Well I’ve been pretty busy so haven’t made it back to post in a little while. I guess that’s good in a way as my test blog has had time to mature a bit more and I can share what’s been happening with it, in particular I will share my web traffic analysis. So the last things I did were submit an interesting post to some social bookmarks and also I submitted some articles. The results are not mind blowing and here’s why I think that is. Continue Reading →
Social bookmarking can help raise the profile of your site and provide much needed free traffic and backlinks. Head over and register and tell the world about a fabulous post you’ve just written that is fun, informative or breaking news, that’s what I did! However I did want to submit my test site to more bookmarking sites but I just don’t have the time at the moment. So I’ve been searching for a social bookmarking tool that could help me. Continue Reading →
I recently posted about using social bookmarking sites to get the word out about my test ‘blogging for money site’; blog T. There are a ton of options when it comes to social sites and to tell you the truth they all overwhelmed me a little. I picked out some of the sites that I figured had the most opportunity and ‘reputation’ to help tell the world about my blog so here are the sites I chose to submit to. Continue Reading →
Well I’m pleased to report that my make money test blog is indexed already. It’s made its debut on the third page of Google for its targeted keyword phrase. The traffic to blog statistics are not quite so exciting. I must mention here though that the niche I chose is seasonal. It will really show its worth early in 2009 so I’m investing now to see if I can make the most of this world wide celebration. I did hope though to get some traffic before then so this is how I plan to do that. Continue Reading →
One thing is for certain, if I want to make money online from my blogs that won’t happen without blog traffic. There are lots of different ways to get traffic to my blog but to know which ways work best is critical. So today I’m writing about how to discover where traffic comes from to my sites or yours if you decided to follow along and create a money making blog. Continue Reading →
To start off my blog posts for my make money blogging test site I decided to see if I could find some good article software. I know for my test site that I really don’t have the time to research heaps and heaps of information and pull it together to make a great post so needed to find some short cuts. Continue Reading →
Now that I’ve built my blog, uploaded a theme and a lovely new header I’m sure that I can make money blogging. Why couldn’t I, the site looks lovely, nice header, nice colours, what more could a visitor want. Oh yeah, content. Well before content there a few other things I need to set up. Continue Reading →
Ok, so I have my domain name and idea of what I’m going to be blogging about for my ‘blogging for money’ experiment site. I now need to get that domain up and live on the web as blog money doesn’t arrive without a site set up of course! I’ve told my domain provider where to point the domain name to, better known as changing the nameservers. So what’s next? Continue Reading →
Okay, I’ve found a little system I can follow to get me started with blogging for money. The system wasn’t entirely free like I promised myself but it was under twenty bucks to start out. I got some great info so I think that wasn’t too much to put at risk. So first things first, choosing a niche; here’s how I did that. Continue Reading →
Can a blog make money? $10,000 to $20,000 a day? You’ve heard it before too haven’t you? Bloggers that draw in tens of thousands of dollars a month writing about things they love! Well let me tell you, if this can be done then I want to be a part of it so here’s what I’m going to do. Continue Reading →
