Lets talk about something that is fairly important. I have been asked in the past in order to make money online with blogs, does it matter if my keywords are in the domain. I used to say not really. But until more recently have I been using exact keyword domains and ranking in top 3 spots with 0 inlinks in Google. I am able to make money faster than ever with new domains. First off, I know what I have told some of you. Yes I did say buy preowned domains. I still say to do that, but I also know that if done properly, You can immediately rank in the top of Google right from the get go.

What that means is that I am making money at a faster rate than ever with less work. Does it take work to make money online? Of course it does! Don’t think that are easy ways to make money on the internet with little to no work unless you want to lose your butt on PPC campaigns. Thats another story, but the fact of the matter is, keyword research still proves so valuable with this method as well.

Now that leads us to this MMO site. Would WhataWookie Be ranking better in Google for the term Make Money Online and even Make Money Online free if Make money online was in the name of the domain? Yes it would. While I have gone after branding this site more than being concerned with the words make money online in my domain name, I probably would have done things a little differently, and went ahead and registered a name with those keywords in it.

I really am not worried at this point though because the site already ranks for plenty of MMO keywords, and it also is being found in Google for things like Make Money Wookie and Make Money Online Wookie. This tells me that the branding part is working. Now let me ask you a question folks. If you are building a site to make money with, do you build it to brand the site, or do you build it to rank in Google?

Organic traffic is the most important traffic a site can ever have. While I will probably sell this site down the road, and for that purpose I have branded it, branding is the least important thing when monetizing a site, unless you have an ecommerce site where you are hoping for return buyers.

Let me repeat this to everyone that has a social blog, or trys to make money with twitter and other social sites. Organic traffic is the best traffic for adsense and other types of ad placements for a blog or even a static html site. If you are trying to make money with social traffic then i’m sorry, I don’t have tips for you.

Can you make money online with forums is the question? Obviously you can make money online with just about anything. The question is how much time will you invest, and how much maintenance is required. You have to ask yourself what are you willing to put into a forum, just like anything else.

Over the last few weeks I have gotten into one of the laziest slumps I have ever been in. Several factors in my life have caused this, and I have gotten into a rather slow manner of getting things done. This kind of made me think about the upkeep of a forum, and if how my business was based on forums I would be so behind unless I had a solid group of moderators.

Forums can make money no doubt, but use of bandwidth, finding advertisers, and getting members seems like a lot of work. I see forums with thousands of members sell on sites like Sitepoint for so much less than it seems they should be selling for. Then I see a blog which has had very little done to it with very little upkeep sell for the same or more.

If you are someone like me, sometimes it is a challenge to supress ideas. If you have an idea it is really important you weigh the time to manage it and build it, and decide whether the payoff is great enough. For me running a forum is not in my interest.

I think this is so important for new people looking for ways to make money online. because making money blogging is not the only option to take, you really have to decide if it is in your business model to do or not do something. Something I will tell anyone that plans on building something for profit is not to jump in and figure out whether its worth it later. Do the math from the start. Going half the distance only to find that you are investing more work than you wanted is just setting you up for failure, unless your plan was to sell your site whether it be a forum, blog, or some other type of online project.

So for those of you planning to make money on  forum, just be willing to put in lots of time and effort until it takes off. Even then there is no guarantee you will have a very popular forum. It will just take tons of work to find out.

This is the first thing that I have promoted at all on WhatAWookie, and for good reason. This site isn’t made to peddle crap. The only things I will ever bring to your attention are tools that I use and have value. One of them is Unique Article Wizard which I have more recently been using quite a bit. I can’t begin to stress enough why this tool is a must have for anyone that wants to make money online blogging.

So here is a review of Unique Article Wizard by me to those of you who may have considered it or haven’t even heard of it. Basically when I first heard about UAW I was a little skeptical because the sales page looked a little bland and to be honest a bit scammer looking. I have been using Article Marketer for a while, but more recently have had nothing but problems with them, and canceled my account. I had heard of Unique Article Wizard before, but didn’t give much attention because I wasn’t too sold on it.

I decided to give it a shot and was very surprised. In my opinion it blew Article Marketer out of the water. First of all, it allows you to use different Author Alias names which is really important for me since I didn’t want people to track all my sites through the same author name on all of the articles I submit. Article Marketer does not allow you to do this. Another friend who many of you know very well, had a problem with his pen/alias name using Article Marketer and they rejected articles because they said his name didn’t seem real. Unique Article Wizard has never given me a problem whatsoever and I have used a bunch of aliases. In fact they encourage it.

Another positive that really has won me over with Unique Article Wizard has been the option to make multiple articles that can be mixed to overcome duplicate content. After submitting my articles I figured it might take 3 or 4 days and that I would get some rejected like with Article Marketer. I was shocked when they had already begun article submission on the same day I submitted it. What’s more is I looked in Google and sure enough, there were already links showing up from the article. I only wish I had signed up with these guys earlier.

When you first log in there seems to be quite a few options in the process of submitting an article. The tutorials and suggestions with videos have been excellent as well, and the support is top notch. After using Unique Article Wizard, I am spoiled and will never go back to Article Marketer.

If you want to check out the sales page and signup or not CLICK HERE.

I am happy to release this aqua blue theme called “Make Money Online Blue”. This theme is simple and gets the job done. This theme is sidebar widgetized and footer widgetized, and ready to make money. The idea with a wordpress theme hat is used to build niche blogs is to have a minimal look. The less glamorous, the better. With that in mind the theme does not have a cheap look to it, but rather is clean and still simplistic in nature. I hope you all enjoy it. If you have any questions just let me know.

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I have been in and around the hosting industry now for several years now, and I can tell you there is a lot of money to be made. There can also be a lot of headaches to be made if you don’t get a solid game plan if you are wanting to scale the income. haven’t you ever wondered why they call hosting plans a reseller hosting package? it’s because you can do just that. Resell the hosting.

I have seen quite a few people make some really good money building around this business model. HostGator is by far the most reliable hosting company you will find. Every hosting company has its positives and negatives, but if you are looking for good hosting support, and 24 hour around the clock service then HostGator is the way to go.

OK so I know a lot of you are already saying, “Hosting is way too competitive. How would I get business?” I can answer that with a question. When you created your first website or blog, did you have any idea what hosting company to go with? You sure didn’t, and neither did I.

If you want to be successful and make money online with hosting, you are going to need to think on a local level. Would businesses in your area tend to trust you or the internet? Obviously they would feel more comfortable talking with someone in their town or city.

If you are a go getter, and you want to make some money online then you are going to talk to people everywhere you go. Create business cards, and add the things you are good at on them. This might incude blog setup, hosting, and if you know how to build html websites you might even put web design on there. Make sure you do have knowledge of these things or you might get yourself in way over your head.

The more you pass out your cards, the more word will get around of what you do. Makes sure to drop them off whenever you go to business establishments and get people talking about what you do. You should then be able to slowly start getting some business from people who would like to host their site with you. There are a bunch of factors that you will need to consider which I am not going to go into right now including support, ticket systems, and autobilling as well as account creations. If you have questions about these because you are serious about setting up your own reseller hosting business then just shoot me an email and I will do my bet to get back with you on your questions.

If you want to still make money online with hosting, but are a little unsure of your abilities with all the duties of hosting peoples sites, then you can still just direct people to Hosting affiliates. Just setup a comparison site for people where you show the positives and weaknesses for several different companies. Have a business card and/or a flyer made to pass out, or post up at colleges or other places.

Just for the heck of it I will be doing a case study to see how many people I can get to signup for products through several aspects of marketing. I will go into detail in a future post. Until then, know that you can make money online with a reseller hosting account. It just takes some time and effort like anything else.

Before I start this post I want to say that this is for anyone out there that feels unworthy, or feels like they are failing at making money online. There is no technical lesson here only some real life stuff.

I have heard people tell me they weren’t sure about something so they didn’t try it. One of these things is adsense. Do you know how many people I have heard say they are scared to mess up with adsense, so they have shied away till they learn more to be comfortable with it? How can you make money online with adsense if you don’t try it out enough?

We are all full of failures. When you hear about how well guys like Vic, Grizz, and Court do, do you really think they nail every niche they work? You can’t win on every site. Let me give you an example. I have worked 2 niches in the last couple weeks now, that according to the Google keyword tool as well as other search traffic tools should bring in over 90,000 searches a month. They have turned out to be duds! After ranking well for the keywords the traffic was not there. I was able to nail top 3 posts on both of these niches. So what happened? Those 2 niches were failures.

I think its important for those of you who are only making a dollar a day or even 10 dollars a day to remember something. Failing is a part of succeeding. What is a failure? A failure is an expectation of what you think a site should be making and it is not. It causes you to question whether you can make money online or not. Have I ever had my share of these feelings in the past? Heck yes! Sometimes I felt like I was spinning my wheels and not getting anywhere. What changed? Well I just told you those last 2 niches I wored recently were failures right? Wrong!! They really weren’t. I say this because they are still good sites. they still have content, and they still have links. If I ever work something related or similar I now have a place to link from.

Here is what I want you to remember if this post was talking to you.

• Its only a failure when you have given up.
• More growth, more websites, and a bigger network only makes you more powerful.
• Don’t compare with what others are doing. Focus on your own growth.
• Even the Pros have failures.
• Don’t give up!!

Here you go folks! This is the first free Wordpress theme to be added to the Whatawookie.com make money online blog. Its called Norther Lights.

I will be adding more themes in the future, and hopefully put together a nice collection. These themes are designed either by me or other various Wordpress Developers which I have purchased the theme and full rights too.

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Some people ask me how in the heck to get lots of links to a site. They don’t want to do 2 way linking because that’s just sending more juice right back out. One method you can use to make money online requires a domain you don’t plan on using. OK, so this is a method I like to call collateral damage linking. First off you need a preowned domain with some PR. Once you have that and a nice handful of posts on the blog then start contacting people to do some link trading with.

Once you get in contact with a person that is willing to do a link trade with, you add them to the blogroll of your site just for trading with. And then have them link back to your money site you are building. Most people don’t care that you already have some blogroll links on a site, so you can repeat this process maybe even 10-20 times.

Now what do you have? You have a site with a boat load of links pointing to it, while you have another domain taking the hit with outgoing links. Not go get some article directory links and some comment links, and you should be set. That is if the niche is not too overly competitive. Or even if it is just repeat this process over and over again.

There’s another Make money online Wookie tip for you online junkies. I hope you liked it. If you already use that method then I am happy for you. Have a nice day folks!!

Have you found that you have the traffic, but no one will click on you ads? Why do some sites convert to adsense clicks and others do not? Its very simple. Those sites do not have either targeted ads or targeted visitors.

Lets put up a couple scenarios.

• Scenario one. I build a site about making money online. However in none of my posts do you see the phrase make money online or anything related. None of my titles have make money online, and I just talk about how I earn money on the Internet in different ways, but never actually use any words which trigger ads for making money online. My question to you is, will people click other ads that may pop up like eBay or shopping ads? Why did they come to your site? It was to find information on making money online. If you don’t provide the keywords that trigger the relevant ads then how do you expect to make any money?

• Scenario two. Lets say you build a site about making money blogging. You talk about tips and tricks related to blogging, and even use the right keywords regularly to trigger perfect ads, but no one is clicking. Oh, and did I mention that you also have adsense on the right sidebar below your latest posts? So you wonder why your CTR is only 2%. Maybe you should put it in a place that is right in the face of your reader? Or are you scared that your readers won’t like it? Are you writing to please your readers, or are you trying to make money online? Its your choice of course.

• Scenario three. You build a blog, you target the right keywords within your posts, you have ads placed so they are the first thing people see when they come to your sight. You also have a good idea of what your ads which are triggered by the keywords in your posts will pay. You also know that there are multiple keywords you have specifically ranked for which all relate to the same niche. This is what brings you extremely relevant traffic to the majority of your posts. Bingo! You make money online. Then you do it all over again and again because you know how to make money online. And its easy!

Now you see why there is more to making money online with blogging than just building a blog and writing. Can you make a living doing it? Yes you can. I do every day, and I intend to for as long as the Internet is around. If you want to learn more, then sign up to my feed so you can improve your earnings and learn how to make money on the Internet successfully.

This is a new page which will have the winners of the Make money online domain contest held every other week. If you are the winner, please contact me and let me know what domain you would like. I will then register it and transfer it to your account. If you want to know how to win click here.

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