The Cheater’s Way To Blogging For Money
My brother stopped working for the computer shop he was with. Instead of just allowing him to bum around the home, I decided to teach him the basics of blogging for money. It’s really a CHEAT though - I really just handed him the reins to some blogs I had. Still, there are some important learning pointers that are worth sharing.
The Cheats
The first big cheat is that my brother didn’t have to through all the things I went through while learning. He has been quite effective that in this first week of blogging, he went from around 3-10 cents a day up to 40-50 cents per day (in US dollars). That’s quite a feat.
The other cheat is a significant amount of his initial traffic is coming from this site (Jozzua.com). I’ m just basically redirecting a bunch of people to his site. He’s leveraging of my initial hard work. That’s fine with me - my goal is for him to eventually make money on his own. Giving him a head start could just encourage him.
The third big cheat is that I already designed the website to make a bit of money. It was quite optimized yet very user friendly. It’s not entirely designed to FOOL users to click on AdSense (like most other websites I know). In fact, it’s quite usable and the bounce rates on that site are quite good.
Quick Money-Making Lessons
I outlined some lessons for him and planned to give him a 3 hour lesson on problogging. But he woke up late on the day of our blog training session and I was in a bit of a hurry because I had some errands to run. So, instead of the long lesson, I just made him dive right in the the nitty gritty.
- I told him download all these programs:
- Mozilla Firefox portable edition, so he can have his own browser he can take anywhere and had some settings that would be separate from the other browsers in our shared home computer.
- Google Tool bar Mozilla Firefox Add on, to automate logins to Google Services
- Screen Grab Mozilla Firefox Add on, so he could take instant snapshots of web pages. - I told him to create an account in Google Adsense, Analytics and Gmail. I briefly told him on what to look at once he’s ready:
- Daily Adsense Income
- Daily Website Analytics - I handed him control of one of my project blogs. (I won’t share it here for his benefit). I gave him the login and password info.
- Quickly taught him to write a short article about the niche the blog was in. Wordpress is pretty easy to use and he immediately grasped how to do it.
- Taught him how to install the Adsense Code in the blog.
After an hour of preparing his blog. I went off to do my errands. I told him to come back and see how the blog will perform in Adsense in around 6-8 hours.
He did and found that he earned 3 cents for that day.
Days Later…
I handed him a local magazine copy where he could get some source material for the website. Since we were targeting a local (Filipino) audience, a lot of material we needed weren’t really available online yet was readily accessible if people just bought a magazine.
So there’s another big cheat: Get local content and use them as source content for your online material.
By the end of the 4th day, the blog was getting $0.30 a day. By the end of that week, it hit $1 on one day.
Blogging Reminders
Three things I kept reminding him:
- Monitor the Adsense Income Daily (it should be the first thing he does when he gets online)
- Monitor Web Analytics Daily
- Keep updating the web site’s content.
I haven’t started teaching him Search Engine Optimization yet. I soon will.
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Comments
I hope you could teach me as well
You seem to be a good tutor …
he he he GO GO GO Josh … maybe this 2008 bloggers will mark you as one of the Top Bloggers for this year
Hehe. Too busy Junelle, just keep reading.
2008 bloggers? Top bloggers? I doubt it.
So, how old is your brother? He seems to be much younger.
Ah.. He’s younger than me by four years. Not really young. Just that he went on to a different, non-corporate career path - an internet cafe shop attendant. Oh well… family.
It is a nice cheat.. ha ha ha
Yeah. Today he just got $2.57. His site is picking up.
Hope you can train me as well
Gabby, you know all this already!
Very interesting, this is a good way to get people started… I know other people make it seem so complicated by bombarding you with a lot of heavy stuff. This would have to be the idea way to get a newbie started in blogging.
Thanks for sharing the post.
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