My whole money making blogsite is about making money online, whether you can really do it, and how I can best help you to succeed. Since this website is geared towards getting beginners & intermediates started on the right track, (with all the follow-up information you will need,)  most of our visitors tend to be newcomers to internet marketing or “early attempters,” people who’ve only been at it for a year or less.

So it’s important to acknowledge just how different the climate is for making money online, and truly succeeding at the internet marketing lifestyle,  than 5 years ago, or even 2 years ago. Many newcomers may look through the current instructions for how to correctly succeed at IM today, and go, “Wow, that’s very complicated & detailed, lots of rules to follow and stitches to pick up…I thought it would be easier.” And because many people’s excitement about trying internet marketing comes from IM easy millionaire stories that have been pushed for years, that’s certainly understandable. Because most if those “instant” IM millionaires made their marks 5-10 years ago, and back then, it was easier.

Used to be, you could just jam a website with banner ads and a flood of popular keywords, and bingo, you were rollin’ in the dough. Google has steadily chipped away at these spammy, no value,  just-for-the-income sites since they became the preeminent search engine, and this year alone they launched several very aggressive changes to their ranking algorithm (nicknamed Panda) to de-rank or de-index millions of low-quality websites. There motives are not altogether altruistic, as they want you to believe. They say they’re cleaning up the internet of garbage sites for a better, more accurate web searching experience for all…sounds very noble. But really they’re just protecting their billions of dollars of income every year from their own web advertising program, Adwords.

The result is that they are giving the highest rankings to websites & pages that offer truly high value for the browser, with lots of original, useful content. Gone are the days when you could slap up a 3-5 page website with a well-targeted domain name and stuffed with the right keywords, using mostly copied & spun content, and get ranked on page 1 of Google. Gone are the days when you could throw a ton of cheap backlinks or blog comments at your site, in an effort to “game” Google’s ranking criteria, and quickly rise to the top of the search engines. Now Google is favoring “authority” sites loaded with good content and in-context backlinks from other highly-ranked authority sites.

This change is either welcome or unwelcome, depending on where you stand on the question of creating quality websites. If you were hoping to throw up a few thin, high-ad-content, low value websites with a few clicks of your mouse, and sit back and watch your bank account grow fat (or if you did this successfully in the past and wanted that lucrative quickie blog model to continue,) you’re probably pretty pissed about the change. Everybody loves easy money made from doing next-to-nothing.

But if you realize the value of putting up a few high-quality websites that bring in as much money as hundreds of those bogus autoblogs, requiring a bit more up-front work but tons less management once your quality sites are up & earning, you, like me, are very excited about the changes. And believe me, I speak from experience here, having had as many as 750 of those low-quality, ad-saturated blogs up at one time. They went up quick and brought  in some nice coin…for a while. But they were all knocked way down, or totally out, and their income was simply not sustainable. Whereas a well-built, high-value website never attracts Google’s crosshairs or wrath, and I’m finding that as few as 5 of those can bring me twice as much income as all 750 of the other kind. I’m making a good living from those 5 sites, and I know they’ll never get deindexed by Google, so they’ll probably keep making as much or more even 5 years from now. The average life-span of the income from those autoblogs was about 6 months. And I sleep well knowing they offer real value and authority to the browser.

But best of all, they’re not hard to put up, and putting up 5 of those doesn’t need to take more time or trouble than putting up hundreds of the low-quality blogs. Sure, the low-quality blogs were essentially no-brainers, and the higher-quality ones take a bit more forethought, in terms of the keywords you choose and the content you add. But in the long run, it’s actually less work, and much more enjoyable work at that, because you smile as you know you are contributing something valuable to the internet.

And of course, as part of my commitment to helping you really succeed, over the long haul, in internet marketing, you know I’ll show you exactly how to do this, to play this new game and satisfy Google, put up high-quality websites, and make plenty of income from them. As always, I’ll help you every step of the way.