I am writing this post to tell everyone how everything is going with The Keyword Academy. I joined about 2 months ago. I haven’t had a lot of time since I was right in the middle of moving and still unpacking some. The Keyword Academy tells you to make, I think, 10 niche sites to start out with to see which ones take off. So, me being the bad student I am, only have 2 so far. They also tell you how to target green keywords and write posts and how to do the link building. I’ve followed most of that, not to the T, but pretty closely. I’m sure I have more links than I should right now for my two. But, even if you overdo it so that the links don’t look natural anymore, it will be good later on after some time and the dust settles and Google starts to like your site more. It’s really about trying to get in Google’s favor since they own the market for search engine usage.
The first month was actually quite discouraging. You set up a site, get a ton of links, and nobody comes. Interesting… where are all the people? Well, if you let your site sit for a little while, the traffic eventually comes because you start to rank on the search engines. Often times you start to rank for things you weren’t trying to rank for. I noticed my site is ranked 5th for Keyword Academy Affiliate and 19th for Keyword Academy. I wasn’t going for either of these but I’m ranked for them. I didn’t even have a post dedicated to that until this one now. I’ve been watching what terms people are searching for when they find my sites, and sometimes I may not have anything on that subject on my site but just similar sayings, so I will start to target some of the searches I’m seeing more and more.
I’ve learned a ton over the past 2 months. Even if I haven’t done a ton of work, I studied up on all the different strategies (black hat techniques, gray hat, and white hat). The Keyword Academy teaches white hat seo (search engine optimization) techniques. It also throws a little bit of gray hat techniques in there. I never want to just be told by one source what works and what doesn’t since it doesn’t give me the full picture. So, I definitely see now how all the techniques work. If you follow The Keyword Academy techniques though you will not have to worry about a site getting deindexed and receiving no traffic because of it. Whereas black hats throw a ton of sites out there and only expect maybe 10% to stick on the search engines, and they make a load of money until they get cut off, and move on to the next trick. Using white hat seo is a better, much more stable means of making money online. Plus, you’re not spamming the internet.
Internet advertising is tricky. The trickiest part is just finding out what you should advertise, how you should advertise it and what audiences to go after. I hear kids and the elderly click on the most ads which generate the most profit. But, I’m not targeting things for kids or the elderly, but I will try that in the future. I started a blog here on How To Make Money. While I can take over the competition since the competition’s pagerank given by Google isn’t very high, I did not realize when starting out to also look at how much competition there is (and there is a LOT of competition for that keyword). A strategy I’m seeing and have been told by other great internet marketers is to start low, target keywords related to your keyword but are much longer and have less traffic, because it’s easier to rank for them and then they give you a boost on your main keyword. I could go really in depth into everything I’m writing about here and I probably will in the future, but I’m trying to keep it simple for easy reading and understandability. Plus, I’m a computer geek so I won’t use all the acronyms and tech jargon that I normally do… just yet.
The bottom line is that I am just starting to see some traffic since I picked very competition niches and I’m just starting to see that traffic turn into a trickle of revenue. My longest living site is only 6 weeks old, and I’ve made $10 so far, but half of that was all last week. So, now I see that I’m just at the beginning. Yes, I put in a lot of time for $10 so far, and I am young and make just under 6 figures a year so that’s pocket change to me. But, that money is passive income (it’s residual and will keep coming) and it’s the very start to my journey. So, I plan on taking internet advertising much further. A lot of people make $100/month after 3 months jumping right into it. I just like to have better in-depth knowledge than most people before proceeding and it’s got my favor now. I will build more sites and will target many different things to find out what takes off the best. And I will analyze all the data. That’s what I’m good at, and I’ll keep posting progress here on it.
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