Making Money from Blogging

Blogs are a popular source of information and traffic since anyone can make one.
Businesses are realizing that they can make money from people's post.

There are several ways to make money from your blog.

1. Put ads on your blog. This is pretty straight forward and self-explanatory.

2. Try to sell some product with your blog. This is harder and it is also difficult to make a quality blog while promoting products.

3. PayPerPost. There are services that allow companies to buy posts. You post about a product of the company and you get some money. Usually you post a review of a product.

4. Join a profit sharing network. For these programs, you usually just blog and the service that you use will take care of ads and you get a share of the profit.

5. Selling links on your blog. Once your blog becomes more popular, the links on your blog will increase in value. There are services out there such as http://www.text-link-ads.com/ which make it easy to find a customer for your links.

Using Overture to Your Advantage

There is much competition for keywords now since search engines are the main source of traffic for most people. Ranking highly on search engines could be the difference between making a couple bucks a day and making full time income. I'll show you how to find popular keywords with low competition and avoid high competition keywords with low popularity.

First go to http://inventory.overture.com/.

That site basically tells you how many searches average are made each month for a keyword.

Now you can either pick a niche that you know about to see how many searches there are or just pick something that is popular such as "mp3" or "lose weight".

Now look at search terms that won't be too common and search them in google with quotes around them.

If you find a keyword that is searched for commonly but only like like 1000 results, thats a gold mine right there. You can make a website about that term and if you know what you're doing with SEO, you can rank #1 easily.

It might take a while to find a good keyword but once you find one, you can make a lot of money. You'll get hundreds of clicks from the search engines for free.

On the site that you make, you should make it something like, your-keyword-here.com. You can either link to affiliate products and try to sell something or put ads there. It's important that whatever you put on the page, it has to be relevant or else people will just go back and check the next ranking website.

For starters who don't know much about SEO you can look for keywords that only have maybe 200-300 results and make a site custom optimized for that term. You will very likely rank first because there is low competition. Repeat this with ten terms and ten sites and you'll be making a steady income.

For experts with bigger budgets, you might want to try a popular keyword with maybe 10,000 results. You'll get much more traffic for one site but you'll to maximize your SEO and get backlinks to rank highly.

There are millions of possible keywords and its only a matter of time before a juicy keyword starts getting more competition. Get a head start now.

You can find good keywords for free but once you start making some money, you might want to get Ad Word Analyzer. You can also just get it if your too lazy to do work manually want to start making money now.

Making money as an affiliate

There are various affiliate programs online that will pay you commission for selling their products. These are a great way to make money online if you know how to promote it. You'll first need a website and get some traffic to it as I discussed in my previous posts. Once you make your first sales, your profit will increase exponentially as your site becomes more popular.

A great way to promote products and build traffic at the same time is to start a review site. You just list the products and promote your site. Then the users buy the products and post reviews and basically run the site for you. You can actually make a living off of affiliate programs if you know what you're doing and advertise it effectively.

I have listed some popular affiliate programs below:

ClickBank mostly sells digital products such as software or ebooks. ClickBank is a good site for starters because the sign up process is fast and doesn't require a lot of verification. You can get started right away.

Azoogle is another affiliate program which has many different things to sell. One disadvantage is that you need to get approved by a human editor before you can start selling and it could take a while depending on your application.

Amazon offers up to 8.5% commission on the sales you make for it. Amazon is a popular online store that sells all kinds of things and you can start your own store. You don't have to ship or anything, all you have to do is promote your store and you get commission for every sale. You can earn a lot of money here for selling things such as TVs or computers that can get you hundreds of dollars per sale if you are successful.

Commission Junction is a popular affiliate that gives you a percent of your sales. A variety of different items are available to promote at Commission Junction.

Maxbounty is an affiliate program for those who want to try to get commission from offers. The campaigns on the site are mainly sites that pay you when someone signs up for their service that you advertise.

Useful tools for webmasters

I've compiled a list of tools that would be helpful to webmasters to enhance and optimize their site.

http://www.google.com/analytics/
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/
http://www.iwebtool.com/
http://www.mineralogie.uni-wuerzburg.de/freeof.html

It doesn't take hard work to make money

Innovative ideas are what makes money. In this post I'll introduce to you some examples.

Classic example: Million Dollar Homepage
The million dollar homepage sold pixels for $1 each. As the name states, there are a million pixels for sale. At the beginning, almost no one thought it would be any success. However, soon businesses realized the potential and then pixels were selling fast. The last 1,000 pixels were sold for $38,100.00 on eBay. The success of this site soon resulted in a bunch of copy cat sites that also tried to sell pixels.

The author of the million dollar homepage soon opened up a new site. Pixelotto has one million $2 pixels. The author plans to give away one million to one lucky winner, donate $100,000 to charity and then keep the rest. The pixels are still for sale.

The newest idea was the Link Experiment, which is raising one million dollars by selling links. The homepage contains 100 of the highest bidding links. The current highest link as of now is around $400. This site is a big success and it's still very early to get in and profit. The site is not is widely known so this is a good opportunity to get more traffic. For you affiliates out there, you can make a lot of money by promoting the Link Experiment. Affiliates get $15 for each sale that comes through their link. This is a hot new site and I suggest you opportunist get in the game fast.



A very new site that has emerged is WriteAbout.Us. This site is similar to the Million Dollar Link Experiment. It's very new but you should get your links in for cheap because it can takeoff at anytime. This is a great opportunity for those who don't have a high budget because currently the links are costing only $1 each.

Another very new site is the Million Dollar Text Link. This site has a unique design where there will only be one link and that spot will always cost $10. The admin of the program is a guy who's trying to raise money for college for himself and his brothers. Its a new site so you should take advantage of this opportunity.

How to Take Advantage of Christmas

The holiday seasons approaches fast and several of you may be thinking, "How can I use this as an opportunity to make my money or increase my business?" I have ideas for you guys.

1. Sell Christmas related products - this includes pretty much anything that is red, green, or white.
2. Offer some kind of limited time offer to increase traffic to your site
3. Give away some kinda of promotional guide or ebook as a "Christmas present" to promote you business.
4. Offer some kind of free service and accept donations. People are feeling more generous this time of year.
5. Design a product and convince people that it is the perfect gift. Personalized items are great if you can find a cheap place to personalize things with messages.
6. Be an affiliate and promote a site that sells Christmas gifts.
7. Don't accept donations and claim that you will donate it to a charity if you're not actually going to.