Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Aku punya kekurangan
Semua orang memang punya kekurangan tapi aku berpikiran bahwa aku menemukan kekuatan yang aneh ketika aku mengganggap diriku lemah dan handicap tapi kenapa aku masih bisa melakukannya dengan baik bagaimana kalau aku tidak sakit atau cacat
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Sites That Pay You to Blog
Writing paid post is perhaps the most straight forward ways to earn
some revenue from blogging. The way pay post works hasn’t changed much;
after reaching mutual agreement with advertisers, you write about them,
they pay you. And if there is a 3rd party (middle man company) involve,
they take cut. Most middle man company provides marketplace for
advertisers to look for publishers, vice versa.
Updated: 27 Sites now.
If you firmly believe that writing pay post is one good way to revenue from your blog, here’s a list of web services that pays you to write for them. This list will be updated periodically, so if you have a paid post service I’ve missed out I’d like to add them to the list. Necessary credits will be given.-
Sponsored Reviews
Earn cash by writing honest reviews about our advertiser’s products and services. Write reviews in your own tone and style, and gear them to your audience’s interest.
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Link Post
Unlike some other services, we pay our Partners up to 70% for each LinkPost written. Access to thousands of advertisers hungry for reviews. A variety of payment options. Receive payouts monthly by check, PayPal, direct deposit, or Wire. Automated advertising management. An easy way to sell paid blog posts.
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Review Me
Get paid $20 – $200 to review products and services on your site. You control what you review.
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Shvoong
The more abstracts you post at Shvoong, the more chances to attract readers. Create link to your abstract elsewhere(on blogs, forums, your personal homepage, or other sites). Spread the word by joining our “Invite a friend” and/or “Affiliates” programs, and earn bonuses equivalent to the invite members’ royalties, upto $100 for every new writer.
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Smorty
Get paid for blogging. Write your opinion about peoples products, services and websites on your blog. Get paid weekly.
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PayPerPost
PayPerPost is an incredible new self-service marketplace that allows you to get paid to blog about the products, services and websites you love. You can easily earn $500 per month or more with your current blog!
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451 Press
451 Press is always looking for bright, talented writers who want to have their voices heard. We are looking for writers with unique voices to contribute to our growing network of blogs. Our blogs cover a wide range of topics. If you have a passion for a subject then we just might have a place for you.
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Be A Guide (About.com)
All About.com Guides are freelancers who work online and set their own schedules, giving them the flexibility to log on from anywhere in the world whenever they have the time. With no timesheets to fill out and no timecards to punch, working for About.com gives you the flexibility to write when you want, even if you have a full-time day job.
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BlogBurner
So here’s how it works:
- You create an account with us.
- You create an account with Google Adsense.
- You login and write content to your "blog" on our site.
- You try to write as often as you can.
- We publish your content to our site.
- We serve ads on the pages that have your content.
- Half the time you make money on the ads. Half the time we do.
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Blog Feast (Service Discontinued)
We are a blog community that:
- Host your blog for free
- Provide you with readers and traffic
- Serve your Adsense ads 90% of the time
- Helps you to make money blogging
- Leading you step by step to earn $1,000 a month!
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Bloggerwave
We’ve got advertisers that would like you to write about their products or services. So you do. In your blog. And get paid!
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Blogitive
Once you are approved to the Blogitive system, you are given access to opportunities from companies to post about their news releases. You are paid per posting.
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Blogsvertise
Once approved, your blog goes into the assignment queue. The blogsvertise administrator then assigns writing tasks for what our advertisers want you to mention in your blog.
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Blog To Profit
We connect you with advertisers that are interested in sponsoring your blog, you post to your blog and get paid!
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BOTW Media
If you are an experienced writer and/or an avid blogger, can write passionately about a topic, and enjoys working as part of a group, you may be a good candidate for a BOTW Media author.
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CreamAid (Service Discontinued)
Anyone can start using CREAMaid by inserting a CREAMaid Conversation widget inside her post. (more info) Your post will most likely be selected as long as you abide by these rules. Once selected, your post will be syndicated to all the participating posts through their embedded Conversation widgets. When your post is selected, you will be able to instantly collect a royalty
for your contribution.
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Creative Weblogging
Get paid to blog with us at Creative Weblogging! We are one of the largest blog networks, with over 135 blogs in five languages.
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DayTipper
If you have a tip that is insightful, helpful, and original, we will publish it and pay you $3 (US). You write the content. We share it with the world.
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Digital Journal
Unlike most websites where bloggers post for free (and the company takes in all the ad revenue), DigitalJournal.com shares a portion of its advertising revenue with all Citizen Journalists. With an always-growing cash pool, every single Citizen Journalist gets a chance to compete for a share of the cash pot. The more you contribute, the more you earn.
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Helium
Earn a share of the advertising money earned here at Helium. If you write well, and write often, you earn even more recognition and reward.
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In Blog Ads
You’ve been writing about web sites, products, services and companies for years, now you you can also get paid for it. With our system, you get paid for each post request you fulfill.
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LoudLaunch
If your blog and interests are aligned with an advertiser’s campaign then you can do your own research and write about them in exchange for pay—not in exchange for a pre-determined outcome but for a fair assessment.
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Pay Me To Blog About You (Service Discontinued)
Our messaging system allows bloggers and advertisers to negotiate directly with each other instead of working through advertising agencies or middlemen and we provide a secure way of transacting advertising compensation via Paypal.
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Squidoo
Every lens carries Google AdSense ads. Those are used to generate royalties for the whole co-op (ie, everyone gets a cut). If you want to increase your direct royalties, though, you should consider adding commercial modules that the visitors to your lenses will appreciate.
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Weblogs Inc
Looking to get paid to blog about subjects you love? Tell us what you’re passionate about and let’s find out if there’s a fit!
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Wise Bread
WiseBread.com is one of the top 5 personal finance blogs. We give our bloggers 100% of the advertising revenue they earn on their blog posts.
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b5media
We’ll pay you to write about what you love. We’re the one of the largest blog networks in the world. We want to be the biggest. Want to help? It’s easy to apply.
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Sunday, June 24, 2012
Top 10 Global Keyword / Search Trends 2012
Ok. if your doing any
online marketing then you want to know what the" Top Search Terms " that
not only are people paying for, but What the cpc cost average is.
Why because you want to know where the traffic is that folks are actually searching for.
The following list is what is hot now, what is hot the last 30 days and what the Top keywords are in google adsense so far in 2012 is.
It is very helpfull for you to know these search results so you can use them as part of your keyword or phrases for your website.- Top Keyword searches = More Traffic Equals more potential sales.
Note: These are adsense Top Search keywords.The links that these keywords are associated with, most of them are in the top 5 links on the 1st page of Google for these keyword searches.
Why because you want to know where the traffic is that folks are actually searching for.
The following list is what is hot now, what is hot the last 30 days and what the Top keywords are in google adsense so far in 2012 is.
It is very helpfull for you to know these search results so you can use them as part of your keyword or phrases for your website.- Top Keyword searches = More Traffic Equals more potential sales.
Note: These are adsense Top Search keywords.The links that these keywords are associated with, most of them are in the top 5 links on the 1st page of Google for these keyword searches.
These are the top 3 keywords in the letters A-Z Google trends whats hot now!
http://www.google.com/trends/hottrendsTop searcheshttp://www.vernonchalmers.com/blog/entry/774831/google-top-10-global-keyword-search-trends-2012
google affiliate
X -No top keyword search for x - Note: if you put in x in google the top link is just x it links to the google finance page for the United states Steel corporation.
X See HERE
Saturday, June 23, 2012
10 incredible ways to make terrafic !
1: High-volume, “non-monetary” searches
What you need: any keyword research tool.I usually use Market Samurai or SEMRush.
What you do: find searches that are related to your niche, have a good amount of traffic, and no advertisers bidding on them.
The fact that nobody bids on these keywords simply means that there is no upfront money to be made on the search; however, there is still plenty of traffic you can direct to your blog.
Make sure you have some useful content for the searchers of the keyword!
You have 2 options:
1. the quick way – paid advertising like Google Adwords (you’ll most likely be the only advertiser and can buy traffic very cheaply);
or
2. the long-term way – SEO or optimizing for those search terms and staying on the first page of Google for a long-time (that’s what I call leveraged effort, although it takes longer to achieve).
Example: this is an old search, but proves my point.
2: Create Controversy
What you need: find an audience that is passionate about a subject.What you do: Create a blog post that in some way challenges that passion or belief.
Know what you are talking about and know how you are going to defend your position.
Make comments about your position on forums, via blog comments, online groups, etc.
You will get good amount of traffic from multiple sources, but expect the heaviest traffic to come from the disagreeing group.
Make sure you are professional about handling objections; use your chance to earn a respectable following.
3: Cover an Industry Event
What you need: find an event that generates a lot of interest in your niche and cover it.What you do: Become the “event insider” for your audience: interview people, make friends, go to the bars afterwards – give your readers a feeling that they went there and reaped all the benefits themselves.
Make sure you publish your post in a timely manner, or else your readers will find some place else to read about it.
4: Make Your Own Top Ten List
What you need: 10 ideas with a common denominator that your audience will benefit from.What you do: This one is very easy, but also tricky.
Why? Because such lists are everywhere.
So make yours stand out by making it well thought through, well-targeted, and highly beneficial.
5: Simplify Complex Issues
What you need: hard to grasp concept or a long publication in your niche.What you do: Make a shorter “for dummies” version of it, with examples and relevant tips.
You’d be surprised how many times you find a simpler post on the topic outrank a more complex and detailed one.
Perhaps that’s exactly why simpler-written posts result in increased traffic generation: searchers are looking for more help or clarification on the subject.
6: Install a translator plugin
What you need: any translator plugin – free works just fine.What you do: Using the plugin will increase your page views from your readers who might not speak perfect English.
The translation will not be great, as you can imagine, but it will still help to attract international readership.
7: Submit Posts to Blog Carnivals
What you need: a good blog post and a blog carnival in your niche.What you do: Look up blog carnivals at http://blogcarnival.com.
Find the ones related to your topic and submit your post.
It will almost always get posted and result in links back to your blog as well as increased blog traffic.
8: Leverage Social Bookmarking Sites
What you need: solid, targeted content with a great title and description.What you do: Submit your blog content to the major bookmarking and link sharing services, like Digg, Del.icio.us, Technorati, etc with regularity.
Even smaller bookmarking services like Reddit, StumbleUpon, etc. can generate thousands of visitors.
9: Create a List of Top Ten Blogs in Your Niche
What you need: a bit of research on your part.What you do: Be the first one to compile the “Top Ten Blogs” in your niche.
The post will rank highly in any general search for blogs and other bloggers in the niche will link to it, thus sending targeted traffic to your blog.
By the way, don’t be afraid to lose your traffic to the other blogs; if you are publishing solid content and offer great values to your readers like you should be doing, you will definitely gain new readership and many links with your list.
10: Your Turn!
What is your favorite blog traffic generation strategy?If you’ve got strategies of your own to share or insights about how these can be tweaked and optimized, please do share in the comments.
30 Traffic Generation Tips from Professional Blogger
Now, without further delay, the 30 Traffic Generation Tips:
1. Sridhar Katakam
Keep track of blogs and leave comments on them. A good way to keep the conversation going is to install a MyBlogLog widget and visit the blog of people visiting your site.
2. Ian Delaney
Nothing creates long-term traffic more than value. Consider writing posts with resources or explaining how things work. Useful things get linked to and they get onto del.icio.us, which is far better long-term than a digg front page.
3. Scott Townsend
Inform search engines and aggregators like Technorati (using the ping functionality) when your blog is updated, this should ensure maximum traffic coming from those sources. (check the List of Ping Services)
4. Kyle
Simplify. Pay attention to complex issues in your field of work. It may be a big long publication that is hard to wade through or a concept that is hard to grasp. Reference it and make a shorter “for dummies” version with your own lessons learned and relevant tips. When doing this, I have been surprised to find that the simplified post will appear before the more complex version in search results. Perhaps this is why it results in increased traffic; people looking for more help or clarification on the subject will land on your blog.
5. Grant Gerver
Try to be polemic. I write obsessively about all-things political from the left-wing perspective in the form of humorous, sarcastic one-liners.
6. Daniel
A simple tip that will probably boost your page views: install a translator plugin. I decided to use a paid plugin for this, but if I am not wrong there are some free ones as well. The translation is not very good, as you can imagine, but it helps to attract readers that are not fluent in English.
7. Rory
Submit articles to blog carnivals (http://blogcarnival.com) that are related to your niche. Your article almost always gets posted, and it must generate a handful of visitors, at least.
8. Ramen Junkie
Newsgroups. I always see a spike when I post a review to a newsgroup.
9. Eric Atkins
Create a new design for your website. Not only will it be more attractive to your regular readers, but you can submit it to some CSS gallery showcase sites that feature great designs. This will give you exposure on those sites while generating a lot of traffic and backlinks from those types of sites.
10. Megan Taylor
Participate in conversations on related blogs. Start conversations on your own blog. Don’t just post about a story and leave it at that, engage your audience, ask questions and call to action.
11. Guido
Comment on blogs, write useful content and make good friends on forums.
12. Brian Auer
You must be active to generate traffic. I post comments on other blogs that are related to mine, and I post my site link in my signature at the forums. Spread the word about your blog and it will certainly attract readers.
13. Shankar Ganesh
Just browse around MyBlogLog.com and you will surely get visitors to your blog. Also try to join as many communities as possible that are related to your topic.
14. Andrew Timberlake
A great tip for generating traffic is off-line by including your url in all your off-line liturature from business cards, letterheads, pamphlets, adverts through in-store signage if applicable. I even have our website on my vehicle.
15. Cory OBrien
Read lots of other blogs. Leave trackbacks. Make sure your blog is optimized for search engines. Leverage social bookmarking sites like digg (both for new ideas and for traffic).
16. Jester
Leave comments on other blogs. If you’re already reading them, it takes
just a couple of seconds to leave a message agreeing or disagreeing
with the author, you get to leave a link to your site, and you will almost
ALWAYS get traffic from your comments.
17. Goerge Manty
Post 3-5 times a day. Use ping services like pingomatic or set up wordpress to ping some of the ping services. Engage your readers. Put up polls, ask them questions, give them quizes, free tools, etc. Make them want to come back and tell their friends about you.
18. Engtech
Community. It’s one word but it is the most important one when it comes to blogging. The only “blog metric” that makes sense is the vibrant community of readers it has. Building a community around your blog will bring you increased traffic, but how do you start? The boilerplate response to building traffic is always “SEO, social networking sites, and commenting on blogs” but it can be simplified to “be part of a community”. The easiest way to seed your blog is with an already existing community. But the only way to do that is to be part of the community yourself.
19. Chris
Squidoo Lenses are a good way to generate traffic. By using a lense,
you can generate your own custom “community” of webpages, including some
of the more popular pages in your “neighborhood.” Including your own
webpage in such a list is a good way of generating traffic.
20. Splork
I’ve had good success writing articles and submitting them to EzineArticles. Articles that have been written from well-researched keyword phrases and accepted by EzineArticles tend to rank very high in Google for that search term. Placing anchor text in the footer of those articles so the reader can visit my relevant website has always increased my site traffic.
21. Jen Gordon
I came upon some unexpected traffic when my blog popped up on some css design portals like www.cssmania.com and www.webcreme.com. If you can put some time into the concept behind and design for your blog, I’d recommend submitting your site to a design portal not only for
additional traffic but to build an additional community around your site.
22. Kat
I’ve recently gotten involved with several “MySpace-like” community sites that focus on my target audience. I share my thoughts in their forums, post intros to my real blog on their system blog and I’ve even created a group for my specific niche. It’s been very, very successful for me.
23. Inspirationbit
Well, obviously everyone knows that social bookmarking sites like Digg, del.icio.us, etc. bring lots of traffic. But I’m now submitting some of my articles to blogg-buzz.com (a digg like site for bloggers), and I always get not a bad traffic from there.
24. Mark Alves
Participate in Yahoo Answers and LinkedIn Answers where you can demonstrate your expertise, get associated with relevant keywords and put your URL out there.
25. Tillerman
Be the first to write a post about the ‘Top Ten Blogs’ in your niche. The post will rank highly in any general search for blogs in your niche and other bloggers in your niche write about the post and link to it.
26. Nick
Participating in forums is a great way to get loyal readers. Either link baiting people in your signature or posting great advice and tips will give you high quality traffic, which will result in return visitors.
27. Brandon Wood
A simple trick I’ve used to increase traffic to my blog is participate in group writing projects. In fact, that’s what I’m doing right now.
28. Alan Thomas
Don’t forget your archives. I just posted a roundup of all interviews I did over the past seven months. One of them generated a new link and a big traffic spike from a group of users that look like they will be loyal readers now.
29. KWiz
Write something controversial. I don’t think it’s good to write something controversial just for the purpose of getting traffic necessarily (especially if it’s only for that purpose and you’re being disingenuous), but it works.
30. Dennis Coughlin
Find the best blogs on your niche and contact the authors. Introduce yourself and send a link of your blog. This might help them to discover your blog, read it and possibly link to it.
1. Sridhar Katakam
Keep track of blogs and leave comments on them. A good way to keep the conversation going is to install a MyBlogLog widget and visit the blog of people visiting your site.
2. Ian Delaney
Nothing creates long-term traffic more than value. Consider writing posts with resources or explaining how things work. Useful things get linked to and they get onto del.icio.us, which is far better long-term than a digg front page.
3. Scott Townsend
Inform search engines and aggregators like Technorati (using the ping functionality) when your blog is updated, this should ensure maximum traffic coming from those sources. (check the List of Ping Services)
4. Kyle
Simplify. Pay attention to complex issues in your field of work. It may be a big long publication that is hard to wade through or a concept that is hard to grasp. Reference it and make a shorter “for dummies” version with your own lessons learned and relevant tips. When doing this, I have been surprised to find that the simplified post will appear before the more complex version in search results. Perhaps this is why it results in increased traffic; people looking for more help or clarification on the subject will land on your blog.
5. Grant Gerver
Try to be polemic. I write obsessively about all-things political from the left-wing perspective in the form of humorous, sarcastic one-liners.
6. Daniel
A simple tip that will probably boost your page views: install a translator plugin. I decided to use a paid plugin for this, but if I am not wrong there are some free ones as well. The translation is not very good, as you can imagine, but it helps to attract readers that are not fluent in English.
7. Rory
Submit articles to blog carnivals (http://blogcarnival.com) that are related to your niche. Your article almost always gets posted, and it must generate a handful of visitors, at least.
8. Ramen Junkie
Newsgroups. I always see a spike when I post a review to a newsgroup.
9. Eric Atkins
Create a new design for your website. Not only will it be more attractive to your regular readers, but you can submit it to some CSS gallery showcase sites that feature great designs. This will give you exposure on those sites while generating a lot of traffic and backlinks from those types of sites.
10. Megan Taylor
Participate in conversations on related blogs. Start conversations on your own blog. Don’t just post about a story and leave it at that, engage your audience, ask questions and call to action.
11. Guido
Comment on blogs, write useful content and make good friends on forums.
12. Brian Auer
You must be active to generate traffic. I post comments on other blogs that are related to mine, and I post my site link in my signature at the forums. Spread the word about your blog and it will certainly attract readers.
13. Shankar Ganesh
Just browse around MyBlogLog.com and you will surely get visitors to your blog. Also try to join as many communities as possible that are related to your topic.
14. Andrew Timberlake
A great tip for generating traffic is off-line by including your url in all your off-line liturature from business cards, letterheads, pamphlets, adverts through in-store signage if applicable. I even have our website on my vehicle.
15. Cory OBrien
Read lots of other blogs. Leave trackbacks. Make sure your blog is optimized for search engines. Leverage social bookmarking sites like digg (both for new ideas and for traffic).
16. Jester
Leave comments on other blogs. If you’re already reading them, it takes
just a couple of seconds to leave a message agreeing or disagreeing
with the author, you get to leave a link to your site, and you will almost
ALWAYS get traffic from your comments.
17. Goerge Manty
Post 3-5 times a day. Use ping services like pingomatic or set up wordpress to ping some of the ping services. Engage your readers. Put up polls, ask them questions, give them quizes, free tools, etc. Make them want to come back and tell their friends about you.
18. Engtech
Community. It’s one word but it is the most important one when it comes to blogging. The only “blog metric” that makes sense is the vibrant community of readers it has. Building a community around your blog will bring you increased traffic, but how do you start? The boilerplate response to building traffic is always “SEO, social networking sites, and commenting on blogs” but it can be simplified to “be part of a community”. The easiest way to seed your blog is with an already existing community. But the only way to do that is to be part of the community yourself.
19. Chris
Squidoo Lenses are a good way to generate traffic. By using a lense,
you can generate your own custom “community” of webpages, including some
of the more popular pages in your “neighborhood.” Including your own
webpage in such a list is a good way of generating traffic.
20. Splork
I’ve had good success writing articles and submitting them to EzineArticles. Articles that have been written from well-researched keyword phrases and accepted by EzineArticles tend to rank very high in Google for that search term. Placing anchor text in the footer of those articles so the reader can visit my relevant website has always increased my site traffic.
21. Jen Gordon
I came upon some unexpected traffic when my blog popped up on some css design portals like www.cssmania.com and www.webcreme.com. If you can put some time into the concept behind and design for your blog, I’d recommend submitting your site to a design portal not only for
additional traffic but to build an additional community around your site.
22. Kat
I’ve recently gotten involved with several “MySpace-like” community sites that focus on my target audience. I share my thoughts in their forums, post intros to my real blog on their system blog and I’ve even created a group for my specific niche. It’s been very, very successful for me.
23. Inspirationbit
Well, obviously everyone knows that social bookmarking sites like Digg, del.icio.us, etc. bring lots of traffic. But I’m now submitting some of my articles to blogg-buzz.com (a digg like site for bloggers), and I always get not a bad traffic from there.
24. Mark Alves
Participate in Yahoo Answers and LinkedIn Answers where you can demonstrate your expertise, get associated with relevant keywords and put your URL out there.
25. Tillerman
Be the first to write a post about the ‘Top Ten Blogs’ in your niche. The post will rank highly in any general search for blogs in your niche and other bloggers in your niche write about the post and link to it.
26. Nick
Participating in forums is a great way to get loyal readers. Either link baiting people in your signature or posting great advice and tips will give you high quality traffic, which will result in return visitors.
27. Brandon Wood
A simple trick I’ve used to increase traffic to my blog is participate in group writing projects. In fact, that’s what I’m doing right now.
28. Alan Thomas
Don’t forget your archives. I just posted a roundup of all interviews I did over the past seven months. One of them generated a new link and a big traffic spike from a group of users that look like they will be loyal readers now.
29. KWiz
Write something controversial. I don’t think it’s good to write something controversial just for the purpose of getting traffic necessarily (especially if it’s only for that purpose and you’re being disingenuous), but it works.
30. Dennis Coughlin
Find the best blogs on your niche and contact the authors. Introduce yourself and send a link of your blog. This might help them to discover your blog, read it and possibly link to it.
It's time to generate traffic without spending a dollar
Every blogger, whether new or seasoned, wants to know about traffic generation
in order to bring the most traffic as possible to the blog. There are
always new strategies to learn and old strategies to unlearn because
they don’t work anymore.
Many new bloggers are intimidated by the process because it seems like a monumental task as there is so much to learn. Often, they feel that they don’t have enough money to generate any real traffic because all they hear about are paid methods.
You can pay for all of the following:- Hire someone to optimize your blog
- PPC Advertising
- Traffic generation tools and products
- Hire a mentor
- Purchase an ebook on the topic
- Affiliate products recommended by other bloggers
- Hire someone to optimize your Facebook page
- Autoresponder
- Much more – if someone can think it up, they will sell it
But the truth is, You don’t have to spend money to generate traffic!
There are many ways that you can bring in new traffic on a budget, even if your budget is free until your blog is bringing in enough money for you to purchase the paid products that you desire.
When you give an honest effort at the
following free methods ,you will see real results! I suggest you take a
screen shot of your Alexa ranking and site statistics before you start.
Then you can compare the results by taking another screen shot every
month or two.
Blog Commenting
Commenting on other blogs is a very effective way to bring traffic to your blog. If you follow some basic rules, you will find others drawn to your blog from your comments on other blogs:- Leave valuable comments by adding value to what the author has written. When people see that you have a lot of value to offer they will want to see what other gems you are sharing on your blog.
- Respond to the post content. If you haven’t read the post it will be obvious to everyone who reads your comment. You will look bad, and people will be repelled from your blog.
- Be respectful with your tone and words, especially if you have a differing opinion from the author – it is acceptable to disagree.
If you are serious about generating traffic,
you will want to comment at least 8-10 times a day or at least 40-50
times a week. Comment on blogs in your direct niche as well as blogs
that are in similar niches. You want people to recognize your name and
your face!
Be sure to get around to different
blogs, not always commenting on the same ones day after day and week
after week. Though it’s perfectly fine to have regulars – that is a
great way to build relationships with other bloggers. You want to have a good balance between regulars and new or less frequent blogs.
Join Social Networks
Join as many of the social networks as
you can keep up with. Try some new ones ,because they all offer
something different and you may end up really liking one that you didn’t
want to try. If you find that you really do not like one then try
another. Use the ones that work best for you! Social networks are a
great way to promote your posts and meet like-minded people.
There are many that you can join. Some of the bigger ones are Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, and LinkedIn. Look around. There are a lot of social networks that you can join and many niche-focused networks are becoming popular as well.
Voting sites
are a great way to network with others as well, and they often offer a
lot of ways to build community. Two voting sites that I really like are
Blokube and Serpd. Both offer voting buttons that you can put on your
posts so that your readers can vote for your post. They also offer
commenting on the site and a sense of community.
Create a Free Report
A quick way to make a free report is to
gather some of your best material from your blog and combine them into
an ebook. Put links to your blog into the book and give it away on your
blog, sharing the link on your social media sites. You can also add your
ebook to one of the many free ebook sites which accept submissions.
Learn Basic SEO
Learning basic SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
is not nearly as intimidating as learning all the ins and the outs of
SEO. Once you learn the basics then you can move on to learning the more
complicated and intimidating aspects.
Use the Google Keyword Tool to research your keywords for free. Use the free SEO plugins
that are available in your WordPress dashboard such as the All in One
SEO plugin and the Clean SEO Slugs plugin. Using these plugins will help
you to optimize your blog for SEO simply and easily until you learn
more about it.
Forum Marketing
Establishing yourself as an expert in your niche through the use of forums or message boards can be a valuable tool in bringing people to your blog. You should have the goal to start one new thread a day or five throughout the week in addition to replying to other posts.
If the forum allows links in your
signature you can have a link directly to your blog, but don’t blatantly
promote your blog in the posts. You want to instead establish yourself
as an expert through the posts that you write. Direct people to your
signature which should have not only the link but a little blurb about
yourself and your expertise.
Other Free Generation Methods
- Create videos on Youtube
- Write guest posts on similar blogs
- Join a tribe
- Link to other blog posts in your posts
- Answer questions at Yahoo Answers directing to blog posts
- Join a blogging challenge
Is it possible to make your first $1000 from your blog ?
A blogging friend told me that he would like a blog that regularly earns him income on a monthly basis.
It
is possible to make money from your blog, but it is important to have
realistic expectations. It takes hard work and is not going to happen
over night.
Most blogs will fail to
earn any money, so it is advisable to keep your day job and work
seriously on your blog in your free time.
But
if you do make it, blogging allows a very flexible lifestyle. You can
blog from anywhere in the world and you don’t even need to work to make
money as your blog and content work for you constantly.
Ingredients for making money
These ingredients are needed to be able to to make money from your blog and you should work on these first before focusing on monetization:- Topic. The topic of your blog has to be able to be monetized. Some topics are tougher than others so make sure your topic has an audience interested in spending money if you want to monetize the blog. See: How to pick your blog topic.
- Value. You need to create value for your visitors to be able to retain some of the traffic you get, to have your visitors spread the word about your work and to start building trust with your visitors. See: How to create great content.
- Traffic. You need traffic to your blog. Without people visiting your blog, it will be very hard to get any revenue from the blog. See: How to grow blog traffic.
How to make money blogging
There are several different ways you can make money from your blog. These are some of the most popular ways.
Most commonly you will be able to pick and choose between several of the methods below and diversify your blog income.
- Become an affiliate
Find
opportunity in markets and products you are familiar with. Are you
using a product that makes your life easier? Have you read a book that
inspired you? As long as the product is targeted and relevant to your
blog readership, become an affiliate and promote it.
There
are thousands of companies who will pay you commission for sales that
you generate through your blog. This is called affiliate marketing and
is arguably the best source of blog revenue. Finding these companies is
simple, just do a Google search for products you like with “affiliate”
added on.
Create valuable content
about the product, help people use the product better, show how the
product can improve their lives, and earn money when they click your
link and buy the product.
- Pay-per-click ads
Google
Adsense is one of the easiest ways of making money. You place a piece
of code on your blog article and Google automatically lists ads relevant
to the topic of your blog. Google pays per click and depending on the
popularity of the topic you write about, a click can earn you anything
from few cents to several dollars.
Negative
side of Adsense is that many people have banner blindness (many
visitors dismiss banner ads as they find them intrusive), tend to find
ads annoying and ignore them.
- Sell your time
You could sell your own time. Become a consultant and charge for people to have one-on-one coaching with you.
- Sponsorships
You
can try your luck and sell banner ads directly to advertisers. Find
products relevant to your audience and simply contact the company and
aks if they would be interested in sponsoring your blog.
- Own product
Develop
something that is genuinely helpful to people, that solves some kind of
a problem that they have. Package the product in a specific format and
sell it. E-books, webinars, courses are some of the popular formats.
- Paid reviews
There
are several networks that allow blogs to monetize by writing paid
reviews. Negative points to this are that you don’t get paid very much
and the content you end up creating is of less worth to your visitors
compared to the best content.
You
will also discover that many people will contact you directly asking to
buy reviews or text links. Even though many bloggers accept these, I
would recommend to ignore these offers as selling links is not something
search engines like and you risk being banned from the search results.
- Donate button
Depending
on the topic and the readership of your blog, a donate button might be
the most effective way of monetizing. PayPal offers these and it just might be the way for you to get rewarded for the help you provide to your readers.
- Use Amazon, YouTube and others
You
can use your existing content to earn passive income on other
platforms. For example if you produce many videos and upload them onto
YouTube, you can become a YouTube partner and monetize your videos.
Similar to this, you can add your blog to the Amazon kindle store and get paid when people read your blog on Kindle.
Experiment,
test and take your time choosing the best monetization method. Don’t
force the monetization and don’t oversell. You will find that the best
methods to make money will come to you naturally.
How to Use Keywords For Search Engine Optimization
You've brainstormed for keywords, and you've researched the keywords that work for your site. Now, you’re going to have to actually put them somewhere, and that would be in your site content and source code.
There are quite a few different places that they can go on your page. Some choice places for keywords are:
This means that if it works for your site to be listed under “beaded jewelry”, you must make absolutely sure that this exact phrase appears generously throughout your site copy on every page of your site. Make it your mission to include whatever your top keyword or phrase is everywhere you possibly can; especially in the first paragraph and headline of your site; the main content area, in other words.
Try to write the most concise, keyword-rich sentence you can (it should be 30 words or less) that describes your site and would attract visitors. An example could be: “RH Designs Beaded Jewelry, handcrafted one of a kind custom designs for special occasions.”
This is a great way to get those keyword phrases included.
There are quite a few different places that they can go on your page. Some choice places for keywords are:
- above your site logo
- in the subheadings
- headlines
- within the paragraph content
- meta title
- subtitle
- within links (anchor phrases)
- meta keywords
- images (alt tags)
How many key phrases per page should I target?
You should try to target no more than two or three related key phrases per page of your site. Any more than that, and the purpose of your targeting efforts will be defeated. Don’t forget: search spiders and robots are not intuitive. They are looking for an exact match to the keywords that they are programmed to look for, not something kinda, sorta, maybe.This means that if it works for your site to be listed under “beaded jewelry”, you must make absolutely sure that this exact phrase appears generously throughout your site copy on every page of your site. Make it your mission to include whatever your top keyword or phrase is everywhere you possibly can; especially in the first paragraph and headline of your site; the main content area, in other words.
Meta Tags
The next place you’ll want to put your keywords is in the meta tags of your site. Meta tags are not scary, and even folks without any HTML experience can definitely learn how to use them. Depending on what HTML editor you are using, be it Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Home Site,Notepad, etc., you'll find that you can switch between the design and code screens (this applies to WYSIWIG HTML editors only). What you will want to do is find the HTML code and go to the “head”, or beginning, of your HTML document. There you will find a space for the title, meta keywords, and meta description.The Title Tag
The site title is what shows up in the blue title area at the top of your browser (look up there right now and you’ll see the title of this article). Keeping with our beaded jewelry example, you could put something to the effect of “RH Designs Beaded Jewelry” (notice how the top targeted key phrase is included in the title? You’ll want to do that). Read more about the title tag in my article titled Using Title Tags To Increase Web Site Traffic.Meta Keyword Tag
Next are the keyword and description tags. For the meta keyword tag, enter in your top 3-8 keywords and key phrases. Do not repeat words.Meta Description Tag
The meta description comes next. The meta description will be what web searchers will see after they type in a couple of words to their favorite search engine/directory and the search results come up. This description is important because if users are not attracted to what they read in these initial results, guess what? They won’t visit your site, and all your efforts will have been in vain.Try to write the most concise, keyword-rich sentence you can (it should be 30 words or less) that describes your site and would attract visitors. An example could be: “RH Designs Beaded Jewelry, handcrafted one of a kind custom designs for special occasions.”
Alt Image
Whenever you place an image in your page, you should be able to give that image an "alt image" tag. This is what that looks like:Links
If you have links on your page, try to include your key phrase in the anchor text of every link, such as this example: my keyword phraseThis is a great way to get those keyword phrases included.
Keywords in the URL's
Last but not least, you’ll want to include these keywords in your individual page names and in the domain name itself. These are all searchable areas and every little bit counts. You might try to register a domain name such as www.beadedjewelry.com, www.handcraftedjewelry.com, etc. This just creates more food for search spiders and will potentially bring more visitors to your site. Individual site pages also can help boost site rankings when named for keywords; such as “www.beadedjewelry.com/custom_necklaces.html.” You’re going to want to stick to your list of successful keywords as closely as possible.Best practices
Yes, this sounds like a lot of work, and can be. But if you learn how to do this from the ground up, and continue to tweak your keywords and phrases for optimum search engine spider food, there's no doubt that your search rankings will eventually go up. The number one thing to remember when writing your website copy is to be as natural as possible. Don't overdo it.Ways To Check The Top 10 Search Keywords On Google
If you have a personal blog or a website you will know how important
it is to rank high on Google searches. Without ranking high on Google
you are missing out on a lot of traffic. By including top ten keywords
from Google you have a better chance of showing up in more search
results.
Most people think that to have access to this data you need to spend a
lot of money on SEO services and analytics.
The answer is HELL NO! We can do all of this for free using Google’s own tool called Hot Trends located here. This will give you access not only to the top 20 searched for keywords on Google from today but you can also use it to go back in time (sadly not forward yet!) to view the top twenty keywords for a specific date.
Now if you couple this with a little bit of analytics you can see how these keywords can help you improve your Google traffic. Let us take a look at the site and see how it works.
I started off by visiting Google Hot Trends and I saw this:
Listed on this page, from the top to the bottom, is first the search trends box. By adding some search keywords and hitting search trends you will see something similar to this:
This will show you the search volume for your term over a specific length of time or across specific regions. This is great for helping you nail down a search term to associate with your website.
Below that you have today’s date that you can change to view hot trending topics for recent dates or long ago. You do this like so:
Click on the change date link as shown above and you will then be able to change the date. I changed mine to February 1st 2010 and then saw this:
Sweet! Now you can add this module as an iGoogle Gadget to your Google homepage by clicking on the iGoogle Gadget button at the top right of the search term boxes next to the RSS link and icon.
When you click on this you will see something that looks similar to this.
After clicking on the Add to iGoogle button the widget will
be added. If you are not logged into Google it will create a temporary
page that you might or might not see the next time you log in. So log in
first then add the widget. When you are finished, it will look like
this:
And then finally the way I track Google’s hot trends and most popular search terms is by RSS feed (we covered ways to use RSS feeds here). That looks like this:
Yours may look different depending on what RSS feed reader you use to view the feed. I just clicked the link and allowed it to open in Firefox but you could plug this atom URL into your RSS reader. Clicking on any of the search terms will open a Google search for that specific topic!
Do you use Google Trends on a regular basis? Or do you use another SEO tool? If so, which one do you use?
The answer is HELL NO! We can do all of this for free using Google’s own tool called Hot Trends located here. This will give you access not only to the top 20 searched for keywords on Google from today but you can also use it to go back in time (sadly not forward yet!) to view the top twenty keywords for a specific date.
Now if you couple this with a little bit of analytics you can see how these keywords can help you improve your Google traffic. Let us take a look at the site and see how it works.
I started off by visiting Google Hot Trends and I saw this:
Listed on this page, from the top to the bottom, is first the search trends box. By adding some search keywords and hitting search trends you will see something similar to this:
This will show you the search volume for your term over a specific length of time or across specific regions. This is great for helping you nail down a search term to associate with your website.
Below that you have today’s date that you can change to view hot trending topics for recent dates or long ago. You do this like so:
Click on the change date link as shown above and you will then be able to change the date. I changed mine to February 1st 2010 and then saw this:
Sweet! Now you can add this module as an iGoogle Gadget to your Google homepage by clicking on the iGoogle Gadget button at the top right of the search term boxes next to the RSS link and icon.
When you click on this you will see something that looks similar to this.
And then finally the way I track Google’s hot trends and most popular search terms is by RSS feed (we covered ways to use RSS feeds here). That looks like this:
Yours may look different depending on what RSS feed reader you use to view the feed. I just clicked the link and allowed it to open in Firefox but you could plug this atom URL into your RSS reader. Clicking on any of the search terms will open a Google search for that specific topic!
Do you use Google Trends on a regular basis? Or do you use another SEO tool? If so, which one do you use?
Can I find a Japanese Pen pal?
Is there any possibility to find a pen pal on internet ?
Well, the answer in so easy, but you've got to be becareful fot this one. There's lots of trusted site for finding pen pal, here's some of the list :
http://www.world-pen-pals.com
http://www.gakubun.co.jp/JPA/index.html
http://www.japan-guide.com/local/?aCAT=2
Lots of nice people from Japan looking for pen pals.
Good luck and I hope it helps!
Japanese tutoring and Japanese networking/ PenPals and forums for both English and Japanese speekers and FREE.
http://www.japanese-online.com/
Or if you want to Cultural exchange program, you can try the KAWASAKI International Culture Exchange:
http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~kice/jpal/pe…
Top 10 Methods To Make Money Online
1. Sell On Ebay
During my pre-teen and early teenage years I went from playing with Transformers, GI-Joe and LEGO, to playing Nintendo, Sega and Gameboy. Eventually I added the card game Magic: The Gathering to the mix at about 16 years of age. All of these things were passions for me at various stages of growing up, but one thing remained consistent throughout each stage; I traded and sold toys and games I no longer wanted to make extra cash.In Brisbane where I live, before the Internet there was a newspaper called the Trading Post that was published every two weeks. It was an aftermarket for pretty much everything. Whenever I grew tired of a game or a toy I’d sell it via the Trading Post, usually in an effort to make enough money to buy the new toy or game I had in my sights.
Eventually the Internet came along and the Trading Post no longer commanded the secondhand market like it once did (though it did successfully transition online). It quickly became clear that eBay was the winner when it came to secondhand commerce online. As a result my first experience making any money from the Internet was selling old games, toys and electronics on eBay.
EBay is still I believe the best way to gain experience making money from the Internet for two reasons -
- You are pretty much guaranteed to make some kind of sale and thus experience a transaction
- EBay has the traffic, so you don’t have to worry about marketing your product beyond creating a good listing, the eye-balls are already there
The best thing about eBay – the abundant traffic – is also the worst thing. Barriers to entry are low on eBay, meaning competition is fierce. When competition is fierce, profit margin is slim. Unless you can find some form of competitive advantage through your supply chain, how you create listings, or you have a means to increase volume, you’re not going retire rich thanks to eBay.
I spent quite a bit of time studying eBay, both as a business model and as a means to capture new customers because of how much buying traffic is there. There is no doubt that eBay is a fantastic website that represents a huge potential to make money, but in my case I wasn’t keen to build my business there, it didn’t match enough of my criteria.
However eBay is a fantastic way to make quick money, even just as a way to turn your old items into cash to start a new online venture. If you’re brand new to Internet marketing and you don’t know your PayPal’s from your Clickbanks, or your PPC from your SEO, eBay is definitely a great place to learn some basics.
2. Sell products in forums, bulletin boards, classifieds and other community type sites
The card game Magic: The Gathering was a big part of my life from the end of highschool to the beginning of university. Although initially I was just a casual player and then tournament player, I quickly became a card trader and really enjoyed the wheeling and dealing. Although my interest in playing the game wained, most of my early projects online were connected with the game.Before having my own website, I spent time reading websites, newsgroups, bulletin boards and forums about the game, and eventually started trading online. Back before search engines were any good most of my time was spent in particular Magic newsgroups, some that talked strategy, and some that were focused specifically on trading and/or buying and selling cards.
I managed to make spare change selling my cards through these sites. The main reason I could make any money was because I would win cards in tournaments, hence I had a supply source that would result in a good profit margin. Of course this wasn’t sustainable unless I kept placing well in tournaments, nor was it really scalable unless I started buying in cards from other sources.
I stopped using this method once I started my own card game site (more on this below), however I still believe niche collectables, particularly in a market that you really love, is a fantastic starting point to gain experience making money online. Like eBay you can make money selling secondhand items in community sites if you can find a way to source product at cost or below. It’s not a model that has much margin so again the challenge is to scale if you want to make significant profit.
3. Sell products from your own website
My first successful website was about the card game Magic: The Gathering. At first the site was just a hobby with articles written by me and a few friends. Eventually as traffic grew I began making some money with the site.Since I was already a card trader it made sense that my Magic site have a Magic card store. At first I stocked the website with my own cards, and eventually added retail “sealed” (unopened packs of cards) by buying product at wholesale from a company in Sydney.
It was a very simple card shop made up of text listings of the cards I had for sale, the quantity available and the cost per card or per pack. I maintained the inventory myself from my room, sorting and listing cards online by hand using plain text. I didn’t use any software and most of the payments I received back then was via check or money order in the mail. Some kids would even send money and even coins (!) in the mail to pay for their purchase.
My business did well enough, although the manual labor was intense. Maintaining inventory lists, packing cards into envelopes and daily trips to the post office was not always the most fun way to spend my time, though I did enjoy having my own little business while in university.
Unfortunately my store was hit by credit card fraud when I foolishly sold a significant amount of product to an unknown person in Thailand. This experience was enough for me to decide that I had had enough of running a Magic shop and it was time to move on. You can read about the credit card fraud experience here – Yaro Starak Timeline – Part 2
Selling Products Online Is A Big Opportunity
My first three experiences of making money from the Internet all involve some kind of physical product. Online commerce obviously represents a huge opportunity to make money online, and having your own product or a passion for a product that you can source can lead to big profits.You can sell product from your own website store, via community sites and classifieds (like Craigslist) and of course eBay and collectively make good money. The challenge, like with any business, is defining what is your competitive advantage and can you come up with a model that meets your needs. For me selling physical product was a great proving ground, but I eventually learned that profiting from information was a preferable model if I wanted to meet my aforementioned business goals.
I’ll leave it in your hands to decide whether physical commerce is the way to go for your situation.
4. Sponsorship advertising on a content site
Once my card game site was successful I began researching how to make money from it. I sold cards initially because I already knew there was a market for that and I had the cards, but I was also aware that if I had an audience I could charge sponsors money to advertise to them. Thus began my love affair with banner advertising.Although challenging at times to find sponsors, I was quickly able to bring in several hundred dollars per month in advertising revenue by directly approaching online companies who I considered good targets for my readership. I emailed them and asked if they would like to pay a monthly fee to place a banner on my site. Most said no, but some said yes and eventually I had a couple of loyal sponsors.
Banner income would prove very reliable over time as long as I continued to do whatever I did to maintain and build a readership. This has continued today, where several sponsors pay a fee to advertise their products and services to you, the reader of this website.
Banner advertising, when set up using a system like I presently use, can be very hands off – in fact for me it’s entirely passive – assuming there is an audience that the sponsors benefit from advertising to. It’s difficult to make loads and loads of money just from banners unless you have significant traffic, but it is easy enough to make some money from it and once you do, it generally proves very reliable unless you stop updating your website.
I’d recommend this method to you if you have some kind of content based site or a community site that attracts enough traffic to make it worthwhile for sponsors. The best thing about banners is that they don’t have to replace any other income method you use, you can use this income stream in tandem with others.
5. Sell services you provide personally
At one stage early in my career when my online income wasn’t consistent, I was part of a business grant program run by the Australian government designed to assist entrepreneurs with money to pay for life’s necessities so you can focus on growing your business.The idea is that when your business is successful you will eventually hire people and pay taxes, thus the government reaps a return on the investment.
The grant ran for 12 months and I was under the assumption (incorrectly) that I had to show consistent income growth in order to maintain my qualification for the program. My income at the time always suffered a downturn around Christmas/Summer in Australia. To combat this problem I decided to teach English face-to-face with people in Brisbane to hopefully boost my reportable income.
To advertise my tutoring service I marketed using posters offline and eventually set up a website and marketed on classified sites as well. I charged $15 an hour and eventually had a few Korean clients. This idea eventually ballooned into a full on English school with a real world premises that I managed for eight months before closing down. It turned out to be an experiment that taught me I much preferred online business to bricks and mortar.
My English tutoring days were short lived, but that doesn’t mean selling some kind of service that you personally deliver isn’t still a viable option. The Internet is a fantastic place to market your services for free. Similar to what I talked about in the first three points, you can use online community sites, classified, forums and your own website to market your service.
The downside with this model is that you are still trading hours for dollars, which is a violation of my holy trinity concept. It’s not necessarily the worst option – and many people enjoy the life of a high-paid consultant very much – but it does have the inherent limitation that a service is not replicable unless you personally do it yourself or hire people to do it for you, both activities that take time and/or resources.
If you are good at something and enjoy helping/teaching/working on other people’s projects, selling what you do online is worth considering.
6. Sell services provided by other people
My next big success after my card game site was an online proofreading business. For this business I wanted to focus on selling something that did not require either my own labor or sourcing some kind of physical product.The business began in very simple fashion. I created the website personally myself and advertised two services – English proofreading and language translation services. I knew how to find contract proofreaders and also had access to an online database of language translators. When a job came through I’d organize a quote, slap on a margin for myself and then return the quote to the client.
Over the years I heavily refined this business. I brought on an assistant, simplified the services, cemented a pricing model and learned what methods of marketing brought in the best type of client. The end result was a full time income for me and barely a few hours of work to maintain it.
This was the first time I found a business that met all my major criteria – except one – I really wasn’t that passionate about the industry. Initially I enjoyed being the entrepreneur, the thrill of making money and automating the business as much as I could, but after a few years my passion wained. I eventually sold the business, earning a nice payday in the process, making this one of my most personally gratifying projects.
Selling a service is a real option for making money online. The challenge is sourcing good people to do the work, learning what specific offer to make to the market, how to differentiate yourself so you earn good margins, how to market what you offer and how to automate the entire process so it becomes a passive income stream.
7. Paid reviews
For a brief period on my blog I invited people to submit their product, service or website for a paid review. This means they pay a fee (for my site it was $250) and I would write an article about whatever they submitted. I would not accept just anything for review, I had to see an angle that made for relevant content for my audience. Nor was a paid review a promise that I would write positively about the subject – I would highlight both good and bad points.Initially I didn’t mind writing paid reviews as the income was pretty good in terms of how long it would take and how much I earned. I could make as much as $250 an hour, which was great at first, but as my motivation focused more on freedom and less on money, even this became a poor incentive. Plus I never did like that I was told what to write about rather than choosing subjects I enjoyed.
The challenge for you, if this method is relevant to your growth stage, is to create a website where you can command a price for paid reviews that makes it worth your time. Until your traffic is significant, charging more than $50 for a review is not realistic, so you need to build your website asset first.
8. Affiliate marketing
As my blog audience grew I began to test a method of making money I was very interested in – affiliate marketing. My first test proved positive, though initially I was disappointed that of my readership of 500 or so people (at the time), I could only sell one or two products, making $20 commission each. It wasn’t retirement money, but it was a start.Affiliate income has gone on to become my second highest source of income in recent years, thanks in part to the increase in my audience reach. By combining my blog and email newsletter I can reach thousands of people with just one piece of content. By testing different products and recommending things I personally use myself, I’ve been able to earn as much as $50,000 in commissions selling just one product.
Affiliate marketing is possibly the single best way to make a living online because it is so hands off, can be automated easily enough and can deliver some incredible profit margins. It’s especially good when you can use affiliate marketing to recommend things in areas you are personally interested in – for example you can make money simply writing a review of a book you really wanted to read anyway and you get paid for doing what you love.
The challenge for you is figuring out what market(s) to enter, building an audience and maintaining relationships with your readers so they trust what you tell them. If you know something that other people want to know and you are prepared to share that information, you could be looking at a fairly lucrative affiliate opportunity.
9. Sell your own information products
The single most profitable income stream I have ever developed is selling my own information products. If you are a long time follower of my work you know I have created courses on how to make money with blogs and membership sites. I also have several reports, an ebook and new products on the way.The profit margins on information products is significant, especially as you can earn money for content you created years ago. Technology makes selling information online relatively easy to automate, once you get through the learning curve. If you focus on areas you are passionate about you can build expertise and leverage that trust and credibility to make sales of your products. Best of all, all of this can happen while you sleep, once you have built the machine to do it for you.
I personally enjoy teaching, so creating my products like Blog Mastermind though hard work, was an enjoyable process. Once the course was created I continued to sell it year after year to people new to the industry who want to learn how to make money with blogs.
Like with affiliate marketing, your potential to succeed selling information products rests on your ability to identify market needs, tap into audiences looking for this information and then give them what they want. There are plenty of subtleties and things to learn about, but thankfully there is plenty of guidance out there too. Digging into the archives of this blog you are reading now and downloading my free reports – The Blog Profits Blueprint and Membership Site Masterplan are fantastic starting points if you want more help.
10. High end private coaching
I’ll end this article with something I only recently did – offer high end coaching to a select group of clients who had to apply to work with me. My program cost between $5,000 and $10,000 and I turned away more people than I accepted. This was deliberate as I knew working one-on-one with people is not something I can do with many people or I will use up all my time. However I was keen to help certain people who were in the right position so I could learn more about the challenges they face.Private coaching, like consulting, is another situation where you trade time for dollars, but in terms of your hourly pay rate it is hard to find a higher paying “job”. Of course you don’t have to start off charging
thousands of dollars. Depending on your expertise and what kind of outcome you help people achieve, will determine how much you can charge. Offering coaching for $100 per session is not out of reach for most people, and that’s not a bad starting rate if you are looking to build up your experience through helping others closely.
Again the Internet is by far the easiest and most affordable tool to attract coaching clients. In many cases you can add private coaching to many of the other methods I listed above, including selling info products you create, affiliate products, sponsorship banners and physical products.
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