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1st page on Google search

March 29th, 2009 Anthony Comments off

by LightBWK

Every blog starts with just 1 post. 1 post will not rank high in Google. Even with the highest SEO possible you still can’t rank 1st page. If it does rank on the 1st page, you must have a very very solid post. Something that may change the world. Normally it will not last long before your rank drop and you start to go page 2 or more.

Rank 1st page on Google is a very important thing. More organic traffics mean you pay less on pay per click. If possible you do not have to pay a cent to Google. Google will still bring you quality traffics.

Here is how I did it. 1st I pick a topic that I have most of the resource. Instead of doing just 1 post, I’ll break it up to multiple posts and publish them between posts. Each post must be complete by its own.

Here is an example of a group of posts that work together to rank higher on Google search. The topic is RemoteJoy Lite. It is a plugin that enable your Playstation Portable (PSP) to be viewable on PC via USB link. Not just that, you also can control your PSP using any game controller from your PC. This way you can make your PSP a game console like PS3, XBox360, or Wii.

PSP on my PC

Link to the posts example:

http://www.playonmove.com/mummy-i-have-14-inch-psp/
http://www.playonmove.com/remotejoy-lite-v017/
http://www.playonmove.com/remotejoy-lite-v018/
http://www.playonmove.com/run-umd-on-remotejoy-lite/
http://www.playonmove.com/remotejoy-lite-v019/
http://www.playonmove.com/remotejoy-lite-prx-version-error/
http://www.playonmove.com/v2-install-remotejoy-lite/

1st page on Google:

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Rank 1st on Google search

Rank 1st on Google search

Rank 2nd on Google search

Rank 1st on Google search

Keywords:

Keywords are important. Do keywords research on Google free keyword tool. Here is the link. Find keywords that have more search. Sometime it is good also to do the opposite. It depends on how you want your audience to view it. You also put keywords in your post, not just in SEO. Use keywords in every sentence you write. This is called long tail keyword. Keywords that make you distinct from others. Something from your niche that sales low volume but high value. It can be hard for starter, but after awhile it will become second nature.

Not all keywords work the same. Users normally search multiple keywords. Even mistake keywords also count in the scope. One common example that I see on my post is “light” instead of “lite”. Include these also in the post. Try to use more root words, use “install” instead of “installation”.

Here are some keywords that rank my blog 1st on Google search:

  • How to set up remotejoy lite
  • RemoteJoy 0.19
  • RemoteJoy 0.19 GUIDE
  • Type B driver for remotejoy
  • How to install remotejoy lite
  • Remotejoy light
  • Installation remotejoy lite 0.19 released
  • RemoteJoy lite screenshot
  • RemoteJoy 0.17
  • RemoteJoy guide
  • RemoteJoy problem Driver
  • RemoteJoy installation
  • Remotejoy v0.18

Resource:

Talking about uniqueness, you must have your own resources. Photo must be yours, download must be from your blog. It maybe easy for you to use resources from the web, but for the long run it will hurt you. Therefore making your own resource is a must. Let others link to you. 1 post that have all of my own resources is http://www.playonmove.com/v2-install-remotejoy-lite/.

How to install RemoteJoy Lite post

How to install RemoteJoy Lite post

Photos are mine, download file is mine. Some provide partial of the files to make RemoteJoy Lite works and link to other website for the rest of the file. As user, I see this as tedious. Working in an engineering firm that is one stop total solution help me understand this concept the hard way. If you provide the solution free, user will even help you promote your blog.

Links:

You need to link each of the post to each other. That’s how it works. User may find a post of your blog and may want to find other info about it. Let me show you 1 example. We have 1 potential RemoteJoy user. He did Google search and landed on 1 of your blog post. It is not what he want. He landed on RemoteJoy Lite download but it is an older version. He want a newer 1, he also wants to know how to install it. In that post, I’ll link up how to install RemoteJoy Lite plus link to the newer RemoteJoy version.

Link them up

Link them up

This method have its advantages. 1st the user can find what he wants, 2nd he will have an impression that you always update your blog. The next time a new version of RemoteJoy Lite been released, the 1st place he would find is your blog. This creates loyal viewers to your blog.

Closing:

Let the synergy works. If 1 post did not get ranked other will help pull it. The most important thing for search engine is whether your information is useful or not. If you did you keywords research and SEO well, you can do this every time. Try it, play with it, make sure you have a good tracker to see your traffics are from and along the way have fun!

About the Author:

LightBWK is a blogger like most of you here. He owns http://www.PlayOnMove.com a blog on Playstation Portable (PSP) hardware, games and gaming life style.

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Google AdSense Case Study

March 3rd, 2009 Anthony Comments off

Google AdSense Case Study

Hometips
Case study : Hometips : www.hometips.com
Hometips

HomeTips.com nails down big revenue with Google AdSense.Home advice website HomeTips.com started out in a backyard clubhouse. Seeking a quiet, woodsy spot for writing home improvement books, author Don Vandervort converted the bottom floor of his sons’ two-story treehouse into a small office. He launched HomeTips.com from that office in 1997, essentially as an online portfolio to promote his books.

In the decade since, HomeTips has grown into a large and popular site, thanks to the authority Vandervort has developed and the volume of content he has collected and posted from his more than two dozen books, scores of magazine articles, and many television appearances on ABC and HGTV.

Challenge

Until about three years ago, HomeTips’ main source of revenue came from writing, publishing, and licensing books and content to other companies, such as Sunset Books and Microsoft. This business expanded significantly after Vandervort moved to larger offices in Glendale, California, and assembled a team of editors, writers, and artists.

Though his book and content business was thriving, the website’s meager revenue came from online sales of guides and reports. When a visitor requested one of these, Vandervort would email it to them and trust them to send three dollars. “At that time, I couldn’t find a good system for these small transactions,” he recalls. “It was an interesting way for us to stay in touch with our visitors’ needs, but a money-losing proposition. We needed advertising for the web business to be viable.” But the small editorial team was far too busy working at their core business of creating content to develop an advertising program.

ResultsIn 2003, Vandervort heard about the Google AdSense program and thought it might be helpful for creating incremental revenue that could work for HomeTips. As he notes, “It took about 20 minutes to set it up – and that 20 minutes completely changed our business.”

He started by testing AdSense on a few pages. During the first week, he remembers that AdSense revenue paid for coffee; the second week, it paid for lunches. The model clearly worked, so he began expanding the program across the entire site. Now AdSense revenue pays for all salaries, overhead, and business development.

“Google’s ability to deliver targeted ads is remarkable,” says Vandervort. “In fact, because the ads are so relevant to the content on any given page, we believe that they are a very useful resource for our visitors. This is evidenced by the fact that, on many of our pages, more than 10 percent of our visitors click through to the advertisers for more information,” he adds.

HomeTips now sees more than 1 million online visitors each month. “Solid content is the secret to developing a following,” says Vandervort. “If you write expert content with your visitor’s needs in mind, the rest will follow.”

As the business has grown up, so have the sons whose backyard clubhouse Vandervort first commandeered for an office. Now they bring media experience to the business: Gabriel as a former writer/producer of shows for The History Channel and Christian as a cinematographer and film editor. HomeTips anticipates online video to be the next area of growth. “Nothing can show you how to do something as clearly and adeptly as a video,” says Vandervort. “As we see the migration of advertising dollars from television to the web, we expect video content and advertising to do very well.”

The HomeTips team constantly tests site design, navigation, and ad optimization to improve both the user experience and the success of advertising. Vandervort points out the fact that channel reporting and Google Analytics are a big help in this effort. “These analytics help us zero in on where we’re doing the best job and where we need to do more. As a result, our performance just keeps going up.”

About Google AdSense

Google AdSense is a program enabling online businesses to earn revenue from serving ads precisely targeted to specific web content and search pages. With service levels ranging from online sign-up to dedicated support management, a broad range of sites profit from AdSense. Thousands of Google advertisers also benefit from AdSense by gaining exposure on sites across the Google Network, which includes many of the Top 100 Media Metrix sites such as AOL, About.com, Amazon, Ask.com, and Lycos.
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Google AdSense – From About.com

March 2nd, 2009 Anthony Comments off

Google AdSense is the Google program where you can host pay-per-click ads on your Web site. When someone clicks an ad, you earn money. Simple as that.

Is it really as easy to make money with Google AdSense as many would lead you to believe? Now that I’ve become heavily involved with managing Google AdSense programs for my clients, I can see it’s not all play and no work.

Unfortunately, a lot of people bought into the idea that there was a lot of easy money to be made and they are now finding out they aren’t making nearly as much as they thought they would. Additionally, Google has a lot of prohibited practices when it comes to AdSense, and too many Webmasters are finding out they violated Google’s policies after the fact – often because they never bothered to read the AdSense policies in the first place.

via Google AdSense – Making Money With AdSense.

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