You need “buying keywords” to make money online with SEO
So i wanted to address one the main problems i see when people pick keywords to target on the search engines. Been a while since my last post so thought i should enlighten all you folks about it.
One mistake i consistently see people make when targeting keywords for SEO purposes is not targeting specific “Buying keywords”. An example of this is the post here http://www.wickedfire.com/newbie-questions/60279-lemons884-journal-will-noob-succeed.html where Lemons884 is documenting his progress in the SEO world and how his sites are doing. Now i don’t want to criticise as hes doing more than most people as the majority of newbs overanalyze the whole thing and never actually get anything done. So far hes built a site about track and field events and dates when things are happening which on the face of it sounds good right? I mean he can probably sell sneakers and other running equipment to people while they browse right? Wrong, the majority of people who hit this site will be looking for information about track events and wont actually have making a purchase in mind. Does that mean he will never make any sales? No he will get some eventually but it will never reach the levels that he wants it too until he targets the right keywords. Instead of track and field events why not target the phrase “discount running shoes”, how many of the people who find you with that keyword have making a purchase in mind? Probably about 99%. If you want to make real money with SEO then a sale or purchase should be No1 driving force in both your mind and that of your vistors, everything else is secondary.
Ill give you another example, a friend of mine wanted to start a TV show review site. He was going to have listings of popular shows and reviews of each episode, then he would have affiliate ads for the TV show box set DVD beside it as people might want to buy. Sounds good on the face of it but its the same scenario as before. 90% of the people who hit his site will be looking for information assuming hes targeting keywords like “tv listings” or “southpark show review” then those people don’t have making a purchase in mind. Much better to rank for something like “region free sopranos box set”, everyone searching for that has a purchase in mind as it’s not information and you cant get it for free.
So there you have it a little information from my tiny brain, ill probably have another usefull post sometime next year 
Welcome to earning money online
So this is my first post here on Earning Money Online and i have to say its a very exciting time. Never before has there been the opportunity for so many people to make a second income or even fulltime wage from the internet. The great thing about the internet today is that in order to build a website you really need little or no programming knowledge. For instance setting up a blog on many of the free blogging sites is as easy as signing up for an email account on Hotmail!
So what are my methods for making money on the internet? Well im going to get into that in alot more detail in future posts but let me just that that its no-where near as difficult as you might think. The main concept that i am going to preach is getting traffic from google (if you haven’t heard of them then this may not be the blog for you!). Traffic from google really is the key because it converts into real money if you target it right. Too many people today are going after social traffic such as Twitter and Facebook without any idea how they are going to make money from these people. The key is to know what the people hitting your site are looking for. Now i know most people who come to your site will be looking for something but the key is if that thing is an item for sale. Let me explain, if someone searches on the internet for “funny videos” then its very unlikely that that person is expecting to make a sale during their time online. For a start funny videos just isn’t something anyone expects to pay for. However on the other hand if they hit up google and type in “Phone charger for Nokia 9500” then this person has a real need to buy something and thus they are much more valuable. Take it from me i would take 20 visitors looking for a phone charger over 10,000 looking for funny videos any day.
I know it may be a hard concept to understand but at its heart it really is about quality over quantity in all cases. Now i know many of you may be looking at google and thinking how can ever compete with the No1 sites at the top, especially if its a big brand site like ebay or amazon. However alot of the time these big sites are just there as a default because they have trust and not because they have necessarily done alot of work to rank for that specific keyword. Now this does not mean that they are easy to beat but in alot of cases there is more to the search engine results than meets the eye. Most of it does come down to practice but hopefully over the next weeks and months you can share my knowledge of ranking sites on google for profit, maybe ill learn something too!
Making money online – my first post starts here!
So this is my first post here on Earning Money Online and i have to say its a very exciting time. Never before has there been the opportunity for so many people to make a second income or even fulltime wage from the internet. The great thing about the internet today is that in order to build a website you really need little or no programming knowledge. For instance setting up a blog on many of the free blogging sites is as easy as signing up for an email account on Hotmail!
So what are my methods for making money on the internet? Well im going to get into that in alot more detail in future posts but let me just that that its no-where near as difficult as you might think. The main concept that i am going to preach is getting traffic from google (if you havnt heard of them then this may not be the blog for you!). Traffic from google really is the key because it converts into real money if you target it right. Too many people today are going after social traffic such as Twitter and Facebook without any idea how they are going to make money from these people. The key is to know what the people hitting your site are looking for. Now i know most people who come to your site will be looking for something but the key is if that thing is an item for sale. Let me explain, if someone searches on the internet for “funny videos” then its very unlikely that that person is expecting to make a sale during their time online. For a start funny videos just isn’t something anyone expects to pay for. However on the other hand if they hit up google and type in “Phone charger for Nokia 9500” then this person has a real need to buy something and thus they are much more valuable. Take it from me i would take 20 visitors looking for a phone charger over 10,000 looking for funny videos any day.
I know it may be a hard concept to understand but at its heart it really is about quality over quantity in all cases. Now i know many of you may be looking at google and thinking how can ever compete with the No1 sites at the top, especially if its a big brand site like ebay or amazon. However alot of the time these big sites are just there as a default because they have trust and not because they have necessarily done alot of work to rank for that specific keyword. Now this does not mean that they are easy to beat but in alot of cases there is more to the search engine results than meets the eye. Most of it does come down to practice but hopefully over the next weeks and months you can share my knowledge of ranking sites on google for profit, maybe ill learn something too!
