The SERP journey is a hard one. Achieving your goals, getting to where you want to be, can be a difficult and gruelling task that takes time and effort. The destination is to climb as high as possible on the SERP ladder, from one SERP to the next and until page one is reached. This post is an update on a previous one I wrote about the same topic, titled Simple SEO is Paying Off.

The SERP, or in words…search engine result page is where a list of websites is returned after a search query. To start your own SERP journey you need to pick a vehicle, a set of keywords, and do what it takes to keep pushing, climbing, keep that vehicle oiled up and gassed up to keep moving. If you decide not to pay any money to climb this ladder, you will have to make sure that you constantly optimize. I didn’t pay anything, but it is up to you to decide what you are going to do.

I have been working on getting this blog rank well in two sets of keywords. Make Money Blogging and Make Money with Entrecard, both ‘make money’ keywords. One is highly competitive and the other one…not so much. When searching for the keyword ‘make money blogging’ Google returns about 100 pages of results and ranks the list of 1000 websites based on their popularity.

For the keyword ‘make money blogging’ Google returns 1000 results from about 14,600,000. This means that there are 14,600,000 other websites that also have articles or posts about this topic and have these particular words appear within their pages. As a result I have to rank better than a lot of pages to actually get to the top. The competition is fierce. I wouldn’t be surprised if I found out that every blog out there has a post or a paragraph with these keywords. I wouldn’t be surprised if you have a blog about making money blogging too. Or if you don’t you have probably thought about it.

Almost a week ago I was impressed when I discovered that this blog was the 5^th result on page 4 for the particular search (You can see what I mean by reading Simple SEO). This means 35^th from the top. It got there after floating anywhere between pages 12 and 18.

Today, I noticed this:

It is second on page 3. So in a week it has climbed a few steps and now is one whole page higher. It climbed from page 4 to 3, from being result 35 to being result 22, in less than a week.

Aside from working on the ‘Make Money Blogging’ keyword I have been working on a similar one but less competitive.

Searching for ‘Make Money with Entrecard’ will only return 140,000 pages. This means that there is only 140,000 pages where these words appear in, in one way or an other.

This blog has continuously been on the first SERP for a while now and holding the number 1 spot strong.

Aside from the number one spot, indirectly I hold a few more. It is my hubpage, my bloggingzoom page and my digg page. It all helps…

I am not getting that much traffic from being number one for this keyword, but I am hoping that as Entrecard becomes more popular the number of people searching for ways to monetize will increase.

I am not going to get in the details on how you can rank well in SERPS, I have already written a ton on the topic. Here are a few things you can do, some…

Simple tips:

1. Get backlinks from indexed and well ranked pages
2. Write a lot
3. Place keywords in Title, in post, in blog
4. Interlink your posts with keywords

You can read more about SEO and how to rank better in SERP’s in the following posts:

Optimize with Webmaster tools

SEO-Keywords and Backlinks

Submit Articles

Or if you are part of Entrecard and you don’t really care for search engine traffic you can always read about ways you can Make Money with Entrecard.

At this point, the only thing left to do is to encourage you to help me keep you posted! Subscribe to my make money blogging feed.

Happy March 8^th!