If your goal is to make more money online by targeting keywords and getting free search engine traffic, then ultimately your plan should be to maximize your daily output of articles.
One of my websites makes very good money simply based on the fact that it has over 1,500 quality articles on it.
Consider the fact that:
* The link juice pointing at that particular site is nothing special.
* The domain age is fairly young (less than 5 years old).
* The niche is not incredibly lucrative or super competitive.
So what is the big secret?
There is no secret. I started a website from scratch about 4 years ago, started putting up “real” articles, and over 1 million words later, Google seems to really, really like the website.
It is, of course possible to make good money with much less traffic than this. Your site topic and niche have everything to do with this, as well as how you go about monetizing. Sometimes a fairly small niche can be well served by a killer product that you create yourself, or by a unique monetization method.
But ultimately, the learning starts with traffic generation.
You publish content, then you promote that content.
Then you see what happens. What shows up. Does the traffic convert, does it bounce, which keywords are driving the most volume, and so on.
And at some point, given a decent topic selection process, you will presumably start to earn some income from this tiny traffic stream.
At that point, you have to ask yourself:
“Do I want my meager earnings to continue? Or would I like to grow those earnings into a part or full time income?”
If you want to grow the earnings substantially then the you basically have 2 choices:
1) Monetize more efficiently, or
2) Get more traffic.
If your site is still relatively small then pursuing “more traffic” almost always makes more sense before seeking to optimize your revenue per visit. This is because a small testing sample is just going to disappoint you if you start experimenting.
If you go through our topic selection process then you know there is money to be made in your niche. Focus on increasing your traffic first, and do that by increasing article volume.
The advice could be summarized like this:
1) Increase daily article production to increase future revenue.
2) Maintain high quality while doing so.
3) Build a “real” website (not just a content farm full of 550 word articles all perfectly optimized with little variation among them).
Personally, my own flagship website plateaued once at around $500/month. The way I “jump started it” was to start producing multiple articles every single day, and kept that up for several months. In less than a year it shot up over $1,000/month in income and has never looked back.
If search engine traffic makes you money, then you need to increase article production.
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