Everyone who wants to make money online wants easy tricks in the business. Well, really there isn’t any magic tricks to speak of but there are some thing that you can do to help… what’s the right word, ah “Tweak things“. Yeah.. tweak, that’s a good word!

WordPress comes built in with a really neat feature… Now hang on, this is a mouthful!

Search Engine Friendly Search Results Permalink Structure

What does that mean?

It means that, in a WordPress Blog you link up random words in your blog post to go direct to a search engine friendly keyword driven url.

Follow those links above and you will see how I have turned this:

… into this:

Social blogs are touchy… every social blogger wants to make money off their blog, but they don’t want to piss their readers off in the process. So, why not make special pages for monetization and keep your social blog free and clear for your readers?

For one, most social blogger in my niche crowd are people just like me… We are a huge group of bloggers that blog about making money online to each other… bla, bla, bla, blog, blog, blog.

If you read my blog, chances are that you already know about Adsense and chances are (and its been proven) you are not going to click my Adsense ads. However, I can use the link power of my social blog to purposely create pages that will target the type of people that will click the ads.

The search results page is perfect for this.

Here is how to monetize your WordPress search results page… first thing is to open your search.php page. Use FTP or use the WordPress theme editor.

Look for this line of code on the top of the page:

<h2 class=”pagetitle”>Search Results</h2>

Replace it with this:

<h2 class=”pagetitle”><?php the_search_query(); ?> - <?php bloginfo(’name’); ?></h2>
<p>Here is a list of articles related to <?php the_search_query(); ?>.</p>

In most cases, you will also see this directly below it:

<div class=”navigation”>
<div class=”alignleft”><?php next_posts_link(’« Previous Entries’) ?></div>
<div class=”alignright”><?php previous_posts_link(’Next Entries »’) ?></div>
<div style=”clear:both;”></div>
</div>

just get rid of that completely. You don’t want to give away too many options for the visitors. The goal here is to create a very search engine friendly page that leads visitors to great relevant references. Adsense ads as well as your own results being show below the ads.

After removing the page navigation code, replace it with this:

<p>Here is a list of articles related to <?php the_search_query(); ?>.</p>

Directly below that link is where you will want to add your Adsense code. I am using three 336×380s.

Congratulations! You have now monetized your search result pages using Google Adsense! Save your page and upload it back to your server.

Continue blogging like your normally would. After you are done writing your post, quickly skim over the context before publishing and hyperlink a few good keyword phrases that would return some really nice looking search result pages.

The URL structure will always be the same:

http://www.yourname.com/search/Keyword+Phrase/

The big picture of things is that you are building indexable and search engine friendly pages for the purpose of monetization. These pages help you make money but allow you an option towards doing it without taking away from the quality of your blog and creating an eye sore for your readers. This is a great way to make money with your social blog but not create a huge eye sore for your regular readers.