How To Make Money Blogging Online With Wordpress

There are lots of ways to make money online and lots of ways to can accomplish this.

What I am going to outline for you here is how I make money online using a wordpress blog.

It is nothing fancy just what I prefer to do based on all the information I have learned the last 4 years and the techniques that have worked based on what I have tested.

It certainly isn’t as easy as they make it out to be, to be profitable online. But when you put all the right things into place, at the right times, you should get results that stick and give you lasting income. Her is the takeway that I think is best summarized by Timothy Ferris from the “4 Hour Work Week”

Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.” Tim Ferriss

What I am going to outline here is exactly what I do everyday to every single new website I develop. It would be easy for me to say “hey, I should put this into a report and charge $37 for it…” but I am not because I want good quality content on this blog so that it can rank well.

Plus if you really search hard enough all of what I am going to tell you is free anyway on the net.

If you follow what I outline here in the pages that follow, you should have a good process to develop a blog/website using wordpress and be successful at generating money to it within a couple of months.

The first thing you will need to do is pick a topic for your website. You will find all sorts of ways to do that but the first trick is to identify something that you are passionate about.

I am a big believer that you first have to pick a topic that you can find passion in, hence I enjoy writing about making money online so www.alanjenks.com is about making money online.

Yes I am competing in an over saturated market, but the point is I enjoy doing it. I also have lots of domains in other markets, specifically health because I am passionate about natural health.

Don’t let anyone tell you that the market is saturated and you won’t make money. This is simply just not true as there are some really cool tools available now that allow you to find money in virtually any markets online.

My preferred way to begin a site now is first with market research. I need to pick a domain that has a keyword in it and I want to rank naturally in the search engines fast, so I want a keyword that is searched for and will be relatively quick to rank for because I want to know that it is going to be profitable quickly.

So Step 1 is going to be Market Research

I am not going to beat around the bush on this one.  Identify a good keyword domain can be sped up by using the Market Samurai software.

Go get a copy of Market Samurai and enter your keyword or Passion topic and follow these steps. An example would be “make money online”. You want to find a keyword that has good traffic about 80 searches a day and minimal competition less then say 50,000 competing websites.

Below are the videos that I think give the best explanation of how to use Market Samurai to identify good keywords for your topic. I simply could not come up with a video any better then the ones below on how to find keywords for the website you are going to build with wordpress.

Once you have downloaded Market Samurai, which you can try it out for free, and most of the videos are relavent to the free videos. Once you have watch the videos continue to the bottom of this page.

The key with building any new website for me is identyfing the keywords that you are going to use in your domain name and for the first couple of articles you write.

It is possible to find good keyword in any market, you just have to have the patience, and using Market Samurai makes it easier. You can do this using the google adwords keyword tool, but it takes longer to do so for the cost of the software, Market Samurai gets you building a website that much quicker.

As an example, I just looked on Market Samurai for the topic “Weight Loss”, I then opened a new window for the term “Acai Berry Weight Loss”. I then filtered out keywords with less then 80 searches a day. I then found a keyword “Acai Vitamins” that has 204 searches a day and only 6000 competing websites.

As we move forward I will use the keyword “Acai Vitamins” as my example in the next steps.

Your Actions Steps Now:

1. Give some thought on what your PASSION is? My example above I used “weight loss” as my PASSION
2. Download Market Samurai and follow the video instructions on how to do keyword research. I used Market Samuari and used the term weight loss to identify the keyword “Acai Vitamins” as my starting keyword for step 2.

Once you have identified your keyword you can now move on to Step 2.

Found your Keyword? Click Here To Go To Step 2