My Second Step Way To Make Money Online

UPDATE: Before I begin my third post, I would like to update you of what is happening right now in this ugly plain blog. Make Money Online With Donny is now sitting up on the front page of Google at number 9 and 10 for the keyword make money online with donny after I had written my second post. Please click the image to enlarge.

It only means that Google had paid my sacrifice somehow for the first step I had made in this blog. That for only 5 days I got indexed already for the blog title itself ( the blog that you are reading). Looking at for the other keywords like "make money online, make money blogging, make money donny" were not yet achieved by this blog for its too early because this blog was only born last June 3, 2009. If you were able to follow the first post which I had written last June 3, I think you were also got indexed right now. For those who haven't read yet my first post, you may catch it right now. We need to aim the highest page rank in order to get more traffic which means that the more traffic or visitors the more click on your adsense to make money.

Sorry for the long introduction... For the first step, I had written an example of a first post which tells about the initial description of this site. It's now ok that somehow we had an initial post which tells Google about your topic. But before we proceed, it is important that your blog have dress up with a design and let's understand some important terms used when making a blog so that as we go along, we are still on our track. This will begin our topic Second Step Way To Make Money Online.

Learn To Customize Your Blog

Customize your blog is somewhat synonymous of designing it. You want something the way it looks, like other sites with stunning graphics. Just keep in mind that in this step, we will try not to spend a single centavo just to design this site. I don't want to spend for almost $70 just to make this site beautiful and eye catching. The objective of this step is to customize this site from the scratch which means we will only first use the tool which is available at Blogger.com. Assuming that we have no idea about the sites where we can get some useful templates or tools in designing our blog. I will show you the basic ways on how to do it simple. Sorry for the experts who are reading this blog. I don't mean to insult your intelligence but some people do not know how to do it.

Here's how:

Using Blogger as our blogging software, just click CUSTOMIZE then it will prompt you to the overall Layout of your blog. Under that column it consists of the following: Page Element, Fonts and Color , Edit HTML and Pick New template. Let's get into detail for each:

• Page Elements -This column consists of the parts of your blog. It is important that you need to understand each parts. Adding gadgets are available at blogger like putting adsense on it. I will discuss detailed about adsense on the other topic when we start to monetize this blog. For the meantime, you will need to plan initially where to put your adsense on page elements. Aside from that, you will need to create your own account first and have it approved by Google. Adding gadgets of adsense have no use at this time because it will only appear public service ads. Adsense content will only appear when your application had approved by Google. That's the start of making money with your adsense clicks when you have more traffic.
  

Let's now keep on track....

Each gadget consists in your page elements can be drag into different positions whatever the way you want your blog to look like. This will test your creativity without spending your money for the design. Take a look of example I had made for my own blog. Click the image to enlarge.

Now, you can make your own design other than what had shown above.

• Fonts and Colors - This column helps you to choose the color and background of your blog. Just click on each items to change or modify the looks of your blog. When you prompt on this page you will notice the view of your blog page at the bottom. Such changes will automatically reflect immediately when you made changes on each color background, text font, text color etc. Just don't forget to save changes you made in order to take effect.

• Edit HTML - This column is somewhat technical. But if you are knowledgeable of HTML, you can modify your template by applying those HTML codes. I will not tackle that topic here because in the first place, this is make money online blogging steps that we are talking about. Besides, I don't have a knowledge on that too.
  

I have one co- blogger here in the Philippines who also make money online by blogging. He's expert in web design that' s why his blog page is not as ugly as this blog. You can add your own preference on how you will present your site to the public and make money on it. Take a look at the snapshot .Click the image to enlarge.

That blog above was number 1 blogger in the Philippines. He achieved and earned a lot of dollars for adsense. He has a good strategy when it comes to SEO tricks. Again, for the meantime, I will leave that topic for another post. You have to believe of what you are doing now. This is not just a one day steps to make you successful in making money online. It will take time and efforts. Let's proceed with the last one:

• Pick Template - This is the template selection. You may choose what templates you really like. Learn how to tweak the looks of your template by adjusting your fonts and colors for background and text. As a beginner, you don't need stunning graphics for the meantime. Let's just concentrate on the basic first on how we can get a traffic and be rank high on Google page. You may want to expend dollars for your graphics? Later, when you earned a lot of money using this ugly blog.

I think that's over in customizing your blogs. Now, lets try to find out some other factors to considered and understand in order to move on my next post.

Understanding Some Useful Terms

• Indexing - This only refers to search engine. How will you know when you're blog topic had been indexed? Just simply query the address or URL of your site in search engine ( i.e http://makemoneyonline-donny.blogspot.com). If it happened that your blog exists, this means you have been indexed. If it tells you " no similar document on your search" that means you aren't indexed.

Most common search engines are Google, Yahoo and MSN. Let's take a look on Google. Google was one of the familiar search engine. It has come up with the algorithm which is the brain of the Google which determines the relevancy based on several factors. There are some factors that we don't know and some we know and they are:

• Age of the Website - If the website is older, the more it will be get indexed. Because older sites will get higher preference than the new one. This is to avoid spamming.
  

• Page Content - producing a good quality content on your topic and a unique content and materials will get you indexed faster than the one which was copy and paste from the internet. Copy and paste of the content will get you into trouble of copy writing.

• Keywords - As I had mentioned on my First Step on Making Money Online, keywords must be used in the entire article. The rule here is to use your keywords 6 to 7 times per one hundred words or keyword density of 6% to 7% of the entire article. Don't use your keyword too much for you maybe get in trouble that Google might identify your blog as spam. This will lock your account and will get you deleted from index.

• Volume Content - Search engines like more pages on website. As you continuously adding pages and content on your blogs will also continously crawl on your blog and get you listed in page rank.
  

• Page Rank - This is what I would like to emphasize to you. Not all web pages that had been index have page rank. One reason here is that Google was not yet ranked your web pages or has been indexed but recognized as supplemental pages. You can read more on supplemental pages.

• Backlinks- This is a link pointing to your site which is also called hypertext. This is one of the difficulty for the blogger. To get more backlinks in order to determine the relevancy of your webpages over the others. The more backlinks coming from the high page ranked website you got, the higher the page rank you will got or the more important your pages. There are 2 types of backlinks: the two way and one way backlinks.

Those useful terms mentioned above will also get tackled as we go on our blog topics for better understanding.

Now you may proceed to write your next article following this second step way to make money online.

Don't forget also when writing the content of your blog, you must follow this rule:

• Try to write for about 400 words.
• Use your keyword in the blog title, first and final sentence.
  
• Use your keyword in the article at least 24 times ( for whole article).
• Try to use bold letter on your keyword at least once in your article.
  
• Put link field.

I think that's enough for today. I feel dizzy coz I haven't sleep yet.

Stay more on Steps Way To Make Money Online.

Have a Cheerful Day!

-Donny