Make More Money as a Passionate Blogger
November 11, 2011 by Linda
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If you looking to make money with blog marketing , you need to blog about something you love. Don’t think for a second that’s misplaced sentimentality, either! What role could your feelings play in your success? If the numbers look good, you have a moneymaking niche on your hands, right? No. It’s a simple fact that marketers who feel passionate about their topics tend to earn more than others do. There are good reasons to choose a niche about which you feel passionate. Let’s consider four of them. First, you’re more likely to create quality content that really answers the concerns of those looking for relevant information. If you really know your topic, you’re less likely to supply inaccurate information. You’re also more likely to supply content that connects with the audience. If you want to know how to make money, you need to realize the power of working on topics that interest you. Second, you’re much less likely to abandon a project if you care about the subject area. Motivation is a critical part of internet marketing success and it’s much easier to find the motivation to work on a project that interests you than it is to labor on something that bores you to tears. Blogging involves more than a one-time effort. Success relies on updates and ongoing attention. The failure to choose a niche that excites you can lead to project abandonment. Third, making money in a niche you love opens doors to other opportunities. If you’re working with your passions, you’re more likely to find ways to expand your operation in profitable directions. If you don’t really care about widgets, you’re not going to notice many of the ways that you could improve your widgets blog to maximize profits. You’ll miss great content ideas for your site. You can’t hope to see the best opportunities to profit if you’re not fascinated by your niche. If, on the other hand, you love your niche, you’ll be motivated to discover new and profitable ways to transform your business. Finally, it’s fun. It’s just more enjoyable to work with your passions. We’re all interested in making money online. That doesn’t mean we need to measure those returns exclusively in terms of dollars and cents. There’s nothing better than actually enjoying both your work and the money it generates. Remember to consider your feelings when you choose niches for blogging projects. Go beyond simply getting rid of options that are patently unappealing. Actively search out ideas that match your personal passions. Keeping your passions in mind is one of the best things you can do for your business.
How To Make Money Online by Blogging
October 7, 2011 by CK
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Sign Up With Some Good Affiliate Networks
To start off with I recommend you use Clickbank to review ebooks, membership sites, video tutorials or software and Amazon to review real products like technology equipment, books, cd’s, and much more.By signing up with affiliate networks, you can obtain affiliate links not just banners, and with those links make them active on certain keywords in your blog post.Then of course you can get commissions for whoever clicks on your affiliate links to buy a product that you have mentioned on your review pages.
Doing Your Keyword Research For Your Blog Post Titles
Making sure your keywords for your headline are low competition and have a healthy overall search volume for the month and are trending upwards over time are the first key elements any blogger should concentrate on before posting about a product they want to make money on.
I know this for a fact as I have made good money from my blog and enough to earn a good living, my best converted pages on sales are about reviews and indirect marketing approaches using keyword research.
You will notice other bloggers like John Chow who is one of the top pro bloggers in the world that every post he makes normally each headline is not only optimized but also aimed in some way or the other to attract buyers.
He is a great example of this as he clearly states that he makes $40k per month blogging, and believe me folks this is no joke.
One big example is I recently did a product launch on my keyword research plugin for bloggers – [Keyword Winner ] and when John Chow got his hands on it he could not stop using it, and then he referred others to use it and made money that way. So when you are passionate about a product and review it you can sell a lot more, readers can usually smell this from a mile away, so the trick is to be fully passionate about a product first before you review it.
Mobile Blogging
January 21, 2010 by CK
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Mobile Blogging is on the Cutting Edge
Mobile blogging is an exciting phenomenon that is
sweeping the blogosphere. One of the reasons why a lot
of bloggers are attracted to the medium of blogging in
the first place is that they enjoy being able to make
frequent updates and posts that keep all of their visitors
up to speed with current situations. Mobile blogs, or
“moblogs,” take this to the extreme by allowing users to
post things literally as they happen. This new wave of
moblogs and mobloggers keep web surfers up to date
with good and bad events of importance as they occur
all over the world, helping to make international
communication faster and more accurate.
Many people feel that the limitations of blogging have a
lot to do with geography. After all, there is only so
current that a blog can be when you need to run home
and boot up in order to update it. However, mobile
blogging marks the beginning of an thrilling new era
when web-based communication can happen
spontaneously from any location. Moblogging devices
mean that there is almost nowhere on the planet that
remains off-limits for bloggers.
Mobile blogging is still in its infancy because the
technology that makes it possible has only recently hit
the global market. The first moblog technology became
available over a decade ago, but it is only the past two
or three years that mobile web devices have become
user-friendly enough to appeal to most consumers. As
camera phones and other mobile technology become
more popular, more and more bloggers are getting away
from their desks and are hitting the streets. Moblogging
is becoming much more widespread that it was even a
few months ago, and mobloggers are quickly attracting
a lot of attention with the blogging community. It is not
yet clear whether moblogs will become the dominant
kinds of blogs in the years to come, but the current
trend seems to imply that moblogs are here to stay.
Mobile devices make it possible to blog from the sites
where current events are unfolding, which is one of the
reasons why mobile blogging has so much thrilling
potential to revolutionize the blogosphere. A moblogger
with a camera phone can post blog entries from, say, the
foot of the podium at a presidential speech, or from the
stands during the final moments of the world series.
This enables bloggers to experience the same real time
thrills that live television coverage provides, but in a
more democratic medium. The combination of mobility
and individual control that moblogging provides
certainly places mobloggers on the cutting edge of
today’s communications technology, and it is hard to
imagine that the number and prestige of moblogs will
not continue to grow in the coming years.
Blogging Tag Codes
July 10, 2009 by CK
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Blogging tag codes are keywords which act like a subject or category that you should take advantage to bring traffic to your site or blog. Tag code is used to arrange webpages and objects on the internet. For using tag code, the blogger “tags” a webpage or images for making it their own tag. Images or webpages may have many tags to identify it. Webpages and images with the same tag code are connected together and uses may use the tag code to search for same images and webpages.
Tag codes hit the blogging mainstream lately because Technorati (an Internet search engine) which up to this date indexes over 34 million weblogs started sorting blog posts by using tags. By using tags, it can be used to specify properties of an object that are not closely associated to the object itself. Tags can find things with the same properties to arrange or to organize objects. Tags also help to improve the search engine effectiveness because the content is mainly categorized using common, accessible, and shared vocabulary.
Tags usually are used in social software and Web 2.0 pages and the method that allows opening the category is called to as folksonomy. Folksonomy is a system that enables internet users to categorize the contents such as webpages, online images, and other web links
Web 2.0 sites that use tags:
• Del.icio.us- a bookmarking site that allows users to bookmark in different sites and tag them with so many descriptive words. Other people can also search by those terms to find webpages that others found to be very useful#.
• Gmail- popular web-mail site that allows categorizing of objects by using tag codes, commonly known as labels on emails.
• Flickr- a service provider that allows users to tag online images with many specific nouns, verbs, and adjective in describing the pictures.
• Basecamp- a project service provider that allows users who are working on projects to tag parts of their work in making it easy to find data.
Tag codes doesn’t mean to define their semantics, however tags are often explained as being connected to the concepts which are commonly accompanied with their concepts for which is the user not the computer, who separates which items is connected.
Making tag codes requires a group of individuals to cooperate in order to organize data which is known as taxonomy. Since tag codes lacks in basic steps to explain how an object must be classified as one tag may link to other unrelated webpages. Furthermore, tag codes are not issued by a sole being then classification by tags must be personalized.
Precisely, things that may fall under a specific tag to a user may not closely relate to another subject with the same tag code by another user. Thus, resulting in the evolution of categorization methods. Categories are made time to time by people.
Finally, in making blogging tag codes there are easy steps and these are:
1. Visit the available improving customer experience sites.
2. Put the keywords you wish to be tagged. You can separate words or phrases with commas. No need to add + sign to your phrases.
3. Last is choose from Technorati, Del.icio.us, or Flickr and other furl tags
For you to make blogging tag codes is one easy way in improving your personal site. Blogging for you will never be the same again.
The best blogging tools
June 19, 2009 by CK
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Due to the extended dimensions that the blogging phenomenon has achieved, one can hardly image the richness of tools that bloggers may use to improve the performance of their pages in the web circuit. What tools should one look for? First of all you need to select a specific platform to set up for the blog, then other tools complete the picture in case you want to include photos or videos. Last but not least, you definitely need some special software to allow you to easily moderate the comments and fight unwanted mails, labeled as spam.
Let’s take a look at the way some tools can help you post entries on the blog with the help of the platforms. Due to the wide variety of available software, format may vary, nevertheless the working principle is the same: type the title and the text you want to accompany it in the platform. Not all tools provide italics, bold and large font sizes, and you may have to get this by using HTML in order to achieve the desired results. In case you have to copy-paste Microsoft Word text, you need to check whether the blogging platform allows it without interference with RSS feeds.
In order to upload videos and pictures on the blog we have to mention Adobe Photoshop as one of the best tools here; yet, you may have to resize the images in order to make them easy to download by visitors. Furthermore, such tools enable you to align the photos in the way that matches your entry best. Embed multimedia files are also widely used by bloggers, mainly with the help of third-hand utilities like those offered by YouTube. All you have to do is include a JavaScript in the posts in order to allow the blog users to access the photo or video files you upload.
The RSS support may also prove crucial for the success of a blog, particularly since most Internet users are mainly concerned with accessing blog content via RSS feeds. You can find a variety of RSS formats available, not to mention that most tools include some sort of RSS help. To make sure you really get what you want, and the blog looks professional to the targeted audience, it is advisable that you should check the RSS formats a special software offers before actually purchasing or installing it.
IT’s Not You .. IT’s The Program !
March 5, 2009 by CK
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We talking about why you must choose the
RIGHT affiliate programs and how choosing the WRONG
program(s) to promote can literally spell out the difference
between success and failure. In fact, many people who would
have succeeded in affiliate marketing did NOT succeed simply
because they chose the wrong programs to promote.
Let’s get into this idea a little further today.
One of the reasons we determined that Empowerism a good
program to promote is that they pay out a lion’s share of
the commissions to affiliates. $20.00 out of a $29.95 sale .
Getting paid to the affiliate is pretty good terms, right? As an affiliate, you need to work with companies that put YOU first. After all, you’re the one driving the traffic to their site and they don’t have a lot of risk since they only pay you when you generate a sale. But a lot of affiliate programs don’t understand that. In fact, many programs out there are paying 5-15% commission on products they should be paying you a lot more for. But there is another extremely important factor that determines success or failure as an affiliate marketer. That is whether or not the company pays you one time or pays you residual income for a single sale. This is a big, BIG, *BIG* factor you need to consider before you join ANY affiliate program. If I was promoting products from affiliate programs that only paid me one time for a sale, I’d still need a job somewhere else to cover my basic living expenses. But I realized from day one (after reading Robert Allen’s Multiple Streams of Income book) that I needed to work exclusively with programs that paid me residual income. On the Internet, residual income is basically selling a “subscription service” so that when someone buys the product you get paid UP-FRONT one time and then each month when that person’s subscription renews with the company, you get paid again, and again, and again… EVERY MONTH for as long as that person continues using the service. I have Internet sales that I made years ago that are still paying me today. This is the power of residual income. As crazy as it sounds, 90% of the people I see fail at generating any significant income from affiliate programs are promoting products that do NOT pay a substantial residual income. So just as you might put on a pair of sunglasses to filter out UV rays, you should put on a pair of mental glasses that filters out ANY program that does NOT pay you residual income. Affiliate programs that pay only one-time for a single sale are BAD for your financial health. Think about it… It takes the same energy on your part to promote something that pays you ONLY one time as it does to promote something that pays you EVERY MONTH forever. So would you rather spend a day to make a sale that you get paid for that day and that day only or would you rather spend a day and make sale that pays you for the rest of your life? There is only one RIGHT answer to that question. Unless you’re just a hobbyist and don’t care how much you earn from your efforts, then you shouldn’t touch an affiliate program with a ten foot pole that doesn’t pay you residual income. You should ONLY focus on programs and products that pay you residual income. What are examples of products and affiliate programs that pay residual income? 1) Membership Sites There are many sites on the Internet that charge people a monthly membership fee to gain access to their services. For example, Empowerism charges $19.95/month to maintain a membership and gain access to all of their proprietary Internet marketing tools and training. As an affiliate for Empowerism, you earn $20 up-front when one of your prospects join the program and $7 per month for the life of their membership. You can get more information about this here: http://www.empowerism.com/e/95465 2) Hosting Services Everyone who wants to have their own website on the Internet needs a good web host. I discovered early on that web hosting sells like crazy and you can make a fortune selling hosting services as an affiliate because the demand for hosting is so high. So I did my research and partnered with a hosting company called Host4Profit that offers a great residual income affiliate program as you can see here: http://www.host4profit.com/cgi-bin/residual.cgi?34620 Host4Profit pays you $10 up-front and $10 per month every month for the life of your referral’s hosting account. In other words, when you refer 10 people and get paid $100 per month every month. The good part about promoting hosting services is that when people get a website host, they usually stick with it for a long time. It’s like someone signing up for telephone service. Once you have a telephone service setup, you keep using it every month and rarely stop the service or change providers. Promoting website hosting services is a great way to generate residual income online. 3) Business Opportunities Online business opportunities offer another great way to get paid residual income on the Internet. The reason for this is simple. Millions of people are flocking to the Internet every day looking for a reliable way to earn extra income. So online business opportunities have become a HUGE industry. The great thing about online business opportunities is that they are much easier than offline business opportunities. All you really need to do for these is find out where the people are searching for these business opportunities and POSITION yourself in front of them. You don’t even have to “sell” the opportunity. People are going to join these opportunities anyway so all you do is setup your marketing in such a way that people find the opportunity through your link instead of someone else’s. There are many easy ways to do this and I’ll share some of those with you in future lessons. In fact, one of the online business opportunities I’ve had the most success with so far is called Web Prosperity. You can check it out here: http://cataluniaking.webprosperity.com Web Prosperity is a MLM company “Internet style”. It gives you all the benefits of earning from other people’s efforts without all the hassle of talking to people, going to meetings, etc. I’ve built a team of THOUSANDS of people with Web Prosperity using the simple online marketing techniques taught to all my Plug-In Profit Site members at: http://www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-677 That’s the power of the Internet. I always loved the concept of MLM, but I hated the idea of face-to-face selling. With the Internet and tools like a website, autoresponder and automated marketing activities, you can build huge organizations and earn tons of money in these programs. But again… The KEY is choosing the RIGHT programs. If you are promoting the WRONG program, one of the following things will happen: 1) People won’t join. 2) People will join and then quit and you won’t make anything. 3) You’ll get lots of people to join and then not get paid fairly for your efforts. 4) You’ll get lots of people to join, get paid well for a few months and then the company will go out of business. 5) You’ll get people to join and NEVER get paid. I’ve been doing this long enough now to experience all 5 of the problems above. But I’ve also been doing this long enough to find products and services that people do join and stick with and affiliate programs that pay generously and have stood the test of time. Those are the program included in my Plug-In Profit Site service at: http://www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-677 The main point to get out of today’s lesson is that you absolutely MUST focus on promoting residual income affiliate programs if you want to succeed as an affiliate marketer. |
