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Euro Weighed By Rising German Unemployment, Will ECB Initiate QE Measures?

The euro reached as high as 1.3388 before the German unemployment report showed the country lost another 58,000 jobs and saw its unemployment rate rise to 8.3% which is the highest since December, 2007. The CPI-estimate holding at 0.6% also added to bearish sentiment as the forecast were for a rise in inflation to 0.7%.
Talking Points• Japanese Yen: BoJ Leaves Rates Unchanged At 0.10%• Pound: Consumer Confidence Rises To Highest In a Year • Euro: German Unemployment Rises To 8.3%• US Dollar: Personal Income and Spending On Tap
Euro Weighed By Rising German Unemployment, Will ECB Initiate QE Measures?
The euro reached as high as 1.3388 before the German unemployment report showed the country lost another 58,000 jobs and saw its unemployment rate rise to 8.3% which is the highest since December, 2007. The CPI-estimate holding at 0.6% also added to bearish sentiment as the forecast were for a rise in inflation to 0.7%. Although, prices holding steady will help ease some deflation concerns, markets were ready to eliminate the concern if it saw price pressures increasing. Therefore, expectations will remain that he ECB could initiate non-standard measures as soon as their policy meeting next week.
Indeed, we have seen a pick up in rhetoric from the ECB heading into the May 7th decision which has provided conflicting views and led markets to believe that there is division amongst members on the future course of action. Yesterday, Juergen Stark may have cleared up the picture when he stated “we will make a decision about additional non- standard measures, which we will implement when the lower interest-rate limit is reached.” If we examine all the recent rhetoric we come away with a few consistencies in that, many feel that interest rates should not approach zero and that non-standard measure shouldn’t be implemented until the traditional measures have been exhausted. Therefore, we expect the central bank to cut rates by 0.25% next week and leave decisions on quantitative easing efforts until the next meeting as they continue with their measured approach and take stock of past efforts. We could see the Euro find support on such a scenario if the committee signals an end to their accommodative monetary policy. However, if markets believe that the ECB is remaining behind the curve the declining outlook for the region’s economy could lead to euro weakness.
The pound has also seen a reversal of fortunes as it has fallen 100 pips after reaching a two week high of 1.4949. We could be seeing profit taking here as the imminent bankruptcy of Chrysler and the “swine flu” pandemic alert level being raised to the second highest at 5. Regardless, equity markets are still higher on the day ion Europe and U.S> futures are pointing toward a higher open which could continue to provide sterling support. Positive fundamental releases could also add to a bullish case as the Gfk consumer confidence reading rose to -27 which was the highest in a year. Additionally, the 0.4% decrease in the Nationwide house price gauge was les s than forecasts of -1.2% and follows a 0.9% increase the month prior. Stabilization in the housing market will go along way in helping the economy find a bottom which could be a catalyst for increasing support for the pound.
A full economic docket today will provide further insight into the economy and may add to increasing optimism that has been built on the improvements in consumer confidence and personal consumption adding to dollar weakness. However, inline prints of personal income and spending in March which is forecasted to have fallen by 0.2% and 0.1% respectively, would contradict with the 2.2% jump in personal consumption component in the GDP report. Additionally, initial jobless claims are expected to remain at 640,000 as the labor market continues to be negatively impacted by the recession which could weigh on consumer spending going forward, and may extend the current downturn. Conversely, forecasts are for the Chicago PMI reading to improve to 35.0 from 31.4 adding to signs that activity is beginning to pick up as credit markets loosen which could help stem future job losses. This would support the FOMC’s contention that the economy is seeing a slower pace of contraction which led them to refrain from adding additional measures to their current quantitative easing efforts.
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The Game Plan for Payday Loans

I don't want to recap the whole concept of "latent semantic indexing' suffice to say that it is a method used by Google to determine relevance. In brief LSI can take your posts and determine what the subject matter is and how much of your post relates to the subject at hand. It also compares each post with your blog as a whole and can tell if the post is relevant to the rest of your site. My apologies if this is overly simplistic but it gets the main point across. This goes to the whole concept of why content is now king and not just backlinks when it comes to getting listed in Google.

To dominate the search engines you have to do four things.

1) Know what your blog is about. What are the handful of words that you can use to describe your blog most accurately? These words are your main keywords.

2) Each and every post that you write must contain some or all of these keywords regardless of the specific topic.

3) Each topic you write about should relate to your blogs overall theme or purpose. Each topic should ideally cover a "long tail" keyword related to your main keywords.

4) Know how to backlink.

I know most of you are aware of these factors but very few bloggers actually follow through on the specifics. If you comb through my blog you will find that just about every post has all my main keywords in it and each topic relates to a long tail.

My method is as simple and formulaic as it gets. Here it is,

My main goal is to rank number 1 on Google for "make money online". If you use a keyword search tool and query this term you will find a huge list of related terms as well. The related terms are my long tails. I target every relevant long tail I can find and try and dominate it in the listings - at least page 1 but ideally top spot. I am now on the first page in the serps for several dozen of these long tails and as each goal has been reached I keep getting closer to the first page of my prime keyword "make money online". I am currently 21 out of 150 million pages. I was 45 two weeks ago. (results will vary depending on your search region)

The point is this, Google also uses it's own results to determine how it ranks your blog. If you rank well for a hundred different but related terms then you will also rank well for the common denominator - the term that they are all related to.

I want to show you an example of this and it happens to be in my own niche.

In most regions a free blogspot blog sits atop the "make money online" search listings. This blog is called moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com and is remarkably only a PR3. How has this blog managed to do this considering most people have never heard of it or know anything about the author Alan Liew. If he is well known I don't see him mentioned much in my travels. You can't get through a day without someone mentioning John Chow or Darren Rowse. So what gives.

The fact is that this blog is ranked on the first page and usually in the top 3 spots for just about every long tail keyword related to making money online. You probably think so what - all the big names are. Well actually they aren't. Problogger and Dosh Dosh do show up fairly frequently in the top listings but that's about it for the A-listers. Carl Ocab's blog does show up everywhere and has gained him a front page listing for the main term.

Targeting one or two keywords may get you results for those keywords but they won't get you listed for related terms. Getting listed for lots of related terms will get you listed for the main term even if you didn't target it. The biggest mistake people make with SEO is to focus almost soley on a few main keywords and neglect the supporting cast. Wait - I know you have heard this before - long tails, long tails, and you are going to tell me you have written lots of posts related to long tails but you still don't rank well. If you have done all these things then all that is missing is knowing how to backlink.

Payday Loans, Adsense and a Money Making Strategy

When it comes to making money with Adsense I don't tell Google what I'm relevant for in terms of content - I let Google tell me. If this is confusing then hear me out.

A week or two ago I wrote a couple of posts on the topic of payday loans. Now most of you would agree that a make money online blog has little relevance to Payday Loan sites. For the most part, this is true. I am in the midst of an experiment to see if I can't make the two relevant. Why I would want to do this and how it is done is the key for making money with Adsense.

A search engine isn't smart. It simply gathers as much information as it can and then presents it's findings in the order stipulated by the human brains that programmed it. It can't tell you who the greatest author in the English language is but it can tell you who others think the greatest author is. Most people who know what a dangling participle is would say Shakespeare. What does Google say?



Close but no cigar.

If Google was smart it would have got this right and it almost did but the fact that it was wrong highlights the priorities of the programmers and the limitations on how far you can tweak an algorithm.

You can learn much from this query.

Of all the keywords presented it chose "author" as the prime search term. Not "greatest" or "English".

It ranked the sites according to who has the most relevance to "Author" and then by which site has the most authority on the subject.

It chose time.com over the correct answer because it is more relevant to the term "author" and the time article covers authors from 1923 to present. Google defaults to a "most current" status when indexing pages and since I didn't specify "of all time" it decided that a list of authors from 1923 to present would be the more likely choice of what I wanted. Wrong - see it's dumb. You knew that I wanted to know who the all time greatest author was without specifying "all time". In fact "all time" is a given - if I was asking a person this question I would only specify a time period if I didn't want an "all time" answer. A brain can intuit a meaning from an incomplete array of words - a search engine can only sort words and attach a value to each one.

So what happens if I add "of all time" to the query?



The results are now worse as old Willy got knocked down a couple of pegs. Google has now decided that the prime keyword is "All Time Greatest" and presents a list of authors, novels, films and so on. Boy is it stupid.

But... this is good.

If you understand this then you can use it to rank well in the search engines - let me clarify that - you will rank well in Google. When I refer to search engines understand that I am only concerned with Google as that's where the money is.

There is a correlation between high page rankings and Adsense optimization. If you have one you have the other. To put it another way - if your pages are optimized for the best Adsense ads then you are also optimized for high search results and failure to capture them rests with the quality of your backlinks. I mention this for those of you who aren't interested in Adsense but do want to know how to target search engine traffic. For the most part the tweaks used to optimize your blog for Adsense also optimize your blog for the serp's so follow along if you will.

I said earlier that I let Google tell me what I am relevant to. I do this by writing huge rambling posts covering everything I can think of for a topic. In the process I use my prime keyword and as many related terms as I can while still keeping the post readable. Am I stuffing keywords - yes but not in a spammy way and always within limits.

If you go back and read my opening sentence and the first paragraph below it you will find I mention "making money", "Payday Loan" and "Adsense" twice each. I didn't force their use and the writing isn't dismal to read. ( It might be but that is only due to my deficiencies as a writer and not on purpose.)

Moreover I actually used the term "making money with Adsense" twice and I even got my blogs numero uno keyword "make money online" into the mix.

and...

I used all three of todays keywords in my post Title and they will be in the tags (labels on blogger) at the end. I have also just used all the terms again in the preceding paragraph and I will probably fit them in again a few times before I am done with this post.

A human reading this post knows what it is about. Some guy is telling you how to optimize your blog for Adsense and search engine rankings. Google's little bot will know that this post has something to do with Adsense, Payday loans, SEO, Google, relevancy, search engines and a bunch of stuff I haven't thought of. By later today or tomorrow Google will tell me what it thinks this page is relevant to. I'll check my stats and see which keywords are used to bring visitors to my blog. Those keywords are what Google has pegged this page for.

After completing the first two "payday loan" posts I waited for the hit results to start showing up. Using notepad I keep track of what terms are used to find my loan posts. They were all long tail searches which I have listed below;

payday loan industry competition - rank is 20

cashadvancelinkdirectory.com - rank is 3

make money online with payday loans - rank is 4 and 5

make money with payday loans - rank is 3

emergency cash - loan - rank is 110

pay day loan reviews - rank is 16

loan money online - rank is 26

how much does payday loans make - rank is 4

Each term above was used at least twice by searchers and originated from different IP's. Terms that are really obscure are rarely used more than once and I ignore them when making my short list.

This list tells me that Google thinks my post(s) is relevant to these terms or it wouldn't have listed me for them. It only lists my post pages and not my home page. This tells me that Google hasn't listed my blog as relevant (or it has and it is so far down in the serps that I won't see it.) just a couple of pages are and only for some minor long tails. The one exception is the term "Emergency Cash Loans" which is one of the money making prime keywords related to Payday Loans. This is good as it gives me something to work with and serves as a barometer for how well I succeed. I will work at getting on page 1 from a starting position of page 11. As I see movement downward I will know my strategies are working.

You will also notice that I went from a rank of over 200 for Payday Loans and I have climbed 49 spots in a few days without doing anything more than using the term in my post titles and content - a practice I am repeating in this post. I have not chased down any backlinks yet.

This increase in ranking tells me that I should have a legitimate shot at success.

You will also notice that I am slowly getting more traffic for more terms. This is directly related to the fact that as Google accepts your relevancy for one term it in effect boosts your relevancy for all the nearest related terms which in turn means ranking for more terms. It becomes a snowball rolling down hill. The more terms you rank for - the more terms you will get to rank for.

I said the chart was helpful for tracking my rankings and it is but the real story is that it shows me exactly how Google has me pigeon holed at the minute. If you look at the terms I have been ranked for you will notice 3 distinct levels of relevancy.

The terms that Google has ranked me high for are all quite relevant to my blog. I am telling people how to market and make money off of payday loans or at least the term.

The terms Google has ranked me 2 - 4 pages deep are terms that Google hasn't quite decided if I am totally relevant for yet. And they are right. I have used the term "Payday Loan Review" in my posts but I haven't really done a review of any payday loan companies or systems. I shouldn't rank on the front page for this and Google is able to figure this out. The algorithm is really quite amazing in a lot of ways.

Google is also accurate about the terms in which I rank out in the netherworld - "emergency cash loan", "I need a loan to make money" and "payday loans". I don't give out loans and Google knows it. My task will be to convince Google to put me on the front page for my term in spite of this. I will have to convince Google that a review or informational post deserves top billing along with the actual payday loan companies.

A note about Red Flag Keywords

I mentioned earlier that I would normally start a new blog if I wanted to target a new niche or keyword not related to any of my existing sites. If you are following along then I suggest you start a new blog and target a niche of your choice. The main reason I am experimenting with this niche on this blog is because it is increasingly difficult to target Red Flag keywords on sites devoted to the terms. If you want to target legal/law related keywords you had better be a law office. If you go after mortgage and loan traffic then you had better be a financial institution. If it's insurance related then you had better be selling insurance. If you can't show instant relevancy to Google then you won't get out of the water.

If you are picking a niche please stay away from all the spam keywords. Not because I don't want the competition but because you need to learn how to do this with a niche you can dominate before tackling one that I know will lead most of you to failure. I have no assurance that I will succeed so don't waste your time on keywords that will be almost impossible to succeed with. This doesn't mean you shouldn't go after highly competitive keywords - I always do as that is where the money is. Competition doesn't scare me and if you take my advice to heart and do what I do it won't scare you either. The more competitive the keyword the better just stay away from the spam keywords - you don't want to lose your Adsense account.

To reinforce this point I want to show you something which will also explain why I am going slow in my campaign for Payday Loans.

The moment you get involved with spam keywords you attract all the spammers. I mentioned in a recent post that one of the current methods that spammers are using to game Google is to scrape content off of legitimate sites and post links back to the source - they do this in order to get a trackback link returned to them. They are taking advantage of the fact that most bogs have yet to add the no-follow to trackbacks. In effect they are stealing PR from high ranking blogs.

No sooner did I post my first article on Payday Loans than I started receiving links from spammers. To date I have had 28 links to my first post. See the screenshot below.

Most of these terms will never bring me much traffic but that's not what I am after. I simply want to make my site relevant for Payday loans in general and I do this by adding as much relevant content as possible. Normally I would be doing this on a blog set up for the target and would be posting lengthy articles covering every aspect of loans that I could think of. Because I am trying to incorporate payday loan relevancy into an existing non-related blog I will have to move slower and I do this by simply building up long tail phrases over a longer period of time.

The chart above is important not so much for showing me my rankings but for showing me how Google is ranking me. I will explain the difference in a minute but first the initial chart readings.

The first thing to notice is that I am not ranked at all for "Loans" and "Cash Loans Online". I added these to the list as one is the parent keyword of my prime keyword - "Loans" and the other is a highly searched related term - "Cash Loans Online". If I succeed with payday loans then I should begin to rank for these two terms as well and they will be future targets if I do. Just planning ahead.

The next thing of interest is that I am being ranked for my prime keyword - "Payday Loans". This is good news so soon in my quest. It tells me that Google has accepted my blog as being at least somewhat relevant to the term. Keep in mind that the keyword I have chosen is commonly referred to as one of the red flag keywords - terms that set off spam filters far and wide. It is a high paying adsense keyword and as such it attracts spammers trying to cash in on it. Usually Google will flag you instantly and never index your posts if it suspects that you are a spam site. Google has decided that I am not and I now have a huge lead on the spammers.

Payday Loans - Adsense Update

If you are just joining me I have been demonstrating how to optimize blogs for certain keywords in order to drive search engine traffic. I use this type of traffic primarily for adsense revenue but my techniques will also work if you are selling affiliate products or advertising on your pages. The goal is to target the type of traffic that will respond to what you offer on your page.

I have chosen the term Payday Loans for a number of reasons.

It is a heavily searched term in the search engines which means that it could be profitable using Adsense or by selling ad space to payday loan companies who want to take advantage of the targeted traffic.

It is also a term that is not particularly relevant to my blog and while this is a no no in as far as Adsense is concerned I am experimenting to see if I can successfully pull off introducing an off topic niche into this blog. It may not work but if it does then the field is wide open for future keyword cherry picking.

Lastly it allows me to show my readers the step by step process I use to make money with my blogs. If you want to catch up you can read my previous posts on this topic;

Payday Loans

Payday Loans Review

Make Money with Payday Loans

Several readers have asked me about other marketer's techniques and I want to set something straight at the outset. My way of doing things is not the only way - there are other SEO methods out there and lot's of ebooks regarding Adsense. I am a trial and error type of person and while I have read other methods I find that most aren't kept up to date and in large part concentrate on short cuts. Short cuts are fine for short term projects and I will discuss this type of marketing in the future but for now I am interested in showing you how to create a steady long term income that works in the current search engine climate. Because I am always experimenting I find that my methods are always being tweaked and updated which keeps my blogs moving in the right direction without fear of running afoul of Google. Having said that, this current experiment could get me into trouble but I am a firm believer in taking things slow and being cautious - which is what todays post is about.

Knowing how to plan ahead and gauge your progress.

I'm just guessing but I bet 90% of all the blogs on the net are unplanned "off the top of the head" creations.

Most are not focused on any defined goal. The URL has nothing to do with the content, the blog title is usually a name or a general phrase ie. "My Lonely Life" and it has nothing to do with the content either. The content changes day to day and covers topics from one end of the spectrum to the other. The post titles don't reflect the post content and the content itself is not optimized for any particular keyword or topic. Did I miss anything?

I am aware that a lot of bloggers - certainly the majority are busy creating content that they think will interest people and they use lot's of snappy titles and tricks to lure traffic to the site - the Web 2.0 crowd. This has become the new dominant blogging scene and it is all geared to drawing traffic from the social networks in order to eventually become an A - Lister. Every day I read blogs that talk about which is better; Stumble Upon or Digg. Every day someone has a new way to gather hordes of traffic using these sites. When I read these blogs I always wait for someone to ask one important question. "What did you do with all that traffic?"

Appealing to the stumblers and diggers it seems most bloggers don't realize that they are only after traffic for traffic's sake. They don't have a plan on what to do with the visitors they do get. Visitors who usually just click in, click out and are never seen again. The general theory seems to be that this will lead to becoming recognized which in turn will lead to becoming an A-Lister. Why do they want to be an A-lister? I presume they think this will make them a lot of money or maybe they just want to be an A-lister for the sake of being an A-lister. If I had to guess I would say that most bloggers have at least considered the possibility of making money with their blog and true bloggers blogging only for the fun of it are a minority.

Here is the million dollar question - has anyone become an A-lister just from social traffic? All the ones I know of draw most of their traffic from search engines or at least they did until achieving enough notoriety to attract social traffic. What's more, they still need search engine traffic to make money from their sites. Someone has to click the ads they sell or no one will buy ads. Social network users don't click the ads - when was the last time you bought something on one of the A-listers sites? Did you even click an ad?

The point I am making is simple and all the Google haters out there will have to realize this sooner or later - you will not be successful online either as a marketer or as an A-lister without Google's traffic. Period.

If you know of anybody that makes money online who doesn't rely on search engine traffic to do it - please let me know.

I am not trying to dash your A-List dreams, just trying to outline the basic concepts of SEO that you can and should incorporate into your blog. To this end I have been explaining how to target the term "Payday Loan" using, so far, the most basic techniques that all optimized pages must have to rank well in the serp's.

These are;

Select a prime keyword or phrase as your ultimate target. Use that phrase or keyword in every post title that you can. Use it 2 to 3 times per hundred words of content. Always highlight it in the first paragraph a few times. Use it in the last paragraph as well.

Select a list of long tail keywords (related terms and phrases of the prime keyword) and use these terms liberally in your content.

Target each new post to a long tail and work at raising these related keywords towards the top of the serp's first. The more related keywords you target the higher your prime keyword will rank.

Use keywords and only keywords in your tags - prime and long tails.

This is basic SEO and has the effect of telling Google exactly what your pages are about.

Once you have posted your articles pay attention to your stats - specifically tracking the keywords people use to find your site. Keep a list of these keywords and use them in future posts or even go back and include them in prior ones. This will increase your index ranking for each of the terms.

This has confused a few people so I will show you what I am talking about using my Payday Loan posts.

The first Payday Loan post was a fishing expedition. I wrote a long rambling post that used all the main keywords for my target. I then sat back and waited for the first visitor to find my site using a payday loan related keyword. It wasn't long before Google sent me someone who had typed in the term "cashadvancelinkdirectory.com" and I quickly checked Google to find where I ranked for this term. It was 3 and still is. As each day passed a few more visitors showed up and I noted the keywords used and the ranking of each. I then wrote a new post and included all of the terms Google had sent me traffic for. The point of doing this is to reinforce those terms as relevant to my site and as this relevancy increases Google sends me even more long tail relevant keywords. Slowly and steadily I will incorporate all of the newest terms into my posts as well which will lead to getting more terms and so on...

This is the initial list of related keywords for Payday Loan that visitors had entered into Google's search box and where my blog ranked for each term in the result's pages.

payday loan industry competition - rank was 20

cashadvancelinkdirectory.com - rank was 3

make money online with payday loans - rank was 4 and 5

make money with payday loans - rank was 3

emergency cash - loan - rank was 110

pay day loan reviews - rank was 16

loan money online - rank was 26

how much does payday loans make - rank was 4

Since then I have added the following;

payday loan traffic ranked 8

payday loans + marketing ranked 17

marketing for payday loans ranked 5

make money payday loans ranked 5

i need a loan to make money ranked 10

how to make money with payday loans ranked 4 (first Yahoo visitor)

how to create your own online payday loan business ranked 2

keyword ideas payday loan ranked 1

reviews on payday day loans ranked 26

I have since entered all these terms into SEO Elite in order to track the rankings. In the chart below you can see each term and how the rankings move - up or down according to Google. (Click image to enlarge)

In essence I know exactly who my visitors are and what they are looking for - and so does Google.

Because I have optimized all my posts for specific keywords Google sends me highly targeted traffic and then puts highly targeted (the best converting) ads on my blog for the visitors to click on. I am not smart priced and get the better paying clicks. This is the reason that page optimization is so important - your content and how you optimize it determines how targeted your traffic is. If you can't provide targeted traffic then you can't make money either with Adsense or with Affiliate sales. Selling ads is also hard if your traffic while large, is diffuse. To make money online you have to provide the people paying you what they want - converting traffic.

To summarize the "Payday Loan" campaign I have been tracking my index rankings for all the keywords I have collected and have made good progress in climbing the serp's but my main keyword has stalled out at a rank of 36. This appears to be as high as content and my PR5 can take me. From here on in I will be adding backlinks with highly targeted anchor text to boost my rankings.

It is at this point that many of you can't do what I do. I have access to a lot of sites that I can use to link to my pages. If you are just starting out then you will find getting backlinks more of a challenge and you won't have enough PR to target the competitive niches. This is why I have recommended starting out by targeting niches that you can overcome with content and a few backlinks that you can get using articles and services like Yahoo Answers and Squidoo. As your PR and content increases you will be able to target better keywords and build a successful Adsense site over time.

At some point you will be faced with the "ethical" dilemma of whether you should or would cheat. By cheating I am referring to the practice of buying links. I am not advocating anything but I will tell you that every successful niche marketer buys links - they have to. If you want to make any serious money online then you will be faced with this decision at some point. Just thought I would mention it now.

Before I leave you I want to address an comment I received recently. The writer mentioned that she had read that it wasn't a good idea to rely on Adsense for all your income online as Google can take it all away in an instant. This is true and I should mention that this is not the only way I earn an income online - it is just one of the ways. I have found that some niches are ideal for Adsense and others are better suited to affiliate sales. Lead generation has become my main focus lately and I have found learning how to make money with Adsense is a great way to hone the skills needed in generating leads. At the moment lead generation is dominated by the Black Hatters and you may find the article below illuminating if you are wondering just how far you can take a niche like "Payday Loans" and make money from it.

This article will give you a good idea of the kinds of people you are competing with online and the tactics experienced marketers use to make money. I have not used hypertext as I don't want to link to this site - black hats don't make good link partners.

http://oooff.com/php-affiliate-seo-blog/affiliate-marketing/
making-big-easy-money-with-google-local-search/

(I have broken the URL to fit the page - cut and paste both lines as one long URL)

Thanks to Paul for bringing this article to my attention unfortunately he didn't leave a link. The only thing missing in the article is how the lead generation sites managed to rank high for the Payday Loan terms they targeted. The answer is using the same optimization techniques that are used for Adsense.

Now that I know there are profitable clicks in this niche I will continue to add links over time - slowly - and work my way up the "Payday Loan" serp pages. I am already adding income to my bottom line and I'm not even ranking that well yet. I will update you when I get enough payday loan traffic to have a significant effect on my daily bottom line. At the moment my daily earnings on this blog fluctuate between $10 and $15 - when I start seeing higher earnings I will know that the payday loan clicks have started to accumulate.

Cheers,

Grizzly

Update Below

Follow along with me step by step as I show you how I pick a target and then optimize my blog in order to make money with Adsense.

I outline my "Payday Loans" experiment in sequential order below.

Payday Loans

Payday Loans Review

Payday Loans and Adsense

Payday Loans - Adsense Update

Payday Loans Update

Now it is possible that the targeted traffic didn't click the ads and someone else did but not likely. To get better paying clicks you have to meet a few Google guidlines which are best understood by explaining how Adwords works.

An advertiser using Adwords allows Google to manage what sites it displays the advertisers ads on. An advertiser wants conversions and doesn't want an ad appearing and getting clicked on a bunch of sites that aren't likely to convert. To increase the advertisers ROI Google instituted smart pricing which basically states that they will charge less for clicks that are less likely to convert and more for highly targeted clicks.

A crude and simplified example of how this works.

If someone queries Google and finds my site using the term "make money online" and then clicks a Payday Loan ad, is this targeted? From Googles point of view this click would be considered less likely to convert as there is no connection between what the visitor was searching for and what they chose. In short if one of my "make money" searchers had clicked the payday loan ad I wouldn't have received the high payouts. Conversely you can see direct relevancy and how a searcher looking for "payday loans" would be more likely to convert for the advertiser. In this case Google charges the advertiser full price and I get top CPC by providing a highly targeted visitor to the advertisers site.

If this is confusing just think in terms of a relevancy trail. If everything is relevant then you get paid more and if you have people dropping in from stumbleupon and clicking the odd ad you will get paid pennies because that type of traffic is not targeted and is not relevant to the ads clicked. Large amounts of social traffic also bugger up your CTR and invariably if you draw social traffic you will be "smart priced" by Google and only paid pennies for all the Adsense ads. This is the reason most web 2.0 or A-List style blogs don't make any money with Adsense - they don't draw the right type of traffic and draw lots of the wrong type of traffic (from a money making standpoint only).

To make money with Adsense you only want large amounts of "targeted" traffic and basically nothing else.

The shot below lists the latest keywords or queries used to find my blog on the search engines. 90% of my total traffic comes from Google and these are the typical terms used to find me.

Payday Loans Update

How to Make Money Using Targeted Traffic - Payday Loans

I have been targeting the term Payday Loans for the past few weeks. If you are just joining me you can catch up by reading the "Adsense lessons" posted in my sidebar. The purpose of this experiment is to make page one on Google's index results for the keyword "Payday Loans". This is a high paying keyword for Adwords users and as an Adsense publisher I want to attract people who will click the Adsense ads.

I started out with a single optimized post and then sat back and waited for visitors to show up. I collected the keywords used by each visitor and then added these terms to updated posts. Since the last post I have collected several more terms listed below with search engine rank after the term;

payday loans work from home 10

payday loan business opportunity 38

how payday companies loans work? 4

payday loan no need to work 4

roi payday loans 15

payday loans seo 6

how does pay day loans work 6

payday loan content 10

payday loans (AOL) 84

make money payday loan 2 and 3

tips for marketing loan companies 13

payday loans canada 41

no faxing payday loan 22

does google loan money 10

make money online selling insurance 1

~no faxing payday loan 20

links+payday loans 10

I have now added more related keywords to the ever growing list of "Long Tails" that searchers have used to find my blog on Google. I have gone from 1-2 visitors a day in the beginning to 10-15 a day presently. Not large numbers but enough to confirm whether this campaign is worth pursuing. I have been able to confirm a few clicks from the "Payday Loan" crowd and was pleased with the results.

I won't go into all the gymnastics of figuring out what page my ads were clicked on (I don't use Google Analytics - another story) but I will say that you can never be sure exactly which ad has been clicked so the best you can do is ad up the circumstantial evidence and make an educated guess. I happened to be up on two occasions when Google rolled past the witching hour and I was able to isolate the stats on my first clicks of the new day.

The screenshots below told me that someone had clicked a $0.95 ad. I was able to track down both clicks shown to my Payday Loan page which displayed Loan ads in the sidebar Adsense block and regular "Make Money" ads in the Lead or Top block. The "Make Money Online" ads typically pay $0.30 - $0.40 per click but have fetched over a dollar at times. Using my statcounter stats I was able to determine that I had a visitor to my payday loan page at the time the click occurred and coupled with smart pricing guidelines I am pretty sure that the click came from the targeted traffic.

(Click images to enlarge)

This is the query used to find my payday loan page.



This is the $0.95 click recorded on my Adsense account.



These are the ads I was displaying on my page at the time.


On a second occasion I matched this query...



... with this result. A $1.80 click. Bingo! - this is definitely worth pursuing.

There are a couple of things I want to point out as you look at these and the following screenshots. A week ago there were about 170 million competing sites in Google's index. Today there are only about a 10th of this amount.

Google has just quietly cleaned house once again and eliminated millions of sites that are deemed irrelevant. Not just in this niche either - I have noticed this across all my niches. While this will have little effect on most of you, I point it out for interest sake as it is just one more step Google has taken recently to clean up its rankings. For those of us making money online this just means less competition and that's always welcome.

The other thing you should notice is the frequency of Blogspot.com blogs listed on the top search pages. People love bashing Blogger for all sorts of reasons but primarily because it doesn't look as professional or as nice as a self hosted wordpress blog or it is limited in many ways that wordpress blogs aren't. This is all true but when it comes to making money online all those nice looking Web 2.0 blogs aren't in the same ballpark.

Making money online and producing a reader friendly A-list style blog are not the same thing. Every time I hear a Web 2.0 blogger put down Blogger I cringe. People who haven't made a dime online are busy telling other people who haven't made a dime how to make money online by creating fancy looking social network friendly blogs. That is not how you make money online - that is how you try and make a name for yourself. Making a name doesn't mean you make any money. Ranking on top of the search pages does.

Keyword: "how to earn money online"

3 Blogspot blogs in top 10




Keyword: "how to make money"

3 Blogspot blogs in top 10



Keyword: "how to make money online"

4 Blogspot blogs in top 10



Keyword: "making money online"

2 Blogspot blogs in top 10



(BTW - how many A-List blogs did you see in the top ten?)

And...

What has making the first page meant in terms of earnings? Until last Saturday I was receiving 10-20 visitors a day each from Google for most of these terms. I was on page 2. Since Sunday I have seen up to 10 times the traffic for some of these keywords.

See my Feedburner search engine keyword stats up until mid afternoon today.

What's in a Keyword?

If you are a first time visitor you probably won't even read this - what on Earth would a cheesy looking blog like this know about making money online. Most first timers take a quick look and then hit the back button and are gone. A percentage leave by clicking a link somewhere on the page. If you are still reading this then chances are you are one of my readers that has got past the cheese and knows that I actually have real content on these pages - the vast majority of it really does explain how I make money with this free no frills Blogspot blog.

In a nutshell I make money with this blog by explaining the SEO techniques I use to target terms like "make money online". I make money by simply ranking high in the serps for terms related to making money. That's it. I don't even need a single person to read a single word of a single post on this blog and I still make money. Good money too.

This blog will be a year old on December 23.

I have spent the past year writing posts that optimize various keywords that I have chosen based on the amount of traffic those keywords generate on the search engines. I built this blog without ever expecting or caring if I ever had a real audience of readers. My goal was simple - generate large amounts of search engine traffic and convert that traffic into Adsense clicks and affiliate sales.

I have had to modify my tactics somewhat from my initial plan due to the fact that I seem to have built up a small but growing readership and in deference to them I have had to shelve my affiliate sales pitches - you won't appreciate me hawking products designed to entice the unwary blogging newcomer. I haven't totally given up on this revenue stream yet it's just I haven't figured out a "Reader Alert" system to warn my regular readers when they should simply ignore a post logged for the purpose of affiliate sales. I will work it back into the mix at some point as there is just too much money sitting on the table with affiliate sales for me to ignore. I know because the first six months I made a decent buck from affiliate sales by optimizing this blog for those types of keywords.

The loss of affiliate sales has been mediated by the sharp increase in Adsense revenue as my main keywords have slowly climbed Google's search engine rankings.

For all of you that think Adsense is crap and doesn't pay much I have news for you... it is still the single easiest and best source of long term income online. If you haven't made money from Adsense it's because you don't know how - not because it doesn't work.

I now rank in the top 1-2 pages on Google for all the main "Make Money" keywords. This past week I finally hit page 1 for several highly searched terms and before I show you what this has meant I want to show you a few of those rankings.

I have yet to reach page 1 for my Prime keyword - "make money online" - but I am on page 2 of Google.com (The US region)
(click images to enlarge)



I have however hit page 1 for "make money online" in most of the smaller Google regions like this serp from a query originating in the Netherlands.

American Idol

When I created the blogs I did not ad any form of monetization to them. Wait until you are indexed before doing this. Once the traffic started showing up I added Adsense to the Asia'h blog. Needless to say - the Adsense bot gave me nothing but crap as the blog was optimized for Asia'h Epperson only and there are no ads tailored to such a term. No problem. I then went back and edited the original blog and posts. I added a number of keywords for the benefit of the Adsense bot in order for it to give me ads that I know will produce clicks. I added terms like "American Idol", Models", "photos", "Celebrity Gossip" and so on. These terms do have existing ads and by using the keywords in the Blog description and in the posts I was able to get Google to send me the right kind of ads. This can be done with any site at any time. If your Adsense ads suck on your pages just keep re-editing using various terms until you get the ads that produce. (Remember that all of you who get crappy paying ads.)

Note: I am still getting some crappy ads mixed in with the good ads and this is simply because I have yet to add enough content to the site to satisfy the Adsense bot - it is still not exactly positive as to what the site is about. I have not yet monetized the Amy Davis site but will later today.

I always start out with Adsense but will add other monetization as things progress - I need to get a feel for who the searchers are and what they are looking for first.

You will notice in the traffic stats that there were far more searches done on the two days following the airing of last weeks American Idol. You may not think that the little traffic I received means much but I am very optimistic. Asia'h has only received about 5 minutes of air time so far on the show - basically her interview regarding her dad's death and her short audition song. We have not seen her sing anything else. Amy Davis has had no air time at all yet save for a two second clip naming her as a top 24 finalist. Given this lack of exposure I am quite impressed with the number of searches I have seen so far. I assure you that after the shows air this week I will see a surge in visitors. I will of course let you know how that turns out.

Ok - that's enough for today. If you have questions fire away and remember there are 24 contestants at the moment that can be targeted as well as the show "American Idol" itself.

ps.For those waiting for my post on Adsense tips I will be doing it soon but note that I just gave you a few above.

Amy Davis' Traffic Stats.

The traffic shown in the chart above is almost all referral traffic from other sites. Google only began sending search traffic two days ago. The stats below outline the keyword traffic from Google and the Referral traffic.

Google Traffic for Amy Davis Below - notice the keywords used to find the blog.



Referral Traffic for Amy Davis Below - notice that Technorati has been sending traffic. I have received as much traffic from Technorati in past years as Google. (Note: Blogger Labels are Technorati Tags - Wordpress Tags also serve as Technorati Tags.)



A few pointers before I discuss monetization.

Below is a screenshot of the Technorati account I set up for Asia'h. You will notice that I currently have 8 backlinks pointing at the new blog. This is how to get indexed. Do not submit your blogs to Google - you will sit in limbo for ages. The best way to get indexed quickly is to point some links to your new site from an established site that Google crawls regularly. Note: Technorati only lists links from blogs - not websites. I have more links that aren't shown here. One comes from a Radio station website in Asia'h's hometown of Joplin MO. They incorrectly linked to my blog thinking it is Asia'h's own blog - hehe - how did they get that idea? (See screenshot below Technorati listing)



Of these 8 links on Technorati I am responsible for 7 of them and my new friend Christopher Hedges was kind enough to provide the last one. As a reward for a job well done I will give him a link back using another American Idol finalist that he is targeting - Joanne Borgella.

If you are interested all the Technorati links are from PR3 and PR4 sites and they all use the keyword "Asia'h Epperson" (the links are in bold on Technorati) in the anchor text of the link. This is imortant as that is the term I want to rank well in the serp's. Should I drop in rankings I will muster up some more links like these and also target some of the other keywords that have shown up in the searches. Most notably "Asia'h Epperson Photo Gallery", "Asia'h Epperson Photos", "Asia Epperson Pics" etc. As I said - past experience has told me that these will be the terms most of the teenage boys will be looking for.

Asia'H Epperson Ranks 6th on Yahoo

Asia Epperson Ranks 5th in Google. (Notice the misspelled Asia - there will be lot's of searches with her name spelled incorrectly so it doesn't hurt to rank for it as well.)



Now the Amy Davis blog stats shown below tell a different story. It did not get indexed by Google until Feb 16 at 9:57 am. Yahoo has not sent any traffic so it either hasn't indexed it or it's so far back that nobody has found it yet. I don't care about Yahoo so I won't pursue ranking on it. (Requires Meta Tags and a few other tweaks but doing so can have an adverse effect on Google rankings - Google will send far more traffic so I will stick with them.)

Asia'h Epperson

Make Money with American Idol - Part Two

Last week I started rolling out my Celebrity blogs for another season of American Idol. I also created several new blogs optimized for the final 24 contestants to make it through the Hollywood auditions. I showed you two of these blogs - Asia'h Epperson and Amy Davis so that you could see exactly how I set them up and now I want to show you what has happened since then.

I am trying to teach my readers how to properly optimize their blogs for the search engines in order to obtain traffic and then how to monetize the site once the traffic begins showing up. These two new blogs are meant to be short term money makers but could be long term if I chose to make them that way. I haven't as I simply want to cash in on the burst traffic that American Idol produces each season. The only real difference between short term and long term is that I would hold off monetizing a long term blog until it was firmly established on Google and the content on these short term sites can best be described as crap. A long term blog requires good original content with the hopes of becoming an authority blog in the niche selected.

It has been a week since I created the Asia'h Epperson and Amy Davis blogs.

The screenshots below tell the tale of what has happened as far as traffic to them is concerned. (Click on all images to enlarge them)



This screenshot (above) lists a number of my blogs in my statcounter account. The highlighted blogs show that Asia'h has received 786 page views since last week and Amy Davis has received 231 page views. I left in a few of last years Antonella Barba blogs so you could see that even they are starting to get a dribble of traffic again since American Idol is back on air. I have blacked out several sites that I am working again this year but you can see the kind of traffic that can be had from this. Antonella Ipod Photos? What's that about? I was using Antonella to draw traffic for iPod sales as well as dozens of other products and of course Adsense.

I have mentioned in the past that I create dozens of blogs for this niche and combined they can make a lot of money in a short period of time.

Now let's take a closer look at the kind of traffic Asia'h and Amy have been getting since last week.



The stats above show Asia'h Epperson's traffic. The table below shows what search queries were used on the search engines to find the blog. I should point out that Yahoo indexed me immediately and most of the traffic you see came from Yahoo. Google did not index me until yesterday - at 8:45 in the morning to be precise. The statcounter page below tells me this and it also shows me what search terms (keywords) are being used to find the blog. This is important as it tells me what terms I should be optimizing my future posts for in order to rank high in the serp's. Past experience has told me that the bulk of my visitors are going to be teenage boys - and what are teenage boys interested in... Photos! If I showed you all the keyword stats you would see that most of the keyword searches have contained the Idol's name along with "Pics", "Photos", "Gallery", "Myspace", "Joplin MO", "Father Killed", American Idol" and so on. I have of course sprinkled these terms in my posts which has led me to rank well for them.

Note: I have mentioned writing long rambling posts full of related keywords and this is the reason why. If you only concentrate on one or two keywords in each post you will only get traffic for those terms. The more keywords you sprinkle your posts with the more stuff you have to get indexed with.

Keyword Traffic for Asia'h Epperson



Referral Traffic for Asia'h Epperson




Asia'H Epperson Ranks 6th on Yahoo

What can be learned from these stats?

I haven't created blogs for all 24 contestants but I have targeted them all one way or another with either new blogs or using some of my older existing blogs that cater to this niche. The results vary from decent to crappy at this stage of the competition and the two blogs I have shown you fall into the "just alright" and "crappy" categories.

The Asia'h blog had an okay bump after the show and is still getting traffic today - not huge traffic but enough to work with as far as monetization goes. The Amy Davis blog isn't getting much for traffic at all and hasn't generated a single click yet.

Using all of my sites as a barometer, Asia'h is the fifth most popular Idol. Amy sits near the bottom of the pack along with, Joanne Borgella, Garrett Haley, Colton Berry and Chikezie Eze.

Note: I wrote everything above before the elimination last night - I didn't finish the post as I figured I would wait and see who got sent home. Needless to say, I wasn't surprised to see who was eliminated - 4 of the 5 with the worst search results.

It's now Friday morning and you can see that Asia'h is still pulling in a steady stream of visitors.



There is a slight problem with the Asia'h blog though - in spite of the traffic I have only received 2 clicks since Thursday morning. The reason has to do with her name. The Adsense bot keeps changing the ads on the blog - one minute I get related American Idol ads and the next I get ads for everything from Asian Airlines to a fertilizer spreader. My attempts to fix this have been stymied and here s why..

A Tale of Two Bots

The main Google Bot is responsible for catagorizing my blog and ranking it in the serp's. I have targeted the keyword "Asia'h Epperson" and the bot has me ranking number two in the serp's for this term. see below...



This is good as the only site that outranks me is American Idol's own website. The problem is that to achieve this I have had to use Asia'h's name in all the prominent locations - URL, page title, post titles, H tags etc. The downside is that the Adsense bot uses these same markers to determine the ads it gives me and because her name is Asia'h the bot keeps thinking that it must be a misspelling of the largest landmass on Earth and I keep getting "Asia" related ads. To fix this I need to change all the markers to "American Idol" keywords but by doing so I risk losing my position with the main Google bot. If I eliminate the keyword "Asia'h" I will get relevant ads for the show but I may lose my ranking for "Asia'h" in the process - most annoying.

Another problem is that the people searching for Asia'h aren't looking for "Photos", "Pics" or "Celebrity" stuff in their keywords - notice the terms people used to find Amy Davis - few though they were I could zone in on what they were after just by looking at the search query keywords they used. In Asia'h's case the people are simply looking for general info as they are only using her name in the searches. This makes it hard to monetize the site - if people are looking for something in particular you can optimize your content to get the Adsense Bot to give you ads related to it.

The most popular contestant is a guy - and the people searching for him are quite interested in his "photos", "does he have a girl friend", his "birthday", his "myspace page" etc. The point being you can learn a lot by what keywords are used to find your site and then optimize your monetization accordingly. I have no doubt that the people searching for the "GUY" are a young girls - my own 6 year old daughter has mentioned how "cute" he is several times... lol. I know this contestants audience and need to find ads that young girls will click on - something I readily admit I have had problems with in the past. If any of my female readers can suggest what 12 year old girls would be interested in please let me know. I am after all just a "Guy" and am clueless to the inner workings of half the planets population in spite of living with three of them...

Ok, some quick pointers.

All my sites combined have produced just over $100 in Adsense revenue in the last two days - Asia'h's blog started out well but has crashed and burned re: Adsense as mentioned above. None of the contestants are pulling in great numbers - nothing even close to what Antonella Barba, Kelly Pickler, Sanjiya Malakar or Chris Daughtry did in past years but the season is still young and anything can happen.

I have received approx. 6500 visitors in two days to all my "American Idol" related sites. $100 sucks for this amount of traffic. My Kelly Pickler site still makes $20 - $30 a day and it only gets about 200 visitors daily.

So far I have shown you how to get quick, free traffic from Google. The Asia'h blog is not making money yet although it does point out the advantage of using Blogger - I spent maybe an hour total creating it and adding content - it was free - it allowed me to get the perfect URL asiahepperson.blogspot dot com - it has made $26 for the effort and I have 600 or so people visiting it all in 12 days. How many of your 12 day old sites have 600 visitors - remember I have not submitted this to any social networks. 80% of the visitors are from search engines - 20% are from other sites linking in.

BTW - I have mentioned the importance of trying to get the perfect URL in the past. Aside from it helping you get Top Spot in the serp's when all other factor's are equal between two sites, it also has some "Link Capturing" benefits. In this case my URL has led people to assume the site is either Asia'h's own blog or that it is an official fan blog. Check out this radio station - http://www.kissin925.com/pages/694105.php Kissin925 dot com - website (I don't want tolink to it or the jig will be up if they read this) or better yet the LA Times Link to my Blog Pretty cool I think for a free, 12 day old blog. Okay - that sounds like braggin' - I'm not, pure horseshit luck is all but still pretty cool. Oh - having a link optimized for my keyword from the LA Times does wonders for my keyword authority - did you notice I now outrank youtube dot com in the search listings? I was ranked just below them until the LA Times link. Pretty damn cool...

Note: I hope you are getting my point with these lessons. Everything I have shown you with this short term blog can be done in any niche with any blog at any time. If any of you doubt my system of making money online just think of what I have just done with this 12 day old blog - I can't fake the results - you can check the serp's yourselves. I have a handful of links, how many does youtube have? It all comes down to SEO. I outrank youtube because I have the most keyword authority - not PR - not quality content - not because my blog is prettier or is reader friendly - or is popular with Digg and the social crowd. I attack every niche the same as this but in the case of long term blogs I write much better content.

This post will be enormous if I don't stop now. I will pick up with Adsense and other ways to monetize these blogs in the next post. What I have to show you won't just apply to these kinds of blogs but for everyone that has a niche blog already set up. In fact a friend has a blog that is in the "entertainment" niche like American Idol and since he has asked me what I would do with his site to make money I thought I would use it as an example. You can see Mike's new blog "PoP Critics" or "A Mike Life" - a Movie Review blog by clicking the link. I will show you what I would do with his sites and how to turn a buck on the traffic I am getting from Asia'h's blog.