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Oct
18
Making Money with Your Blog
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There is a lot of buzz these days around blogging for money. In truth, it is more difficult to make money this way than some may lead you to believe. However, if approached properly, blogging can become a very profitable exercise. Let’s discuss some easy, practical steps you can take towards creating an online blogging presence that will make money for you.
First and foremost, a personal little blog is not going to do it. Some people believe they can blog about their daily lives and make money. I hate to burst your bubble, but your life isn’t that interesting. Don’t take offense – nobody’s life is that interesting! If you want to pull traffic, you are going to need to offer a topic or topics that interest people, and in many cases answer questions that people have. For instance, an Internet Marketing blog might have all general IM posts, or may be divided into sections for PPC posts, article marketing posts, affiliate marketing posts, and product creation posts. Such a blog offers a subject many people are interested in, many subdivisions of that subject that people want more information about, and the posts can give great tips, advice, or share experience that can help others.
After beginning a blog focused around your niche, sprinkle a little Adsense around it. Try to keep your Adsense in places that receive the most focus – the top of your blog (specifically top left if you can), between paragraphs in the text, or at the bottom right after the text ends, for people who are looking for more information after reading your post. These locations seem to do well. However, making money with an Adsense-only blog can be very difficult. There is one more thing you should do to make your blog more profitable.
Once you have established yourself a little and built some rapport with your readers, you want to begin sprinkling affiliate products into your posts. Don’t overdo this or you will run your readership away! However, in a post describing a particular problem, you may post a link to a product that solves that problem. That link would be your affiliate link, and any sales resulting from your blog post’s link would pay commissions to you. You might even want to place one or two graphical or text affiliate links to useful, relative products in the sidebar or sidebars of your blog. Be sure you don’t make it difficult to search your blog for all the ads and affiliate links! You want your users to feel that you are blogging for them first and foremost, and your affiliate links are merely helpful suggestions you are making.
By establishing yourself in a niche, offering useful information to your readers, and sprinkling your blog with tastefully-positioned ads and affiliate links, you will begin to see an income coming through your blog. Congratulations, you have succeeded! Now continue to tweak and test what works well and what doesn’t so that you can continue to make your blog more and more profitable for yourself, while becoming more and more appealing to your target audience.
Sep
15
Free Online Tool for Blogs
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Here’s something we’ve just found…BlogRush! It’s a free online syndication tool that allows your feed to appear on other blogs for increased traffic.
We’ve just placed it here….(look for the “Blogsphere” on the sidebar for an example), so we don’t know how effective it is yet, but it’s free and definitely worth the try.
All you do is sign up, then place the code anywhere on your blog where ever you want it to appear. Simple.
Check it out - BLOGRUSH
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Jul
30
ProBlogger - Darren Rowse
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Want to learn how to blog like the pros? Darren Rowse has THE best blog on, well, Blogging that I have ever found.
He’ll explain exactly what a blog is and how you can turn yours around to start making money. Whether you are a beginner or consider yourself a pro, you will more than likely walk away from his blog with new information and the inspiration to make yours bigger and better.
Here’s a small fraction of what you’ll find on his blog:
What is a Blog?
How Blogs Make Money Online
Adsense - Tips for Bloggers
Blogging for Beginners
Blog Promotion
Income Streams
Podcasting
and tips and ideas out the wazoo:)
Check out his site and start devouring every bit of information he has to offer at Problogger.net
Jul
28
Tips for Successful Blogging
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I was stumbling on stumbleupon today and found a great article I just had to share. It’ll give you 21 tips for making your blog successful.
An absolute must read…..
21 Surefire Tips for a Successful Blog Launch
“Witnessing the launch of a blog as successful as Performancing’s first two weeks might lead you to think that launching a successful blog is easy… well, it’s NOT. Thousands of new blogs are launched every day, but only a handful ever get read by more than a few hundred people, and even fewer ever make a dollar’s profit. While a site can survive a terrible launch (see Instablogs’ surprising turnaround) the cost is high, and the truth is, most never recover. With no money coming in, and a readership which can be counted in the dozens, it’s no wonder that the vast majority of bloggers give up and shut down their site within a year.
The 21 points included in this checklist will cover the basics of what you need to do during those all-important first two weeks of your blog’s life. While there are no guarantees in the blogosphere, if you follow these launching tips closely, your chances of success are greatly improved.”
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