Sep | 05 | 2007

Gaining Traffic and Earning thru Blogs

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Linking, Monetization, Promotion, Tips My blog : the QuickStop has been receiving steady traffic for the past few months and lately I've noticing that my Google Adsense clicks have been receiving a steady amount of clicks a day. I now I earn about $2-$5 a day at my blog it's small compared to the big players but heck it's a start... It's better than $0.13 a week or about $0.92 from the previous months since I started the QuickStop Project... hehehe. What you need to do to make people click your ads is a steady flow of traffic and commitment. You may ...

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Aug | 16 | 2007

Marketing Your Blog: The 4 Ps Continued (Pricing and Placement)

Posted by Guru as Design and Themes, Marketing and Search Optimization, Monetization, Promotion Pricing - Pricing is not an issue when it comes to blogs. We all know that blogs can be read by anyone for free, which is one of the reasons why they are so popular. What you can do though is offer value added services to those interested. You can offer special articles that tackle specialized topics in depth and make it accessible to subscribers for a fee. Make sure though that you always price everything reasonably and give your subscribers their money's worth. Placement/Distribution - Placement, in the traditional sense, is not really pertinent when it comes to marketing blogs. ...

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Jun | 06 | 2007

More Opportunities To Earn Adsense Income With Link Units

Posted by Brix as Blog Tutorials News, Monetization The Inside AdSense group announced on their blog some important policy updates today: now you can place up to three link units on a page. As we've noted in the past, link units are a great way to provide relevant, user-friendly ads in hard-to-fit locations on your site. With the new opportunity to place three link units -- and the plethora of link unit formats -- we hope you'll find great ways of incorporating this unique ad format on your site. Posted by Julie Beckmann - AdSense Publisher Support This is a good news for bloggers. Ad link units ...

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May | 23 | 2007

Who Clicks Them Anyway?

Posted by Benj as Monetization, Opinion We all know that Google AdSense holds a huge potential that is waiting to be tapped as far as monetization goes. In Brix's previous article, he tackled the basic game plan on how to make money off Adsense. My colleague was right in stating that the basic idea is to: 1) get visitors to go to your site and 2) make them click your ads. If you're like most people, you would soon realize that Google Ads just don't click themselves.When you're just starting out, chances are, most your visitors are people who behave like average Joes - i.e. they're the types who consciously ignore the ads while reading your blog. Since a majority of people are likely to purposely block out ads - let alone click them --- have you ever stopped and wondered? Who clicks them anyway?!

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May | 18 | 2007

2 Basic Principles To Get Adsense Blog Income

Posted by Brix as Blog Tutorial, Marketing and Search Optimization, Monetization The basic principles that bloggers have been following to get passive income online: 1. Get many people to come to your website 2. Get them to click on your Adsense links Sounds simple enough. Get people into your website from Google search, then link out to an Adsense Ad. Search In - Adsense Out. If you don't know adsense yet, read about it. It's a way to make money fo Practically applying it to get sufficient commendable income, however, can be quite a challenge. The first problem is how to get many visitors to your website. That's where web marketing and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) comes in. SEO is the ...

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Apr | 22 | 2007

Techniques to Learn from the Probloggers

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Design, Design and Themes, Marketing and Search Optimization, Monetization, Monetization Features, Promotion, Submissions, Templates, Terminology, Tips There are various approaches and techniques towards blogging. It has been preached that anyone can take up this new gift of technology but no one has an idea of what it can give them in return. Blog Student

It can give them a means of honing their grammar, build their confidence level and share to the world the ramblings in the mind of the normal person. However, it remains that people have to discover what blogs are really meant for. They are more than just online diaries. They are potential keys that can help develop a person ...

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Apr | 21 | 2007

An Apprenticeship for Promising Blog Careers

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Design, Design and Themes, Monetization, Opinion, Plugins, Promotion, Spam, Submissions, Syndication, Templates, Terminology, Tips Many see blogging as a plain write and post scenario. Others use it as a means of training themselves for better things to look forward to such as perhaps leading towards being among the professional bloggers that are in demand today. Anyone can be a problogger if they so choose. All it needs is exposure and practice. Blogger Apprenticeship Program

All probloggers have started from the same area. It just needs to be remembered that all things need practice. This is what new bloggers are up to today. Blogging starts from an apprenticeship stage to ...

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Apr | 20 | 2007

Blog within Your Comfort Zone

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Monetization, Promotion, Syndication, Templates, Terminology, Tips Many people take up blogging for a purpose. People blog to share insights, talk about issues and topics and about things where they are good at. However, today people have seen blogging more than just pure freedom of speech. It has become a weapon to make assaults towards issues as well, something that has triggered governing bodies to step in and put a control to such. Comfort Zone Blogging

There are limitations to blogging. One of them is to watch whom you would bump off or attack. Sincerity and respect should still be in line although most ...

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Apr | 17 | 2007

Technical Words May Dismay Your Blog Audience

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Monetization, Opinion, Promotion, Spam, Templates, Terminology, Tips a puzzled reader

Anyone who blogs is out to impress people. The use of deep-meaning words, technical adages, and uncommon terminologies may be appreciated in some ways. But they can also be a means of turning away the blog reader class you may cater to for the reason that they are too hard to understand. One thing about blogs is that they were made for a reason. This reason is that of easily understanding the usual hard to understand terminologies in the easiest way possible through detailed explanation through the view of a professional. This is the level to ...

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Apr | 15 | 2007

Bloggers should Think like Readers

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Monetization, Opinion, Syndication, Tips The secret towards attracting attention for all blogs is to find a certain topic of interest that caters to their fancy. To do so, bloggers must think in the same way as the average reader or visitor, itemizing the potential areas of interest that can be very broad. It could cover the areas of business, show business, technology, and sports. The possibilities are indeed endless and the only probable thing to do is refer to current newspapers and publications with regards to what concerns the people today. Blog Information Audience

This process is a daily one. ...

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