As I mentioned in my previous post, I have been doing a lot of reading about making money online (or as I put it in terms of this blog, “How to Make a Dollar a Day Online”). The biggest thing I have learned is the need for backlinks. Your backlinks and the quality of them will make or break your website and your ability to make money online.
I learned a little lesson about this experientially. I have another blog that I have recently started that is titled Bodyweight Exercise Online. I enjoy body weight exercises as a part of an overall exercise program so I thought I would blog about it. Well, anyway back to my story. As part of figuring out how Google Analytics works, I saw that it said that a number of people had visited the site through a particular post that I had made. I had taken some videos of my son doing a number of pushup variations and put it in a post. Well, one particular site scraped the content of the post and placed it on their site. However, he provided a link to my site to read the rest of the article. Well, half of the visits to the site came from this page. Most of the other visits to the site came through Google from a search on the term “push-up variations.”
Here is the interesting thing. This is the only post on the site with the words “push-up variations.” Yet I rank on the second page of Google for the term. How did this happen? I believe it occurred due to a few different factors. The first factor is the content. It is an original piece of writing that gives good information. There are 17 different push-up variations along with videos to demonstrate how to do them. Google likes content. The better the content the higher the page ranking if all other things are equal.
The second factor has something to do with the videos. I submitted them to YouTube but they can be found on many different video services. I put a link to the website in the description of the videos. I am guessing that this has had some sort of impact.
The third factor is the website that linked to my post. He provided two links to the website. One had the anchor text as the name of my blog (Bodyweight Exercise Online) and the other had “Read More” as the anchor text. When you get a relevant anchor text link for the keyword that your blog post or website is optimized for then in Google’s eyes you are viewed as more of an expert. As a result of this you get a higher ranking. So it would have been more beneficial for me if he had used the term “push-variations” in the link. But he did use BodyWeight Exercise Online in a link and I currently rank on the third page of Google for that term. I am convinced that without this link I would not have been ranked as high. I checked the page ranking of the aforementioned blog and found out that it has a PR of 3. My blog has a page rank of ZERO since it is a new blog. The higher the page rank of a site that provides you with an anchored text link the better it is. It gives you more authenticity. It also helps that the blog was a fitness blog. If it had been a blog about celebrity divorces then it would not have ranked as well.
By the way I have found two other blogs that scraped the content of the same post and did not provide a link. These site are enough to piss you off.
Understand the difference between a relevant anchored text link and one that isn’t. In the case I described “bodyweight exercise online” was a relevant text link. The second link which merely had “Read more” was not very relevant for my post or website.
Anchored text links are why it is important to do article marketing. It provides you the opportunity to leave a relevant text link back to your site on an article about the same subject. Some article directories have a pretty high PR so it lends some authority as well. A good practice would be to write three articles for each of your posts and upload them to the better article directories.
So to recap, if you ever hope to make money online or to make ten dollars a day from your site then you need traffic. In order to get traffic you need backlinks. Get out there and get some backlinks so that you can make money online.
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Making a dollar a day without a domain name that already has traffic is pretty tough and beyond the ability of all but the most dedicated individuals. Making a dollar a day from more than one site is even tougher. If that is what you want to do then you will probably be looking at developing either minisites or authority sites, as discussed on my site here –
http://www.domaining.org.uk/2007/07/30/domain-names-domain-name-monetization-minisites-and-niche-sites/
Good luck with whatever you decide, but don’t think its going to be easy and don’t believe everything you read.
Ray