LSI Keywords and Links For Your Easy Quick Ways To Make Money Blog

ok, back again!

If you have gotten to this point and are following it by building your blog at the same time, I have to congratulate you! You are in the rare 5% of people who actually follow up on what they learn. Whether the information is free or not doesn't matter!

Less than 5% of people actually follow up on the information they receive! WOW!

So, that was your "AttaBoy" for the day! Your "pat on the back" shall we say. :)

All right, on to LSI keywords. LSI stands for Latent Semantic Indexing. Yeah, but what does that mean in terms of a blog, in terms of why you want to use these LSI keywords in your blog?

Well, GOOGLE has decided that you should only have a certain percentage of your keyword phrase in your blog. If you have too many, you get penalized. If you have too few, you don't get ranked. I know, pain in the butt, but since we have to deal with it, we do the best we can. The way around using your exact keyword too many times is to use what Google calls LSI keywords.

Go back to the lessons you learned when you were researching your keyword. Remember that LIST of all the related keywords that dovetailed with the keyword you suggested to the adwords keyword tool? THOSE ARE LSI KEYWORDS! Easy, huh? I know, they try to make everything sound so difficult when it really isn't. (I told you I'd try to keep it simple)

Simple keyword plan:

1) Title of your blog should have the keyword (phrase) in it with whatever else makes sense. See how EACH post in this blog has my keyword phrase "easy quick ways to make money" on EVERY title, plus whatever else makes sense to that post? Doing this optimizes each post better.

2) The first paragraph and the last paragraph need to have your exact keyword phrase in them. (one time each)

3) IF you have lots of paragraphs, then one or two more of your exact keyword phrase can be added. If you have a short post, no more than the title, first and last paragraphs should contain your exact keyword phrase.

4) Apart from that, all other keywords should be LSI words!

NOTE: Without saying it in print, Google is telling you the order of relevance of LSI ranking by the order in which they list the LSI keywords. The LSI keywords at the top of the list are more important to them than the ones on the bottom. Try to fill in keywords throughout your posts (try to have them flow as naturally as possible) with the TOP LSI words instead of all the ones at the bottom. If you can't find a way to make a word/phrase flow naturally, then skip that word/phrase and move on to the next word. Yes, you want the most relevant (to Google) keywords to optimize your blog, but if you can't get them to sound good when it's being read, it's not worth it.

ok, so we covered keyword and LSI keyword optimization.

Anchor Text Links:

This one is a doozy because you can do so much with it. An anchor text link is a link that is usually underlined (but not always) and usually in blue (but not always, here they are orange). It is often an action link where the words that are showcased tell you to do something, usually "click here" or "go to". Here is an example of an anchor text link. The words shown say "an anchor text link", however, when you click on it, it goes to the program I am promoting in this blog! Yeah, cool, huh?

There is LOTS of cool stuff you can do with an anchor text link, although most of it is just using anchor text (what actually shows instead of which site it links to) to fit inside of a sentence hiding the true link it connects with.

The html code to do this is: WHATEVER YOU WANT YOUR ANCHOR TEXT TO SAY Hmmm, ok, every time I put something here, it shows the anchor text, not the code itself! :) Jokes on me! To see the code, go to the comment section connected with this post, I'll have the code there. If you can't find it, or I can't get it to stay as a code and not convert, send me an email at micsan07@gmail and I'll email it to you. It shouldn't convert on the email so you can see what the actual code is.

That's it! Oh, and your blog post setting has to be on the "edit html" setting when you are writing your post (top right hand corner of this post when you are typing it).

When I first started blogging and learned this little trick, I would just type away and get all my links in and then when I doublechecked what the post looked like (ALWAYS visit site to check that everything looks good and click on your own links to make sure they all open up where they are supposed to. IF your anchor text doesn't send the reader to the right spot, it's not worth having on your blog, always doublecheck and correct it if it doesn't work) and if I saw that my anchor text wasn't highlighted or I saw that the html coding hadn't converted to what I was supposed to see, it was usually one of two things.

1) I typed the code in wrong (watch for the < and >, if you get them transposed, it won't work) or

2) I wasn't in the edit html mode for the post.

ok, recap for this post, I gave you a guideline on how many exact keywords to use in your posts and I taught you what LSI keywords are all about and how to use them to optimize your blog to make more money. (if you notice, I just used the words "make more money" which is one of the LSI words for "easy quick ways to make money")

I also gave you the html code to place anchor text links inside of your blogs so you can advertise what you are promoting without being blatant about it. You should always try to make them flow as much as possible within your posts.

I think that's it for this post. Again, if I didn't explain something good enough or if I confused you, please post a comment or email me at micsan07@gmail (place the words "replacemyjobnow.com" in the subject line - I delete emails from people I don't know).

This is easy enough stuff that I don't want you to feel lost just because I didn't explain it well enough.

Next post is a little bit more on article writing which I mentioned in the previous post.

Till later, Folks,
(Your blogs are looking GREAT!)
Michelle

Let's Start With Easy Quick Ways To Make Money For Beginners

Ok, now that I've made you aware of the mindset you need to have, let's get started with the physical stuff.

Just to keep it simple, I'm going to base everything in here on a very easy beginner program that I have available, called Easy Quick Ways To Make Money For Beginners. You might want to click on it to see what I'm doing with it as I go along the simple marketing plan to make money with it.

Now I'm aiming for the beginners here, so any of you that have a bit under your belts internet marketing wise, make allowances. :)

Let's take your topic (easy online money, internet marketing, physical products versus ebooks, affiliate marketing, cpa, etc.) and run them through a little routine to weed out the ones that "might" make you a little money and the ones that "probably" will make you lots of money!

Adwords Keyword Tool

First, let's go to google.com, and in the search box you are going to type in "adwords keyword tool". When the page refreshes, one of the top couple ads will be the adwords keyword tool. Click on that.

When the keyword tool comes up, in the top middle will be an empty box, you need to put in one or a couple of the topic phrases that you are interested in.

Now, when I say "topics you are interested in", make sure you are thinking about topics that have "buying keywords" in them (not just information links, or stuff for free, you won't make much money there), but keywords that have things to sell, or information worth buying about that topic. Example, "tennis" as a keyword will NEVER be attainable to the regular joe, there is too much competition, however, if you type in "tennis" in the keyword tool and pick a few phrases from the bottom of that list, and retype those words in the keyword tool, NOW you have some phrases that you will be able to work with. Say you have the phrase "wilson ncode tennis rackets", go search for a way to monitize that phrase (Amazon, Ebay, maybe a wilson.com address, maybe information on tennis rackets from Clickbank or Commission Junction). Make sure you have a way to monitize that keyword (an affiliate link or approval from Amazon, etc.) and then continue the process.

After a few seconds (up to a minute if it's a huge list) you may have to scroll down to see the list. You will probably have over 3 pages of keywords that go with the couple that you typed in at the top.

There will be two columns with numbers, local searches and global searches. I usually just stick to one column (mostly global) although some people jiggle the two. I find that I have a better tally in my head if I just stick to one column and disregard the other.

Now this is a spot where you have to have a clue in your mind how much money you are wanting to make. I usually don't even look at keywords that have less than 2000 clicks per month because I want my blogs to make at least a couple hundred a month. If you are willing to make less than that, but have more blogs to make up for it, then you will have more keywords that you could potentially use. I really like to have MORE THAN 3000 clicks monthly, but I don't want keywords with less than 2000.
This is just a personal choice. There are too many keywords out there for me to want to only make $20 a month on a blog (although once the blog is built, there really isn't much more to do with it!)

Google For Competition

ok, you've found a few keywords that have the criteria of no less than 2000 clicks monthly (or whatever you've chosen), now you want to check them for competition.
Meaning, you want keywords that lots of people are looking for monthly, but if there are too many (as in hundreds of thousands or millions) others competing for the same word(s), you may not (make that probably) rank high enough in the google ranks for people to see your site, meaning no money for you!

So, you have an empty "google" box, place each one of your keywords that you found in the keyword tool IN QUOTES in the google box (one at a time) and click enter. When it refreshes, on the top right hand side you will see "1 of 10 for _____". That number ______ is the amount of competition for your exact keyword (as long as you put the keyword in quotes, all the competition is for the exact keyword). A pretty safe number is no more than 10,000, anything over that you will have to work hard to get a high ranking where people will see your site on the first page of google.

TIP: My numbers are over 2000 (prefer 3000) clicks and no more than 7000 competition, however both of those numbers can be fudged. Sometimes you just have a really good feeling about a keyword and think that with an extra article or two, you may be able to beat the competition. In those cases, go with the gut!

Example: My umbrella blog, http://replacemyjobnow.com was started just so I could have ONE place to send my friends/co-workers to show them how to make money. I have other smaller ones that are off shoots of it, but it allowed me to make it easier on my friends. There are almost no clicks monthly for it (so far, but I'm working on that) however, there is 30,700,000 for competition! That's 30 Million! When I checked on google just this morning, I have the #2 rank for replace my job now! Wow! I NEVER thought I would rank for this blog, there was way too much competition, however, with all of the information, links, and articles that I have in there, google thought it should rank. So, moral of the story, if your gut says you can do it, at least try! Anything is possible!

ok, so I'm guessing that at this point you have a keyword that fits your criteria of so many clicks per month but not more than 10,000 in competition. (IF you are having a hard time with this, post me or email me at micsan07@gmail.com, I'm here to help you!)

At this point we should have a keyword (a buying keyword, by the way) that we will be able to optimize nicely in a blog.

I'm going to continue the process on the next post in case some of you have minimal time to do this all at once. This is a good stopping point for you.

For you others that still have some time, go to the next post to get your domain name!

See ya,
Michelle