http://www.buildmyrank.com/news/its-been-a-great-run

I signed up for the service late 2011 and was fortunate enough to get an account because shortly after I heard that they stop accepting new members.

Here are some of the main selling points, which I’m going to miss about BMR:

• The Blogs your articles go on, are high quality aged domains that range from PR1 to PR6.

• After your article has been accepted and then published. They create a RSS feed of the article and submit it to various feed aggreagators such as FeedAgg, Feedage and others. Next they submit the article to random social bookmarking and web 2.0 sites.
• After a view days, you can logon to your account and verify that your article has been indexed.

One of the things that I didn’t like but was actually a good thing about the service was that they didn’t accept any spun content, they only accepted original, unique content.

Meaning that some of the articles I outsourced to textbroker and got my VA to spin were always rejected.   So it was a pain to have more articles created but I knew that the high PR sites that they were going on was going to have more link-juice because of this.

Support was great and they held regular webinars to help its user community on how to best use and get the most out of their service. I attended a couple of them and James the presenter really made sure that everyone on the call benefited from the webinar.

All in all BMR- Build My Rank really went out of their way to provide a top class service and support to its users. Hopefully they will be back but for now I will keep using the other services I’ve been using for my back-linking campaign and hopefully someone will step up to provide the same kind of service and support as BMR did.

So for our example were going to make a blog on planning a trip to Disney World. So let’s say you’ve been to Disney World every year since you were 7 years old and you know everything their is to know about planning a trip to Disney World. Planning a trip to Disney World is not easy for any first timer. So you want to use your acquired knowledge and experience to help others plan and get the most out of their first trip to this magical place.

The goal here is to create your blog with extremely helpful content, tips and information about planning a trip to Disney World. Just like you, whenever you are searching for something online, trying to research and get more information about a specific topic, you want a site that answers all your questions and more. That’s what we want. To become the authoritative site for your topic or niche. The only way to accomplish this is by creating killer content and people will start visiting your blog and referring your blog to family and friends and then soon enough everyone will be visiting your blog whenever someone wants tips for Disney World. After some time and doing proper SEO you’ll hopefully find your blog on page 1 of Google when people search for “Disney World Tips”. Eventually you start getting a lot of traffic to your blog, by traffic I mean visitors coming to your blog. At this point you can then monetize all this new traffic several ways. Example: Paid Advertising, Affiliate Marketing, Referrals / Lead Generation, Adsense to sponsorship. For now lets focus on getting your blog up and running the correct way right off the bat.

First thing you need to do is get the proper domain name for your new blog. You need to choose the right domain name so people who are searching for something in the search engines find your blog and know what your blog is all about. Secondly by choosing the right domain name, it will also help you rank better in the search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing to help you get on the first page of Google so everyone will find your blog.

So how do you choose the right domain that best matches your topic or niche. This is where we do a little keyword research using a free tool by Google called: Google Keyword Tool

There are other Keyword Tools that cost money that have more features but the free Google Keyword Tool is more them enough to get you started. If you are interested in investing in a more advanced keyword research tool, I personally use a tool called Market Samurai.
Like I said before, the Google Keyword Tool is suffice for what we are trying to do.

So go to the Google Keyword Tool and type in your main keyword, in the Word or Phrase box. Expand Advanced Options and Filters and choose All countries because we want to filter what all countries all searching for not just the United States. Type in the captcha in the field below (a capthca is used to verify the response is generated by a person) Now click the Search button.

Now you will see a list of Keywords people are searching for, the competition of the keyword, the Global Monthly Search Volume and Local Monthly Search Volume. What we want to do is narrow down the find the best keyword that relates to your topic or niche which has a high Global Monthly Searches volume. These are how many people are searching for this keyword in Google every single month.

After we’ve did a search for Disney World we see that the global monthly search volume is pretty high at 6,120,000 but this is to generic and we want to be more specific on what people are searching for. In our example we want to provide Disney World Tips, so in the Word or Phrase box below our original keyword type in Disney World Tips and click the search button again. So now we see the monthly search amount drop to 22,000, which is still considerably a high search volume and the perfect keyword for our new domain name.

 Now that we know what your main keyword is we are trying to target and how to convert those 22,000 people searching every month for the keyword “Disney World Tips” we need to see what domains are available that are an exact domain name as our keyword or as close to possible to it ex. www.disneyworldtips.com .  Head on over to www.domainsbot.com In the Search field type in Disneyworldtips and click search. You will see that disneyworldtips.com is already taken but the .net and .org are still available. Just a little FYI about domain names is that the exact match domain name as your keyword will help Google and the other search engines determine the keyword relevancy and help you rank higher in the search engines. One more thing Google tends to do is favor .com first, .net and .org in that order if all 3 had the exact domain name, also taking into consideration the content on the site, page and number of backlinks. This is whole different beast, which I will write a post about in the future. Basically if you can get the .com for your keyword that’s the one you want. If it’s not available then try to get the .net and then the org.

Next you need to do is choose a good web hosting provider like Host Monster. I personally use them for a lot of my websites, I have never had problems with them, support is great and you can get hosting for as low as $4.95 if you sign up for 24 months. Check them out here: Host Monster Web Hosting.

When you’re on the Host Monster main page click on the “Get Started” button in the middle. On the next page put the domain name you found from domainsbot. In our example were going to put disneyworldtips.net and the click next. Now fill out your Account Information, choose which Account plan best suits your needs 12, 24, 36 months. The only other option I would choose is the Domain Whois Privacy. Which protects your contact information displaying when someone does a whois looking for who owns the domain. Fill out your Billing information and the click Next and go through the remaining steps to complete your registration.

That’s it, you’ve just setup web hosting for your brand new domain name. You’ll shortly receive an email from Host Monster with all your account information on how to logon to your new website.

In my next post I’m going to show you how to configure your brand new blog using WordPress.

Who am I, just another person trying to get more out of life while trying to help others in the process. Probably just like you, have a 9-5 job, a spouse, kids, mortgage payments and ice hockey or golf once a week but trying to make more out of life . How can I get more out of life? Ask yourself this question first “what type of person am I” Basically their are two types of people in this world 1.) People who talk about doing things & 2.) People who go into those things. Which one are you?

Why you’re probably visiting this site, you want more out of life, you want to make more money, maybe you just want some spare cash on the side or maybe you want the whole Enchilada – Mansions, Exotics Cars, Shopping Spree’s, Beach Houses, Living the High Life. The world is yours for the taking. So why don’t you be person number 2 that goes out and does those things people talk about.

So how can I make money online? You probably have something you’re passionate about, something you love to do or maybe you can talk about four hours, something that you could say you are subject matter expert about. Now take that thing you enjoy doing and ask yourself this question? Do other people share that same interest as I me and if so can I write about it on a blog that people would come to my site to read about. If you can answer yes then you’re one step closer to making money online.

This site will help you to get started. Teach you how you can get your own domain (ex. http://www.moneyfromablog.com) Help you install a free blog publishing application called WordPress. Help you to configure your WordPress blog and then assist you in creating your blog posts to share with the whole world to see and talk about what your so passionate about which then you can monetize.

Most blogs out there use direct monetization. Examples of Direct Monetization would be advertising by using something like Google Adsense or Text Link Ads. Affiliate Programs can also be a huge stream of steady income when using affiliates like Commision Junction, ClickBank, Linkshare, Pepperjam Network or even being a Amazon Affiliate. Another way to generate more income would be by doing Paid Reviews with sites like Reviewme or ReviewStream. You could also make direct money from good old fashion Sponsorship.

If a blog can offer value to its readers, which makes them keep coming back to read great content and also refer it to others, another way to get some extra coin is to ask for Donations. They can pay you via PayPal or they can mail you a check. For people who enjoy reading your blog and would like to keep reading it, making a donation for them is nothing. Most people average donations are $5 – $10, with some generous people giving up to $100.

Remember with Direct Monetization your making money directly from your blog which is also Passive Income. This is income that is being earned when your not actively working. So basically you can write a couple of blog posts and then go away on vacation for a couple of days, but your advertisements are earning you money while your away on vacation. People could be clicking on some of your sponsored ads or purchasing a product from one of your affiliate programs generating income for you while your actually sleeping. Pretty good ha…

So the possibilities are endless and skies the limit when it comes down to “How Much You Can Make Blogging”… It’s really up to you !!!

Blogs are not just a way up for someone’s to let everyone know what’s going on in their personal life, it can be about anything you want to write about. You can talk about your passions, interests or even dislikes. With so many things to talk about and the way a Blog is like a diary, it’s constantly being updated. Making it more SEO – Search Engine Friendly with websites like Google because the pages are being frequently updated as opposed to your standard website which usually stays static and rarely changes.

Most importantly why would we use a Blog to make money online. If a blog can generate an online conversation people tend to trust & value other peoples opinions more then just a regular website. Also with the nature of a blog search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing give higher rankings to certain keywords people search for. So basically any person who has a deep passion, interest or skill that they can write about on their blog that other people can benefit from or relate too, build an audience and have them coming back. The Blog can then monetize all the traffic it generates.

Lee