How to Make Big Money With Blogs
I have thought about ‘How To Make Real Money With Blogs’ a lot. I’ve also read a lot about it. So, this is what I came up with.
Building a blog empire is the way to go:
1. You need to decide on what niche topic your blog empire should go for. It has to be a more general subject where you can use sub categories for your blogs. And of course, it has to be a hot niche topic that everybody is interested in.
Go to ClickBank for this kind of information. And by the way, Internet Marketing is always a profitable main category to go for.
2. Start with about 5 blogs at Blogspost and WordPress. Search engines love this ones.
3. Post some great, useful information about your topics on your blogs at least every second day. This is important for the search engines to be able to notice your blogs. Google for ideas by typing in keywords related to your topics and use the results for your articles.
4. Place affiliate links into each of your posts and at the end of your articles. These links should be related to your blog theme. Also place links at the side of your blogs. Go to ClickBank and find yourself some great affiliate programs that relate to your topics and sign up as an affiliate. It’s easy. Just go by the step-by-step instructions.
These affiliate links will enable you to blog your way to riches.
Don’t forget to SEO your posts or articles with keywords. Start by including a related keyword into your title and continue throughout your article body. This will ensure that the search engines will find your articles and blogs. Never forget keywords.
To find keywords use Google search engine and ‘google’ with some words or phrases that relate to your articles. If something comes up with the words you search with, you have found your keywords.
You really only need one keyword or key phrase for each article you post on your blogs.
5. Set up an Adsense account for ads to be put on your blogs. With these ads you can actually earn some money the easy way. And it’s FREE! Place some targeted Google ads on your blogs, as this will make you money each and every time someone clicks on those ads on your blogs.
6. Write and submit 2 fresh quality articles a day for each blog to submit to article directories like EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com. After a few weeks you should see some excellent targeted traffic coming your way.
7. Get a domain name or a page on your existing web site for each of your affiliate programs and re-direct these to your affiliate links, as the above article directories will not accept affiliate links. But they are still the greatest to go with.
I know, I know! It sounds impossible to write posts in about 5 blogs and write 2 articles a day for these blogs.
But you can re-write your blog entries into articles with 300-550 words, or so and submit them to the article directories of your choice.This will make you some significant extra money by marketing your affiliate programs with your articles as well.
Other marketers write 10 to 20 articles a day! You get used to it and then it will come to you easy.
If you stick to it, this can make you very wealthy. It has made many determined marketers rich. Believe me!
Start to make real money with blogs right now. It’s fun!
Manage Multiple Blogs to Increase Website Hits
Establishing yourself as the expert in your field is key to building a successful business and the major venue for doing so is, as you’d expect, the Internet. It’s the best, most cost-efficient way to develop your reputation, meet contacts and exhibit the breadth of your knowledge on any given subject.
Of course, the playing field consistently gets more crowded. These days just having a website, no matter how well done or user-friendly, is no longer sufficient. Blogging across multiple touch points is critical to attracting more site visitors and prospective customers, as well as boosting your search engine rankings. It’s clear that the easier you are to find, the more “they will come” and, importantly, the more they will purchase product from you instead of your competition.
Synergy is critical; it’s important to create a truly recognizable image for yourself by ensuring that your website and blogs look as much like each other as possible. Unfortunately, despite the introduction of somewhat more user-friendly software like Word Press and Cpanel, that can be a highly time-consuming and somewhat complex task. Even with those two great programs, there is a lot of cutting and pasting, resetting specifications and rewriting or updating your profile pages. In fact, it can take even a seasoned blogger an hour or more to create each new blog manually.
Well known, highly respected software marketer Mike Filsaime has changed all that with Word Press Cloner. As its name suggests, this easy to use software basically lets you lift your totally configured Word Press blog and install it in a brand new subdomain. You get a fully working copy in literally a minute without the hassle of having to tweak plug-ins, settings, ping lists, etc.
Although you need not own Cpanel to build your blogs with Word Press Cloner, the software will automatically work with that program if you do have it so you don’t have to do anything manually to create your subdomain.
This software also automatically sets any graphics you already have, duplicates your Adwords and affiliate customization and activates every plugin you’re pre-selected. Further, you can clone your blog with or without existing posts, update Blogroll with your own links and quickly deploy multiple keyword titled subdomains.
As with many of Filsaime’s products, Word Press Cloner is especially easy to install in just a few minutes and comes with a 30 day money back guarantee.
Some Information of Internet Marketing and Blog!
First of all, remember to stay on topic. Each person having a blog will have his own opinions regarding events and facts and they are generally accepted. But the other content on the blog should revolve around a general theme. Many of the visitors on your blog page will be more interested in the facts you present on your page and not to what you eat for breakfast. Try to define a certain style which can be associated with your blog and try stick to it. This way you will be sure that you create among your visitors a loyal group who reads what you say for the topic you write about.Always keep in mind to be informative on your blog. If you write articles about a specific industry or any other specific thing, stay up to date with information about that sector. Because your reputation is at stake, remember to always check the facts before putting them out on the internet for people to see. Be as accurate on what you write as possible. Always be sure to distinguish clearly between facts and your personal opinions. When writing your personal opinions about a certain aspect, make it clear that the post is to be read as an editorial. Always be up to date with the information you write about. It is indeed very hard to write a page every day, but if you want to be keep your frequent readers close, write about current events. A story about an event which happened many months ago, no matter how big it was back then, is still old news and it will not interest anyone.You can create a schedule. But if you do so, you must stick to it. People who currently read you will expect a new post from you on the date you specified and will not enjoy if you do not respect your word. Going on a holiday for some time is accepted and understood, but constantly missing your self-made appointments with your readers will only make you look unserious. You will not want to lose your audience after you have spent a lot of time and effort building your blog and gathering them around you. If you want the readers to easily understand and follow you, keep your writings clear and simple. Remember that not only people from your country may read your page and some phrases cannot be translated with accuracy.If you want to increase your visibility by writing on your blog, remember to include key words in the blog’s title. Remember, titles attract attention and they should summarize what you have written about in the subsequent post.In order for both readers and search engines to be up to date and follow your blog frequently, archive your previous posts to build up somewhat of a portal around your blog’s theme.
Donât Forget a Blog Strategy – âfree Peopleâ Didnât!
Blogs.
As an Internet strategist – my life daily is consumed with social media feeds, blog alerts, feedburner stats, google alert updates, monitoring, strategizing, execution – all of these overused terms and time consuming tactics certainly take a toll on you.
But one thing I do often, as I do for all my clients, is research – taking notice of the growing digital space around me – thinking of ideas to implement innovative strategies among the community and with my clients.
One of those key strategies that are a must in today’s Internet spectrum is a blog. A blog is key in driving not only traffic, but interest to your brand, product, or company. Blogs help you appear authoritative in your industry – allowing you to give views on the latest events in your trade, offer reviews, insights, and so on.
This expands into relationship building tools, as you are able to speak more freely and in a more informal and personable style, as compared to how you direct the voice on your main website. Through the blog channel, they are more likely to trust you, and then all the more likely to visit your main website and then click your links and possibly purchase your product.
It also offers insight for your customers, and allows them to leave comments and ’speak’ to you on a key level. In addition, blogs are extremely search engine friendly – through thousands of possible keywords and fresh, updated content on a regular basis – blogs are simply great facets to have on your website today. Your simply misguided if you think otherwise.
*Read More for a detailed blog breakdown of the popular clothing line Free People.
Now, another aspect of blogs I enjoy are creating them, not only content strategy, but programming and designing them on a unique level. One aspect of ‘branding’ a blog is considering the number of possibilities you have when actually build the blog.
These are all important questions you MUST think about before diving into the blog space – thinking you know what to do, when you might need a refresher.
And always remember that blogs vary, depending if you are in the business-to-consumer or business-to-business parallel – but your Plan of Action (POA) should always remain the same.
Case Study.
Free People. A blog that does it Right.
Free People is a ’boutique’ style of women’s and young girl’s clothing – offered both online and in brick and mortar stores around the world. It is a sister-brand to another well-known bohemian-type clothing, accessories and furniture store – Anthropologie.
Now, the Free People store design is a very creative, bohemian look that stylizes the brand well, and does many good things as far as marketing the brand on the main website – but their blog page does an even better job in terms of look, strategy and content.
First, when you come upon the page – you have a nice flash banner on the top portion of the blog that draws instant attention. It’s 3-D style and moving parts, keeps the user engaged enough to move the mouse over the falling curtain rod and press it – which then drags the screen over, as if you were in puppet show – making note of their blog’s name “Caravan of Curiosities” – to keep the user engaged enough to follow through the blog to discover its true meaning.
Another side point here – naming your blog something different and marketing that along side your main brand is a nice change of pace on occasion. But it won’t work for everyone – so carefully think about that before you go off and name your blog something completely different. The nice touch here is that ‘Caravan of Curiosities’ still has an engaging tone to it, and how they display it in the blog is effective as well.
Working your way down the page – you recognize the 3-D style curtain outline the navigation header, which is simple – and elegant. And then just three blog pages dress the navigation header:
And from a design aspect – you have to appreciate the look with drawn curtains going down the sides of the pages – very instinctual and effective.
Now, the opening page here is the blog homepage – which after the navigation has your standard blog format and layout with a search box, archives, categories, and a blog roll entitled ‘favorites’. They also added a store locator and 6 products that are simple photos and text that link back to the main store. The column layout is a three-column layout morphed into two columns, and in that side right column they squeeze in the blog widgets. All of this is complimented by a great ‘notebook’ style background. As complex and rich as this design is overall – remember, it is their content that gets the job done…not the design. Even though I truly applaud them on such a layout – very engaging for a user to traverse through.
Finally, at the bottom of the page — a nice connection with the footer, in relation to the header — similar to how you tie any story together — you must connect the beginning with the end of a story…as you do a website — design and content including.
Content of Free People.
Now, with any website, content is king, always will be king, and on the Free People blog – it is King. Content on blogs are crucial for search engines because you can create thousands of keywords, all of it search engine friendly, and all the content you create is new and updated – so search engines will love you for it.
Free People does a fantastic job with approaching the all around marketing term – “On Target, Off Topic”. Free People have a target audience, girls, young women ages tween to 45; easily, and for the more trendy women who may breach beyond that age – even an older woman can wear their clothing. With that target audience in thought – as a marketer – go ‘off topic’ for a bit, and consider talking about content that is not directly related to you, but still, in a way, is connected.
Free People’s breaks up its blog into 26 different categories; topics such as art, books, decor, crafts, food, home office, magazines, polls, music, and so on. At the same time, they intermix direct categories related to some of their external social media tools, such as their flickr, myspace, facebook, and download pages.
The point is, their content is intellectually placed, and interesting…which is even more important! They do occasionally drop in content that will push a new outfit, piece of clothing and so on…but not as often as you think. And they are blogging everyday – with NEW content, and using this to their advantage.
Video.
Another aspect of their content they included was a blog page devoted exclusively to video. This custom designed video player they added features behind the scene videos of their monthly catalog shoots, as well as a video featuring their 2007 holiday party. These simple videos are barely 1:30 minutes long, edited with appropriate music, mostly indie stuff, and cut to look a bit grainy and eclectic, as their brand appropriately exhibits now.
This simple idea of placing video on the blog is a great marketing tool. First, the video takes an editor, all of about an hour to edit and post. From there…he can take this video – submit it to any external video channels, i.e. YouTube, Viddler, and so on. They can then upload them to their Facebook, MySpace, and Flickr pages – only enhancing their exposure – through something as simple as video.
For those who don’t know what this is or means; essentially this creates secondary brand exposure that allows you to initially reach out to possible consumers who might not have seen your brand before, allowing them to now find you. It also allows you to create ‘backlinks’ to your website – this all counts in that SEO puzzle so many clients and people I speak to are always trying to solve.
Final.
Here is the point about all this – what this blog does right is pretty much EVERYTHING. What they do wrong, next to NOTHING, nearly. And let’s be clear on this, they have people who are supposed to be blogging and acting as community managers to maintain this blog, and update their external social networking profiles, and so on. This all takes time, and we all know what time ends up being — $$$. But, the effect of what they have created has allowed them to ‘connect’ with their consumers, and harness new customers, and so on. Their blog has been around since November 2006, and has amassed a huge amount of traffic daily to the blog. Agreed – they are a major brand and can spark that type of traffic, but honestly, the simplicity behind their blog strategy only enhances those numbers.
Any company or brand that is thinking of starting a blog strategy need to follow a similar model in structuring their content and direction when beginning or ‘changing up’ a blog for your brand or product.
If you need help in developing a blog strategy for your business, feel free to contact me @ anytime. nicholas.cifuentes@gmail.com
Link Building | Get More Backlinks for Better Search Engine Placement
Do you have a website, blog, squidoo lens or any other type of site? Are trying to make money through natural search engine positioning? If you are then you better learn how to get quality backlinks, and lots of them.
I build small niche websites, and then count on search engine traffic to sell products/services from my sites. To do this I have to do some keyword research to make sure it’s possible to dominate that term. I also have to do some great SEO tactics on my page.
More than that I have to build backlinks and tons of them. I do a variety of things to build backlinks, some are boring and tedious and some have been outsourced so I can focus my time on more profitable endeavors.
I know there are some basic ways to build links and I have been brainstorming some other ways as well. I think I have come up with some interesting ways to build some links, so I’m going to share them with you.
Free Link Building Ideas
Article Marketing ~ add your link with keyword anchor text in your resource box
Forum Posts ~ add your link with keyword anchor text in your sig file
Blog Comments ~ keyword in the “name” area, and then your url. (will create a hot link with anchor text)
Comments at Ezine Articles ~ this one just occurred to me recently. I checked the source code and they do not appear to use the “no follow” attribute, so google should count these links. You may even get traffic from these too. I just enter my main keyword, and add a relevant comment to the article. I use this like I would a blog comment with my keyword in the name area and then my url. You have to wait for EZA to approve your comment, but it’s worth it.
Set up Google Alert for keywords ~ each time I set up a new site I also set up a google alert for the keyword. I only choose to get alerts from blogs. Now each time someone posts a blog on my keyword I know about it and can get over there and add a comment.
Build free Blogs ~ Build a blog at wordpress.com, blogger, tumblr or wherever. You can do this blog on a related topic and add your site in the blogroll. This will give you a link for each page you publish on this blog. I use PLR for these blogs, and just change up the articles a little bit so they are more original. You can also add links within the articles to your blog for added links.
Hubpages and Squidoo ~ build pages at both of these free sites. Make sure to add a link to your site using keywords as your anchor text. At squidoo you can also add a link to your product or service you are promoting. Depending on how you want to use Hubpages I would be careful adding links to affiliate products over there. I just use hubpages as a way to get one more link from a quality source to my new niche site.
Myspace ~ set up a myspace profile and only add friends that are related to your niche site. You can quickly and easily do this with myspace friend adder software like Friend Blaster Pro. You can then use any/all the article you have written for your site and/or blogs as bulletins to send to your friends list or on your myspace blog. This will get you nice backlinks as well as targeted traffic.
Zimbio ~ this site is new to me. I have used it for my squidoo lenses, by adding my lensmaster RSS feed url from Squid Utils it will post each new lens I write on Zimbio. You can do this with the RSS feeds for each of your sites, including your main niche site, as well as any free blogs you set up. Make sure to do this first so it will catch all your articles as you put them up.
Directory Submission ~ there are tons of directories you can add your site url to. I set the timer for 30 minutes and just go as fast as I can submitting. I do this at least once a day for 30 minutes.
Wis.dm ~ A fun little site where you can ask a question. There is space for you to submit a url where people can find the answer. Just think of a question that relates to your niche and then add your site url in the space provided.
Twitter ~ not sure how good this is for backlinks, but if you have some people following you, it might be worth sending a quick tweet about your new site. You might just mention you found a cool site etc, so as not to give away all your niches 
If you want to take things to the next level there are also service you can join to build links. They work a few different ways. You generally pay a monthly fee to join.
I keep remembering recently reading a comment that really stuck with me. It was said you should be spending 90% of your time building links. When I thought about how much time I was spending in this area it was probably about .5%. Stay focused, and set up a system for yourself and you too can build tons of great backlinks.
I have thought about ‘How To Make Real Money With Blogs’ a lot. I’ve also read a lot about it. So, this is what I came up with.
Building a blog empire is the way to go:
1. You need to decide on what niche topic your blog empire should go for. It has to be a more general subject where you can use sub categories for your blogs. And of course, it has to be a hot niche topic that everybody is interested in.
Go to ClickBank for this kind of information. And by the way, Internet Marketing is always a profitable main category to go for.
2. Start with about 5 blogs at Blogspost and WordPress. Search engines love this ones.
3. Post some great, useful information about your topics on your blogs at least every second day. This is important for the search engines to be able to notice your blogs. Google for ideas by typing in keywords related to your topics and use the results for your articles.
4. Place affiliate links into each of your posts and at the end of your articles. These links should be related to your blog theme. Also place links at the side of your blogs. Go to ClickBank and find yourself some great affiliate programs that relate to your topics and sign up as an affiliate. It’s easy. Just go by the step-by-step instructions.
These affiliate links will enable you to blog your way to riches.
Don’t forget to SEO your posts or articles with keywords. Start by including a related keyword into your title and continue throughout your article body. This will ensure that the search engines will find your articles and blogs. Never forget keywords.
To find keywords use Google search engine and ‘google’ with some words or phrases that relate to your articles. If something comes up with the words you search with, you have found your keywords.
You really only need one keyword or key phrase for each article you post on your blogs.
5. Set up an Adsense account for ads to be put on your blogs. With these ads you can actually earn some money the easy way. And it’s FREE! Place some targeted Google ads on your blogs, as this will make you money each and every time someone clicks on those ads on your blogs.
6. Write and submit 2 fresh quality articles a day for each blog to submit to article directories like EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com. After a few weeks you should see some excellent targeted traffic coming your way.
7. Get a domain name or a page on your existing web site for each of your affiliate programs and re-direct these to your affiliate links, as the above article directories will not accept affiliate links. But they are still the greatest to go with.
I know, I know! It sounds impossible to write posts in about 5 blogs and write 2 articles a day for these blogs.
But you can re-write your blog entries into articles with 300-550 words, or so and submit them to the article directories of your choice.This will make you some significant extra money by marketing your affiliate programs with your articles as well.
Other marketers write 10 to 20 articles a day! You get used to it and then it will come to you easy.
If you stick to it, this can make you very wealthy. It has made many determined marketers rich. Believe me!
Start to make real money with blogs right now. It’s fun!
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Seven Benefits of Building Niche Blogs
In this article, I will describe 7 benefits of building niche blogs. A “niche” refers to a targeted market with profit potential that is not saturated with competitors. The whole idea is to realize the benefits of building niche blogs and then find the niche markets out there and start building. Benefit #1 Niche Blogs are essentially niche websites that are alive! That’s because your blog will grow as you continue to publish posts or pages regularly to your blog. In contrast, many niche websites are seldom modified or updated after they are created. Benefit #2 Blogs are designed to publish and update contents easily once you have them set up, configured and running. Once you get the hang of it, it’s a matter of getting into that habit of writing blog posts and pages and publishing them regularly. Benefit #3 They are either FREE or cost very little to set up. You can create your blogs easily by visiting blogger.com or wordpress.org and taking time to study and learn the “how-to”. That’s because your blog will grow as you continue to publish posts or pages regularly to your blog. In contrast, many niche websites are seldom modified or updated after they are created.Benefit #4 You can make money with your niche blogs in many ways, such as: – Publishing third-party ads in your blogs (eg. Google Adsense pubishing) – Recommending affiliate products and services in your blogs (eg. Amazon) Benefit #5 Unlike websites, blogs are interactive. Visitors, or blog readers, are usually allowed to post comments for a blog post (or article) to the blog owner. This ‘dialog’ helps to build rapport and relationship between the blog owner and his visitors or members. Benefit #6 Since blogs are usually updated regularly via blog posts and pages, blogs will rank higher in search engines as compared to websites. In contrast, you have to do a lot of tweaking to a niche website through Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques. Search engines will visit your blogs more regularly as you blog more regularly. Unlike websites, blogs are interactive. Visitors, or blog readers, are usually allowed to post comments for a blog post (or article) to the blog owner. This ‘dialog’ helps to build rapport and relationship between the blog owner and his visitors or members.Thus, you can also place links of your other websites to get them indexed quickly by the search engines. You can syndicate the contents of your blog by allowing other website publishers to publish your feed (or channel) on their sites. This helps to bring more traffic to your blogs as the visitors of these sites subscribe to your feed via web-based or desktop newsreaders.Benefit #7 A blog’s syndication function is its most powerful benefit! You can syndicate the contents of your blog by allowing other website publishers to publish your feed (or channel) on their sites. This helps to bring more traffic to your blogs as the visitors of these sites subscribe to your feed via web-based or desktop newsreaders. So, with the above benefits, doesn’t it make a lot of sense to start building niche blogs as quickly as possible?
Benefits of Building A Blog Opt-In List
Well for starters, it is FREE to have a blog. But why you have to choose to build a blog?
Not a normal website. Let’s read why.
A blog is basically your own website that you can use for whatever purpose you like. To talk about current event or your favorite topics, or you can use it to market and promote stuff.
You may heard that sometime Internet marketers call it niche marketing. It is all the same. More recently, people have been realizing the benefits of using their blogs to create an opt-in list.
The money truly is in the list, trust me! From a general quality list, you should be able to gain ROI as high as 1000% or more. And the ROI will continue increasing because when you have a better relationship with your list, you will be able to gain more.
All you have to do is set up your blog to have an email address form on it. Then, you write a short, informative report on the topic of your niche and offer it to your readers for FREE in exchange for their email address.
Simple, but it is so effective. Your readers (and future customers for life!) will type in their first name and email address into your auto-responder form (look up auto-responder if you are not familiar with what it is) in order to download your free report.
You’ll harvest their email addresses, you have begun building your blog opt-in list!
Now you have so many opportunities to make money with your list once you have built a responsive one.
Remember, your list does NOT have to be huge in order to make you a recurring income that you can live very comfortably off of.
It is all about the relationship you create/build with your list and the quality of the material that you give them (and also sell them).
An opt-in list is a vital and valuable asset for any business, especially online ones.
A blog is just a great tool for you to use to build your list. It’s free, it gets picked up easily by the search engines, it’s a wide used platform that you can find additional functionality easily and it looks professional!
To be able to build a list for FREE that can earn you literally millions of dollars is quite an incredible phenomenon and we should all be grateful for this great opportunity.
