This might seem like a really silly question to ask, seeing that the main focus of this article is the importance of keyword research, but the most important question of all you need to ask yourself is, whether or not you want to make money writing.

You can make money writing in different ways, you could of course work as a freelancer meaning that people give you specific topics, keywords and requirements and a deadline for you to finish the job. So if that is the case, you really don´t need to keep on readings since you won´t be doing any keyword research anyways.

Another way to make Money writing however, is to publish your own writing on a website or blog and monetize through any of the many options that are most suited in your situation. Keep in mind though that there are big differences between writing for afíliate marketing or content used to generate adsense clicks.

So, back to the initial question, do you want to make money writing?

If your answer is a dead honest YES,

go to The Keyword Academy without losing any time!

I think this is the basic question you need to ask yourself, because the answer to it will greatly influence the amount of time you need to put in, doing your research for the article you are about to write.

If your answer to this question is a straight forward no, you might as well skip the rest of this post and move on, if the answer is yes I am sure you will find some great help in the things and experiences I am about to share so stick with me.

There is another answer that I see popping up frequently though, that might be considered to be grey area and it is given by those people that feel that their writing should be more important than the money they make, so they answer:
“The quality of my writing is so important that I don´t care about keyword research, people will find me because my writing is good and I am a likeable sincere fellow, but it would be nice to get some extra cash, doing what I love.”

Ding-dong you are striked out for not being sincere to yourself!

You either DO write for the money, or you don´t.

If you say you don´t write for the money and thus you think you don´t need to care about keyword research (almost as an excuse not to do it), you should not have a single possible money maker link on your blog. You just write about what you like, whether people get to read it or not and that is the end of the story.

However, if you do want to get a bit of extra cash, why would you have to feel guilty about preparing yourself in such a way that people will actually get to find you through the search engines and not just some trickle traffic either, but actually a good visitor stream, looking for the exact information you are offering in your writing or through the advertisements on your blog.

To me it feels like people are actually ashamed to be wanting to earn money by writing blogs, or that it is just “not done” in the blogosphere or that making money with blogs is some sort of sin, ´cause it is supposed to be fun”.

Well guess what … I started off with this blog because I wanted a place to share my experiences and had already made up my mind to just write and see whatever, ending up in Google rankings for keywords that will never ever make me any money unless some company all of a sudden decides to pay $$$ per click on my first name.

However, ever since I joined The Keyword Academy, I have been able to actually set up little Niche blogs, based on very specific keywords that pay a few bucks per click and actually been able to plant them on page one from Google for those specific keywords within a matter of weeks, meaning that they are getting very targeted visitors and actually make money even without having touched most of them for months. They are there and every so often I might direct another link to them to make sure they don´t start dropping, or when I feel like it, I might add another post, but that is about it, while I continue working on other sites which are highly targeted.

So… Do YOU Really Want to Make Money Writing?

Get off your high horse then and stop nagging about wanting “to do the right thing” or “really wanting to offer a great service” and stop dreaming about becoming this famous Blogger with great writing skills!

If you really want to make money writing, you must truely understand the importance of Licking the right keywords. I´d go even further by saying that you must understand what a keyword really is. So far this article is made up of a little over 800 words, you could say that any and every Word in this article is actually a keyword, every combination of words is a longtail keyword.

Cause folks… a keyword is nothing more and nothing less that the stuff people put into a search engine to locate the information they are looking for. So why is it important to understand this? If you have a website/blog, chances are you are not spending all your time without wanting other people to see it, right?

Plus… if you have a blog about say, Randy Pausch, his Last Lecture (btw… if you need motivation, go find his video on youtube, it is life-changing!) and the importance of prioritizing important stuff in your life (like fun, time you spend with your family and enabling dreams) chances are that people looking for a place to walk their dog are not going to find what they are looking for on your site and they will soon hit the back button.

And whooheee even if you can say you had another visitor, that visitor in fact is worthless if they did not click the right botton that generates your money. Capish?!

Confession time… I have spent months if not years beating myself on the head going at it all wrong cause one part of me “wanted to do the right thing and not sell my soul to the devil”. I “wanted to make a difference” and only write about what I love and know about, because otherwise I felt I´d be cheating on my Readers and visitors. Yeah right … On some level I was even lying to myself cause hey, if I could stick to that level of personal values, I also had a great excuse for running a blog that really didn´t make any money. Duh!

So I got envolved in the blogosphere, had an awesome time linking to friends and chatting, commenting and socializing and meanwhile I was learning that all that so called activity was very lo won the productivity chart of actually making money online. Granted, I got to become a master in setting up new blogs, themes, plugins and the lot and that does help me nowadays when I actually do set up new blogs, but beside that it has pushed me to look into the mirror and face up to myself…

Never ever ever underestimate the power of keyword research and writing keyword focused articles. That does NOT equal bad writing or low quality sites, you can still be a great writer and put your passion into it, but make it a passion to actually see your adsense account growing, receiving affiliate program checks coming in, make it your passion to combine quality writing with making money, make it a passion to find lowcompetition keywords with high potential.

I never understood that last bit untill joining TKA to be honest. Yes, I heard some people talk about it, but it wasn´t untill I actually was given a fireproof way to check the Earning potential, that I was actually able to start building money making sites!

So in case you wonder why I haven´t been writing here a lot recently, now you know, I changed my tactics, started working the way is taught in TKA, and seeing those results, I just wasn´t inspired anymore to spend hours writing posts for this blog that generated zilch results.

From all my experience in The Keyword Academy, I could now easily write 5 posts a day for this blog, seeing the amount of information I am getting with my membership is of such high quality, people really need to find out about it if they are serious about making money.

But frankly, seeing that a month trial only costs $1, I think you should just go there and give it a try. You can always cancel before the month ends, you have all the control over your membership without having to contact anybody to cancel. Once the month is over, you´d be paying $33 a month but even it is was just the monthly webinar you´d get for that price, it would be greatly underpriced.

Where in this day and age do you get straight forward and life contact with people that earn thousand and thousands of dollars weekly if not daily, and actually get to pick their brain for the duration of the 2 hour webinar! How much is that be worth to you?

For those of you that feel that $1 is a “big risk”, this is what you are getting the moment you sign up:

• Access to the membership area and forum that is populated by some very experienced marketers, who participate and share their knowledge.
• Access to the TKA directory where you can obtain zillions of links to your websites, all keyword anchored and do-follow, so no lame links.
• Access to a wealth of webinars you can download, that each in themselves are worth more than the monthly membership.
• Free access to Connect Content (originally valued at $12 a month, for the time being only opened for TKA members), a fabulous place to Exchange links, some coming from PR4,5 and higher websites, that will hugely grow the PR of your sites and google rankings.
• A monthly webinar you can participate in and ask the real big earners direct questions.
• A blueprint to finding high Earning keywords, exact calculations to know the monthly earning potential, so you know ahead whether you are investing your time and effort wisely. Taking in account the competition and the relative ease to land your site with those keywords on the first page of Google. (that is where you want to be in order to make money!)
• TKA is growing and adding more and more features to the program continuosly so get in while you still can!

I just wish, sincerely wish, that all those people that keep giving others advice without making any real money online, would just shut up and sign up for the TKA and once they see the value of this place, recommend it to others. Because really, I myself have spent so much time, so much money and almost got knocked by the game of online money, almost threw in the towel, thinking it was just too hard. And I know that in this time of global economical crisis, so many people really need to know how to do it, yet get sucked in by scam products promising them online riches in a matter of weeks. While the solution really is right in front of them… The Keyword Academy rocks!

Because really … The Keyword Academy is on the move up and it won´t stop growing and become an even more impressive place filled with big money makers…

You want to learn to make money online writing?

Then you should only learn from the best, only learn from those people that are actually making tons of money and willingly share their knowledge, their blueprints and their exact ways that are guarantueed to make you money as well, as long as you are willing to follow their plan step by step and work at it.

And, as for my opinion… if you feel keyword research is not important, you might as well keep on blogging, but please, if you don´t make any bucks, don´t advice others how to write or research and less even, talk about how you think money is made on the Internet because you are not only fooling yourself, you are actually dragging whole herds of others with you down the drain!

Stop fooling people, stop giving advice about online money, just go to the TKA and you will see for yourself why I am so hyped up about this club, why I have been a member for months and why I am planning to stay there for the rest of it´s excistence.

If you have any questions, please feel free to comment below!

See you at The Keyword Academy!

A few nights ago, The Keyword Academy organized another monthly webinar for their members. This webinar was all about how to build a $5000 a month supersite and boy did it hit home!

First let me tell you something about these webinars you get to sit in on as a member of TKA. Court and Mark are the people running these webinars for their members and each webinar is around 2 hours of length. You can sign up for these webinars through the TKA member area and then when it is time to start all you need to do is go the link they give you and you are in.

They treat one specific subject and during the duration of the whole webinar you can ask them questions which they will answer during some time of the webinar, giving you excellent value, after all it is not easy to directly answer questions to successful MMO-ers and these guys are highly successful, raking in thousands and thousands monthly.

I believe these webinars alone, justify the $33 TKA membership, they are a great learning tool and even though you can download the webinars a few days after they aired, I prefer staying up late and sitting in so that I can ask some questions important to me.

I won’t go into details on the webinar, seeing that you can easily watch it yourself if you sign up for TKA (and the $1 membership offer for the first month is still available so it really can’t be the cost that is holding you back) but what I will tell is that it gave me at least 4 pieces of information on things that I have been doing wrong so far and that, when doing them right, will make a huge effect on my income.

So by the time the webinar ended, my head was spinning and I felt this excited buzz, and even at 4.30 am in the morning I was wide awake, making notes and post its to stick to my working area, making sure I would make the necessary changes as soon as possible.

The more I get into the habit of working along the lines of TKA, the clearer it becomes that this is probably the best “program” available for people wanting to create a stable business online and at the price it stands now, it is offering incredible information.

If you haven’t looked at The Keyword Academy yet, I really urge you to do so if you are serious about making money online and are not afraid to put in the work that you need to. Be realistic. If you are not focused and still looking to become rich overnight, spending your money on all different things, thinking that will give you the golden secret, this program is probably not for you.

In fact, recent threads in the forum indicate the membership price will probably go up in the near future, as Court and Mark are adding more and more resources and tools to facilitate life as an internet marketer for their members, and one of the reasons for upping the price is to make sure that people are really motivated to stay and work with all that they offer, or just leave.

This move in my eyes will be a good one. Yeah it kinda sucks to pay more, but on the other hand, my first month I only paid $1 and actually made well over the regular $33 membership price by applying just some of the information that I learned inside.

The second month I paid full price, $33 and made more use of the information, participated in the webinar and even though I was unable to work during most of August, I still made well over the $33 membership price.

I am going into month 3, paying my membership tomorrow and will do all I can do to make sure that I can justify staying a member of TKA but more importantly, will start using some of the excellent tools that facilitate linkbuilding, getting more sites and articles on page 1 of the big G.

Why I prefer TKA to any other MMO membership program:

• It is geared towards creating a substantial, monthly recurring income online

• It is geared towards building a network of valuable sites, which will either bring in monthly reoccurring income or be an asset you can actually sell.

• It is based on quality long-term results. Quality research to make sure you only put effort in what offers high income potential, quality content, optimizing your websites etc.

• I feel Court and Mark are offering incredible value for money, as long as you are willing to put in the work needed, you will find not only high standard information, but also enter a network of people already making it online, have a place to ask questions that will actually be answered, get to join in on link exchanges and tools that can highly increase your link building, plus you get a change to directly get your questions answered by experts.

Mark and Court have shown their dedication to helping others through their websites, offering free quality information for a long time and not only talk the talk but really walk the walk for themselves. For as far as I gather now, their goal with their Keyword Academy is to build a selective community, helping people really dedicated to making money online.

Yes, they offer a $1 trial month, and if you are an info addict you could scrape all the information and leave it at that, no questions asked. You can just give up the membership by cancelling the payment through your own paypal account, so you wouldn´t even have to contact them.

However, they are so sure of the information, webinars and tools they offer, and will be continuing to improve their program, that they feel everybody should at least have a look to see what it is about and whether the program is  for you, especially if you are serious about your affiliate marketing business and you want to put in the elbow grease to make it work.

To be honest, I think the program is only for people wanting to really work hard now and get ahead in life, but that of course is up to you and only you.

Who Should Join The Keyword Academy?

• People new to making money online, still a blank canvas, so they don’t get diverted by low quality information

• People dedicated to making money online, but still in a blank as to what really works.

• Experienced MMO´ers who want to crank up their online income, by using specific information, targeted high paying keywords and linkbuilding strategies that are proven to work.

NOTE: I recommend you only join The Keyword Academy if you are really really really motivated to work and make money online; this is not a program for the faint hearted, wannabees or instant cash mentality. If not, you better spend your money elsewhere, and get out of online business and into a regular job.

The Keyword Academy is open to all members and it doesn’t matter whether you are new to making money online or actually been going at it for years.  I personally had been going at it for years, and even though my income did go up using the methods taught by The One Week Marketing Plan, I kept feeling something wasn’t going the way I wanted. With TKA my income keeps increasing, but now I can actually be sure I am creating high value websites that are my own, bring in search engine traffic on a steady base and keep increasing in value.

I really feel you should check it out, especially since they are still offering the $1 trial month, I am sure it will blow you away like it did for me, and if you follow their layout and work the way they tell you too, you can easily build small websites with a monthly potential of $50, $100, $250 up to … thousands of dollars monthly.

They say the sky is the limit, but that is not the case …. YOU are your only limit!

If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below, I´d be happy to answer them, seeing that I love The Keyword Academy!

Learn how to build a $5000 a month site at The Keyword Academy

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!!