December 24th, 2008 by admin
Making money with your blog can be done in many ways.
One of the most overlooked ways is by using feedburner.
Feedburner used appropriately can increase your Blog Income!
Important Feed burner Services for bloggers
Feedburner is a service that provides media distribution services for blogs and RSS Feeds.
Their service provides Web-based tools to help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and make a blog income from their content on the Web. These tools allow blogger’s the ability to publish regular updates to their web-based content, and also keep track of a large number of your favorite Web sites or blogs, without having to remember to check each site manually or clutter your email Inbox. Read the rest of this entry »
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December 16th, 2008 by admin
There are two major types of business models that
entrepreneurs use to make money blogging. The first
and most common way to turn a blog into a profit
making machine is to sell advertising to different
companies and brands who want to reach that blog’s
readers.
The second kind of money making blog is one
that helps a single brand improve its image by creating
positive associations between the blog and the product
in the mind of consumers. Both kinds of blogs can
make a lot of money, especially if the creator has a keen
mind for marketing.
If you are blogging with the goal of selling advertising,
there are two basic ways that you can go about
recruiting sponsors who want to put ads on your site;
you can let someone else do all of the legwork, or you
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December 1st, 2008 by admin
Tip #6 - Make Sure You Post Regularly But Don’t Go Overboard
Keeping your blog updated lets the search engines know that you are serious about your blog. It tells them that you are looking after it and keeping it up to date. Visitors to your blog will come back more often if they know that it is going to be updated with lots of new, useful content. This is key for making a blog income.
Blogging should be done at the very least once every week. Better is at least every other day. Going overboard and posting all day every day will work against you. Search engines will think that you are spamming and creating a spammy looking blog and could punish you for it.
A good tip is to make time at the beginning of each week and stick to it. Working out your timetable for the week is good practice and keeps you on track. Read the rest of this entry »
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November 24th, 2008 by admin
Tip #1 - Create Original Content Or Cheat The Right Way!
Content rules the internet. Go against this and you will fail and fail big time. If you have been marketing for any period of time, you will know this already. Everyone is busy jumping in and shouting it from the rooftops. Some however are still not doing this and are simply doomed to failure.
Get it wrong and you will pay the price, you simply wont be taken seriously. Badly written content is another no no. If English is not your first language it is a good investment to have a proof reader go through your copy to make sure that it makes sense. From some of the blogs that I have seen, it’s just general good practice for everyone.
If you do have to cheat and purchase PLR material to fill your blog, you still need to pay attention to your content and re-write at least 60%. Any less and you are going to get found out. There is nothing wrong with using PLR, just make sure that you are not the lazy PLR user that still ends up failing. Read the rest of this entry »
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November 18th, 2008 by admin
If you are a effective blog owner, you have probably tried to
think of various ways that you could establish a more loyal
readership and gain a steadier following of fans throughout the
internet. The idea behind having a blog in the first place is to
have an established set of readers, whether you are looking at
making a profit from your blog or just passing the time with a
blogging hobby. Either way, one of the ways of going about doing
so is by creating video blogging excitement on your page!
What good do videos do on your page, you ask? It is very simple;
think about the state of things today as related to technology.
Video cellular phones, Youtube, Myspace videos and even
flip-down television sets in the back seats of people’s motor
vehicles–video is the new revolution. Why not have the same
types of instant video excitement on your blog? If anything can
help to create a base of loyal readers, video on your blogs
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November 6th, 2008 by admin
Blogs are quick and easy to set up and excellent vehicles for marketing affiliate programs. However, having said this, your success as an affiliate marketer begins with choosing the right affiliate programs and creating your blog to target a profitable niche. Blogs need to be highly focused to be successful. Therefore, it is important to spend time planning your blog and affiliate marketing strategies to maximize your blog income.
Once you have set up your blog, decided on which affiliate products you want to market, and have begun to post unique and informative articles specific to your niche, you need to optimize your blog for search engines. First, a sitemap of your blog should be submitted to the search engines. Each search engine will instruct you on how to do this. Second, your articles should be tightly focused on a subject, containing relevant keywords and synonyms (to appeal to Google’s latent semantic index) while at the same time being interesting, informative and unique. Your blog income is dependent on this. Read the rest of this entry »
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October 29th, 2008 by admin
There are an increasing number of social bookmarking websites you can use to your advantage. Many people who use the Internet love to read blogs and save their favorites so they can get an update when a new blog has been posted. This is usually done by using chicklets – little widgets that you can add to your blog. These chicklets allow readers to click on the one of their choice and bookmark your blog to their favorite bookmarking website. This way, the readers can simply visit their social bookmarking website to see their favorite blogs’ updates, and enjoy reading the new posts without having to bookmark each blog individually and click on their favorites list to visit each one individually. By using a bookmarking website they can see all of the updates on all of their favorite blogs at one time – all by visiting one website page. Read the rest of this entry »
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October 20th, 2008 by admin
Wordpress has proven itself time and time again as the most useful and most equipped blogging platform around. It’s vast array of resources and numerous plugins that make changing the appearance, content and appeal of a blog as simple as pointing and clicking have catapulted it into the realm of one of the most commonly downloaded open source applications on the internet.
Wordpress Being Open Source is Vital
Open source programming is nothing new, but it has always been something special. The concept is simple; programmers build a working model for a piece of software and then hand over all of that code to whomever wants it, allowing other users to make changes or adjustments and build add-ons. Hundreds of free internet distributed programs follow the open-source philosophy and are thus infinitely more viable than static programs that are constantly waiting for updates from a major corporation. For Wordpress, this means that new additions and updates are available almost constantly, repairing bugs much faster than Microsoft could ever manage.
Wordpress Themes and Customization
Something everyone wants to be able to do is change the look of their blog to suit their personality. With Wordpress, there are already hundreds of existing templates and themes developed by other users. However, for those with the technical knowhow, changing the theme or template is just as possible. With a built CSS editor and plugins that allow easy theme creation, Wordpress allows users to craft whatever look and feel they could want for their blog. Read the rest of this entry »
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October 14th, 2008 by admin
Blogs started out mostly as a way for people to communicate their ideas and thoughts to the web with no real concern for how to blog for money. There are still a lot of bloggers that just want to have fun blogging, but more blog writers are seeing how easy it is to begin blogging for money .
3 Crucial Steps to Blog for Money Success!
1. Learn how to set up your wordpress blog from scratch with SEO optimized themes. When choosing a theme for your blog do not just choose how the theme looks. You must choose a theme that can easily be optimized for SEO purposes or can easily be altered for SEO purposes with out being a real techno geek. Read the rest of this entry »
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October 11th, 2008 by admin
The most important step in having a successful blog of any type is to have a plan. Who are the blog readers that you are trying to target? You must identify your target audience. Start with a broad term like bloggers, then drill down to a term such as wordpress blogger’s, then even further to people who want to build a Blog Income type of Site. Once you have established the type of interests your Blog readers have you can go to the next step.
How to attract your Blog Income Readers
There are several methods to get traffic to your blog, to many to mention in this post. We will go into depth on this subject in future posts. But for now lets concentrate on creating content for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) purposes as an example of a traffic method. When you create your content you must abide by a few simple SEO rules, such as keyword density, using LSI words and where to place keywords in the post. An Example is using your keyword phrase “Blog Income” in each paragraph you create. Read the rest of this entry »
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