Doshy Link Attack! Making Money Online, Social Media Marketing and Blogging Tips

Michelle MacPhearson lays out some warnings about making money online. The ‘make money online‘ niche is over saturated and the truth is, most of the bloggers out there won’t make too much money with their blogs.

I think it’s important to emphasize on providing value over initial profits in order to build reader trust and niche authority. This is one way to stand out from the rest of the generic blogs.

The biggest mistake people continue to make, despite being warned over and over not to do this, is to write a crappy blog on making money online when you’re the biggest n00bie on the block. That’s nothing against being a noobie, it’s just apparent in reading a newbie’s writing that they don’t know what the heck they’re taking about.

Social Media

Daniel Miessler writes that submitting your own content to Digg and Reddit is not wrong but necessary. I have seen people submit every single blog post they write to sites like Netscape, Digg, Technorati and Reddit.

My opinion is that it will not only harm your social site account but also the overall popularity of your site within the community. Do you really need to submit everything you write?

Don’t. It does and will make you look like a self-serving spammer. Try instead to only submit articles that are relevant, well-written and exceptional. At the very least, submit stories from other sites as well.

There are thousands upon thousands of good writers out there — people who could be improving the quality of what we see here everyday..What are the odds that their stuff is going to be randomly “discovered”? Not good. The only only option is for them to drop the socially ingrained false-modesty and present it themselves.

Want to Get on the Digg Frontpage? Adam Lyttle suggests that you should try submitting pictures.

After monitoring Digg’s front page stories over the last month I uncovered some very interesting statistics. Out of 3862 popular stories I found that 471 of them were linked to pictures, photos, images, etc — In fact, pictures made up a whopping 40% of the top 100 stories dugg on Digg.

This is something I’ve noticed myself. Pictures work because they require little cognitive effort or time, are visually attractive (or repulsive) and virally combustible.

It’ll be interesting to see if picture posts get more links than normal articles. I believe they might. In any case, the use of pictures will allow you to get more StumbleUpon traffic as well.

Blogging

Engtech has an article on how to build your readership through email communication. He suggests that you could email the people who comment on your blog in order to establish a relationship of some sort.

This would be difficult for the larger blogs but it can be a useful strategy for small blogs who are are new and in need of loyal readers.

I would suggest offering them a benefit as well, perhaps highlight some document or tool that might not be easily accessible through your blog home page.

Engtech’s post was submitted as an entry into Jan’s carnival on communication, which is currently open for blog post submissions.

I hadn’t thought about it, but there is a different between scrawling messages on a public site and having a one on one conversation. The flame wars that are routine on some sites rarely exist in personal email. People stop being disembodied words and ideas and you remember that there is a person behind all of that typing.

Shankar Ganesh has recently create an guide to time saving for bloggers. There’s a a list of some Firefox extensions that are new to me, along with some productivity tips as well.

I think it needs more resources and depth before it can be considered an ‘Ultimate Guide‘ of any sort but good effort on Shankar’s part.

Blogging has become your hobby, or is your profession. You’re loving it, yet you’re getting too little time to focus on content. Time management is a good thing to do, and here go some time saving tips for you.

Michael Martine is writing an article series on how to improve your blog. There are seven keys involved and one of them involves successful blog monetization.

Other topics covered include blog tools, personal productivity and blog SEO. Worth a read.

There seems to be a mystique about making money online from blogging. There seems to be no end to the sales pitches for this or that system…Quality content that people want to come back for and link to and send their friends to is the secret to effective blogging for money.

I recently came across a new collective blog called Bloggers R Us while browsing Home Biz Blogger. This new blog about blogging has 10 new authors and I like how their about page profiles each participating blogger.

The strength of a collective blog lies in its ability to share the burden of creating content. The current output of one post per day may make it hard to grow the blog fast. Perhaps some volume blogging might help?