If you are trying to make money online but seem to be struggling, barely getting more than a few hundred bucks a month, The Keyword Academy might just be your missing link.

When I first started out trying to make money online, I thought it was going to be really simple. Just put up a site, get some traffic to it and money would start rolling in, or at least that is what many people wanted me to believe it would be like as long as I bought their product first. For some reason I have held on to the simple believe that making money online really isn´t that hard and my learning curve has been bumpy.

I would stay at the same level for months in a row, even though I was doing what I thought was right, and only the occasional “big hit” would keep me going, knowing for sure it was possible to make a living online, I just had to keep at it and plough away working long hours. Somehow though the work that I was doing wasn´t in a direct relation to the money I was earning and like many others I started looking for ways to improve on my return on investment.

I ran into the One Week Marketing Plan that thought me about the importance of keyword research and keep building and linking, and that plan really gave me a big jump ahead. I had been a member at Clickbank for years but it wasn´t untill I got hold of the OWM that I actually started receiving paychecks and seeing more and more sales coming in.

Sweet, really sweet and if anybody asks me what to do when wanting to start making money online, the OWM certainly comes recommended. There is however one glitch to this system and Potpiegirl mentions this herself as well, and that is that in fact you are building your business based on free sites. This shouldn´t have to be a big problem when you stick to the rules, but building your business around free sites has one big drawback… YOU are NOT in control!

I already mentioned having problems with this in the past, when Squidoo didn´t let me access my accounts and didn´t answer any of my attempts to get in touch with them. Since then the problem has been solved somehow, miraculously I would say and basically it looks like it was all based on a glitch in the system.

It did leave me with a stone in my stomach though, feeling I really needed to make sure I was spending more time on my own sites, seeing that I would have way more control over them and I would be able to sell sites and my content in case I wanted to as well.

So I started with FirePow, which I will be posting about in the near future to share my experiences, but right now I wanted to talk to you about The Keyword Academy because it has shown me a huge amount of things in a very short time which I feel could be very benificial to you. Look at it as the missing link in your internet marketing efforts if you aren´t making a lot of money yet.

I am sure you must have heard about the importance of doing keyword research before spending hours and hours working on your site and if you are anything like me, you may be trying to avoid what is probably the most fundamental part of making money online.

RESEARCH RESEARCH RESEARCH

Yep, it is that important to do your research before anything else! But at the same token, don´t let this part freeze you up in your tracks, even though it is probably the most important thing to do when getting started, it is a START. Once you have done your research, you will have to put in the elbowgrease and get to work, creating sites and content and building links, which will take up quite a bit of time.

Back to the research part. Imagine you have an idea to build a site, and just go ahead working on it, writing content, spending hours creating backlinks, writing articles to submit to directories, asking for link exchanges and at one point you start seeing your site showing up on first page in google, receiving more and more traffic each day.

Now, that is a pretty awesome feeling right? Seeing your traffic going up, seeing the number of subscribers grow and your blog receiving more and more comments from peer bloggers. What a great feeling and boy does it grow your ego! But … does it really grow your bank account if all that movement around your site is coming from people that are not willing to spend some money, people that aren´t looking to buy the answer to their problem, don´t find the product they are looking for or are not clicking on any of your ads?

Nope … it won´t get you zilch unless you decide to sell advertisement space directly or offer to write reviews, basically selling link juice on your blog.

This is why you need to do your keyword research before anything else, to make sure that the keywords you are going to target in the future are profitable.

The Keyword Academy – The Missing Link

TKA is run by Court and Mark and both of them are making bick bucks with adsense. If you have ever done any research on making money with adsense and never came across their names, quite frankly I think you should be ashamed of yourself, because these guys have been giving away their information for free for years, high quality top notch information geared towards teaching people to make money online.

I remember when first opening this blog, I actually came across Court´s site and was hooked. I spent hours and hours and hours reading and over year ago I wrote a post about the 3 bloggers that have most helped me in this business. Court is one of them and when he opened The Keyword Academy I made sure I´d read all that came out from there.

A few months ago they set up a private area for members but at the time I was so busy doing other things I put it on my “to-do list” but I kept it on my mind. Anyways, I have now been a member of the TKA for a few weeks and I can only say I am more than impressed with the information and videos they are handing out.

These past few years I have been a member on and off on different sites and programs, all with the thought in the back of my mind that I needed to be a member to learn how to make money, which is why I was a bit weary in the beginning to sign up for another membersite (other then my domains, hosting and the UAW I try to stay clear from recurring costs!) but the great thing about the TKA membership site is that you can test all the information for 1 dollar and if you decide you aren´t getting anything out of it, you cancel your membership through paypal before the month is over and that will be the end of the story.

Being able to cancel your membership through paypal, means you don´t have to contact anybody, you don´t have to give any reason for stopping the membership or anything like that. You just click on unsubscribe and you´re done.

There are two types of membership, the basic one that costs only $29 and the premium account at $33 that also gives you access to the member forum and allows you to download the monthly seminars with Court and Mark (just the seminars are worth that money already!) but both memberships give you access to the keyword crash course videos, showing you how to locate keywords that are worth persuing so that you only put effort in keywords that will make you money.

By the way, before I forget to mention, the links leading towards TKA in this post are my affiliate links and Court and Mark only allow paying members to become affiliates. This means that the only people allowed to promote the program are actually those people that know what they are talking about, because they are actively using the system.

And because I feel this system can really improve your business and I stand 100% behind the knowledge of these two guys and the quality of information they are offering I would like to invite you to try the TKA for FREE the first month.

Yes, you gotta pay the buck to get in, but if you are that short of cash, I would happily return you the buck to your paypal account. I just feel this is a too important opportunity to pass on and I just know from being a member myself that those 95% of the people online not able to make money would highly benefit from The Keyword Academy.

I would recommend you to go for the $33 option so that you can get support in the member forum, which is proving to be a very helpful place, members helping each other and Court and Mark giving away more of their tricks and insights.

Anyways, have a look at The Keyword Academy and let me know what you think. I´d be happy to answer any questions so let´s see those comments!

PS Just in case you didn´t quite get it, TKA teaches you how to find profitable keywords (with a minimum of $50 monthly earning potential per keyword), find if they are worth going after by looking at the competition and knowing whether you can rank well for those keywords before actually building your site. TKA also offers a step by step guide, breaking down the “homework” into digestible steps so that you know exactly what to do in order to build a profitable site and build links to generate traffic. PLUS you get access to the directory of an ever growing number of blogs where you can post short articles to build links PLUS join a private group of TKA members to facilitate blogroll exchanges.

Check it out!!

They say the first sale is the sweetest and I have to confess that when I received a text message from MoreNiche last night I was absolutely thrilled, almost like a small kid that was lead to a candystore and told he could get whatever he wanted.

Now I have been making more sales on all different products from all different places and generating money with adsense and other means to make money online, but this particular sale is completely different. It is loaded with the taste of success, happiness and an unexplainable feeling, almost like a breakthrough.

If you have been reading this blog and following a bit of my path you will know that one of my biggest struggles has always been my lack of focus. I know I have a lot of capabilities between my past experiences, ability to speak several languages fluently and overall I don´t consider myself to be lacking intelligence.

But to be honest, I was jumping from one thing to the other, starting up new projects here and there, and doing the basics only long enough to come across yet another “possibility” that would get me off track.

So why is this first sale so sweet to me?

I had made a website last summer (feels like ages ago now) when I first started pursuing MoreNiche to promote a certain health product and posted several times on this blog about the progress and my thoughts about his particular affiliate program.

• It is starting to work out
• Update on my new venture
• It all boils down to making a decision
• Too many things to do, too little time

Now you can see that the first post about this program was in May and it actually took me all this time to finally land the first sale there. My cheeks are blushing with shame almost for having taken so darn long, and to be honest I was about to give up on promoting those products and just going back to working on other projects.

So I had set up a website in html, added a wp blog to it and for some reason I just did not like the site. It did not feel good to me, the design was off and there were a lot of things I felt I had done wrong with it and somehow I just couldn´t drag my sorry ass to start changing the things I wanted to change.

I had already promoted a bit, submitting articles and building links but that nagging feeling was just there. It didn´t rock my boat, plain and simple.

I was left with 3 options:

• Do a total makeover which would cost me a lot of time and work to get it to the point where I would like it.
• Leave the site and forget about promoting that product and go to “the next best thing”
• Fully analyze the site, write down what should be different, write a “plan of attack” for a new site, keeping in mind to avoid the mistakes I had made earlier and do a better job, sticking to the outline and plan.

Obviously after pondering these three options I decided to go for option 3 and I came to that conclusion for a few reasons.

• It is a fairly new product that has great potential in my eyes.
• I have tested it myself with very good results, so I felt really comfortable promoting it because I am convinced it is something that can help a lot of people.
• Honestly, I did not feel I had been promoting it the way I should have so far.
• The things I have learned over the last half year would now give me a better shot at trying again.

So after I had made the decision to give it another shot I was looking at the MN forum which I have found very helpful so far. They say that coincidence doesn´t exist but the first post I read was by one of the program managers and it gave me an idea for a new domain that would be perfect to build another site and start promoting the product in a different way.

If you have come as far as reading this and are interested in a detailed report of all the steps I made to get this first sale and reasoning behind all of them:

You should come back on Monday!

For now, have a great weekend ya´all!

A few weeks ago, Alex from Net Entrepreneur wrote an article about using Adsense on a site related to the MMO. What he said is that people in MMO have become blind to ads and normally won´t click on them (although Griz is proving otherwise with his MMO blog and gives many reasons why it can work, all throughout his blog).

There is one point Alex makes though, which probably indicates the difference between Adsense working well or not at all, and that is the type of traffic you get and how they arrived at your site. He suggested to manually put in adsense ads, only on specific pages that started picking up on organic traffic, arriving at a certain page through a search engine, looking for specific information.
I thought that was a pretty cool idea if you are only running a few sites and you can spend quite some time on checking all your stats and tweaking and twitching every single page to “perfection”… but what happens if you are running many different pages, 20, … 30, …. 50, …. 100 or even more?

Well, it looks like I found that answer when opening up my inbox this morning and found a post by Court, How to Show Ads to Search Engine Traffic. (BTW… congrats on breaking the 3000 RSS mark!)

Court has found a plugin for wordpress, making it possible to select which type of traffic sees adsense ads. For example, you can set up your blog in a way that only traffic coming from searchengines will see Adsense ads, while visitors coming from social sites, entrecard, regular visitors who have bookmarked your blog etc, won´t see the ads at all, therefore probably increasing your CTR and thus in the long run getting more revenue per click.

Could this be the answer?