Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Profitable Blogging and Working From Home

There are many people who want to start working from home. Some of these people write blogs. Many people are unsure how to make their blog profitable. Many other people don't even know where to start. Well, there are a lot of great opportunities for making money with blogs.

It's very important to structure your blog in such a way that it will generate income. You need to make sure to do some strong research before you start writing your blog. Or, you need to have a monetization plan intact for your blog.

1. Many people find blogs to be very rewarding, because they can be an outlet for your opinions and passions. You can truly express yourself in a blog, and this is very satisfying. You can also stimulate debate and discussion through a blog. It's also a great way to hone your writing skills. You can do all of this while working from home.

2. Financially, blogs are very manageable. Often it costs very little money to establish and maintain a blog. Bloggers have to only pay for two expenses: web hosting fees and domain names. Usually, these cost no more than $20 a month. It's also very easy to maintain a blog. Also, you can start a blog with little knowledge of web development. You don't need to be a programmer to start a blog.

3. There are several blogging programs that facilitate the blogging process. WordPress specifically has a lot of features that support blogging. Also, if you need advice, you can log onto one of the many blogging forums, where you are sure to find an answer to your question. WordPress also offers extra bells and whistles that can help in the monetization of your blog.

4. Blogging can bring in a steady income. You can generate income a variety of ways from blogging. You'll be making money by working from home. These include: affiliate programs, sponsorship, advertising, and product sales. There are many people out there who make a living from blogging.

5. Many great marketers target niche markets through blogs. In this way, you can attract a certain niche to your blog based on the theme of your blog. If you can drive good traffic, you can review products and then generate income by driving traffic to vendors who sell these products.

6. A variety of websites, programs, and marketing strategies help to drive traffic to blogs. If you can employ these well, you can attract a strong amount of traffic to your blog. There are many other reasons why having a blog is one of the best ways to start working from home.

Blogs also identify you as a credible source of information. This strengthens your reputation as an affiliate, vendor, or simply as a disseminator of information. You can also forge business connections through blogs. And you get to express yourself and your opinions, which is always fun.

Make sure your blog is full of strong content. Everyone wants to read engaging stuff, and there is nothing worse than a boring blog. So just put some time and effort into it and write something that's entertaining. A blog is a powerful tool for Internet marketing.

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Monday, August 30, 2010

Blog Multiplication Higher Earnings

I just want to ask you one quick question. Are your blogs profitable? I told you it would be quick. It's real simple to answer. Either your blogs are earning for you, or their not. I will tell you something here and I will be blunt. If your blogs are earning you some type of income then you need to listen up. If your blogs are not earning you some sort of income then you DEFINETLY need to listen up. Pay attention close to what I say and maybe the next time someone asks you that question instead of saying yes or no you can say "HECK YES THEY ARE"! Now I again will be blunt. Some people consider this totally unethical and black hat. I leave that for you to decide.

A vast majority of the people that will tell you this is "black hat", are not earning "peanuts" from their blogging efforts. The people who have the "Victory or Death" approach are reaping profits only some can imagine making on the Internet. So what exactly am I talking about you ask? I'm talking about multiplying your blogging efforts and exploding your Adsense and Affiliate income. Now before I tell you on how to do that, I want to ask you some more questions. First, are your Adsense earnings substantial? Is your Affiliate income coming in at a level that is suitable for you to be satisfied with? Do you keep finding it harder and harder each day to rank for the keywords you are shooting for? Are you having just a tough enough time to get your site or blog indexed? Well, if you answered NO or you replied with a slow YES then keep reading because I'm going to tell you how I get all of my sites and blogs indexed within 3 days.

Yes, I get them indexed in 3 days, although I have waited a week before, it's still not long enough for me to get agitated about. Now, there are a lot of people that will tell you that Blogging and Pinging is dead. I am here to tell you that either they are not doing it right, or they did not have it work for them so they have jumped to the assumption that it does not work. IT DOES WORK! I know it does and so do thousands of other people on the NET. The trick is to not just create 1 blog but to create hundreds of blogs. Yes I said "hundreds" of blogs. Now you might be thinking that creating that many blogs is just insane and too time consuming. Well, you are exactly right about the "time" part. But you are dead wrong about creating that many blogs to be "insane". For every site or blog I create, I will go and create 50 blogs with links back to my "main" site. I then post to these blogs, ping them and let the search engines coming running through the links back to my "main" sites.

I do this all with FREE Blogger Blogs. Yes Blogger is still alive and still serves a purpose. In case you did not know, Blogger is owned by Google and is a sub domain with a Pagerank 10. Imagine links to your main "moneymakers" on a sub domain Pagerank 10 blog being pinged incrementally with whatever times you set. Now just imagine you had 50, 100, or even thousands of blogs with your links to your sites being pinged to tell those feisty Search Engines to "Come have a look". If you think about it for a minute, it's by far the fastest way to get a site or blog indexed. Now, that we have covered your site being indexed let's go over backlinks. Backlinks play a HUGE factor in determining your site's ranking in the Search Engines. Well, just like we made blogs to get our sites indexed, we can just make more blogs with proper anchor text links back to our main sites. It's that simple people. There is no fluff here. Using Blogger to get your sites indexed and ranked is practically a No-Brainer.

Now we can multiply and expand this issue by using software. Now like I said before, some will deem this unethical and Blackhat. I will leave that for you to decide. You can either keep busting your tail focusing on your Optimization, link swapping, and promoting or you can "jump on the train" and do what so many of us are doing to earn the kind of earnings we are bringing in. There's a simple decision to be made here. Do you want to spend all that time on your site to get indexed and ranking well, only to find that the next algorithm knocks it back down to dirt level. Or do you want the simple, swift, and sweet victory of less work, and MORE earnings faster than you thought possible? I leave this for you to decide.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

How Much Can You Make With Google Adsense...From One Mans Blog?

How much can you make with google adsense from one mans blog is truly an important question.

There are several considerations to be had. Maybe you're new at blogging and you're all warmed up in the process, or even an experienced pro, albeit a low-revenue professional. Maybe I'm wrong, perhaps you are making money hand-over-fist from your efforts to direct sales to your business page.

No matter who you are, everyone can benefit by implementing Google Adsense into their blogs. Because not all blog visitors will purchase anything from you, or even click on your business page. However should you decide to implement Adsense, it is highly possible that you will pull $1000s of dollars in revenue from what would otherwise be a wasted opportunity. It's a simple idea, IE HOST GOOGLE ADS on your blog and EARN MONEY!

That's fine and dandy for one mans blog, but what if that lonely hard-working blogger is new in the game? What then can put your blogging profits on the fast track? Not everyone has a business website. You've already begun the process by signing up with Adsense and splashing those Ads around your page in a lovely eye catching appeal.

You would be well advised to utilize a Cost-Per-Action affiliate network. You must apply and be accepted. There is a wonderful forum at warriorforum.com that via it's members, teaches all aspects to this type of highly lucrative internet marketing. But be warned! It can be difficult to get accepted.

However once you do become a member of a "CPA" affiliate network, you can then select from hundreds of products and services to promote. Using highly targeted keywords, and writing informative (but short) blog posts about various CPA offers, you can pull in some BIG !!!!!!!$$$ MONEY $$$!!!!!!!

Tattomedia is a well-respected CPA network and is an easy one for bloggers new to CPA. To Apply CLICK HERE

 

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Blog Mastermind Review – Is the Blog Mastermind Program a Scam?

Is the Blog Mastermind Program another scam membership site, or does this blogging profits system really work? There has been a steady increase in the number of membership websites over the past years, but the problem is that I have found most to be generally useless and do not provide the quality and type of content promised on their sales pages. Is Blog Mastermind another course that under-delivers, or can one really learn to make money from blogs online?

1. What Can You Learn By Joining The Blog Mastermind?

This course is about teaching clients how to install and set up their first blog with the purpose of making money. Members learn exactly how to choose niches to market to using their blogs and how to quickly build up the automated income streams generated. Many members who have followed the method have reported bringing in a full time income with the system.

2. Who Created the Blog Mastermind Program, and Can You Really Trust Him?

The owner of this membership site is Yaro Starak, who successfully managed to make more than $5,000+ in a single blog before he decided to scale up his efforts. He also runs the Entrepreneurs Journey site, and launched his membership site back in 2007. Today, it is helping thousands of members make 5 figure monthly incomes at home. 3.

Features of the Blog Mastermind Membership and Course

This program has actually taught me to become a better writer and to connect with people through words. Yaro cares a lot about creating relevant and quality content, and has designed a system for generating reliable, long term income through all his niche blogs.

Friday, August 27, 2010

A Review Of Tan Tan Noodles Wordpress Reports – Simplified Statistics Reporting For Your Blog

The title of this Wordpress plugin may stimulate many people’s appetite, especially those who love Chinese food.  But Tan Tan Noodles Wordpress Reports is a delicacy of another kind.  Rather than providing a wonderful gastronomic experience, it will allow blog owners to view and study the statistics that matter so that they can make adjustments and improvements to their blogs, and in so doing, increase their blogs’ profitability.

 

Tan Tan Noodles Wordpress Reports is one of the Top 10 plugins in lists published all over the internet.  Does this make it a “must download� however?  Is Tan Tan Noodles the “end all and be all� of statistics-gathering add-ons for Wordpress Blogs?

 

The Good

 

Tan Tan Noodles Wordpress Reports is the perfect plugin for people who want their statistics delivered fast and clean.  This plugin displays relevant statistics pertinent to your blog, i.e. how many people visited your blog, which pages garnered the most views, the URL where they came from, the URL where they exited your blog, among others.  One of the majot problems of Wordpress blogs is the lack of such a reporting tool, making it nightmarish for most tweak freaks who want to monitor the smallest details about the performance of their blogs so that they can make adjustments towards its eventual perfection.

 

Tan Tan Noodles Wordpress Reports fills in this void by basically gathering data from free third party statistics tools Google Analytics and Feedburner.  Thereafter, Tan Tan Noodles Wordpress Reports conveniently displays the relevant portions of these statistics on the Wordpress Dashboard.

 

Tan Tan Noodles Wordpress Reports is a great way to monitor your blog’s performance in real time.

 

The Bad

 

However, Tan Tan Noodles Wordpress Reports does not provide comprehensive details about the statistics it reveals.  You will get the main numbers but not the breakdown of those numbers.  You will not get information about how much time your visitors spent on each blog page, the countries where they came from , among other pertinent informative bits.

 

To view these missing statistics, the blog owner has to go to Google Analytics or Feedburner himself.

 

This is a fair compromise, though.  If the plugin was to display a thorough reporting of all the statistics gathered from Google Analytics and Feedburner, then that area of the blog will be a chaotic mess, what with the sheer number of details that will be exhibited.

 

The Ugly

 

What is the absolute worst thing about Tan Tan Noodles Wordpress Reports?

 

It’s name, most definitely.  Somehow, encountering the name of the plugin at midnight while finishing up some work would be enough to make anyone hungry.

 

Conclusion

 

There are more comprehensive statistics reporting plugins for Wordpress blogs, but Tan Tan Noodles provides a cleaner and more straightforward experience for people who just want to receive the basic numbers and don’t want to be weighed down by the details behind the same.

 

This makes Tan Tan Noodles Wordpress Reports a worthwhile plugin that deserves an installation in every Wordpress blog.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Are You Blogging For Fun Or To Make Money? PART 1

Many people think that since blogging is very easy and fun, one can make money with the blog without any effort. Although it is true that anyone who is hard working and determined to succeed in making money online can earn a good income through blogging, many bloggers fail to achieve this. Many people who are starting in internet marketing think that in order to make a lot of money on the internet through blogging, all they need to do is to set up a blog, add content to it on a regular basis and start to get money! You will need to do more than this if you want to make money with your blog. Outlined below are the key steps that you will need to follow to successfully make money with your blog. 1. Advertise on Your Blog. Adding Google Adsense on your blog is one of the easiest ways to make money with your blog. All you will need to do is to get a Google Adsense account, and Google will place adverts that relate to your blog topic. If your blog visitors visit any of these adverts on your blog, you can earn some money.

2. Create your own products for selling or offer some services. You can sell your own products or services on your blog. By blogging regularly, your blog get indexed on search engines, which drives traffic to your blog. The more traffic you have, the more sales you make. It is important that you use your keywords in your blogs. By adding keywords and phrases that relate to your niche to your blog posts, you increase your site's ranking on search engines, which will drive traffic to your blog where people will buy your products or services.

3. Selling affiliate products is one of the best ways to make your blog profitable. All you need to do is to pick the affiliate products or programs that relate to your niche and add your affiliate links on your blog. By selling affiliate products on your blog, you can earn commissions of about 30%-70% on each product you sell on your website.

Although blogging is quite easy, you need to follow the tips outlined above so that you can start to make some money.

GO TO PART 2 VISIT http://adsense-to-you.blogspot.com

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Are You Blogging For Fun Or To Make Money?

Many people think that since blogging is very easy and fun, one can make money with the blog without any effort.

Although it is true that anyone who is hard working and determined to succeed in making money online can earn a good income through blogging, many bloggers fail to achieve this.

Many people who are starting in internet marketing think that in order to make a lot of money on the internet through blogging, all they need to do is to set up a blog, add content to it on a regular basis and start to get money! You will need to do more than this if you want to make money with your blog.

Outlined below are the key steps that you will need to follow to successfully make money with your blog.

1. Advertise on Your Blog. Adding Google Adsense on your blog is one of the easiest ways to make money with your blog. All you will need to do is to get a Google Adsense account, and Google will place adverts that relate to your blog topic. If your blog visitors visit any of these adverts on your blog, you can earn some money.

2. Create your own products for selling or offer some services. You can sell your own products or services on your blog. By blogging regularly, your blog get indexed on search engines, which drives traffic to your blog. The more traffic you have, the more sales you make. It is important that you use your keywords in your blogs. By adding keywords and phrases that relate to your niche to your blog posts, you increase your site's ranking on search engines, which will drive traffic to your blog where people will buy your products or services.

3. Selling affiliate products is one of the best ways to make your blog profitable. All you need to do is to pick the affiliate products or programs that relate to your niche and add your affiliate links on your blog. By selling affiliate products on your blog, you can earn commissions of about 30%-70% on each product you sell on your website.

Although blogging is quite easy, you need to follow the tips outlined above so that you can start to make some money.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Making Money With Blogs - How Long Does it Take?

It's common to have people ask how they can make money through blogs or how long it'll take for them to start earning from blogs. The thing is building any business including making money with blogs really takes time. This is what people who want to be real online marketers should prepare themselves for.

Normally, preparing yourself for any business would require that you make a thorough research of all the tools that you need as well as all the information that you are going to present to your target audience. Without preparation, any business will not stand a chance in the long run. The same thing goes for making money with blogs. In addition to the preparation, studying the trends of online profit bloggers is also important. Reading the blogs of popular people is also good because here you'll get some ideas about what makes their blogs stand out.

Equipped with these information, the next step is put in time and effort to your money making venture. The more hours you put in to your blogging business the better. You have to understand that the internet is a dynamic environment and although there are proven trends that will make your blogs profitable, often new technology is just around the corner. Examples of the latest technologies are videocasting and podcasting. You can incorporate these on your blog to reach out to a wider audience. Tutorials about videocasting and podcasting are available online. Bottom line is other than putting effort and time onto your business, you also have to be open to learning new things and technologies if you want to be successful..

Monday, August 23, 2010

Make Money Online By Blogging


You can make funds online by blogging. There some of different ways you can convert your blog in to a moneymaking machine.

Five Ways to use your Blog to make funds online

1.) Contextual Promotion: You can monetize your blog with contextual promotion. This is actually the most common means by which people attempt to make funds by blogging. The most common approach is to sign up for a Google AdSense account & to then publish Google's ads on your site. When people click on the ads, you make funds.

Let's look at two commonly used approaches to increasing blog profitability. All two of these methods are in use today in a wide variety of blog settings. They are a quantity of the "cornerstone" monetization options with which any blogger should have familiarity.

2.) Other Promotion Revenue: AdSense is not the only game in town. If you'd like to make funds with your blog, you can always offer promotion to others who may be interested in reaching your audience. You can generate those relationships personally by reaching out to potential advertisers or you can utilize their party services that will attempt to broker a match between interested advertisers & quality blogs.

While this can still be a productive technique under some circumstances, it is best-suited for sites that either receive a great deal of traffic or that tightly target a lucrative niche in terms of PPC promotion costs.

This approach works well when you have a niche-specific blog that has established itself as something of an authority figure in the subject matter.

3.) Paid Posting: Some blog owners find that they can generate additional income by occasionally writing posts about definite products in exchange for payment. Paid blog posting opportunities generally don't pay a great deal of funds, but they can be easy to write & they do add up over time.

Three interesting way to make funds with paid postings is to track the administrative finish, but to then assign the actual writing and/or to third party freelancers. Again, these paid posts don't pay a great deal. However, those who have a smart technique in place can make a lovely profit overall.

4.) Affiliate Promotion: Lots of blog owners use their sites as a way to improve their affiliate earnings. They may put ads for the products with which they are affiliated on their sidebars or in the text of their posts. They hope that people will click on the ads & then purchase a product for which the blog owner will receive a commission payment.

Affiliate promotion can be a lucrative way to make funds by blogging. Making it work requires the selection of a product that may be appealing to your niche.

5.) Selling Your Own Product: If you have your own product, you'll require to use your blog to improve its sales. While this approach does need the front-end hard work of product creation, lots of marketers will tell you that it is the most lucrative way to make funds on the Net.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

What is a Blog Money?

Blog Money is the profit you get from blogging, period. Is it really possible to earn bucks from blogging? Yes, you can but how? It doesn't happen overnight. In fact, it's going to take some time and much effort however, if you're smart you can make it happen.

Before you start earning blog money, you need to know how to make a blog. Beginners, usually create blogs using Blogger.com. It doesn't require any HTML know how just have some good articles ready, some photos or videos that you would like to add and don't forget to include some advertising usually through Google Adsense then you're all set. If you don't know anything about Google Adsense, you can go directly to the Google Adsense site and read the directions on how you can get started and profit from this.

Nothing will change the fact that the chances of success in this online business is almost nil. In fact 99% of bloggers fail to earn blog money. Common mistakes include people not knowing what niche they should write about, the contents of the blog are not consistent with the topic they choose, they fail to update their blogs frequently or they just don't know what to do to make their blogs profitable.

Bloggers who are serious about making money should pay attention on how to drive traffic to their blogs. Without traffic, your blog will eventually mold and disappear from the vast world of the Internet. To drive traffic to your blogs, you have to write unique content. Next, be active in your community by posting some comments in forums. Please don't make your comments appear like a sales talk. Be subtle. You have to be sincere with what you are trying to communicate and how the community will benefit from it then you can introduce your blog.

Once you have introduced your blog, this will most likely attract viewers and slowly but surely you can watch your traffic increase. The more traffic your blogs get the more people will click on your Google Adsense links and this will convert to blog money.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Learn How You Can Blog While On The Go

Have you heard about the latest and greatest technology involving the iPhone? While on the internet and being someone who sincerely loves to blog, I discovered a way I can do so anywhere, from any locale, or just about anyplace around the world, and I thought I would share it with you!



Most of us are very busy and always on the GO! Therefore, we must always remember to take our cell phones. Managing several websites, I have found this particular application and avenue to be very convenient by affording me the opportunity to keep up with my blog posts as well as making sure that my content is fresh and up to date, which is key for successful blogging.



Online traffickers will not oftentimes frequent or continue to visit a website that is stale; that is, those which contain the same old material. So as bloggers we must be sure to keep our content relevant, current, interesting, as well as meeting the needs of our followers. Remember, most blogs offer a service of some type, be it products, advice, tips, suggestions, information, or just something fun to read.



Many of us are very, or at least somewhat familiar with the highly sophisticated BlackBerry, Razor, and iPhone with all of their trinkets and gadgets as well as internet capabilities. Most of Americans and the world by and large, spend endless hours on their cell phones constantly working their thumbs either texting or twittering or BOTH.



For those of you who simply enjoy sharing and expressing yourselves or are conducting some sort of internet business via BLOGS, you don't have to be restricted to doing so only from your office space and home or from your desk or laptop computers anymore. Just 3 simple steps to build upon and you are ready and set to blog your way to fun or finances, whichever, you prefer or maybe try both. Here are 3 key benefits of "blogging on the go."



3 SIMPLE STEPS



1. Sign up.



2. Select your own custom native apps with graphics.



3. Once you submit your payment, create your own unique blog and hit go. It's just that easy; and here are what I believe to be the top 3 benefits. Take a look now, so won't get left behind!



3 TOP BENEFITS



1. Convenience: Blog here, there, Blog anywhere. There are no backlogs on your weblogs.



2. Productivity: A steady and continuous workflow as well as output in blog posts.



3. Profits: The above two will help you generate revenue from your blog, especially if it is monetized.



Convenience + Productivity = Blog Profits for Blog Bizman or Women.



Convenience + Productivity = Personal Satisfaction for those of you who are merely hobby Bloggers.



With internet businesses booming and continually generating revenue by the billions, one of the up and coming as well as growing markets is the business of, yes and internet blogging. Furthermore, this online communication genre is taking the World Wide Web by storm.



The internet, as well as internet businesses, is without question growing by leaps and bounds. In addition, its steady growth and progression over the decades have allowed for more innovative and creative ways to communicate, convey, and generate new data capabilities for online users and businesses.



Therefore, we as a people, internet savvy or not, must likewise take steps to move along aside of this new wave millennial technology. So we must go and grow or take the risk of getting left behind and stuck in the outdated, and old school of computer technology from yester year. So don't just continue to sit there like a bump on a log; get ready, set, and blog on the go!

Friday, August 20, 2010

Understanding How To Make Money With A Blog

There is far more potential for a blog than as simply an online forum in which someone may share personal details, opinions, and other information – in fact, one of the most intriguing opportunities for bloggers involves learning how to make money with a blog.  After all, with a reliable website or blog, people can take full advantage of a variety of methods to make money… whether they view their internet presence as a business or as a part-time hobby.

How Can Bloggers Make Money?

Blogging can be a lucrative activity because it is a huge part of the internet communication network.  There are individuals with private blogs regarding almost any imaginable topic, as well as corporate and professional blogs.  Nearly any blog can be positioned in such a way that it can make money, assuming the blogger is ready and able to implement the right strategies.  As long as there are people interested in reading the blog, there is a potential for profit!

Where Do Payments Come From?

There are a few different ways in which bloggers can earn money on the internet.  One of the biggest opportunities comes from a special arrangement called an "affiliate program."  Affiliate programs are arranged to create payments from a big corporate, or other organizational website, and the money accumulates whenever internet traffic is sent from the blog to the affiliate's website.  

The amounts for simply sending traffic are relatively small, but they can add up!  In addition, there are larger payments available through some affiliate programs when a referred internet surfer actually makes a purchase on the corporate site.  Still other payments are available when visitors finish some sort of desired activity, such as filling out an informational form or completing a survey.

Additional Blogging Profits

Bloggers can find other ways to earn profits and benefits, aside from the affiliate programs.  There are often free goods and services available from companies that are related to a blog topic, such as sporting goods for a blog related to that sport, or electronics for a tech-based blog.  

As long as the blogger is able to blog about the item, or the company that provided it, the opportunity to receive remuneration or goods is available!  The key to all of these kinds of benefits is to create a blog that is interesting enough to have traffic and readers.  When those elements are reliably settled, the traffic will bring the profits!

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Extra Income Ideas With The Help Of A Blog

Blogging is simple; blogging is cool in today's era. It can help lead you to passive income opportunities in many ways. So what really is a blog? A blog is a regular, sequential publication of private or public thoughts and web links in the World Wide Web. It is similar to what an e-diary could be, where you can record your views, outlook and remarks on practically anything, under the sun that is of interest to you. Although blogging had been popular, much before, the term blog was established; it has got fame, as an effectual means of corresponding, over the Internet only newly. The preface of automated websites has also been helpful in blogging victory. A blog is theoretically analogous to a website and is available to everyone in the cyber space.

There are incalculable bloggers in the world at the present time, blogging away to splendor. Yet, blogging can be more than a mere gibber in the cyber world. It can be a superb tool, for earning residual income business. Let's explore how.

Blogging for Profit - How to Make Money from Your Blog - Placing advertisements, on your blog is definitely an easy method for passive income opportunities. Nonetheless, advertisements are not a surefire gold mine. The reason being, they are frequently reliant on the activities of your blog's readers. Secondly, generating passive income through, advertising on your blog is improbable, unless your blog witnesses an enormous traffic every day. By expanding your residual income opportunities, you'll have better prospects of productively monetizing your blog. Listed below are few profitable methods for extra income ideas, through your blogs.

Sell Products or Services: A lot of bloggers are victorious, by selling branded and non-branded products or services through their blogs.

Appeal for Donations: It won't harm if you to appeal your readers to contribute financially to your blog.

Put Your Guest Posting Services For Sale: Lots of bloggers write as guest editors, for other blogs, at no cost as a method to support their own blogs. Likewise, you can also offer your guest posting services for a charge.

Write An E-Book For Sale: If your blog has dedicated fans, then they must be fond of what you have to write or say. Take help of that position by writing an E-book and putting it for trade on your blog.

Book Writing: If you've launched yourself as a whiz in your blog's area and established an enthusiastic following, you could reflect on writing a book. You can either get it published by a publishing house, or self publish it.

Become A Blogging Expert: Lot of blogs and blog network web spaces, search for enthusiastic and skillful writers to build up their blogs. This kind of blogging jobs lead to moneymaking passive income ideas. Try to find blogging jobs to augment your blogging profits.

Locate Writing Jobs: Blogging can lead you in developing your writing skills, which can aid you, take on, other freelancing jobs on the Internet. Converting into freelance writing from blogging is not peculiar and can turn out to be very gratifying.

Briefly, if your initial attempt at blogging, isn't hasn't given you the victory you anticipated, look for fresh ways to attract and sustain readers. Or just reorder and get on a fresh blog with a new niche.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

PROFITABLE BLOGGING TAKES LENGTHY PREPARATION

People desire to earn more money in terms of blogging business. Thus this is not possible to an individual who possesses a typical intellect and familiar in the blogging technology and of course one can become successful if someone has the ability to work hard with determination. But not all people who join in the blogging business become successful because of two reasons:
Bloggers have unrealistic anticipations to have an immediate people who read their blogs and how much income they will earn. And when their goals have not met, frustration comes in and they stop blogging. Another reason is that most bloggers have no ideal plan for blogging. Because in the blogging business the vital key to success is to have an accurate plan and should maintain to use that kind of strategic plan.    

There should be many readers to stay connected in your blogging in order to have higher profits, which mean that the higher your traffic, the more promoters or advertisers will approve to pay you.

Yet, there’s still more effort to make in order to attain and maintain more regular readers and visitors in blogging. Because in this competitive business of blogging, you must make your blog very interesting which contain great idea and writing style but the most important thing is to market your blog effectively to make it profitable.

A lot of bloggers spent most of their time writing their post and they seldom market their blog. So it is very important to update your blog everyday in order to keep your blog high on blogrolls and at the same time in the search engine like technorati. So as the readers know that your blog is timely updated, they will keep on reading it thus they will become regular visitors of your blog. Moreover, to make your blog profitable and to invite more visitors, you must set up some link exchanges with other bloggers, making contacts in the blogging community and implement some of the established modes of winning traffic.

However, it takes time to build a profitable blogging and to develop a kind of readership. It needs several months to create a blogging project cost-effective. During the initial stage, stick to the project and set goals in updating and attracting many readers and at the same time, you should be motivated and stay connected with your plan and strategy.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Not a Writer? Not a Problem. You Can Make Money Blogging!

Content, content, content. Content makes the web go round.

From the moment you begin researching ways to make money online, you hear WRITING, WRITING, and MORE WRITING, over and over again. There’s a reason for that and we’re going to discuss how the written word can make you money, but YOU don’t have to be the one doing all that writing. Save your paper and your wrists!

One of the hottest ways to make money online is through the power of blogging. But, what does blogging require? What do you think? What ONE thing must you do above all else in order to blog?

If you’re like the majority of people, your answer probably included…you guessed it…WRITING! After all, that’s what a blog is all about right? On your blog you are sharing your thoughts with others in the form of blog posts that you’ve written - constant writing.

Before you run for the hills, let me let you in on a little secret.

While those blog posts are necessary in order for you to be a successful blogger, they do NOT all have to be written by you.

You need content to make your blog successful, but it does not have to be written by you. Let me explain by giving you some ways to make money and keep your blog fresh without wearing yourself out or giving yourself Carpal Tunnel Syndrome before you even get started bringing in the dough.

But, first, you need to know why content so important on the Internet and especially your blog.

Why is Content Crucial?

Here are a few reasons...

First of all, people come to the web for one thing and one thing only – information. Whether they're shopping for products to buy or looking for a natural remedy for their acne, they're hitting the web for information, advice, and help.

If your readers find quality information from you they're very likely to:

• Stick Around
• Sign Up for Your ezine or newsletter
• Twitter about your site
• Recommend your posts at places like StumbleUpon.com
• Sign up for your RSS feed
• Come back in the future
• Refer others to your site

Second, search engines LOVE content. The more pages you have on your website or blog filled with quality content, the better. Whether you offer product reviews, funny stories, or meaty training, quality content is rewarded by Google, MSN, and Yahoo, as well as the many other smaller search engines online.

Third, adding value to the Internet begins to establish you as an expert on your topic. By writing great information, your readers will begin to look at you as THE go-to person for information. You'll begin attracting interview and JV requests as well.

As you can see content really is important if you want to build a successful blog or website on the Internet. Without it, your site is just another in the World Wide Web. How can people find you if they don’t know you exist? By establishing yourself and providing your readers with quality posts and other valuable information they need and want, you will see that you can easily become one of the big fish in the pond.

But, what if you don’t have time to write constantly? Or, what if you don’t like writing? You’re in luck, there are many ways to add quality information to your blog without having to write it all yourself.

Before we get to that, let me tell you that while you can create a blog purely made up of content that you don’t write yourself, I wouldn’t advise it. If you want to really resonate with your readers, you have to let them get to know you as well. Don’t shy away from writing some posts yourself, but instead use these content creation methods along with your own writing to create even more quality information for your visitors.

Where to Find Content for Your Blog?

Now that you know you need great content for your blog and why, it’s time to move on to the meat of this report. I promised I’d tell you how to get that content without wearing your fingers to the bone. So, here we go! Hang on it’s gonna be a fun ride!


1. Hire a Writer

There are freelance writers who make it their business to write articles, blog posts and more for website owners as well as bloggers. Most of these writers, also known as ghostwriters, charge per written piece and base their charges on the word count of the content you need. For instance, you can have a 300 word blog post written for X amount of dollars on the desired topic of your choice.

Normally, you will send the writer either a broad topic or even an actual title and they will in turn write the content for you following your specifications. Finding a ghostwriter is not hard, especially with the field growing by leaps and bounds every single day. The hard part is finding a writer you can communicate well with, afford, and who can write in a way that captures your voice.

Here are some tips to keep in mind when hiring a ghostwriter.

Finding a Writer

Ask for Recommendations - Ask around and see who comes recommended. You can easily get references from other bloggers, website owners, Internet marketers, and even on social media sites such as Twitter.

Search Engines - While this is an option, I would definitely ask people you know and trust for their suggestions for a writer first. Just because a person’s website makes it to the top of the search engine results and they “claim� to be an experienced writer, doesn’t mean they are.

Recommendation: Shelancers.com offers a variety of writers to choose from.

It Might Take More than One to Find THE One

Just as every blog is different, so are writers. Don’t get discouraged if you try one (or sometimes more) writer and he or she is not what you had in mind. Some writers can take any blog owner’s writing style and implement it in their articles and blog posts with no problem what-so-ever. Others don’t find it as easy.

If you hire a writer and find you don’t like their writing style or approach to a topic, move to another. I can tell you from experience; sometimes it takes going through a few writers to find the one that “gets it� and will whip out superb content that fits your personality as if you wrote it yourself.

Feedback is Crucial

When you hire a writer make sure you give them feedback once they’ve completed a writing project for you. If there was something you didn’t like about the article – the way they worded things wasn’t how you would have done it, etc. – let them know. A professional writer will be open to all types of feedback and offer to correct the issue with a re-write. By providing feedback, you are not only letting the writer know what you like and dislike about the content, but you are also building a relationship that will become very beneficial for both of you.

For instance, I know I can start writing something that’s in my head and when I get stuck, it’s nothing for me to whip it over to my writer and say “Help!� I have developed a relationship with her that allows me to feel comfortable throwing something her way without a second thought for improvement, additions, etc. I know that once she returns it to me I will not only be pleased, but it will read as if I’ve written it all myself because she and I have communicated and discussed my likes and dislikes so much that she could pass as me almost any day!

Review & Edit

I know I just said that I can send something to my writer and it would be like I’ve written it myself, but that doesn’t mean I can get away with not looking at the finished product. Even the best of writers have their off days, mine included.

Therefore, it is critical that any piece of writing you have someone else put together for you, should be reviewed and edited as necessary. Whether you’re making changes to put more of your own thoughts and opinions to it or simply adding monetization items, you must, must, must review each and every piece of content you have created for you.


2. Seek Guest Experts

You may have seen these on other blogs you, yourself frequent. Also commonly referred to as guest bloggers, guest experts are people who can provide relevant information to your readers in the form of guest posts. These are people who somehow tie in with your blog’s topic. For instance, if you own an Internet marketing blog you might consider approaching people from the following areas about submitting guest posts or becoming a regular guest expert on your blog.

• Social Media Experts
• Outsourcing Experts
• Web Design Experts
• Technical Experts
• Working from Home Experts
• Press Release Experts
• Affiliate Marketing Experts

The list could go on and on, but I think you get the picture.

You invite them to be a guest blogger on your blog, set them up with their own login information or have them submit their posts directly to you so you can post them yourself.
Give them something in return for their efforts because most guest bloggers are not paid for their posts. Many times a link back to the guest experts’ site and possibly allowing them to promote their own products or affiliates products within their post is all that’s needed. But, with the growth in popularity of guest bloggers, it’s getting a bit harder to find people who will commit. If they’re good at what they do, they will be blogging on other sites as well as yours. Try to sweeten the pot a little to get them to stick around and continue posting.

Of course, you can pay them to submit information if you’d like. As a matter of fact, I myself have one site where I pay for submissions. I monitor the submissions and if we decide it is site worthy, we pay the author for the article once it’s been published. I’ve found this helps when it comes to having a steady flow of content.

One more thing about guest bloggers you may find helpful. If you know people who are just starting out they are more open to jumping on as a guest blogger than established bloggers or business owners. However, if you aren’t ranking extremely high in the search engines, your traffic numbers aren’t all that great or your blog isn’t quite as popular as you’d like it to be yet, don’t worry. It takes some time to get there, but with the help of adding all this great content and a few other essentials, you’ll be there before you know.


3. Hit the Article Directories

Article directories are databases full of articles that authors have submitted in hopes that others will pick them up and publish them on their websites and blogs. You can find articles on just about every topic of the sun at these directories.

The catch is that you must include the author’s resource box, which normally contains information about the author and a link to their website, when you publish it on your own site. They are great sources of information, but read the articles very carefully to be sure you are getting the content you want for your website. You wouldn’t want to place incorrect information on your blog and mislead your readers after all.

Here are some of my most favorite article directories:
Ezine Articles
Free Affiliate Articles (get articles that you can monetize with affiliate links in the resource bio)
LadyPens.com

4. Create Video & Audio

Audio and video are growing ever popular online, especially on blogs. You can publish your own audios and videos or you can link to ones that others have created.

Here are some ideas for creating your own audios and videos that you can publish on your blog:

• Interviews with experts in your field
• How-to videos
• Talk radio shows and podcasts
• Training
• And more

Don’t have audio or video creation software? No sweat – you can easily create short videos on your digital camera and upload them to sites like these:

YouTube
Flickr
Blip TV
12 Seconds TV

If you’re looking for audio help, have a glance at these sites:

AudioAcrobat
Blog Talk Radio


5. Add RSS News Feeds

As you probably already know, most blogs have what is known as an RSS feed. This is where, when set up by the blog owner, readers can subscribe to the feed and be notified of new posts to the blog via email or feed readers. If your blog doesn’t have one, I highly suggest you create one. It’s really easy with the help of a site like FeedBurner.com.

Just as blogs have feeds, so do news websites such as CNN, MSNBC, etc. You can have your blog set up to receive feeds from other blogs or websites automatically. When you do this, your blog will show the posts from the other sites. Your blog is updated automatically every time a post is added to that site.

What a great way to have constant content pertaining to your topic appear on your blog. Great for indexing in the search engines too.

6. Ask Your Readers

Another great way to get content is to ask your readers to submit questions, suggestions, etc.

Their information can be turned into content for your blog in many ways:

Q & A Posts – Ask your readers to submit their questions and then answer them right on your blog.

Create a FAQ Page – As you receive questions, add them to a frequently asked questions page on your site. Each time you update the page, let your readers know.

Product Reviews – If you sell products or provide a service, ask your customers for their opinions about these things. Sometimes, they will submit full fledged reviews and you can publish those on your blog.

Testimonials – While these may not be full posts on their own, you can combine some of them and post on your blog.

7. Newsletters & Emails to Subscribers

Do you have an email list? When you send emails to your subscribers or send out your regular newsletter, do you stop at that? Start posting the updates you send to your subscribers and your newsletters or ezines to your blog as well.

Some of your subscribers may not get a chance to read your emails before they are shuffled down their inbox screen or worse yet, they may have filters that are blocking your emails altogether. This will allow them to still receive the valuable information you have to share AND give you more quality content for your blog.

Of course, if you have a list that has sensitive information that you don’t want the whole world to see, skip on posting those specific messages. One example of this would be a membership site where you send members a download link each month so they can access their member’s only information. You wouldn’t want just anybody to have the ability to get that information.

But, if you’re adding a new product to your business for instance, go ahead and post the email you send to your past customers on your blog. You’ll get more exposure for your product and added content for your blog. It’s a win-win.

8. Load Up with Private Label Rights (PLR) Content

One of my favorite ways to add quality, topic related content to a blog is with PLR. If you don’t know what PLR is, let me fill you in on this wonderful little thing.

PLR content is created specifically for those who don’t have the time, skills or desire to create their own content on a consistent basis. You can find articles, blog posts, reports, recipes, marketing materials, and even web design PLR on the Internet. Someone else writes it and sells it. You buy it and have the ability to use as you see fit - for the most part. Most PLR sites do have rules to what you can and can’t do with the PLR once you purchase it, so be sure you review those before buying.

Recommended PLR Sites:
www.EasyPLR.com
www.YummyPLR.com
www.plr.me/easyplr (special offer on that page)
www.PLRSO.com (Internet marketing content)

Now, let’s see what some of the benefits of PLR include:

Inexpensive – PLR is normally cheaper than hiring a ghostwriter. You can normally buy a pack of PLR or sign up for a membership for very little. For instance, a ballpark average cost for a freelancer to write a 500 word article might run you around 10-15 dollars. With some PLR sites, you can buy 10-15 articles for that same price.

Variety – No matter what your topic, you can probably find PLR content for sale about it. The popularity of PLR has helped make it’s availability in a wide variety of markets bigger and broader than ever before.

Limited (some not all) availability – Although PLR is not exclusively yours like ghostwritten material, in most instances the number of times a particular package will be sold is limited. At least with a good PLR seller it is. This will limit the amount of times your content will be found on someone else’s site. (But, I’m going to tell you in a minute how to avoid that, even if the PLR you purchase isn’t limited to a certain amount of buyers.)

Time-Saving – As with the other ways to find content without writing it yourself, PLR saves you a TON of time. It’s already written for you, you just have to make it your own and it’s good to go.

Recyclable – One PLR article can be used over and over again. You can repurpose the same piece of content in numerous ways:

• Post it to your blog.
• Send it to your list.
• Create your own products with it.
• Use it in your affiliate program.
• Use it in your membership program.
• And so much more.

The possibilities really are endless when it comes to using PLR. The more you use it, the more valuable that one piece of content becomes to you.

One bit of advice if you’re using PLR content:

If you decide to use PLR on your blog (or anywhere else for that matter) rework it before posting it. You want to make the content your own in some way. There will be other people on the Internet that are using this same content and unfortunately some won’t see the need to make the content their own and put it up as is. You don’t want to be offering the EXACT same information as everyone else.

Make the PLR cater to your audience and target market. Add your own thoughts to it. Put a different spin on it, whatever you need to do to make it work for your needs without simply throwing it up on your blog in the same condition you received it in. This is what will set you apart from another blogger in your market. This is what will show your readers that you can be trusted and know your stuff.

I’ve now given you 8 ways to get content for your blog without having to write it all yourself. There are other ways, but these are some of my personal favorites and most popular ways. Pick one you really like or choose a combination of them.

Up next I’ll give you some ideas for making money with all this content!
Monetizing Your Content for Passive Blogging Profits
Once you start compiling your content and adding it to your blog, it’s time to start thinking about how you can make money with your new found information. I’ve got a few ideas to help you get started, so let’s get to it – I know this is what you were waiting on wasn’t it?
1. Promote Affiliate Programs
Finding products you can promote within your content is a great way to make money with your blog. One way to do this is to sign up for an affiliate program for the items you would like to promote. Once you’ve found them and signed up you’ll receive a link (your affiliate link) that you can use to send your blog readers to the product. When they make a purchase using your link, you’ll be rewarded with commissions.
When posting your content, think of items that will compliment the content and search for affiliate programs for those types of products. For instance, if you’re posting an article that discusses using video online, you could promote the software you use to create your own videos. Do you have a product or service you love and couldn’t live without? Put together a product review and use your affiliate link to send your reader to the company’s website. A word of caution with reviews – a reader can tell if you’re just pushing a product to make a sale so be honest. If there is something you don’t like about it, tell them.
You can find affiliate programs in many places, but here are a few I recommend:
The Company’s Website – More and more business owners are realizing just how much creating an affiliate program for their products and services can increase business. Check right on the company’s website for information on how to sign up for their affiliate program.
Affiliate Networks – You can find tons of products in every market you could dream of here. Just sign up for a free publisher account, locate products you’d like to promote. That’s all there is to it. www.ClickBank.com
Free Affiliate Articles – If you're looking for content that is ready for affiliate links visit www.FreeAffiliateArticles.com and you'll find a bunch.
Mom Affiliate Network – If you cater to the mom market, I highly recommend checking this site out for family friendly products. You’ll also find programs to help Internet marketers and those who want to work from home here. www.MomAffiliateNetwork.com
Search Engines – Many times you can put the type of product you’re looking to promote plus the words “affiliate program� into your browser’s search feature and you’ll find lots of options.
2. Adsense
Do you see those blocks of ads on blogs and websites throughout the web that “Ads by Google� at the bottom? Those are ads published via Google’s Adsense program.
Google sends targeted ads based on the content that appears on your blog. You can sign up for an account with Google’s Adsense program for free. Once you sign up you’ll be able to set up the type of ads you’d like fed to your blog (text ads, block ads, banner ads, and more). As the content on your blog changes, Google changes the ads and you’re paid whenever someone clicks on the ads.
When done correctly, you can make very good money with Adsense, but it does take a bit of testing and tweaking to find the combination of ads that will work best for your individual blog. People are used to seeing these ads and although many people do ignore them, there are many more who will click the links and you’ll be compensated when they do.
3. Resale Rights Content

Resale rights content is content you purchase similar to PLR with one exception. You usually don’t have the right to alter the content in anyway. You purchase the content for your use and are given the rights to resell it, which allows you to then turn around sell the product yourself.

Normally, you’ll receive not only the product, but also the sales page and other web copy to add to your own website. You simply change the payment link to have it paid to you and whenever someone buys the product you get all the profits.

Master Resale Rights Content

If resale rights content isn’t good enough, there is also content you can purchase that comes with what’s known as Master Resale Rights. The difference between master resale rights and regular resale rights is:

Resale Rights – You can sell the product but you can NOT pass those same rights on to your customers.

Master Resale Rights – You can not only sell the product and keep the profits, but you also have the ability to pass resale rights onto your customers. They can in turn sell the product as their own.

Each product has specific rules on how you can and cannot use the content no matter which type you are given. Due to this make certain you take the time to read the rules before just throwing the product up for sale or offering rights to others.

Here are some examples of products that offer resale rights you might want to try for your blog:

• Small Reports Zone - Jimmy D. Brown
• Beginner Coach - Another Jimmy D. Brown product (this one has Master Resale Rights)
• Sweetie Reports - Alice Seba’s Monthly Report Club where members receive a new report each month and each one comes with Resale Rights
• FullTimeWahm - Comes with Resale Rights, although it isn't mentioned on the sales page.
4. Create & Sell Your Own Info Products
Ok, I know you’re probably shaking your head after reading number 4. You’re probably wondering how in the world you have the time to write your own information products when you’re trying to save time and energy by NOT writing all your own blog posts. Hear me out, I promise it’ll be worth it. ?
Just like your blog posts, you can create information products that you can sell to your readers without writing all of the content yourself. The absolute best (and easiest) way to do this is by purchasing PLR content that centers around the topic of the info product you’d like to create and rework it a bit and compile it to create an eBook or guide you can then put up for sale. Here’s an example of what I mean:
Let’s say you have a blog about Green Living. One thing your readers would love to know is how to live a greener life without paying tons of money on things like solar panels, costly home additions, etc. You’ve decided you’d like to create an eBook to help them go green by making small changes to their everyday lifestyles without breaking the bank. You’d also like to show them ways they can not only live a greener life, but even save money in the process. We’ll call the product: “Go Green without Breaking the Bank: Small Changes You Can Make to Live an Eco-Friendly Life while Saving Money.�
The first thing you’d do is start searching for private label rights content that fits your subject. Next, you’ll want to compile all the PLR you’ve purchased into a logical, valuable document. Now, it’s time to add your own advice, tips, knowledge, etc. on the subject and form your finished product.
You’ve now created an entire eBook without having to write the majority of it yourself. Save your brain power for marketing your newly created product. Just remember, make any PLR you purchase your own by reworking it to fit your needs and add to or take away information as necessary.
Go to EasyPLR.com/bestplr.htm for the best PLR on a huge variety of topics.
Bonus Tip: To add value to your information product, record an audio version of your eBook and package it with the written version. You can also interview others in your field and add that too.

5. ECourses & Newsletters
Another great way to monetize your blog content is by adding free eCourses to your arsenal. You can put together eCourses that will give your readers further information about the topic of your blog.
For instance, if you run a blog about Labrador Retrievers, why not create a short 5 day eCourse that tells owners of Lab puppies the best tips and tricks for house training the newest member of their family. Or, create an eCourse that gives important information on raising Labs specifically.
You can use PLR content or take content you’ve previously posted on your blog to create your eCourses.
Grab pre-written PLR eCourses on Internet marketing topics at MostlySanePLR.com
Simply load the eCourse into your email management system (I use Aweber) and sprinkle promotions for affiliate products throughout the course. Once you have the course set up, copy and paste the HTML or JavaScript for the sign up box into your blog. Then market the course via your blog posts, on Twitter, and other places.
This brings me to the next step in making money with your blog – bringing in visitors.


6. Ad networks.
Ad networks are programs that serve ads onto your blog. Normally they pay per thousand impressions. (Usually described as CPM.) So, an ad network that pays $3 CPM would pay $3 for every 1000 times the ad was viewed.

There are many sites like this online and you can find them by searching google.

Click here to view some of them: http://www.easyplr.com/sell-ads.htm
Then, Drive Traffic!
I’ll be straight and to the point - without readers your blog will never make money. You need new readers and faithful ones that will keep coming back and spread the word. How do you get people to come to your blog in the first place? And, once you get them there how do you keep them?
Getting Traffic to Your Blog
Search Engine Traffic – Pay attention to keywords and phrases when you publish your blog posts and other pages. These will help your blog rank higher in the search engines and bring targeted visitors (those really interested in what you have to say) to you.
Word of Mouth – Give some incentive for your readers to tell others about your blog. You can offer contests and giveaways where the winner has to link to the contest or post a Tweet on Twitter about the contest, etc. We’ll talk more about these things in a bit.
Comment on Other Blogs - Find blogs that fit with yours and visit them, read what the author posts and make comments on their posts. When you make comments on other blogs you are normally given the opportunity to link to your site – use it!
Article Marketing – We talked about article directories earlier, but this time you’ll be the one submitting the articles for others to pick up and post on their websites and blogs. Be sure you link to your blog in the resource box so people who read the article can visit your site to learn more.
Learn how to implement article marketing in a way that effectively drives tons of targeted visitors to your blog with this – Easy Article Marketing
Hold Contests & Giveaway Freebies – Contests and free items are hot! Everybody loves a good freebie and the chance to win something. There are tons of things you can giveaway on your blog – from reports to physical products. Some people have found success with using a weekly freebie (Freebie Friday) post. Don’t be afraid to create your own free content and give your readers the opportunity to pass those things on to others. Just don’t forget to include a link to your blog within the content so they’ll know where to find more of your great information.
Here's a free report about holding a contest on your blog:
http://www.webtrafficbasics.com/BoostTrafficwithaBlogContest.pdf
Add a Product Review Section – Create a section on your blog just for recommending products that your readers would be interested in. For instance, if your blog is for those wanting to work from home, include reviews of work at home job sites, products that help make the work at home office more efficient and things of that nature.
Everybody looks to others before making a purchase to get advice and opinions. They don’t want to spend their hard earned money on something they’ll never use or that doesn’t give them what they were hoping for. Be the one to share your opinions about products and services (don’t forget to add your affiliate links within the reviews) with your readers.
Add a Recipe Section – If it fits your market another item that is hot on the Internet is recipes. Add a recipe section to your blog and watch your visitor numbers rise. Recipes are a cinch to add to your blog and you don’t have to write them yourself. Check out YummyPLR.com to get your hands on PLR recipes you can add to your website each and every month.
WebTrafficBasics.com – Sign up for this free course where
you’ll learn how to drive traffic to your blog.
Keeping Your Visitors Around
The best way to keep your readers coming back is to offer them quality, valuable content on a consistent basis. That’s what they come for so give them what they want.
Another great way to keep your visitors coming back is to give them the opportunity to sign up to receive reminders about your blog. You can do this with an RSS feed and a newsletter or ezine. Keeping in touch with them on a regular basis, whether weekly, twice a month or monthly, will keep your blog and you fresh in their minds.
The Time is Now!
You are now equipped with more than enough information to create your own blog, or take your current blog to the next level, without typing the letters of your keyboard or spending hours of your precious time at the computer. The only thing left to do now is apply what you’ve learned.
You’ll find a list of resources I personally recommend below. You can check out the ones you think will help you and leave the ones you don’t need. Whatever you do, never, from this point on think you have to spend the rest of your life writing your own blog content. Heck no, life is too short for that, right? ;)
Best of Luck! I hope to see your blog making you profits and hitting the top of the best blogs lists soon!
Recommended Resources
www.Shelancers.com - Find Writers who can make you look and sound even better than you already are!
www.OutsourceWeekly.com - Learn how to automate & outsource every area of your business that is keeping you from making the kind of money that you'd like to with your blog.
www.ReliableWebs.com – You’ll need a host for your blog, if you don’t already have one set up. Find affordable hosting, whether you’re a mom or not, with excellent customer support here.
www.WordPress.org - This is where it’s at when it comes to blogging platforms. WordPress makes setting up a blog and managing all your content super-easy.
www.EasyPLR.com/bestplr.htm - Affordable, quality PLR article packs, special reports & more on lots of topics.
www.WebTrafficBasics.com – Get targeted traffic to your website with this free course.

AudioAcrobat - record audio for your blog. Turn it into a podcast with this tool.
www.BrandableStuff.com – Videos, reports, and audios that you can post on your blog (all with affiliate programs that you can join to monetize the posts).
http://www.easyplr.com/dc/free-plr.htm - Free product reviews.


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Monday, August 16, 2010

2 Important Characteristics of a Profitable Blog

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2 Important Characteristics of a Profitable Blog
By Ram Babu

Each profitable blog has a few things in common and clearly identifiable. Characteristics that are not just part of their design but part of the core, part of what makes them successful and profitable.

Our goal here today is to help you identify those characteristics on your own blog and help you join the few celebrity bloggers. For more details www.blog-and-ping.com It is within your grasp you just need a bit of understanding and a proper process in place.

1. Identify Your Main Goal

Sounds simple, right? And yet when you visit some blogs it is so hard to figure out what is it they are trying to accomplish. Blogs littered with multiple banner ads, Google AdSense, multitude of dynamic widgets placed in what seems like random order.
Does description above resembles your blog?

Than continue reading because this part is designed to help you get rid of all he extra clatter and identify what is important. I can guarantee that you will see your blog profits soar as result.

Fact is - too much clatter on your blog not only doesn't help you achieve your goal and monetize it but actually prevents you from it! Simplest way to do a "usability" test of your blog is to ask your friend or a family member to visit it and tell you what they think.

If they tell you that there is too much stuff on it, more often than not they will be right. It is hard to achieve a perfect balance when monetizing our blogs and this is where identification of your main goal comes into place.

Identify One Single Action you want your visitors to take:

* Be it an affiliate product sale that pays great commissions and directly related to your niche
* Subscription Form to your email list
* Sale of your own product

Whatever it might be - it should be ONE single action you want your visitors to take, action that would be most beneficial to you as blogger and rewards you for the superb content you provide to your niche.

Once you main goal is identified - find a couple more secondary goals. For more details www.building-blog-empire.com Idea here is to not overwhelm the visitor but offer choices besides your main offer, offers that will complement without competing directly with your main offer.

And once above is completed we can move into...

2. Force The Action

And by that I don't mean you to push visitors into taking it but rather placing your offers into locations where they simply can't be ignored.

* Main Offer - be sure you place it where it will be visible from EVERY single page on your blog and above the fold, meaning that people shouldn't have to scroll to see it. It is one action you stand to benefit from the most and you should make it clearly visible and accessible. Top of your sidebar and at the top of each piece of content is perfect place.

TIP: Top left corner get the most clicks!

Don't be shy about it - it is your reward for your great content!

• Secondary Offers - should be easily found but still below you main offer. Sidebar is perfect location or below the post, integrated into template files. It helps you present your readers with choices and gives you more chances to earn while still making your main offer most prominent.

www.bloggers-guide-to-profit.com

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Sunday, August 15, 2010

2 Important Characteristics of a Profitable Blog

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2 Important Characteristics of a Profitable Blog
By Ram Babu

Each profitable blog has a few things in common and clearly identifiable. Characteristics that are not just part of their design but part of the core, part of what makes them successful and profitable.

Our goal here today is to help you identify those characteristics on your own blog and help you join the few celebrity bloggers. For more details www.blog-and-ping.com It is within your grasp you just need a bit of understanding and a proper process in place.

1. Identify Your Main Goal

Sounds simple, right? And yet when you visit some blogs it is so hard to figure out what is it they are trying to accomplish. Blogs littered with multiple banner ads, Google AdSense, multitude of dynamic widgets placed in what seems like random order.
Does description above resembles your blog?

Than continue reading because this part is designed to help you get rid of all he extra clatter and identify what is important. I can guarantee that you will see your blog profits soar as result.

Fact is - too much clatter on your blog not only doesn't help you achieve your goal and monetize it but actually prevents you from it! Simplest way to do a "usability" test of your blog is to ask your friend or a family member to visit it and tell you what they think.

If they tell you that there is too much stuff on it, more often than not they will be right. It is hard to achieve a perfect balance when monetizing our blogs and this is where identification of your main goal comes into place.

Identify One Single Action you want your visitors to take:

* Be it an affiliate product sale that pays great commissions and directly related to your niche
* Subscription Form to your email list
* Sale of your own product

Whatever it might be - it should be ONE single action you want your visitors to take, action that would be most beneficial to you as blogger and rewards you for the superb content you provide to your niche.

Once you main goal is identified - find a couple more secondary goals. For more details www.building-blog-empire.com Idea here is to not overwhelm the visitor but offer choices besides your main offer, offers that will complement without competing directly with your main offer.

And once above is completed we can move into...

2. Force The Action

And by that I don't mean you to push visitors into taking it but rather placing your offers into locations where they simply can't be ignored.

* Main Offer - be sure you place it where it will be visible from EVERY single page on your blog and above the fold, meaning that people shouldn't have to scroll to see it. It is one action you stand to benefit from the most and you should make it clearly visible and accessible. Top of your sidebar and at the top of each piece of content is perfect place.

TIP: Top left corner get the most clicks!

Don't be shy about it - it is your reward for your great content!

• Secondary Offers - should be easily found but still below you main offer. Sidebar is perfect location or below the post, integrated into template files. It helps you present your readers with choices and gives you more chances to earn while still making your main offer most prominent.

www.bloggers-guide-to-profit.com

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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Blogging To The Bank Reviews

Blogging has been a popular feature online in recent years. Blogging is also the rave of the moment in internet marketing. Many people are now hooked on blog in talking about their personal lives and thoughts while some use it as a good means of making money.

Blogging to the bank – this has got to be one of the most popular blogging ebooks of all time.

Have you heard of the latest Blogging To The Bank 2010 niche website profit system by Rob Benwell? This is the latest edition of Rob's guides to making money online with blogs. His previous versions have worked very profitably for me, but if you have been using his older methods before, you might have noticed that their effectiveness have started to deteriorate as a result of increased competition.

Because of that, Rob has developed several new strategies and methods for finding free traffic even more quickly than his past methods, and they are all included in the new BTTB 2010.

1. Is Blogging To The Bank 2010 A Scam?

Having used all the previous versions of this system, I know that it is definitely not a scam but will require some time and effort commitment. Even though I have used the previous versions and have started to dislike the idea of making money online with blogs, this new BTTB 2 system has introduced me to many automation tools and techniques that made me love blogging for income again.

This is a complete resource for teaching you exactly how to create, optimize and monetize your blogs to get maximum traffic to generate maximum commissions from your efforts.

2. How Does the Blogging To The Bank 2010 System Work For You To Make Money Online?

There are many ways to make money online, and creating blogs to get free traffic to convert visitors to buyers is definitely one of the best ways. Creating multiple blogs gives you the potential to generate residual income online since they can act as virtual assets that continually gain value online and throw off an income stream in the form of sales and commissions.

You will decide whether you want to use self hosted blogs or free platforms such as Blogger, although I would recommend self hosted blogs since they allow more control and reduce the risks of being shut down abruptly.

Blogging to the bank 2010 let you know step-by-step methods of making highly profitable long term niche blog, using the newest optimization strategies. There is a section on advanced search engine optimization right there. Many people think Search Engine Optimization is not easy but Rob gave a detailed and simple analysis so that newbies could understand. Blogging to the bank 2010 is a great and workable ways to profitable blogs and I highly recommend it to people who want online wealth.

Visit to read a FREE report about this new Blogging Profit Blueprint.

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Friday, August 13, 2010

Starting An Online Business: Blogs Make It Possible.

Author: Shannon Murphy

MaxBlogMoney.com

Hey there, I want to talk to share with you why a blog is the easiest way to make money online, especailly for those of you just starting out. I'll also give you a small lesson overview on what you will need to do, start to finish, to begin your successful online business with a blog.

Ok, there are four main reasons why a blog is the easiest way to develop a solid income online...

First, A blog is very easy to manage. Anyone, no matter what their website or blog experience, can install, build, and maintain a blog with out a problem and for very little cost.  On top of that the blog platform makes it extremely easy for the administration (blog owner) add content, change appearances, and maintain quality.  Virtually everything within the admin area of a blog is self-explainable (WordPress has very good forums to answer questions).

Second, blogs are extremely user friendly.  They give your visitors many options, which are of course, determined by the blog administrator.  Direction can be clearly mapped out for any visitor through archives, searches, and tag clouds.  In addition to the organization of a blog, they can be easily setup to give a targeted visitor exactly what they are looking for, whether it be strictly content or a product or service, thus increasing user friendliness through simplicity.

Third, blogs get the most exposure of any other websites on the internet.  Its versatility and ample content make it prime for search engine rankings. If you develop a quality blog, you can literally take over the search engines for the keywords you desire. This makes it possible for your blog to attract thousands of visitors each  day once an authority is obtained.

Fourth, the income potential is pretty much limitless.  You are getting thousands of targeted visitors, now just simply offer them the products and services they long for.  This will make your visitors happy, as well as yourself when your bank account begins to grow tremendously. Infact, a blog has the potential to make well over $1,000's per month.  Add a list building campaign and then you have 100,000's of potential buyers at your disposal...and you know exactly what they want!

Short Blog Lesson

Step 1:  The Start

Choose a domain name that is consistent with your blog niche, this will help with search engine optimization.  Make sure you have a hosting account.  This is the bridge your website needs to get to the World Wide Web. Most hosting companies you Cpanel as your domain manager.  Either way, you want to access Fantastico deluxe (install wizard).  There you will find a WordPress installation and then install.

Step 2: Blog Guts

Plug-ins need to be installed, but not just any plug-ins.  Specific plug-ins will help your blog results more than others.  Specifically Maxblogpress Ping Optimizer, All-in-one Seo Package, wp-stats, are must haves to be able to optimize your blog and track your visitors.  Plug-ins for added appearance and hightened user quality are also helpful.

Theme's are very easy to install within a WordPress Blog.  The themes I recommend have built in search engine optimization attributes and can be easily monetized (made profitable). A specifc one is Small Business SEO theme.

Permalink structures are very important for search engine optimization.  When publishing a post, the default wordpress permalink assigns a number (permalink # example: www.gvoteamlovelife.com/22).  This is no good, you want the number (22 in the example), to be the post title and category(permalink-right example: www.gvoteamlovelife.com/MLM/profits).  MLM being the post category and profits being the post name.  This can be changed in the setting area of your blog.

Step 3:  Blog Content

Quality + Readability = Profitability.  You want to write reader friendly content and make sure the content flows in a manner that is understandable for every potential reader.  If your content is sour and lackluster, readers will leave and never come back, and hey there goes your potential income!  Make sure you have fresh content over a long period of time as well.  New posts everyday or at least every other day is ideal and no duplicates, its not helpful!

Step 4:  Blog Profitability

First is Google Adsense  of course.  a and placement are critical with Google Adsense.  The most profitable means to make money with a blog is through affiliate programs and products.  Simply post relavant banners on your blog that will grab your targeted traffic's attention and watch them buy.  This is where the real income starts pouring in.  If you do place some banners on your blog, write some reviews on those specific products you are advertising for even more targeted traffic.

Well that's a small overview of a blog for money from start to finish, but hey, you've got to start somewhere.  I suggest you check out MaxBlogMoney.com.  We are giving away free blog lessons, from start to finish, that are way more in depth than the overview I just gave you.  Either way, I hope this article has given you some insightful information about blogs, their simplicity, and their potential.

Happy Blogging My Friends...


Thursday, August 12, 2010

Niche Blogs And Why They Make Such An Excellent Affiliate Marketing Tool

Blogs or more specifically... Niche Blogs are simply blogs that are topic focused and target a specific market and/or niche.

More importantly though, these blogs contain targeted information that their target market is searching for.

This is KEY.

As an affiliate marketer we are always told that information, whether its an article, review, ebook, ecourse, report, mp3 or pod cast, is a key Pre-Selling tool before your potential customer decides to buy what it is that your offering.

This is where Niche Blogs come into play because of there many capabilities and functions.

The biggest advantage Blogs have is they give you the ability to syndicate your content and/or information through a technology called RSS(Real Simple Syndication).

The types of content you are able to syndicate are as follows:

- Articles
- Product Reviews
- eBooks
- eCourses
- Special Reports
- Mp3 Files
- Steaming Video(A.K.A Pod Casting)

Are you starting to see the advantages to blogs or more importantly, having a network of affiliate Niche Blogs?

I hope so.

Also, with your blog comes an RSS Feed that your potential visitors can subscribe to.

Whats this mean for you?

Simple. When ever you post to your affiliate Niche Blog or network of Niche Blogs guess who will INSTANTLY receives that post?

That's right, who ever subscribes to your RSS Feed.

Are you starting to see the many benefits of having a Niche Blog and incorporating it into your affiliate marketing mix?

Only you can answer that.

Another great thing about Blogs in general is that search engines love them and everytime you post to your Niche Blog it "Pings" the search engines and other RSS Directories you've submitted to letting them know that there's new fresh content for them to come and index.

The more you post, the more pages that will be produced, which means... more for the search engines to index, which means... more traffic to your Niche Blog.

The best way to take advantage of your new source of traffic and maximize your Niche Blog profits is to modify your blog template and add Google Adsense and your affiliate programs marketing materials to it.

By doing this, everytime you post to your Niche Blog your marketing message will always be there and Google Adsense will display targeted ads related to your content.

Now, I can't go into alot of detail on how to modify blog templates in this article simply because that's an article within itself and then some.

What I can do is show you one that I just put together as an example.

http://www.internetwondersezine.com/internet-joint-venture/

All I really wanted to get across to you is the advantages to having your own Niche Blog as part of your affiliate marketing mix to help market your affiliate programs to your target audience.

Blogs are here to stay so we might as well take advantage of them in any way that we can.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Why You Shouldn’t Join a Blog Network

If you've considered blogging for money, and you've done any amount of research, then you have no doubt run across a few "blog networks" that promise to bring you instant blogging success. The site looks nice, it has a great Alexa ranking, and you might be wondering if writing for one of these organizations is a good idea.

First, a little background...

Theoretically, Blog Networks are a group of bloggers who get together with related subjects and post articles a few times per week. The network combines the traffic of the group in attracting advertisers. It also helps to increase the value of the overall group through cross-linking related posts in the network.

When a new blog is created on the network, the existing traffic base is leveraged to instantly bring readers to the new blog - greatly decreasing the time required to get new blogs profitable to just a few days or weeks.

That's the theory anyway, and it sounds great, but is a Blog Network right for you?

The fact is that when you write for a blog network, you are creating content and building traffic for someone else's website and if the editor decides to work with another blogger, you probably have no say in the matter.

The work you do doesn't really create value for yourself other than whatever ego boost you get from seeing your name in the byline of the articles you write. If they decide to work with another blogger, or they go out of business, then your name recognition probably won't last long. Fame evaporates quickly.

It's as if you are an employee of the company, but you don't get paid unless your blog does really well. So, in a way you are really taking on the financial risk.

Case in point, last week Gawker Media laid off 19 editors (see the article: http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/10/gawker-media-laying-off-19-workers.php). For a company that enjoys nearly 300 Million pageviews per day ... well, you might say they should dance with who brung 'em.

Another BlogNetwork, KnowMoreMedia, announced it was going out of business (see the article: http://www.sparkplugging.com/sparkplug-ceo/what-does-the-end-of-the-know-more-media-blog-network-mean-to-you/. What happens to their bloggers?

AOL has made deep cuts in their blog spending (see the article: http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/24/aol-cuts-blog-budgets-signs-of-things-to-come/). Has anyone heard any "good" news out of AOL since 1999?

There are many reasons for the tightening of the blog network market - but reasons don't matter much if all of the sudden, you can't make money off your blog anymore.

Further, given all this bad news, you might be left with the impression that perhaps the bottom is falling out of the blogging market. That it doesn't make sense to blog. Not So!

There are plenty of individuals who own highly successful blogs that make them a ton of money. The trick is to be independent and to create multiple income streams from your blogs.

If you own your own domains, and you write your own blogs, then you control what happens to you. Maybe your blogs won't get millions of hits the first month; you're going to have to work your way up from scratch.

But however many hits your blogs do get, at least you know you own those hits. Nobody is going to allow you to build up the site and then fire you for your efforts, and whatever advertising revenue comes in the door belongs to you.

In the end, the most important brand you can build is your own. That's why if you do join a BlogNetwork, make sure you can join as an independent blog site - this is sometimes referred to as a Blog Alliance instead of a Network. These types of organizations help to leverage the power of the network, while maintaining your independence if things don't work out.