Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Capitalise From Your Blog



Writing a blog is so easy these days that you can even write a blog the same way you write an email, then all you have to do is to send the email to the blog address and the message is posted on the blog.
To make money with a blog you need to have just two things: Products to sell to your readers, and finally you need the readers themselves to read  your blog and see the products displayed there.
Getting products to your blog is very easy today. There are red-hot affiliate programs and advertising networks which are more than happy to give you all the products you want to insert on all your pages. Most of the times all you have to do is to copy and paste a little piece of code and the affiliate network will do the rest.
There is one important rule you need to know, the more targeted to your pages the product is, the higher the sale will be - all the time - no exceptions.
That was the easy part. The hard part is to get as many readers as possible to your blog. This is only possible with one thing: World class content that people want to read.
Read that last line ten times plus one. If you do not have a way or a mean to have unique world class content that people want to read, you will never have enough readers reading your blog and you will not make as many sales as you could be making.


To find out what people want to read you must use Google Keyword Tool. This free tool shows how many times a keyword is searched and the amount of competition that keyword has. This tool shows one thing, it shows exactly how many people you can get to your blog for that particular topc or niche. 97% of internet users use a search engine and 80% of them use Google so by looking at these numbers you have expert information about what 80% of the market wants.
After knowing what you write about, you need to write the content yourself. I often refer to 'The Writers Resources Guide To Online Writing For Money.' It is inexpensive and in fact has already paid for itself many times over for me.
On the internet people want information and entertainment. You must specialize yourself in one of these niches. The most valuable is the information but the funniest is the entertainment. I would go for information since, you as a blogger, wants to sell as many products as possible and get the highest possible ROI for your work.
The first step here is to become an expert on that topic. People have millions of other blogs and sites to visit and if they see that your posts are not accurate they will leave your blog immediately - no exceptions. Becoming an expert means you will have to buy the best books about that topic and write what you learned. People want free information and if you have the paid information on your side and you write that paid information on your blog for free, people will like it, link to it and the word of mouth advertising will give results soon.
The second step is to understand the perfect intersection of quantity and quality. All your articles, posts, images, everything, need to have a near 100% quality score, that means they must carry pure information and they must be written using the keywords that Google keyword tools gave you. After mastering the science of writing high quality posts and blogs, you need to write as much as possible to give people as much information as possible to make your blog the only place to go to find information.
Now let your loyal readers see your products and affiliate links on your blog, let them click the links and see the money flashing in your account.


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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Advertise And Monetize Your Blog

Blogging HeroesBlogging Heroes (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Blogging has become a popular online activity. Blog topics range on such a wide variety that people turn to them to get a first hand review on almost everything. They have become a good platform for people to share ideas and information. You can blog about your personal experiences, a general topic or even something totally random. Since blogging is so common nowadays, it is not surprising how many people are looking for ways to monetize a blog they have. If you can write well, you should make a blog. If you have one already, you must have wondered to yourself,"How can I monetize my blog?"

There are a number of ways you can monetize your blog. All mainly depend on how popular your blog is. If you have high traffic coming to your blog, you can get advertisers to pay you. First of all, your blog should be easy to access. Next, it should look good so that visitors spend time once they get to the blog. The theme and header are perhaps the most important things in a blog. The header is something that the reader notices first, so it should have relevant and appealing pictures and text in it. As for your theme, an attractive one will lift your blog's reputation considerably. This is a great way to monetize WordPress blog which is why people are always in search of good themes.

The content needs to be appealing enough to attract people. Even if it's just your personal blog, your posts should add value to your readers. They have to be something people can relate to. Text posts should be reader friendly. A font of Arial 12, for instance, makes good readability. Titles of text posts should be attractive and they shouldn't look like an advertisement. This will turn off most visitors. A popular way of blogging these days is to have video posts. Video posts are much more convenient and appealing to visitors than regular text posts.

Opt-in forms are also a great way of getting feedback from your visitors. These should be visible and accessible enough. This can be done by placing them in the upper right hand corner of the blog page. Yet, remember: when people get to a blog, they don't want to see another website that is trying to sell them something. They will be looking for more personalized things, thus adding a photo of yourself or your family will make them feel more at ease.

Another good idea is to post testimonials and other reviews that people have given about your blog. These should be short and concise, and can be placed on the sidebars. Reading them should be easy since they give out a good impression for first time visitors.

Despite this all, there are certain Federal Trade Commission rules for bloggers that you need to be aware of. Make sure you follow those guidelines. For instance, if your blog has reviews of products and you get certain benefits in return, FTC rules say that you must disclose that in your blog. This and other guidelines are updated regular, so you need to keep checking them.

Blog visitors are valuable assets, and you have to think in their terms to decide what your blog has to be like. When they come to your blog, they should find things that make them stay. These visitors are what makes your blog reputable and is the best way to get to monetize your blog.

Blog visitors are valuable assets, and you have to think in their terms to decide what your blog has to be like. When they come to your blog, they should find things that make them stay. These visitors are what makes your blog reputable and is the best way to get to monetize your blog.





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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Make The Internet Global

Well, my day was almost half way over when I started this blog It was 12.15pm. I got out of bed just after 6am. and almost like a robot, went into the recording studio, the same studio that was more like a cool store. I was able to record a lead guitar track (in two takes) then had my customary cigarette and coffee outside on the (covered in) veranda.

As I sat there pondering all sorts of menial things the rain was deafening on the fibreglass roof I got to thinking what I was going to do for the rest of the day.

I then remembered a blog entry that I was going to do on behalf of Stuart Reeman; an artist and close friend. “Great!” I thought. This sentiment soon changed to “Shit!” when I discovered that the email he had sent with a required attachment contained the exact same wording as was used in a previous post that I did on his behalf.

I emailed him back pointing this out and am currently waiting on a response. I’ve told him that it doesn’t need to be much for me to run with as I am intending only to do mini-blogs on each of his works featured on his website.

So….I’ve put that behind me for the time being and of all things to do, I felt like doing an entry for this ‘lazy blog.’ As I am writing, I’m thinking what I’ll be doing for the rest of the day….and I think I have the answer. Lyrics. Lyrics to the 2/3 completed song that I started working on recently as I can ‘feel’ it taking shape.

I’m also waiting on replies regarding one of my two online newspapers. My first, “Tasmania Today” is easy. I just check a customized list on Twitter, re-post, re-tweet and use appropriate hashtags in order to get my stories of choice featured.

“Music And Arts In Tasmania” is a different thing altogether.Whilst waiting for replies from relevant artists and so forth, I went through various Tasmanian artists and found that they have a very low web presence. Musicians, for example, seem to think that ReverbNation and MySpace are sufficient from what I can deduce. The few bios. and photos that I have received are great, most notably from Tasmanian musician Rod Fritz.

Further investigations that I have carried out, mainly blog statistics, show that the U.S.A. is light years ahead of any other country with regards to following a link. Australia is waaaay behind on this front. It could be that Australian readers view a story or tweet prima facie without getting their teeth into the full story. It seems to mw that Americans were born with a laptop and twittering #mybirth while the rest of us are still trying to work out where to plug the damn thing in.


Whatever the reason, I urge Australian artists to focus on the States. Until the Australian public ( most other countries....Canada excluded) begin using the internet to its’ full potential, then we’re ‘playing to an empty room,’ so to speak.