6 Out-of-Box Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

Posted August 28th, 2006

If it comes to creating your new blog, I think what I am talking about will help you make your blog famous to a large extent as it is direct from my experience getting my blog ranked no.1 in a famous blog hosting website in Thailand. Currently I got 8,000-18,000 hits a day with 1,500-3,000 unique visitors. What I have done are very simple and it doesn’t require technical background on computer language and no strings attached! 1. Choose the right blog hosting site. This is one of the most important things at the first start. There are a huge number of blog hosting sites being created to capitalize on business opportunities mostly focused on making money via Google Adsense. However only a few hosting websites can serve that well. Technically you have to make sure that the host of the blog hosting site you’d like is robust enough to handle a large number of visitors coming to visit your blog, easy to manage, and flexible in a sense that you can modify codes or theme yourself. This will also give you freedom in placing adsense ads in any part of your blog. Let’s get back to the point, the right blog host should be of the following: - It must be popular among bloggers. This will automatically make your blog famous as you have chances to get visited from your blog peers. - It can display new posts or updated blogs on the home page(preferably) or dashboard. This increases chance to get visited as well. - The site should accommodate forum so that you can share your opinions/experiences to get your blog known by others. - Importantly it should allow bloggers to place ads onto blogs as long as you’d like to make money. 2. Update your blog during rush hours This will help increase chance of getting hit by those who are updating their blogs or paying visits to other blogs. As I mentioned previously that the site should display newly updated blogs on the homepage or dashboard, people tend to have a look at other blogs before updating their blogs though the chance that your blog is disappearing from the homepage is huge due to a number of blogs updated at the same time. 3. Add videos onto your blog to make it alive. This way is evidently effective. Youtube is a good case study. People tend to digest information through video or audio materials rather than literatures. Doing this will differentiate your blog from others. Importantly you need to ensure that your video files can be played smoothly and clearly otherwise it will adversely affect your blog as people get bored or frustrated visiting your blog. It depends on at what speed your video can be played. Don’t make your guests wait too long. Videos will help keep your guests coming in again particularly if they are music videos. There are thousands of music video codes that you can utilize. 4. Try to communicate with visitors and use informal words. Reading formal articles is a boring thing. You should bridge this gap and get close to your visitors like friends. Blogs already allow your guests to communicate with you via comment form. This will indirectly generate words-of-mouth marketing. If your visitors are impressed, they will make link to your blog. You get one-way links. You should do the same in return if there are some space available in your blog. 5. Make links in the content My assumption is that your blog is related to some specific matters that you would like to deliver to visitors thus by nature, each post or entry will be somehow related to one another. You’d better make links on words related to other posts. This will not just help your visitors get more information but also make them stick to your site and generate page views hence increased chance of getting high click-through rate(CTR) meaning bigger money. 6. Grab Hot Keywords like “Gillian Chung Naked” As of today, there are only 58,000 search results on the phrase “Gillian Chung Naked” while there are probably millions of people from Asia searching for this. You will see a steep jump-up on the number of unigue visitors. Try it. Hope this helps!

Metee Liewrojanasakul, the Creator of BlogToBoom (http://blogtoboom.blogspot.com) , a blogging experiment of his that draws thousands of visitors a day.

Essentials of Blog Etiquettes

Posted August 11th, 2006

Comment sections on blogs are perhaps the most potential medium for misunderstanding. With free expression and the option of anonymity it is unrealistic to expect a weblogger to present an even-handed picture of the world, but it is very reasonable to expect them to cooperate with their sources, biases, and behavior. This section of the unit will assess certain rules or guideline necessary to check web ethics of a blog. The first principle deals with how to make an assertion. Make an assertion in good faith; state facts only if you are sure about it with the following note

The Pro's And Con's Of Blogging

Posted August 10th, 2006

Do… Write about what you know and how it relates to the your specific industry. Entries can vary from 100 to 500 words depending on the topic. If at all possible share a link to something relevant such as a post from another blog , an online article, or a recently published book. You can also write a short intro followed by the web link. Take the time to explore, “see whats out there”. What are the experts saying What’s the buzz in your industry. Always be honest, people appreciate honesty if you want to earn credibility practice these traits and you will go very far, accuracy is also a key componet to your article. When blogging use a conversational tone, Blogging forums see this as a more casual form of communication. Don’t… React too quickly if you disagree with a comment, post or article from some one else. Think carefully and, if you respond, do so professionally and with respect. To find more articles to use on your website please go to: http://www.software4u2.com

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Ways to Make Money Blogging

Posted August 9th, 2006

Blog has been around for a period of time and it is getting more and more used by people for personal and business purposes. So what is a blog? A blog or weblog is a website that you write stuff on an ongoing basis. Blog is often used by people as a personal online diary. You can post news, updates or comment on a subject or topic on your blog. You can also write a series of tutorials to help and educate people if you are expert at something. There are no specified rules on what you should write on a blog. Below are some of the ways to make money by blogging: Start Your Own Blog You can get a blog absolutely free by joing Blogger.com. Creating a blog with Blogger.com is fast and easy as you don’t need to know HTML code. The most popular way bloggers make money with their blog is running an AdSense campaign to earn advertising revenue. To host Google Ads on your blog you first need to sign up for an AdSense account and you can get an AdSense account by following instructions in Blogger.com. Another ways to earn money is use your blog to promote affiliate products or your own products. If you are marketing affiliate product, you can write a review with your affiliate link to your merchant site or create a product recommendation list such as Top 5 Weight Loss Products, Top 3 Internet Marketing e-books and so on. If you are selling your own products using a blog, you can list out the benefits of your products and describe how your products are different from your competitors. Post Blog Ads on Your Blog There are several websites looking for bloggers post blog ad for cash. Here’s how it works. You first sign up with these websites and then you will receive a pre-written ad message to be posted on your blog or an instruction to write a blog ad related to your advertiser’s product on your blog. Once your blog ads have been reviewed and approved, you will be paid. You can find these opportunities from the below sites: Payperpost.com Bloggingads.com Contribute Content on Other People’s Blogs In addition to making money with a free blog. You can also earn some extra money posting on other people’s blogs. When you join these blogs to write content and articles, your AdSense Ads will be displayed on all your blog posts and earn AdSense income. The more blog posts you make, the more people will read your content and thus the greater your earning will be.

Alan Liew is the webmaster of moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com which provides information, tips and ideas of how to <a href="http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com">make money online</a>.

Blogging To The Bank Review

Posted August 6th, 2006

Can you start from scratch and make up to $500 par day a couple of weeks later, using only free blog and free traffic ?
According to Rob Benwell, YES you can !

I was quite skeptical a first, because so many guys over the internet claims incredible earnings from Adsense and Clickbank, and sell you a useless program or an ebook that give informations but you don’t know how to use them.

The Blogging To The Bank by Rob Benwell sale letter claims that this ebook is different. As it cost only $47 and offers a money back guaranty, I wanted to try it…

And I have been blown away !

Throught only 39 pages, Rob Benwell goes straight to the point, and give you a real step by step blueprint to create your free blog empire and earn huge commision from Clickbank and Adsense.

The idea of promoting an affiliate product with blogs, and moneytize these blogs with adsense is not a revolution. But Blogging To The Bank, offers the exact blueprint to make it the right way.
So even if you are a newbie in internet marketing, and if you have no knowledge, take 15 or 30 minuts to read carefully this ebook, and you can start from scratch right away !
You can easilly make $500 or more the first two weeks if you spend 30 - 60 per day to follow these 7 easy steps.

I bought it only one week ago, and I’ve already made $200 with this ebook ! Blogging To The Bank gives the exact step by step blueprint to :
- Search and select an affiliate product to promote
- Set up your free blog
- Promote the affiliate product and place adsense on your blog
- Get real content
- Optimize your blog for adsense and search engines
- Get a flood of free targeted traffic
- Create a blog empire

It’s clear, quick and easy to read, affordable, and anybody can start a blog empire from scratch right away following these 7 easy steps.

The section about getting free targeted traffic is very interesting, as Rob Benwell show you how to use msn and yahoo to get traffic, instead of google. It is much harder to get well ranked in google. The methods explained in this ebook are much easier and give very good results within a couple of days.

The ebooks also comes with 3 “Get Your Blog Crawled Quick” videos. They show a simple and ethic way to get your blog indexed in yahoo, msn and google. This method is amazing, and it works !

At the end of the ebook, Rob Benwell talks about some others methods that he is still testing, so if you want to use them, you’ll have to test them yourself or to wait for him to tell you his results.
But this comes regullary with free update reports and newletters you’ll receive after you have bought the ebook.

So I highly recommend Blogging To The Bank to anyone who wants to make a solid income without any hard work, even if you start from scratch. There is of course some work, and you’ll have to spend some time to make it. But you’ll have easy step by step instructions to “work smart, not hard”.

Learn more…

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Matt Sanders

Matt Sanders specializes in internet-based businesses and find, test and use marketing and autamation tools. He writes review of these on his blog : http://business-opportunities-review.blogspot.com/