How To Make More Money On MyGeoInfo.
Promotion is the key to earning residual income on any article site, including MyGeoInfo. Here are some tried and tested ways to promote your articles for more views and higher earnings. If you follow these steps you will be able to increase your article views several times over.
Excerpts
In the Excerpt box write a short summary of the article.
Search Engine Placement and Keywords
At the bottom of every post page is the “All In One SEO” form. Fill in the title section with a very descriptive title that is also unique. For example, if your article is about a popular museum there are likely hundreds of web entries about that place and an ordinary title will condemn your article to page three or worse on Google. However if your title is more unique, such as “Houston Modern Art Museum Directions and Hours” you are more likely to be found by those searching the web for that niche information. Smaller niche topics are good for long term earnings. The smaller the niche the higher your article can rank. Just be sure your title is descriptive and not too short. “Bryce Canyon” is an example of a bad article title. “Where To Find Fossils In Bryce Canyon” is better because it would likely rank on the first page of search results for someone typing in that exact phrase, if it contained enough text and unique keywords, had enough backlinks, etc. No one formula can place your article on page one of search results but you can stack the deck in your favor.
For the SEO description write a summary of the article that contains the essence of the article. For example, “A look at the best places to find fossils in Bryce Canyon. Map and location of fossil sites in Bryce Canyon and paleontology.”
For keywords choose those that searchers might use when looking for your article such as “Bryce Canyon fossils, Bryce Canyon, Bryce Canyon paleontology,”. You can use individual words and groups of words.
About Keywords
There is a fine line between too many keywords and not enough. Your article entitled “Map Of Fossil Sites Of Bryce Canyon” should contain that phrase or related phrases in each paragraph. “Some great fossil sites of Bryce Canyon can be seen in the following map”. And “the fossil sites we visited in Bryce Canyon were amazing”. You get the picture. What you don’t want to do is overdo it. Google’s “robot” can sense when you are using too many keywords on purpose.
Article Size
There are volumes of SEO or search engine optimization tips on the web. Most suggest that your article be at least 400 words. This is a good rule of thumb. The more unique content you have the better. All content submitted to MyGeoInfo must be 100% original. Google, Yahoo, and other search engines can identify copied and pasted content and will rank your article lower.
Backlinks
Another determination of how high your article will rank in search engine results are the amount of backlinks, or other sites linking to your article. This is where using other sites, such as Xomba, Clipmarks, Infopirate, SheToldMe, Delicious, Digg, Mixx, Reddit, etc. The more of these bookmarking sites you submit your article to the better. In addition, try to become an active member of these sites and try to build a following. For example, one way that has traditionally been used to build followers on sites like Twitter is to follow other members with the hope that they will follow you back. About ten to twenty percent will usually follow you back.
All of this bookmarking and Tweeting is hard work. However, it is the best way for your article to be found. Even if your MyGeoInfo article does not appear on page one of Google’s results, you may find that a Clipmarks or Xomba bookmark will appear there with a link to your article. Either way you win and if the bookmarking site also shares Adsense revenue you have more chances of earning.
Facebook is another way to promote your articles. If you have a lot of friends on Facebook then you can share your MyGeoInfo articles with them for more views.
Use A Different Title And Description When Bookmarking
Here is something that many people do that is a huge mistake. They bookmark an article to several sites using the same title and description as the main article. Many sites like Yahoo Buzz import the title and description from your article but you want to change this. The reason for this is that the more titles you have for your article the better chance it will get at being found by different search terms. In the above example you might use “Bryce Canyon Paleontology Sites” on one bookmarking site and “Fossil sites of Bryce Canyon” on another. Write slightly different summaries on each site to catch different web searches that may occur.
High Earning Keywords
Some keywords are worth much more per click than others. While Google does not disclose how much, those about high value places may earn you more money. Travel ads in general are usually high earners, so place themed articles are good for long term residual income. You may also consider submitting articles including details, maps and directions about places like high end health resorts which may earn even more.
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The McDonald’s Analogy
McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc was fond of saying “early to bed, early to rise, advertise, advertise, advertise”. With article promotion it is no different. You must promote your articles by submitting them to as many places as possible. Join all of the social bookmarking sites you can. The current most effective sites, in terms of Google page rank, are Digg, Mixx, Xomba, InfoPirate, SheToldMe and Clipmarks (plus Amplify). With Clipmarks, plus Amplify, you can submit to several bookmarking sites at once including your Google Blog. Social bookmarking sites come and go from favor though. Do a Google search for your article using the title after a few days and see which of the sites that you used come up first in the search results and focus on those first when bookmarking new articles.