How To Monetize and Earn Money From Your Blog

Monetizing your blog is a sure way to earn passive income with just a few clicks from your site’s readers and visitors. If you want to monetize your blog, you need to look at a better way of approach like what kind of blog will you be making about, what kind of readers visit your blog and what money making scheme will you apply in order to earn from your blog.

It doesn’t matter if you have the greatest pay- per click program if you don’t have readers to click the ads. It is therefore best to generate traffic first then put on the ad program of your choice later.

Note that if you have a steady stream of traffic, the best way to make money from your blog depends on the type of blog you have. If you have a general interest blog, it’s a lot harder to make money from that of a specialized one. On the other hand, it’s always another story if you have thousands of readers as you can run general advertising on primary needs of people such as: credit cards, mortgages and insurance.

If you have a general interest blog, then no one is coming to visit your blog searching for cheap insurance, the best way to refinance a mortgage or a better rate on a credit card. Your readers come to you to read about everyday politics, the buzz in entertainment and the latest celebrity gossip.

Considering you pull thousands of visitors over long periods, you could still make a profit off from these kind of advertisers because a certain percentage of your visitors will click the ad and a small percentage of them might buy. Employing this method requires thousands of readers.

If you have a smaller and specialized blog, you have lots of options to earn. For example, lots of people use specialized blogs such as made to order logos or t-shirt printing. You can employ the same principle for your blog, like linking great concepts and display items on your content.

You can employ pay-per-click ads from Google or Yahoo. Though their methods of producing ads maybe automated, you still need to watch for the ads that show up in your site, the click rates and pricing.

If the ads that are displayed are not targeted in accordance with your content, you’ll get lesser click rates. So make adjustments where it’s needed. Be sure to pull off the right keywords when you write your posts so you’ll get through your ad targets.

Another way to make money is through affiliate marketing. If your blog is about houses for sale in your area, for instance, you can promote realty companies or information that offers an affiliate program. When your readers follow your link to that product and buy, you easily get a commission. The more specialized your blog is, the easier it is to monetize it because your audience will be specific with your information and products.

Now that you know all the basics to bloggging and the best methods to make it more effective online, it's about time you set the ball rolling and start hitting those buttons!

Happy Blogging.

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How To Promote and Broadcast Your Blog Online

Blog and Online Promotions

 

Now that you have your blog, then it’s about time to broadcast it to the world! Unless you’re already famous or have a lot of influential friends online, you need to promote your blog in order to attract readers and visitors.

It’s not always about post and forget

Sometimes you just might get lucky when somebody with a higher rank or influence online happens to stumble across one of your articles and circulate it among his network or community. But are you really going to rely on this kind of luck to find you? Not if you seriously want your blog to gain popularity. You need to promote your blog’s homepage and every one of your posts.  

Below are easy to follow steps to get you started with promoting your blog online and elevate your dealings for better search engine rankings, high quality and quantity traffic and more comments / reactions from your readers.

1. Ping your posts

A ping is a simple way of updating specific search engines and social bookmarking sites that you have updated your blog. This will attract search engine crawlers or web bots to your website and will greatly help to get your blog post indexed into their search results. You can avail of pinging services sites such as Ping- O- Matic (www.pingomatic.com) input the URL of your post and ping away!

2. Announce your posts in Social Media Sites
If you are active in popular social media websites such as Twitter (www.twitter.com) or Facebook (www.facebook.com) always make sure to announce your posts and do it for multiple times. This way, your followers or friend network will be informed of your updates and therefore will get the chance to visit your site.

3. Social Bookmarks
Submit your updates to social bookmarking websites. Sign up and manually update via posting URL of your posts through websites such as Spicypage (www.spicypage.com), Technorati (www.technorati.com), Mybloglog (www.mybloglog.com). Social bookmarks will help boost your articles by way of back links and garner votes and high ranking among their members.

4. Hook up with Online niche communities

Make a search online to check for popular communities that are in tuned specifically to your topic and niche. Usually these websites allow you to submit a new link similar to that of a social bookmarking site but is more targeted to your specific topic segment readership. For example, if you are into blogging, making money online or online marketing then you should consider submitting your posts to specific websites that cater to these topics. (Note: Make friends and develop professional relationships among members of these websites and you’ll be able to gain more traffic for your submissions)

 5. Blog commenting
Maintain a list of other blogs that are in lined with your topic or community and post your comments regularly. Immediately after publishing your blog’s pillar article and going through the steps mentioned above, always see to it to go through your list of blogs and post a comment on each one, especially on recent posts.

Commenting will drive traffic from your comment to your blog, where your brand new post is sitting at the top position on the homepage. This helps to increase the comment count of your post and can lead to more new readers and followers as well.

Though the process stated above may come as somewhat of a hassle and time consuming on your part, just bare in mind that the effort you put into promoting all your best posts will give you great rewards later on, not to mention a growing loyal community of followers in a relatively short period of time.

The Web is now at your fingertips.

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How To Make Your Very Own Blog

A crash course on making Blogs.

For starters, a Weblog or Blog as it is commonly called- is a web based journal in which users can publish personal views on the internet. It is everyone’s home site in the www and can be used for a lot of purposes such as the dissemination of news and entertainment and can be made in a format to accommodate ads and generate revenue for the owner.

With the advent of online trends, free blog domains, added with the ease and convenience for the access of blogs, has led to the sudden rise of the population of bloggers all over the world. 

Contrary to the common belief, making a blog is really quick and easy! All you need to do is simply follow the steps below:

1. Find a Blog domain / provider that's in tuned to what you want. The most popular providers include Wordpress, LiveJournal, Blogdrive and my personal choice- Blogger. These sites come with pre-made templates, push-button publishing and a more user friendly atmosphere that doesn’t require much technical knowledge in order for you to publish your blog.

2. Sign up and select the format / template for your blog. Pick your desired color scheme, template and blog layout.

The sites mentioned above offer predefined layouts and schemes. Simply select one that’s to your liking and personalize it and add your profile, articles or images.

3. Add buttons and widgets. These are free buttons from external providers with functionality as guestbooks, weather maps or comment boxes for your blog visitors.

4. Decide whether to put your blog in private or public. Depending on your topic or preference, you can set your blog to let internet visitors be able to read and visit your blog. You can also set it to let only family, friends or those close to you view it. Some blog sites offer password protected publishing where only those you approve will be able to view what you’ve written.

5. Start writing and posting a few articles to test it out. Make adjustments to the layout and scheme as you see fit. It may seem a bit awkward at first, but once you get into the routine of writing and gradually updating your articles, you’ll get used to the program in no time at all! You can start by writing about your day, your opinion on things, news bits, music and movies or just about anything of interest to you!

6. Visit other blogs or blog communities and invite potential readers. When you leave comments and suggestions, always see to it to put your blogging URL or site link (http://aboutheironwagon.blogspot.com) so other bloggers can visit you too!

(Note: If you set your blog to Private, this feature will not work)

 7. Advertise your blog by sending your site link to friends or publish the URL on your website content. Always see to it to add the URL to posts you make on other blogs.

Happy Blogging.

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