Still Struggling to Make Your Blog Profitable?

Still Struggling to Make Your Blog Profitable?

If you’re still scratching your head about learning from a blog, you are most certainly not alone. MOST blogs that attempt to turn a profit, struggle to do so.

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Top 10 Tips for Blog Reader Optimization

It seems like everyone is so concerned about optimizing their blog for search engines… but many people have forgotten about the reader. What about optimizing the blog for the reader?
When researching a recent article, I found a great blog filled with fantastic information, but I couldn’t figure out how to locate any additional posts. It was a gobbledygook of tag clouds, widgets and color. It was a little scary.

So, here is my list of ways you can optimize your blog for your reader. You want to engage your readers and make your blog easy to return to, without any hassles.

1. Spell Check — This is one of my struggles. It’s not that I don’t know how to spell, it’s the typos. AND I promise myself that I will go back and spell check but someone’s in the rush of the morning… I forget. Even I, the typo queen, get annoyed when entries are riddled with spelling errors. It’s more frustrating than fun. So, don’t forget to spell check.

2. Offer Posts by Email — many of my readers don’t actually visit my blog. They are members of a Google or yahoo group that gets the posts automatically and once I approve the entry, they get the email too. My subscribe button allows the reader to select how they want to be notified of new entries.

3. Terrible Templates – sigh, I am as guilty as the next person. In fact, while researching this article I realized that I have tortured everyone enough with my colorful boxes and I am going back… sigh… back to an easy to read… nay, pleasant on the eyes template. The key here is you… the reader, not me the author. I want you to return, so I should make it as likely as possible that you will enjoy the experience.

4. Font – Along with the terrible template comes the font. I have read blogs that the font is so small that it hurts to read, and others that the font is so decorative it looks like another language. Remember, you are writing to be read, and if the reader doesn’t enjoy it… they will leave.

5. How you write — This blog is meant to be read quickly and hopefully time and time again. I take great liberties with sentence structure and different topics require different approaches. I also write a business blog for located at http://matthijssenonline.com and the style is completely different. It is more businesslike and authoritative.

6. Widget Overload — I like cool gadgets just as much as the next person, but too many can be too distracting. In addition to making it hard to read the blog, they can also make it hard to navigate.

6. Navigation — Don’t forget that you individual blog entry in the very least, is part of a bigger group of entries, and at the most may just be a small part of a much larger website. Without navigation, page tabs or buttons, the reader won’t know about any of those other places they can visit. Many blog templates bury the page navigation while others display them more prominently. Select the template that prominently displays the links.

7. Content — If I were going to put these suggestions in order of importance, I would have to say that content will rank around number one. Content is ultimately what is going to get you the readers and keep them coming back for more.

8. Post Often — The more frequently you post, the more likely your readers will check in regularly. If it’s the same old same old, several days in a row, they may not put you into their regular schedule. Posting often will also increase your page ranking… as it is referred to as ‘feeding the bots’.

9. Ping Blog Search Sites - when you add a new blog entry, you can let sites such as feedburner or Google’s blog search. I use ping-o-matic which allows you to upload your blog and select who you want to ping. The quicker you get noticed, the quick you get read… the more people will joining you regularly.

10. Buy your own domain — If for no other reason this keeps your domain name short… (chuckle chuckle) the other reason is that then you own your blog. You won’t have to worry about anyone shutting it down, or going out of business and closing up shop. It’s not easy starting over (believe me) trying to gain back readership to a new location is difficult. My first Mom blogger blog is located on http://mombloggerworks.blogspot.com and now that I own my own site, I have to blog in two places. Here (http://mombloggermoney.com ) and there.

Well, I hope you enjoyed this list of 10 tips for optimizing your blog for readers.

Please send me your suggestions or pet peeves….

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How to Find Most Searched Keywords

The Internet is a huge and unwieldy animal....and finding your niche market is fantastic... but how will anyone find you?

Have you heard or seen SEO... that stands for Search Engine Optimization... and it is more than just placing keywords on your hidden meta tags, and in your text... it's about writing relevant text around the popular keywords so that the search engine crawlers pick up the page with high relevance.

Recently I was hired to write content for a business blog, the challenge here is that it is a new blog without ANY following.. In fact, I'm starting the blog from scratch - (and still tweaking but you can take a peek http://matthijssenonline.com/)

My audience should be small business owners in New Jersey looking for a full service computer solution company. It's a real challenge to find words that a business owner would use online and not get buried on the 144,998,009 page. It's a challenge... and here are some tools

1. Ask.com, provides a selection of searches on different categories. This URL will show previous weeks most popular searches Click Here

2. Dogpile, another search engine provides an interesting glimpse at currently searched words Click Here

3. Google Trends, this is my favorite. Google Trends allows you to put in your keyword and check it's ranking... AND, allows you to compare several keywords. Turns out that something I thought would be popular... sigh... wasn't even found. Click Here

4. Google Zietgeist, this is another fantastic tool from Google. This is a compilation of several tools that allow you to check out what's popular. Click Here

5. Yahoo Buzz, This seems like a fairly new tool. Honestly, I just found it today and since the URL says "beta" they obviously changed something. :O) I checked out the site and it looks like a great collection of most searched topics and keywords on Yahoo. Click Here

Once you have found the relevant search words, you need to incorporate them into your blog or web content. Blogging is a great way to education and drive traffic to sites.

Recently I purchased a great ebook (54 pages) on how to earn money blogging... I've been blogging for years and I never knew... how much I didn't know. Anyway, if you are interested in checking it out you can Click Here!

Help Writing an eBook from a Professional!

Want Ebook Publishing Help?
Here's an article on ebook publishing you'll find helpful!

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Let's Get One Thing Straight About Being A Published Author

- by Jim Edwards and David Garfinkel

(c) 2002 - All Rights reserved

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Just for fun, evaluate the following statement:

"Most people want to write a book and get it published, but that's simply impossible 99% of the time."

Is the above statement true?

Not exactly. What's true is that most people THINK they can't write a book and get it published. And while that's a widely-held belief, just the opposite is true.

In fact, it's easier to write and get published today than ever before - especially thanks to the ebook "revolution." The field of ebooks is literally wide open for all who are interested - including, perhaps, you!

What does it take to write and publish your own ebook?

Three things:

1) A TOPIC you are interested in that others would also like to know more about.

2) The DESIRE to get the ebook written (note - you can write it yourself, but you don't have to. There are other proven and simple ways to get your ebook written and published for you.)

3) A simple, one-page, "sales letter" WEB SITE to sell the ebook.

Does it take a lot of money or any special aptitudes? Oddly enough, not really. You have to be willing to take action, certainly, and learn as you go, but there are no special educational, financial or talent requirements to become a successful ebook author.

The truth is, it costs very little to get started. You can get a domain registered and online for as little as $9 to start and $6 a month for website hosting.

In fact, there are actually six ways you can create an ebook without ever writing a word of it - so you don't need to be a skilled writer. We'll tell you about one of them, in-depth, right now.

Think of a topic you know something about that you'd like to write an ebook on.

Once you have that topic in mind, then all you need to do is write a list of questions other people would pay to get the answers to... give that list to a friend... have the friend call you on the phone and ask you those questions... record the call... have the recording transcribed... and edit the transcription!

Presto - you've just created a "meaty" ebook fast! (Yes, it really is that simple!)

By the way, if you don't want to transcribe or edit the ebook yourself, you can get both of those things done for you for surprisingly little money... as little as a few hundred dollars, total, in many cases.

That's how we wrote our most recent ebook.

As authors ourselves, we came up with a list of questions, got on the phone, recorded the answers, and had the entire 4 1/2 hour conversation transcribed. Using this phone call -transcription - edit route we created an ebook in about a week. It cost us a total of $163 to produce it. (We hired out the transcription, and did the editing ourselves.)

So far we've spent *zero* money on advertising and, as we write this article today, we've sold over $49,683 worth of that ebook in less than six months!

We're not unique in that way. We know many others who have successfully published ebooks - including another small publisher who has used this exact same method to create dozens of ebooks.

If you can clearly understand a specific problem, want, need or desire of a large enough target audience and then create a publication that helps them get what they want, you stand to make a lot of money and help a great number of people at the same time.

If there ever was a "golden age" of publishing, NOW is the time. The truth of the matter is, today anyone can become a published author with an ebook in less than a couple of weeks. Between us, we have 11 ebooks online and we're making money every day, even as you read this.

You can do the same. Opportunity awaits you right now. It's never been easier to seize the day and go for your dream - become a published author!

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Jim Edwards and David Garfinkel are co-authors of "eBook Secrets Exposed," the authoritative resource for making a lot of money quickly writing and publishing your own ebook. Guerrilla Marketing series author Jay Conrad Levinson says, "If ever there was a 'must-read' for this century, it's this book." For more information...


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Business Idea - Blogging for Profit, No Previous Experience Required

Blogs – it seems like just about everyone has one.

If you don’t know what a blog is, it comes from the phrase “web log”, which is an online diary or journal of sorts. People have all kinds of reasons for starting a blog. They may do it for fun, because they love writing or just to have an outlet to express their thoughts, vent frustrations and more.

But you can make a blog into a money-making business, even if you have no blogging or business experience.

How to Get Started

You can actually start your blog completely for free. There are services like Blogger.com and Wordpress.com that make it super easy. But note, John Yeo, profitable blog and creator of Blogger’s Paycheck the recommends that those seeking profit should Wordpress, but in a different way than is explained at Wordpress.com and he goes through it in detail in the course.

How to Make Money with a Blog

Simply put, pick a theme or major topic for your blog and start writing. Even if you have no product of your own, you can still make money from your blog by selling and displaying advertising, earning commissions recommending products and other activities. This is also something John Yeo covers in detail.

What if You Don’t Like to Write

Many people think they can’t blog if they don’t enjoy writing or feel they aren’t talented writers, but that shouldn’t stop anyone. A blog is about sharing thoughts and you don’t have to be an award-winning writer to do that. In addition, the growing popularity of online video and audio open up more possibilities for sharing content. You can also hire a ghostwriter if you want a text blog and want to avoid writing.

The Keys to Profitable Blogging
To profit from blogging, there are a few key ingredients:
1. Target a highly interested audience of readers who happen to be consumers. In other words, people who readily spend money to pursue their hobbies, interests and desires that you’ll be writing about.
2. Create interesting content that people are readily looking for, that they’ll talk about to their friends and come back for over and over again.
3. Sign up for the Blogger’s Pay Check Course that will take you through setting up your blog, building traffic, making money and more.

Photo Blogging

Just like vlogs, photo blogs are born from the need to communicate and integrate in a community that has reached international dimensions. A photo blog mainly relies on photo sharing and publishing, while also using textual support as well. Nevertheless, when you visit a photo blog you'll understand where the focus really lies; the phenomenon deviated from blogging with the advent of the cameraphones that allow the instant photo sharing between web users. The big advantage of such pages is that they are very dynamic in nature as compared to traditional sites. There are photo blogs that belong to individual domains and others that use larger collective services such as Blogger.

Widely accessible all over the web, photo blogs are managed with the help of specific software systems that enable content control. Thus, photo bloggers are able to upload materials and manage all posts without any restriction; the same unrestricted form is maintained for the access to photo blogs, since all that is required is a browser and direct online access. There are cases when the transition from text to photo blogs is made with the use of plugins and even code rewriting; thus a combination of text and image is possible when a blogger selects a daily entry option.

Usually photo blogs have a single author, nevertheless it is not uncommon that two or three people contribute to the same web page. The posts display depends on chronology, with the main page showing the most recent entries, but you may go back to the archives any time you want. Photo blogs are highly interactive too since users may leave any comments they want for a special entry. The presence of friendly links is also important in the photo blogging community, given the fact that creators come to move freely between sites.

It is totally incorrect to take pictures galleries for photo blogs; while the former is a simple collection images, the latter is a chronological log that uses categories allowing the user to navigate among them from older to newer materials and vice versa. It is not uncommon to also have photo blogs and moblogs as one and the same unit; though they may also function separately as well. A photo blog that can be updated from a mobile location such as camera phones could be labeled as mob logs. Nevertheless this latter concept could well function without pictures as well. In a nut shell, the composite character of the Internet allows the happy existence of hybrid blog types that enrich the puzzle even more.

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