How to make money blogging with the right keywords is what I’m going to discuss right now, and it goes hand-in-hand with the blogging experiments Dave and I have been running.

Choosing the Right Keywords

First, for you to have a decent chance of success, you need to select keywords that have demand, but very little competition.  We’ll use this post as an example.  There isn’t a ton of demand for this keyword phrase, but there is also very little supply.  So the chances for me getting to the top of the search quickly are pretty decent.

Now, that’s the example for just this post — what about an entire blog?  I mean, this particular phrase “how to make money blogging with the right keywords” certainly isn’t worth a blog in its own right.  But it makes for a great post!

Supply Versus Supply

If you do a search in Google using the keyword phrase in this post’s title (without quotes) you’ll see 2,680,000 records returned.  OK, put the quotes around the phrase and the number goes down to 326.  Quite a difference, right?  So one supply figure is wildly different from the other.

You want the keyword phrase in quotes to be as low as possible.  I try to keep it under 1,000.  I’m even happier when I can get it under 500.  And I’m ecstatic when it’s under 100.

So know your supply numbers!

How to Make Money Blogging With the Right Keywords - Update

This is still the grand blogging experiment that you can read about in the previous post.  I have an update from this morning.

David and I decided to play hookey today and spend some time away from the computers, so we went to lunch, took a long leisurely drive, then grabbed a smoothie for dinner.  We came back home and I checked my newest blog.  Yay!  The traffic has started coming in.  Then I decided to check my standings in Google by typing my keyword phrase into the Google search bar, with and without quotes.

With quotes, I came up in the #1 and #3 spots!  And even more exciting, without quotes I was in the #4 spot (I was at like 9 or 10 this morning)!  This, mind you, for a blog that was just born a couple days ago!

How did I manage this?  One, it was by checking both supply figures and making sure the search with the keyword in quotes was as low as possible.  Two, it’s making sure the demand for the keyword is worth the effort — if the number of searches is too small, it’s not worth (to me) making a blog on.  For my keyword tool, I use the free version of WordTracker.  The numbers you see in this tool are the number of searches on a daily basis.

Normally for a single-product blog (if I have a specific product for sale as an affiliate), I want to have a keyword with at least 1,000 unique visitors a month.  That’s roughly 33 people a day.  If it was for an informational website where I was featuring Adsense instead of an affiliate product, I’d want that number much higher — at least 5,000 people a month.

The other way I managed it was with the exciting blogging tool I found last week.  Keep in mind that I’ve been writing online for several years (mainly full-blown websites), but I have never, ever had this kind of search engine success before!

I’ll keep you posted as to how the blogs do.  Meanwhile, go out an check the free version of Wordtracker and run some phrases through, see what kind of demand shows up.  Then pick some keyword phrases from the list WordTracker returns and drop them into Google search, both with quotes (“how to make money blogging with the right keywords“) and without quotes (how to make money blogging with the right keywords) and see what kinds of numbers you come up with.

There’s another tool you can use once you’re familiar with the way WordTracker works.  Unfortunately it’s something that costs money (although it’s pretty inexpensive), so that’s why I recommend the free version of WordTracker for now.  Get used to doing those searches, and being aware of what the numbers mean.