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Hello everyone! I've been busy writing articles, articles, articles and rearranging my site (www.Kitten-Pictures) to help bolster my search engine rankings.

http://Kitten-Pictures.com is a blog site – really more of a picture site designed to attract visitors who will enjoy the site, but who will click on the Google AdSense ads. I chose a picture site, because I was copying the efforts of Jonathan Leger, who runs a similar feline pictures site also – I’m not trying to reinvent anything here.

So now, the site is up and running and getting respectable traffic on a daily basis. I spend a lot of time promoting it. One of the things that I’ve been noticing is that with the AdSense clicks that I’m getting, I’m only making a few pennies each time. And, what a thrill it is to make some money at something, do you know what I mean – it’s a move in the right direction. However, I’m ready for a bit more income. I’ve decided to start adding content to the site in the form of blog posts (I initially started to add them as pages, but in Word Press, I couldn’t figure out how to categorize the articles – but with posts you can) which I put into various categories. Well, how am I deciding which articles to write – it’s certainly not by chance that I’ve written what I’ve written.

Well, go to http://Kitten-Pictures.com for a second – this is a little easier to explain if you are looking at the site.

Notice on the right hand side, I have a section called “Kitten Categories” and underneath that heading, WordPress software list of the blog posts that I’ve put into various categories. The Kitten Pictures, I’ve listed as “Kitten Pictures …”. But look at some of the others, like “Cat Trees” – this is an post/article that I wrote last night. How did I come up with that? Well, I did some keyword research and determined that “cat trees” is paying about $2.62 per click by Google Adwords advertisers and that there about 5,000 searches done each month. Not a ton of traffic, but I would mind a share of that $2.62 per click either.

Do you see what I’m doing; I’m letting my research drive the content of the site. As you watch, you will see more and more articles/posts that focus on profitable AdSense click rates – this is not a hobby for me, this is a business and I’ve got to try to maximize the value of every visitor ‘visiting’.

Creating the articles and fresh content is work, but I believe it is the best way to ultimately win in the Search Engine wars. There are sites going up all around that are directory-only sites that have junk for content – how long are they going to last? Do they really add any value to the internet experience for people? How long before Google figures out a way to get them all de-listed? Why even go there and play that game.

All, take action today. If you’ve not started your own blog site, please get started. Write about anything. The weather, your travels, anything. Write about something that you are passionate about – keep it very ‘G’ rated. Once you start this site, send me an email and tell me about it. I’ll do what I can to get you as far as I have come. You can be sure, as I learn new things, I will post and share.

There is no real change in my search engine rankings just yet – they are about the same as they were yesterday – you can see them on yesterday’s post.

Well, that’s it for today. Enjoy!

Make it a great day!

Stan