I recently started running few adverting campaigns on facebook and I am very impressed with the conversions. This is contrary to the popular belief that “facebook ads do not convert”.

Facebook advertising is tricky as it does wonders with some niches and absolutely do nothing for the rest.

It would have been nice if we can test run our campaigns without jeopardizing our advertising budget. As I have mentioned in this blog before, you need to burn at least $50 before making any decent judgments on PPC campaigns.

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Thanks to the good people at Visa business network, you do not have to spend this test money out from your pocket. They are making a very generous offer by giving you $100 worth facebook advertising credit just for joining their network. Signing up is absolutely free and they are throwing in another $75 worth yahoo ad credits just to make your smile wider :-)

You can join the Visa Business Network here and get your free advertising credits. The coupon will not work until you enter a valid credit card to your facebook advertising account. And you must utilize this credit within 30 days.

Perform a statistical analysis on conversions and if they are good, run a full-throttle advertising campaign on facebook. You only have something to gain from this whole experiment. Good Luck.

Do not forget to read,
50 ways to make money blogging

Create a blog like this and start earning money.

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No matter how many times I have answered this question before and even after writing the ” How To Create a blog” series I still get this question from some of my readers, “How Do I Get My Own Website Onto The Web?”

Building your own web site might have been a nightmare few years ago but now it is as easy as 1-2-3-4….

Step 01: Register a domain name

Domain name is your identity on the web. For example this web site’s identity is “antharjalaya.com”. You need to use a domain registrar in order to purchase the domain name. It will typically cost you less than $10.

I would advise you to buy a “dot com” name instead of other extensions. Try adding a hyphen and seperate the words if your desired name is not available in dot com format.
i.e
If startforextrading.com is not available try registering start-forex-trading.com

If it is impossible to buy your domain name in the dot com format try dot org or dot net. If your target market is limited to a specific country buying a country specific domain is also advisable.

I have posted a complete step by step tutorial on how to buy a domain name in one of my earlier blog post. Read it here.

Step 02 : Create your web site.

Make sure you present your web site with a high level of quality, functionality, and professionalism. You can hire a web designer if you you do not have any previous experience. This is the most common approach adopted by many web entrepreneurs and this is the easiest way to get your web site up and running.

Hiring a web designer will cost you approximately $100- $1500 and higher price web designers are not always the best. So, have a very good look at their portfolio before making any upfront payment.

Designing your own web site can be a quite entertaining experience
if you are a quick learner.You need to learn little HTML but it is not difficult considering all the resources available online.

You can use a simple text editor to write your HTML pages, or you can utilize on of the many free HTML editors available on the web.

I use Adobe Dreamweaver software as it does all the HTML coding for me. But you are still required to learn the basics of HTML. If you know how to use MS word, it will not be difficult to use Dreamweaver.

Website templates.

One easy way to get your website design is to begin with a template. Website templates are Semi finished web pages that have been predesigned and assembled with all the graphics and necessary code needed to get a web site online quickly.

The above is an example for a fashion/ clothing template. You can just edit the text and make it your own web design.

There are many places on the web where you can buy templates, or get them for free. An important aspect of using a template is to utilize as much customization as possible. For a startup company, a template is a good way to save some money and focus on keeping up a positive cash flow.

Step 03: Choose a web hosting plan

In order for your website to be available to anyone at anytime, you need to host it with a web host. It is a web server leased to you by a web hosting company. Basically, web hosting provides a way for people to access your web site through the internet. Without it, there would be no way for people to see the page.

There are several thousand web hosting companies out there to choose from. It’s best to chose a web hosting company based on a recommendation. You need to look for following details before making this very important decision.

1. Reliability and speed of access
2. Bandwidth allocated to you.
3. Disk space given to you.
4. Their Technical support.
5. Availability of FTP, PHP, Perl, SSI, .htaccess, telnet, SSH, and MySQL.
6. Email, Autoresponders, POP3, Mail Forwarding.
7. Control Panel type.
8. Multiple Domain Hosting and Subdomains.
9. Price
10.Monthly/Quarterly/Annual Payment Plans.

I have posted a complete step by step tutorial on how to set up a hosting account in one of my earlier blog post. Read it here.

The following are the best web host companies I can recommend for you to use. I have done an in depth analysis of all these providers and they simply meet all the criterias of a good host.

Hostgator

This is what I use for all my web sites. I bought one unlimited plan and now I am hosting over dozen web sites with Hostgator without paying anything extra.

Special Features :
One click blog/ forum and other scripts installation.
Excellent support staff.
45 Day Money Back Guarantee.
Beautiful and professional web template gallery.
Starting at $4.95 a month.

Blue Host

They will give you a domain name for free and Unlimited domains can be hosted for no extra charge. Starting at $6.95 a month.

Fat Cow

They will provide a Free Domain name, Unlimited disk space, Unlimited bandwidth and Point & Click Site Building Tools.
Other than that they will fix you with $75 worth FREE advertising.
They do not have a monthly payment plan and their service will cost you $66 a year. ($ 10 off for our readers for a limited time and your cost will only be $56.)

PoWWEb

Free Domain name, Unlimited disk space, Unlimited bandwidth and Script Instant Installer starting at $4.88 a month.

Step 04 : Upload your site to the web.

There are 2 ways of uploading your web site files to Internet. The most common method is via FTP. FTP allows you to quickly transfer many files and I am using the FREE software “filezila” for this purpose.

Another method is to use the File Manager within your cPanel control panel, which has an upload feature which allows you to browse your computer and select the files you wish to upload.

Time will not stop and wait for you

If you have an idea for a web site , start acting on it today. Don’t wait till you learn everything. That will never happen. You cannot learn to swim by reading a guide book. This is the same.

I did not know anything about building web sites until I start building one. My first web site taught me everything I need to build and run a web site.

It will not cost you more than $15 to start. ( $10 for the domain name and $5 for the first month hosting.) Allocate one hour from your day and you will end up with a rewarding web site in 14 days.

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You can make money online using your web site and a mixture of following money making methods. It took me lot of time to write this post as I wanted to give you the best. I hope you will be able to get the best out from this list.

If you do not have your own blog yet, I have given you step by step instructions on creating a blog site here. It covers all the information you needed for a start up.

01. Pay per click Networks.

You just have to copy paste the code given by them and they will start displaying ads in your web site. You will be paid for every click your web site visitors make or you will be paid a set amount for standard number of impressions ( Mostly 1000 views) their ads receive on your web site.

Recommended Pay per click/ Pay per impression Networks.

1.Google adsense.

Probably the most popular way to make money online. They pay up to $5 for a click although there are rumors that some clicks value over $100. Nowadays with too much popularity it is impossible to earn such high amounts from a single click. I average $0.40 – 0.50 per click in this web site and the highest amount received for a click being $4.73 last month.

2. Chitika

You can use it with AdSense or as an AdSense alternative and Chithika is one of my favorite ad networks.

3.Bidvertiser

Simply display the BidVertiser text ads on your website and let advertisers bid against each other.They will always display the highest bidders to maximize your revenue so you will make more money.

4. Widget bucks

They display products based on the buying trends of 100 million U.S. shoppers. Spanning hundreds of categories and millions of products, WidgetBucks’ CPC-based shopping ad widgets give site visitors eye-catching designs to attract their attention and clicks.

5.LinkWorth

Their products include text link ads, paid blog reviews, in-text links, in-content pay per click ads, rotating text ads, hosted content pages, article submission, directory submission and many more.

6.Yahoo publisher network.

Simply display ads that are relevant to the content of your site and earn money from qualified clicks. No investment is required and setup is quick and easy.

7.Adbrite

AdBrite can help you monetize your site with advertising that fits the content and user base of your site. Their base of advertisers includes top brands like Live Nation, GM, AT&T and Verizon—at the same time, AdBrite serves ads on nearly 1 billion pages daily, providing massive scale opportunities.

Worth a look Pay per click/ Pay per impression Networks.

8.Vibrant Media

Vibrant In-Text Advertising campaigns will increase your advertising revenue without adding more clutter, allowing you to expand advertising real estate with relevant in-text placements. A user must mouse-over a highlighted word to view a relevant advertisement. Vibrant In-Text Advertising is a 100% user-driven advertising experience.

9.Crsip Ads

Get listed in their blog catalog and they will shop us around to their advertising clients. Earn 70% rev share per click displaying keyword-targeted text ads. Choose from more than 6,000+ advertisers by keyword. Even small blogs can realize earnings faster than other ad networks. Minimum payout is only $5.

10. Value Click Media

Earn revenue through their ad network platform by running ads from hundreds of quality advertisers on your web site. Receive some of the highest eCPM rates with unmatched fill through a wide variety of standard banners, pop-unders and rich media.

11.Ad genta

AdGenta is an easy and powerful way for you to unlock the revenue potential of your website or blog. AdGenta is a unique way for you to embed ads anywhere you can place a picture – in your blog post, on your website, in your RSS feed.

12. Tribal Fusion

Tribal Fusion represent only the highest quality websites, so they can secure high CPM rates for your valuable ad inventory. They sell your site inventory at increasingly higher CPMs based on the level of targeting: Run-of-Network (untargeted), channel specific (targeted), and site specific (highly targeted).

13. Industry Brains

Their technology enables vertically-focused publishers to monetize their Web sites and deliver relevant pay-per-click and display ads. With their site-specific model, publishers can leverage their brands and charge a premium for their quality audience and content.

02. Affiliate Networks and Programs

You will be paid every time one of your visitor perform a desired action required by the advertising network.
This can be,
Filling up a form.
Sign up for a program.
Participate in a survey.
Email Submission.
Buy a product or service….ETC

If you have searched for a way of making money online, you should have come across the term ” Affiliate marketing”. Affiliate marketing concept fall in this cost per action category.
Wikipedia Definition for Affiliate marketing.

Recommended Affiliate Networks.

14. Commission Junction

My Favorite affiliate network and without a doubt the best in the business. Pays for leads, sales, clicks and they were the company invented most technologies related to affiliate marketing.

15. Retail FX partners

This is not an affiliate network as they only promote their own financial product. You get paid up to $200 per one lead and this has been my best money maker for the past 9 months.

15.2 HY Affiliate

This is also a network like retailfx and they offer 2 plans giving you a chance to earn from $75 to $200 per referral.

16. Never Blue

Over 3000 offers to choose from and they have high converting simple offers which your readers can complete at no cost. It makes them a network you should join if you are serious about making money online.

17. Market Leverage

Do not need to explain much. A must join network. This is the first affiliate network I joined after launching this web site and I have no regrets. You will get a very helpful affiliate manager who will assist you in every possible way to make you more money.

18. azoogleads

You will have access to many exclusive offers you won’t find from other networks and reap the many benefits that come from working with the unequivocal leader in affiliate marketing.

What are a few things that set them apart? Their superior tracking technology, new product development, and proprietary publisher tools to name a few.

They do have a cool iphone application for easy account access when you are on the move. They support social media campaigns such as facebook applications which make them a unique choice for a professional affiliate marketer.

19. Click Bank

A 11 year old company with a proven track record. They specialize in digitally deliverable items and payouts go as high as 75% per sale. They recently approached $1.3 billion in Payouts.

Founded in 1998, ClickBank is a secure online retail outlet for more than 12,000 digital product vendors and more than 100,000 active affiliate marketers. ClickBank makes a sale somewhere in the world every 2-3 seconds, safely processing more than 26,000 digital transactions a day. The company serves more than 200 countries, and is consistently ranked as one of the most highly-trafficked sites on the web.

20. CPA Lead

Require your visitors to complete a survey to access your premium content or reward. When your user completes one of CPA lead surveys, your content is revealed. Every time a user fills out a four page survey, you earn about $1.

Their famous DP forum thread. Look what other web masters are saying about this program.

21. Link Share

You can make money online from your Web site traffic. Earn commissions from some of the world’s best known and fastest growing brands. You’ll be joining a trusted industry leader that has helped thousands of publishers earn millions of dollars. You earn commissions by simply linking to products and services that your audience is likely to purchase.

22. Amazon Associates

Advertise amazon products in your blog and get paid up to 15% when someone buys from Amazon.

Worth a look Affiliate Networks.

23. Link Connector

LinkConnector has introduced exclusive technologies to the market that give their merchants and affiliates a strong advantage.

24. Lead Pile

They are very different from other affiliate networks and based on a innovative concept. Give it a try.

25. Cafe Press

Earn money by selling your own personalized branded merchandise.
i.e T-Shirts, Mugs,Art and posters, Gift items

26. Clix Galore

You can browse around their offers and pay rates even before you sign up with them. Have a look.

03. Make money from your RSS feed

27. Pheedo

Pheedo retrieves your RSS feed several times an hour and updates your FeedPowered advertisements with any newly published items. Great for time-sensitive content and frequently updated offers.

Here is a PDF file explaining the overview of the concept of Pheedo.

28. Adsense for feedburner

Now you can link your feedburner account with adsense and start earning money through clicks generated from your feed.

04. Get paid for writing to your blog

How about getting paid to write blog posts? There are more than 20 companies do exactly that…. Pay you for your writings. I have listed the best pay per post companies here.

29. Pay per post

I know few people who are making more than $500 a month using this service.

30. Review me

This is the most popular company of this kind and have a proven track record. Came to the peak 2 years ago and now they have lost their edge a little bit. But still they are at the top of this particular industry. You get paid for reviewing and promoting products. Some product reviews comes with a very healthy price tag and when your site is getting popular you can get paid up to $500 a post. At the beginning of your blogging career you will find many $15-$25 per post offers.

31. Smorty

Write your opinion about peoples products and services to turn your daily blog updates into money.

32. Blogvertise

You will be emailed tasks/new assignments to write about in your blog. You do not have to endorse the website’s products or services, just mention it, discuss it, or relate to it somehow in your blog/journal entry. Once your blog entry is approved , you will be paid after 30 days for your entry via paypal.

33. Sponsored Reviews

You review their advertiser’s products and services and then post the review on your blog. Each advertiser has his or her own requirements (i.e. length, link info, etc.).

Earn hundreds or thousands of dollars writing reviews in your blog.

34. Loud Launch

If your blog and interests are aligned with an advertiser’s campaign, then write about them in exchange for pay. Not in exchange for a pre-determined outcome but for a fair assessment.

35. Creative web blogging

Monthly compensation: $84-140 paid via PayPal or Moneybookers. 3-5 posts per week are required and minimum of 70 words each.

05. Get paid for your uploads

You can earn money by sending traffic to your uploaded images, videos through your blog (This can be done without having a web site since all the page views will count.) The programs listed here could be included in some other categories.But I wanted to seperate all the download/ upload related programs in this section.

36. Rapidshare

Now you can earn money by referring customers to one of the world’s most visited web sites, ” rapidshare.com”

Whenever a new customer purchases a Premium Account using your ReferrerLink, you will receive up to ten ReferrerPoints.

Collect ReferrerPoints and redeem them in rapidshare’s rewards program or have them paid out in cash. You can Earn up to 20 Euro for gaining them a new customer.

37. Share a Pic

They pay $0.22 per 1000 picture views. They also allow you to add your Bidvertiser code to your image and gallery pages.

38. Uploading dot com

You will be paid a minimum of $1 and a maximum of $20 per 1000 downloads. Every successfully completed download will be counted.
The minimum payout amount is $30. Payouts are sent via Epassporte, AlertPay, PayPal and Webmoney.

06. Sell private advertising

This is one of the most lucrative method of making money online. You can sell space in your web site for banners or for text links for a monthly fee. 728* 90 leaderboard and the 300*250 rectangle are the most famous banner types.

You can determine your own prices. But you need to have high traffic and a well established web site in order to attract advertisers.

07. Create Premium Content and get paid

Who said all your blog content has to be free. You can always charge to access your premium content. Your readers can access most of your content free of charge and if you are offering quality content you can convince them to pay a monthly fee or a one time fee to get access to your most valued section.

08. Earn Money Through Job Boards

You can see a good example of how this works here at pro-blogger’s job board. Pro blogger is a very popular blogging related web site and it’s job board make use of that popularity to earn some extra money while offering a good service. You should be well placed in a highly targeted niche If this is to be successful.

The job boards normally charge a minimum of $10 per listing and there are web sites which charge even $100 per listing.

This is the best script I found for a job board.

09. Sell a product or a service

The most popular method of making money in this category is to sell an E-book. But it is not limited to do that. You can also sell,

Hardcover books
Softwares
Selling web design templates
Wordpress themes
Offer Consulting and Related Services

I listed only the most popular goods and services offered through blogs. But you can think out of the box and create a product according to your expertise.

10. Other monetizing methods.

These are my least favorite methods of making money through a blog but this article will not be completed without at least a mention of them.

43. Donations
Placing a donation button in a blog which do not use other advertising method can make you good amount of money if you are offering valuable content. A good example of a web site which made a 5 figure income through donations was Steve Pavlina’s blog.

44. Pop-ups and Pop-unders
If you do not mind annoying your visitors while making few bucks, go ahead and use them. But if your plan is to create a loyal readership base and if have long term plans for your blog please stay away from pop ups and pop unders.

45. Audio Ads
The reason I do not like this advertising method is, our visitors do not have an option not to listen this ad once the page loads. But due to this very reason there is a 100% conversion rate for each of your unique visitors. You can sign up with the company NetAudioAds and do a test run of Audio ads.

46. Private forums

Setting up a forum is a very easy task now a days with the kind of plugins provided by web hosts. I posted a video of how to set up a forum here.

Not all forums have to provide FREE content. You can build a forum around your blog and charge a monthly fee or a one time fee from your members. It is not advisable to do this when you first start out. But you can start charging a fee when your forum is filled up with adequate quality threads.

47. Selling your blog
This is a good way to make money especially when there are recent reports of some blogs being sold for a price tag of over one million dollars.

It is obvious that you should have a high quality blog site if you are to sell it for a good price. That is why I prefer keeping them once they reach that status. If you wish to sell your blog once it reaches a certain level, you can put it for sale at Digital point forum or at sitepoint market place.

I will keep adding new online money making methods to this list whenever I find good opportunities. You can share your experiences in the comments field. If your money making method deserves a place at the main article body, I will not hesitate to add it with a link to your blog.

Most of the methods discussed here needs you to have a blog or a web site. If you do not have your own blog yet, this “create a blog” series will assist you to build one TODAY.

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I knew the exact problem even before I made a visit to his site. But I did pay him a small visit and here are the facts,

1. He has an excellently written sales pitch and a very professional looking design to go with it.
2. The script he sells is a winner and a bargain for the low price of $15.
3. A demo and a video guide to installation is provided.

So basically he has a quality product to offer and he has presented it in a professional manner attached with a affordable price. Why isn’t he making any sales?

You need targeted traffic.

The problem is the way he is getting traffic to his product site. As he says, his main source of traffic is via his travel and living web site which has nothing to do with video sharing. That is why I said I knew the problem even before visiting his web site. He should be targeting visitors who are looking to start a video sharing web site.

But it is not easy to get such targeted group of visitors via organic traffic. Probably there are few dozen established script sellers already competing for the top places in organic results and it will be impossible to beat them in the short run.

But we are not out of the game totally. I believe you have heard a marketing method called PPC (Pay- per-click advertising). Imagine if Mr Nayagan can compete head to head with industry giants for money bringing keywords.

Keywords targeted for visitors who are looking to start video sharing web sites…..

What is pay-per-click-advertising

In ppc advertising model, advertisers pay only when their ad is clicked. They bid on keyword phrases to their target market. Their ads will appear adjacent to or above natural results on a search engine results page or anywahere the advertiser chooses on a partcipating content site.

There are many PPC providers exist but Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing, and Microsoft adCenter are the three largest network operators.

Let me tell you a little secret which no other internet marketer will tell you if they are in their clear conscious.

Take a look at this blog post or this web site. Not only I am giving my readers valuable information on how to make some extra money, I am promoting a great product too. They are the best of the best when it comes to forex and metal trading so I do not hesitate a moment when introducing them to my readers.

But most of my blog readers had already started trading with them during the past year. So I had to focus my attention on a new audience. People who are looking to start forex trading or at least finding new ways of making some extra money. I knew if I had to rely on SEO, I will have to wait for ages before ranking high for these very competitive keywords.

I set $0.12 as my “maximum pay per click” and ran a campaign with Google adwords with a “maximum daily budget” of $5. I targeted keywords such as,

” how to trade forex online”
“make money using forex”
” trading forex online”

and created a seperate campaign for each key word. ( I had 8 keywords to start with.)

I ran each campaign for 5 days one after another. I had to do this test run for closer to 40 days. After I completed test runs for all campaigns, I put my Google Adwords data and affiliate leads performance data to an excel sheet and compared the results.

I picked up a winner and below is the screen shot of that particular campaign.

Out of these 366 clicks. 72 visitors made it to my affiliate product’s page. 8 visitors gave me sales resulting a $550 commission. ( They pay up to $200 a sale. Join their partners program here if you like to give it a shot.)

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I deleted all other PPC campaigns I tried and I am still keeping this winning campaign live. Results may vary from time to time but I always earn at least 10 times the money I spend. That is what happen when you couple a high paying affiliate product with a winning PPC campaign.

I use Google adwords for my pay-per-click-advertising needs. Organizing and launching a campaign with them is not difficult. But you need to be patient to get successful results .

Initially you will have to do lot of tests. Trial and error method is the best way if you want to learn PPC properly. It will cost you some time and money to do the tests but it is still the best way.

If you would like to get mentored by someone who is already a master of this. the only recommendation I can give you is the smart people at PPC Coach
team. This program is compiled by well respected group of Canadian Internet marketers and has a proven track record of over 2 years in helping newbie money makers.

If you do not like to go through the trouble of learning PPC by yourself, now you can copy the exact campaigns launched by the best in the business thanks to SpyFu
. I do not know how ethical this is, but I know few people making thousands of dollars copying other people’s PPC campaigns.

But as I said earlier, Trial and error method is the best way to learn PPC. Use Google search to find answers to any of the technical problems you might come across. I have replied to many of the emails I received regarding PPC and I do not mind helping you out when ever I get a free time.

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This is the part 07 of our ” Create a blog and make money blogging series“. Many site owners will consider this is the toughest yet most important part when trying to take their web sites off the ground.

You might have built a beautiful blog site with the perfect content. All your family members and friends might be adoring it and praising you. But is that all?

How can you showcase your blog to a world wide audience? Without the help of Google and other search engines all your efforts will be fruitless.

Blog Seo

I had a big problem when I started this blog. I did not know how to optimize my blog to get search engine’s much needed love towards me. I remember I wrote a post on October 31 st 2008 with the title, “My Desperate Attempts To Get Some Google Love“.

In that post I have explained what I have learned and implemented in order to get the attention of Google. At that time my traffic was heavily depended on social media traffic and organic traffic was very negligible.

Nearly 8 months have passed after I wrote that post. Now more than 80% of my traffic is coming from yahoo and Google. So I must have done something right. And I implemented the same methods for a blog site I started on 20th March 2009.

Look at the traffic levels of that new site.

I guess it is not too bad for a 3 months old web site. Go ahead and read my previous article to learn exactly what I have done to get Google’s attention.

Your SEO work does not stop there. Consider that article just as a foundation to your Search engine optimization work. After you are done with on site optimization, try to develop many back links as you can. Back links are the backbone of your web site.

Getting BackLinks.

There is no secret formula behind this; produce quality content and people will link to you. They will most probably not do it when you are new, but let your blog grow for 6 months and keep on producing quality material.

Keep commenting on blogs related to your area and let them know that you exist. Throw them a link or two whenever you get a chance. You will get their love back when the time comes. Do not stuck only with No 1, 2 and 3 ranked blogs in your niche. You have a better chance with the rest of the top 10.

This is how I got my first mention in an other blog. This is one of the best ways for a new blogger to getting their stuff out into the world.

Submit your articles to social book marking sites. Search engines place zero value on those links but you will get more traffic and more page views which will definitely help your cause.

Join the top 3 Forums in your niche and use your web site link as the signature. You are double lucky if they have enabled the ” Do Follow” setting.

Upload related videos to video sharing sites and use your web site link in the description area.

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Write at least 5 articles a week and submit them to article sites such as Ezine Articles. There are hundreds of article sites which allows you to place a link to your site in the resource box.

The importance of directory sites have faded away. Most search engines do not give much value to these type of links. Save this time and use it for things which are much more important.

You can increase the time you spend in related communities. Every niche has blogs, forums, community sites where the like minded people hang around.

If you are a blogger, join communities such as Entrecard and blog discussion. Give your web site the best possible exposure you can give. There is a high chance of getting some link love from these community members.

Keep doing these simple things for 6 months and there will be amazing results. You do not need to hire expensive SEO experts or spend hours trying to break the Google’s code. You do not need any black hat methods to be successful at what you are doing. I spent hours reading search engine optimization guide books but only the simple things did the trick for me in the end.

Do not ever forget this; It is the content that matters. Your SEO efforts will bring you traffic. But your success will be dependent on what you have to offer them. So, Never underestimate the value of producing quality content.

Write on the comments section If you have something to add to this article. All valuable ideas will be given a place inside the main article body with a link back to your site.

Good luck with your blogging and money making efforts. I wish you all the best and will write to you nice people as soon as I can.

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There is a hard way and an easy way to get this done and keep your blog going. Both will give you results but the universal truth about everything applies to blogging too. The harder you work, most likely you are to achieve the desired results.

I do not believe in short cuts. I will first explain you the right way of blogging. If your desire is to build a successful blog the golden rule is,

“Be Interesting”

Easier said than done. It is a fact that no one will be a part of your blog if you cannot make it interesting. Your blog will most probably die within the first 3 months if it does not have a supporting community around it.

Jon Morrow of copyblogger wrote a very good article about how to do just that. “Be interesting”.
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Choose your blog niche carefully.

It will be very difficult to keep blogging after few weeks If you do not know what you are talking about. So no matter how lucrative the niche is, do not jump in if you do not know about the subject matter well. Of course you can learn. But my advice is not to do this with your first blog.

Later on you can experiment with different topics but when you first start out, stick to a niche which you love talking about.

I started this blog last year after I achieved considerable success from 3 of my product selling web sites. All I did was making money and reading ways to make more money. My head was full of ideas and I was experimenting a lot with different projects. This blog was the mean of communicating my ideas and that is why I never ran out of things to write.

It is important that you blog about something you really like. There are people who proved this wrong. You can join that group if you work really hard and if you can keep the motivation going.

Try to become an authority blogger in your expertise area.

If money is your primary motivation of having a blog, Do not worry ! there is money to be made in almost all industries. Do not start a ” make money online” blog just because you want to make money blogging. That would be a wrong approach. The truth is, there can be more money in other niches.

Creating flagship content.

Flagship content is about creating useful resources through your blog.

“Just like Wikipedia is the lazy bloggers go-to reference for general research, your Flagship Content is the place everyone will link to when they think of your topic.”

Besides building your blog’s authority, there are several other benefits that bring long term value to you and your blog, stuff like longevity, visibility and marketability.

I could have a put a summary here but you will gain more value if you have access to the full course by someone I really respect, Chris Garrett’.

This free ebook introduces the concept of Flagship Content and provides all the information you need to create, package and promote compelling resources that attract more attention to your blog.

All you have to do is subscribe to Chris Garrett’s RSS feed and there will be a download link in all the feeds you are receiving. This is not just for newbie bloggers. When someone in his status offers blogging advice,we all should pay attention.

Easy ways of creating blog content.

These methods are not recommended if you want to create a long term authority blog. you can practice these methods if your motivation is just to make money out of the web space you own. Earning potential is very low unless you create hundreds of web sites using these methods. It is possible because the effort you have to put in is also low when comparing with maintaining a authority web site.

Using Article Sites.

You can obtain content from article sites like “Ezine Articles”. No copy right protection laws will be violated if you follow their simple guidelines. There are hundreds of other article sites which you can use. The major disadvantage is you will be penalized for duplicate content issues by Google and other major search engines. It will be very difficult to rank high for your targeted key words.

[ad] Using content obtained through a PLR package.

PLR, also known as Private Lable Rights or Master Resale Rights is a package consists of ebooks, articles, softwares which you have the legal rights to modify / use/ distribute. Because of the high distribution usually these packages comes with a very low price.

Again, the major problem is “duplicate content” filters in search engines. You can avoid it by significantly modifying the content. I am planning to offer a 10 GB massive PLR package very soon.

Auto Updating web sites.

You can build content for your web site through RSS feeds of other web sites. Some web sites allow their full RSS feeds to be featured in your web site. Please make sure you read each site’s policy before using their feeds to auto update your web site. There are wordpress pluggins to simpify the whole process.

Hire a Freelance Writer to write content for you.

You can hire writers through most of the web master forums and through sites like elance. This can be costly if you hire professional writers. But this eliminates the major problem associated with all other easy methods. These people write original articles thus there will not be duplicate content problems. Make sure you test their portfolio before hiring them.

I came across this very informative Sqidoo page about freelance writing.

If I have missed any method of creating content for web sites, please do not hesitate to write your ideas using the comments field. I will update this post with most creative ideas with a link to your web site.

Best User Comments.
Nishada said,

“generating content is a problem for most bloggers and I think reading other blogs goes a long way in solving that problem. You have to updated about the latest in your niche and reading the top blogs in your niche is a good way to do that. This in turn helps you get new blog posts ideas.”

We are in the 6th step of ” How to create a blog and make money blogging” series. If you have missed any previous articles here is the index for your easy reference. If you have not created your blog yet, Start building one today !!!

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