There are countless make money online blogs out there. Just search for the keywords, make money blog, or make money blogging and you will get 10’s of millions of results. The general consensus is that most of these blogs are worthless. Some are automatically made and a vast majority contain regurgitated information. Some have been created and then abandoned. I don’t disagree with this notion completely. Nevertheless, I am a firm believer that somewhere between the vast lists of search engine results lay a few blogging gems. Aside from the big boys and girls out there, the big money blogs…there are many smaller, or medium sized blogs pursuing the money keywords that are well maintained, their authors are passionate about what they are doing and they are good sources of information.
For me, a blog is a good source of information when the author(s), the bloggers do not only preach, advise and point to information but they also try out what they suggest, make sure what they tried works and then if it doesn’t they still write about it. These people will engage in experiments, try things see what works and not just write about something just because a supposed blogging guru did so. I personally like the blogs that are maintained by bloggers who try things out. I will subscribe to those blogs, learn from their successes or mistakes and compare results with what I have managed to achieve.
One of these blogs is zdiaz.com. Zidiaz.com amongst other things deals with money, money management and making money online. You can four great posts on investing in the Philippine stock market in the financial management and investments category as well as a post with Money saving tips. By doing so, this blogger is creating content that includes the money keywords that will in the end help this blog rank higher.
In terms of getting blogs rank better in searches, there have been a few things that caught my attention. Aside from focusing on the money keyword, writing about money management and providing tips on saving and investing, at zdiaz.com you can find some interesting SEO experiments. To start, I want to mention the importance of understanding Google Trends. Anyone who is interested in optimizing a site for search engines must decide on a few keywords. These keywords should not only be relating to your content but also keywords that search engine users will look for. Before you start optimizing you ought to check that there is a high volume of searches for a particular keyword or set of keywords. You can do that by using Google Trends. You can get a better idea at zdiaz.com, and by reading a good breakdown of Google trends and high volume keywords.
So, following his own advice, zdiaz.com embarked on a journey of SEO exploration determined to achieve high rankings for a few keywords. To do so, this blogger, picked different keywords with lower competion than make money blog, money money online and so on… and created a couple of posts. I found two posts one for Mr. Bean and one for Googel and Googol, two words that are almost like Google but not quite…Nevertheless, people search for the words and a site can get visitors as long as it ranks well for them.
Zdiaz.com SEO experiment
Charlie Bit Me is a youtube video that has been viewed 15,694,744 times. Videos this popular are increasingly becoming a vehicle for blogs to attract visitors. This blogger is doing just that. By creating a post that includes this video he is trying to get some traffic from search engine visitors who are looking for it. Well, the searches for this video seem to have peaked according to Google trends but still zdiaz is doing a good job in ranking his blow well for the particular keyword.
Here you can see that zdiaz.com is in moving up in the SERPS and has managed to get on the third page of the search for the keyword Charlie bit me.
By having a widely popular video like this one on your site can help drive traffic. It will not necessarily be traffic that will read your posts but will possibly generate a few dollars if they click on a few advertisements or buy something off your site.
As I mentioned in the beginning of this post, I enjoy reading blogs that have information that is derived from actual experimentation, from trial and error and can give me, one more newbie blogger the opportunity to see first hand what works and what doesn’t. Zdiaz.com is one of these blogs. I will definitely keep going back for more.
I have written a post about the two stages a blog can be in. These stages are the experimentation and implementation stages. The post is titled: Blogging experimentation and implementation, it might be an interesting read if you are still figuring things out yourself.
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