Learn how to make money from your blog

Today post is for people who have their own blogs and working on them for some months at least. We need to be passionate about our blogs if we want to make any real money from it. With passion, we need lots of knowledge about the subject we are blogging and lots of hard work for doing content writing and link building kind of stuff. To start making money from a blog, we need to have a blog that gets lots of search engine hits on daily basis and have good page rank as well. We can earn lots of money from our blog if it’s about a particular niche and gets lots of visitors from major search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ak.com.

But we should not expect to get rich overnight from our blog if we don’t have substantial amount of traffic on our blog. So the key for getting rich and making money with our blogs is generating lots of traffic on it. And when we have good amount of traffic on our blogs, we can expect of earning few hundreds to thousands of dollars every month from our blogs. So here are some techniques we can implement straight away on our blogs to start making money from it:

• Google Adsense: is a pay per click (PPC) program offered by Google where we get paid for every click to an ad on our blog. And the amount of money we make from Google Adsense depends upon the amount of traffic we generate and the kind of keywords we target on our blogs. Google Adsense has lots of advertisers who are willing to place their ads on our blogs. So if any of you don’t have an Adsense account applies for it now. Google Adsense is the easiest way to earn money from any website or blog. And if we already have a Google Adsense account, it goes not take much time to implement Adsense ads on a blog.
• Blogads.com: is a website where we can sell advertisement on our blog and can decide the amount of money we are willing to get paid for every sold ad on our blog. Best thing that we get with Blogads is that we have full control over the advertisers that will be placed on our blog which we were missing with Google Adsense. But to make any real money with it, we should keep ads rate reasonable. We will not be able to make any money from our blogs if we become too choosy about advertisers or keep our rates too high.
• Selling more text/banner ads: For addition revenue, we can sell private ads on our blogs by creating an ‘Advertise here’ kind of section on our blog. With private ads, we can sell text and banners in different formats on our blog. In this kind of advertising scheme, we have full control over everything and its up how much we charge from the advertisers and whom to show on our blogs. The only downside to this method is that we need bulk of traffic if we are looking to make any money with private ads on our blog.
• Paid Reviews: There are many paid review websites on internet where we are paid for every review about a product/website on our blog. Some of popular paid review/blogging websites are PayPerPost (PPP), SponsoredReviews.com, ReviewMe.com and Smorty.com. But we must do paid reviews about websites that are someway related to our blog. And if possible, we should do limited amount of paid reviews in a month time. If we keep on adding paid/sponsored posts on our blog, we are having the risk of using credibility and reader’s faith from our blog.
• Affiliate programs: We can try some affiliate program to earn some extra money from our blogs. Amazon.com is a popular affiliate program. In this kind of advertising, we have to place Amazon products on our blogs with our affiliate ID and when any of our blog readers follow those links to buy a product from Amazon, we earn commission up to 15 percent depending upon the sold product. Some other popular affiliate programs are LinkShare, CommissionJunction and ClickBank
• Adding a Donation Button: There are some websites like Paypal.com that helps you add a Donation Button on your blog. Asking some kind of donation from blog readers is the easiest way to make money online. Some of your blog readers may help you run your blog with some donation if they really love the content on your blog.

6 Traffic Generation Techniques You Did Not Think Of

Generating traffic to your blog, whether new or old, is one task most webmasters are unable to do in the right way and are still struggling in traffic generation. They often try the wrong techniques and then get disappointed by lack of results. This is one of the reasons why so many bloggers give up so quick.

However, the point is… Generating traffic to your blog is amongst the easiest task you’ll ever come across. All it takes is a bit of reading on the internet and then adding your own creativity and mixing it. And of course, do it with dedication. If you’re going to do it as a job that needs to be done and get over with, then you won’t succeed at it.

Here are those 6 Unique Ways OF Generating Traffic which you may have not think of earlier.

1. Renovate Your Blog Design

Creating a new design for your site can often give you a boost in the traffic. Not only does the change spike interest everywhere, but you can also submit your new design to a few popular CSS Showcase galleries. These galleries, being popular, send back quite a bit of return traffic that can end up turning into loyal visitors. And at the end of the day, loyal readers is exactly what we want!

2. Write An Interesting List Article

If you’re looking to get seriously targeted traffic, then be one of the first people to write a ‘Top 10′ post about anything that’s new and being talked about. You could also simply write a ‘Top 10 Blogs” post relating to the blogs in your niche. That’s something a lot of people search for, and you stand a chance of getting a lot of search engine traffic.

3. Tener un blog Traductor – Have A Blog Translator

You may have not understood above line(instead of people understanding spanish) if I wouldn’t have provided the translation. And same may be the situation with the people who may not understandyour blog language. Installing a translator plugin could help you to increase the blog traffic highly.

Don’t forget the fact that English is not the only language that users on the internet speak/understand. There’s quite a few that do not understand English very well. Having a translator facility onyour blog will mean you can get a more diverse range of traffic. And quite a few of them may end up being repeat visitors. Because your blog is one of the few that allows them to read posts in their own language. There’s a few free plugins available to do that. But there’s a plugin or two that are paid. They do the job much better, though.

Note: At SmartBloggerz, Translator can be found in the footer. So use it

4. Create valuable content

Nothing (and I mean, NOTHING) will ever create traffic that’s more valuable then the content on your blog. What you post should not only be informative but should also be capable of sparking a discussion. Such posts often get linked to from a lot of places and that’s when your traffic starts spiking.

5. Offline Promotion

Don’t forget that the only way to generate traffic is not just online. Include your URL in every place you possibly can, offline. On your business cards(if it’s a business blog), your car, your house (YES! it may sound funny), letterheads, etc. It’s not often that you see websites (particularly blogs) being advertised offline. And when you DO see one, you tend to remember it very well. That’s the affect offline advertising has on everyone!

6. Link baiting in forums

This is one overlooked traffic generation method. Write an interesting post, and include only a quarter or half of it. And leave a backlink to the blog in that post. Let people click through toyour blog to be able to read the post.

How does this help? When they click through to your blog, a good % of them will generally engage themselves in another post or two on your blog. And quite a few will eventually subscribe. That’s it. That’s what I/you want!

Conclusion

So you just read 6 unusual but effective ways to bring traffic to your blog/website. Trying these methods will substantially increase your traffic if implemented properly. Do you have any more unusual or interesting ways of traffic generation? Then please do share with us and your opinion about this article by commenting below

Promoting Your Blog Without Search Engines

I guess all of you were there at the time when the internet had no search engines, I was also there at that time, but too small to use the web. I still remember my mother having a list of excel sheets which were filled with web pages filed under particular categories, she would get those sheets from her friends and give it to some other of her friends.

One sheet would have up to 200 web pages and within a year a good quality directory would make it to 1000’s of netizens and the 200 web pages there would get some good targeted traffic for free. Well, that was back then when no one ever thought of a search engine, today search engines have revolutionized the web and we cant imagine a day with Google or Yahoo.

That is for a normal netizen, but what about we bloggers? I guess almost 35-45% of your traffic comes from Google and if some day Google just goes down or something happens to it’s algorithms, it could mean huge loses to all bloggers and internet marketers. Search engines are a great source of traffic and revenue, but today due to the intense competition, penetrating through its barriers could take months and sometimes even years.

None of my sites ever rank well on search engines, I never block search engines but I never optimize sites for it, but still my site gets good targeted traffic and also generates some sales. I never optimize my sites for search engines, I optimize it for users.

In the past few years search engine rankings have become the biggest assets for bloggers, but let me make it clear that users are your biggest assets, currently there are about 3 billion netizens, 120 million blogs (active blogs) and 200 well runningsearch engines, so this makes it clear that your users are your assets. So, I would advise you to design your blog for your users and create user friendly content.
Without search engines people usually do the traditional and the best working way, that is ‘the word of mouth‘. Great sites like Facebook, Youtube started of with the word of mouth. First from their creators and then from their users and don’t forget there were hardly anysearch engines when Google started off.

There are many sites and social communities which can generate huge amount of traffic. These sites can generate such high traffic due to low competition. I would say go to places where large number of people gather, not large amount of bloggers. Always note one thing that if something is famous before you get there, then you don’t stand a chance. Recently, I heard about the high traffic potential of StumbleUpon, I tried it and things were great, but my traffic slowly declined as StumbleUpon popularity rose. Similarly, Twitter also have a great traffic potential, but it died out before I started to use due to it’s superb success, but I did succeed in gaining some followers, which many are struggling to do these days using proper ways.

The users from these sites see a lot more than your title, keywords, meta-description, link popularity and page rank. They see you, your contributions and your history. They spread your content to a new group of users and thus, increasing your reader base.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve already got a great source of search traffic, all I wanted to tell you is to create as many alternative sources of traffic as possible.

Just promote your blog thinking that search engines never existed.

7 Important Steps for Perfect Blog Promotion

Right now if you surf the web you will find thousands of blogs dead and haven’t been updated from many months. According to Technorati, millions of blogs gets abandoned just after their launch that means only few people visits them just because the blog owners don’t perform blog promotion properly.

Blog promotion is a very important thing that many blogs are failing to do, with the end results that no matter how good their blogs are, visitors are still very low and that makes them fail to generate a worthwhile income. If you do a good blogpromotion, it will certainly boost your affiliate sales and achieve excellent multiple top rankings in the major search engines and directories for your blog.

First of all, you should start your blog promotion efforts by listing it at some of the most popular internet directories. Because they can send you substantial amount of traffic and could affect the ranking in various search engines. It is better to make sure thatyour blog is present in all of the major directories before doing anything else. Blog promotion should be the most important part of your blog marketing plan. It’s not sufficient just to design a beautiful blog, put in on the Web and start sharing content.

Promoting your blog has to be done frequently if you want to get a nonstop stream of traffic to it. If you don’t make traffic go to your blog, your blogging profits will be nothing.

Here are 7 Important Steps for Perfect Blog Promotion:

1. Create A Blog Marketing Plan-

While constructing your blog, create a plan on how you are going to promote it when it is ready to be read by web readers. While doing so, keep this tip in mind – “Try to pretend you’re a readers when you’re developing it”. It’s too effortless just to view your blog from your own point of view. You need to have a clear visualization for your goals (short and long term) you wish to attain and the strategies of how you will be going to carry them out.

2. Define Your Goal -

A lot of newbie bloggers promote their blog without purpose in a field which is too large, for instance they may use bulk mailing as one of theirpromotion strategies. You may get some amount of traffic but the chances are you will not make any affiliate sales because of the wrong people you have targeted. Getting targeted users to your blog , will increase your money balance, because they will have more interest in your products than advertising to a general audience.

3. Try Different Advertising Strategies -

Trying out only one kind of promotion tactic is never advisable because you never know which one won’t work for you sometime. Using more ways of promoting like search engines, email, marketing, forums, writing articles etc, you will have a greater chance of having traffic onyour blog.

4. Be Punctual in Blog Promotion -

For driving traffic constantly to your blog, you must promote it endlessly i.e. you should do it regularly. “Web Traffic is a kind of blood for your blog which needs to be continuous”. For example, you could always try to optimize your web pages for the search engines; resubmit them if needed or visiting discussion forums daily will help to get steady flow of traffic to your blog.

5. Keep Checking the Money you Invested –

You should always keep the track records of how much money(if you have) you invested in your blog promotion plan and what earnings you received in return. This will be called Return on Investment(ROI). This will keep you away from wasting large amount of money thrown aimlessly into advertising if it is not working for you.

6. Analyze your Blog Traffic -

Many blog owners doesn’t have any means of tracking or analyzing their blog traffic. Mostly they think it is not so useful and a waste of time. But for them I want to say that by Analyzingyour Blog Traffic you can identify what marketing strategies are doing well for your blog. Based on the data you could then modify some part of your blog promotion plan to improve your traffic. Your analysis may consist of what popular keywords your visitors are using to find your blog, which pages of your blog are the most visited and where your visitors are coming from. These are necessary information you should know, instead of blindly promotingyour blog and hoping for the best.

7. Keep Testing and Tracking your Results -

While running an effective online blog marketing operation by advertising, you need to always test what works and what doesn’t. Tracking an answer to an ad may cause you to refine it until it generates a great return on the money you invested(described in pt.5). Once your results are all right, then you can roll out your ads on a bigger scale and invest large amount of money.

Trying out these simple Blog Promotional Steps; you will simply see better results in your blog traffic and money earned from it. If you have some idea to share on it then don’t forget to comment below.

How to get the most out of your time with blog commenting

When I market online I like to practice simple but effective principles that I refer to as “smart marketing.” In short, I like to optimize the most out of my time and also implement marketing methods that will give me the best return off of my very important investment of time.

So, when you comment on blogs with the follow attribute I would also recommend commenting on the most popular blogs, or in other words the blogs that are the most trafficked like techcrunch, mashable, shoemoney etc.

There are a couple of key factors that you should be searching for when commenting on blogs:

1. Alexa rank – Generally the lower this number is the more traffic the site is getting. This can be fabricated with a couple of black hat tips so I won’t tell you how to do it but would recommend showing this factor some importance.

2. Page rank – The higher the number this is the better as well. A higher page rank website will usually lead to a fresh 25 website being quickly eaten up (indexed) within the search engines.

3. Number of comments – The above two options can be fabricated a bit, but generally if a blog has a lot of comments then it will be generating a good amount of traffic and they have good community. Also, blogs that have a lot of comments are excellent for search engines because search engines LOVE content. Remember, it is their primary source of nourishment and if they do not get it then they will not be well nourished so they in return will not like the site very much! So in short, a blog with lots of comments should be getting more traffic.

4. How active – I would recommend making a list blogs within your market that contains the follow attribute anywhere which rewards the commentators and sort them out in an excel sheet by their details. This will also make checking for links easier later in the future as well. Usually, highly trafficked blogs will be updated more often so staying up to date with them is a good idea.

You can also check the Google cache of a website to see the last time that the Google bots have visited a site. The more often that the bots visit the sites is another good indicator that it is getting a decent chunk of traffic. In addition it always helps to be the first person to comment on a trafficked blog because your site will be in a better position to gather more presence.

I hope this article will benefit you a lot while commenting on blogs and will let you get a good amount of traffic and backlinks for your blog.

[*Update - Recommendation of Comment Sniper has been removed after it was reported as a trojan by few scanners. Sorry for the inconvenience.]

Gain Traffic by Advertising in free classified ads websites including 100+ Classified sites list

Everybody knows about the classified ads, you have seen in magazines, newspapers and internet portals, which is the subject of this article.

Free classified ads are published in the portal category that best suits the subject, because this way people can find faster what you are looking for.

These ads are usually short, can carry pictures, contact information and even a link to your website.

On the Internet there are thousands of websites that are dedicated to posting free classified ads, since sites with a large amount of content, search engines generally give more importance. For this reason, many of these ads appear at the top of search engines.

Advantages

• It costs nothing.
• The ad is extremely easy to publish.
• The free classifieds portals receive an enormous amount of traffic that might be interested in your services.
• Your ad will appear in a good position on search engines.
• You do not need a website for publication.

Disadvantages

• Some sites only publish your listing for a while and may ask you to buy premium features to make it listed.
• Some areas may have too much competition by making your ad will not appear anywhere.
• On occasion, your ad may not be published.

Some Popular Classified Sites Include:

• Craiglist
• Kijiji
• USFreeAds
• CityNews
• Sulekha Classifieds

The services provided by these classified ads sites on the Internet generally are free. And if you are free, what do we win these sites provide a service that costs nothing?. The main reason is that display advertising from third parties, such as that of Google, and having an immense amount of traffic, a significant percentage of these visitors will click on the ads which draw attention to them, thus generating revenue for the portal .

Classified ads are free half to all, not miss this opportunity to generate more traffic to your website.

I have also prepared a list of 100+ such Classified sites in Alphabetical Order where you easily post your ads and bring in traffic and money.

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