Entries fromJune 2007

In my last article, I touched on some of the feedburner feedflares you can use to either market your content to social websites or generate more interactivity between your subscriber base and website.

The existing third party and official feedburner feedflares I’ve listed were rather helpful but they can’t promote every aspect of your website.

What if you wanted to promote specific webpages, promotions or services on your site? One of the easiest ways to do this is to create your own feedburner feedflare.

If you’re using Feedburner to manage the site feeds for your blog, you might have noticed the Feedflares option, which allows you to include a simple footer at the bottom of each blog post in your feed.

According to Feedburner, this allows your feed subscribers to easily email, tag, share or act upon the content that you’ve published.

These feedflares can promote your blog posts outside the boundaries of feed readers: Utilizing them effectively can considerably impact how your subscribers interact with your blog.

One of the easiest ways to make money online is to set up a blog around a specific topic of interest and generate online income from the display of advertising/affiliate programs, product sales or the provision of online services.

One formidable way of making money from blogs consists of effectively using paid blogging networks.

From an advertiser’s standpoint, blogs are simply publishing platforms which produce content that is viewable by both search engines and potential customers.

Advertisers want more exposure for their businesses and will often purchase sponsored links or written content in a bid to generate public buzz and increase their search engine visibility.

Web hosting is a very competitive market and affiliate programs are often created by web hosting companies in a bid to obtain more customers. According to each web hosting affiliate program, you’ll earn a commission when you refer a customer who purchases a hosting plan.

For web hosts, there’s nothing easier than getting other people to promote their web hosting services for them. The returns in investment for each new customer is usually high as well, because each signup gives the web host recurring income over the long run.

It’s actually been quite a while since I last posted a Doshy Link Attack!, which is simply a list of links that I’ve come across over the past few weeks or so. There’s been a lot of good material lately but I’ve been consciously trying to link out to other blogs that need the exposure.

I understand how difficult it is for new blogs to build an audience so I’m trying to find some way to help these blogs get some exposure.

One of the ways to make sure that your content is well read is to make it easier for others to disseminate or share your content to others. In the realm of social media optimization, this can refer to the display of buttons, which provide one-click submissions to social websites like Digg, Reddit or Del.icio.us.

Another more traditional way of spreading your content is through the traditional outlet of emails.

The option of emailing a webpage to others is not one that is commonly offered by bloggers, although you’ll see it quite often on online magazines, newspapers or journals.

Making money from a website often entails the use of proverbial income generators like product sales, affiliate programs and on-site advertising.

All of these monetization methods rely on inducing the visitor to perform a specific action such as clicking on an ad or an affiliate link, purchasing a product or subscribing to a newsletter.

Your success in getting the visitor to act the way you want often depends on the visual structure (design/ad placement) of your website and the type of content preceding or surrounding the product or promotion.

The Apple iPhone has been creating a tremendous amount of buzz around the internet ever since Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced it a few months ago in January 2006.

Scheduled for a U.S release in 9 days on the 29th of June, the sleek iPhone is an extremely attractive gadget that is simultaneously a touchscreen phone, multimedia player, camera phone and web tool with wireless connectivity.

For businesses, entrepreneurs and even bloggers, the iPhone is an powerful niche market with a great amount of monetary potential. Websites centered around the Apple iPhone have been sprouting up as more people are searching for information concerning the iPhone.