Entries fromJune 2007

You can make money from blogging. It can pay for your bills. It does work for everyone. There’s no secret and you’ll just really need to know how to get started and which blogging framework to follow.

It’s not a difficult process at all and this post will provide 7 distinct methods you can use to generate substantial income from blogging. These seven methods are strategies you can adopt right from the beginning, preferably before you set up your first blog.

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Affiliates earn 20% commissions on all purchases made via their affiliate link or template shop. Templates generally range from $5 to $3500, which means that you do have a chance to make some substantial earnings.

Subscribing to a web feed allows one to centralize a large number of websites and monitor them through a feed reader, which is a basically a funnel which channels content right to your browser window or desktop.

Feed subscriptions are primarily a user benefit and I’ve always wondered how encouraging readers to subscribe to your blog feed benefits the blogger in question.

I’ve done some reading around the web and according to most bloggers, there seems to be three common benefits of a strong feed subscriber base.

I’ve been terribly busy lately with several online projects and haven’t had the time to follow the blog feeds I have in my Google feed reader. There’s around 100+ feeds, each with dozens of posts patiently waiting to be read. It almost feels like a chore.

I’ll probably spend some time in the next few days going through each feed and picking out the interesting articles for further reading/linking.

While this is a solution for now, I’m thinking of a better way to monitor my feeds in the long run. Megite might be a solution.

The weeks or months after the successful launch of a new blog is fairly important. While it isn’t exactly a make-or-break situation, you do stand a better chance of getting more readers or feed subscribers if you create outstanding content and market it effectively.

Here’s a scenario that many of you have encountered: You’ve just set up a new blog and picked a brilliant site design.

You decide to write several articles to fatten up the blog so you can start promoting it to others. What type of content should you create?

In my previous article on niche blogging, I’ve examined the various ways to create content for your niche blog and now we’ll take a look at the ways you can use to outsource the content creation process for your blogs.

The amount and quality of the material you have on your blog has a direct correlation to the search engine traffic you receive as well as the size of your audience base.

If you want to make money from your niche blogs, you really do need a consistent content development strategy that works.

Need to reach your website’s target audience? Or perhaps you want to improve your product sales and increase the number of clients your business handles.

While driving targeted visitors to your website via advertising and marketing campaigns can do wonders, it is also important to grasp and convert these visitors into buyers, clients and regular readers.

One way to do this is to harness the power of social proof, which is simply the theory that people’s behavioral patterns are highly influenced by the actions of the people or community around them.

The benefits of increasing search engine traffic to any website are many. For online retailers and affiliate marketers, this means a higher potential for greater product sales and referral commissions.

For the average blogger, the increase in search engine traffic means a bigger audience and possibly more long term profit from the display of on-site or privately arranged advertisements.

Understanding how to consistently send more search engine traffic to your website requires an appreciation of the Long Tail theory and subsequently the effective manipulation of traffic-directing long tail keywords.