Google recently announced their coop program. Coop lets you create your own vertical search engine and monetize the search through adsense ads on the result pages.

While I have been working on the SEO work that I outlined in How Not to Suck at SEO, my mind has been buzzing with ideas for making more money online. A few of the things sites that have sparked some ideas are:

Shoe Money Interview on SEOMoz – Very interesting info on Shoe Money’s business operations and strategy. I especially like his emphasis on experimentation and constantly learning.
Top Google Whores – A compilation of some folks making a TON Of money from Adsense. One of the sites listed was a myspace resource site that is making over $100,00/month.

In the part one of How to Not Suck at SEO, I wrote about the first steps in my mission to improve the search engine ranking of my sites. I have been working on the steps that I outlined in the previous post (reading up on SEO, CSS redesign, different class C IP blocks), and I have thought of a few more steps that I will need to work on.

1. Search Engine Friendly URLs. Instead of having my urls look like madnotes.com/notes.php?z=1, the URLs will look like madnotes.com/hamlet-notes.php.  I have been resisting this for a while, but the keyword rich URLs will improve my search enigne results. You can check out this site for code to use mod_rewrite to the create search engine freindly URLs.

While I was pouring over my stats last week, I came to the startling realization that I suck at SEO. As with any problem, facing it is the best option. I have decided to publicly confront my SEO demons and chronicle my efforts to improve. Hopefully, you can learn a little from my experience.