Advanced Newbie Question!

by Greige
17 replies
Hey, I finally got the balls to buy my own domain and host. So far, i have installed wordpress into it. Now the my question is, how do i monetize? and how do i even get myself into the google search engine? Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author Romeo90
    You could probably start here: Submit Your Content

    Have a read around the forum, there is plenty of advice out there, to answer your question fully would take quite a while. Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author marykay77
    Get your rss feed set up through feedburner, which is now part of Google. There are great wordpress plugins that make this easy.
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  • Profile picture of the author Corey Geer
    Originally Posted by Greige View Post

    Hey, I finally got the balls to buy my own domain and host. So far, i have installed wordpress into it. Now the my question is, how do i monetize? and how do i even get myself into the google search engine? Cheers
    If getting the attention of Google is what you want, i'll give you some advice how to and how NOT to.

    How To

    1) Get a SEO plugin. Everyone has their own preference but I prefer the following:
    WordPress › WordPress SEO by Yoast « WordPress Plugins

    It'll create XML sitemaps for you and all that good jazz.

    2) Make sure your page is setup properly under the core settings of your Wordpress. Make sure your Page Title is relevant and is your main keyword. Make sure your meta keywords and description are relevant as well. This won't help you rank higher but it will help the search engines when identifying you.

    3) Make sure your theme is utilizing H1 tags in some way. A lot of themes automatically make the post title a H1 Tag so when you make a post, include a keyword as the title.

    4) Make sure your URLs for Categories and Posts are setup for SEO as well. I believe the plugin I mentioned has an option in there to re-name your URLs of any posts you create.

    5) Post Post Post. If you don't have time to post, you can hire someone to. You can post once a day, twice a day or even once a week. You have to keep content flowing through, Google doesn't like a dead blog that never receives any new dynamic content.

    6) When posting, try to remember the basics of on-page SEO. Don't clutter the content with the keyword you're trying to rank for. Don't go for a specific keyword density % but don't stuff it. Just mention it here and there and keep the content natural when doing so.

    LSI Keywords: It helps if you include a couple of relevant keywords to help the search engines know what your content is about and what kind of ads it should be displaying (if you go that route).

    What NOT To Do

    1) SPAM

    Don't buy into those garbage gigs or people who are willing to spam your link across the internet to "thousands" of Wikis and random irrelevant sites. You'll have a hell of a good time removing those links when Penguin 2.0 blasts you.

    2) Poor or spun content. I've tried probably every spinner I've come across to test the quality and I've never found a good one that produced any content that made sense. I prefer hand writing content, it's much quicker and much more reliable.

    Don't hire some cheapo .50c per 100 word writer either unless you want content like this:

    "I has ur gardening sekret tips for u of article"

    I could copy/paste you some pretty hilariously terrible written articles I've received for $1.00 as well.

    3) Buy Links

    I understand there are some benefits SEO wise for buying links that don't usually sell them and have a high PR but avoid those services that'll place your links on "quality" sites for $50 or cheap. They're simply spamming your link to link farms, unless you believe you're their only client.

    Monetization

    When it comes to making money or monetizing in general, you have two options.

    Selling your own product

    Selling someone else's product


    You can sell your own eBook on something you're knowledgable about and put it on the blog as advertisement or you can place someone else's product on the blog as an advertisement. You can do this by signing up to Google AdSense, Comission Junction or billions of other services for this purpose.

    If your blog picks up in traffic, I'm sorry (when ) you can even sell advertising space on your own blog which can be highly profitable if you have an Ad Rotation Manager and you're selling multiple ads.

    CAPTURING E-MAILS

    Are you capturing e-mails or planning on it? You should be.

    You could be targeting a list of VERY targeted people who are obviously interested in what you have to say. You can send them tips, affiliate product launches, your own product launches, etc.

    That should be enough information to get you started.

    Corey
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    Skype: Coreygeer319

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    • Profile picture of the author Greige
      Originally Posted by Corey Geer View Post

      If getting the attention of Google is what you want, i'll give you some advice how to and how NOT to.

      How To

      1) Get a SEO plugin. Everyone has their own preference but I prefer the following:
      WordPress › WordPress SEO by Yoast « WordPress Plugins

      It'll create XML sitemaps for you and all that good jazz.

      2) Make sure your page is setup properly under the core settings of your Wordpress. Make sure your Page Title is relevant and is your main keyword. Make sure your meta keywords and description are relevant as well. This won't help you rank higher but it will help the search engines when identifying you.

      3) Make sure your theme is utilizing H1 tags in some way. A lot of themes automatically make the post title a H1 Tag so when you make a post, include a keyword as the title.

      4) Make sure your URLs for Categories and Posts are setup for SEO as well. I believe the plugin I mentioned has an option in there to re-name your URLs of any posts you create.

      5) Post Post Post. If you don't have time to post, you can hire someone to. You can post once a day, twice a day or even once a week. You have to keep content flowing through, Google doesn't like a dead blog that never receives any new dynamic content.

      Corey
      Hey thanks for this tip!
      I have just downloaded that plugin, but I am still a bit confused about the RSS and XML.
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    • Profile picture of the author jkibbles
      Originally Posted by Corey Geer View Post

      If getting the attention of Google is what you want, i'll give you some advice how to and how NOT to.

      How To

      1) Get a SEO plugin. Everyone has their own preference but I prefer the following:
      WordPress › WordPress SEO by Yoast « WordPress Plugins

      It'll create XML sitemaps for you and all that good jazz.

      2) Make sure your page is setup properly under the core settings of your Wordpress. Make sure your Page Title is relevant and is your main keyword. Make sure your meta keywords and description are relevant as well. This won't help you rank higher but it will help the search engines when identifying you.

      3) Make sure your theme is utilizing H1 tags in some way. A lot of themes automatically make the post title a H1 Tag so when you make a post, include a keyword as the title.

      4) Make sure your URLs for Categories and Posts are setup for SEO as well. I believe the plugin I mentioned has an option in there to re-name your URLs of any posts you create.

      5) Post Post Post. If you don't have time to post, you can hire someone to. You can post once a day, twice a day or even once a week. You have to keep content flowing through, Google doesn't like a dead blog that never receives any new dynamic content.

      6) When posting, try to remember the basics of on-page SEO. Don't clutter the content with the keyword you're trying to rank for. Don't go for a specific keyword density % but don't stuff it. Just mention it here and there and keep the content natural when doing so.

      LSI Keywords: It helps if you include a couple of relevant keywords to help the search engines know what your content is about and what kind of ads it should be displaying (if you go that route).

      What NOT To Do

      1) SPAM

      Don't buy into those garbage gigs or people who are willing to spam your link across the internet to "thousands" of Wikis and random irrelevant sites. You'll have a hell of a good time removing those links when Penguin 2.0 blasts you.

      2) Poor or spun content. I've tried probably every spinner I've come across to test the quality and I've never found a good one that produced any content that made sense. I prefer hand writing content, it's much quicker and much more reliable.

      Don't hire some cheapo .50c per 100 word writer either unless you want content like this:

      "I has ur gardening sekret tips for u of article"

      I could copy/paste you some pretty hilariously terrible written articles I've received for $1.00 as well.

      3) Buy Links

      I understand there are some benefits SEO wise for buying links that don't usually sell them and have a high PR but avoid those services that'll place your links on "quality" sites for $50 or cheap. They're simply spamming your link to link farms, unless you believe you're their only client.

      Monetization

      When it comes to making money or monetizing in general, you have two options.

      Selling your own product

      Selling someone else's product


      You can sell your own eBook on something you're knowledgable about and put it on the blog as advertisement or you can place someone else's product on the blog as an advertisement. You can do this by signing up to Google AdSense, Comission Junction or billions of other services for this purpose.

      If your blog picks up in traffic, I'm sorry (when ) you can even sell advertising space on your own blog which can be highly profitable if you have an Ad Rotation Manager and you're selling multiple ads.

      CAPTURING E-MAILS

      Are you capturing e-mails or planning on it? You should be.

      You could be targeting a list of VERY targeted people who are obviously interested in what you have to say. You can send them tips, affiliate product launches, your own product launches, etc.

      That should be enough information to get you started.

      Corey
      ~slow clap~
      You, sir, have managed to condense a formula for monetizing a blog into one forum post, and not a very long post at that. Does it cover everything one will ever need? No, but it sure points people in the right direction. Thank you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Links Sales
    submit your website at google webmaster
    for get monetize your web site just put high quality content related with your nihce
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  • I would monetize it using adsense, clickbank, and amazon.
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  • Profile picture of the author bugzy
    Start from asking yourself.. "What niche will I be interested in?"

    It supposed to be your passion, something that you won't get bored once the ball starts rolling.
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  • Profile picture of the author Greige
    Thanks for all the replies at such a short notice! As for now, I have decided on what niche I want to blog about..

    I know most you guys recommend to build a list.. but how do i build a squeeze page?
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  • Profile picture of the author Sarevok
    Well, congratulations sir.

    You've taken your first step to riches.

    It's important to provide quality content, regardless of what niche you're in.

    It's also important that your content gets DISSEMINATED so people can enjoy it.

    My advice is to diversify, and not rely upon one thing.

    Don't rely on JUST social networks, JUST e-mail advertising, or JUST seo.

    Diversify baby, and promote your beautiful content to the world.
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    • Profile picture of the author Greige
      Originally Posted by Sarevok View Post

      Well, congratulations sir.

      You've taken your first step to riches.

      It's important to provide quality content, regardless of what niche you're in.

      It's also important that your content gets DISSEMINATED so people can enjoy it.

      My advice is to diversify, and not rely upon one thing.

      Don't rely on JUST social networks, JUST e-mail advertising, or JUST seo.

      Diversify baby, and promote your beautiful content to the world.
      Thanks! I wish someday i'll be as successful like most you guys!
      Regarding providing quality contents, I am not write as you can see, in matter of fact I am terrible content writer What should I do?
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Start posting about topics/articles in your niche. Add Google Adsense and/or some affiliate products to your blog also. Also check out some of the plug-ins available that can make your blogging life easy.
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  • Profile picture of the author hustlinsmoke
    Once you get your content please make sure to use the number 1 seo plugin for wordpress.


    WordPress SEO Plugin
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  • Profile picture of the author ara67
    first do research what are people buyng then build list and promote related products to that list this is the simple method but the one that for sure will make you money
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