Here’s what you have probably already learned: If your article does not get any traffic, then it will not make any money. So, the question becomes, how can I get more traffic to my articles so that I can make more money writing articles online?

The best way that I have found to go about this is to do a better job of selecting my keywords before I write my articles. If you are really new to writing articles online, I will go into a bit of detail for you here. If you already know a lot about what keywords are, you can skip this part.

What are keywords?

Keywords are words within your article that give the reader an idea of what the article is about. For instance, in this blog post, my main keyword would be “writing articles online”. By having this keyword in my title, Google knows what the article is going to be about and will list it whenever someone searches on Google for “writing articles online”. The keyword is in my title and also appears in my article.

Getting on the First Page of Google for your Keyword.

Now, if getting listed on the first page of Google was as easy as putting your main keyword in your title and article, you could make a ton of money from your articles with very little effort. However, there may be a ton of people who are using the same keyword that you are. This creates a lot of competition for that first page of Google. So if you could figure out which keywords have less competition, you could use those and it would be a lot easier to get to the front page of Google.

Something Else to Consider

When you are looking at a certain keyword, you will also need to know how many searches it gets per month. If you choose a great keyword with no competition, and get it to the front page of Google, it’s no good unless it gets a lot of searches per month. Would you rather have an article keyword that got 100 searches per month or one that got 3,000 searches per month?

Striking the Balance

So in order to pick the perfect keyword, you will want to find one that gets plenty of searches per month and that has very little competition so that you can get it to page one in the search engines. This is extremely difficult to do unless you have the right software.

I have the right software.

I use the Micro Niche Finder software to do all of this for me. All I have to do is to type in a one keyword and it does all the work. For instance, maybe I want to write an article about organic gardening. If I jump in without doing my research and use “organic gardening” as my keyword, I will end up being very disappointed. If I use the Google keyword tool, I can see that that term gets around 40, 000 searches per month, which is awesome! Now, if I didn’t research this anymore and wrote the article using that keyword I would find out very quickly how much competition there is. There is no way that I could hit the front page of Google with that keyword.

How Does Micro Niche Finder Work?

Instead, I will use Micro Niche Finder and do a search for “organic gardening”. What happens is that a page is displayed with around 100 keywords that all relate to organic gardening. I can now see exactly how many searches per month are done for each keyword. However, now I have several advantages. There is also a column which shows me the competition strength for each keyword. I can easily look through the keywords on the list and find which keyword gets the most searches with the lowest competition. The competition column even shows you a green light if the keyword is going to be easy to rank for. I usually try to go for the best green light keyword on the list (the one with the most searches that still has a green light).

Another advantage of this tool is that there is also a column which tell your how much people are paying per ad click for that keyword. So if you are writing for a site that gives you a portion of the adsense revenue, you will be able to pick out the keywords that will pay the most per click!

If you are more of a visual learner (like me), here’s a video that you can watch that shows you exactly how this software works.

Now that you have seen how it works, you can understand just how much more money you could be making by writing articles at Squidoo, Hubpages, Infobarrel and Helium if you use the right keywords. I have used this software for about a year now and I cannot tell you how much of a difference it has made! I use Micro Niche Finder every time I write an article. I can’t work without it. I feel like if I had not bought this software, I would have been leaving a ton of money on the table at all the articles sites I write for.

If you have decided that you want to check it out, click here to read all about it and find out how you can get it.

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I have found that the easiest and best affiliate earnings have come through Clickbank, so I am almost exclusively targeting Clickbank products on my websites, lenses, articles, etc.  The reason I’m getting excited is because I am nearing my $100.00 pay out for Adsense and I am seeing clicks happen every day.  Also, I am beginning to see just how much these affiliate sales can really add up to in the long run.

I told my husband (yes, the wedding was amazing – think 4 day long party on the beach) that I want to  be working exclusively through online earnings within the next year and I KNOW that I can make it happen. Those who make their living online will tell you – stop reading about it and DO it!  They are right.  You can learn all you want, but nothing is going to happen until you get out there and make it happen.

I am making it happen for myself. I work at it all little each day – sometimes a lot when my husband is working a night shift – and I don’t give up.  My day job is physically demanding and it’s taking it’s toll on my body.  I don’t want to be 36 years old and feel like I’m 45.  I can do this.  I know it!

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I’ve been spending a lot of time on my blogs lately. I’m working on four of them, in addition to keeping this one up and running. So that you can follow along, here is what I have done so far. These are my niches:

Opening a Spa
Zen Living
Bipolar Disorder Symptoms
Free Relationship Advice

As you can see, I’ve been using the Blue Revolution theme for three of these and one of them is using the Prosense theme.  Prosense already has all of the adsense stuff built in…all you have to do is put in your publisher ID number so that’s kind of nice.  I’m debating on switching them all to Amy Bass’s Super Adsense Themes.  They look great and are already optimized for adsense.

I’ve been marketing these blogs by writing Squidoo Lenses and Google Knols about them. As well as putting links in my eHow articles and such.  I’ve also found a few affiliates through clickbank that I can use in my blog posts.  I am almost through the first month of the course and my blogs are less than a month old, but already I’m making a little from adsense each day.  I havn’t made any affiliate sales yet, though.

I’ll keep you guys posted on the development of these blogs.  I am still doing some freelance writing, but this year is going to be more about building a passive income stream for myself.

Is anyone using the Super Adsense Themes?  I’d love some feedback on those!

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