Make money by using your blog

Well like I promised I have some information on how to earn money by using the internet.... more to come soon so keep checking back!

Check further down the page for the links to great survey and affiliate programs that I have come across so far.


Make money by using your blog:

You can write a comment, review, suggestion or tip on a subject on your blog. Blogger.com allows anyone to create a free blog without any technical knowledge. Creating a blog with Blogger.com is easy and you can have you blog published within an hours.

These are two great ways I have found so far to bring in money with blogs...


Become a Google AdSense publisher

You can join the Google AdSense program and start earning advertising revenue from your blog. It is not difficult to set up your AdSense campaign as Blogger.com also provides Adsense tool and guidances to help you start an AdSense campaign. This can be a great source of revenue, though of course the amount of income you can expect from your AdSense ads will depend on the amount of traffic (visitors) to your blog.
*Click on any of my AdSense links for a direct connection to the application page. AdSense free and it tracks all of the clicks you get on your page and gives you credit for them as well as other incentives.


Promote and Sell Other People's Stuff

You can promote your affiliate programs by placing the affiliate links and banners on your blog and earn commission whenever someone clicks through an affiliate link or banner to your merchant's website made a purchase. Check below, many of the sites I've listed have amazing affiliate programs with nice incentives.



Here Are Some Steps to Drive Visitors to You Blog

To make money you need to drive visitors or traffic to your blog. The more traffic you're getting the higher your earning will be. There are several free ways of getting traffic to your blog. Here's how ......

1) Introduce your blog to your family and friends.

2) Submit your blog to directories. You can find a list of blog directories by going to Google and entering the search term 'submit blog url'.

3) Write an article or more with a link to your blog and submit them to article directories. You can find a list of article directories by going to Google and entering the search term 'article directory'.

4) Post messages on community forums with a link to your blog on the signature of each message posted.


There are many other free and easy ways to increase traffic for your blog. You can find a lot of free information and resources about blog promotion from search engines and don't forget to stay tuned for more updates from me!



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More Ways to Use Adsence to Your Advantage

This post refers to Google Adsence. If you aren't already signed up for it then click on the link on my page and it will take you directly to where you need to be to get started...


Blogger is making it possible for you to make even more money by using Adsence. You can now add Inline Adsense advertisements between your blog posts. This is on top of the many other ways you can use adsence to generate income...

As we have seen before you can add Adsense Ads by selecting the Adsense Widget when adding widgets to your blog. If you want to include channel information also copy and paste the Adsense code into a Html Page Element. This method is far more versatile. Also they have recently added more affiliated sites to chose from.

Now with this method Inside Adsence you can add Adsense Ads between your blog posts inline with them. If you would like to do this and you are already an adsence member you simply

1. Login at Blogger.com
2. Click on 'Layouts' link for your blog.
3. In the Page Elements tab click on 'Edit' link in the Blog Posts widget.
4. Scroll down in the popup window and check the box next to Show Ads Between Posts.
5. Select how often you'd like your ads to appear, such as once after every post or once after every other post.
6. Customize your Adsense Ads.
7. After customizing save the changes.

At the moment search boxes and referral units cannot be added in this fashion.

Hope this helps you make the most of your blogging ads. Comment me with any other questions.


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Make Money Online with Affiliate Programs

This lays out the ins and outs of getting started with affiliate programs and how to make them profitable for you. Take the time to do these steps and after a few days you will see profits.

Affiliates make money by referring customers to their merchants. There are many companies and webmasters offer affiliate programs to promote their online sales. When you sign up for an affiliate program, you will be given an affiliate link with an unique affiliate ID which will be used to market the product. When someone makes a purchase through your affiliate link, you make money (earn affiliate commission). Below are the steps to starting an affiliate marketing business:.....


Step 1 - Join an Affiliate Program

Before you join any affiliate programs, do a little research. All of the sites I have listed in previous entries has an affiliate program which you can easily join after signing up for the site. I will also be listing a few other sites soon after I filter through them. Also don’t forget no matter what Google AdSense is a key to any web site or blog.


Step 2 – Promote an affiliate program through a website or blog

You need to have a blog or website to promote your affiliate programs. Creating a blog is simple with a site like Blogger.com. A website is even a better way to promote since it has multiple pages and more options.You can use an easy website builder to create a website with little or no technical knowledge.

*I offer website building services for a really competitive rate, its something I do on the side, email me at Nutshell2425@yahoo.com for more info.


Step 3 – Drive Targeted traffic/visitors to Your Website

To earn affiliate commission you need to drive targeted traffic to your website. The more traffic your website gets, the more likely you’ll generate more sales. There are several ways to drive targeted traffic to your site in short period of time (2 to 5 days). Here’s how……


Pay-per-click (PPC) Advertising
You can get a lot of targeted traffic using PPC advertising. The two most popular and effective PPC advertising programs are Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing. So how PPC advertising program works? PPC advertising programs allow you to bid for top rankings on the keywords of your choice. When someone enters a search term matches your keyword in the PPC search engine and press the search button, your contextual ad will appear on the sidebar of the search result page. If the visitor clicks through your ad to your website, you’ll be charged base on your bid amount. I’ll write a more extensive article about this soon.


Post Messages on Forums
Another way to get free traffic is by posting messages on community forums with a link to your site on the signature of each message posted by you. Here’s a technique I learned from an affiliate marketer.

1) Run a search on Google to find out forums and message boards that are related to your affiliate products and try to join as many forums as you can.

2) Make sure that each one of your forums profile is edited to include your website link within the signature option.

3) Spend a few hours navigating the pages of the forums. You can ask questions and post informative and helpful replies to other peoples’ questions or messages to build your status. The more people trust you, the more likely they will click your link.


Article Marketing
Writing an article related to your affiliate products with a link to your website in the article’s resource box and submitting it to many article directories can bring some free targeted traffic to your site. To get more and continuous targeted traffic, you need to write more articles. Try to publish a new article every week. Doing this for a year can drive truckload of free traffic to your website.

Remember to look under my survery section for the links I talked about. I've also made it simple to join AdSense by just clicking on any of the links for it on my page.

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10 Tips for Becoming a Great Blogger

Successful blogging is not just about being the best writer on the web or even the most prolific. Being a successful blogger is about creating a connection with an audience by providing relevant content, nurturing that relationship with comments and links and keeping the dialogue flowing. Here are ten tips to get you started.



1. Understand the fundamentals of Blogger Relations

While anyone can set up a blog and start publishing articles, it takes far more work to be a great blogger and see the real benefits of blogging. First, you need to have a blogging strategy that is in line with your business goals. Next, you have to provide relevant content. Most importantly, you must conduct what is called Blogger Relations. Communicating with others is what blogging is all about. Basically, you initiate and participate in ongoing discussions with other bloggers and your target audience. You gain credibility by listening as well as commenting, and you gain new readers as other bloggers provide links back to your blog to give you credit for your ideas. The more you conduct Blogger Relations, the more successful your blogging will be.


2. Create value

Creating something of value for your audience should be the first aim of your blog; otherwise your readers will have no reason to return. This is where a public relations strategy can help you develop content that keeps your customers coming back for more.


3. Grow and sustain your audience by providing real analysis

Monitor the news and blogs for articles that would be of interest to your audience. When writing about the news as a blogger, it is not just a matter of describing the news, though that is important. It is more imperative that you provide new, informative and entertaining analysis in order to sustain and grow your audience....


4. Report on community opinion

If you think the news is important but don’t have an opinion or perspective, one way to provide opinion is to provide a mix of ideas from the community at large. In addition to acting as a valuable resource for your audience, you create the opportunity to send a trackback link to one or more blogs, connecting with more bloggers AND more readers.


5. Respond with comments to build relationships and traffic

Responding to another blogger’s comment can be just as important as the article post itself. Blogging is about dialogue and the opportunity to interact with your audience. Many posts will not receive any comments, but when they do, you have to be ready to respond. Blogging is a little like having an arena of people viewing a conversation between two people. While you must focus on the conversation with your commenter, you must also be aware of the rest of the audience. In other words, you should respond to the challenge the commenter presents while at the same time providing greater context, so the entire readership can follow and benefit from your conversation.


6. Track your conversations

In order to keep conversations flowing, you have to stay aware of each discussion in progress If comment email subscription is available, it is wise to subscribe. You may also choose to use tools such as del.icio.us or Cocomment for tracking comments online and subsequent follow up. But, ultimately, you may have to monitor for comments manually to make sure you keep the conversations alive.


7. Don’t be afraid of criticism

Dialogue is also about criticism; so don’t be afraid when others criticize your ideas or actions you have taken on a blog. See it as opportunity to keep the conversation flowing. In the blogosphere, you are more respected when you demonstrate the ability to respond. In addition, critiquing your work can often draw more attention to the discussion and increase readership. Furthermore, criticism can be constructive. Feedback related to product flaws and improvements can actually help your product development process.


8. Promote your blog

When an author writes a book, the writing process is often very much solitary. Once the book is published, however, a writer must reach out to others and promote that book through public readings and strategic marketing. Building a successful blog requires a similar approach. Once your articles are written, you have to promote them by chatting with colleagues in the industry and starting a dialogue. Connect with loyal and thoughtful readers as well as industry authorities. When bloggers take note of your article, it tends to have a viral effect, increasing eyeballs exponentially.


9. Monitor the web for brand names and references

Using RSS feed search engines such as technorati.com and blogpulse.com, monitor for mention of your blog posts as well as important developments in your industry.


10. Conduct interviews to generate content and ideas

Interviews are a great way to generate interest and content for the blog. Picking other bloggers to interview is particularly helpful in generating links and traffic. Many bloggers will enjoy the added attention and more than likely link back to your interview post.
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