Using Google Adwords to Find Keywords to put in Your Blog Entries

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Many pundits will advise you to search for keywords on a particular topic (which are actually phrases), and then use the most popular of those keywords three times in a 300-word block of text, regardless of whether or not the phrase actually makes grammatical sense.

For example, what are the most popular search phrases for "Making money by blogging"?

Go to:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

and input "making money by blogging." Aftr entering a Captcha to prove you're a real person, hit enter, and wait for the results. (This webpage is provided by Google AdWords to help people choose keywords for their ads.)

Looking through dozens of phrases, I find that the word "blogging" had over 550,000 searches in June. "Blogs" 6,120,000. "Online work" 301,000. "How to blog" 165,000. And the piece de resistance, "blogger", 4,090,00.

Now, all of those phrases/words are ones that would legitimately come up in any blog entry about "how to make money by blogging." You just write your entry naturally, and it will all fall into place. That's the way it is with most blogging - or even websites - where you're trying to attract visitors. Just write naturally, and the hits will come.

Now, since The Miniscule Guide to Everything is a brand new blog, created in order to serve the clientele of The Miniscule Guides, I don't expect it to be indexed in the search engines for another week or even two. This doesn't worry me. I have announced this blog in a couple of my other blogs, and I'll be using its URL as my signature when I go to the message boards in a few more days and establish a presence on various newsgroups.

I expect the keywords I've listed above to generate hits for me for months and years to come, once that indexing takes place.

One thing I want to emphasize to all people looking to make money online is to have realistic expectations. The economy is bad, and lots of people want to do exactly what you're doing, so you're going to have competition. Be patient. Provide quality content. Everything else will come from that.