What I have learned over the last few months is that you must test, test, test, Get yourself set up with Google Analytics, Be sure to do the url analytics, And see what works and what doesn’t work. And then make the necessary changes to try something new and then test and test and test some more.

And remember while you are testing, you are going to earn, maybe not as much as you would like, But definitely you will make some money.

But here is the thing, You can not create one blog, fill it with adsense and sit back and watch your bank account fill. It ain’t gonna happin!

So what I have been doing is building several blogs that I actually have a love for the subject of the blogs. This is important because you are not going to stick with something if you are not interested in it, at least a little. And blogging does require that you give it some attention occasionally. But another thing I have discovered is that you do not have to post every few seconds to your blog to keep it ranking well in Google.

The Big Guru’s told me that I had to post on the blog at least 2-3 times a week. At the very least, weekly. Well you remember from reading this blog, I am still working at the J.O.B. although I am happy to announce I have been able to cut back on a few hours. Which gives me a little more time to work online, but life still happens, and I am a woman. So my home, my family, my husband takes up enough of my 24 hours each day that I could not blog one, let alone all of my blogs 2-3 times a week.

I worried myself sick over my impending failure, due to my inability to be a “real” blogger. I was posting every few weeks on one at a time. That is what I could do. So that is what I did.

If you find a good keyword and make really good content, your blog will get some traffic. Good content is key. Good content will get you excellent adsense ads and that will get you more clicks.

Let me take you through getting your url channels set up so you can watch your adsense and begin your test, test, testing.

FIRST: Go to your Google Adsense account and click the Adsense Set Up tab.

SECOND: click the “Channels” under the Set Up tab. 

NEXT: click the “URL channels”, about 1/2 way down the page.

THEN: click “add new url channels”

Here, put the url of the page you want to monitor your ads. It will show up on your channel reports and you can see how active a page is for adsense and if the ads you placed there are working for you.

Don’t be afraid to switch out your ads. Try different configurations, color schemes, corner shapes or whatever. Just keep testing. You’ll be surprised what you learn, not to mention it’s just fun to see where the clicks are coming from.

Google Analytics allows you 200 total Channels  to track, so every page that you want to track how well your adsense is doing on, just add the url and analytics will do the rest.

So get on it, make some blogs, put some adsense on them, track how well they do in your analytics account and start making some money!

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Then you open your email. Wow, you say, I have 79 new e-mails. Yikes. Of course, you did just join that latest giveaway and they had some great free downloads and all you had to do was give them your email address. That’s pretty simple.

So now you are on their lists. And they want you to buy something… anything!  The next greatest and latest, the best must have thing for your new internet business. Well, what are you to do? What if they are right? What if some of the stuff they are selling really would help you in some endeavor you are aspiring to? What if it might save you some time or effort? What if it really would let you become successful? Afterall, you do have a limited budget for growing your business.

So…you start opening and reading and clicking…

what do you mean 4 hours have passed!! I must get dinner, the kids will be home from school, the dog needs to be let out.

How could this have happened. I had a list!

Sound familiar. Well it certainly does to me. This has happened to me over and over. I love those giveaways and I have been around long enough to have gotten on a few lists that keep me informed of the next one coming. It’s free! You have to check it out.

Or do you?

Here is my take on this. There are just a few things you must do to make money on line.

• You need a product, be it yours, an affiliate’s or google’s (adsense)
• You need a way of contacting people, be it a blog, a website, email campaigns
• you need people to sell it to

These are the essentials, albeit extremely oversimplified.

So you know you have an idea of what you need to to do to accomplish this, remember you had a list, but distractions are killing your efforts. Day after Day, and week after week and soon month after month of your precious time away from diner, the kids and the dog keep slipping away and you are no closer to your dream of working from home.

What can you do?

Well there is something you can do. It took awhile, but I finally learned this and it has made a huge difference in my online life.

You must be aware you are being distracted!

That’s it! That’s the big secret! All the internet gurus know this secret, but they will not necessarily share it with you. They figure you’ll probably figure it out but until then they will continue to be part of the distraction.

So are you going to ignore your email. Tape it shut with duct tape so it can’t get you again. No, of course not. But…

Have a plan…a little better than a list. Here’s what I do.

1. I plan my time to do my online work every week just like a real work schedule.
2. I share this plan with my family. I, of course, made the plan with home life in mind so that no one is neglecte, not even the dog,  and everyone in the family can help me be successful by respecting the plan.
3. When I sit down to my block of time to work online, I have a designated 30-45 min of time to look at email. Now this means peruse. If you have 79 new emails. YOU MUST NOT LOOK AT ALL 79! You are going to have to good at glancing through them, prioritizing them and looking at the ones you feel are really important or interesting. You can always come back to this later and continue to clean it up while you are watching TV with the family with your laptop in use.
4. Here is where you list comes in. Nothing feels as good as being able to check things off your list. Let me repeat that. Nothing feels as good as being able to check things off your list. You feel like you are really internet marketing. You feel like this really is important and you are doing something toward your freedom from the JOB. You are really working from home. IT IS GREAT! Try it!
5. Work your allotted time for the day. Check off a thing or two from your list. Stand up feel proud and go cook dinner and oh, let the dog out.

Feel really good about yourself. You did it! You worked at your internet marketing business. You know you can’t help but be successful if you can behave as a professional and take your work seriously.

Give this a real concerted effort. You may not be perfect at it for awhile. It is really hard to get away from the email and distractions and it takes a minute for the family to fall inline. But it will happen. I promise. It did for me. It will for you.

Next time we’ll talk a bit about that next great thing, that must have something or other. Until then, please be good to yourself and keep working to quit your JOB.

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