Something for blog owners ;)
Monetizing your Blog
The best way to avoid it is to not monetize your blog. A new site with monetization all over it screams “spam”. If a site is not monetized it’s likely legit - why else would someone start a blog and not monetize it unless they truly just wanted to impart their knowledge to the masses. Google loves fresh unique content and has no reason to sandbox a site that isn’t monetized. The exception to this is starting a blog aimed at the taboo niches like “law”, “online drugs”, “loans”, “adult” and the rest of the spammers favorite targets. With or without monetization these type of blogs are sandboxed.
How long do you have to wait before you can monetize the site?
This answer sucks but “It depends”. I have found that waiting until you develop keyword authority is the best route. The faster you develop it the faster you can monetize and this depends on how many keyword anchored backlinks you can produce over a reasonable amount of time - say a month or two - and how much original content you can produce over the same period. I didn’t say how fast you could produce the backlinks as this is a mistake. You have to appear natural and getting 100 links the first week to a new blog is not natural and this will get you sent to the sandbox as quickly as monetizing your blog will. Take your time and build up your backlinks slowly but efficiently - get proper anchor text for your main keywords - not just one keyword but several different variations of it. Again this is how a natural site would grow. If every backlink uses the same term - sandbox. Be smart.
How do you know when you have enough keyword authority?
You know when you start writing new posts optimized for your keywords and they are immediately indexed and you see a movement up the serps from one post to the next. I am not talking about PR - I mean keyword authority. You can have a PR0 and rank well on the serp’s if all your backlinks tell Google that you are an authority for your keywords.
To understand this use this blog as an example. In the recent PR update I lost a point - I went from a PR5 blog to a PR4 and yet most of you know I just climbed onto page 1 of the serp’s for “Make Money Online”. I lost PR but gained serp rankings - this is because of my keyword authority.
Once you see that you have authority then you can introduce monetization on your site and usually this will keep you out of the sandbox - not always but most of the time.
More ideas an tips on: Makemoneyforbeginners
