Make Money With Top Search Engine Rankings

Its no surprise that Google gets most of the traffic on the internet,followed behind by Yahoo and MSN back in third place.So if we're going to beat the next webmaster at getting some free search engine traffic what is required and where would you start?

Well first of all you have to realise that you may not be likely to rank at the top of most keywords quickly,infact it can take months of hard work to rank for high traffic keywords so the thing here is to start with keywords you can target that don't have a lot of rivalry.This makes your job 80% easier before you even submit a page to the internet.

Next lets look at the specific engines,google takes the longest to rank for out of the top 3 so I like to look very closely at MSN search because my experience tells me that even though they dont get anywhere the same amount of traffic I can rank higher and quicker here.So my first port of call is to do keyword research specifically with MSN in mind.I use a few things here but by far the easiest way to do this is to use the free keyword reseach tool at digitalpoint.com .Here you can check keyword rankings and traffic patterns for your desired keywords to see how many searches are undertaken in the major engines,and also to find spin off keywords you may not have considered before.You can also check both Overture and Wordtrackers results against each other here to get a feel for how the traffic flows are going to be for a top rank with your selected keyword.

A rule of thumb I use for MSN is that the traffic for any keyword I search in digital points tool is divided by approx 3 to 4 to give me an idea of the traffic in MSN.So if my desired keyword had one thousand searches per day according to both Wordtracker and Overture then I can confidently say a number 1 rank in MSN should provide about 300 searches.This doesnt mesn you will get 300 hits ,in fact you may only get about half the searchers hit your site through MSN or any search engines for that matter even if you rank number one.

So now I can confidently say a number one rank for that keyword will provide approx 150 hits or visitors per day.So now we have chosen a keyword that looks good whats next?

Check out the competition on MSN.Theres no point selecting words that you realistically will never rank for .Your competition pays big money to be at the top so unless you have the same budget stay away from that game.Those so called masters of the internet will kill you .My reccommendation is to rank for terms that have less visitors and thats easier to get to #1,especially in MSN.

So what am I looking for when it comes to my competition ? well we all know that relevant ,theme related inbound, one way backlinks from authority websites are the easiest way to rank # 1 or at least top 10.

Actually it doesnt take too many high quality inbound backlinks to rank for thousands upon thousands of terms.So here is where the action begins,After you have uploaded your site and optimised the page with all the relevant html tags etc then gathering links to your page is the single most important task you can undertake to rank.I am not a master on link gathering but here are a few ideas.

Write high quality articles about your selected topic or pay someone to write articles ,then submit them to the free article directories,here your article will be uptaken up by other webmasters and put on their site with your backlink on them,This can create many many 1 way backlinks very quickly for your page.

Access other webmasters in your chosen topic and ask for link exchange(I actually dont do this as its tedious and out of date and probably is very time consuming)

Use social bookmark sites like del.ici.us to get your work or content out there and also to get you backlinks from your tags.The search engines love social bookmark sites,I use about 25 of them and they always provide high quality 1 way links,and often with very high google PR.

Write a blog about your website and link to it then feed that blog using rss or other syndication methods.this can also give you 1 way links and better results in the search engines.

Buy backlinks. Yes buy them , a few high quality , related links with good Google PR will help greatly.

These few ideas I use every day and many more to get visitors and beat the next webmaster in the engines, especially MSN.

So there you have it a few small ideas to get you moving so go forth and make more money.

So the only thing left to do after you have achieved a top rank for a number of keyword terms is to make money from them and here are my top few ideas for making money that I use all the time.

1) Google adsense, Sign up free and put the ad code on your page and you will earn a share of each and every click visitors make from those ad blocks.

There are dozens of other places you can earn on a "pay per click " basis but Google stands out head and shoulders above the competition in my opinion.

2) Affiliate marketing, If your website or page is about losing weight, then sign up free as an affiliate to any one of thousands of sites that sell these type of products .Then place a link on your page which has your personal code embedded into it and if a visitor clicks on your link and chooses to buy then you will get a share of that purchase.Often as high 60% of that sale.

So there you have it,now go out there and make more money, because if you dont I will do it for you.