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Well, now we’ve looked at how to make money online using SEO to boost your blog’s presence in the search engines, which is paramount for succeeding with Adsense. So let’s look at another way of generating a passive income from your blog hosted here at Bake Radio - eBay.

Your blog comes with a built-in program that enables you to use your eBay EPN account to display relevant items from their auction right here on your Bake Radio blog! Its simplicity itself to set up and once your blog is attracting visitors from the search engines, will earn you commissions on every item that is bough through your blog.

The best way to do this is to create a separate page (rather than a post) that you can give the title “Online Store” or something similar. There you add some relevant content to explain what it is you are selling, maybe a short review of the products etc, then add a simple piece of code like this:

[ebay]Your Keyword[/(ebay]

This will trigger ads (replace “your Keyword” with the search keyword) for your product to be displayed in neat boxes on the page. You can set up how many boxes you want displayed as well as other parameters by going to the “Ebay Listings” tab in your WP control panel.

By attracting targeted search traffic by promoting those keywords using SEO as described in an earlier post here, you will, as your blog gains popularity and search engine results page (SERPs) position, attract more traffic looking for exactly the product you are promoting on eBay, which will result in more clicks, bids and sales. Which all mean more commission for you!

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Following up on the last post where I looked at how to make money online from your blog hosted here at Bake Radio, I’ll look at using SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to rank your blog in the search engines. This is of major importance to making money with Adsense, although it is also the most powerful way to make money online from any source, be it affiliate products, your own products, PPC, eBay, advertising and lead generation.

SEO is usually divided into two main sections, which are on-site SEO and off-site SEO. On-site SEO deals with the things that you can do directly with your blog to optimise it for the search engines and you may have limited success in small, uncompetitive niches employing these methods. Off-site SEO involves obtaining backlinks to your blog from other blogs and websites on the Internet. Of the two, off-site SEO will be responsible for about 90% of your blog’s search engine placement success.

For this reason, you should really devote 90% of your time on off-site SEO, or gathering backlinks to your blog from as many different sources as possible. These include article submissions, directory submissions, blog comments (in do-follow blogs), forum posts, social bookmarks as well as outright asking for links from other blog owners. The last one will usually provide the strongest links, but are often the hardest to obtain.

Another way is top create your own links to your blog by building supporting sites such as Squidoo lenses, Hub pages, blogs on other free hosting platforms etc where you can control the links that come to your main blog here on Bake Radio. Some care is needed with this method so you don’t appear to be obviously creating what is known as a link farm, as this pastime is frowned upon by the search engines. So don’t overdo it and link sensibly!

A really great way to get links to your blog is to join up with Connect Content, for which there is a small banner advertisement in the top right column of this blog. It only costs a nominal $12 per month and gives you access to a huge community of bloggers who all know the powerful benefit of giving and receiving links.

On-site SEO is potentially far more complicated and simply not worth going too deeply into for its small percentage of overall benefit. Obvious things you can do is to write posts that are optimised for the keywords you are targeting. This includes using those keywords in the content, in the post titles, in the blog’s main title and in the blog URL. This is also necessary to get the best and most relevant Adsense ads to be served on your blog.

So there is SEO in a nutshell. If you need more detailed information on SEO, there are some good blogs hosted right here on the subject as well as checking out the forum.

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