Having your website indexed by Google means that your domain name will at least show up in the search results if you do a search query for yourname.com. As a present example, you can type in newventuresuccess.com in Google and you will find that there are no direct links from Google to this site. The results that come up all have newventuresuccess.com in the description somewhere, but there are currently not any link backs directly from Google. This can also be a good comparison for all the major search engines. The top three still remain as Google, Yahoo, and MSN so I just usually use those three for comparison. If I type in the domain name newventuresuccess.com into all three search engines I will get a different result. The biggest difference that I currently notice is that newventuresuccess.com shows up in the top results at Yahoo and MSN but the site does not show up at all on Google.

Once the site has been indexed by a specific search engine this will then open up the opportunity to receive traffic from other keywords than just using the actual domain name for the search. This page could eventually show up for the keyword “make money online” because this keyphrase is used throughout this blog. Depending on the competition for the keyphrase “make money online” the results would vary between all of the search engines. For example, MSN could have the site listed somewhere in the top 300 results and you would not find the site listed in the top 3000 at Yahoo. This all comes into play AFTER the site is indexed in the search engine. If newventuresuccess.com is not listed in the actual search engine results then there is no way that the keyphrase “make money online” would display any search results for the site at all. If done properly and with a lot of luck, you could conceivably get a top rating for your chosen keyword on the first day indexed. However, I usually just concentrate on getting my site listed first.

I have been working on this site for three weeks now and have been making updates almost daily. I am posting regularly and have added some backlink opportunities. The domain name is one that I have had for more than a year and the site has always had the same theme: How to make money online. Even the previous owner of this domain name followed the same theme. It is with all this knowledge that surprises me that this site has not been indexed by Google yet. I have made several attempts at “doing it right” but seem to get zero search engine traffic to this site.

The fact that I can’t seem to get this site indexed in Google has got me thinking about all of the other sites that I have up. The reason that I always make such a big fuss about not being indexed in Google is because I have seen the results of sites not indexed and I have seen the results of those that have, and the ones that have been indexed always get more traffic. The only other way that you can get valuable visitors to your site is through backlinking, and this can be a very tedious task. I worry about the other sites that I have been putting up because I own quite a few of my own domain names, currently about 75 that I have for my own personal use and probably another 75 domains of previous web design customers. The reason that I have my own domains is bcause I am trying to make some money off of them and the reason I keep my customers domain names is because if I don’t, the previous customer will let them expire and then a year or two down the road they will want the name back but some domaineer would have purchased it and will sell it back for way too much money. These domain names only cost around $7 per year and without too much effort you can at least that much in a years time just from the previous traffic that was coming to the site.

I have mentioned my goal of creating 50 blogs in my previous posts. Given the fact that I have multiple domains and right now I only have about 10 operating blogs, I really want to concentrate putting up blogs for the domains that have been indexed by Google first.

I have written a couple of posts that have vanished somewhere between my iPhone and my server. I put in the effort to write the thing but when I hit “publish” it takes longer than usual to publish and then when I go to look at my site to see if it actually published, it is gone. On a positive note, they weren’t very good posts.

I think that I will end this one now to see if it works.

I am very excited to report that WordPress has just put out a new update for the iPhone. They now offer landscaped input! There are also other updates that were included but none better me than the landscape input.

I have already become a fan of using my iPhone to blog with; mostly for the convenience. My biggest and only complaint has been that you could not type in landscape mode, this really slowed down the whole process. Now, I am typing away almost as fast as I could on a normal size keyboard. The new update and the app itself are well worth the free price of admission.

If you have ever had any excuses not to blog, you should rethink your reasoning. The whole process has become quite simple. I am a firm believer that there is still a lot of money to be made off of Internet marketing and I think that I have stated it enough that WordPress makes the whole operation possible without having to have too much knowledge of web design. Basically, all you need is hosting and a WordPress blog and you are in business. Content truly is king and the convenience to add that content has arrived.

If you are looking to make money online then you need to start a blog and keep it up to date. The competition is fierce and you need to develop good habits if you plan on sticking with this for the long run. The only way that you can compete with the competition is that you need to be consistent in your habits. The people that don’t lose their focus are destined to be the clear winners in the online marketing race. Do yourself a favor and keep your site fresh with content, it will pay off in the long run.

Lately, I have one site that is kicikn’ some but on traffic and revenue. It was the success of that one site that encouraged me to start this blog. It also motivated me to set my current goal of setting up and maintaining 50 blogs in 50 different niches. Currently, that one site is pulling in a little over $200 per month. I started calculating the math and figured I could eventually get to my six figure goal if I had 50 sites bringing in $200 per month.

When your doing this much writing (and you’re not really a writer) you start looking for constant reassurance that you are doing the right thing. I mean, I am investing a lot of time in this plan and there are no guarantees that it will ever payoff. Chances are, if this whole thing does pay off, it won’t pay off until years from now.

Yesterday, I decided to take a closer look at my $200 per month site and was little discouraged by my findings. As it turns out, it looks like the search engine traffic might be coming from misspelled keywords mixed with a broken link (or two) in the resulting page.

A few years ago I purchased a program called Directory Generator. This program takes a list of keywords that you have to create yourself ahead of time, and goes out and queries the search engines for the results of each keyword. The program then creates a web page for each one of those keywords and then displays a directory of the search engine results on each page. In my case, I created a list of around 2000 keywords. This resulted in the Directory Generator program to create 2000 pages on my website. I then had to upload all 2000 pages to my server. This whole process can be a little time consuming and requires a bit of quality control. After your done uploading all 2000 pages you’re not really in the mood to make any corrections. My ending result turned out to be 2000 web pages that basically pulled the meta description for all of these keywords, and then, when the program created a link back to the site with the description of the resulting site. The backlinks on my website all resulted in broken links. I think I am earning money because the only links that work are the ads.

This whole scheme is working fine for now but I am sure that the search engines will discover these bad pages and eventually lower my rankings.

Since I put up that site I have purchased a new Vista computer and for some reason can’t get the Directory Generator program working to correct my problem.

I think that the moral of this story is that there is money to be made on the Internet. However, I am starting to think that it might take some serious effort to get legitimate results that will hold the test of time.

Once again, I find myself typing away with no guarantees of future success. The only other thing that I can say about this is that if you plan to take on blogging 50 sites you had better plan on enjoying writing.

I noticed that I am spending a lot of time writing about how I am getting my site set up and most of that conversation is about all the great features in WordPress. I was thinking that maybe I should be spending more time writing about how to actually make money online, but then I figured that you need to get things set up first before you can even start to make money online. Therefore, I will continue discussing the set up proccess until there is sufficient traffic to make some money off. At that time I will discuss actual numbers.

I have several blogs that I am currently working and I have been fortunate enough to post to all of them on a regular basis so far.

Today, I was able to get a couple of clicks on the ads of one of the blogs that I have been working on. Previously, I had not received a click on that site for months. Hopefully, I am heading in the right direction.

Being new to this whole WordPress thing I have been sifting through some of the stuff in the admin section and am truly amazed at the capabilities that are included in the WordPress program. I have spent years coming up with new ways to easily implement data throughout an entire website. I always wanted to code it myself because it would give me more control. I think one of my proudest moments was when I discovered PHP includes, this sped up my entire proccess exponentially and I was happy.

Move ahead a few years and I have discovered WordPress Widgets. These allow me to add just about anything to my website with one simple click. I can change my site often and have ultimate control.

Widgets also make it easy to change out affiliate programs and advertising. This is very convenient because you aren’t stuck with the same outdated information or sale item on your website for too long.

Widgets allow you the convenience of concentrating on the content of your site as opposed to wasting your efforts on the look, feel, and operation of your site.

Now that I have discovered one more tool to add to my arsenal, I should be more prepared for the onslaught of traffic that will be coming to my site very soon.

There are a bunch of ways to attract new visitors to your website. First and foremost is to build relevant and fresh content. Once you have that down you need to go and find traffic wherever you can. The more permanent the solution that you come up with the better off you are. If you can find some forums to post to these will sometimes give you a little bang for the buck especially if you can assist in helping out with a relevant problem. You always want to put a link back to your site wherever you can, this will get people surfing through your site to see what you have to offer. The whole idea Is to get some fresh eyes on your site. If they like what they see then they might be more likely to come back.

One thing that I have learned is that persistance usually pays off. All you need to do is show you are an authority on the subject and the readers will usually come.

Whoever says that you can make money just by sitting home and doing nothing is crazy. I know it is possible, but only after you invest some time and effort into a website.

Once you have the site created and attracting some solid traffic then you could possibly sit back and do nothing for a while until you started losing your traffic due to inactivity.

Since I have rediscovered WordPress I have been busy converting my other sites over to WordPress and trying to keep up a blog on as many of them as possible. I just really enjoy the ease of adding all of the Web 2.0 technology to my sites with the click of a button.

I have read a couple different schools of thought on the subject of having several blogs or just one or two. If you have one main site instead of many then you could really concentrate on building the traffic to that one main site. However, I am a believer that certain niches will automatically receive more traffic than others just because of the popularity of the niche.

I can write on several different subjects and if they all pay off I will hopefully avoid spikes in income throughout the year.

The main problem with putting up all of these sites is that it is time consuming to get them set up properly. I admit that I would have more time to spend on one site if I wasn’t so busy building a network of sites.

Anyway, I am up to four of these blogs and I still have to go back and see if I missed anything on the set up process.

See ya.

I have found all of these great affiliate programs that will allow me to monetize my site but they are all pretty useless until I start getting some traffic.

I have been working hard at coming up with ways to optimize my site to bring on more traffic. Here is a list of some of the things that I have done in the past few days.

1) I went looking for Wordpress plugins and found a few that should help.

a) SEO pack - I have heard that this is a must have and it does a good job of adding titles, keywords, and descriptions into your meta tags.

b) Google sitemaps - it is supposed to be a good thing to add a sitemap to your site. This allows the Google robot to come to your site and it will go to your sitemap page which will tell Google where it should be looking for new pages.

c) Most Popular Posts - I added a plugin that will display a list of my most viewed posts and it shows a tally of how many times each post has been read. This probably won’t help in gaining any traffic but at least it gives me an idea of how many times my posts have been read and let’s me know which ones are popular. That way I would know that I should post more on the popular subject matter.

2) I created a Twitter account specifically to go with another plugin that I have that will automatically post my blog headline to Twiter with a link back to my site. This is done through the RSS feed on my site.

3) Speaking of RSS, I added a large RSS feed button to encourage people to subscribe to my RSS feed.

4) I added my feed to feedburner.com but I am still not quite sure what that is for.

5) I added my own homemade link exchange system to the site to encourage link exchange to build traffic.

Needless to say, I have been making a lot of changes, hopefully they pay off.