I’m not sure when I first noticed an increase in Yahoo search visitors to this blog - maybe a month ago - but when the guests began arriving I did some investigating and sure enough I found this blog was suddenly showing up in Yahoo’s serp listings for a few of my main keywords. This may not mean much to those of you who use Wordpress but for those of us who like using Blogger this has had some pleasant consequences. Until recently it was necessary to use Meta Tags in order to rank well in Yahoo. You have to do a little coding to add Meta tags to blogger as Google (the owner) doesn’t include the option in the default set up. This is because Google doesn’t use Meta Tags in it’s Serp algorithm. By not providing the option in Blogger they have also, if you read between the lines, told bloggers not to use Meta Tags if you want to rank well in Google. Google doesn’t completely ignore Meta tags - they know they are there and if you use them like most people do - stuffing repetitive keywords into them, then Google will just write you off as spam. Get your tags wrong and you can hurt your rankings. Don’t use them at all and you are safe. This is the primary reason I have long said not to optimize your sites for Yahoo or MSN et al. Google is the search engine you MUST rank well on if you hope to make money online. Don’t screw up your Google rankings in hopes of ranking well on other engines. I have never added Meta tags to any Blogspot blogs. I rank well on Google - they send me a lot of traffic - until recently about 85% of my visitors have been sent here from the Serp’s. I used to get the odd visitor from Yahoo or MSN and a few of the other lesser engines. Something has definitely changed in regards to the Yahoo Algorithm. As I said I noticed a sudden increase in traffic - not huge but noticeable - last month for a few keywords. Since then more and more keywords keep showing up in the serp listings. I have mentioned that this blog ranks page 1 on Google for more than 50 keywords and it appears that Yahoo is copying Google’s rankings for all the same keywords.A few days ago I finally did a little stat hunting because it was hard not to notice that Yahoo was sending me just about as much traffic as Google (turns out to be 50% as much) and my Adsense income has grown as well - partly because of the added traffic but also because my CTR has increased about 4% over the past month. At first I thought the increase was due to the fact that G had stopped smart pricing me. Turns out that smart pricing is only part of the story. This blogspot blog has had the most increase in traffic but I have noticed an increase across most of my deep linked blogger blogs from Yahoo. I still have a lot of other blogspot blogs that haven’t seen much increase at all. Have any of you noticed more traffic coming from Yahoo on your Blogger blogs?Considering I used to get maybe 50 visitors a month from Yahoo the stats below give you a good idea of how much new traffic is showing up. This is from a couple of days ago - Thursday’s stats.Click Image to enlarge.That’s a lot of new daily visitors to this site and I started checking the keywords that were bringing in the traffic. Turns out I was sitting in number 1 spot on Yahoo for a couple of the best terms - “How to Make Money Online” 1st out of a measly 1 Billion 7 hundred and 40 million pages… lol. I even slipped into 8th spot for the big kahuna “Make Money Online”.The best part about all this is that while they are suddenly ranking me for my main keywords they are also ranking me for all sorts of long tails proving that they are still a crappy search engine and making me money in the process. They are ranking me for all sorts of irrelevant terms that practically guarantees an increase in my CTR. People are coming here looking for “how to make professional estimates” and not finding what they want - exactly the kind of visitors you want on an Adsense site. Most just leave but it appears 4% more of these folks are clicking out using the Adsense ads than my Google traffic is. The end result is that this blog is now making a very decent buck. I’m not rubbing it in, just reminding a lot of you that Adsense is still the easiest way to make money online. And SEO is all that is needed. In a nutshell this blog makes money because of 2 things; the keywords I have used to optimize my pages and the backlinks that I have which use those keywords in the anchor text. That is all this comes down to folks. I’m not saying only use Adsense - always seek out multiple income streams - but remember that whatever monetization method you use depends on driving not just traffic but the right kind of traffic - search traffic. Search traffic boils down to just one thing - backlinks. Get the best links and you win. I’m curious - have any of you Blogger bloggers seen a surge in Yahoo traffic over the past month? Here is a brief list of terms Yahoo has sent me traffic for this past hour - both related and unrelated;(Yes this is more for my benefit than yours - just a little SEO boosting for future use)how to make money with my laptophow to make smart moneyhow to make money fast on the interneteasiest way to double your moneyhow to make money just by being onlinehow to make money membership sites real estate advicehow to make good moneyhow to make money in wow for noobsmaking money free + adsensemake money with search enginemake money for freehow to make money on the internet referralhow to make an excel spreadsheet look nicefool page rankHow to make money with cjhow to create a java code to search google multiple timeshow to make online money fasthow to make money online typing for freemaking money + bloghow to make money on internethow to earn money onlinehow to make fake moneyhow to make money online with out selling anythinghow to buld inside pipe inspection toolfree technic how to making moneyhow to make money while having fun on linehow to make money that cost nothing to startways to make money selling onlinePayday loans comment blog:.orgMaking money with AdSensefree information on how to make money bloggingmaking moneyhow to make money blogginghow to make money onlinehow to earn money onlinehow to make a lot of money on the net and get started for freehow to make moneyhow to make money honestlyhow to make money on netIn case I haven’t mentioned this lately - quit chasing social traffic folks - the money is in the search engines. Cheers,GrizOh if you ever want to see if your readers are reading your blog and don’t mind chewing up bandwidth just add a list of Keywords linked to the search engines like I did above. Post - wait 10 minutes and then check your stats… like this.It appears a few people just can’t help checking those links… Lol. Just having a little fun with ya’One more thing… Vic has a video up today regarding his Private Academy Launch. I can’t seem to get any voice when trying to play it so if anyone would like to tell me what he is saying please feel free… I’m particularly interested in any mention of the words “Griz” and “Gets a free membership”. If all those terms happen to go together in one sentence then please let me know…

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