Blogging For Profit?

It would seem that most people today are talking about Blogging.

I guess the big question I get is, can you make money by Blogging?

How often do I need to blog?

What do I blog about?

All good questions…. I have been blogging for a couple of years now; I have many different blogs covering lots of topics and on every blog site I have adverts and ways to monetize the site, so in answer to the second question, Yes! you can make money blogging, you just have to know how

So let me give you 6 Tips for Blogging:

6 Tips For Blogging Success!

If you want to make money through blogging, creating a popular blog is the key to success. If your blog receives very little traffic, you will not have much success monetizing it. No matter which method you use to make money from your blog, you will find the most success if you have a large readership. Because of this, making your blog popular and growing readership should be one of your primary concerns.

There are many ways to make your blog more popular. The first thing you should consider is who your audience is and who you are writing for. You should always write about something that interests you, and that will interest others. You may think that your new kitten is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but there are probably not very many other people who want to read a blog about it, unless of course your blog happens to be about kittens   It is best to find a niche audience that is large enough to support a wide readership but not too vague.

One of the great things about blogging is that you do not have to be a professional writer to have a popular blog. You do have to obey common grammatical rules and at least be able to put together coherent sentences, but you do not have to be a highly skilled writer. In fact some of my favourite blogs are ones that are what I would call sloppy English and the odd grammar issue and spelling errors as well.

1. Blog readers are looking for interesting, relevant topics to read, not the next work of Shakespeare. Make sure what you write is interesting, edgy, or even controversial. Popular blogs are never boring and add value to readers’ lives either through information or entertainment. Make sure your blog adds something of value to your reader’s life otherwise you will not develop a large fan base, and we need a large fan base to make it all work and to make the money that most bloggers are wanting from their sites.

2. Making your blog popular is a lot like driving traffic to a website. You can use many of the same techniques to drive traffic to your blog. Finding places to link back to your blog is a good way to drive traffic. Social sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and You tube provide lots of opportunities for this. You can also use social book marking sites such as Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Digg to promote your blog. Blogging on a popular blog site such as Wordpress and Blogger are also good ways to make your blog more popular as these blogging sites help to bring in traffic for your blog.

3. Whether you blog on a blogging network or you have an independently hosted blog, you need to make sure your blog is designed well. It is true that content is king and if a blog has great content it may receive lots of traffic even though it is ugly. Having a well designed blog that is not ugly or annoying will help to drive repeat traffic. You want your blog to look unique, but not too unique. Keep with internet formalities such as blue links and use large font for headings.

4. You should break your post up into small paragraphs each with a headline if possible as internet readers tend to scan the screen looking for relevant information rather than reading everything word for word. Make sure your colors do not contrast too harshly and that the text is easy to read. Using good design will make your blog aesthetically pleasing and make readers more likely to come back and remain on your page. I see many people like to use the black background and white letters, I personally find that just too hard to read. I am sure there are many Baby Boomers out there who struggle the same as I do trying to read these most difficult sites. Black on white is fine, the other way round is ok for the younger set who still have eyesight

5. No matter where your blog is hosted, you should try to get it indexed by all the major search engines. Some forms of blog monetization require that your blog be indexed by search engines before they will allow you to participate in your program. The higher ranked your blog is, the more visitors you will receive and the more popular your blog will become. I would get any new site listed into the 3 main search engines as soon as possible and there is an easy way to do this using this Site Submission Link It also helps to send it out to all the Social Bookmarking and Social Networking sites as well.

6. All forms of monetization for your blog require readers to enjoy their stay, and their experiance. Before you try to implement your monetization strategies, make sure your blog has enough readers to make your efforts work. If there is no one to click your ads, visit your affiliate sites, or read your reviews, you do not stand much of a chance of making money. So make the articles interesting and informative.

Further to our questions earlier… How often do I need to blog and What do I blog about..

Autoposters

How Often? … my suggestion is at least once a week. On this, my very own blog, I like to do all the blog posts myself and so I blog once or twice a week, sometimes more but if so, then I schedule the posts to come in over a period of one to 3 weeks, it just depends. In today’s amazing world, we don’t need to blog ourselves as we have all these amazing Autoposters that do the job for us. So once setup they will put in information on your topic as often as you set it for, both articles and videos. It is amazing.

What do I blog about?.. well it needs to be on topic thats for sure. So whatever the topic then you need to talk about it. If you run out of things to write about then either use the Autoposters or find someone you can interview. Once you interview them, then you can turn the interview into a video, by taking their main points putting them onto a power point and then using a program like Movie Making Programs or MS Movie Maker. It really is endless what you can do… but whatever you do have fun

Want to start building your blog empire?

Then watch over my shoulder and see how I set up and modify a blog from start to finish. I have 43 Wordpress Tutorials that are amazing and will help you to build your Blogs correctly and ready to make you some money.

Social Networking in Plain English

I have just run one of my workshops this last weekend in Perth. I was trying to explain how important it is to do Social Networking.

There are at least 3 Social Networking Sites that I believe as an Internet Marketer you should belong to, of course there are many more but I really don’t have time to be active in any more than these.

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

Most of you will have heard of all of those I am sure unless you have been living under a rock.

I believe that when these groups were created they were not setup to be used as Marketing Companies and that is really what they have now become. I have to say that alot of my sales and now my database has grown from both Twitter and Facebook, they are both very powerful.

But what is Social Bookmarking?

I decided to pop this video into here for you to watch, I love the way this guy explains how this all works. There is one thing that too many people forget… there are 2 words in Social Networking… we are used to Networking and often forget the most important word these days and thats the word “Social”. Too many just get out there and sell, sell, sell in both Facebook, Twitter and Linked-In and just forget that one needs to be social as well. To take part in conversations and care…

As it stands right now I have a very high google page rank on one of my Twitter accounts. This has happened because I have been taking part and also I have almost as many followers as I have following. I also tweet so that must be what makes goole happy with what I am doing. I have other twitter accounts with various rankings… also I note that Google has changed and is now listing people’s Twitter accounts in googl, and in some cases my Twitter account is ranked higher than my Website. How amazing.

I use Social Networking to connect Socially with people and I believe to get the most out of Social Networking you should be doing the same.

I guess the other issue is, most don’t want to Tweet and don’t go near it because they believe they will be wasting time, well one needs to try it out and see the results. I have most of my Tweeting on automatic as you will see from earlier posts I believe in using tools to make things as simple as possible. My Twitter Adder software is amazing and worth a look at that’s for sure.

3 Tips to having a great Twitter Account

1. Setup a Twitter account for each Niche

2. Only follow people in your Niche

3, Take part and don’t be a Twitter Snob

Same applies for the other Social Networking groups as well.

If you are looking for some more tips and tricks on using Social Networking and other social media then my 350 Social Media Tactics will be a great help to you I am sure as the 350 Tips will help you think outside the box as to things you can do to use Social Media

Enjoy the video and let me know your thoughts.

For more information on products I recommend then you can check out Gail Recommends For You website. Lots of other amazing Internet Marketing Tools there for you to take a look at.

Why You Should Not Buy From Your Own Affiliate Link

A few have asked this question… here is the answer… direct from Clickbank

Is it okay to buy from MY Own Affiliate LINK?

Thank you for your inquiry. While it is possible to use your own affiliate HopLink to purchase products from ClickBank, this is a practice that we discourage as it can lead to payment issues for your account.

Please be aware of the Customer Distribution Requirement, which states your account must reflect sales made with 5 or more different credit card numbers, and the sales must have been made with two different payment methods (either Visa, MasterCard, or PayPal). Note: PayPal purchases do not count toward the minimum 5 different credit card numbers.

This requirement is in place to help prevent affiliates from abusing the ClickBank Affiliate Program by using their accounts for the sole purpose of collecting rebates and/or discounts on their own ClickBank purchases.

Although the Customer Distribution Requirement only has to be met once for each account, ClickBank continually monitors affiliate accounts to help prevent affiliates from abusing the ClickBank Affiliate Program. Affiliate accounts are for earning commissions on sales that other customers, not yourself, make through your links.

Please note that if your account is ever found to be violating our Client Contract, it can be terminated and any funds earned through purchases through your own HopLink can be held.

You may review our accounting policies by following the link below:

http://www.clickbank.com/accounting.html

Writing Riches

The top quality websites and blogs out there depend on fresh, unique information as well as massive loads of content to pull in visitors and potential customers to their sites.

On the flipside, you’ve probably heard of spam or scam blogs…over even webpages filled with nothing at all but adsense ads. But thanks in part to the search engines and people becoming more aware, these rubbish sites could be a thing of the past.

The fact still stands: You will need a constant flow of fresh, unique postings on your blogs or webpages not only to be indexed by the search engine spiders, but people in your niche market can also refer to when the need arises. And every niche, regardless of its focus in making money or weight loss guides has to offer value in the form of content on their blogs or follow up emails…

Read More: Writing Riches With Minimal Effort

Beyond The Newbie Stage

Many people like yourself have landed up on this page because you’re looking at the most fool-proof way to start your Internet business. Starting one isn’t as easy as you think after all the trials, difficulties and challenges you will face along the way and the heaps of competition you will discover online.

Want proof? Simply Google ‘make money online’ and you’ll discover how much competition you have – probably in the hundreds and thousands of them!

Worse still, some unethical marketers who want to make a fast buck out of you by selling all kinds of crappy and irrelevant information to you.

It’s misleading alright…no, it’s plain wrong to waste any newbie marketer’s time and effort like this!

Fact is, there will be ‘gurus’ and ‘experts’ who will be more than happy to exploit clueless marketers who are quick to draw out their wallets to make a ‘life-changing purchase’.

Lets get something straight…there is no such thing as a life changing purchase!

Even the best money- making blueprint will not work for you unless you put it into practice, and in most cases, actually making the system manifest in real life is the hardest challenge you’ll face…

Read More: Beyond The Newbie Stage

Learn Internet Marketing

At last the Webinars have started up again… Last year we ran weekly Webinar’s call FIMWebinar FREE Internet Marketing Webinars and they were so popular, you can go to the FIMWebinarOnline site where I have put all the videos and there are over 30 hours of Video there that will show you heaps to get you up and running On-Line…

I could just leave it at that… however, as we know the internet is constantly changing and we need to be updating all the time as we find faster and better ways to do things .. so as a result I have started the Webinars for the Year called:

7 Tools To Internet Success Webinar and along with that is the 7 Tools To Internet Success live Seminars that will also start in Hamilton, New Zealand in February 2010. (Site not updated yet, if you are wanting to come contact me)

The 7 Tools System is made up of steps that need to be taken so that you get the right product, the correct keywords, the correct domain name, a well SEO’d website, and of course traffic… we all need that..

So what will we cover over the coming weeks.. Here is a Sneak Peak….

7 Tools To Internet Success Webinar

Traffic System  #1 Clickbank
We will head in here to find a product that the world is looking for, an amazing array of 10,000 products already set-up and waiting to be promoted.. I will show you how to get products that not only sell well but pay well.

Traffic System #2 Niche Keyword Research
Learn how to do SEO like a seasoned professional with this in depth Free traffic and advanced SEO system. A good SEO’d site not only attracts free search engine traffic but also significantly decreases your cost of acquiring new traffic.

Traffic System #3 Keyword Rich Domain Names
Learn how to find those Keyword Rich Domain names that will help drive traffic your way

Traffic System #4 Video Marketing System
Learn why video marketing can seriously increase the amount of targeted traffic you get to your online business. I will be shown a sneaky strategy that generates tons of targeted traffic to your sites without having your own video or working extra hard to submit your own video!

Traffic System #5 Setting Up A Website
I will show you how to setup a website that is fully ready for any search engine to get you listed very quickly and also listed on Google front page for your keywords. I will also show you how to dominate Web 2.0 platforms and channels right in front of your eyes!

Traffic System #6 Article Marketing
Discover the ins and outs of using Article Marketing to get massive traffic for your business, and learn how this method can send you traffic in less than 24 hours.
I will show you tools that will have you producing articles faster than you can drive to local café

Traffic System #7 Social Bookmarking Domination
Learn how to do back linking so you can compete in the search engine rankings with even top Fortune 500 companies with little to no advertising budget at all.
You do not need the budget of Fortune 500 companies. Just do as I show you and you will profit and have your own huge Internet Marketing Business.

And then as the weeks go by I am sure there will be more and more that I will need to add.

Am so looking forward to  these Webinars so come and join me it will be a wonderful journey, so much to learn and yet Step by Step you will get there…

2010 for me is all about Automation so let me take you by the hand and show you how you can do almost everything on Automatic so you have more time to do the things you want to do…

Register your interest below in form and I will make sure you get the email to be on the Webinar..

Increase Website Traffic

I am going to write about an amazing software program that is out there on the market. I have been using it for a while but think I should start to tell everyone about it.

Why is it so good…. well many of the Keyword research tools out there including my favourite one Easy Niche Finder look at Google as their main search engine while this  one looks at Google, Yahoo, and MSN which is brilliant.

The other great benefit with this software it it will take a look at your page and give you a score from D- being bad, to A+ and then proceed to tell you how to fix it if you are unfortunate enough to get a low score… which I have had many times.

It’s almost like having an SEO expert look at your webpage and tell you what you are doing right, and what you are doing wrong. And then give you solutions for improving your on-page SEO. Traffic Travis does all that.

And no, they didn’t forget the off-page stuff, that is all in the software too. Along with PPC competition analysis (find out what keywords your competition is bidding on in Adwords) and a lot more!

Here’s the video tour, go check it out

Web Site Traffic

Thats what we want, we want hundreds of people finding their way to our website so we can make some money… if you make the changes that this program suggests then you will get traffic it’s just then up to you to make sure your site is worth coming to.

Traffic Travis is the name of the program and you can get it for free.. by just clicking on the Traffic Travis link or the Free link.

I totally recommend it……