Before You Jump On The Blogging Wagon
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When I was a child, the only place I would ever think to put my most private thoughts was in the locked diary that I kept hidden, or at least I think was hidden.
Even so, I will not risk letting people read my thoughts by writing too much. But now, millions of people write their lives onto a blog which is share with the entire world.
This is like an online diary that is accessible by anyone who finds it. Before you begin such an endeavor, you should get some blogging advice.
There night be mistakes when you write onto your blog, and it is important that you get some proper advise.
You may not think that anyone is reading, but you never know who may stumble upon what you have written in your blog each day.
The thing is that what you put on the blog can be personal and you may not want others to know.
What you blog is also dependent on your profession. It does not look very good if you talk about your wild night and your profession is a doctor.
Those hiring new people often use search engines online to find out more about those applying. If they find things in your blog that they do not like, you are not going to get the job.
Check what your kids are blogging. The either blog responsibly or you got to monitor them.
This is because they can lead danger into their place by revealing too much.
Blogging advice includes knowing how to keep personal details from being out in cyberspace, and some adults have problems with this.
Monitor what you kid blog about. This could well turn out to be the most important advice.
May 27th, 2008 - Posted in Blogs | | 0 Comments
Blog For Money Blogging For Dollars
You can blog for money. Anyone with basic writing skills can be blogging for dollars within hours. What you first must know how to set up a blog and then learn how to get traffic. Most people fail at generating traffic.
Traffic can be generated through using the various social networks that allow you to post comments and links back to your blog or articles. This is a common practice. Many people fail to advertise their own blog and often give up after a few weeks. There are hundreds of methods and techniques, secrets and tips for generating traffic to a blog.
You can find free places to set up a blog for free. You can also set up a blog on you own hosting plan and domain for under $100 for a year but an investment that is well worth it. It is not really that difficult to set up a blog for money. Many people have something to write about and can post an article a day. You could do a TV, baby, food or sports blog the possibilities are endless.
The trick is how to make money with a blog. There are several advertising networks that you can join for free. You could spend countless hours and precious time trying to find ways to make money online. Writing great content and creating blogs is one of the easiest method to make money blogging for dollars.
The internet in some ways is still like the wild wild west and there are still plenty of ways to make money online. Get paid to blog by utilizing the latest information and blogging tools. Blogging for money is much easier when you use web 2.0 technologies to their fullest.
Blogging for money does not require any specialized skill most people can learn blogging in a few hours having the right information. A free blog can be set up in minutes you just need to know what people are searching for to be a success and get paid to blog.
May 27th, 2008 - Posted in Blogs | | 0 Comments
More Web Site Traffic With Portal Feeder Free Tool
One of the simplest free ways to attract more web site traffic is to leave comments on blogs. And it’s no problem at all to find the right blogs now that you can get your hands on Comment Kahuna, a link building blog comment tool from Portal Feeder, absolutely free.
This is not a lite or trial version. This is the full version of this powerful tool, and it is completely white hat. The only drawback is that it may not be available for free for very long.
‘A White Hat Blog Comment Tool - What Is That?’
A white hat blog comment tool will find blogs that you can comment on in your niche (the same subject as your site - or whatever subject you want). If it’s a good tool like Comment Kahuna, it will tell you the page rank or search only for blogs with a certain page rank. It may also store your profile information (name, the email that you want to use, URL that you are promoting, etc.) This saves you time. It finds the best blogs for you, then you write a comment on each blog.
‘What Is A Black Hat Blog Comment Tool?’
Black hat tools are basically spamming tools. They send one identical comment to perhaps thousands of blogs automatically, without any individual input. The problem is that because the comments are so generalized, the blog owners will almost always recognize them as spam and delete them before they are even published, wasting your time and money. Comment Kahuna is NOT a black hat or spamming tool.
‘Why Would I Want To Leave Comments On Other People’s Blogs?’
Leaving comments on blogs is a great way to get traffic and links to your sites. If you have a great site, you want the right people to know about it, and often those people will be reading blogs in your niche area. So if you leave a good comment, they will be likely to click through to visit your site, where they will see your advertisements, affiliate promotions, and everything else that you have on your site.
‘I Wouldn’t Know How To Use This Tool.’
That is not a problem - there is a training video right there on the page that you can watch right now before you even download, to see how easy this is.
And even if you don’t have a site ready that you need to build links to right now, remember that it’s a $97 value, and right now it’s available for free. You will probably regret it if you don’t pick it up right now. Click on the link below to see all the details.
May 26th, 2008 - Posted in Online Marketing | | 2 Comments
Problogging: Making Money From Blogs
A weblog (or simply blog) is a website that ‘publishes’ or features articles (which are called ‘blog posts’, ‘posts’, or ‘entries’), written by an individual or a group that make use of any or a combination of the following:
Straight texts Photographs or images (photoblog) Video (videoblog) Audio files (audioblog) Hyperlinks
Usually presented and arranged in reverse chronological order, blogs are essentially used for the following purposes:
Online journal or a web diary Content managament system Online publishing platform
A typical blog has the following components:
Post date -the date and time of the blog entry
Category - the category that the blog belongs to
Title - the title of the blog
Main body - the main content of the blog
RSS and trackback - links the blog back from other sites
Comments - commentaries that are added by readers
Permalinks - the URL of the full article
Other optional items - calendar, archives, blogrolls, and add-ons or plug-ins
A blog can also have a footer, usually found at the bottom of the blog, that shows the post date, the author, the category, and the ’stats’ (the nubmer of comments or trackbacks).
There are numerous types of blogs. Some of them are the following:
1. Political blog - on news, politics, activism, and other issue based blogs (such as campaigning).
2. Personal blog - also known as online diary that may include an individual’s day-to-day experience, complaints, poems, and illicit thoughts, and communications between friends.
3. Topical blog - with focus either on a particular niche (function or position) that is usually technical in nature or a local information.
4. Health blog - on specific health issues. Medical blog is a major category of health blog that features medical news from health care professionals and/or actual patient cases.
5. Literary blog - also known as litblog.
6. Travel blog - with focus on a traveler’s stories on a particular journey.
7. Research blog - on academic issues such as research notes.
8. Legal blog - on law (technical areas) and legal affairs; also known as ‘blawgs’.
9. Media blog - focus on falsehoods or inconsistencies in mass media; usually exclusive for a newspaper or a television network.
10. Religious blog - on religious topics
11. Educational blog - on educational applications, usually written by students and teachers.
12. Collaborative or collective blog - a specific topic written by a group of people.
13. Directory blog - contains a collection of numerous web sites.
14. Business blog - used by entrepreneurs and corporate employees to promote their businesses or talk about their work.
15. Personification blog - focus on non-human being or objects (such as dogs).
16. Spam blogs - used for promoting affiliated websites; also known as ’splogs’.
Blogging is typically done on a regular (almost daily) basis. The term “blogging” refers to the act of authoring, maintaining, or adding an article to an existing blog, while the term “blogger” refers to a person or a group who keeps a blog.
Today, more than 3 million blogs can be found in the Internet. This figure is continuously growing, as the availability of various blog software, tools, and other applications make it easier for just about anyone to update or maintain the blog (even those with little or no technical background). Because of this trend, bloggers can now be categorized into 4 main types:
Personal bloggers - people who focus on a diary or on any topic that an individual feels strongly about.
Business bloggers - people who focus on promoting products and services.
Organizational bloggers - people who focus on internal or external communication in an organization or a community.
Professional bloggers - people who are hired or paid to do blogging.
Problogging (professional blogging) refers to blogging for a profit. Probloggers (professional bloggers) are people who make money from blogging (as an individual blog publisher or a hired blogger).
Below are just some of the many money-making opportunities for probloggers:
Advertising programs RSS advertising Sponsorship Affiliate Programs Digital assets Blog network writing gigs Business blog writing gigs Non blogging writing gigs Donations Flipping blogs Merchandising Consulting and speaking
The following are a few things that you need to consider if you want to be successful in problogging:
1. Be patient. Problogging requires a lot of time and effort, not to mention a long-term vision.
2. Know your audience. Targeting a specific audience or group is a key to building a readership.
3. Be an ‘expert’. Focus on a specific niche topic and strive to be the “go-to” blogger on that topic.
4. Diversify. Experiment with various add and affiliate programs that enable you to make money online (aside from blogging).
5. Do not bore your readers. Focus on the layout. White spaces, line spacings, and bigger fonts make a blog welcoming to read.
Certainly, it is possible to earn money from blogs. One just needs to take risks, the passion, and the right attitude in order to be a successful problogger.
May 25th, 2008 - Posted in Blogs | | 3 Comments
Work From Home Opportunities
Can I work from home? Are there real paying jobs or are they all scams? The truth is that there are REAL opportunities to work from home! People have been finding great ways to earn an income online.
This article will make searching for that perfect online job successful and rewarding.
Here are 5 tips to help you find online employment:
Research! Are there testimonials on their website? Any success stories? If they can’t validate any of their claims you should stay away from them
Don’t be disappointed. I see people all day complaining about all the scams and guess what? They’re the ones that give up and don’t succeed. Look at everything as a learning experience and you’ll continue to grow.
Try a trial run. You will find most online money making opportunities offer free trials or a refund if your unsatisfied with what you receive.
Search for something you love! You can be paid for something you love to do. Maybe you love art? You can make good money writing online reviews on art.
Quit reading and start doing! You can spend hours, days or years reading about working online and never get ahead! Spend a few bucks. If I told you to spend $40 for an online tools that has a 90% success rate, would you try it? Most of the information in these online products can be found on the net but do you want to spend 20 hours researching information that you could have spent $20 to buy? You’re worth more than $1/hour!
I know I looked for legit online employment for quite a while before I found something that works. I’m sure with enough drive and perseverance; you too can be your own boss!
May 25th, 2008 - Posted in Online Marketing | | 1 Comments
Affiliate Marketing - 3 Strategies for Profiting Online
Affiliate marketers are always looking for a successful market that will provide ongoing profits. Affiliate marketing isn’t rocket science, but you do need to have a strategy. It takes proven marketing practices and perseverance.
Proven methods for online marketing continue to work today. With these top three affiliate marketing tips, increase sales and do extremely well with affiliate marketing online.
Practice #1 - Always use unique web pages to market each separate product you’re promoting. Don’t lump all your products on one website or page. Web hosting is very inexpensive and you’ll do much better by having each product displayed on one site.
Include product reviews on your site. In this manner, visitors will feel that you have used the product and have an opinion.
Testimonials from customers who have already tried your product should also be included. Ensure that the customers give you their permission to use their photos and names. If you’re just beginning, you should be able to get testimonials from the product owner’s website.
Write articles outlining the use of the product and put them on the website. Make the pages eye-catching, persuasive and ask them to act on the information. Each headline should compel the reader and encourage them to read even more. Always emphasize the benefits of the product.
It’s a good idea to offer free reports on your website. Try to position them at the very top side of the page so they simply cannot miss them. Your reports can also be broken up and used as autoresponder messages. Mail them to everyone who puts their information in your opt-in form. According to research, a sale is usually closed on about the seventh contact. So, it’s imperative to have an autoresponder.
Practice #2 — One of two things happens when a potential customer visits your page: you will either sell your product or the prospect will leave and never return. By updating them with information to their email periodically, you’ll remind them of the product which they may have wanted to purchase at a later date. Make sure the message is directed toward specific reasons to buy your product and try not to make it sound like a sales pitch.
Always ensure that your prospects sign up for your autoresponder messages before they can download your free reports. Highlight important benefits like how your product can help their life become easier and more enjoyable. Use persuasive subject lines in your email messages. Avoid using the word “free” in your messages. Many spam filters will remove your messages before they ever reach your potential customers.
Practice #3 — Always focus on targeting the traffic to your website. If people visiting your site have no interest in what you’re offering, they won’t come back. Create articles for publication in article directories and ezines. This way will be targeting publications that are of interest to your target customers. What you write may just grab their attention.
Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, of at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day. In fact, if you click on one of the links in the resource box below, you can learn how to generate a lot more than 100 readers with one article. Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can make 10 sales based on the average statistic. If you consider that you can make about $25 on an average priced Clickbank product and you multiply your daily earnings by 30 days per month, that’s $7,500 per month. Not bad for a little bit of persistence and article writing.
The practices I’ve outlined are not very difficult to do. They just require a little time and an action plan on your part.
Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You will create a good source of income if you just have a plan and perseverance. Most affiliate marketers fail because they do not have a plan or they are lazy. Just think of the huge paychecks you will be receiving!
May 25th, 2008 - Posted in Online Marketing | | 3 Comments
What Is Flixya 2.0?
The newest version of Flixya- Flixya 2.0 is the latest version of a very popular online social networking site. Once you arrive there you can host your photos, share you videos, blog your life- and in fact- “share everything” according to Flixya. That includes the money that is generated from the advertisements ala google adsense(tm) that appear around your content. Flixya gives you all of the revenue that is earned when folks click on the advertisements that are displayed on your pages.
According to Flixya, (paraphrasing) they are the only online social network that pays you 100% ad revenue and their easy to use publishing and one-click media distribution tools, drive traffic to your videos, blogs and photos and enable you to earn residual income from each piece of content that you contribute.
Do I Have To Pay To Use Flixya?
Nothing, it’s free.
What is 100% Revenue Share?
With Flixya, the users receive 100% of the ad revenue generated from the ad impressions that are shown on the pages with their content (photos, videos, blogs etc.). Google’s Adsense(tm) powers the ad program at Flixya and does require you to sign up- to be able to collect the ad revenue, during registration. You can also do this on the ad settings page which is visible when you are logged into the site.
Ad Revenue?
You get paid whenever someone on your site clicks on one of Google’s AdSense ads.
Sharing Videos, What Does That Mean?
Flixya allows you to upload or share your videos from Google Video, YouTube, Daily Motion, and other popular online video sharing sites. They’ve recently released Flixya Video Publisher 2.0a for FireFox. This add-on is a great tool for transferring your videos from YouTube, Metacafe, Revver, Livevideo, Bolt, Veoh, Google Video, Daily Motion and Break. Using this tool can become highly addictive. Popular videos can also be voted up or down and appear on the homepage based on this voting.
What About Free Online Photo Sharing?
At Flixya, you can share your photos with your family, friends, and they also offer unlimited ebay auction image hosting as one of the best online photo sharing sites.
Your Own Personal Profile
You can create your personal profile, link to it, and share your interests, photos, and favorite blog posts.
Do They Host Blogs?
Yes, you can create your own blog. A blog is short for “weblog”. A Blog is a type of online diary or chronological listing of what you are thinking. These are usually maintained daily by you and reflect your own personality. You are encouraged to create your own blog(s) and you can promote yourself and/or add other content. You get to collect 100% of the money that is derived from the content surrounding your blogs, as well.
Social Bookmarking
As you can see Flixya covers a lot of ground. Much more than I can write about here.
There is much more to do at Flixya than I can cover here.
May 25th, 2008 - Posted in Blogs | | 1 Comments
Top Tips to marketing your product using Video
In the time it takes you to read this article, over 100 million internet users will have watched some kind of online video, that’s over 100 million page views and video views, mostly highly targeted, so you can imagine the traffic the video boom is driving.
Marketing videos make sales. It’s as simple as that. From being the exception, online video has now become the norm, so much so, that today’s internet users expect to see video on the sites they visit, and if they don’t, they usually surf to another page that does include video. Our online success demands video on our websites.
The new Web 2.0 drives most internet traffic today and it’s exactly in this new environment that today’s internet marketers find themselves,
Over and above the effectiveness of video generated traffic, traditional traffic sources such as PPC, are becoming more and more expensive, to the point were campaigns need to be touching double digit CTR’s to stand any chance of being profitable.
I’m not knocking PCC here. It’ still a valid method to drive traffic to a site and one which I continue to see success with. The trend is however towards video, so we either go along or we get left behind.
Making a marketing video isn’t an overly complex undertaking. The software applications required are mostly simple and reasonably priced, so much so, that a full suite of programs needn’t cost more than a few hundred dollars.
What can cause complications and expensive errors is how we choose to market our videos. One easy way is to submit our videos to the various video hosting sites, such as YouTube, Howcast or Google Video for example.
After we submit our videos to the hosting sites, we can then use the code the sites provide, to embed these videos in our own sites, without requiring any additional conversion. This is a simple process, but not one I would suggest the serious internet marketer uses.
The reason I say this is that the embed codes from the video sites, such as Revver for example, also include embedded videos from other users.
As all video sites categorize the submitted videos, we could well be embedding videos from a competitor in our own website. Not always the best idea, as we end up giving free exposure and advertising to this competitor.
The safest and most efficient way to add our own videos to our own marketing websites, is to convert these to a flash format and add the resulting flash video to our site. To do this we need a reliable video converter.
Videos generally include large volumes of information and tend to be large files. YouTube has a 10 minute and 100 MB maximum for any video submitted to the site, so this gives a good indication of the kind of file sizes I’m talking about.
Converting a video to flash does require time and computer resources. If we are working on a single computer system, the our hands are tied while the conversion takes place.
One of the most valuable commodities we have as internet marketers is our time. By the same token, Video is now one of the most effective weapons we have in our online arsenal. Combine video with effective use of time and we have a winner.
I’ve seen too many of my fellow marketers invest big money in the latest and most complex video production software and then skimp when it came to the converter. The result ? Great looking videos that nobody ever saw simply because their conversion software wasn’t up to the task.
From bargain basement to top range converters, prices range from around $70 to under $100. Is the $30 difference worth lost time and effort? I don’t think so.
May 24th, 2008 - Posted in Online Marketing | | 6 Comments
Increase Search Engine Traffic With Free Blog Finding Software
One of the best ways to increase search engine traffic to any web site is to leave comments on blogs that are relevant to your niche.
One of the quickest and most effective ways to bring more traffic to any site, commenting on blogs builds links that some of the search engines will follow. At the same time your link will be clicked on by many real human visitors who are reading the blog and see your comment.
What’s more, it is targeted traffic, if you do it right. That means, people who are actually interested in what you are offering.
Hey wait … before you go rushing off to hunt down blogs one by one all by yourself, I can give you a free tool that will save you a lot of time. And time is money, after all, especially when you can cut down your research time to almost nothing, and still get great results.
Then you can use that time to leave a lot more comments on a lot more blogs to bring you a lot more visitors! Neat, huh?
Comment Kahuna is a FREE tool that will find the best blogs for you to comment on. It finds blogs in your niche - blogs that are on the same subject as your site, so the people who visit that blog are going to be interested in visiting your site too.
Plus it puts the blogs in order by page rank, which is an indicator of the traffic that the blog is likely to get. This means you don’t go wasting your time on low ranking blogs that nobody ever visits.
All you need to do is leave a comment with a link to your site, so that people can click through.
Your site can be about anything. This tool will find blogs on practically any subject that you could imagine.
It is not likely that you would have a site on such an obscure topic that the tool would not be able to find relevant blogs. However, if that does happen, you can just widen your search terms.
For example, if your site is about a new diet that involves eating nothing but raw broccoli, there might not be many blogs about that exact topic. But if you have Comment Kahuna search for blogs about diets, there will be tons! And some of the visitors to those blogs will be interested in reading about your broccoli diet. So there you have perfect targeted visitors who are genuinely interested in your site.
May 24th, 2008 - Posted in Online Marketing | | 1 Comments
Get Better Website Rankings With SEO Blogging
It’s catch 22 - you have to be listed high in the search engine results to get more web traffic and to get listed high in the results, you have to attract lots of web traffic. Regrettably, rich content is no longer the only valuable resource sought by web visitors.
Search engine optimisation (SEO) is the reason why a website gets a good ranking on web searches. Making a website SEO-based can be anything from legal to borderline illegitimate, depending on what techniques you use.
Some of these optimisation methods include writing keyword-rich web content, articl submission and link exchanging. These were the most practiced SEO techniques until some wise soul came up with the idea that blogging can be a valuable SEO tool. It has become a phenomena since then.
A blog, or a web log, can be maintained for professional or personal purposes. It is quite an enjoyable task, and you will have complete freedom as far as what you want to say is concerned. You can have a blog within your site, or outside it.
Since your blog is your own, you can include links to your site in each and every post. If your blog is within your site, this is a great way of incorporating links that will boost your search engine ranking. If it is outside your site, this is an excellent way of getting one way links.
Exchanged links can boost your ranking, but one way links are definitely more valuable than exchanged links. This is a wonderful way of making sure that you have a lot of valuable one way links.
The content is another key. If your blog is within your site, this is an excellent way of making sure that you have keyword rich content. Of course, since blogs are much more informal and reads more like a chat than articles, incorporating key words can be a daunting task, but once you manage it, your ranking will definitely improve.
The best part about blogs is that unlike articles, people can comment on them. You will know what people have to say to you, and there is nothing like constructive criticism to improve your site. This is also an excellent way of building contacts, and, therefore, prospective customers for your business, whatever that might be.
May 23rd, 2008 - Posted in Blogging | | 1 Comments
