Well you have decided to become a blogger.
How do you start?
How do you continue?
How to be a good blogger ?
You need some guidelines, an action plan, right?
You have read all the free stuff that is available on becoming a better blogger - but you are still not getting many page views.
You want a stream of passive income, however small to begin with - but you have no clue how to go about it.
You consult professionals - but you are not really sure what you want and anyways they charge exorbitant prices!
There's a solution.
Get professional information online. There are various sources which do a reasonable job
What you will get is a professional input into becoming a better blogger.
A step by step guide which you can implement at your on pace.
Go interactive and find out where you are missing out.
The tasks are laid out systematically in the following book, for example, in a step by step manner with enough details to be an efficient DIY guide. Dig into those tasks. Own them and see how a professional blogger goes about it!
Wednesday 16 October 2013
Sunday 6 October 2013
List of Page Rank Checkers
One way to gauge the popularity of a site is to check its page rank. I normally use the alexa toolbar to find a page rank. Some page rank checker give the google page rank code to install on one's site. Many other page rank checker software monetise your site and one can gauge the popularity there.Just dont take the figures as gospel and one can do well to check page rank.
Here is a guide to a list of page rank checkers.
http://www.evolvingseo.com/2012/01/24/the-ultimate-list-of-rank-checkers/
Check out the basis on which on can do rank checking for a site.
Here is a guide to a list of page rank checkers.
http://www.evolvingseo.com/2012/01/24/the-ultimate-list-of-rank-checkers/
Check out the basis on which on can do rank checking for a site.
Friday 4 October 2013
5 Simple Steps to Start Your Online Earnings
There are many roads that one can go through to start a great online career. Here's my experience of earning money online. This is just a starter guide for beginners on How to Earn Money Online or Earn Money from One's Blog.
Step # 1
Niche
Decide on a niche to write and concentrate on. Some examples are fashion, gadgets review, home decor, toys, etc etc. One can write on a broad range of topics but a niche will work better. I stress enough on its importance. It will make one an expert on various topics surrounding a smaller area. For example home decor can divert to interiors, examples of great interiors, indoor plants and their care, importance of colours, etc. All the while one will also be talking about a domain one loves.
Step # 2
Platform
Decide on a platform to write on. Platform means the place where one can start to provide content. there are many sites where one can create their own blog. I use Bloggers from Google and have not been able to get away from it. If one has serious content, it is better to get one's own domain or website and develop it. Wordpress too provides a great platform for blogging.
Get 50GB of Premium Bandwidth and 10GB of storage with WP Engine's standard hosting plan!
There are many google adsense sharing sites where one can provide content and the sites share their adsense revenue. For that one needs to create a google adsense account. Google adsense is the google ad network providing contextual ads (or ads related to the content, context) on the page.
The advantage of starting this way is that these sites already have a following and they take care of the basic maintenance and SEO. One just needs to write good content on a topic.
Step # 3
Publicise
There are simple tools one can use to publicise after one has put in content. Talk about your blog. Give the link at Facebook, use google plus, provide a link on our email id, etc etc These are just simple steps to start with for newbies. Facebook pages and FB ads are serious advertising tools now and will easily reach the targetted audience. But the problem with a serious audience is that they expect regular and unique content. Too much publicity at an early state of development can work negatively.
Step # 4
Monetise
The next step is to monetise one's blog/domain/content.
One can sign up for various ad networks which provide intext ads (like infolinks), contextual ads (like google adsense, chitika) or adcash, yahoo publisher networks.
Another way to earn serious money is to sign up as an affiliate. Amazon affiliate works well for starters.
If one decides to sell products as an affiliate sometime - a niche domain that already has a following will work sweetly. One can easily review products related to that domain for a great chance for sale and earn commission.
Sign up for the WP Engine affiliate program and receive a minimum of $150 per referral!
Step # 5
Doing too much
One would do better not to read too much material on how to make money online. They tend to confuse and pull one in different directions. It is always better to just start off with one system. After one is more familiar with the system and concept one can decide on the next step and do more literature search.
The above are some basic steps to kick off. Enjoy the process!
Please share this article if you like it!
Step # 1
Niche
Decide on a niche to write and concentrate on. Some examples are fashion, gadgets review, home decor, toys, etc etc. One can write on a broad range of topics but a niche will work better. I stress enough on its importance. It will make one an expert on various topics surrounding a smaller area. For example home decor can divert to interiors, examples of great interiors, indoor plants and their care, importance of colours, etc. All the while one will also be talking about a domain one loves.
Step # 2
Platform
Decide on a platform to write on. Platform means the place where one can start to provide content. there are many sites where one can create their own blog. I use Bloggers from Google and have not been able to get away from it. If one has serious content, it is better to get one's own domain or website and develop it. Wordpress too provides a great platform for blogging.
Get 50GB of Premium Bandwidth and 10GB of storage with WP Engine's standard hosting plan!
There are many google adsense sharing sites where one can provide content and the sites share their adsense revenue. For that one needs to create a google adsense account. Google adsense is the google ad network providing contextual ads (or ads related to the content, context) on the page.
The advantage of starting this way is that these sites already have a following and they take care of the basic maintenance and SEO. One just needs to write good content on a topic.
Step # 3
Publicise
There are simple tools one can use to publicise after one has put in content. Talk about your blog. Give the link at Facebook, use google plus, provide a link on our email id, etc etc These are just simple steps to start with for newbies. Facebook pages and FB ads are serious advertising tools now and will easily reach the targetted audience. But the problem with a serious audience is that they expect regular and unique content. Too much publicity at an early state of development can work negatively.
Step # 4
Monetise
The next step is to monetise one's blog/domain/content.
One can sign up for various ad networks which provide intext ads (like infolinks), contextual ads (like google adsense, chitika) or adcash, yahoo publisher networks.
Another way to earn serious money is to sign up as an affiliate. Amazon affiliate works well for starters.
If one decides to sell products as an affiliate sometime - a niche domain that already has a following will work sweetly. One can easily review products related to that domain for a great chance for sale and earn commission.
Sign up for the WP Engine affiliate program and receive a minimum of $150 per referral!
Step # 5
Doing too much
One would do better not to read too much material on how to make money online. They tend to confuse and pull one in different directions. It is always better to just start off with one system. After one is more familiar with the system and concept one can decide on the next step and do more literature search.
The above are some basic steps to kick off. Enjoy the process!
Please share this article if you like it!
Thursday 5 September 2013
How to Find Your Keywords
The first thing to do before writing your blogs - ie, if you want to be read, if you are not using a marketing agency, if you are not getting professionally SEOed, if you are not syndicated, ie if you are just a simple blogger - is simple.
Find the terms people are searching for.
There are many freely available sites and pages dedicated for that. They will give you key words, search terms, phrases, most looked for, trends etc. So before writing that article or blog it makes sense to orient it towards what people are looking for. For example if your article is "how to diet" and you find that the most popular terms are " diet plans", "how to lose weight", "how to keep off weight" - you can use these terms in your Title or tweak the essay to address these issues.
Where to find the search terms?
Google Trends is the best place to get an updated list. Google adwords keywords tool is another useful resource. Go here http://soovle.com/top/ - for the top internet keywords for the day.
And help your readers find you!
Find the terms people are searching for.
There are many freely available sites and pages dedicated for that. They will give you key words, search terms, phrases, most looked for, trends etc. So before writing that article or blog it makes sense to orient it towards what people are looking for. For example if your article is "how to diet" and you find that the most popular terms are " diet plans", "how to lose weight", "how to keep off weight" - you can use these terms in your Title or tweak the essay to address these issues.
Where to find the search terms?
Google Trends is the best place to get an updated list. Google adwords keywords tool is another useful resource. Go here http://soovle.com/top/ - for the top internet keywords for the day.
And help your readers find you!
Tuesday 6 August 2013
Blogging for Money - Various Ways
Blogging for money has come a long way since 2004 -05. While blogging for money paid rich dividends 7 - 8 years back - many layers has come into the simple process in the interim years.
Blogging for money is not just about finding a niche and putting useful posts at regular intervals - any longer. People made millions following that simple formula some years back. Now, the gaps are filled, more opportunities have arisen, more advertising money is being poured in, the audience is more targeted and the complications have risen manifold.
Content can be used to draw eyespace, bring readers and the same content can be used to market products, teach, engage - while the inline text can be used as spinoffs for further advertising. Job boards, forums, ebooks, courses, virtual products, videos, physical products can all be entwined with simple blogging to garner some dollars.
Here is a link to a page at problogger that shows the various ways to make money by blogging.
http://www.problogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Ways-to-Make-Money-Blogging1.png
Dont give up - a niche, perseverance and persistence should still pay.
Blogging for money is not just about finding a niche and putting useful posts at regular intervals - any longer. People made millions following that simple formula some years back. Now, the gaps are filled, more opportunities have arisen, more advertising money is being poured in, the audience is more targeted and the complications have risen manifold.
Content can be used to draw eyespace, bring readers and the same content can be used to market products, teach, engage - while the inline text can be used as spinoffs for further advertising. Job boards, forums, ebooks, courses, virtual products, videos, physical products can all be entwined with simple blogging to garner some dollars.
Here is a link to a page at problogger that shows the various ways to make money by blogging.
http://www.problogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Ways-to-Make-Money-Blogging1.png
Dont give up - a niche, perseverance and persistence should still pay.
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