Make Money Blogging
July 11, 2008
You want to get rich quick, to make tons of money quickly? Great! You are on the right place, because in that case I want to tell you: „Go try with Lotto“! You may heard that there are people on the internet making millions of bucks. You heard well, but please realize they haven’t done that overnight. Behind those successes are good ideas, hard work and perseverance. But it’s the life, you know the story of your favorite sportsman and what he had to sacrifice until the success has arrived. Are you ready for that? Don’t get me wrong, I just want to warn you that blogging and particularly building online business is time-consuming.
So if you are starting with blog monetization right now, just few notes. Don’t blog just to blog, pick the topic on something you’re passionate about. The topic you’re confident to build business around. The topic you want to blog it anyway, for enjoy, not money, and the cash will probably come. So, blog about the topic where you can provide a value and good information to readers. Find your passion, and see is there money in the market. If there is no money in the market, then know it in advance.
In any case…persist. Persist to CRAP, which means Criticism-Rejection-Assholes-Pressure. On this topic watch this movie and see the point of these words.
Monetization options
The most important in monetizing and online business building is to have a plan. In essence, consider this before you go further: What can I offer to thrill people? -> How I offer it? -> How I can make it profitable?
The best way to make money online is to have own products. Of course, there are also alternatives. If you are promoting affiliate programs, then it’s better to create an expert website around particular topic, made full with beneficial information, in front of your selected affiliate links (rather than splashing around all different types of affiliate programs. There are always new advertisement sharing and affiliate programs, so feel free to explore. Here is just a quick list of advertisement sharing programs to start you off:
1.Advertisement revenue sharing programs:
- Google Adsence – ad revenue sharing - old timer in this field,
- Chitika – reliable ad revenue sharing, on the market since 2003,
- Text-Link-Ads – besides the site they monetize your RSS feeds,
- Pay Per Play – new kid in the block, but innovative where you get paid for audio ads playing on your site.
2. Only for bloggers:
- get paid to blog about other companies. On the network you apply for the opportunity to blog about, while accepting the advertiser prize (usually you can get 5-10$ per post). This kind of posting is not seen as a value at Google, so you should know that it can harm your Search Engines Page Rank. However Page Rank is not the most important matter, and if you are choosing this monetization option, its quite ok.
This is end of the 5th step from How to create a successful blog. Happy blogging!
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Perfect Articles Writing Trick!
July 11, 2008
You’ve probably heard it, the known phrase, ‘content is king’. Fine, if content is king then how the heck can we increase the quantity of content and actually produce constant documents for our web sites? I mean we’ve all been there, writing article after article in purpose for submitting and posting to our sites, blogs or article directories. And the more we write the less enthusiastic we start to become about creating a successful online business. We have to face it, writing needs time. On the other hand, as web site owners and publishers we need constant fresh content. So, how can we bypass the one thing that all internet marketers hate doing?
This is the 2nd step from web site and blog content tips, so lets see where is the content solution.
How important is constant web site content?
Well, here’s the true. At Alexa.com (web sites traffic information company) you can check top 500 global web sites, top 100 by country or browse through top traffic sites by category. Now, pay attention. What’s common for most of these top ranked web sites is a large number of pages. There are sites with hundred thousands even millions of pages. If you don’t see correlation between large content and traffic just continue reading.
Since setting up a blog is not a pain, let me show you how blogging can be useful in driving constant traffic to the site. If you already have own blog, then you probably know that with every new article you bring out, its actually opportunity for people all over the world to find your weblog content. A single page of content you write and publish provides many different ways for someone to find it. And if you are checking your web stats, then you already know that you are getting traffic from keywords that you didn’t try to optimize for. This is just happening naturally, i.e. people are finding long tail phrases that weren’t your primary goal for that article. Well, by having a lot of different pages it increases your chances to get ranked for all different phrases. Okay, you can see the correlation among large number of documents and traffic, and the blog is probably the best way to put that content online.
So, if you’re really serious about running an online business, and if you’re serious about generating a lot of traffic you absolutely need to provide constant content on a regular basis. And don’t be afraid if you’re not a good writer or simply you lack the time, because there is a solution. The solution is to hire someone to do the job for you. Even if you’re confident with writing you probably cannot provide needful number of documents by yourself. Quite simple, the solution is in using private label articles.
PLR articles are solution!
If you haven’t heard about PLR (private label rights) articles then it’s basically this – content that someone else has been writing for you, and you are able to take and use those documents as your own. Those articles you can submit to article directories, post on your web site, blog, put in an email series or any other method where you need content. From the moment you take documents they are your private and you can do whatever you want with them (rewrite, cut them or post it entirely).
So where is it? Where can you go to find a whole bunch of documents to use as your own? First let’s see what private label content isn’t. The option of taking content from the many article directories out there is possible, but it’s NOT PLR. There is one thing that limits this method and that is the fact that you cannot rewrite articles from article directories. You are required to add the author’s name that comes attached to the article you want to use. This means their link will also have to appear on your page. The other disadvantage is the fact, hundreds if not thousands of other marketers out there would be doing exact the same thing. Having the same page on your site as thousands of other people makes it incredibly hard to rank in the search engines.
So what’s the other option? The other option would be to pay for your PLR content, services which are providing you constant content for your web site. There are many services that offer content to their members. This usually means you’ll have to share the content with a limited number of people. However there are some things you need to look out for.
First, how many people will have access to the same content as you? If the service you are looking at requires you to share their content with a thousand other members, then what’s the point? In that case, you may go out and grab content from article directories.
Secondly, work out how much you’ll be paying per article. If a membership cost $100 and in that membership you’re going to have access to two hundred articles that would mean the cost per article is going to be $0.50. Therefore a membership that offered 400 articles would make the cost per article half of that.
Who is the best PLR Articles Provider?
You can do a Google search, and you can discover many cheaper PLR services, but they are also less generous in content delivery. We know that the more is better, but we have to pay attention that its not quantity so much as it is a quality. You need both, lot of documents, but it has to be good stuff. So my recommendation
is PLRpro. Why are they special? Here’s a basic overview of what a PLRPro membership contains:
- 440 articles across 11 niches (40 articles in each niche);
- SEO optimized articles;
- Full keyword research in each niche;
- Affiliate lists for each niche;
- Header Graphics for each niche;
- 5 Website Templates each month;
- Articles done in 8 languages;
- 50 PR4 sites that you can get links from to get your sites indexed and crawled.
See for yourself PLRpro is solid company, the Worlds #1 PLR content provider, and they have very well reputation not just because of the quality they bring to the table in regards to PLR articles, but also because of the additional education and material that they provide for free.
Oh, one tip for the end…these PLR articles you do not want to use just for your website. They are your own content, so submit it to article directories, too. This way, people who find your article useful for their site, will have obligation to include your name as an author and your site link. This is constant traffic source, and it’s much better situation from opposite when you’re the one who is going to article directories to pick documents. As a writer you control the situation!
Your writing voice!
July 11, 2008
How to find self writing “Voice” especially if your blog is business oriented? It’s Easy!
It’s much like writing a personal journal on topic of your interest. Here are some tips to initiate you:
- Write in a manner that’s entirely natural to you (use words and phrases that you would use naturally in speech);
- Let your views and passions emerge through your writing;
- Use imagery and metaphors to make your writing more vivid and articles interesting;
- Write for your visitors. Imagine who you’re writing for and ‘speak’ directly to them like they are sitting in the same room with you.
This is the 2nd step from web site and blog content tips, so lets see how to establish a writing voice!
Making the difference in business blogging
Blogging is important because if someone is going to do business with you, they have to like you, or at least to respect you. People are sick of cold corporations, 
and they want a real human being they can identify with. So don’t be afraid to be “normal“. Don’t be afraid to be YOU. If you are reserved, there is a risk that your message will not come to people who will like and respect you. Setting aside could dilute your online business. So once more time “don’t be afraid to write articles in manner that is common to you and don’t be afraid to be yourself”.
It’s important to be professional, but don’t be so professional that you kill your personality. Let me make additional note here. Most people who visit my blog don’t care much about me, what is logical, because they are coming here to pick information that are relevant to them, but it’s important the people understand that behind this site and documents is real human, and not some automation or robot work.
You can put your picture on the weblog, what your background is…where you’re from…what you like to do…some of your beliefs and values… etc, but note that there is a difference between giving your personal story and using personality in your writing voice.
The formula is: When you are watching a movie you are not getting character whole bio before the film has begun. You are meeting the character through scenes and situations. The same is with blogging. As a blog author imagine yourself as a movie character.
You can put your personality through blogging, but if your weblog is business oriented why should you review Indiana Jones movie? (Except if your blog is about films). Who cares what you think about latest blockbuster or music concert? Your readers want content on the topic of your site. However there is a difference if you mention somewhere in the post and go further or to have one such a post in 15 to 20. Don’t forget to respect your readers time, they are your partners. By the way, do you think Harrison Ford is too old for such adventures?
Above all, concentrate on your blog topic and remember that writing is a communication, and you have to establish a connection between yourself and your readers. Even if your blog is business type, the best way to establish a connection is when your personality comes through in your writing.
Go back to more web site and blog content tips,
Catchy Headlines and Linkbait tips
July 11, 2008
How important are headlines for a blog post?
The more you focus on readers benefits in your headline, the more readers you’ll have. Quite simple, with good catchy spiced headline you are getting people attention, and more likely they will click on the headline which is pointing some solution to the problem or needful benefit.
Here are some examples of catchy beneficial headlines which you can use like patterns for your weblog:
And here is a tool for emotional and compelling production of headlines and headings:
Plus, if we, for a second, focus on the search engine optimization for headlines, keyword stuffing (keyword overuse) will not lead you far away. It still needs to be quite catchy and spicy as possible, because search engine result pages are places where people will browse in their search to find something on the particular topic. And guess which headline the most people will click on? Of course, the one which is pointing the most benefit for them! Want a proof? Here is a video from seobook on headline topic:
Oh, by the way, with headings you are scoring at search engines, so you should have at least one on the page.
Linkbait topics
You know, linkbait is something on your web site that causes someone to link to you. To be buzz worth, 
blog post has to have at least one element of these:
- Lists,
- Videos,
- Thought Leadership,
- How to (educational),
- Something new to the market,
- Controversial,
- Humor,
- Sweet,
- Taboo,
- A Secret,
- Anticipation.
And here are some examples of linkbaits:
- Link building,
- Social news,
- Good links,
- More comments techniques,
- Nofollow bookmarks,
- Gen y is going to change the web.
Enjoy blogging and I advise you to check my other content and writing tips!
Content & Writing Techniques
July 11, 2008
“Content is king”. Though even better is if we emphasize that “QUALITY content is king”. The website’s and blog’s owner must provide helpful and valuable content, write interesting articles that will make repeat visitors and buzz about the website. This is the 4th step from How to create a successful blog.
A writing schedule brings professionalism
Before we jump into “4 web content steps”, I want to make it clear, if you are blogging as a hobby, it will stay hobby! This is vital. What professional publishers do that amateurs do not? Fact is, they have a publishing schedule. I will share my way. You can follow that guide, adjust it to yourself, or simply ignore it. However you should know the secret that actually distinguishes serious bloggers from those who are just playing around is established writing schedule.
Every Monday I am creating my 3 articles for coming week. And that day, I don’t do any other work until I finish that. Later that week I will publish them one by one. I can make additional daily posts to my weblog, but my 3 articles are always ready. I can write article from scratch or rewrite PLR document, it doesn’t matter. The point is, this is giving me space and freedom throughout the week. Does this make sense to you?
And this is leading us to question “How often to post?” It’s something that can be arguable. Actually, it depends of your weblog purpose, structure and topic. For example, if you are a blogger making income from Google Adsence, and similar types of advertisement, then you will prefer to write on a daily basis. On the other hand, if your weblog is additional to your site or other income type, then probably you do not need that writing pace. Remember, your goal is to provide a value on the first place. If you are just starting the blog, whatever the purpose is, you should try to post every day for first 3 to 4 months, or even twice a day. Because more likely is that person visiting your blog, will bookmark it only if there is enough content. And you can provide it only if you publish documents often. After 3, 4 months, I think, 3-4 posts a week is quite enough, but as I said, it depends on weblog purpose. In any case, bear in mind that every new post is bringing new visitors.
And by the way, most people do not read much these days. So, keep it simple, in most cases about 500 words (better 300-400) per weblog article with related image or video is adequate for blogging. Producing longer articles is always a risk the people will run away from it.
Despite what you may have heard, you do not have to be Ernest Hemingway to have a good blog. The point with blogging is that no one is asking from the author to write stories for the Nobel Prize. Blogging is casual way to stay connected with your readers, customers or friends. And it’s much easier if you use some tools to provide web site content. Let’s see how to get quality documents and which tools and techniques can be useful:
Step 1: Who else want catchy headlines and linkbait tips?
Step 2: How to establish a self writing voice?
Step 3: Perfect articles writing trick!
Step 4: Grab the tools! (coming soon)
WordPres Blog META Tags Optimization
July 11, 2008
Welcome to 4th WordPress SEO Video Tutorial. This video is showing you how to configure “All in one SEO” WordPress plugin, which installation you have seen in previous video. If you are using WordPress version latter than 2.5 you will find options for this plugin in your WordPress admin/ settings/ All in one SEO.
Keyword in Title tag
Its most important part of tag optimization. Your page title is the link that will appear in search results. Since it is what people click on in the search results and is the first thing people see about your site. Keyword in Title tag should be close to beginning. Title tag with 10 - 60 characters, and without special characters.
Keyword in Description META tag
This plugin enables you to put Meta description for every post so you can put keywords there. Description Meta tag is average important for search engines. However certainly it should be complement to the page title and bear in mind that your description will show up on Search Engine Results Page when someone is searching. Basically, you want to describe and optimize your posts for humans rather than spamming with too much keywords (overuse of keywords can lead to Google penalization). So do not do this:
blog | blogging | |SEO| WordPress plugin | Meta Optimization
You should write natural descriptive sentences for Meta. You want to be teasing enough to somebody click on it. Imagine yourself like you are writing an ad for your post.
Keyword in Keyword META tag
- Every word in this tag must appear somewhere in the body text. If not, it can be penalized for irrelevant specification.
- No single word should appear more than twice. Other way it may be considered spam. (I found this really hard to do).
Keyword meta tag optimization is not so important, Google purportedly no longer uses this tag, but other engines do.
Here is the source where you can find more SEO optimization guidance of this kind.
Update: In the video you can see that both categories and archives are not set for noindex search engines, but due to duplicate content possibilities, I recommend you set it like on this screenshoot from my blog. This way Google will index categories, but will bypass archives and you will bypass penalties from Google for duplicate content. You can comfortably display your archive on your WordPress weblog, they will just be avoided by search engines (your categories pages will be ranked).
WordPress SEO plugin
July 11, 2008
Welcome to the 3rd video of WordPress SEO Video Tutorial. In this video you will see how to install “All in one SEO” plugin for your WordPress blog. This way your weblog will be much more search engine friendly.
If this is your first time installing some plugin, then it’s great you will see video guide, and I suppose its much easier then reading how-to text file. Also note, almost all WordPress plugins installation is pretty the same. After the first installation, you will be confident with any plugin setup.
Download All in one SEO plugin and watch how to install it.
You may also want to check my post on must have WordPress plugins. Enjoy blogging!
Update: this video has been created with WordPress 2.3 and since then WordPress team has released upgrade version, and you will probably use version above 2.5 for your weblog. You should know that this will NOT affect on this tutorial, only pay attention that “plugins” link in WordPress above 2.5 is at the up right corner of the WordPress admin (in the video it’s on the left side).
Install WordPress
July 11, 2008
This is the 1st video of WordPress SEO Video Tutorial, showing you how to install WordPress blog on your URL. Its famous 5 minute WordPress installation, though this video is a little bit longer, because if this is your first time to setup the WordPress blog then it’s better that we go slowly, so you will not miss any step.
If your host support Fantastico installation, in your Cpanel find the icon like this one on the right side, click on it and follow simple instruction. Its very easy, Fantastico will add WordPress blog to your URL. Alternatively, download WordPress and install it yourself. Off course, watch how to do that with this video tutorial. Enjoy blogging!
Note: in the video WordPress has been installed in “blog” folder, but if you do NOT want your weblog to look like this www.mydomainname.com/blog and you want your blog to be installed as a home page (www.mydomainname.com) then simply instead uploading WordPress files to “blog” folder, just upload everything to “public.html” folder.
Structure A SEO Blog
July 11, 2008
Keeping blog organized is very important, making navigation smooth for you and for readers. As blog organization I think on building WordPress as silos, what in essence means thematically. Purpose of silos creating is to help Google and other search engines easier to see the site, indexing it in the right way, and eventually bringing more traffic. WordPress categories are helping so much for proper silo building. Besides that, in this article, I will guide you through plugin and pinging organization for WordPress. So, if you’re not sure how properly to build and organize your WordPress weblog, here is a clue:
Blog’s Tagline
Tagline is important, because it shows in search engine results. Besides that, it also displays in the browser’s tag when your website loads.
To set up weblog’s tagline, go to your WordPress admin / Settings / General, and enter the name and tagline for your weblog.
Make sure to include your major keyword, and even better, if you can, put it as a first word of the phrase.
Why Blog Categories Are Important?
Here we are coming to building WordPress in silo way. I have researched and watched several videos, and found this one from seomoz helpful and the easiest to understand. Watch the video and see what I mean.
In short, keep your categories organized:
- so your visitors can navigate through your WordPress weblog better and easily can find what they want
- in purpose of search engine optimization (silo organized categories help search engine to see properly your site, giving you better SEO rank and eventually send you more traffic),
- In silo-ed categories you need deep linking, to link your posts to other posts in the same silo. For example, if your silos (categories) are “SEO” and “WordPress,” then the goal is to have your SEO posts interlinking with one another and your WordPress posts interlinking with one another.
Manage Categories for your WordPress:
- Use paper and pen to design your blog;
- Go to your WordPress admin/ Manage/ Categories, and set up your categories and sub-categories. Make sure the keyword for your topic or sub-niche is included in your category name;
- Use the “description” box to enter a phrase that will show up when the visitor’s cursor hovers over the category name.
WordPress Plugins
With WordPress you can easily install add-ons called plugins which will bring more functionality to your blog. There are hundreds of them from helping you to optimize for Search Engines to translating blog in other languages, or saving it from spam comments.
Installing and Activating Plugins - Watch my WordPress weblog video tutorials. There you will find how to install and which plugins are important for search engine optimization. The installation is quite similar for all of them, and once you install the first WordPress plugin, you will be confident with configuration of others as well. Further you can browse through WordPress plugins directory.
Internal links
To connect your pages use anchor text. You can check at Wikipedia but in sum anchor text is clickable hyperlink, giving you option to put keywords, and if you are linking from the page that has good page rank, it will boost page rank of the blog post you are linking to, eventually boosting the SEO rank and getting more traffic to that blog post. At seomoz this process has been explained in details.
Additionally to that, I encourage you to check Ian Roger’s post The Google Pagerank Algorithm and How It Works. It will give you an idea how to interact your blog links.
Now, this is very important. I already said that you can watch WordPress Video Tutorials, where you can see configuration of “All in one SEO”, “Google Sitemap” and couple more SEO important plugins. Nevertheless, I want to list 3 more plugins which are for advanced bloggers. What I mean, if you’re new to blogging and website building you can encounter terminology which can be confusing. If it’s your situation, then I suggest you go step by step with video tutorials first, and after that follow instructions for these plugins:
These plugins will give you more control in your blog structure linking. You will be able to determine nofollow for external links and you will have more control for your internal link juice.
You will notice mutual overlapping of some functions, and overlapping with “All in one SEO” and “Google Sitemap”, but it’s important to install and configure all these WordPress plugins, because every of them is bringing something unique. Where convergence is present, just disable that option for one of them (for example “WordPress SEO Master” meta description is overlapping with “All in one SEO” meta description - so I have just disabled this option in “WordPress SEO Master” plugin). It’s not wise just to install these plugins, so read carefully instructions from plugins sites and follow instructions on plugins options page in your WordPress admin.
Update: There is a new version of WordPress SEO Master plugin, which is covering all options from All in one SEO. So, now I see it’s smarter to disable “All in one SEO”, and let “WordPress SEO Master” do whole job.
External links
Use external links to provide relevant resources. If you are using Blogroll to exchange links with other bloggers, then stay in your niche, because Google can „penalize“ you and you can lose SEO traffic if you are linking too much to topics outside of yours. This also count for blog posts, i.e. external link has to be relevant to post topic.
Ping blog
When you publish new post on your WordPress blog, it automatically announces that content to various directories by “pinging” them. Here is the list of services I ping every time with new post:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://www.kping.com/ping/
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://rpc.twingly.com/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc
There is no need to adjust that every time, it needs to be set only once on your blog and it will be remembered for all next posts. To set up this, in your WordPress admin, just go to Settings/ Writing and scroll down to the bottom of the page and enter the links in the rectangle.
It is important to have pingomatic (or similar services) in the list. I saw many larger lists, but I do not see point if you ping Pingomatic and after separately ping many other services (technorati, weblogs…) which are already pinged with pingomatic. Similar service is kping. I use both (pingomatic and kping) because there are some directories that are not covered on pingomatic.
There’s just one more thing. You will certainly want to install plugin Smart Update Pinger. It will adjust your blog to ping directories only when you’re publishing a new post, not when editing (what will prevent blogging directories to see your pings as spam).
This is end of the 3rd step from How to create a successful blog? Happy silos building and happy blogging!
WordPress Video Tutorials
July 11, 2008
Welcome to the 2nd step from How to create a successful blog. If you’re just starting with blogging, and you have decided to go with WordPress as a publishing platform, what btw I see as a smart move, then this page can be helpful. You will find easy to follow video tutorials, which will guide you step by step. Nevertheless there are interesting references for bloggers who are not beginners.
First WordPress set of videos I call basics, though I am sure many bloggers have leapt some tips covered here and I advise them to check that. These videos will help you to optimize WordPress blog for search engines.
Besides basics, second WordPress set of videos are more advanced and they will cover work with Style.CSS, putting code for autoresponder in sidebar, work with images, and more similar things.
So let’s begin!
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