This blog is relatively new. It is just over three months old. It gets a steady amount of traffic, from Entrecard, StumbleUpon, Google and directly. The traffic doubles every month, so does the income. I have a feeling that it will never be enough, traffic or money. It is not greed that drives my efforts but the fact that I constantly want to make this blog better and better. Making money blogging can be easy and difficult at the same time. Based on my experiences, I know exactly what to do and what not to do to get any blog to reach an average of at least 200-300 unique visits a day and bring in at least $20-$30 dollars a day. There is a list of things that anyone can do to get any blog into a groove; a traffic and income groove. I am even thinking of putting everything together on a PDF and make all the advice available to anyone interested. I can even charge money for that book. I am thinking of charging anywhere from $0 to $0.01. Why? Because I don’t feel that this information is that special. I am not doing anything special or groundbreaking or new. I am just reading information available online, testing what works and what doesn’t and then apply it here. Sometimes I test things out and rule out what doesn’t work. If I can do it, you can do it, anyone can.

After posting daily for a couple of weeks, I realized the importance of doing so for a blog that relies on Web 2.0 applications for traffic. As I post daily, traffic remains steady with over 200 visits a day. Past week I posted once and traffic fell to about 100 daily unique visitors.

I haven’t posted so much this week not only because I thought I should take some time and do other things, but because I wanted to see how it would do. The results were not that pleasant. Nevertheless, the drop in traffic will not deter me.

The reason why there was a substantial drop in traffic is because this blog relies mostly on Web 2.0 applications to get traffic; Entrecard and StumbleUpon being the primary sources. As the number of posts decreases so does the traffic.

In the past week I decided to change that. I want to take action and begin restructuring this blog so that it can get most of its traffic from search engines.

I have tried a few things here and there and can say that I have seen some success. I got on the first page of Google for the keywords “make money blogging” and a few others. Make money with Entrecard, Entrecard Tips, The SEO tree, just to mention a few.

Since I got on the first page of Google for the keyword Make Money Blogging and due to the competitive nature o f that particular keyword, I have dropped a few pages to number 3.

My ‘Make Money with Entrecard’ post is still number one for that search, and so is my post titled ‘Entrecard Tips’.

Even though I managed to get these two on the first page, the amount of traffic I am getting is still not significant. What I want to do is to try to get on the first page for the keyword Entrecard.

The Goals

What I am aiming to do is to get back on the first page for Make Money Blogging and perhaps some other ‘make money’ keyword as well.

Get all my Entrecard related posts on the first page for the keyword Entrecard.

Once I get back on the first page for all of these keywords, I will continue to practice with other keywords and start planning what other Marketing blogs I can create and use the same method to start making some money.

The Method

Plain and simple SEO

I did it before I can do it again.

Make Money Blogging is a difficult keyword to rank high in. So I wll need to put in some work. I will start by putting together some posts on making money, how I make money blogging, write and publish articles for backlinks, and continue to do what I have been doing but better.

To start I will wite three posts, one on how to make money blogging by writing reviews and posts, one more comprehensive one about Adsense and one more about Entrecard and how I profit by using the system.

I will focus on these three fields and see how well I do.

Make Money Blogging with Entrecard

Make Money Blogging by Writing Reviews

Make Money Blogging with Adsense

I don’t know how long it will take to complete these goals but I am thinking it should take a few weeks to a month.

Things to keep in Mind

I will try to make every post keyword intensive,

Every post will be lengthy, over 1000 words,

For every post I write I am going to publish 15 articles with backlinks using all of the methods outlined in previous posts.

By keeping my efforts focused I am certainly going to be able to see the best results possible and in the end I will know what works and what doesn’t.

If you have read up to here, I am really eager to find out what you think of all his. I am open to suggestions and recommendations.

Feel free to comment, and/or subscribe to my feed and let me keep you posted on how all this will work out.

Make Money Blogging