Make Money Blogging by Matt Bacak
You have created a blog and your blog is dedicated to a niche industry. Have you ever thought that the blog could make money for you? We would look here in this article, ways and means, to make money blogging. Lets first have a look at what are the prerequisites for a blog needed to make money:
1. Blog needs to be dedicated to a niche market.
2. Updated regularly.
3. Enough back links (Don't worry for it. Directory submission would be enough to begin with)
4. Good blog host or application (blogger, Xanga or typepad recommended), and
5. High quality articles or news items supported with images.
Get the above criteria in place and Hurrah... You are ready to Make Money Blogging.
Top 5 Ways to Make Money Blogging
Lets now take a look at top 5 ways using which you could make money blogging:
1. Google Adsense
Google Adsense delivers text and image ads to the authorized websites/blogs depending on the content of the website. Small code is required to be pasted at proper locations on a webpage and Google automatically recognizes the page. Google shares the revenue it gets from the advertisers whenever a visitor clicks on these ads.
Google bills advertisers on price per click basis (PPC). Advertisers are required to pay only when any visitor clicks on their ads. They bid against each other for the keywords in order to receive better placement and thus prices for each keyword differ from one another. It is better to choose keywords for your blog which pays high $ per click.
2. Amazon
Amazon Associate program is another important way to make money blogging. The Amazon Associate program gives opportunity to website/blog publishers to promote any product from its inventory by adding a predefined code to their website/blog, which, when clicked by a visitor, takes them to the relevant product page. Once the visitor buys the product, the blog owner will be compensated with a commission.
3. Blogads
You can use Blogads as an effective tool to have a better control over the advertisers in your blogs. You can analyze and compare your profits with any one of your online agencies. Blogads can be simply specified as an advertising service used for the web logs or blogs. From the total money generated by Blogads, it retains 20% of it and the remaining money is paid to you through PayPal or checks.
Alternative Services:
• Crispads is another useful network focused on the blogs. You can put your advertisements in their blogs using Crispads. You can move through their RSS/ATOM feeds that help in generating revenues.
• Tagword – It is similar to Blogads. It makes you select the ads and their price.
Users can place their text-based ads in the site within minutes and the ads will be displayed instantly on the website.
4. Affiliate Programs
Your affiliate programs can help you earn a lot of money for selected products and services. Lot of websites offers you to become affiliate members. These affiliate programs can provide a better reach and an in-depth exposure to the products. The commissions for the sales differ according to the quality of the product, sales and marketing strategy involved. You can gather information related to the commissions by looking into the catalogues of Link Share and Commission junctions.
5. Text Links
Text links has emerged out to be the best form of moneymaking source that you can use instead of cluttering or crowding the page with ads. You don’t have to make these text links prominent within your website. This link can act as an extra value to your site and will also help to promote the rankings of other sites. In most of the cases you will find these text links placed in the bottom of the web pages. The best part of this strategy is that the publishers send and accept links as the market continues to grow.
About The Author: Matt Bacak, The Powerful Promoter and Entrepreneur Magazine e-Biz radio show host, became a "#1 Best Selling Author" in just a few short hours. He has helped a number of clients target his specialty, opt-in email direct marketing systems. For more information, visit Bacak's site at http://www.powerfulpromoter.com or sign up for his Powerful Promoting Tips at http://www.promotingtips.com
Start Blogging Now: 10 Reasons Why You Really Need a Blog for Your Business © 2005 Patsi Krakoff and Denise Wakeman
1. It is perfect for creating a web presence for independent professionals who have something to say and who need people to get to know them and what they can do for them.
2. Having your own business blog gives you credibility and a forum where you can show your expertise.
3. Readers can comment directly onto your blog, creating interaction and interest.
4. No more waiting for your web designer to update your web site.
5. You can post to your blog yourself, about any issue, daily if you wish, and get it broadcast into the blogosphere instantly.
6. The search engines love blogs and will pick up your keywords easily, boosting your rankings, making it easier for people to find you on the web.
7. Customers are drawn to personality behind the business. Human voices convey intimacy beyond PR-babble. (To read about this topic read The Cluetrain Manifesto. The first chapter is available free online: http://cluetrain.com/apocalypso.html.)
8. You can network and build up a community of like-minded readers. You blog, people comment. Others blog, you comment. Before you know it, more people have heard of you and your business because the buzz gets passed around.
9. You can test out new ideas and get instant feedback. Get your customers and prospects in on the act now and let them help you help them - invite them to talk back! Let them see how you develop your products and services and they can show you how to best to serve them.
10. You can use your blog side-bars to promote your products, your affiliate products, run blog ads, sell books, and any other product or services you have. You don't have to include this in the body or content of your article; therefore your posts - your writing - can remain content rich and free of promotional hype.
Finally, email marketing and electronic newsletters are struggling because of over-crowded inboxes, spam problems and filters.
- On the average, 64.7% of the business e-mail you send is not even opened, let alone read. [source: Q3 2004 Email Trend Report, DoubleClick ]
- E-mail marketers are seeing their open-rates range from only "mid-20s to just over 50 %" [source: ClickZ.com]
- That means that you are losing at least 50% of your prospective buyers or readers. How much does that amount to in losses over the course of the next few years?
- AOL receives roughly 2 billion e-mail messages a day, of which about 75 percent are blocked and another 4 to 7 percent are sent to the bulk folder. [source: ClickZ.com]
Sit up and pay attention. The time to start blogging for your business is now.
Denise Wakeman of Next Level Partnership, and Patsi Krakoff of Customized Newsletter Services, have teamed up to create blogging classes and marketing services for independent professionals. You can read and subscribe to their blog at http://www.buildabetterblog.com
Get Website Visitors From Blogs Copyright 2005 Torgeir Sunnarvik
Blogs are becoming more and more popular. The word "blog" is short for web log. And blogs are a great way of getting links in to your website.
For instance, if you have a website about Internet marketing, you could search Google for "Internet Marketing Blogs"
In the listing that comes up I'm sure that you'll find some blogs that you can post a comment to. There are blogs that have page rank of 5 or even 7. So a link from one of these blogs could mean a lot when it comes to search engine rankings.
Find one blog that are relevant to your site, and post a comment that make sense to the original posting on the blog. Make sure that you link back to your site with the keywords that you are targeting.
That way your comment won't get deleted,and you have a link from a high page rank site.
You should also consider to start your own blog. Blogs seem to get spidered a lot faster than a normal website. And it's easier to get good search engine rankings for the keywords that you are targeting.
I use the blog solution from Google. It is easy to use and gets you started fast. It can be hosted on the Blogger server or on your own website. Sign up and start your blog at: www.blogger.com
You can use the blog like a journal and add posts about your daily updates to your website. Your blog should have the same theme as your website. That way you are targeting the visitors to your blog and can direct them to your website by linking back to your homepage in each posting.
Fresh content gets your blog spidered often. So try to add a couple of post each week. That way your blog will soon become a content site. It will contain a lot of keywords that could bring you targeted traffic from the search engines. There are also a lot of blog directories where you can add your blog for free. One good example is
http://www.blogarama.com/
My blog is ranked higher than my website, even though I have hundreds of back links to my site, where I use my targeted keywords in the linking text. That only shows how powerful a blog can become for your business.
About the Author:
Torgeir Sunnarvik, Norway mailto:webmaster@everypleasures.com
Torgeir Sunnarvik is the owner and webmaster of http://www.everypleasures.com/
His site offer free ebooks, ebooks with reprint rights and review of business ebooks. on of my blogs:
http://www.norway-tour.blogspot.com
Do you Blog Surf? 3 Strategic Steps To Doing It Well Copyright 2005 Deepak Walia
My Marketing Notes
http://www.mymarketingnotes.com/forums/
Readers, you can also read this article onmy website at this URL, http://www.mymarketingnotes.com/vault/content/view/29/38/
One of the most important skills of any marketer (or anyone else for that matter) is the ability to do research quickly, effectively and to communicate information that differs from what "the masses" do.
This article presents a 3 step strategy for using blogs to help in this.
Over the past year or so, blogs have become huge. Before the 2004 U.S. election, scarce anyone heard of blogs. But with the bloggers doing their own version of the news, even computer illiterate people have at least heard of blogs.
So I want to talk about blogs. But not from the usual angle of creating and maintaining one. I want to talk about it from the standpoint of USING other people's blogs effectively.
If you already blog, then this will be obvious to you, though you might have been so focused on creation that you didn't pay attention to consumption. Common problem. I'm here to help you get past it. :)
The amazing thing about blogs - the good ones at least - is that they are like finding information gold mines.
The owners maintain them and their quality for several reasons.
* to generate new content that search engines love
* to keep people coming back for more
* to sell their stuff in a low pressure marketing context
* self-fulfillment through self-expression
There are likely other reasons, but I consider these the relevant ones.
These motivations push the publishers to keep the quality of good blogs high. If they stop, their traffic dwindles. If they start hyping stuff, then the low-pressure context is gone.
Thus, it is that blogs form one of the most intensely useful sources of free information anywhere.
So the question is, do you effectively blog surf? And more to the point, how do you do it?
Well, I don't have THE ANSWER for how to do it. But I do have some suggestions that have generated great results for me.
1 - Google the following - with the punctuation as I show them:
+blog +"subject phrase"
Thus if I'm interested in blogs on fly fishing (a niche if there ever was one), my google would be
+blog +"fly fishing" (over 61,000 matches)
If my interest was in sequential autoresponders then my search would be:
+blog +"sequential autoresponders" (243 matches)
This gives me the ability to get a list of blogs on the subject which I then ...
2 - Bookmark for future reference. Create a folder for, say, fly fishing. All the high quality fly fishing blogs you find go into that folder. Make new folders for blogs on other subjects.
Now if I'm interested in seeing what's new in fly fishing, I go to my bookmarks and have a virtual field trip.
But there's one more thing I do, too. And this is critical if you want to keep your blog surfing fresh:
3 - Bookmark the search results page.
Why?
Because the results delivered up by the canned search will vary over time and as Google changes their criteria. The top blog today might turn out to be 5th next month and a complete newcomer might end up 1st on the list.
Now you have an effective method for blog surfing. Enjoy.
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Get Website Visitors From Blogs Copyright 2005 Torgeir Sunnarvik
Blogs are becoming more and more popular. The word "blog" is short for web log. And blogs are a great way of getting links in to your website.
For instance, if you have a website about Internet marketing, you could search Google for "Internet Marketing Blogs"
In the listing that comes up I'm sure that you'll find some blogs that you can post a comment to. There are blogs that have page rank of 5 or even 7. So a link from one of these blogs could mean a lot when it comes to search engine rankings.
Find one blog that are relevant to your site, and post a comment that make sense to the original posting on the blog. Make sure that you link back to your site with the keywords that you are targeting.
That way your comment won't get deleted,and you have a link from a high page rank site.
You should also consider to start your own blog. Blogs seem to get spidered a lot faster than a normal website. And it's easier to get good search engine rankings for the keywords that you are targeting.
I use the blog solution from Google. It is easy to use and gets you started fast. It can be hosted on the Blogger server or on your own website. Sign up and start your blog at: www.blogger.com
You can use the blog like a journal and add posts about your daily updates to your website. Your blog should have the same theme as your website. That way you are targeting the visitors to your blog and can direct them to your website by linking back to your homepage in each posting.
Fresh content gets your blog spidered often. So try to add a couple of post each week. That way your blog will soon become a content site. It will contain a lot of keywords that could bring you targeted traffic from the search engines. There are also a lot of blog directories where you can add your blog for free. One good example is http://www.blogarama.com/
My blog is ranked higher than my website, even though I have hundreds of back links to my site, where I use my targeted keywords in the linking text. That only shows how powerful a blog can become for your business.
About the Author:
Torgeir Sunnarvik, Norway
mailto:webmaster@everypleasures.com
Torgeir Sunnarvik is the owner and webmaster of http://www.everypleasures.com/
His site offer free ebooks, ebooks with reprint rights and review of business ebooks on my blogs:
http://www.norway-tour.blogspot.com
