In this post I will set out to examine the results of my recent optimizations for search engines and show you that what I have been doing actually works. I have put together a one hour daily routine, of writing, optimizing, posting, networking and then some more optimizing and I have managed to climb up the Google ladder quite a bit. I admit that some days, on weekends, I spend a little bit more time….when averaging it out…lets say 1 and ½ hours to two hours to be fair. Anyway, my efforts have been focused primarily on two sets of keywords:

Make Money Blogging, and

Make Money with Entrecard

Not even a month ago I started making my first optimization efforts. The post from February 5 titled “Search Engine Optimization” demonstrates those efforts. Following that post, I wrote a second one on the same topic about Keywords and Backlinks. Then, last week I posted a few tips about Optimizing with Webmaster tools; tips that I had been following as well.

I did not do anything more or anything less. I did what I wrote on the above posts; as much as I could, day in and day out. The tips are simple, straight forward and easy to follow. The most important thing is that they produced results.

How many blogs about making money blogging do you think are out there? An example, there is a total of 5,000 blogs on Entrecard and 398 of them are about making money online, that is almost 10%. I think it is safe to assume that 10% of all blogs out there are about how to make money online or blogging. When searching for the particular set of keywords on Google, you are presented with almost 100 pages of sites. 96 to be exact, I went through them earlier. 100 result pages and 10 results per page, that is a total of 1000. A month ago, I noticed that this blog was hovering between pages 13 and 15. Then after a month of doing these simple but very important little things, my blog shows up at page 4. Take a look:

It is the 5^th result on page 4 which means 35^th from the top. Not page 1, but still way better than page 13.

If you have been reading this blog, then you will know by now that I like Entrecard. I like Entrecard because it brings in traffic and makes me money at the same time. On average about $10 dollars a day. Not a lot but it is a steady source of income. I am not going to get in the specifics here but you can get a better idea by reading the post Make money with Entrecard. After writing that post, it appeared on page one then disappeared and then reappeared on page 4 of Google for the particular search. Then today I noticed this:

Both my posts on Entrecard, Make money with Entrecard and Entrecard Tips are results number 1 and 2. I don’t know how these results will fluctuate over the next few days but what I do know is that I will continue to do what I am doing, as well as learn more on search engine optimization.

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