Tuesday, November 14, 2017

How Bloggers make Money from Blogs - Part 2


If you are looking for a really simple way to make money for that … you need a blog! Many of the people who write blogs today simply want to share their opinion on something. But then there are the business-minded folks, who have found a way to use blogs, or Web logs, to bring in a little extra cash too.

If you’re interested in taking it further — blogging for bucks, if you will — here are few ways that could turn your blog into a moneymaker.
AdSense is a ‘contextual’ advertising program provides a variety of income streams to bloggers including a site search tool (you make money by people searching your site) and referral tools (where you can make money by recommending Google products).
Chitika’s flagship product eMiniMalls brings product promotion to life on the web. Provide your users with relevant content and comparative shopping information without even leaving your site.

Following this, there are few more programs who invite you for ads in return of substantial compensation; WidgetBucks, Text Link Ads, Azoogle Ads, Intelli Txt, DoubleClick, Tribal Fusion, Adbrite, Clicksor, AdHearUs, Kanoodle, Pheedo, TextAds, Bidvertiser, Fastclick and Value Click.

Blogs are exploring sponsorship with advertisers happening on a post by post basis with some bloggers being paid to write on certain topics by companies - either in one off or a regular fashion - and they are able to make big money from their blogs doing so.

Donations are last but not least, Tip Jars and donation buttons have been a part of blogging for years now but this last year saw a number of bloggers go full time after fund raising drives.

As time rolls on there are more and more ways that bloggers make money from their blogs opening up.

But for all these there should be something of it purpose too,

To attract traffic we should have bunch of information and interesting facts and not just fillers.

The “keywords” should be not less than “carewords” Due to the fact that all model-related keywords and phrases were very low paid; it needs to come up with a few additional subjects.

Content that attracts very well paid ads and could be potentially interesting to her visitors. Topics such as, student credit cards, student loans, online education, student car insurance, and others.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Tips for Marketing Your Blog

With so many blogs being created every day, it’s a mystery to many bloggers how to make their blog stand out. There are many types of blogs or purposes for blogs and a certain number of tactics are applicable to just about all of them. Some companies choose to hire a blog consultant, but others like to try things internally. For those “DIY” companies and individuals interested in practical tips for marketing and optimizing a business blog, try out the following list of blog marketing and optimization tips:

1. Decide on a stand alone domain name. Sub domain is also an option. Avoid hosted services that do not allow you to use your own domain name!
2. Obtain and install customizable blog software - WordPress and Moveable Type are my favorites.
3. Customize blog look and feel templates - aka design.
4. Research keywords and develop a glossary - Keyword Discovery, WordTracker, SitePoint, SEOBook Keyword Research.
5. Optimize the blog:
* Template optimization - RSS subscription options, social bookmark links, HTML code, Unique title tags, URLs, Sitemap
* Add helper plugins specific to WordPress or MT
* Create keyword rich categories (reference your keyword glossary)
6. Enable automatic trackback and ping functionality.
7. Create Feedburner Pro account and enable feed tracking.
8. Setup a Google account for Sitemap, validate and prep for future submission.
9. Identify authoritative blogs, web sites and hubs for outbound resource links and blogroll.
10. Format archived posts, related posts.
11. Enable statistics for tracking - Google Analytics, ClickTracks.
12. Submit RSS feed and Blog URL to prominent RSS and Blog directories / search engines.
13. Engage in an ongoing link building campaign.
14. If podcast or video content are available, submit to Podcast and Vlog directories.
15. Submit blog url to paid directories with categories for blogs - Yahoo, BOTW, bCentral, WOW, JoeAnt.
16. Optimize and distribute a press release announcing blog.
17. Request feedback or reviews of your blog in relevant forums, discussion threads. If you have a resourceful post that will help others, point to it.
18. Research and comment on relevant industry related blogs and blogs with significant centers of influence.
19. Post regularly. If it’s a news oriented blog, 3-5 times per day. If it’s an authoritative blog, 3-5 times per week, but each post must be unique and high value.
20. Monitor inbound links, traffic, comments and mentions of your blog - Google Alerts, Technorati, Blogpulse, Yahoo News, Ask Blogs and Feeds.
21. Always respond to comments on your blog and when you detect a mention of your blog on another blog, thank that blogger in the comments of the post.
22. Make contact with related bloggers on AND offline if possible.
23. When making blog posts always cite the source with a link and don’t be afraid to mention popular bloggers by name. Use keywords in the blog post title, in the body of the post and use anchor text when you link to previous posts you’ve made.
24. Use social networking services, forums and discussion threads to connect with other bloggers. If they like your stuff, they will link to you.
25. Remember when web sites were a new concept and the sage advice to print your web address everywhere you print your phone number? The same advice applies for your blog.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Blog Tips

There are lots of ways to increase traffic in your blogs. One way of increasing traffic is SEO i.e. Search Engine Optimization.

You can try for getting target keywords through Google Adwords Research Tools. Select keywords which has lower search volumes, you can target more competitive keywords later. Very competitive keywords take months, maybe years to rank first page for. Use Google Trends to compare search volumes between different keywords.

Submit your blogs to the proper categories in Directories. For a start, submit to DMOZ.org.

Sign-up at SitePoint.com Forums and participate in their SEO Forums.

Watch some videos on YouTube about SEO. That will give you an overview about what you need to do.

For earning money through Adsense and monitoring your blog traffic

sign up for Google Adsense.

sign up for Google Analytics.

sign up for Google Webmasters Tools.

For any further information/ clarification regarding signing up or putting advertisements in your blogs, feel free to contact me through Shout Mix "Talk to me" given at the top left side.