Sep | 27 | 2008

What Makes A Niche Blog Successful?

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Monetization We had an overview of niche blogging in the previous post. The idea behind niche blogging is that you focus on a specific topic and throw all your efforts into writing about this topic. Also, monetization is all part and parcel of niche blogging. Before we go into the nitty gritty of this type of blogging, I thought that it would be good to get a general idea of the characteristics of a good niche blog. There are many points to consider in this respect. I like how they have been summarized in Dosh ...

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Sep | 25 | 2008

Niche Blogging: Make Money Blogging?

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Monetization, Monetization Features We’ve been looking at ways to make money off your blog for a while now. We have been focusing on paid post programs, however. There is another option for you if you want to create a blog can make you money. Have you ever heard of a niche blog? Wikipedia describes niche blogging as: Niche blogging is the act of creating a blog with the intent of using it to market to a particular niche market. While it could be argued that all blogs are, in some form, a niche blog, the term as it applies to ...

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Sep | 22 | 2008

Another Paid Post Program: ReviewMe

Posted by Jimmy as Monetization, Opinion I have featured two paid posts programs recently – both of which I have used personally and I attest to their reliability. There is another platform that I have started using recently. It is called ReviewMe. I heard about it from another blogger who recommended it highly. I didn’t have anything to lose so I thought I would give it a try. What did I find? Applying was easy. Since my personal blog already has PageRank, a decent amount of inbound links and traffic, it was accepted on my first try. My other ...

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Apr | 14 | 2008

Avoiding Becoming an Ad Spam Blog Part 3

Posted by Guru as Monetization, Tips To sum everything up I've written so far about avoiding being a spammy blog I would say that the key thing is making sure that you still provide quality content more often than sponsored posts. Quality control is the key. Now for the last instalment here are some tips on making sure of your blog doesn't turn spammy. 8. Have a criteria for products/services - Advertisers have a criteria for bloggers who can post about their product. In the same way you should also have a criteria so that you don't end up posting about products/services that are substandard. This criteria as ...

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Apr | 11 | 2008

Avoiding Becoming an Ad Spam Blog Part 2

Posted by Guru as Monetization, Tips, Writing 5. If you wish to simply dedicate a section of your regular entries to the product/service review/plug you can: put the sponsored section at the very end of the blog post. use a nice separator and clearly to delineate the sponsored part of the post from the regular content. You may even use a heading to indicate the start of the ad like "Money making time", "Products/Service I like", or "Useful stuff on the net". 6. Make sure that you only post ads/reviews about products and services that are actually relevant to you or your readers. You can urge them to try ...

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Apr | 07 | 2008

Avoiding Becoming an Ad Spam Blog Part 1

Posted by Guru as Monetization, Tips Time and again I've seen perfectly good blogs turn into nothing more than ad generators as the blogger gets hooked on the profit they make from sponsored posts. Like most people I couldn't help but be turned off by these blogs. However, having friends that make a healthy profit from consumer-generated ads I couldn't turn a blind eye on the benefit it brings to the many bloggers that participate in these programs. So instead of shooting them down I will be outlining some suggestions on how to make sure that your blog doesn't turn spammy. Here's my advice. 1. Resolve to ...

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Dec | 30 | 2007

Blog Monetization Trends and How You Can Duplicate These 2: US and European Blog Scene

Posted by BloggurlNeedzRehab as Blog Tutorials News, Monetization, Opinion, Tips While we are on the subject of blogging trends and how you can maximize earning from your blogs, I just want to share my observations on the blogging scene in the US and Europe, as I’ve seen so far. Locally, blogs are not regarded as an authoritative source of information. On the contrary, in the US and Europe, I noticed that blogs are fast replacing newspapers as sources of information. In my stumbling and bumbling around the Internet, I had noticed that the European websites I’ve gone to usually involved technology and downloads, and I’ve noticed that the Europeans seemed to be more concerned with political issues.

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Dec | 25 | 2007

Blog Monetization Trends and How You Can Duplicate These 1: Philippine Blogosphere

Posted by BloggurlNeedzRehab as Monetization, Tips In our world where the trickle of cents could translate to dollars, there are so many tips, tricks and strategies in order to get traffic to your site to keep those adsense credits coming. There are SEO tricks that are clean, and there are those that are downright “black hat”. I’ve been bloghopping over the weekend and I did notice a couple of patterns for blogs or websites to be successful with pulling in traffic. Here are the top three reasons why they earn: They provide relevant and crucial knowledge and resources. They provide addictive entertainment. They give value to the readers/visitors.

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Dec | 22 | 2007

My {Dummy} Elementary Analysis on the Google Ad System :p

Posted by BloggurlNeedzRehab as Monetization Warning, this is a Dummy(GeekGurl)’s elementary analysis of the Google Ads system. Feel free to correct me. :p Of my favorite things about Google, it must be the Google Ads system that made me most impressed about Google as a company. Though Yahoo has Yahoo! Search Marketing, it has never approached the relevance and the importance of Google AdSense in the field of Search Engine Marketing. Through Google AdSense, Internet Marketers were able to gain a passive income stream that augments their online income. In fact, it had become the bread and butter for some other Internet Marketers.

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Dec | 16 | 2007

Blog Themes: Examining Your Capabilities and Motives

Posted by Guru as Design and Themes, Monetization, Writing One of the main considerations when choosing your blog theme is your motive. If your motive for blogging is your own pleasure and don't care whether your blog becomes popular or not, whether your blog earns you profit or not, and whether people will love what you write or not, then choosing a theme is not a problem. You can choose whatever theme you like or not even stick to anything at all and you will still have accomplished your goal - blogging and enjoying it. However, if you are conscious about the numbers or blogging for monetization purposes then ...

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