My Blogging Fortune

How To Blog To Make Cash

2011-02-18T09:30:00.000-08:00

How to Blog and Make Money

Blogging to make money online seems to have become the new online dream or pie in the sky job. Many people believe that you can type up a few words and add a new blog post every day and you will be rich. Why not, we have all seen those problogger sites where they went from being nobody to being blogger famous.

Before you start your new blog there are a few things to keep in mind about becoming a rich and famous blogger. Most of those pros took one year or longer at blogging to make any money from it. Sure you might be able to get a dollars here and there, but it will take time to get readers and page rank for your blog. If you don't know what page rank is - find out. If you are prepared to blog for the long haul and willing to do some blog promotion or spend money on advertising then go ahead and try blogging for cash.

You must learn to properly SEO your blog and get lots of traffic to your blog. There are many ways to get free blog traffic, but because it is free it more than likely means that you will have to do some work. You might have to write some articles and submit them. To get more traffic to your blog you should go to others blogs with a similar niche or theme and make relevant comments. There are also some good and free traffic exchanges out there, again you will need to work at this to get anywhere.

I tell you that you will need to work and blogging for cash will take time, not because I want to discourage you, but because I want you to know the truth. Most bloggers who want to make money with their blog will give up after just three months, if they make it that far they may again become bored or frustrated with no cash flow and give up after six months of blogging.

One way of persevering and making a lasting blog is to pick a niche that you will enjoy writing about day in and day out. Make sure you have many different topics in that niche to blog about. You will also need to ask yourself if enough people online will want to read what you are posting about. Then start your blog and post daily, seo it properly and get lots of traffic and you will be well on your way to making money online with a blog.

What are your Multiple Streams of Income?

2011-02-18T09:26:00.000-08:00

Have you heard of Multiple Streams of Income? Making money online includes diversifying where your money is coming from. After years of being online I know that one thing is certain - everything changes. The Internet changes and grows daily, and a program that is making you money today might just be gone tomorrow.

Finding several different programs that make you cash is like diversifying your stocks. You should know not to put all of your eggs into one basket because if that basket disappears you are out of luck and out of money. Instead if you have several different streams of income if one goes away you won't be in dire straits. Likewise, having many or multiple streams of income means that each stream could be more of a trickle of money but together they all add up to a nice income.

Another thing to think of with your income is finding passive streams of income. If you have passive income that means you have to little to no additional work once you have set up this passive income stream. One example would be writing an ebook, uploading it to clickbank, writing a sales page and then letting clickbank affiliates sell your book for you. It would take initial work but once set up it would be mostly passive income.

If you want to take your passive income streams a step further you could set up a residual income stream. A residual stream would be an online money maker that requires a monthly fee to participate. This could be a forum that has several pro's posting or a monthly subscription to a members only informational website.

When setting up your multiple streams of income remember to diversify, diversify, diversify. Trying out new programs periodically can lead to new streams that might just end up being rivers and lakes of income.

Want to Make Real Free Money?

2010-08-09T21:28:00.000-07:00

You can earn Free Money Online there are programs out there that will pay you. One of those places is called Cash Crate. CashCrate is a site where you can get paid real money time and time again. I know because I am with them and they have paid me. Here is a picture of a real check that came to my house.

If you are tired of dead end leads for makeing money online and you want to make some real Free Cash then consider Cash Crate.

Jobs for Kids, Teens, and PreTeens

2010-05-07T18:42:00.000-07:00

Looking for Jobs for Kids?
If you are a parent or a child looking for Jobs for 13 year olds or older kids can make money with CashCrate. If you are a kid looking for a teen job you can work at home with your computer and it is completely free.

You do need your parents approval if you are a kid aged 13 to 18. But after that you can start making money online with CashCrate. They will actually pay you to play games, take fun quizzes and fill out some surveys. What kid wouldn't want to get paid to play games?

Kids looking for jobs can Sign up Today and Make Money to spend on anything your heart desires. If you need a job for extra fun money you can find it with CashCrate. Kids, you could spend your money on iPods, iTunes, Video Games, or a Apple iPhone cell phone. Or maybe you are saving up money for that big video game console a Playstation 3, Xbox 360 or a Nintendo Wii.

It is easy to make money with Cash Crate and get the things you couldn't afford before. You can earn free money with them month after month. You can even get referrals from your friends and make more cash off of them. Just click on the banner above to sign up!

Parents, if you are looking for a safe job for your kids you have found it. With CashCrate your child can work a free "job" at home, so there is no traveling to a job, no taxiing them around town, etc.

If you have been looking for Jobs for Kids or Jobs for 14 year olds and have come up dry, just give CashCrate a try - you have absolutely nothing to lose.

Making Real Cash Online

2010-04-30T21:13:00.000-07:00

I have decided that I want to - Make Real Cash Online

I think I am going to try something new. I have realized that if I want to have a work at home job making money online I will have to find a program that actually pays me cash, now. I don't want to wait six months or a year to really make any money from the internet. I need money now!

I have been looking for ways to make fast money online. I have found one way to make Free money today. Yes, I had to sign up to a site and actually do something. But I would rather get paid now to do something today, then do something today and get paid next year. Making money online is easy!

That little banner up there can make you money. You can make money today and you can even make the low $20 cash out amount in just one day. If you need real money - CashCrate can make you $100's or 1,000's of dollars over time.

The best part is you don't even need a blog or a website. You just sign up for Free at CashCrate and start doing offers and making money. They do have a referral program that you can tell your friends about and make a little money off of them. It's a win / win situation. You get some affiliate money from them and they get money from cashcrate.

Just click on the banner to check them out, it can't hurt to see what they are all about. Don't let this free opportunity pass you by and have to regret it later on.

Free $75 Google AdWords Coupon for Advertising

2010-04-11T17:12:00.000-07:00

Get a $75 Free Google AdWords Trial:

If you want to start advertising online but don't want to spend any money just yet, you can get a $75 free trial with Google's AdWords system.

Click on the link for the free Google AdWords $75.00 trial: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/adwordscoupon/

Benefits of Google Adwords:

Targeted to Local Visitors: You are able to advertise in your area, region, or to the entire online world.
Pay only for results: You will only pay for clicks on your ad and when someone comes to your site.
Take Control: You get to set your own daily budget and you even can change, pause or resume your ads anytime, now that's total control.

Google has a short video you can watch to learn more and they will have help for you if you decide to sign up for the free advertising trial.

April's 1,000 Comment Challenge

2010-04-05T21:25:00.000-07:00

1,000 Comment Challenge

Are you up to the challenge? Can you make 1,000 comments on blogs or websites in just one month? That means you will need to leave an average of 33 comments everyday. If you think you are up for the monthly comment challenge then start making those comments.

Why bother leaving comments on other peoples blogs you ask? Because, if you leave a comment you may get back much more than you gave.

Perks of Leaving Comments:

If you leave a comment you might get a comment back on your blog.
If you leave a comment you might get a "do follow" backlink.
If you leave a comment you might get other readers from that blog to visit your site.
Free blog traffic.

Now this is not assured for every comment that you leave. Just say that you only get a 10% return on your 1,000 comments, that would be 100, which could be broken down between the three perks of comments above. Did I mention that this is a free traffic generation idea? That means one more way for you to get free blog traffic and possibly make some blogging friends in the process.

*Of course I would like you to start off the challenge by leaving a comment on this blog post. Look up toward the top of this blog post for the comments link to click on and then leave a comment. Let me know that you are going to take the 1,000 Comment Challenge for the month and your blogs name.*

Utilize LinkWithin for More Free Traffic

2010-03-10T22:30:00.000-08:00

Looking for more free traffic ideas?

Last week I blogged about how to Keep Your Blog Posts Archives Alive with the help of LinkWithin you can do just that. LinkWithin is a free service that will go at the bottom of every post and show other blog post teasers from previous articles. By showing related articles at the bottom of your posts your readers will continue reading more of your posts on topics that they are interested.

When your readers notice the other related articles that you have written they will tend to stay on your blog longer and your bounce rate will go down. So by having this option down there at the bottom of your posts you are doing yourself and your visitors a favor.

Once LinkWithin crawls your blog they will start showing the articles related to each post. You will see the words - "You might also like:" near the bottom. The blog posts that appear are chosen by the title, tags, and content that is included in them.

If you are looking for a free way to improve traffic on your blog and keep your readers engaged you might consider trying the free LinkWithin. You can learn more at Linkwithin.com.

My Blog's 1 Month Birthday

2010-03-09T21:51:00.000-08:00

Happy Bloggy Birthday:

Most bloggers won't celebrate a one month blogaversary, but you don't see that stopping me. I am proud of the blog that I have accomplished this far and am hopeful for the one year birthday of my blog. I just want to toot my own horn a little bit and show you what some hard work and dedication to getting more free blog traffic can do.

What I have accomplished with my blog in one month:
~ Over 216 unique visitors. (free traffic my friends)
~ Eight Blog Readers through RSS or Email
~ Twitter followers = 69
~ Indexed in Google
~ Traffic Rank in US: 296,959 - better than some older blogs.
~ Technorati: Authority 130
~ Yahoo BackLinks: 178

Not a bad job for just one month, but that is just my 2 cents. I am impressed with the amount of free backlinks coming in from Yahoo, it must have been the articles that I have posted. Things are looking up and now I have some results to compare to next months findings. For the most part everything should continue to go up, at least that is what I am trying to accomplish here anyway.

Free Blog Traffic - 31 Day Challenge - Week 2

2010-03-08T20:32:00.000-08:00

Take the Free Blog Traffic Challenge with me:

If your blog needs more free traffic you can follow along with the 31 Day Challenge to increase traffic to your beloved blog.

To view the beginning week of My Free Blog Traffic Challenge click here.

Free Blog Traffic Challenge - Week 2:
1. Answer Questions at Mahalo for backlinks
2. Article to GoArticles
3. Hubpage Article
4. Press Release
5. Answer Questions at Blurt It for links
6. Get my blog Reviewed
7. 43 Things.com link

Another busy week here to get more free traffic to my blog. I am also still blogging each and every day then pinging and doing 100 Entrecard drops daily. Anyways, one week down and three to go for my free blog traffic challenge. My free blog traffic has increased daily mostly from Entrecard but I am also getting some organic search traffic also.

I am not sure where to get my blog reviewed for free. So I will be on the look out for a free blog reviewer. If any one knows where I can find one please leave it in the comments, up above this post with my tags, and I will owe you one!

Free Blog Traffic Challenge - Week One FollowUp

2010-03-07T20:02:00.000-08:00

Seven days ago I decided to try everything I know of to get more traffic to my blog. Of course being a new blog I want to get some free traffic and I am willing to put in the work to get all of these backlinks.

Here is my report on how this past week has gone:
Free Blog Traffic Challenge - Week 1:
1. Sign up at Entrecard.com
2. Article to GoArticles
3. Squidoo Lens
4. Article to Ezine Articles
5. Blog Carnivals
6. Bookmark on Digg, Delicious, and Onlywire.com
7. Make 20 comments to like blogs

I think signing up for Entrecard (Free) was the best thing I could have done. I am seeing a steady rise in traffic and most of it is coming from Entrecard users. I have gotten some comments and feel like I am getting to know some of the bloggers in this community. I am dropping 100 out of 300 cards, my bounce rate is up but I think at this beginning stage it is worth it.

The articles and squidoo lens are out there but as of yet have not produced anything for me yet. Only one view from a GoArticles submission, hopefully this goes up because I don't think the time it took me to write the article and submit is worth only one click.

It is too soon to tell if the social bookmarking did anything, but it usually will not unless it gets on the popular list.

I made 20 comments on other blogs and it was way more difficult than I thought it would be. I have made a few comments here and there on some blogs that I like and that was easy. But reading 20 blog posts so I could leave an intelligent comment that was related to the post proved a long somewhat boring process. On a positive note I found a new blogger that I like and will go back to read. This was not a task that I enjoyed and wish that I would not need to repeat it, but I probably will because it is good for business.

Tomorrow I will post next weeks challenging items in the hopes that it will bring more free blog traffic, you can follow along if you want more blog visitors.

Keep Your Blog Posts Archives Alive

2010-03-06T20:17:00.000-08:00

How to Keep Your Blog Archives Alive:

Do you have blog posts that are Left 4 Dead? If you have written many blog articles you will want to keep them from being ignored by your readers. Most visitors to your blog will read the first one or maybe two blog posts on your home page. Don't let all of those old blog posts that you slaved over get lost in the vast wasteland of old blog posts.

There are several ways to keep your old blog posts featured or highlighted so that new blog visitors will read these gems.

Add a popular blog posts widget on your sidebar and feature some posts you believe your readers should read.

Make your old posts into a series and link them all together.
Use your Twitter account or Facebook page to add some of your old blog post links.

Put links in your new posts to an old post that explains the topic further.

You can put up a new blog post just listing your favorite old posts. Possibly a top 10 favorite blog posts list.

Interlink old posts to one another.

Post the top three posts at the end of each month.

Have a related posts plug-in at the bottom of each post.

You can always find a new way to get those old blog posts some more love. Try posting a follow up post about how the blog post topic worked or didn't work or is no useful to you. Think about it for a little bit, maybe get creative, and you can breathe new life into your old blog posts.

My Disclosure Policy

2010-03-05T16:57:00.000-08:00

I thought I had better get this Disclosure Policy up before I get myself into hot water by some agency that I have never heard of before.

This policy is the maxed out version, I wanted to have all of my bases covered.

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This blog is a sponsored blog created or supported by a company, organization or group of organizations. This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.

The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post may not always be identified as paid or sponsored content.

The owner(s) of this blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner(s) of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers' own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

This blog does contain content which might present a conflict of interest. This content may not always be identified.

This disclosure policy was made at: http://disclosurepolicy.org/

SEO Optimize Pillar Posts for Blog Traffic

2010-03-04T20:03:00.000-08:00

How to SEO Optimize your Pillar Posts for Maximum Traffic

When you write a blog post more specifically a pillar blog post, you need to make sure it is optimized for the search engines. First off a Pillar Post is a major post that your visitors will be coming to view. If you would like an example of a Pillar Post you can find one on my blog if you Click Here. The Pillar Post is a post that you think is well written or gives great value, etc.

To make sure your blog is SEO optimized you need to know what your key words are, or at least some key words that you think you should use. Maybe your blog is about work at home moms, and you are writing a post on wahm scams.

Find the keywords:
1. Go to the Google AdWords Keyword Tool. (Free)
2. Enter your keyword or phrase into the form. (work at home mom scam)
3. Enter the captcha letters and submit.
4. Check the list of keywords for other phrases you can work into your article.

Here are just a few of the keywords for the phrase: work at home mom scam.
online work at home
work from home scams
internet work at home
work at home for moms
legitimate work at home jobs
work at home
making money at home
work from home for free
work at home scams

The Free Google AdWords Keyword Tool also shows you how many people are searching for those words monthly. In all there were a total of 199 keyword phrases that popped up when I put my original keyword phrase into the blog tool. You need to pick a few of the most searched keywords and make sure you try to work them into your blog post in a natural way.

You don't want to fill up you pillar blog posts with keywords and make it difficult for visitors to read. If you repeat your key words over and over again you will essentially be keyword spamming which is a bad thing and Google and its little spider bots will punish your search engine ranking for spamming the keywords. The goal is to optimize for the search engines, not to stuff full of keywords.

Occasionally you will be writing a blog tutorial and you will need to repeat your keywords to show your readers exactly what you mean. For the most part though, you don't want to over use your main keywords. That is why the adwords tool comes in very handy so you can have other phrases you can use in your blog posts.

If you want to know more about SEO you can read more of what I wrote in this post: How to use SEO to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

I am not the best at writing with SEO in mind, sometimes you just write for your reader to get your points across and not for the search engine bots. If you work on SEO are mindful of your key words and make good use of the tool you can optimize your blog posts so more traffic will find its way to your blog.

Is Your Blog in the Right Niche?

2010-03-03T22:20:00.000-08:00

Are you blogging about the right niche for you?

Many people jump into blogging and make the mistake of not picking a niche. What is a niche anyway? A niche is a narrow part of something bigger. For example you like to garden, a gardening niche would be green house gardening or flower pot gardening. If your blog is too general you will likely not meet your blog visitors needs and they will find what they are looking for elsewhere.

There are many niches that you can write a blog about but some of them are not right for everyone. Think about your hobbies and what you like to do or talk about and work from there. If you would like some niche suggestions here is a blog post I wrote last month: 101 Niches to Blog About

Many other bloggers suggest that the make money niche in blogging is not the right niche for everyone. For one, there are blogs telling you how to make money everywhere you look. Make money blogs are probably 10 to 1 verses other blog niches. So competition in this category is fierce and raging.

You also don't want to pick a blog niche that is too narrow. If you wanted to blog about the missing socks from the dryer you might not be able to make much money from this because there are not enough searches going on about this topic. So you don't want to narrow down a general niche topic too far so that no one even cares.

Why you need to pick the right niche ~ Niche Writing Will:

Show your expertise in your Niche area.

Drive targeted traffic to your Niche Blog or Niche Articles.

Bring Specialized clients to you.

Enable you to sell more products related to your niche.

Make you more money.

If you still don't know what the right niche is for you and you want some help to become a Niche Blogging Authority then you might like to read Niche Blogging Profits by Codrut Turcanu.

Want Lots of Free Blog Traffic? Use Entrecard

2010-03-02T15:49:00.000-08:00

Free Blog Traffic with Entrecard

You may notice the little widget in my sidebar that has a little bar that says Get One or Drop. Well this is one way you can get a bunch of free blog traffic. I just signed up with them yesterday as part of my 31 Day's of Free Blog Traffic Challenge.

This is my Entrecard "card" one that I will use to advertise on other sites. I know it needs some work but I thought it wasn't too awful for just throwing something up there. I made a new advert card - the one on the right. I think it is better in some ways and also harder to read? It will have to do for now.

So I "dropped" in on 100 blogs last night and then another 100 blogs today. I will say that it is very time consuming to do all one-hundred, but I will continue this rate for the full 31 days to see what kind of results I can get. From these blog views I have gotten 24 visitors that I had also visited, and I expect this to continue to rise every day. I have also gotten one comment and suggestion. So far I am impressed and hooked, but we will see how it all turns out.

I was not sure about signing up for this Entrecard at first or not, I thought it might be considered black hat. It may be somewhere in the gray area, because this is not targeted traffic and ultimately that is what you want coming to your blog. When you start a new blog as I have you are some what desperate for any blog visitors so you are willing to go out there and try some interesting things.

I have read a bit about Entrecard on some other blog's and here is what I have learned (not sure if any of it is true or not). John Chow used to use Entrecard, so if it was good enough for him then it is good enough for me. Google and the other search engines may lower my page rank because of the high bounce rate or the blog traffic from Entrecard visitors. Many of the site visitors will just click on the "drop box" then immediately leave.

Well right now I am not concerned about my page rank because I don't even have one yet. The problem of having some of the free blog traffic just clicking in and then right back out, well maybe a few will leave comments. I might even get a small percentage of loyal readers out of the whole thing.

If your blog needs to get some free traffic you might consider trying out Entrecard. You may not like the widget that must be displayed but once your blog gets approved I think you can move it down lower on the page, which may help your blog visitors see more of your blog and stick around to read something.

Free Blog Traffic - 31 Day Challenge

2010-03-01T20:09:00.000-08:00

My Blogging Fortune is going to go through an intensive 31 Day Course or a Challenge to get more blog traffic.

Take the Free Blog Traffic Challenge with me:

You may have heard about Problogger's 31 Days to Build a Better Blog, well I came up with a similar idea only he beat me to it by a long shot. They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. So I hope that Darren Rowse sees this is a huge form of flattery. Yes, that is an affiliate link and yes, I am trying to suck up to him. Do you think it's working yet?

I thought if I made a plan for the entire month and really concentrated on doing all of the free blog traffic generation ideas. I know that my blog traffic could potentially explode. It may be frustrating and very time consuming but it should be well worth it in the end.

This month just happens to have 31 Days and so do several other months but you can start taking this challenge at any time because it will be laid out so you can do daily tasks. This Free Blog Traffic Challenge will be tailored to my schedule and therefore be a much lighter load on the weekends when I like to spend time with my family.

Daily Tasks - Complete this list every day for all 31 days:
1. Make a blog post each day.
2. Ping your blog after every blog post each day.
3. Make 100 Entrecard drops.

Free Blog Traffic Challenge - Week 1:
1. Sign up at Entrecard.com
2. Article to GoArticles
3. Squidoo Lens
4. Article to Ezine Articles
5. Blog Carnivals
6. Bookmark on Digg, Delicious, and Onlywire.com
7. Make 20 comments to like blogs

I am only going to list the first week of my Free Blog Traffic Challenge. I thought about filling in the entire calendar but then I thought that was too overwhelming so I am going to try this as a week by week thing. I used a free calendar from Calendars That Work that downloads into a Word Document that you can edit and add your own daily items. I am really liking this and think I may continue using the calendar in this way.

I hope to see some really great blog traffic results and I will let you know how it goes.

An Additional 5 Ways to Get Free Traffic to Your Blog

2010-02-28T21:45:00.000-08:00

An Additional 5 Free Blog Traffic Tips

There are many Free ways to get more blog traffic and see your blog visitor numbers go up daily. So if your blog traffic is lacking or has plateaued you might want to give the 5 Blog Traffic Tips below a try to increase your blog traffic.

An Additional 5 Free Traffic Tips:

1. Make a Squidoo Lens - you can easily set up a squidoo lens and give tips similar to your blog. Then you can give a link to your blog and even use a little widget to find your blog and automatically post the last 3 blog posts to your Squidoo Lens.

2. Write a Guest Post - and get your well written guest blog published on a great blog that you actually follow or enjoy reading and that is related to your blog niche.

3. Make a Video - Make a video and upload it to YouTube. Have the video show how to do something that is valuable and that your blog readers and others will like. You get a link to your blog and you can also embed your blog link into the video.

4. Sign up for MyBlogLog.com - It is a community where you can connect to other blog owners. You can make blog friends and find blogs to read and comment on (this is how I got my first blog comment). If a blogger has the widget you get to see your avatar when you visit their blog. I like seeing my little palm tree on a blog that I am reading.

5. Create Link Bait - What is link bait? Link Bait is a way of getting massive amounts of backlinks in a short time from something you have done that goes viral, or makes a really big splash in the blogosphere. Something that will catch lots of peoples attention and get traffic to blogs. Something such as a huge list like: 101 Niches to Blog About for Making Money or news and maybe a freebie that everyone will want.

If you liked these 5 Ways to Get Free Traffic to Your Blog and you want to increase traffic to your blog you may also like these blog posts:

5 Ways to Get Traffic to Your Blog

5 More Ways to Get Traffic to Your Blog

Another 5 Ways to Get Free Traffic to Your Blog = 15 Tips

Day 20 - My Blogging Challenge Update

2010-02-28T20:20:00.000-08:00

Day 20 of my money making blog challenge.

Here is what I have been up to in the last few days:

Because of my daily double posting I have not been spending enough time getting traffic to my blog. I have definitely done a few things here and there, but not the big things that I had planned. So now that I will only be publishing one blog post a day that will free up some time for me to work on getting all that lovely traffic that is needed to make money blogging.

I got my first comment, a result of making some blogging friends.
Finally got my blog approved on Technorati.
Working on a Blog Traffic Generation Course for myself that others can follow.

Still working towards my eventual six month goal of earning $300.00 a month. I believe if I work on getting higher rankings and more traffic to my blog it will be a success and a money making blog in that time.

No Traffic - Get Mad About It!

2010-02-27T20:57:00.000-08:00

Are you going to sit there and wine about no traffic or will you get mad about it?

Your blog has no traffic (or only a little trickle) what can you do? Do you get depressed? Stop blogging? Move onto another blog niche?

No you get mad about it. OK, then what? You go out and take action. Go get yourself all angered up that no one cares but you will make them care. You will make them see how valuable your money making blog is and then they will all come to you for answers.

How to get motivated to go and get your own blog traffic:

Do something to promote your blog - in-action often leads to more in-action. Do something to get your engine started and maybe you will get motivated to do so much more.
Make a blog plan - if you already have one then chuck it in the trash and make a new one that is better.
Follow your blog plan and reach the goals and then set new ones.
Make deadlines for your blog plan and work to meet those deadlines.

Here is a little motivating quote to get your butt in gear and go out and get that blog traffic, "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have." Thomas Jefferson

Remember that even the biggest pro-bloggers did not have overnight success. Everyone claims that they are making money, but some of that is deception. Proof of income can be faked with paint shop or photoshop programs. If you are reading a popular blog chances are if you were to look into their archives (if you can find them) they have been blogging on the same site for around two years and have hundreds of blog posts or more.

Well, why are you still here reading my blog? Don't you have some work to do? Go now and get busy!

Your Favorite Free Traffic Links - Poll

2010-02-27T20:09:00.000-08:00

Favorite Free Traffic Links

Please Take a few seconds to take the Poll.

Just a little curious to see what type of free traffic methods others are using to get visitors to their blogs. Thanks for voting!

Using Twitter to Get Traffic to Your Blog

2010-02-26T19:00:00.000-08:00

Twitter for More Blog Traffic

If you have not signed up for Twitter and you have a blog you are missing out on potential traffic and new blog readers. Twitter can be a powerful blogging tool for blog traffic.

To get more followers on Twitter you can do a search on your blog's keywords, mine are make money online and make money blogging so I search for those. Then you can see who else is tweeting your key words, they may be your competition. Here is what you can do though, see who their followers are and go follow them. Chances are, they are interested in your key word topic or blogging niche and will follow you back. By doing this you gain two things, more followers and potential blog readers.

When you make a new blog post you also post a tweet about the blog post with a link. That way your followers will see your blog post title and they can click through to your blog. You might just get some loyal blog readers in this manner, and it's easy to do.

If you are not utilizing Twitter for your blog traffic you may want to reconsider and sign up today. You may have noticed that my blog has a widget to show my most recent tweets on my blog. I have also used FeedBurner to automatically post my blog title with a link on Twitter.

One last note about Twitter: Twitter can be a personal thing but if you have a blog that is not about your personal life, then you don't need to post personal stuff. If you have a money making blog you will not want to post about the weather or what you ate for lunch. If you have just found a great deal for bloggers you could always tweet about that.

You can follow me on Twitter here: BloggingFortune

Good Blogging Habits

2010-02-26T16:36:00.000-08:00

Do You Have the Right Blogging Habits?

If you make some daily blogging habits it can help you do have a successful money making blog. The experts seem to agree that habits are made in about one month. So if you do an activity everyday for one month you can make it into a habit. Likewise, if you want to break a bad habit you will need to stop doing it for one month's time.

Good Blogging Habits:

Blog Post Daily - If you get into the good habit of posting on your blog everyday it will become a habit and you may even begin to look forward to it. If you happen to stop posting for a day because of illness, etc. you may have guilt because you have let yourself down or your readers down. Take the challenge - Post everyday for one month.
Attract Traffic to Your Blog - This is an essential step that most people stop after only a few tries. If you go around the Internet and daily try to get traffic to your site, you will be a step ahead of the competition. Read: 5 Ways to Get Traffic to your Blog for ideas.
Build Blogging Connections - Leave comments on other bloggers blog posts and they might just return the favor. If you make blogging connections with bloggers in the same niche in the future there may be an opportunity for a joint venture.

If you continue to make these three steps into daily habits no matter what you will succeed. That means if you don't get any comments or make any sales and have no visitors then you still complete these good daily blogging habits.

To take a quote from the movie Field of Dreams, "If you build it, t(he)y will come." If you post regularly and go out and actively try to get traffic and make blogging connections eventually they will come to your blog.

So make some new habits and commit to doing these three things each day for one month. Then you will be set and soon will have even more traffic than before.

Why Your Blog Will Fail

2010-02-25T17:58:00.000-08:00

Why Your Blog is Destined to Fail

Many people start blogs every day and the majority will never even reach the minimum $100 Google payout. It is easy to start a blog, but it is not as easy to actually make money from blogging.

Reasons Blogs Fail:

The blogger never made goals for their blog.
The blog just does not get enough traffic to make money.
Just posting is not enough.
Inaction on the bloggers part.

I want to liken a brand new blog to a new restaurant in a big city. If you opened up a new restaurant (not a franchise) you would make sure that you advertised as much as possible right at the grand opening so everyone would know about the new place.

At first you might see a trickle of customers but there is potential. If your restaurant is appealing and the food is great and the service is good you will get free word of mouth advertising. So you do lots of advertising at first and build up a good following and let your regulars use word of mouth and they will advertise for you.

The same thing must happen with a new blog. The internet is a vast city with new blogs opening on every corner. You must advertise to get people to visit your blog. Then once you get a following your regulars will use word of mouth or link love to advertise for you. If you have a funny post or important post they just want to share with friends or maybe they will bookmark you for many others to see. They might make a post about your blog and put up a link for others to go check you out.

The restaurant is a pretty good analogy for blogging. If you don't advertise in the beginning no one will come. Likewise if your blog sucks or there is no real content people will quickly move on to the next one that came up in the search engine for your key words.

You have bloggers like Yaro Starak and Darren Rowse and they are the McDonald's of restaurants. Which means that if they wanted to they would never have to advertise again. Because all of their loyal fans and followers are doing the advertising for them.

Why Do You Want to Make Money Blogging Online?

2010-02-25T00:22:00.000-08:00

Why Make Money Blogging?

If you are broke, in debt or maybe you have lost your job and have bills piling up and the appeal of making money blogging is calling to you and you want to get rich quick. You could also be in foreclosure of your home and need some fast cash so you have turned to blogging for cash.

Blogging is not a fast money maker, not at the beginning at least. You must have read about how these pro-bloggers make an extremely nice full-time income from blogging and thought that would be nice for you too.

What is the blogging appeal?
For most blogging represents the ultimate freedom. Freedom of speech, to say whatever the heck you want to say, go on a rant for ten minutes and have someone read your stuff. Blogging full-time could mean that you get to fire your boss or quit that job that you hate. The appeal of spending time helping others with your knowledge of a hobby or some other information you possess. Blogging can mean so many different things to so many people.

Why blog?
Because bloggers in the blogosphere can change the world. Bloggers can actually get their voices heard and that can be a powerful thing.

Why do I blog?
Short Answer: I would love to find a way to make money online and be able to share exactly what I have done with others so that they can follow my blogging blueprint and have their own success. Long Answer: It is basically the same as above just much more long winded and I just don't have it in me to go on and on right now. If I wasn't a blogger, I would never be able to get away with that last sentence, but this is a blog and I can do whatever I please, now that's freedom.