Getting your blog found

Alright, so now I've made my try-out blogs and added the AdSense code snippets. Per page you can add up to: 3 ad units, 1 link unit, 2 search boxes, and 4 different referral buttons. Now the blogs I'd made thus far were just to check it out -- I really didn't expect to get a following or make lots of money. To do that you have to get your blogs noticed and thats what this post is about.

The number one rule is: Content is King! Lots of blogs, and websites for that matter, take the shotgun approach to making money from AdSense. They repost free articles full of keywords and dubious content on pages with their AdSense code. The temptation is strong, but resist it. I did it too at a site I'll discuss later and the result was that none of my pages other than the index page were added to any of the search engines. Summary: Google (and other search engines I surmise) penalizes repetitive content, so keep it fresh.

So now you've made a fresh, relevant post to your blog and you want people to see it. Blogger / Blogspot have a rss feed function built in. Use it. Additionally post your feed to Google's blog base and Yahoo's feed's. These functions allow other sites that think your content is relevant to their site to dynamically re-post your content on their pages. For this reason you want to add a signature in your post so that people can follow that to your site and potentially to your AdSense ads (remember, thats what this blog is about).

I know what you're thinking: "Now wait a minute! If fresh content is so important, howcome I want people re-posting my stuff?" The answer as I understand it is that rss feeds are dynamic. They're only going to expose your most recent stuff, and typically thats the direction the internet is heading -- last weeks posts are old news. Thus, by making frequent contributions to your blog, you'll regain exclusivity to your prior posts, as well as gain a certain amount of authority of which you write.

I'll be writing a future post concerning other venues or indexes to post to. If you want to plug yours here, leave a comment.
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