So where are we now? It seems that blogs are cleaned up and looking better, which after all is what you want them to be in order to rank them well in the search engine index for the various search engines. I mention these because you have to remember that Google is not the only search engine that brings traffic to your blog.

Ok, its the major search engine, let’s not fool ourselves into thinking there is anything better out there for generating targeted traffic to your blog. But the other contenders such as Yahoo, Bing and Ask are all places to get traffic from, even if its far lower in volume. And here’s the rub.

While you’re working your asses off to get ranked well over at Google, you’re up against a shed load of competition all trying to do the same thing. The result is that your blog is not going to rank well to begin with and it will take a fair amount of time before it does. In the meantime, the other search engines are largely ignored by the kind of people who know how to rank well in Google’s pages.

That means you can rank well in Yahoo or Bing etc fairly quickly and somewhat easier and still attract some target traffic which you can convert into dollars at your blog. So don’t dis-count the other engines when you’re doing all the things you need to do in order to rank well in the SERPs. They can step in and provide you with a source of income, albeit a trickle when compared with the potential of Google, but a trickle is better than nothing, right?

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