Making Money With Blogs: Find Your Niche

To earn Google adsense money, we must first start at the beginning. Making money with blogs isn't difficult, but making an acceptable amount of money can be.

Making Money with Blogs Step 1a:

The single most important step in making Google adsense money through your blog is your blog's "niche", or topic. How do you create a blog that is going to get the traffic you need to generate the money you desire? Find out what's HOT. There are two sites I usually browse to find out what are the current hot topics on the internet.

1. Google Trends (http://www.google.com/trends) This tool gives you a list of all of the current hot topics on the net, with updates every few minutes. Great tool to find your blog ideas and topics.
2. Yahoo Buzz (http://buzz.yahoo.com/) This is another tool that shows you the hottest news stories and topics for the day.

Both of those tools are very useful.

Once you have a list of at least 5 hot topics, continue on.

Making Money with Blogs Step 1b:

Now you have your 5 topics. Next, we need to eliminate the topics that are going to prove to be too competitive and a waste of time. What we do next is find what keywords are going to drive the traffic to your blog. To find this, we need to use Google Adwords keyword tool. Let's use college football as an example.

We see that "bcs rankings" is very hot now, according to Google Trends. So what we need to do is, find some keywords that have a high search volume, but not many supporting pages. How do we do this? Using the keyword tool, we search with that topic.

Google gives us the following results:



Making Money with Blogs Step 1c:

Now we take the top 8 results, and go to www.google.com and search for those keywords. It is important that you search for those keywords with quotation marks around the term, this will give us only the exact matches for those terms which is what we want.

What you are looking for is a search-to-results ratio of less than 30. To get this ratio, we take the number of pages google shows for the keyword (with quotes around it), and divide it by the number of searches each month.

Once we have narrowed it down to keywords with only a ratio of less than 30, we look for the keyword that has the least amount of google page results. And I believe with this topic, we have found a short term gold mine with keyword: bcs college football rankings

This keyword is your golden ticket to Making Money with Blogs.

Stay tuned for the next steps as we continue on our way to Making Money With Blogs.