Earning RM500 per month is not an easy task. It took me 15 months to achieve that. Some lucky bloggers take less time. However, most of the bloggers take longer approach. Are you the lucky one? If no, it’s time for you to learn how to earn money by blogging. Blogging is not just posting whatever you like. You cannot make much money this way. The approach that I took ~ search engine optimization (SEO). Be friend with search engines. They will bring lot of visitors to you then. Or write your blog creatively like one of the Malaysia famous bloggers ~ Kenny Sia.

I cannot write the way like Kenny. I don’t blog about my life. I write mostly in software, hardware, photography and mobile topics now. And talk about travel, food and drink sometimes. Of course, I do write some popular search engine keywords’ topics too (when I have the mood. Don’t purposely find popular keywords and blog).

Learning is the key. And do get your own domain like ’spblogger.com’ directly if you really want to make money online. A little bit investment is must. Don’t bother to use free blogspot or wordpress.com hosting then migrate. Get your own domain NOW!!! That’s the first step…

What is a dedicated IP?
You will get 1 unique IP number for your web hosting account – your primary domain. For my case, 70.40.213.222 is the dedicated IP that I own. When you type 70.40.213.222 into your web browsers address bar, it will route you to the main domain which is JayceOoi.com.

What is a shared IP?
Most of the websites have shared IP addresses. Depend on web hosting provider, 200 to 300 websites sharing the same 1 IP in shared web hosting package is normal. Some have less than 100 websites sharing 1 IP.

Who need a dedicated IP? What benefit does dedicated IP bring?

• Having your own Private SSL Certificate.
• Anonymous FTP.
• Access your website with IP even when the domain name is inaccessible.

Okay, there is lot of myths about dedicated IP on SEO. Some said it did improve Google PageRank and search engine ranking while some denied. I saw some blogs which rank higher in Google does have dedicated IP when I purchased it last year. It is just USD 2.50 per month for dedicated IP. Can’t you earn that back with your blogs? I asked myself. After using dedicated IP for more than 6 months, does my blog traffic increased? YES. But I did lot of other SEO optimizations too. So does dedicated IP really help? I don’t know…

Will you purchase dedicated IP for your blog?

In SEO world, everyone is fighting to be the highest ranking on a good keyword. I tried lot of efforts to fight a particular very hot keywords (let’s said it as A) by commenting on lot of dofollow blogs with CommentLuv. I also write another post with cold keywords (let’s said it as B) but without any marketing. Based on 1 week Google Analytics traffic, A got 1000 visits and B received 800 visits. I really did lot of works on A but nothing on B. In return, I rather write more articles like B. Normally, I don’t active much in commenting on other blogs. I focus on writing more.

Based on the experiment, the result tells me… Write more valuable articles to get more traffic. The articles must be hot and latest topics. And thanks to Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking too. It tracks even more accurate. Hitting 5k visitors per day by March 2010 is not a mission impossible.

As a SEO blogger… What will you do when you see a post that has lot of page view? For me? I will research on the post title keywords popularity. And start my own post on it. Will you do the same too?

By the way, WP-PostViews has the ability to show the most view posts of all time. I stopped using it because of this.

Leaving the same comment in short period and in the same article is not a good method. Automated comment link building will lead your website to Akismet spam folder. You may get few first comments approved. However, when more and more people started to mark your comment as spam. In the end, all your comments will in spam folder all the time. Does it worth the price?

Personally, I won’t purchase this kind of service. And Google does not like it too. I believe most of us don’t like our blog being spammed by these useless comments, right?

NoDoFollow in action

There are 2 colour of links when you enable NoDoFollow Firefox add-on. Purple colour links are dofollow while pink colour links are nofollow. So I cut short lot of work with this little simple add-on. I am on this colour mode for few days. And will be in the coming days too. Did you have this NoDoFollow installed at your Firefox? If no, grab yours now – link.

JayceOoi.com traffic sources on November 2009

JayceOoi.com is the first blog (I called it website for last 2 years as I did not want to admit that it is a blog) that I have. And then PrettyGirl2u.com and spBlogger.com. All of them have traffic from search engines for free. I am not going to discuss on every single step here, just high level as most of us know to do so already.

Things that I do to get traffic to my website for free…

1. Make my website a search engine optimized (SEO) website.
2. Comment at others’ blog.
3. Active at famous forums.
4. Don’t stop learning new stuff

Search engines love SEO websites. You will get lot of traffic there. All you need to do ~ get lot of incoming links as you can. Personally, I don’t blog purposely for search engine. There are some who do so in order to make money online. And it is proven that it work. I would like to have more direct traffic. Why? This mean that your blog is informative and people are willing to visit again. And indirectly, it will bring more incoming links too. Finally, I always keep this in mind.

Write good content, do proper marketing == money money traffic traffic come.

As at 9 October 2009
JayceOoi.com – 225 links
spBlogger.com – 118 links
PrettyGirl2u.com – 128 links
Forum.JayceOoi.com – 71 links.

Hey… Compare to 19 July 2009, JayceOoi.com and spBlogger.com dropped. But the other 2 up. Why I cannot get more than 1000 incoming links for JayceOoi.com???

Well, I am writing this post because I want to keep track of my blogs incoming link. And here your are…

As at 19 July 2009
JayceOoi.com – 254 links
spBlogger.com – 134 links
PrettyGirl2u.com – 113 links
Forum.JayceOoi.com – 37 links.

I always envy to those websites that have so much incoming links. How do they get so many link?

Top keywords at Make Money website

Why are the keywords shown at my Google Analytics? These keywords are the words that people searched at search engines and clicked into your website. Therefore, Google Analytics will show them. The more keywords show in your Google Analytics mean more traffic from search engines to your website.

Detail keywords information

Not every pages of your website that consist of particular keywords will show at search engine. Some of them might show at the 1st page while some might show in 100th page. It is the knowledge of SEO. But that’s another story…