Step 9: Getting paid

Once you make $100 you get paid by Google.

Pay day is on the last day of the month after you make $100.

•The amount you get paid is determined by the following factors:
1.How many visitors you get -the more visitors, the more clicks. This is determined by how many blog posts you have created and how important Google thinks your posts are (based on back-links). This increases over time.
2.The amount you get paid for each click. This is determined by the topic you blog about. Check the “Create a Blog” section for the highest paying topics. The amount per click varies, but certain subjects pay much better in general.

Step 8: Working the Job

•The 4 steps to how you make money with Google AdSenseand Blogger:
1.You create blog posts which contain AdSenseads.
2.You get back-links which tells Google that your blog exists and it has value.
3.Google puts your blog in its search engine and sends you visitors.
4.Some visitors click on the AdSenseads on your site and you get paid for every click.


The job of earning money with Google AdSense with a
blog can be broken down into a series of repeatable
steps which take about 1 hour:
Create 1 blog post
•Find and read article –15 minutes
•Write and post summary –15 minutes
Get 10 back-links
•Comment on blogs –30 minutes


After 7 hours of creating blog posts and getting
back-links you will want to check reports:
•Review Google Analytics reports –15 minutes
•Review Google AdSense reports –15 minutes
Looking at these reports will tell you two things:
•Which topics people are reading, and you should then write more about.
•How many AdSense clicks you are getting and your earnings.


There are several key factors that will determine your
success on the job. These make the difference between
a professional blogger who gets paid and a hobby blogger
who works for the love of it:
1.Getting back-links to individual blog posts by commenting on blogs.
2.Writing about a topic that has profitable AdSenseper click earnings.
3.Placing the AdSenseads on the blog in the way described in this course.
4.Keeping your writing brief, without links in the body, and on the topic of your blog.


Things you need to do before getting paid:
1.Submit your tax information
2.Set up your payment method
3.Receive your PIN in the mail and enter it online
•Once the last day of the month after the month you earned $100 comes, this is how you get paid:
1.Electronic transfer goes immediately into your check on that day.
2.Checks are issued on that day, so you will need to wait another few days to get your check in the mail.

Step 7: Add Google Analytics

Go to: http://www.google.com/analytics click “Access Analytics”

Google Analytics tells you everything about who visits
your blog and what they read when browsing your
blog. For instance, these are some of the statistics:
1.How many people came directly to your blog by typing the address into the browser.
2.How many people came to your blog by following a link from another Website or blog.
3.The number of visitors who found your blog through a search engine and what keywords they were searching with.
4.What blog posts did people read on your site.

Log in with your Google account email and password

Click “Sign Up” for Google Analytics

Add your “Website’s URL”
This is the URL you entered with Blogger in step 2.

Enter the name of your blog for Account Name
Set your time zone and click “Continue”

Enter your name, phone number and country. Then click “Continue”

 Check of “Yes, I agree to the above terms”
Click “Create New Account”

Right click in the box and copy the tracking code

Now go back to your blog and click “Layout”

Under Layout click “Edit HTML”

Scroll to the bottom of “Edit Template”,
Put cursor above the </body> tag, right click and select “paste”

Now your Google Anayltics tracking code should be pasted into your blog’s HTML template. Click “Save Template”.

Step 6: Add AdSense to Blog

Log into your AdSense account and click “AdSense Setup”

Then click “AdSense for Content”

 Choose “Ad Unit”, select “Text ads only” and “Continue”

Under “Format” choose “336 x 280 Large Rectangle”

Under “Colors” choose “Default Google palette”

Leave the other options as they are and click “Continue”

Click “Add new channel” and type the name of your blog
Then click “OK” and “Continue”

Click “Submit and Get Code”

Right click on the AdSense and select “Copy”

Now go back to your blog and click “Layout”

Under Layout click “Edit HTML”

Under “Edit Template check “Expand Widget Templates”

Use your browser to search for the code “post.body”

Roght click and paste between the code:
<div class='post-body entry-content'> paste here
<data:post.body/>

Then type <p/> before and after the AdSense code

Click “Save Template”

Click “View Blog”

Congratulations! You have added AdSenseto your blog.
Now you will need to wait up to one half hour for it to display

•You will see all kinds of placements and sizes of Google AdSense on other blogs on the Internet.
•However, the “336 x 280 Large Rectangle” placed directly above the blog post has been proven to provide the most amount of clicks and AdSense earnings.

Step 5: Apply for AdSense

Go to https://www.google.com/adsense click “Sign up now”

Warning:
•Do not apply for an AdSenseaccount until you have worked for 10 hours on your blog and created:
1.10 blog posts
2.100 blog comments
•However, you will still get paid for your 10 hours over time from AdSenseclicks once the ads are in place.

Put your blog’s URL in the “Website URL” field
Set your language, check off the terms of services boxes

Website URL example:

http://dansinsuranceguide.blogspot.com

This is the location of your blog on the Web.
The URL address includes your blog’s name and
the addition of “blogspot.com” at the end.

Fill in your contact information

•Double check that your name, address and email are valid, real and correct to ensure that your account is approved.
•It’s ok to choose “Account Type” as “Individual”. If you start a business later, you are allowed to have a separate AdSense account for the business.
•With and “Individual” account you are considered a freelance contract worker and you will receive the appropriate tax forms from Google at the end of the year.

Check policy boxes and click “Submit Information”

Go to your email and click the AdSenseaccount activation link

•Now a Google employee will review your blog and send you an email approval or rejection within 2-3 days.
•If you followed the steps outlined exactly in this course your blog should get approved. If not, the email from Google will explain why and you can make any adjustments that they recommend.

After approval you submit your tax information
Go to “My Account” and then “Tax Information” and follow the steps

•After you earn $10 you will need to do two things in your AdSenseaccount:
1.Choose your payment method: Electronic transfer to bank account, check or Western Union cash.
2.You will get a Personal Identification Number (PIN) sent to you in the mail. Then you go into your account and enter it.

After earning $10 you need to set payment options
Go to “My Account” and then “Edit ” under “Payment Details”

After earning $10 you will get your PIN in a postcard sent by mail.
Sign in to your account, go to “Payment History” under “My Account”.
Follow the "Please Enter your PIN” and get the PIN from the postcard:

Step 4: Get Back-links

•Creating blog posts is only one half of the tasks needed for your Google AdSense job.
•Every time you write an article summary, you will need to make ten comments on other peoples’ blogs with links back to your individual blog posts.
•You should complete one blog post from Step 3 and then do 10 back-links from Step 4.

Getting back-links to your blog posts in the way shown
here is the most important part of earning a regular
hourly wage for your blogging work. Here is why:
1.Back-links get your blog posts listed in the search engines so people find them and click your ads.
2.Back-links tell the search engines that each one of your blog posts has importance and will get your page listed higher in search results than other people’s blog posts.
3.Back-links get you visitors who click on the links and visit your blog from other blogs.

Go to your blog, click on the title of your blog post

Now copy the URL of the specific blog post
Leave blog open in case you need to copy the URL again.

Open another browser, go to blogsearch.google.com

Type the topic of your article summary and click “Search Blogs”

Right click on every result and select “Open in New Tab”

You should now have about 10 tabs open from various blogs

You can use other blog search engines to find
blogs posts to comment on. Here are a few:

http://www.technorati.com
http://www.icerocket.com
http://www.ask.com/?tool=bls
http://www.sphere.com
http://www.bloglines.com

Open and read each post one at a time

•Look for a comment form at the bottom of the blog post.
•Not all blog posts in Google Blog Search results will have a blog comment form.
•If you do not immediately see a blog comment form with a “Website” field, then close the tab and move on to the next one.
•Keep searching and opening tabs until you comment on 10 blogs.

Scroll to the bottom of each post, write a comment and submit

Almost all blog comment forms have the same
fields. Here is what to enter:
•Name: The full name of you blog for instance “Dan’s Insurance Guide”.
•Mail: An email that you created just for blog commenting.
•Website: Paste the full URL to the exact page of your last blog post.
•Comment: Your original, relevant comment.

•It is of critical importance that you put the full URL to the exact page of your last blog post in the Website field in blog comment forms.
•This increases the importance of each individual post in your blog for search engines. It also brings visitors to your blog posts that are seeking relevant information.
•You blog comment will need to be approved by the blog owner. Don’t bother checking back, only about one half of your comments will be approved.

The proper way to write a blog comment:
1.Never mention your blog.
2.Always read the article and make a relevant comment using your own words.
3.Never copy and paste the same comment in different blogs.
4.You blog post URL only goes in the proper “Website” box, not in your comment.

Step 2: Create a Blog

Go to

Type your name for “Display name”
Check “Accept Terms and click “Continue”

•You will now choose a name for your blog. The name of your blog should include one of these words:
–Credit
–Debt
–Insurance
–Mortgage
–Schools
–Hotels
–Software
–Travel
•You can blog about other topics but these are recommended for maximum Google AdSensepayment

Add one additional word after the primary
word such as report, guide, news or journal and
your name before it:
Examples:
Dan’s Credit Report
Mary’s Debt Guide
Joe’s Insurance News
Susan’s Mortgage Journal

Type the name under “Blog Title”
Type the name as one word under “Blog address (URL)”

Click “Check Availability” under “Blog address (URL)”
If the blog address URL is not available,
try another and click “Continue”.

Leave default “Minima” template checked, click “Continue

Note: When picking a template you can choose one
other than “Minima”.
However, plain blog templates like “Minima” get
more AdSenseclicks and you will get paid more for
your work.

Congratulations! You have created your blog.
Now click “Start Blogging”

Note: Before putting Google AdSense on your new
blog you will need to add 10 blog posts to it.
This is because Google will review your blog for
quality before the company approves you to use
AdSense.
So you should repeat steps 3 and 4 until you have 10
blog posts and back-links before moving to step 5.

Now you see the create posting page. Click “Layout”.

Click “Fonts and Colors”

Click on “Link Color”

Select dark gray from “Colors from Your Blog

Click on “Save Changes”

Click on “Posting” for the next step

•The primary links in view should be the AdSense ads that will be added later in the course.
•Other links need to be gray so they are deemphasized from the reader’s attention.
•Links to other Websites are needed to add “quality” to the blog for Google Editors that review it.

Click on “Comments” under “Settings”

Select “Hide” under “Comments”, then “Save Setting”

•You will notice on the Internet that most blogs allow comments.
•However, many professional bloggers have been hiding them like this course recommends.
•Moderating comments takes lots of time that is wasted with deleting spam comments.
•This cuts down on work that does not directly bring in income and increases your earnings per hour.

Now go back to the create posting page

First you need topics to blog about

Go to www.articlesbase.com

1.Search for an article
2.Read the article
3.Create a link from your blog to the article
4.Summarize what the article is about in your blog.
5.Create a blog post from your summary.

Note: You can write about anything you want in your
blog. However, writing summaries for articles and linking
back to them is the blogging method recommended in
this course because:
1.Articles give you an instant and abundant supply of ideas for blog posts. This cuts down on the time you spend blogging and increases your hourly rate of pay.
2.Article subject matter keeps you on the topic of your blog and this helps you get paid more for AdSenseclicks.

Type the main word in your blog title
in the “Search” box and click “Search”

Click on a search result link to go to an article

Read the article and scroll down

Scroll down to the box called “Article URL”
Right click in the box and choose “Select All”

Go back to your blog, type “read more”
Highlight the words and then click on the link icon

Go back to your blog, type “read more”
Highlight the words and then click on the link icon

After the URL for the article is entered click “OK”

You can use other free article directories
for your blog post ideas and article
summaries. Here are a few more:


http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.isnare.com
http://www.articlesbase.com
http://www.buzzle.com
http://scholar.google.com.pk/
http://news.yahoo.com




Copy and paste the URL of any article from the address bar

After reading the article, write a summary and title

When writing your article summary and title you need
to follow these instructions:
1.Your written summary should about 5 sentences and 100 words in length. Do not put links in the summary. The title should be no longer than 10 words.
2.The summary and title must be in your own words, you can not copy and paste any text from the article or anywhere on the Internet.
3.The title of your summary of every blog post should include the main word in the name of your blog and a description of the article summary. In the example it is “Insurance”.

For “Labels for this post” write the main blog name word and the main word from your article summary

Click “Publish Post”

Congratulations! You have now create your first blog post.
Now click “View Blog”

Now you can see what your blog post looks like