Jun

How I made my first $7.64 from Google

One small step …

I’ve placed Google Adsense code on all of my sites now, but because I haven’t formally started the marketing process yet, I haven’t bothered to look at my account recently.

However, I was starting the process of keyword optimisation this evening, so was in my Google Adsense account.

Guess what? I’ve just made my first $7.64 commission from Google.

Hopefully it won’t put too much of a strain on their finances and stop them taking over someone like Yahoo!

So there you are, without trying I’ve managed to make £5.70 via my affiliate links and $7.64 via Google Adsense.

I know there’s a long, long way to go yet, but I must admit to feeling a similar thrill to when I started my career in radio broadcasting and I’d just heard my first report go on air … that sensation that there just might be something in this.

The key is in the words

Okay, so that’s finally a few pounds coming in rather than a lot of pounds being spent, and if I’m going to increase that amount I’ve got to get the marketing right.

I’ve been working on more SEO (search engine optimisation) tasks tonight, figuring out which are the best keywords for each of my websites.

To do that I’ve used the Google AdWords Keywords Tool, and I’m focussing on Google for the reasons outlined in a previous post about submitting URLs to search engines.

This is a really useful device for keyword optimisation.

How to get the words flowing

You either get it to:

a) crawl your site, analyse the words you’ve used on your pages, then match it to phrases that people have actually searched for.

b) you put in phrase or word suggestion of your own, and it then creates from that a list of words and phrases that people have searched for.

For this site, laptopmanpaul.co.uk, I got an extensive list of suggestions after I got the keywords tool to crawl the website.

The idea is that you can convert what your site is about to what people are searching for on the web and in doing so, create a list of phrases that will bring people to your site as having relevant content.

The more you do that, among other things like linking out to other sites and having other sites link out to you, the higher you go up the search engines.

What to do with all those words

It’s a great little tool, and having generated several longs lists of keywords, I’m selecting the most descriptive of my businesses and entering the keywords onto my sites.

There are two ways of doing this.

If they’re php websites, you enter this information via the Administrator admin section.

If they’re Dreamweaver websites, you enter the keywords via HTML in the head section:

Hopefully, by analysing keyword data and adding this to each website, that $7.64 commission from Google will turn into a little bit more.

One more thing by the way.

I’ve always been sceptical about blogs, but as I’ve said previously, every web marketing book or article I read says to blog about something that interests you.

This blog has been going only for a couple of weeks now, and half of that $7.64 commission from Google came from this site.

There’s a lesson in that I think … and I for one intend to keep blogging!