Monthly Archives: January 2009
How to Use Blogs to Increase Your Online Income
Making Money In spite of the fact that I have my own blog and blog for clients, there are very few blogs that I read on a regular basis. As a busy freelance writer, I simply don’t have the time. When I visit some blogs and they have a long list of “favorited” blogs, I think to myself, “How in the world can they keep up with all those blogs?” Even trying to keep up with a few is time-consuming for me. So, what does all this have to do with using ...
Continue readingUse WordPress Functions Externally
WordPress Coding & Design There may be a time when you’ve added WordPress on to an already existing site, to perhaps power the news section or to just provide a blog or multiple blogs for people. If the site is small then it’s usually easier to just convert the existing pages into static pages, and use the CMS functionality of WordPress to power the whole site. However, that may not always be the case, especially with large websites. Just because your site is ...
Continue reading17 Ways Forums Help You Become A Better Blogger
Blogging Forums can be time consuming and may even be called as “unproductive” but as a blogger and freelance writer, I have always felt that forums are such a great place to get so many things done. I have always recommended people to join forums in my previous blog posts. In the previous post, I said you can improve blogging by creating a challenge in the forum. But forums are not just for that. Here’s a list of 17 things that comes to my mind ...
Continue readingWinning Ways to Promote Your Blog Contest
Promote your blog Blog contests and giveaways are a popular way to increase traffic. The most common blog giveaway is to simply announce it on one’s site and ask people to enter by posting a comment. You can build an audience this way, but wouldn’t you like to expand your reach even further? Increase not only the readers of your blog, but your followers on Twitter and other social networks? Let’s talk about ways we can do that. The key to ...
Continue readingHTML Basics: Text Formatting II
Design & Coding Following on from last week, below are some lesser used but still very useful text formatting tags. Delete and Insert If you decide to change some information on a page, but what to emphasise that you’ve made an update, perhaps to a blog post or a piece of news, then we use the del and ins tags to do this. The del tag is used to surround the text to be deleted. Using this tag will usually put a strikethrough the text. The del tag can also ...
Continue readingNetklix Pay Per Click Ad Network
Reviews Google Adsense remains one of the most popular pay per click Ad Networks that bloggers use, however many bloggers struggle to make good money with it as click through rates are sometimes very low. Thankfully, there are a lot of alternatives out there. One of which is NetKlix, an ad network which has been operating since 1999. Originally an affiliate ad network, NetKlix was relaunched as a PPC network in 2008 and has already built up a good ...
Continue readingPhoto Dropper: Easy, Free Images for Your Blog
Blogging If you want to spice up your blog posts with a few images, you may find yourself in a bit of a bind. If you don’t take a large number of images yourself, you may not have a good stash of images to pull from. Fortunately though, there are plenty of photographers and artists on the Web who are happy to allow you to use their images on your site for free, under certain restrictions, and they clearly tag their work with Creative Commons ...
Continue readingNewbie Affiliates: How to Choose Affiliate Products to Market
Making Money As I talked about in Monday’s post here, I just started to market my first affiliate product. Well, I’ve tried others passively, but this is the first time I’ve hunkered down and really put time into marketing a product. With the others, I just stuck a link on my site. Not surprisingly, I made little to no money with this “marketing strategy.” I kind of fell into promoting my current product. Now that I’ve experienced great ...
Continue readingHow to Overcome Buyer Skepticism When Selling Affiliate Products and Services Online
Making Money In yesterday’s post, I discussed how I recently started to promote an affiliate product, and how skeptical some buyers were when purchasing online. For those of us who spend a great deal of time online, buying goods and services over the internet is old hat. But, we are a tiny minority. Many consumers – especially those who don’t use the computer a lot – are extremely skeptical about making purchases online. Following are three tips for ...
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Blogger Like most blogging systems, Google Blogger includes many features by default and offers users the opportunity to add more functions should they be required. By default, Blogger offers several options to encourage reader discussion of our blogs including: star ratings; reactions; polls (as sidebar widgets); comments and “Links to this post” (trackbacks). Despite this array of discussion options, you may find that certain needs for ...
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