Writers – Make Money With a Blog

Writing is a career where one can become an overnight success or keep struggling for years without making any money and possibly end up changing to another career. There are problems trying to find an publisher to accept and publish your book or novel or a magazine editor to print your article or column. Hopefully this situation may not arrise often in this day and time, thanks to the internet.

Years ago, people in the writing profession had to depend on others to earn; today’s writers may now produce an income from their writing by switching their passion to write into a business. Difficult as it might sound, this effort may indeed constitute an easy-to-achieve possibility with the use of the internet and blogs. Amazing, as it might appear, you will be able to make money with a blog by just whipping up your hidden writing talent.

If you are new to the internet and don’t know what a blog is, or you’ve been working on or surfing the internet for years, making money with a blog is a possibility that you’ll be able to accomplish with a little planning. Here are a few tips that should be able to help you:

1. Earn working with Google – What once constituted merely a search engine Google now comprises one of the the worlds most powerful enterprises, not only in terms of its reach, but also in terms of its income generating possibilities. You will be able to earn from Google by utilizing their free service called AdSense. All that’s required of you is to have a blog and sell space on your page for advertisements to be posted by AdSense. The service would then permit you to show ad units – ad boxes – that would show ads associated with the subjects you write on in your blog.

For example, you wrote about the piano you just brought, then the ad unit probably would show ads about pianos. When your visitors click on any of these ads, you’d get paid a certain amount. Once your income reaches one hundred dollars, You would then receive a check.

2. Advertise additional Profitable Web Sites- numerous online businesses offer affiliate programs. These programs work by you having their advertisements placed on your blog. When a visitor clicks the ad and makes a purchase from that company the ad represents, you would earn a commission or a referral fee. Many gurus in internet marketing run such programs including large corporations like Amazon.com, eBay and many others. The income you are able to earn varies depending on each company’s payment policies.

3. Sell Ads – The downside of Google advertisements and affiliate programs is you don’t actually have much control over your income and the ads that are showed on your blog. If you would like to play more seriously in the ad marketing game, then you could apply BlogAds’ free databases where you will be able to set your own price for advertisers to place ads on your blog. Several companies search for blogs that match their products and services and rent ad space the same as they do when using those traditional billboards you see along the freeways. Your ad space could then be leased for a certain time period. You would have to pay twenty percent of your income to BlogAd.

4. Donations – several blogs have donation buttons on them. And admittedly, numerous enthusiastic fans and visitors might be willing to make a contribution as a sign of appreciation for your well-written, compelling, and informative blog. Donation buttons are available from PayPal, the renowned online internet service, who would receive a fee for this service when people decide to make a donation. Like options are extended by Amazon and BitPass.

5. Open an Online shopping mall – if your blog becomes so popular that thousands of visitors from all over the world visit it daily. Then you might benefit from that traffic by marketing gifts and souvenirs. And the good news is you would not have to place your logo on those gifts, T-shirts or baseball caps. CafePress would do it for you. CafePress extends to sell for you anything from those precious buttons to defying outerware. The asking price is up to you; you only have to pay the base price of the merchandise.

Making money with a blog is not as difficult as it appears. But naturally like any adventure to make money, you have be be good at doing your job. Keep learning and never give up and You will have the potential to make big earnings utilizing your blog .

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*deep sigh*

PRELUDE (you can skip this part): Ok, so over the course of the past 2 years I’ve been listening to as many highly respected hip-hop albums as I could. Anyone who’s been around here a while might remember me asking questions like "Which albums from 1990-91 do you think deserve top 100 placement?" I asked those year by year, and then I’d listen to all the albums recommended and then build on my list of "GOAT albums IMO"

Well I got up to the 2000′s a few months ago, and I realized that most of the good recommendations I got in past questions came from Mechanical. So instead of asking a question for every year of the 2000′s I just went to his blog and listened to the first 50 of his Top 302 hip-hop albums of the 00′s. But of course, Mech’s opinion isn’t the only one that matters, and sometimes his opinions on albums are vastly different from mine, so…

ACTUAL QUESTION: What I need to know is, which albums released in the 2000′s do you think deserve top 100 placement OF ALL TIME, but they DON’T already appear on Mechanical’s top 50 list for the 00′s? Please star so that the knowledgeable people who aren’t on right now see this later. Here’s a link to Mech’s list: http://themechies.blogspot.com/2010/02/top-300-hip-hop-albums-of-00s.html

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7 Key Benefits to Blog Marketing for Your Business

While Experts predicted that blogging as a whole would slow down in 2007, it is evident that Blog Marketing for web businesses continues to emerge as an increasingly powerful tool for dialoguing with prospective customers and increasing audience reach on the Net.

Many business owners may have uncertainties or misconceptions as to the value of business blogging. Some believe that too much time and effort will be required to effectively implement a blog marketing platform into their existing promotional efforts, with little return on investment.

Those business owners who use blogs regularly will concur that they are simple to create and relatively easy to maintain once you gain an initial comfort level and identify your blogging persona. It typically will only take 10-30 minutes out of the day to properly submit a blog post. The results, however, are far-reaching and surprisingly effective.

So,

What are the major advantages of blog marketing?

1. Low Cost Marketing Channel

Blogs are cheap – even free. Blogs are easily built into an existing website. Blogs can also be maintained at dedicated hosting sites all over the web for low or no cost. Typically it would be recommended that a web business create their own blog domain for brand awareness purposes. It also looks that much more professional in my opinion.

2. Excellent Avenue to Build a Network

Every business needs a network; an internal network between divisions and an external network with other companies and customers. Staying in contact with so many individuals, however, takes large investments of time. A regular blog on the other hand is quickly written (particularly when you are close to and well versed in your subject matter). Blogs can reach thousands of targeted readers at any time in any place.

3. Enhanced Company Visibility

Closely related to networking, Blog marketing benefits a company by keeping it visible. The next time a customer or collaborating company is in need of your product or services, your business will be foremost on their minds.

Part of the benefits of blogging visibility has to do with links. On-site blogs can link to other areas within your site, but off-site blogs can link directly back to it. As you build your blog presence, you may eventually swap links with other high-traffic blogs further adding to your traffic and search engine results.

4. Increased Product Exposure

Blog marketing is extremely useful for gaining mainstream visibility for your products. Your product line may be the focal subject of your company blog – a place where you educate consumers or prospective customers on product features and use, or a place to debut new additions to your line.

Product advertising is of course not limited to company blogs. Blogs on every imaginable subject span the net. Paying high quality bloggers to speak about your products or review your company is another effective blog marketing technique. There are Blog networks like Loudlaunch.com or Sponsoredreviews.com where you can tap into a network of bloggers that work on a pay per post model. This can be a low cost and effective way to grow your product awareness.

5. Enhanced Company Persona

Blog marketing is one way to come down to a more personal level with customers. The voice and style of the blog lets customers get a feel for who you are as a company and whether you are the kind of person they would like to be involved with.

When one individual regularly maintains the blog, customers get to know that person, and feel they have built a relationship with them. The result from this aspect of blog marketing is a more trustworthy, lasting relationship.

6. Improved Customer Interaction

Comment features on blogs are ideal ways to get to know your customer base. An engaging business blog is a place to hear kudos and complaints, as well as conduct informal focus groups, determining how else customers needs might be fulfilled. In this new Web 2.0 frontier, healthy customer dialogue is a key ingredient for successful web endeavors.

7. SEO Optimized Content

We have all heard it said, “Content is King” on the Internet. Adding a blog to your site adds to your featured content, providing yet another indexable content source. It is essential to employ tools like Wordtracker.com and Hittail.com to identify targeted keywords that you want to write some blog posts on. The key is to include the keyword in the blog title as well as in the post and technorati tags.

Blog marketing is quickly becoming known as one essential wave in a progressive web company’s future. The minimal cost, both financially and time-wise, coupled with unlimited potential for exposure and connection make business blogging a no-lose proposition.

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Top Money Making Blog Sites

Blogging is a wonderful hobby to have, not only can you express your views with blogs, but you can also make a healthy amount of money with blogs.

A lot of people believe that the only way they can make money from blogs is to promote or sell products. While that is easily the most profitable way to use blogs, for people that don’t want to sell anything you can make money “selling” ad space.

By placing advertistments on your blog you can make money without having to sell anything to anybody.  All you need to do is find a company that pays advertisers and become an affiliate.

With all of the blogs that there are on the internet, added in with the thousands of blogs that are created daily if you want to make any real money selling ad space you need to separate yourself from the “pack”.  You can do this by becoming a part of advertising networks.

Here is a list of advertising networks :

1. Adbrite: Offers a variety of advertising options to bloggers like text ads, banner ads, video ads, full page ads and also inline ads. You can decide on what type of ad is best suited for you blog. 

2. Expoactive: This ad network offers you with a lot of freedom right from choosing specific ads you want to display on your site, to the visual appearance of the ads. You are paid per click.

3. crispads: With this ad network you can negotiate different prices for your ad space. So as your blog traffic increases you can demand more money in return.

4. Chitika: They also offer several advertising options to choose from. Some of their ad formats are – shoplincs, eminimalls, owna, linx etc.

If you don’t want to promote affiliate products or sell your own products online you can try out some of the ad networks listed above to make you blog profitable.

To learn how to make money using a blog visit – http://www.seegarsproducts.com/bloggingonsteroids

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Ways to Get Your Blog the Needed Exposure

1. Know the Keywords for Your Contents

A bloggers best friends are search engines. It is through the search engines that your blog will be spotted by readers who want to get some ideas of a certain topic. Search engines have crawlers that would scan through your content. If you have the keywords that a searcher would type in the search engine, you are close to get your blog a fair share of the audience it needs.

Keywords can be readily available in free search engine optimizer (SEO) sites. In these sites, you can choose from a variety of most searched words so you can add them to your content.

2. Use Catchy Title Phrase with Keywords

One of the dilemmas of every blogger is how to get the catch. Your blog title is one of the ways to attract attention to your readers. Even if you stuff your blog with so many keywords and have a good ranking result in your search engine, as long as it does not have the title, blog readers would not care about it.

Equip your blog with a title phrase which might find the interest of your blog readers. Some of the interesting title phrase has the words like a Guide to if you want to get a novice reading your blog. Or you can also have Effective to be included in your title phrase. Putting Effective can really add effect to your blog. Psychologically, people tend to believe more in their first impression. Since your title is the first thing that can readily be read, you are already conditioning your readers through it.

3. Use Keyword in your Meta tags

If there is a way you can manipulate the page of your blog, try putting the keywords in your meta tags. Meta tags are one of

the things that a search engine crawler would capture in your blog site. You need to be familiar with basic HTML to know what are meta tags. Meta tags are scripts in your pages source code that tells about your blog. If you can stuff your meta tags with some keywords, this can attract crawlers and possibly get a good search ranking. However, you should also lived up to the expectation of the possible searcher. Otherwise, your blog might be blacklisted because of spamming.

4. Submit Your Blog to a Search Engine (Most Especially Blog Search Engine)

Most bloggers do not know that the best way to get their blogs spotted by some search engine is to initiate the move itself, that is get yourself introduced to the search engine. This is done by submitting your blogsite to a search engine, not necessarily the major one. Since bloggers search only through a blog search engine, you must submit your blogs to these sites. In this way, you are not waiting for a web crawler to get to your blog site.

5. Content, Content, Content

Above all it is the content that matters most. Having a good content in your blog is one way of retaining your audience. These audiences are people who have the potential to spread the word of your blog site. If they find your blog contents worthwhile to read, they would be asking for more and perhaps recommend it to their friends or someone they know.

You might have different style in presenting your content. However, the best way to present it is to do it in a conversational way, just as what I have been doing now. Also, you need to use some simple words in order for your blog to be understood. Never use a local slang or perhaps a personal expression. You should consider the fact that you are making yourself available to some readers worldwide.

6. Get Interactive

Try to add some interactive ways to your blog site. The trend of technology today is interactivity. Audience, nowadays, wants to get a fair share of their attention also. If you can do this to your blog, your audience would believe that they views can be heard. Also, audience views can also be an added attention to crawlers. That is one way of getting things done by others.

These are some of the tested ways of getting your blog spotted. Your blog needs to be exposed, otherwise, you would miss the some potential audience. You might have so many reasons to blog, but, above all, a good blogger always puts the interest of his blog readers first than of his own. In this way, blogging is not only a way of getting attention, it is also a way of enlightening your blog readers to a view which you want them to share.

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Why Adsense Isn’t Performing Well on Your Blog

I’m fortunate enough to make a nice living from running Google Adsense on my blogs and websites, and I often get questions from folks who are trying to figure out why the program doesn’t perform for them.  How can you make dollars–even hundreds of dollars–a day instead of mere pennies?

In this article, I’m covering some of the most common reasons people have trouble making money from Adsense.

<b>1. Adsense works best on niche consumer-oriented blogs</b>

To those of us who have been making money online for a while, this seems obvious, but lots of new folks haven’t had that ah ha realization yet. 

If your blog is a journal of your life or serves mostly to entertain, it’s not going to be a good candidate for Adsense (and–I’ll be honest here–it’s probably not going to make much from other programs either).

The best performers are blogs that are focused on a specific niche.  Even more, that niche should have lots of products or services associated with it. 

For example, a blog on home improvement (many of my sites are in the home and garden niche) can do well since there are all sorts of tools and products people buy when they’re looking to remodel or otherwise improve their homes.  There are also plenty of services related to this niche, everything from roofing companies to pool maintenance outfits.  All of those companies that offer products or services in that niche will want to advertise on your blog, and they’re willing to pay well for qualified clicks.

On the other hand, if your blog is unfocused or attracts people looking more for entertainment than information related to products and services, you’ll find advertisers less likely to pay well (that’s when you see those 1 and 2 cent clicks).

<b>2. Ads must be placed prominently in order to attract attention</b>

I noticed a gal on Twitter complaining that Adsense was making her something like 18 cents a day.  I checked out her site, and lo and behold, her tiny 125×125 Adsense block was way over on the right side of her blog <i>below the fold</i>.

If you want to make money with Adsense, stick those ads where people will see them!

This means getting them as close to your content as possible (if you can wrap the ads right into the blog post, it’s best) and keeping them above the fold (people shouldn’t have to scroll down to see your ads).

Also, don’t be afraid to use <i>big</i> ad blocks.  Those large rectangles are the best performers–people can’t miss them.  If you want to make money from your blog, you can’t be shy about placing those ads prominently.

<b>3. Write about products or services that cost a lot</b>

It’s a foregone conclusion that you’ll make more per click from a blog that reviews 0-00 backyard grills than one that reviews books or cds that cost .  The profit margins are a lot higher on big ticket items, so advertisers can afford to bid more per click.

It’s also helpful if the items you’re writing about are easily purchased over the internet.  Even though hot tubs cost thousands of dollars, they tend to be items that people try out first and buy locally.  On the other hand, software packages that cost a few hundred dollars are logical choices for ordering online.

As you can see from this short list, the real secret to doing well with Adsense is to pick your niche–and start a blog–based on the potential for profit rather than adding Adsense to an existing blog and hoping it will make you rich.

If your existing blog isn’t at all consumer oriented, but it has a lot of traffic, you can always use it to drive traffic to a new blog that does work well with the Adsense model.  Don’t give up–you can definitely make good money from Adsense (and other affiliate and advertising programs as well), if you’re willing to build a site that will appeal to both visitors <i>and</i> advertisers.

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Blog Participation

The blog enables the blogger to be much more aware of what is going on in the world than before. What will be the kind of relationships that can be expected via blogging on the internet? How can trust and confidence be further built through messages in the blog content? To what extent can the blogger gain the better impression of readers? Blogging has impacted communication on the internet to the extent that blog participation has become an integral part of it.

* Treat others as people and not as customers

The blogger speaks with a voice to the party over at the other end. That party is as human as the blogger. This necessarily infers that the recipients of the blog message must be treated as people. It is inherent in the culture of blogging that the participants of the blog must be given the human touch in all aspects of the activity. The perception of treating them as people takes precedence over the perception of treatment as customers. Obviously, a new level of involvement is in store and augurs well for your customers and your blog.

* Respect to be accorded to these people

The readers whom you are treating as people should be further given respect for their views and contributions. This is essential to the fostering of trust in you and your blog. It is beneficial to the development of your personal communication skills and level of effective contribution to the conversation. Respect begets respect, so it goes. What is more joyful than knowing that readers of your blog know they have a listening ear and you know that they enjoy their conversations with you in your blog.

* Blog with a purposeful strategy

To make blog participation effective, there should exist a well-defined purpose for your blog. The blog must have its own identity. It must indicate to other bloggers what it is all about. It must provide the necessary information that they would love very much to find there. Your blog must at the outset have been built with a strategy behind it. What does your blog aim to achieve? How are you going to guide it to success? For corporate blogs, who will be held accountable? Without a strategy, it will simply not survive out there in the vast wilderness of blogs.

* Delight the customers with carrots

As far as customers are concerned, it is imperative to offer them carrots in terms of reasons for passion, positive experiences and space for the expression of their passion. In treating customers as people, this is a door to opportunities in building good relationships with them. The chances of cementing them are very high. The magical thing about blog participation is that it provides positive experiences that customers will relish and will without reservation commence the relationship with you. They will also appreciate the fact that you have given them space to express their passion that you have brought out of them via your blog.

* Love and address feedback

Inherent in the culture of blogging is receiving feedback. Feedback may be positive or negative. They may come as emails or comments on your blog, comments on other blogs or even comments on your customers’ blogs. Nevertheless, these comments should preferably be addressed soonest. You can (1) thank customers for their comments or feedback (2) own up to the mistake(s) pointed out in the comment(s), and (3) respond quickly and do follow-ups on any pending issues. Should the need for you to respond on other blogs arises, you should be tactful and concise, apologizing if necessary, requesting a return phone call or email, or leaving your explanation on how you have resolved the issue on hand. The response should preferably be short and friendly.

* Perform mirror search on your competition

For whatever purpose your blog is being built for, it is good to know your competition. Perform a mirror search on them, analyze the results and take remedial action. Information that is obtained by hawking on your competitors can be helpful to your research, in terms of popularity for your brand and the response rate for your blog. Available tools that can help you in this area include Feedster and BlogPulse. Whatever industry you are in, it is useful to search for more relevant information through sources such as press release services, analyst blogs, and industry blogs, all of which are specialists in their own rights.

It is a fact that the pulse of your blog is interactivity with the customers. Your blog is not built to be an island. Immerse yourselves in the culture of blogging. Guide your blog to success through blog participation.

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Blog Marketing

Blog Marketing: The Act of marketing a product or service using a Blog or weblog, by writing and posting information and articles pertaining to that product or service in your blog.

If you have a product, service, affiliate program or any type of work at home program that you would like to market online, then Blog Marketing is the least expensive means of advertising your product or service. 

Want to Own Your Own Blog

You may be wondering how owning a blog can help you market a product or service.  Well, actually owning a blog, dedicated to posting articles about a specific product or service is the cheapest and most effective means of advertising.

Blog Process:

Your offline customer may find you in the phonebook, word of mouth or some type of local print advertising.  Your online customers will find you via search engines like, google, yahoo, alta vista and others.  What your online customer keys into the search engine is the way they find what they are looking for.  Will they find you????

The answer to this is quite simple.  How does google, yahoo, alta vista and other search engines deliver results?  And how can you be apart of the top results?

A “robot spider” to online marketing is the same, as a telephone book to offline marketing.  Imagine for a moment that every day, these tiny little robot spiders go out searching for information to bring back to the search engines.  The information they provide details data pulled from websites, blogs and forum they visit.  Below is a child-like version of what a robot spider might say, to it’s momma (search engine) when it returns home from a hard days work. (if a robot spider could talk):

Baby Robot Spider:  Hey Mom, today I visited a million website, blogs and forums.  The data I retrieved is as follows:  example:

I visited the url:  http://www.newwork-at-home.com found the keywords new work at home jobs, listed 15 times on this page.

Momma search engine: Well I suspect that this site might be about new work at home jobs.  (keyword phrase)

Baby Robot Spider: Some of those keyword phrases were in bold, italic and underscored, mom.

Momma Search engine: Hmmm, this site must really be about new work at home jobs, to highlight those keywords.  What else did you find out about this site???

Baby Robot Spider: I found that some of these keywords were also hyperlinked.

Momma Search Engine: Oh, my gosh this is very interesting

Baby Robot Spider: But most of all, when I visited other site, I also found this website had links on other sites using the very same keywords.

Momma Search Engine is now very excited, she has to get this information to Poppa Search Engine.  Momma Search Engine delivers this information to Poppa Search engine and Poppa Search Engine immediately puts a high value on this site, and says “each time someone keys in the New Work at home Jobs, I want this site to show up on page one.

Blog Marketing your Product or Service

The idea here is that you can use a blog to market whatever product or service you are marketing.  Optimizing your Blog and posting using good keywords can catapult you website or blog to page one in the search engines and that is what we call FREE advertising, via Blog Marketing.

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