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Turn Your Blog into a Cash Generating Machine

ibseo — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:24:24 +0000

For a few years now, blogging has been recognized as a way to create a respectable online income. You don’t need the skills or software that you need to create a typical web site, so in that sense, you have a ready-made platform. You can add fresh content to your pages and then “ping” them to let the search engines know that you’ve updated your site. If your content is valuable enough—and it should be—your rank on the search engines will rise. Read this article to find out more about Adsense, Adwords, and affiliate sites that can help create a cash-generating mean machine.

Adsense
Adsense is one of the easiest ways to generate some cash for your online business. Sign up with Google for their Adsense account, and follow the guidelines in order to get some coding, which they supply, that you can edit into your blog post. Adsense will immediately recognize the nature of the content you write in your post, and apply appropriate advertising accordingly; depending upon the advert box size you opted for in the coding procedure. The more content and pages you have, the more Adsense will recognize you. You may have to be patient for a while before Adsense picks up on you though.

Adwords
Google’s Adwords, or Pay-Per-Click (PPC) program is hugely popular, and its advantage is that you only pay if someone clicks on the advertisement. Keywords and diligent research into the demographics and needs of your market are vital issues here. Your aim is to bid – often only tenths of cents – for the best keywords to fit your pre-researched niche. If you undertake forensic research into an Adwords program to fit your blog, there’s a good chance you’ll be able to create a flow of traffic more quickly than several other programs. It’s a good idea to sign into a competitor’s program, or buy from them, to get an insider’s analysis of their marketing strategy.

Affiliate products
If you don’t want the hassle of creating your own products, your best alternative is to look at affiliate programs, so that all you have to do is promote. In most niches that are proven money-earners, there’s plenty of product choices, and you should ideally sign up for one that has plenty of promotional material available to the affiliate, such as e-mails messages, a sales page, and graphics, etc. With your blogging platform, you can actively engage in promoting several affiliate products. In terms of content, where you have an affiliate product to promote, you can write a review for it, in addition to your other content pages.

Flipping – Sell your blog for cash

ibseo — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:19:27 +0000

Website flipping has become increasingly popular in recent years – especially so blog flipping. Quite simply you make a new blog, monetize it, get a little traffic going to the blog and then list it for sale. People love buying blogs because essentially what they are getting is a ready made business.

I am a huge fan of blog flipping for cash and it’s a great way to make money online. Here’s how to go about blog flipping for cash:

1.Choose a niche
You can start a blog on any topic you like, however if you’re looking to flip a blog it’s a good idea to choose a niche that has good money making potential for your buyer. My advice would be to choose an ‘evergreen’ topic such as internet marketing, weight loss, self improvement, diets, etc.

2.Create your blog
The next step is to create your blog. There are a couple of important things here. Firstly it’s important to make your blog look good. It needs to look professional and eye catching as this is something people will really look for. Choose a good theme or have a unique one made. Don’t choose a theme which looks like millions of other blogs out there. If you want to get the best price for your blog it needs to look professional and unique. The next important thing is to monetize it. Add Google Adsense, Clickbank Ad Rotator and such like to your blog.

3.Post some content
Once you have got your blog set up you need to post some content to it. You have a number of options here. One of my favourite things is to create an auto blog using one of the many services out there such as AutoBlogged.
Essentially what such services do is post fresh content to your blog on autopilot by getting information from feeds. This means less work for you and if you’re flipping your blog it is also a great selling point since it means less work for your buyer too! The other options are to write some yourself, outsource, or use PLR articles. The latter is a great option however it is important that you rewrite the content and make it unique to your site.

4.Promote your blog
The next step is to get a little traffic to your site. You can use traditional traffic generation methods such as blog commenting, viral reports, forum marketing, article marketing, adswaps, etc. It helps if you have installed a way of tracking visitor stats (such as through Google Analytics) so that you can provide the statistics to people when you come to sell your blog. Hopefully you will also make some money from the traffic you receive as this too makes a great selling point.

5.Flip your blog!
By now you should have a professional looking blog with good content, and hopefully it has gotten some visitors and maybe made a little bit of money. Now it’s time to advertise it for sale. There are a number of sites designed for this such as Flippa or Sitepoint.

When you advertise your blog make sure you draw people to the key selling points. Show them the website and make it clear it’s a unique site with a professional theme and good content. You can also provide people with the visitor stats and sales figures. This is a great way to boost the appeal of your blog and get the best possible sale price.

If you need to fast-track blog flipping we suggest you get Flipping Geek:The Ultimate Site Flipping Guide or Flip Mastery: Complete Website Flipping Course.

Why WordPress is the best CMS for blogs and marketing

ibseo — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:59:18 +0000

WordPress is a very popular blog platform. Why is it so popular? Because it is more than a blog platform and can be used as a complete content management system.

If you’re interested in blogging or know anything about blogs then you’ve probably come across WordPress. It is one of the most popular blogging platforms, and millions of people use it across the world to create and manage their blogs.
Great – but how good IS WordPress and why is it so popular?
1.First of all it’s free. This has ensured its popularity with many people, especially so because it is so powerful and is very easily customized, unlike some expensive paid blogging platforms.

2.Wordpress is extremely easy to install. Pretty much anyone (even ‘non-techies’) can install WordPress with the minimum of fuss, even if you’ve never done it before. There are also many tutorials available which guide you through the process, and because it is so popular there is plenty of help available online should you get stuck with anything.

3.There are thousands of themes available, so it’s very easy to make your WordPress blog look exactly the way you want it to. Choose from the thousands of free and paid themes which are available to download, or get your own custom theme created. Once you have your theme it’s an absolute doddle to install and change it.

4.You can take advantage of the thousands of widgets and plugins which are out there. You can make your blog do pretty much whatever you want it to, and again many of them are completely free.

5.YOU own your blog. Unlike a service such as Blogger where your blog is simply hosted on someone else’s server, with WordPress you own your blog. Nobody can come along and shut it down or close your account.

6.Search engines love WordPress, and it is very easy to get your blog into the listings. There are many widgets and simple ‘tweaks’ which you can do to ensure your blog gets indexed by the search engines in a very short space of time.

For more tips like this please visit Internet Simple Seo Guide.

WordPress is probably THE most popular blogging platform and rightly so. I love it and I wouldn’t even consider using anything else. It really is that good.

Simple Seo and Search Engine Marketing with Blogs

ibseo — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:47:55 +0000

All bloggers know that a well-written, entertaining and focused blog can generate huge volumes of traffic from visitors. This is one of the basic lessons in blogging and simple seo you can apply instantly: blogs should be focused and centered on a topic and be supported by related content. You choose a topic and produce your blog around it. Don’t deviate and blog about anything.

Search engine marketing is utilizing all means of exposure on search engines and related services. This includes search engine advetisement like Adwords. SEO is simply the process of getting your blog and its content sufficiently high ranking in several search engines for your keywords. This would enable your content to generate more visitors to your site from SERPs or Search Engine Results Pages. Attention-grabbing content titles and sites help users to feel compelled to click on your link in the search engine results pages and eventually visit you.

Additionally, search engine marketing needs a Web site that is optimized for search engines. Normally, this is a Web site that can display a configuration setting that makes it look interesting to search engine spiders. In turn, the spiders will visit the site and look at your content. After doing this, the spiders then pick up significant keywords, which determine the characteristic of your page. Lastly, the content returns to the search engines for the purpose of being indexed.

Nowadays, blogs are making tons of small news Web sites or mini content centers that contain significant information and links. Compared in the past, search engines visit major news Web sites since they were the ones who were the ultimate sources for the newest content to be found online. Blogs have outpaced several media outlets online due to their capability to deliver and publish fresh information to the public faster.

The key in getting noticed more by the search engines is to publish faster. Since search engines looks for the freshest, high value and relevant information, it is important for you to publish frequently. This would get your blog more visits from major search engines and others.

Blogs have a natural relationship with search engines. Since blogs are natural search engine magnets, the search engine spiders will visit your blog often if they detect an update from it. In addition, the content of your blog does not have to wait for months before getting into search engine result pages but instead, your content will be displayed in a matter of hours or days.

It is important to know how much the search engine can do for your blog. Blogs should be frequently updated to allow the search engine spider to visit you often, since they are normally programmed to visit your blog as often as you publish fresh contents.

Blogs Rank Well in Search Results

Firsly, blogs are designed to meet the demands for search traffic and search engines. Blogs are also highly significant in their niches and are considered as the best sources of the most up-to-date information online. More so, blogs can be keyword optimized. Keyword optimization helps blogs achieve high rankings in search engine results. Additionally, wisely distributing the keywords evenly on the content can also help your blog rank easily on search engine results.

Compared to Web sites, blogs are also text-rich publishing tools. This only means that the code used by blogs is light weight. This makes your blog’s content highly visible to search engines. Search engine spiders can visit your blog frequently and crawl over your content faster because of greater clarity. This clarity provides a vivid interpretation of what the content of your blog is all about.

WordPress ping list August 2009

ibseo — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:44:14 +0000

I tend to keep a pretty short ping list for my wordpress blogs. Here is the pinglist I am currently using as of Augost 2009 for my wordpress websites:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2

http://bblog.com/ping.php

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://rpc.twingly.com/

http://blogsearch.tailsweep.com/xmlrpc.do

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://ping.myblog.jp/

http://rpc.blogcatalog.com/

http://ping.snap.com/ping/RPC2

http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

Some people have very long pinglists that tend to gow over time but a shorter one will be more beneficial in the long run since many services overlap and you risk pinging the same several times. Also, take note that http://pingomatic.com/ actually relays your ping to the majority of services on the ping list above.

If you want to be absolutely sure not to duplicate ping, just leave the default ping service http://pingomatic.com/ and only add services that are not listed on their site.

Simple Tips for Successful Blogging

ibseo — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:09:11 +0000

Blogging is a great way to make money online. You can write a blog to help market your online business or you can make money directly from your blog. It’s completely up to you. But if you want to be a successful blogger then there are some things you need to make sure you do. If you want to have a successful blog then you really should follow these 3 great tips.

Provide Value

With all your blog posts you always want to provide value to your readers. In other words, you want to give them a reason to read your blog and to continue reading it. This seems very obvious but many bloggers fail to actually do it. So, if you want to be a successful blogger than you need to provide value by either entertaining or educating your readers.

Write to Your Audience

Not only do you have to provide value to your reader, you also need to write to your audience. This is very important for being a successful blogger. You need to think about who your audience is and what they are interested in. You also want to think about how they talk and what kind of readers they might be. Then incorporate all of that into each and every blog. With every blog you write make sure you keep your intended audience in mind.

Write Great Headlines

The final great tip to be a successful blogger is to write great headlines. You want the headline to hook the readers and make them actually read the blog. After all, if the headline doesn’t attract people then your blog won’t get read and it won’t be successful. So make sure you write headlines that are catchy and that get people to read your blog.

3 great tips to be a successful blogger are to make sure you provide value with each blog post, write to your specific audience, and write great headlines. If you follow these 2 tips then you will have a great chance to become a successful blogger.