If you haven't yet noticed - the Bloogle AdSense Blog hasn't been updated in awhile, that is because I have started focusing my attention on 2 other blogs.

I plan on leaving this blog up and running, but I won't be adding anything more to it. However, if you like the information here you will probably find one of other blogs very useful.

i-Blogger - www.i-blogger.info

i-Blogger is about the journey to become a successful full-time blogger. It has a lot of similar information as this blog.

Thank you for continuing your support of this blog and I hope you follow me on to bigger and better things.

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about my personal relationships and blogging.

When I first started getting into Internet Marketing and Blogging, I knew that it was something that I wanted to do from that moment on. Basicly, I was hooked.

I initially started out building my own websites to offer affiliate products. Then about 6 months later, as a way to promote my websites, I started my first blog. From that point on, I blogged almost every single day.

Unfortunately, this caused my personal relationships to suffer. I would be building my websites, blogging, and trying to drive traffic to my sites all day long. I actually believed those money making programs out there that said "Become A Millionaire While You Sleep". I'm sure that you know the ones I am talking about. Chances are if you haven't purchased one of these programs yourself, you know someone who has.

Needless to say, the program didn't work, I am not a millionaire. (Not Yet Anyway) Even though I should be, I did everything they said to do, except for, spend thousands of dollars upgrading to a "pro-membership" status with the program. What a joke!

However, the money that I did earn was actually from the blog that I had started just to drive traffic to my affiliate websites. So I gave up on those affiliate sites to become more of a full-time blogger.

I love to blog, but I learned real quick that blogging alone can take up most of your time. It wasn't until after my laptop was damaged, that I realized just how much time that I did spend on my blogs.

I know now, that it is important to find a good in-between. You have to take time out of your day to be with the people that you love. What I decided to do is set myself a schedule. I promised my wife that I would only be on the computer for a certain amount of time everyday. For the most part I stick to that schedule. This makes everyone much more happy, especially my two boys, Tyson who is 9 and Aiden he is 4, he is also a real "Daddy's Boy".

So make sure you are putting the computer to the side long enough to spend time with the important people in your life.

Let me know how you feel about this topic, and remember to check back often for more tips about how to make money online blogging with Google AdSense.

NOTE: I still use affiliate Programs, I just don't build websites for them anymore. I also promote affiliate products on my blogs. They are still a good way to make extra money!

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Having the right keywords for your blog is essential to building a good blog. When you use the right keywords for your blog, you have the potential to get a lot more traffic from the search engines.

Keywords are the words that people will use to find your blog in search engines like Google. So it's important that you get found for the right ones. If you are using a lot of keywords on your blog that people never search for, your blog won't get much traffic to it.

To make sure you are using the best keywords for your blog topic, you want to go and use a keyword tool  to find them. I prefer to use the Google Adwords Keyword Tool, it's free and it tells you how many searches are done for a certain keyword every month.

All you need to do is, go to adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and type in your blog's topic. The Google Adwords Keyword Tool will then suggest keywords for you to use.

Then, after you find the keywords and phrases that get a good amount of searches each month, you want to include those keywords in your blog posts.

Make sure that you don't over do it. If you use a keyword so many times in your post that it doesn't sound natural, re-write it, because the search engines will know. It's called "keyword stuffing" and Google can spot this from a mile away.

As I have said before, you want to write like you would talk. Read your post as you write it and if it doesn't sound right, just fix it. Also, make sure that you spell the keywords correctly too. If the keywords aren't spelled right, your blog won't show up in the search engines for that certain keyword.

I hope this helps take some of the mystery out of finding good keywords to use. Check back tomorrow for the next "Build A Blog Workshop". Good luck!

Today I want to share some tips on which settings to use for your new blog. When using Blogger for your blog host, changing your blog settings is very easy to do. First sign in and go to your Blogger Dashboard. Then click on settings.

Here is what you'll want to do next: (These are only the ones that are the most important)

Under Basic:

Title-YOU SHOULD PUT 1 OR 2 KEYWORDS INTO YOUR TITLE

Description-THIS SHOULD BE RELATED TO YOUR BLOG TOPIC

Add your blog to our listings? YES

Let search engines find your blog? YES

(The others are up to you)

Under Comments:

Comments- SHOW

Who Can Comment? ANYONE

Comments Default for Posts-NEW POSTS HAVE COMMENTS

Backlinks-SHOW

Backlinks Default for Posts-NEW POSTS HAVE BACKLINKS

Under Archiving:

Enable Post Pages? YES

Under Permissions:

Who can view this blog? ANYBODY

These are the most important settings to have, if you want to get listed in the search engines. Until you are more familiar with what each setting does, I would go by these here for the best results. The ones I have left out are up to you.

In tomorrows post, I will help you choose which gadgets to use and where to place them on your blog. Until then, keep working smart and as always, good luck!

Day 4 of the "Build A Blog Workshop" is on finding a great blog template. Finding which template to use for your blog all depends on what your blog topic is. For example if your blog topic is Barbie Doll Collecting, then a pink blog template would probably be something you would want to consider.

Another piece of advice that I want you to think about is, do not use a template with a black background. Templates with black backgrounds look cool, but reading white words on a black page is hard on the eyes. Plus you don't see to many successful and popular blogs on the web, that have a black background.

What you need to ask yourself is, do you want people to take your blog seriously? If you do, then you can never go wrong with a simple, white, plain looking template. Is your blog about poetry? I have come across a lot of poetry blogs with a tan background and soft colors.

You want your blog to match what you're blogging about. Remember you can always change your template. However, you only get one chance to make a first impression. Research shows that people visiting a website or blog will leave within 10 seconds if something doesn't catch their eye. So make it look good and don't just pick the first template that you see. Look at 20 or 30 of them before you make your choice.

Make sure to check back tomorrow for tips on which blog settings to use. Until then keep working smart not hard and as always, good luck!

Day 3 of the "Build A Blog Workshop" is about picking your blogs domain name. If you have decided to use Blogger as your blog host, then you have the option of using a free sub-domain name. If this is your first blog, then this is what I would advise you to do. You can start paying for a domain name later if your blog takes off and starts doing really well. Until then there is no point in spending money if you're just starting out.

When choosing your domain name, it's important to have name that it is relevant to your blogs topic. A good example would be my blog here, my blog title is "Bloogle AdSense", which of course is about "how to make money blogging using Google AdSense". A couple of the keywords I want to get a good ranking for in the search engines is Blogging, Google, and AdSense. "Bloogle AdSense" is a combination of all three of those keywords. As you can see my domain name is bloogle-adsense.blogspot.com.

If your blog is about bikes and your domain name is bike.com, when somebody Googles the word bike, your blog will likely appear as one of the results on Googles front page. Unless of course, there are 2 million other blogs out there about bikes. This is why it's good to try to pick an original topic that a lot of people haven't done already. Like we discussed in the last post "Choosing Your Blog Topic" .

So put a lot of thought into your blogs topic and domain name. Don't be afraid to get creative, this is one of the most important steps to having a successful blog.

Make sure to read my next post where I will show you what to look for when your picking a blog template. Keep up the good work and as always, good luck!

For Day 2 of the "Build A Blog Workshop" we are going to discuss how to choose a topic for your new blog. In the last post, we talked about Finding A Blog Host. I recommended Blogger.com for various different reasons. If you would like to set up a free blog here at Blogger.com, click here.

Now that you have found where to host your blog, I can help you with choosing a blog topic. 

Here are 5 things to consider while your trying to think of an interesting topic.

1. Is this something that you are knowledgeable about? You don't want to choose a topic that you know very little about. If you have no idea what you're talking about, people can see that and they will call you out on it. So pick a topic that interests you and that you know a lot about.

2. Make sure your topic is something that you either really care about, or something that you hate. Many people think that your blog should be about something that you love or care about. The truth is that you can blog about anything. There are a lot of successful blogs out there, where bloggers will complain about something that they dislike. If you're passionate about what you're blogging, your readers are more likely going to relate. No matter how much you love or hate it.

3. Do you want to have a personal blog, or is your main goal to make money? I'm not saying that personal blogs can't make money, they can. But when somebody goes to a blog it is usually because that blog has information that they're looking for, not because they want to hear about someones day at work. On the other hand, somebody who is blogging about their battle with cancer, might have some helpful information for other cancer patients out there. Helpful information is what will generate revenue.

4. Are you going to have something to blog about 6 months down the road? You want to pick a topic that gives you a lot of different things to blog about. A successful blogger will post something to their blog every single day or at least every other day. If your blogging about the first baseball game that you ever went to, you will probably run out of things to blog about after the first couple of weeks.

5. Try to choose an original topic. You don't want to start a blog if you are going to have to compete with 3 million other blogs that have the same topic. A blog about the war in Iraq would be a great idea. Even if your blog supports the war, you will still get people coming to your blog that are totally against it and just want to leave a comment to disagree with you about your latest post. But who really cares if they disagree with what you have to say, as long as they're reading your blog!

I hope this post gets your creative wheels turning and helps you to pick out an original and interesting topic for your new blog.

Check back to get new tips everyday in December for the Build A Blog Workshop. Tomorrow we will talk about "How To Choose Your Blogs Domain Name". Until then, keep working smart not hard, and as always, good luck!

For the month of December I have decided to do a 31 day "Build A Blog Workshop". I will show you the ABC's and 123's of starting and promoting your blog for free. I am going to help you pick a blog host and even show you the type of gadgets and modules that you should use on your blog. You will find out the best way to monetize your blog and also where to place your AdSense to get the most clicks.


When starting a blog there a few things you'll want to do the very first month, I will let you know what you should do and how to do it. This will be great for all of you that are newbies to the blogging game and possibly even help the more seasoned bloggers learn a few new tricks.

Make sure to check in everyday throughout the month of December for some great tips and tricks. Keep up the good work and as always good luck!

With the amount of blogs popping up all over the blogosphere, it's becoming harder and harder to come up with an original and interesting topic to blog about. However, there is one topic that's always interesting and you rarely ever run out of things to post. The news!

The reason that this is such a hot topic for a blog, is that when it comes to the news there is a protocal that has to be followed before the media can release the story to the public. News stories will usually go through reporters and editors before the story can be aired or put into print.

This is great news for bloggers because when we write a new post for our blog and click the publish button, that's it anyone can read it. So what this means is that if you can stay right on top of the things that happen, you could be publishing news stories before it really becomes news. Which is a recipe for a popular blog.

Now you might do this by following other blogs and real time websites that have the same topic. The internet is the first place that big news hits. News will circulate through the web pretty fast. So if keep your ears open and stay up to date with whats going on here on the World Wide Web, then this would probably be a good topic for your next blog.

I hope this helps some of you to start a new interesting blog. Keep working smart not hard, and as always, good luck!

Ever since I started building websites and blogging, I have seen, tried, and read a lot of worthless e-books and silly programs out there. These programs that claim they can show you how to get rich overnight with your blog. If any of you have been on the internet for more than a week or two you have probably came across the same kind of things.

Well, I hate to be the one to tell everyone this but, you cannot get rich overnight blogging! Now that doesn't mean you can't earn money doing this. If you work smart and have an interesting blog with quality content and use some good SEO (Search Engine Optimization) then you can actually make some pretty decent money blogging.

But like I have said before, these things take time. You have to build a web presence, build your back-links, get your blog listed in the search engines, among other things. However, if you love to blog and don't mind putting in the effort, then it will pay off.

So keep at it, don't get discouraged and make sure you listen to the pro-bloggers out there.

Keep working smart not hard and as always, good luck.

Today I found a forum that has so much great information on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) that I just had to share it with everyone.

I was reading a post on one of the blogs that I follow, when he mentioned the http://forums.seo.com I was naturally curious. I have been to a lot of forums in the past and they usually have a ton of great information available, but this one is among the top. It is really easy to sign up too.

I know I have mentioned time and time again how important Search Engine Optimization is for you to have a successful blog. So believe me when I tell you, this type of forum helps for you to be a part of it. I found that a lot of my questions were already answered. I just did a search on the forum, and the answer I was looking for was right there.

If you want your blog to become more successful use good SEO techniques. For good SEO techniques you can go to this forum I found today. SEO.com Forums

If you know of any other good SEO forums, feel free to drop me a link and let me know about them.

Remember, work smart not hard! Keep up the good work and as always, good luck.

Blogging tip of the day: Keep yourself on task. For some bloggers this is one of the hardest things to do. If you're a blogger that hopes to one day make a living blogging, then this tip will come in handy. To make it as a "pro-blogger" you need to do whatever you can to stay focused and keep yourself on task. Otherwise you will probably not be posting often enough to have your blog become successful.

I wanted to post this tip because I myself have noticed how hard it is to keep focused. So the advice I have for you to try, is something I use myself every single day. If you have a hard time staying focused you can try writing yourself a schedule, it might sound funny but it works. What you want to do is get a notepad and every night before you go to sleep, write out your plan for the following day.

For example, My schedule might look something like this:
1. 8:45am- Take Tyson (my 9 year old son) to school.
2. 9:00am- Come home have breakfast with Aiden (my 4 year old son)
3. 9:45am- Return some emails
4. 10:30am- Write a blog post for my HCG Diet Information Blog
5. 11:30am- Write a blog post for my Bloogle AdSense Blog.
And it goes on and on. You get my point.

Even though it doesn't always go according to plan, I try to stay as close to my schedule as possible. To build a successful blog you have to treat it like you would a business that you have sunk your life savings into, hopefully you haven't done that already with your blog. But what I am trying to say is, if you want your blog to become big and successful, treat it like it already is.

Hopefully you can use and benefit from this tip. Keep working smart, not hard. And as always, good luck.