There is a very big potential in e-books  business. The total concept is digital. One can start it easily with a minimal cost. One can sell his or her knowledge by creating e-books, if you have good command in any subject then it is a time to cash your knowledge.

There are several e-books websites where hundreds of authors sell their books. The site owners allow authors or writers to join them and share the revenue generated through books contribution.

Writing e-books needs some requirements. You must have pdf writer where the content of your ebook will be written and save in pdf format. Most of the ebooks selling sites use pdf format only. Using pdf is not difficult task, it is just like other writer application where different tools can  be use to ease your job.

Choose a nice attractive title of your book. The title plays an important role and depict the whole theme of your book. People are more attracted through title so your title should be very strong and bold.

The first page graphics of your e-book should be related to the content of your book and it is much better the graphics give some meaning.

The introduction and preface of the book is normally read free by the surfer, write a good piece of introduction of your book and about the benefits of reading your book.

Since we are concentrating on wordpress so before you select your hosting company consider the following.

1- PHP/MYSQL Wordpress can only be installed if you have facility of php and Mysql database combination.  This combination is best and cheapest.

2- space Innitially you do not need big space unless you are uploading pictures or videos. 100 mb space will be a good start for a new blogger website.

3- Bandwidth Once again you do not need big bandwidth because your blog or site will be still new and it will take time to increase visitors and bandwidth usage will be minimal at the start. 1 gb to 3 gb will be enough at the start.

4- Server speed The server speeds matter, try to get the web hosting on servers which has good hardware configuration.

5- Support 24 hours online chat support will be better instead of emailing the host provider and waiting  for replies.

6- Control panel Now a days the hosting comes with cpanel in almost all service providers, just double check before you choose.

7- Additional facilities Admin tools like weblizer and fantastica etc are commonly use to facilitate your work. It is wise to confirm such facilities before you enter into any hosting obligation.

Choosing hosting is a simple job, once you have done above then we will move to the next step where you will be able to start your first blog to make money online.

I already have answer for this question since long but never bother to write anything about that. Now the main goal of this blog is to educate bloggers especially the beginners to understand the essentials of money making tricks and tips online. The many bloggers lack the following golden rules of blogging which makes them fail to generate income.

Do not be desperate

Many bloggers are desperate to make money online without having the basic knowledge or building the platform. One should learn first and apply, do experiments, be popular and social and at the last wait and see the result. patience is a key in your success.

Consistency and timely

The consistency of your activity is a major element. I do not advocate too much time to be spend on internet, but there should be consistency of your contribution. Write articles or upload other media stuff  regularly, at least once a week. Your social activities are linked to your blog so be smart in your social activities too so your blog image will be emerge as professional.

Focus

You should focus on your main theme of the blog. Do not deviate in your content presentation, just show your blog as a special in the field you choose to blog or niche topic.

Marketing

Check regularly your link popularity, submit comments on other mind like blogs, add your rss feeds to other directories along with url submission to popular directories. It is never ending process and you have to spare time if you really wanna be successful.

Unique Ideas

Always bring unique ideas which people experience first time, the uniqueness of your blog will distinguish you from others and you can get many regular readers.

Follow successful people

I suggest many times about following the successful people on internet, but keep in mind just follow them do not copy them.

Be social

Most of the successful bloggers are social and people can see their presence in almost all top social networks. You should also join social media sites and be active there.

As earlier i wrote digg is a social network, when you join digg means you are joining the biggest community on the web where you will share content. People join digg to read news, latest storeis, submit content etc. The popularity of stories or content which digger digg and submit are ranked through votes which is also called diggs. I would like to elaborate so beginners can understand the concept of digg properly.

Becoming member on Digg

Just login to digg.com and you see on top Join Digg button. You  have two options to join either by registering through your eamil or if you are a member of facebook, you can login through facebook id too.

Once you have join the digg and you login you can view the main page where stories are published and on the left side of the stories is yellow button showing the votes/diggs. On those buttons one can press and do vote for any story or content. You can see the time of the story submitted and comments number. You can also favourite the story and share too. There is an option of viewing the top stories for last 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days and 365 days.

Now we come to right side bar. You can subscribe via email having option of getting best content weekly or daily. You can also view the best posts and recommended posts.

Now we talk about the major area which is your profile, on the top of screen you see a link profile beside your icon image, click it and you will be in your profile area. There are again different options like friend’s activity, history and setting etc. You can do setting of your choice so people know about you and your interests.

The main strength of your personality on digg is based on following

Your diggs

Your activity is directly related to your diggs. How many diggs you did and how many of them become popular which will increase your value in digg. Try to do as many digg as you can but still sensibly. Do not only digg rather if you like some stuff write comment too. Keep in mind, digg is watching you and you should not do any unethical activity on digg.

Friends

There are hundred and thousand of members on digg. You select mind like people and make them friend.  More popular friends you have, more value you will gain. Do make friends slowly, it is recommended to have 20 friends a day till you get about 200 friends.

Fans

People who makes you friend will appear fans until you add them as friend and same goes to your friends who have not added you yet but you already added them will appear as fans in their profile.

Mutual Friends

Mutual friends are those who recommend each other as friends.

Submission

Definitely you are digging other people articles and you also want your web content should also appear in digg.com. Try not to submit a lot of stuff from your own website, it will be consider as spamming but still you can submit moderately on selected posts of your blog.

How to be a powerful on digg

The power of you will depend on few factors

How active you are on digg?

How many diggs of your’s got popular?

Your friends popularity also boost your presence.

Every day or when ever you have time try to digg the stories of your mutual friends and fans, as a result they will digg your stories too. Do not force people to digg your stories, let the things done naturally. People will become your fan due to your activities, more active you are more fans you will get and more powerful you will be on digg. The top sites like BBC, CNN etc can be good choice to digg for showing your presence internationally.

You can explore digg more by doing some experiments too. Keep the things moving on digg.com and your graph will move upwards too.

The percentage of ads clicking from social media directed  is very less as compare to traffic from search engines,  if there are 5 clicks out of 100 visitors from search engine traffic then the same clicks is from 1000 visitors. It means 0.5 click from 100 users.

According to new trend the social media network sites are being use ore than search engines and directories in some countries, in middle east there is a huge shift in the demand of social network sites and people less browse the news websites rather they prefer to spend time on social networks.

I have come cross to one of my online friend website which is producing 5000+ unique visitors and the revenue from ads showing on that website is not more than US$ 300 despite deploying different strategies. It is because the 90% traffic source is from social networks.

This is a good video which shows the basic money making tips from blogging. It is so simple and direct to the simple idea but still the video does not cover a lot. In the video it is clearly mentioned that creating blogs does not mean that you will become rich. Mind this…

The rich bloggers are rich due to ideas, creativity,  approach, knowledge, uniqueness and lot more. They really posses the qualities which differentiate them from others. One can get the same status as they do by just following them to become a successful and rich blogger. Following them does not mean to copy them, just follow their activities to ascertain the secrets behind their success. The secrets are quite open but one can get a good guideline.

The owners of successful blogs are social. One can see them in social networks like Digg, Delicious, Facebook etc and they are popular in those networks with having thousands of friends and fans. The social networks activities are easy to follow,  see the list of their friends, check them how they use such facilities for money making. They always bring new ideas which can be worthful for you too.  They are successful on social networks too due to their ideas and creativity. Actually they sell ideas on their blog and those ideas are the asset of their blog.

The famous blogs never show frustration, the way they present is timely and effectively. They choose the topics which are hit and people searching for it. The content they show  or write is unique along with  informative and demanding among general or specific readers. They are really passionate bloggers.

They are courageous, when some one have courage it  helps you manifest in the form of words and actions ultimately. Those words and actions become so powerful to convince people.

They showed them generous, Generosity is when you give the right thing to the right person at the right time — and it benefits both of you.

They are wise as Wisdom is the knowledge and experience needed to make sensible decisions and judgments, or the good sense shown by the decisions and judgments made from an accumulated knowledge of life that has been gained through experience.

The internet social networks are same like traditional business network where you make a mind like people network which in result will leverage your business.

Different networks use different words for network member friends, some use fans, few use friends the other use fav or like etc. The purpose of all above is almost same. One should give some care in choosing network friends for business purpose. I would like to explain with network examples.

Digg

In Digg you have mutual friends and fans.  Mutual friends as the name suggest the both of members click friend to each other. Fans are different in which only one party or member click friend to other member. Now here different people have not the same view. Some says more the mutual friends digg your submissions  recommended diggs better the results of your submissions while others claim Fans have more power than mutual friends. Actually this is very tricky, one should understand it properly, if you have one mutual friend who is power user or say in top 100 diggers and dig your recommended stuff then it is better than 50 other normal mutual friends. Now comes to fans, actually fans digg have more weight than normal mutual friend diggs but again the top 100 mutual friend is better than fan. The digg member who is not your mutual friend neither your fan has more powerful vote for your submission. The way Digg depends on your luck too but always never wait for luck, be active and try to dig lot of other people stuff. One should not submit lot of his or her own articles otherwise Digg will ban you.

Facebook

Facebook operates in multi dimensional way where you create your profile and then for business purpose you add pages and groups inside. The popularity of the pages and groups will depend on your fans and group members respectively. One should try to add friends which are active on face book and those friends have lot of other friends in their Facebook profile. You can ask your friends to become fan or member of your page or group. Every time you update any link or information on your page or group profile, all the fans/members wall will show the content of your update which means visible to more people.

Other networks also works same like above but try to understand the structure first and do some experiments which in result will give you better result for your business networking.

URL: It stands for uniform resource locator, formerly it was called universal resource locator.  In short it is an internet address.

Domain Name: Domain name is just url (e.g) Yahoo.com or Google .com. You can register for more or less US$ 10.00 from different online registrars.

Domain Registrar: The organization which authorized by ICANN to register your domain.

Once you have your own domain name it means your new business entity where you have flexibility of choices to implement. It is very important to have your own domain in order to start making money on internet. I rather say it is compulsory to have a domain name as it is just like you starting your new business and url or domain name is your new business address.

There is a small task of choosing a domain name. It can be any name (alphanumeric) or alpha or numeric. The domain name must meet the regulations given by ICANN.

One can choose his or her nick name or combination of his lucky no. with nick name or any combination which he likes but it is better to make it simple so people can easily remember your blog domain name. It is not advisable to put long domain name.  It is hard to choose a name of your domain as almost all the names in Oxford dictionary has been taken. If your blog or site is related to specific region then you can try to register local country domain too which will end after com or biz with country abbreviation like com. my.

Try to register your local language word or any phrase which you like. There is another good idea of putting keywords in your domain (e.g) my-pets-stor.com, kittens-dogs-pets.com. You can have advantage of choosing such name, it will be easy for you to optimize your keywords on search engines. It is also called SEO strategy. It is technical and we will cover this in later tutorials.

I hope the above simple explanation on domain or URL is easy to understand for beginners. Stay in touch for the next tutorial which we will cover the web hosting.