More Blog Money

Bloggers should have a basic understanding of the fundamentals of successful blogging. If you can already write good blog content, knowing and applying the following will put your blog on the road to increased blog traffic and to make money blogging.

Terms are defined from Wikipaedia:

1. Backlinks
   Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page. Backlinks enable you to keep track of other pages on the web that link to your posts. The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page.

2. Google PageRank
   PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important”.

3. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
   Search engine optimization (SEO), considered by many to be a subset of search engine marketing, is a term used to describe a process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines, usually in “natural” (”organic” or “algorithmic”) search results.

4. Search Engine Results Page (SERP)
   A search engine results page, or SERP, is the listing of web pages returned by a search engine in response to a keyword query. The results normally include a list of web pages with titles, a link to the page, and a short description showing where the keywords have matched content within the page. A SERP may refer to a single page of links returned, or to the set of all links returned for a search query.

If you can successfully combine the above, that is, get quality backlinks and utilize search engine optimization techniques to increase your blog PageRank, you will get ranked higher on search engine results pages leading to higher blog traffic which translates to higher chances of your blog making money.

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