel on Google search? For those of you webmasters and bloggers who like using Google’s WonderWheel tool, there was an unexpected surprise that came with the new Google Instant search rollout. It seems that Google thinks that the functionality of Wonder Wheel is handled by the ever changing search results and suggestions … Read more
Everywhere you turn people tell you the same thing about search engines; Google is the best search engine. Google is certainly the biggest search engine company. Depending upon whose numbers you want to believe, Google’s search market share is a whopping 71% or more. Google processes hundreds of millions of search queries every day and … Read more