This post will cover income proofs, traffic proofs, what worked and what did not work well for the blog. I do this to help you understand that even a new blogger with little experience but knowledge can made some money online and build a decent brand.

Income Report Source

BuySellAds -  $59.25 Approx

Google Adsense – $30.00 Approx

Blog Customization Services – $100.00

TextLinkAds- $10.64

Affiliate Revenue – I am not sharing my affiliate revenue because I do not have a proper track of the transactions that happened during the month of Jan,but the over all sales that I’ve sent to the merchant. With that said, I think this is another key area that I’ve been able to make money blogging.

While the income for pretty decent, I think that you should clearly look at the traffic my blog generates to really understand that its so worth it to start a blog to make money online.

Traffic Source – Google Analytics

How has January 2012 been in terms of Revenue Generation?

We had about 10,500 page views which got us about $199.25 which is pretty awesome. I know its not big, but its a good start. I’ve only been writing on GenuineSEO for the past few months and things have been really great. The blog is well optimized, generating a good number of leads regularly.

Thanks for taking your time to read my income report. if you find this inspiring, please share this with your friends and I wish you the best and success in your blogging efforts.

That is the screenshot of the homepage. Thus far the site is in beta to understand various elements from how users navigate and how things get through. There will be significant changes and or developments before its get’s out of beta. Well, who is that going to stop now? I don’t think so… I’ve already placed an order and waiting for my book to arrive home. Its all about customer service, I would love to see how Amazon.com handles it in India.

While sites like flipcart.com are already dominating the online store niche in India, Amazon does have quite a bit of competition on its hand. It all depends on how well they take care of their customers and the variety of products they offer. Right now, everything looks even. We will have to wait and see who will win the battle of the online stores in India. We are still waiting for affiliate sections which I believe would be ready once the store is out of beta.

If you would like to follow Junglee.com you can do so on twitter and facebook.

If you would like to land yourself a good job in the industry, then they are hiring.

These three awesome features packed into GenuineSEO are sure to boost the rankings of both this blog and its commenters.

Why is it the right choice, now that’s a secret only I know. Who am I kidding?

Why Did I Choose DoFollow

I noticed that I have over 1000 comments in just a few months of writing, I noticed via comments that there are hundreds of bloggers who are really appreciative of what I do and how it helps them. This is one of those ways that I can help people who comment on my site with keyword rich links and help them rank better.

Why Do I Have @KeywordLuv

While @CommentLuv gets you a link to a direct article, @KeywordLuv provides you keyword rich links to your main site. This does wonders for commenters because, they not only get links from @CommentLuv, but also links that are keyword rich, DoFollow to their blogs. Now that is simply superb.

Why @CommentLuv

@CommentLuv has been enabled on my blog for quite sometime, Its a great way to allows readers to leave a url behind so that other readers can visit your blog while reading your comments. It also builds a quality backlink.

Why StudioPress

StudioPress is one of the most powerful web CMS frameworks out there. While there are systems like Thesis and Standard. I am quite comfortable with Genesis from StudioPress. Its a great product and offers state of the art code and is highly optimized for better results when compared to the normal WordPress themes out there.

Why Google SEO

Google is beginning to miss the big picture, with integrating and changing things drastically, they are starting to lose customer trust. Even though there are millions of users still using Google, with its biased results people are most likely going to move away from Google as a search engine all together. They might like Google and its products but not its search engine. I’ve already started to focus my blog towards Bing SEO and started to drive traffic from Bing. While I am not  completely ignoring Google SEO. I think its that time of the decade that people change the products they use and move to better systems.

So what are you going to do about your blog and how are you planning on rewarding your readers this year.

While you are trying to improve your writing skills and blogging regularly, I decided to help you out with other things that are very important to succeed as a blogger or an entrepreneur in 2012. Even though I say how to market your blog in 2012, I actually mean your business or your product. For me my blog is my business and my product.

You do everything from on page seo to off page seo and all the marketing that you can to ensure you get maximum visibility. But that is not all, its all about generating leads, making sales and bringing in that revenue that puts the food on the table. Today, I will share with you some of my secrets to marketing my blog successfully in 2o12.

Optimize Your Blog For Lead Conversion

There are several thousand bloggers out there still not focusing on lead conversions. Its important for a blogger who is looking to make money online to set up optins to generate leads. Create landing pages, drive traffic to landing pages to increase conversion. Entice your readers to sign up. In every sales process, Leads are key. Without leads you cant really sell anything.

Work Out A Social Media Strategy

Many marketers randomly post out content on to social networks hoping to drive traffic and gain popularity. It does not always work that way, even though it might work for some, its not the best way forward. Write out a plan, put down what your going to do and when, keep your social media activities organized. Do no over do it. In this process do not neglect your blog.

Analyze Your Data

As part of your social media strategy, remember to have a section to track your activities so that at the end of the month you can analyze that data and understand what worked well and what did not work. This way you can tweak your social media strategy for better performance.

Measure ROI For Your Social Media Initiatives

Because you were smart you set up a social media strategy, and you analyzed your data. Now because you did these things, you are now able to measure ROI on your social media activities. But how are you going to measure them? A big question that even the large enterprise businesses are fumbling over. Its simple though, you measure them just the way you measure a traditional marketing campaign.

Engage With Your Audience

Its important to constantly engage with your audience on social networks, because unlike traditional marketing you are expected to be there and respond to questions, share tips and tricks and more. This was not there with traditional marketing. Social media also provides you an opportunity to build a rapport with your potential customers and build trust.

Now, that I’ve shared my plan to make your blog success in 2012, what are you planning on doing? Follow me, or do you have something planned?

This week, I have Zk from WebTrafficROI who shares his insights and tips on what he does best.

1. Could you describe what you do and how you earn your living Zk?

I am an internet marketing consultant and a blogger, I make a living consulting in the digital space and blogging

2. I understand that you make money online using BSA ads, Can you share something about it and also some of your other monetization methods?

BSA ads is a good marketplace if you are looking to monetize your traffic, it works well when you have high traffic on the blog. I recommend all bloggers to get started with BSA ads and work hard to increase traffic on their blogs.

3. What advice would you give an Internet entrepreneur trying to Make Money online?

Believe in yourself, be patient, roll up your sleeves and get ready to work hard

4. A lot of people make mistakes when creating their first blog, what would you recommend to keep away from?

Start a blog only if you are passionate about a subject and have a story to tell. Most bloggers fail because after ten posts they don’t have anything different to write about. If you are blogging for money, then it may take up to 8 – 10 months till you make your first dollar online. Be patient.

5. Running an Internet Business gives you choices and freedom to do what you want, whenever you want. What would you say the Internet Lifestyle is for you?

Freedom for sure, that’s the biggest incentive for me to have a digital business. Its the best business to build if you want to quit your day job and don’t have a lot of money to invest in a business.

6. What would you say is the biggest single reason for your success at Make Money Blogging?

Hard Work, Hard Work, Hard Work

7. If you could go back in time when you were just getting started, what strategies would you like to change regarding making money online?

I would have loved to start blogging when I was 15 , there are lots of 15 year old bloggers who make good money online. They will never have to work for anyone else ever

8.Thanks very much for the interview, Have you any plans (personal or business) that you can share with us about your future plans / goals?

The plan is to build a few more blogs on different subjects.

Is there someone you like to see interviewed here, Drop me a note and I will do my best to interview the blogger.

We are also planning on interviewing some SEO experts to share their views on what they do to rank well on search engines like Google.

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While I’ve chose not to write much in this post, I think the images and the creativity speaks for themselves. I am sure you love the work and are already inspired to get something up and ready for your profile page. If you likes this and are inspired by this please share it on twitter and facebook.

Recently I read this article on Business Insider that said

“We recently profiled 10 YouTube stars who have already figured out how to make hundreds of thousands of dollars off their videos. We estimated one star, Philip DeFranco, makes $181,000 per year.”

Here is my step by step guide to helping you make money on YouTube

Make An Original And Awesome Video

One Style Does Not Help You Win

The key point that I learned during the last part of the movie, where Jackie Chan combines all his fighting styles to defeat the villain. Similar to that, in blogging, you simply cannot do just one thing and expect to win. Anything from marketing to monetization requires the right mix. Prepare the right marketing mix to market your blog, prepare the right monetization strategies to make more money. Its not always you know everything, sometimes you have to learn new techniques, take up courses, learn from other blogs.

No Matter How Good You Are, You Need One Master

You might be the best writer, marketing or strategist in the world. But you still need to have one master or mentor. You cannot do it all by yourself.  In order for you to be good at what you are, you need a guide to help you get there. I’ve been learning a lot from various bloggers and businesses worldwide about marketing and blogging. We all need to find that one individual that we look up to, to help us, guide us and support us as we reach for success.

Opponents Don’t Play Fair

In the world of blogging, there are always people who take shortcuts, competitors take the easy way to ranking overpowering you. Its not fair but that how they play, they are like the villains in the movie. The only way you can keep your self a head of all that is to educate yourself and master your skills. If you are able to do this, then your competitors will not be able to match up with your quality service and performance.

Mix And Match Your Techniques

This goes without saying while you follow different styles and techniques while blogging, its important for you mix and match them room time to time. This way your readers are not  bored of you or your blog. Also its works wonders on the marketing aspects of your blog.

Friends Always Help You

If you watch the movie drunken master, you will notice that Jackie Chan’s friends always help him out when he is in trouble. Similarly people in the blogosphere are always ready to help fellow bloggers. Build strong networks and support one another. This way when and if you are having difficultly with blogging , they are always around to help you out.

Not every one is an expert and know about what your writing or talking on your blog. There are millions of blogs being started daily, there are millions of people who are looking for answers on the web, looking to learn new things, people with good knowledge, people with no knowledge of even how to use simple things like search engines. In the end, it all depends on one key factor, what is the audience you cater to, is it the elite class or the class of people who seek knowledge.

In my opinion its often not the elite class, as they are most often found enjoying the spoils of life and have people to take care of business. So the ideal principle to use while blogging is the KISS concept. Lets take a look at what are the things that you can do and keep simple to help your readers.

Keep Your Posts Easy To Follow

One of the firsts steps to write a good blog post is to structure it well and easy to follow. Its should be ordered well and write in simple English or the native language that your reader will understand. At times there are blogs I read about entrepreneurship and find words that I have never heard before, what blogs like that forget is that there are people who only have basic knowledge who want to learn more and their blog does not help at all. One of the best way to reach success with your blog is to keep everything related to your post is simple and easy to read and follow.

Keep Your Site Design Easy

This is anther important factor to gain readership and grow your blog. When it comes to websites and blogs, the UI (Usability interface) or the way your website looks creates a big impact on your readers and the way they see the content on your site. Using enough whitespace, spacing between text and ads make your site clean and neat. Read blogs like thesis, quick sprout and social triggers, the content and banners are so well placed that it does not effect the information you came for. Its sites likes that attract millions of readers worldwide. How have things been for you and your blog’s design. We love to hear your views on this.

Keep Your Writing Style Understandable

While there are different styles in writing, most bloggers prefer the personal connection method when compared to the rest of the writing styles. Some bloggers follow a very strict business approach to their blogs writing style and there are bloggers like me, who just likes to get the information across. As long as the readers find the information easy to read, design neat, and information valuable, then I’m one happy blogger.

Keep Your Idea Simple

This ideally should have been the first point of this post, I have purposely written it here to help readers know that writing points in un orderly fashion can be a little hard on the reader. While your at this point in this post,  you have already realized that and Idea to blog about a subject should be the first point that defines a blog. This is what I meant when writing easy and simple. Getting to the point, keep your blog idea, simple, like other bloggers who talk about varied subject or should I say subjects un related I prefer to say to one topic, and a few subtopics under them. AS you know I write about marketing, under which you will find topics like SEO, genesis customization, make money online, social media marketing, blogging tips and more.

While keeping it simple has made me make my blog successful, I am happy to share this with you. I am sure that there would be something that would have made you reach success, if you are a successful blogger. Else, you can always learn from me