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How to be a HERO Blogger from a ZERO Blogger
On August 02, 2007 in Adsense, Beginner's Guides, Blogging, Make Money Online, Traffic Building
If you have started a new blog or you?re already a blog geek or thinking about starting a blog, there are things which you still want to know about blogging. This article may help you know some new ideas about blogging. Here are the stages of a blog and the ideas for monetization of a blog at different stages.
Crawling stage of a blog:
This stage is very important for every blog. At this stage every blogger is eager to take his/her blog to its next level. This is the stage where you?ve to concentrate on quality posts and SEO. At this stage you get the new visitors who are the source for your future traffic. If you impressed your new visitors at this stage they will publicize your blog by linking to your valuable posts (If it has a real value).
There are some steps to be followed at this stage.
- Write at least 5 pillar articles in your blog. Pillar articles are the articles which are the foundations of your blog. These articles are often liked by the readers and other bloggers will link to it from their blogs. Search for ?Pillar Article? at google to know more about it.
- Don?t expect income from your blog at this stage. In any business it is impossible to generate revenue at its starting stage. Blogging is also a business.
- Don?t litter your blog with advertisements. Concentrate only on quality of the posts.
- Visit blogs related to your niche and learn what they are doing at their blogs and why people like those blogs. Look at those blogs in a reader?s view and also in a blogger?s view.
- Post valuable comments in all blogs you frequently visit. This will give exposure to your blog among the people who blog about your niche.
- If there is Top Commentators plug-in installed in other blogs try to have your name in the top list.
- Participate in blog contests. This will get you backlinks and may be some cash or prize. But post the review before posting a quality post. This will reduce the visibility of reviews so that your blog don?t look like a blog meant only for reviews.
- Participate in blogcarnivals. Visit www.blogcarnival.com and search for the carnival related to your blog. Submit the link to your blog post which fits best to the carnival. Carnivals will bring targeted traffic and also get backlinks.
- Submit your blog to directories. Don?t pay for directory submission. Use Free Directory Submitter to submit your blog semi-automatically. Read the post http://www.aruntheace.com/link-building-for-new-blogs-part-1/ to know more about directory submission.
- Write a useful article in your niche and submit it to various article directories. Use Free Article Submitter to submit your article semi-automatically. This will bring tons of traffic if your article is really good. Read the post http://www.aruntheace.com/link-building-for-new-blogs-part-2/ to know more about article submission.
- ?Don?t expect income from your blog at this stage?- This doesn?t mean that not to have any advertisement at your blog. It means you should not expect the performance of your ads at this stage. You can have Adsense and Kontera in your blog at this stage. At this stage the income from your blog is very low. Obviously a blog with less traffic generates less income.
- Get a MyBlogLog account and create a MyBlogLog community. Place recent visitors widget from MyBlogLog and personally send thanks to all the people who visited your blog using MyBlogLog. This?ll bring some traffic.
- Link to other blogs in your niche and ask them for link exchange by personally sending an e-mail to them.
- You must have a contact page at your blog. This make your visitors trust you because you?re at a reaching distance to them.
- Have an About page in your blog and describe about you. It is better to have your photo at the about page.
- If possible conduct a contest at your blog and send emails to other blogs about your contest. This will bring nice traffic to your blog. Visit “The Golden Egg Contest” to know about the contest at this blog.
If you follow all the above steps, with in three months you?ll get at least a PR2 and also some nice traffic to your blog. Don?t have a fear about not having experience in blogging. Remember ?Sometimes Interest can do better than Experience?. Read the rest of this entry »
Make money online for Newbie -Part 1
On July 24, 2007 in Adsense, Beginner's Guides, Make Money Online
If you are new to the part of making money online and don?t have any idea where to start and how to start, this article is for you. There are many ways to make money online. Selecting the right way, which suits you, is the difficult part. This is the first article of the Make money online for Newbie series. In future, I?ll tell more ideas to make money online for newbie visitors.
Can you answer why you want to make money online?
?Is this a question? I need money, so I want to make money online? or ?I heard it is easy to make money online, so I want to make money online? Your answer may be anything. If you?re serious at making money online, you can.
Is it possible to make money without experience?
Everyone started without experience. So don?t worry about not having experience. ?Sometimes your interest can do better than your experience?.
How much I need to invest?
As a newbie I suggest you not to invest at the beginning. There are many ways you can make money online without any investment. All you have to invest is your time and creativity.
As I told you already, there are many ways you can make money online. You can make money quick from some methods and some methods go slow. Let?s discuss about a quick income generator and a slow one here.
Google Adsense:
Adsense is an advertising program from Google. This is a fast income generator. All you need to make money with AdSense is, a website or blog. Don?t worry. It is very simple to get a website for FREE. Here is a step by step guide to make money from Adsense.
- Create a gmail ID.
- Go to http://pages.google.com and login with your Gmail ID. Select a layout for your website.
- Now go to www.articlecity.com and select an article from any category which you like.
- Copy and paste the article you selected at Google Page Creator. Now your website is ready with an article.
- Hit Publish button at the Top. Visit your page at http://yourname.googlepages.com.
- Now go to www.adsense.com and create a new account and submit your website.
- You?ll be approved within two or three days. After approved by Adsense, logon to your Adsense account, and get your ad code and paste it at your website in HTML mode. (This sounds difficult for a newbie. But, it is simple after getting started.)
- Now you?ll get the Adsense Ads at your website.
- Refer your website to your friends and relatives. Post it in forums and do all things what you know to get visitors to your website.
- When any of your visitors click on your Adsense ad then you?ll be paid. Don?t try to click on your own Ads. If you do so, there are more chances you?ll be banned :ban: .
- Consider adding more articles to your website after some days. You can also write your own articles instead of using reprint articles. If you are not good at writing articles don?t try this now. Because, if it fail then your interest to make money online will ruin :dizzy: .
Visit Adsense Guide for Beginners1 and Adsense Guide for Beginners2 before making money with Adsense.
Make money with myLot.
myLot is a website which connects people with a unique interest ? ?Make money Online?. This is a slow income generator. The concept of myLot is very simple. myLot allows its users to start and participate in discussions. To start a discussion and to take part in the discussions you will be paid. Discussions should be under the guidelines of myLot. You will be paid through paypal or ikobo after reaching the minimum payout $10. Its very simple to make money online with myLot.
Here is a sample discussion:
Discussion
?Is it possible to make money online??
Replies
User 1: Yes. There are many ways to make money online. I suggest you to start a website, which will generate more income. Visit http://www.aruntheace.com for more money making ideas.
User 2: I think all the make money online schemes are spam. It is not possible to make money online. You can generate a small sum for spending more time.
And thus the discussion goes on?.
How myLot generates revenue?
myLot now has more than 100,000 users who wants to make money online. From this huge user base myLot is generating handsome money from Adsense and other advertisements. They will pay a small sum from their revenue to its users.
I earned nearly $35 within 2 months but I spent very less time at myLot :smile: . Now there is no time for me to visit myLot. If you participate in more discussions, then you will be paid more.
As a newbie you can start both the above ways to make money online. All the best to make more income soon :angel: .
Link Building for New Blogs -Part 1
On July 22, 2007 in Beginner's Guides, SEO, Traffic Building
Link Popularity is one of the most important offpage factor in SEO. Link popularity directly relates with the PageRank and top Search Engine Position. Link popularity is the count of websites that points to your website. Link building is one of the difficult and time consuming parts in Search Engine Optimization. There are two types of links.
One way Link:
These are links that points only to your website without having any link from your website. X links to Y and Y don?t have any link to X.
Reciprocal Link:
These are links which are exchanged between two websites. X links to Y and Y links to X.
While building links it is must to have links from Quality websites. There are many chances for getting penalized by search engines :ban:, if you have links from poor websites.
Why it is hard for a new blogger to build links?
- With no Pagerank other blogs won?t link you.
- Popular blogs expect links from other blogs with high traffic.
- You can get links only from other new blogs which may be a poor link.
How a new blogger can build links?
Web Directories:
Submitting to Web directories will get quality links for your blog. There are many directories where you can get one way links. Here is a list of FREE Non-Reciprocal directories. Start building links from the very first day you started your blog. Do this process steadily and slowly.
Here are some Blog Directories where you can submit your blog to get some targeted traffic.
www.bloggernity.com
www.blogz-search.com
www.blogrankings.com
www.blogcatalog.com/directory
You can also get a FREE Directory Submitter which lets you submit your blog to more than 400 directories semi-automatically. In my next post about Link Building, I will tell about Submitting articles for Building links:smile:.
Check your blog/website’s Link Popularity here.
Adsense Guide2: Getting more from Adsense
On July 18, 2007 in Adsense, Beginner's Guides
Now you?ve a website ready with adsense and you?re making money from it. What you did till now to generate income from adsense is just Copy & Paste the ad code and placed it in your website. Right?
Be honest and tell, are you earning more from Adsense? Maybe you are lucky and you can get more clicks. But to make serious income from adsense, you need to do some tweaks. Here I discussed some tweaks to double your adsense income.
The Color of the Ad matters
Match the adsense ads to the theme of your website. Keep the background of the ad as your website?s background. Remove the border of the Ad. Match the color of the links to the rest of the links in your website. This tweak will greatly improve your clickthroughs.
Ad placement
After tweaking the color of the ad, you?ve to place your ads in correct position.
- Place the ads at the top of any page. This will make a great visibility to your ads.
- Use large rectangle ads in-between the content. This is a proven format for high CTRs. Because the ads looks like normal webpage links.
- Keep the link units appear in your header.
- Use the referral buttons along the sidebar.
These are some basic and general Ad placement ideas. But it differs website to website. So, test your ad in different positions and choose the one, which performs well.
Use Ad Units
Most of the people are not serious about the income potential of Ad-Units. If you have an ad unit with 4 topics then you?re serving 4X10=40 ads. If any of your visitor click on the ad unit, then there are more chances for him/her to click on any one ad among the 10ads displayed. Just give a try with Ad-Units and see its income potential. I suggest you this because this trick worked fine for me.
Making money from Search
Webmasters use this rarely. Because the chances for a visitor to search from your website is very less. Don?t think like this. If a visitor searches from your site then your ads will be displayed till that session ends. So if he/she searches 1 time or 10 times in google, the ads served will be yours. So give a try to search box.
Create channels for each website and test which is performing well and follow it. These tips will help you earn more from Adsense.
Visit Adsense Guide 1: Adsense for beginners to know more about Adsense.
Adsense Guide1: Adsense for beginners
On July 18, 2007 in Adsense, Beginner's Guides, Blogging, Make Money Online
What is Adsense?
Adsense is an advertising program from Google. Adsense offers an opportunity to website/blog owners of any size, to make money by placing advertisements on their pages.
The working principle of Adsense is like this- The website/blog owners have to place the adsense ad code on their pages along with the content. Google will read the content and display relevant advertisements. Since the advertisements are relevant to the content, they may attract the visitors. If any visitor clicks on the advertisement, google will get money from the advertiser for the click and share it with the website/blog owner.
To make money with Adsense you need a website or blog. After creating such one you have to apply for Adsense. Within 1-3 days you will be approved or rejected. Only if your website/blog is very bad then google will reject you. It is easy to get approved by google. So, I don?t want to tell more about ?How to get approved by google adsense??. If you have a problem in getting approved by google adsense, just comment here with your e-mail. I will assist you to get approved.
After getting approved by adsense log-on to your account and look around. There are three tabs ?Reports?, ?Adsense Setup? and ?My Account?.
Reports tab is used to view the performance of your websites. Here you have to know about three terms.
Impressions: This is the number of times your webpage with adsense is viewed. Your CTR (discussed below) will be more if the impressions are more. If your website?s traffic increases then the impressions will increase.
Clickthroughs (CTR): This is the percentage of visitors clicked on the advertisements.
Effective CPM (eCPM): This is a calculation that how much you will get for thousand clicks (in average).
To make adsense advertisements to your website just go to Adsense Setup. You can earn from the following options.
From content ads, link units, for search and for referrals. All you have to do is, just copy the ad code generated and place it in your website where you want to display the ads.
Content ads and Link units: You can get the ad code after selecting color for your ad units. Select colors which match to your website. Use your creativity here. There are many ad formats to select with. Select the one which suits you.
Search: You can get the search code here. If someone searches from your website and clicked on any advertisement in the search result page, you?ll be paid. You can also use this tool to search within your website.
Referrals: You can promote products like firefox, Adsense or Adwords. You have different buttons to select with.
Add your website to URL channels to view its performance. If you explorer more within your adsense page, you?ll be clear with how to use adsense within your page.
Visit Google Adsense?s official blog if you?ve any doubts.
Blogging Guide - A guide for beginners to make money from blogging
On July 18, 2007 in Beginner's Guides, Blogging, Make Money Online
Blogging is a hobby which brings in revenue. Making money from blog sounds like an easy job. But it is not that easy and even it is not hard too. Here is a guide for beginners to Blogging.
What is a blog?
?A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order? ? this is how a blog is defined by Wikipedia. A blog is just a collection of your views towards something. Others will see your views and comment on it. Simple ah!
Decide your subject
It?s very easy to start a blog. Before starting a blog, you have to decide about the subject in which your blog will be. In my view this is the most difficult part. Select a subject in which you are most familiar with. There?s no need that your topic should be technical. You can also post your daily habits as writing in a dairy. What all needed is interesting content, which make your visitors to be in your blog.
Create your blog
Starting a blog is completely free. As a beginner I suggest you to start a blog with www.blogger.com. You need a Google account to start your blog at blogger. This is an easy part and I don?t want to tell these basic things and we?ll skip them.
Select a proper name for your blog. Your blog name should be related to your subject. Now your blog is ready for posts.
Write a post
Write an article about your subject. Write it in an interesting manner. I suggest you to use a text editor with built-in spell checker. This will be very helpful to avoid spelling and grammar mistakes. I use ms-word while writing my article. After writing the article, check it twice before posting. Keep writing posts with 300-1000 words. The length of the post is not a matter if it is interesting. Your visitor will not waste time in reading lengthy posts. All your visitor need is something interesting. Keep this in mind while writing your post.
- Give attractive titles to your posts.
- Write at least 4-5 articles a week in the beginning.
Make money with your blog
Making money with your blog is the great part in blogging. There are many income sources for a blog. Here are some of my money makers for beginners.
Adsense is an advertising program from Google. After posting 5-6 articles in your blog apply to Adsense. Your application will be reviewed and you will be approved or rejected within 1-3 days. Know more about Adsense before applying for it.
Auctionads is an affiliate network which promotes ebay products through your website/blog. You will get $5 just for signing up with auctionads.
If you are rejected by Adsense then I suggest you to come to bidvertiser. This is a network similar to Adsense. The minimum payout is $10 which is attractive.
These income sources are enough for a beginner. After doing experiments with these sources you can search for other.
Getting traffic to your blog
Getting traffic to your blog is the difficult part unless you work at least an hour a day with your blog. As a beginner I suggest you to post your blog in social networking websites like orkut, mylot or myspace.
There arise many doubts in your mind after reading this guide. You can get a clear picture about blogging if you start your blog and do the experiments practically. Even then if you are not clear, post your doubt as comment. I will help you clear your doubt.
