How to money? What?
You know, like “how to ball,” as in: How to play basketball.
I’m just verbing a noun here, people, can I get away with it just this once?
Anyway, enough chat. I money. You money. We all try to money. So how do I go about doing this?
Well lately I put up keyword targeted articles on the internet and then I throw lots of links at them. Then I slap the old Adsense up there and I wait around, do it some more. That’s how I money, yo.
It be working, too! I recently had a big challenge around here, and that was my “race to a 1,000″ posts challenge. Needless to say, I was flying through that challenge and getting tons and tons of new articles put up on my money site, when I had a realization. One, that was easy work….very easy for me, in fact. But it was not really helping much, because without links, the articles were not producing.
So I got to a certain point and I thought: now is the time to shift to mad link building. That’s how you money! In fact, I already knew this in my heart, just never wanted to face it, because building links is darn hard!
For example, once I put up 40 new articles on my main website, and created 2 links to each of those articles. That was a lot of work, but it increased my income by over $200 per month.
Now compare that with my recent content creation campaign, which resulted in several hundred posts being created over the last few months, with no major shift in income at all.
Without the links, it is all just worthless, basically. Of course, this depends on how strong your site is. If you have a PR5 site or even stronger, then you may not need much in the way of new links…..just smart keyword picking. But me, I am not a PR5 just yet, and really not even in that general ballpark. I’m a much smaller fish still.
So anyway, I have figured out the importance of links. And thus ushers in a new era of link building and making money for me.
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Now here is a concept to bounce off your brain: I call it “peak to average.”
Look back at your internet marketing figures and your daily income totals throughout the last few years. The question is, how long did it take for your peak to become your average?
Example: Last year, I hit a new peak of the 20 dollar day. Up until then, I had never hit 20 bucks in daily income before. So I hit this peak 3 times in one month. And I said: “hmmm….wonder how long it will be until that is my daily average?”
Turns out it was about 9 more months.
Now I can also look further back and see this play out with different numbers….like when I hit 5 bucks per day for the first time and wondered if I would ever be able to average that much every day.
So let me hear your thoughts on this: how long does it take for you to go from peak to average?
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Keep up the good work, no you know the exact type of posts and content that benefit you the most. Just time to capitalize on it now. Unfortunately, not as easy as just writing a post and sticking it up on your own site, but finding the gold vein is the first step to begin mining.
I like your “peak to average” metric. I’ve never thought of that before. I guess the shorter the time between your peak and average, the faster your blog’s growth rate.
I find link building to be the most challenging aspect of blogging. What is your favorite tactic? Do you just ask?
Actually, my favorite link building tactic is a bit of a secret. If you are familiar with systems such as Linkvana, that have several different websites that you can post content that are on different IPs, then you have an inkling of the process. I don’t use spun content, ever. Always original articles, both on my site and for building new links. And, always useful information too.
And of course, you have to have killer content on-site as well to build natural links, as I just demonstrated with Brian. I already linked to him in my sidebar, because his website is genuinely useful! How you like dem apples? Good content = gets rewarded.