Backlinks Are King--Not More Blogs

Wow, reading back through just a few posts on this blog it's apparent I've learned a lot in just a short amount of time.

The thing is, a lot of people (including me 2-3 months ago) think that in order to make money on the Internet you just have to keep building more blogs. While having multitudes of blogs does make a difference you really need to work on creating backlinks for the websites you've already invested your time and money into. Why bother putting the site together in the first place if you don't make the effort to get it ranked #1 in Google? Isn't that the purpose of registering the domain name in the first place? These things just don't happen on their own! What good are 25, 50, 100 blogs if none of them rank for their keywords?

Some people buy a domain name, write some posts, submit a couple of articles, do a little social bookmarking and expect a miracle. When their website doesn't appear on the first page of Google they say, "Well that didn't work. I need to try another keyword." And then they start the vicious cycle all over again with a different website. No wonder 95% of people who try to make money online give up!

Of course 25, 50, or 100 blogs would be worth a lot of money if they all ranked #1 for their respected keywords and the only way to do that is with backlinks. So, I guess backlinks are the key point in the equation aren't they? For some reason it took the grey matter in my brain a long time to fully grasp this concept. Hopefully your brain is not as stubborn as mine.

I just wanted to emphasize the importance of backlinks in case you didn't already know. :-)