The free blogging software from Wordpress has become a popular tools to use as a content management system. With the thousands of free plugins available you can create and manage pretty much any type of website. For all the lazy people out there, there are tools you can use to automate the task of adding content to your blog. Auto blogs make use of RSS feeds to automatically pull news from other websites online and add them to your site. How do these relate to making money online? Let’s explore further.

An important part of marketing is ranking high in major search engines such as Google, MSN, and Yahoo. To rank high you need to have links pointing to your website so they think your content is important and worthy of top placements. Many marketers use auto blogs to artificially create links to their important websites in hope of ranking high in the search engines.

Setting one up is easy, you have a couple of ways you can do it. One way is to use a free hosted solution offered by Wordpress or Blogger where they will setup and host your blog with your own unique URL. The other way is to download wordpress and install it on your server. From there you want to grab one of two free plugins to grab feeds from the Internet. Look for Feed Wordpress or WP o Matic plugins and install them. From there you can setup to pull RSS feeds and have you blog automatically update.

Using this method also allows you to make money online directly. You can add affiliate link and/or Google adsense to monetize the site itself. You can make a few bucks and over time cover the minimal time you spent setting up the website. Some marketers do this to the extreme and it is possible to make a few hundred dollars a month setting these things up. Basically all you have to do is multiply your efforts and have hundreds of auto blogs going. Not only can you make money online with them but also have thousands of links available to your other site to rank higher in search engines.

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So, it’s been a while since I last posted and quite a bit has been going on. I am amazed at the amount of information available online to learn about pretty much any aspect of doing business online.

I’ve have taken the last little while to test out as many areas as possible setting up websites, marketing campaigns, content ideas, linking, and more. I have to admit that one of the most overlooked aspects of making money online is truly testing out things you read.

Landing Page Design

Took some time to research the best practices used and have come to the realization that landing pages are probably one of the most important factors in making money with your website. The KISS rulle applies where by you have very little time to catch the users attention and by creating a simple easy to read page for the visitors is how many of the experts roll out their money making ideas.

Getting Quality Links

Most of us rely on getting link exchanges manually by contact related websites or responding to a few of the many received via email. A few months back I was introduced to the concept of creating your own website network and then use them to promote the sites that you are trying to make money with. The concepts involve building websites from scratch and signing up for blog services like Wordpress.com or Blogger.com to use some of their domain popularity to benefit your sites. These examples are just surface level concepts but I ran a few tests and by implementing the suggestions was able to get a couple of my websites ranked higher in search engines in a matter of weeks.

Content

It’s still one of the most important parts of making money online. There are many tools you can use to try and auto generate content. By using RSS feeds for example is a commonly used way, integrate some kind of application that alters the text and your content is all of a sudden unique and ranking in search engines for many long tail keywords. This practice is considered a grey area of marketing, but is used by many leading marketers to make money online.

These are just a few areas that i’ve been researching and testing over the past few months. I will take the time in future post to get into them in more detail. Making money online is an ongoing process and the learning process is ongoing. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments to making money online.

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