Getting the Traffic to Your Site | The Importance of Keyworded Backlinks

So you have maybe slapped up a few adsense niche blogs or maybe stuck with building an adsense income from sites like hubpages or infobarrel, what now?  Are you ready for some residual income online? Not quite yet. Probably the single most important thing about making good income is to get search traffic to your website or hubpage.  These are the folks that will click on your ads and be happy that you sent them along to what they were looking for.  Don't waste your time chasing those social networking web 2.0 ninnies.  They never click ads even though Google is trying to help that with their new user-based ad platform.

Organic traffic is where you want to be.  And ranking number one in your slot for your keyword is the trick to creating a truly passive income opportunity.  But how to you make money online with adsense if you aren't ranked number one for your keyword?  Well now is the time to roll up your sleeves and get to work.  Content creation is the no brainer aspect of working with adsense.  The real work comes in when you have to figure out how to rank for your keywords.

To get the kind of traffic to your site that will click your links and make you money online, you will need to start getting keyword anchored links to your website from other websites that Google views as having authority.  Now there are many different ways to go about doing this.  You can contact other websites that outrank you for the same keywords and ask them for a link to your site.  You can do blogroll exchanges or participate in link trades with other folks in your niche.  One of the easiest ways you can do this on your own, however, is to submit unique content to a quality article directory.  This will help gain you exposure as well as having the opportunity to have your article republished across the internet.  This is great because publishers must keep your links back to  your site in tact when they reprint your article.

When you are submitting articles to directories or even guest posting on other people's blogs, one of the biggest mistakes I see people make is that they don't spend time to search for keyword variations and other options that they can rank easily for.  these variations have the bonus value of bringing in more traffic to your site.  In addition, you can use these other long tailed phrases to help you vary the anchor text to your site.    Never ever link back to your site with the same anchor text everywhere, or even worse with "click here" as your anchor text.  Gah, I think Adobe has the rankings zipped up for click here and you will never beat their site out so don't try it!

Somebody asked the other day in a forum I belong to about how many backlinks you need to get to get to the top spot in the Google SERPS.  Duh - you need as many as you have the day you finally make it.  Is this a fast trip?  Well that really depends upon the keywords you choose and your competition for those keywords. Sometimes in larger markets you might even be content to sit on the first page because the payout is so great, but in most niches, your income will vary exponentially as your position away from the number one spot changes.

Don't just trust me, try it out for yourself!