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The common question “Can Blogging Make Money” has been addressed on this website many times and will continue to be explained to our readers, as the answer is an absolute “YES”.

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This is what I do for a living full time and then some.  About three years ago I was forced to make a decision as to how to support myself for the rest of my years as I had met with the most enormous disruption in life plans and literally had to start over.

I had been publishing materials on the internet for about 12 years, regarding my life long hobby of genealogy.  Everything I had put up on the net even starting before there was a world wide web, had been presented to fellow genealogists for free.  I never dreamed of trying to make money on genealogy, the net just created opportunities for connections and was very rewarding.

I had been using computers seriously since 1979 and had built companies of technicians that integrated computers into machinery control for automation of various manufacturing processes.  I knew how to create teams of extremely brilliant people and we were very successful at what we did.  All that said I didn’t know beans about programming, web design, graphics, auto responders, ftp, and all the necessary elements required to become good at website publishing.

That all changed with WordPress.  Here was an easy to learn method of publishing on the internet in story form and I concentrated every minute I could spare to learn how this thing works and to start to earn a living on the internet.

Now I have way over 100 web properties in all various levels of success.  More importantly I have carved out a niche that works for me in that not only do I build niche marketing sites for myself, I build, maintain, operate and write high quality blogs for other companies.

If you listen to the audio interview with Beat Schindler on this website you will hear me talk about the 3rd Party Blog program that I pioneered and now work in joint venture with S-GO Consulting where we do the complete blogging program for many different businesses in all different types of industries.  You may read more of this service at my site www.3rdPartyBlog.com.  We do the whole blog, including researching and writing all of the content.  This alone makes me a full time income now.

3rdPartyBlog.com

There is a HUGE need for this type of service and I would encourage all of our readers here on LinkMoney.org to look into the possibility of doing this for businesses in your area.  They need it, they do not know how to blog, or they do not have people that they can assign to a company blog, and you know exactly how to do it.  So go and sell yourself and learn for yourself as to whether or not if blogging can make money.

There I just gave you my most important method of making money online.  Now I want to share with you some information on a tool that I use almost every day.  In our 3rd Party Blog business it is my duty to research and write the content for all of these different blogs that we build.  Now if I had to do it alone I would be totally unable, as we have just too many clients to write for.  So here is what I do.

I do the initial research and first couple of articles, and then I hand the project off to our crack team of professional copywriters.  We have built a team of extremely talented people that are literally scattered all over the world and each and every one of them has super abilities and life experience that qualifies them to write on all of the different subjects that we are presented with.

Ultimately all of their output comes to me for the final edit and for additional items that I might want to include such as emphasizing a client product or a call to action and things that might come to mind at publication time.  Outsourcing is a developed skill that is not easy to acquire to do it properly but I feel as though I am very good at it and we have dedicated writers that will always rise to the occasion of a rush job and believe you me, I love them all for their brilliant talent and dedication.  We couldn’t do this job without them.

Now you might say; “Well just what the heck do you do then Rich?” Here is what I feel is one of the most important parts of this process.  Keyword Research! There I’ve said it.  No matter what niche or subject our clients hire us to blog about, my primary concern is that we make sure that our articles will be indexed well in the search engines.

Just as Willie Sutton answered to the question of “Why do you rob banks?” he said, “Cause that’s where the money is.” Well we do not rob banks, we do not do anything illegal or black hat, but what we absolutely do is to make sure our articles will be keyword rich in subjects that people are presently searching for, and even as, or possibly more important, that the keywords have a high degree of commercial intent.

What does that mean?  Well there are keywords and there are “keywords.” Some popular keywords are searched on for just plain old curiosity or in searching for the answer to a school exam question.  Those keywords do not have any commercial intent.  The searcher is not looking to purchase anything, they are just looking for free information.

We like to use keywords where there is a fair chance that the searcher is interested in making a purchase of a product or where we have a fair chance of promoting something that will make their life better or to solve some problems that are obvious that they would like to have solved.

Now here is how I do this and though this is an affiliate sales product and if you decide to click through and learn more about this product I will more than likely make a commission.  I never advertise anything that I do not use myself and fully believe in and if you know me well enough by now from my writing and presence here on LinkMoney.org then you know I speak the truth.

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I purchased my own copy of Micro Niche Finder (mnf) software about two years ago and I use it like I said, almost every day.  The man that dreamed this up and offers it to others is James Jones.  He is not a high pressure salesman.  He will explain the benefits of using Micro Niche Finder and it will be up to you to decide if this is for you or not.  Personally I firmly believe that if you publish on the web, that you need it, period.

Since I first invested in my own copy there have been many new versions that have come out, and each and every one of them has made Micro Niche Finder better and better.  You will make a one time purchase and all future updates and first class tech support are yours at no additional cost.

So what I do is to perform the research and then send the keywords to our writers and I start with the mnf tool.  All you do is type in a primary keyword in a niche that you are interested in and in a few seconds the screen will fill with suggested keywords that are relevant to that category.  They tell you approximately how often the keywords are searched for, the strength of competition and the approximate Adword cost of the keyword and will give you an overall view to be able to select the best keywords to use for your articles.

There are other keyword research tools and some of them are excellent also, including the absolutely free tool at https://adwords.google.com and I use these as well and suggest you should too.  However for day to day, quick and easy I always refer to Micro Niche Finder.

Check it out, watch the videos and hear directly from James about just how easy it is to find keywords to use for your articles.

My Dad

Oh by the way, that brilliant looking guy in the top photo, well that is the real me.  The logo that I have used for so long that looks like a crazy man, with his Charles Atlas stance, conquering arms up in defiance, well that’s my Dad!

Wishing you the best for the holidays and the most prosperous New Year to come.

Rich Hill

Wow there is a brand new method of publishing new WordPress Blogs and even what they refer to as “Pimping” your older installs of WP Blogs that seems unbelievable!

Here are some of the premises as I interpret the hype:  One button publishing.  Do your keyword research. Get a string of from hundreds to thousands of keywords in a few seconds, and then you push one button to publish each of those keywords as an individual Blog post article in mere seconds or a few minutes.   Thousands of keyword rich articles that you can back date as many years as you wish and they all look fantastically authentic just as if they had been written by humans.  So the free promo videos and free pdf downloads say.

Now along with each article come perfectly formatted affiliate ads from your accounts at eBay Partner Network, Amazon Associates, Commission Junction (CJ,) ClickBank (CB) digital download products, and even some mention of perfectly formatted AdSense blocks of code with your Adsense Pub ID number receiving the credit for clicks.

Some more bonuses that arrive with each article are free flickr images that absolutely match the article subject.  Free YouTube videos embedded that also match the keywords exactly, and content that is out of this world perfect.

You have your choice to select content from such places as Ezine Articles, Article Base and Yahoo Answers, maybe others.  Now the Mage republishes other authors works as your own article posts, which of course include all of the other above mentioned images and videos, etc.

Remember all of this stuff is done instantly, live and in living color right before your eyes, my fingers never leave my hands, it’s a miracle!

When you see the gorgeous layouts of these Blog posts that are demonstrated in the upsell videos you will be kicking the dog out of the way to get to your credit card.  Hey what’s a thousand bucks or more here and there when it comes to the millions of dollars you are going to make with this method over ‘some’ period of time?

I am very thankful that I have three dogs to jump over, because I took a breath and said, “What the Hell is a Mage anyway?”

Repeat after me, If something doesn’t seem right… (your turn.)

Here we are about to enter into a completely new world of respectable internet marketing.  The Federal Trade Commission rulings come in to effect December 1st, 2009.  I doubt the government will have the resources to regulate even one, one millionth of the potential violations of the new rulings.  They have said that they will likely only investigate violators that are reported to them.  So who would report them?  Why your competition of course.

So besides it is only the US government, right?  Well as in Monkey see, Monkey do.  You can bet your bottom Euro that the EU will be all over this like stink on a fart.  This is going to become the “rule” and not the exception, in my opinion.

Now thinking about that statement caused me to ponder another matter.  Why is it that some of the most successful extremely rich internet marketers are coming out of the woodwork to sell all of us their “personal” get rich schemes?  It has been working for them behind the scenes for many years and some of them have become billionaires. Or so they claim.  I am talking here about two other recently promoted automatic methods of getting rich programs as well as this.

Why is it that the promoters are living in countries that might not be affected by the FTC?  Could it be that if they spread their love around and make enough money from the subscriptions and the upsells from the millions of advertisers that are out there, that when FTC rules kick in they won’t give a damn?

Hmmm, I’m cautious.

Let’s analyze some of the above methods of creating content.  If one ‘borrows’ content from Ezine for instance, you are supposed to give full credit and internal article links and author and Ezine credits, in order to reuse the content.  How could all of that be accomplished with a Mage?

They tell you that they have an awesome method to spin the content.  They translate it into a foreign language and then back to English.  Huh?  Have you ever tried the old kids game of “Whisper a secret?”  It starts with one person whispering a secret in the ear of #2 and then on through each kid until the last and then the end person repeats the secret out loud.  Guess what?  It is gibberish.

I remember in high school French class we had a similar demonstration.  The French teacher whispered a French phrase in a student’s ear.  That student whispered an English translation in the next student’s ear.  That one again in French, and student #4 gave the English translation out loud.  Holy crap you had to pick some of us up off the floor from laughing so hard.  It was gibberish.

When the people that promote the Mage are asked about this element of word and meaning transposition, they play it down and say the search engine bots don’t really care.  Huh?

Don’t we want human beings to be able to read these Blog posts and that the article will have enough meaning that the reader will just be dying to click on an advertiser link?  I don’t know about you, but if I land on a page that even slightly smacks of automated content I hit that green left arrow so fast that the screen is a blur.  But maybe that’s just me.

The flickr images are reported to have the “CC” designation, meaning Creative Commons, and the person that uploaded the image to flickr states that it may be “seen” by anyone.  CC does not mean that everyone has the free use to republish those images, or at least in some cases that is so, I know for a fact.  Many CC images also have another little message block assigned to the author’s use terms.  Does “Some rights reserved” mean anything to you?  At the bottom of every flickr page is a little message that says “Respect the rights of content creators.”

So ask yourself, “Does the Mage ask for permission from the photographer and then give full credit to both the photographer and to flickr?”  Seems like a lot to accomplish in an instant.

YouTube videos I don’t think there is that much trouble with.  As far as I know is if an embed code is available then it is OK to use it, but I could be corrected here, that is just as I understand it.  I do question as to how the pen-ultimate associated content video could possible be selected in automation mode.

Let me give you a personal example that just happened to me just this morning.  I have a new niche that I am very excited about that the greedy gurus have not located yet, so that leaves it up to me to exploit.  LOL.  Any way, this is a technical field that would most likely be viewed by scientists, doctors, medical professionals, university level professors and students and little old ladies in tennis shoes.  So I was experimenting with a very simple minimal theme for a few days until my graphics guy can come up with a new theme header for me.  I suck at graphics.

So I have used this theme before and it converts well for affiliate ads and for Adsense, although on this new site there will be no advertising, at least not for now.  Lo and behold this theme had a YouTube element built in to it that that I did not know about.  I had never seen it before on about a dozen or so sites that I have used this theme on.  You would only see in single post mode and only for first time visitors.

I almost croaked when I found it quite by accident and it kicked in to auto play on a post about this very technical medical terminology subject and it showed this horribly ugly guy with two teeth, ranting filthy rap poetry with a caption something about having been from the Howard Stern show.  Well some people would likely find humor in that, even I admit I laughed at first, but it is no place for an automatic video.  I found the automated code and stripped it out of the theme.

I’ve got to tell you I was intrigued by this phenomenon, WordPress Mage.  I did click through to sign up for the “Free trial” period, then found out none of the automated plugins were available unless I paid the $1K.  No thanks.  I can’t afford your free gifts.

Am I going to buy it?  Nope.  Would I recommend it to my friends?  Nope.  Do I think these Blog posts that incidentally all have the Mage name in their code for all bots to see, going to be around for a long time?  Nope.  Do I think that Google will see the words that include Mage and de-index them?  Well, dunno, maybe though.  Seems possible to me.

Oh one more thing to all high pressure internet marketers that want to sell anything to me.  Do not make me input all of my personal email, phone number, mail address, credit card number and first born child’s blood type into an order entry form “before” you tell me what the price is.  That approaches slime in my book.

Fair notice.  No internet marketer has presented me with a free review copy of any program or gifted me with any goods or services to make this public review.  I am freely giving my opinion and am not swayed by cash offers.