Top Money Making Methods for Bloggers

Making money from blogging has become easier over the past two years. Advertisements, sponsorships, fundraising and even blogging jobs are only some of the ways a blogger can earn money these days. So, if up until now you weren't financially rewarded for sharing your world view with the blogosphere, continue reading to find out how to make your blogging efforts more profitable.

Advertisements
Google's Adsense is one of the easiest and most popular ways to earn money by putting advertisements in your blog. Anyone who owns a blog (or a website) can open an Adsense account, place ads in his blog (or website) and earn money depending on the number of clicks on the Adsense links from the blog. Adsense advertisements fit themselves to the target audience of the blog. For example, if you write a blog on the popular board game backgammon, the ads would probably lead to online gaming sites. Therefore, the size of the revenue from your blog is subject to the appeal of the ads among your readers.

Sponsorships

If your blog gets a lot of traffic, you can try to approach a certain company or a business and offer them to run an advertisement campaign at your blog. Many of today's companies appreciate the widespread potential hidden in popular blogs so you might even receive a positive answer.

However, it would be easier to get sponsorship for your blog if you are willing to settle for your original content ideas and include a preordered review on a specific product chosen by the company that will pay your hosting bills. Services such as Pay Per Post (PPP) or Review Me, specialize in connecting between advertisers and bloggers. Of course that if you write a beauty blog, you will not be paid to post a review on a set of golf woods and vice versa.

This money making method has its pros and cons. Looking at the bright side, you get free products, content idea at no cost, plus you get paid to post. On the other hand, you can never be the same independent and free of commercial considerations blogger you used to be.

Fundraising

If blogging takes over most of your spare time and your community of readers still can't get enough of you, why don't you ask them to lay a few pennies at your donation box? Fundraising buttons, also known as tip jars, ask the readers to take part in the blog maintaining expenses or to help the blog owner to spare part or all of his day job to become a full time blogger, have been in use for a long time. Over the past few years, rumors on the effectiveness of this monetizing method supported the growth in its popularity among successful bloggers.

More Ways to Make Money from Your Blog

Additional ways to make money from blogging include joining an affiliate program (such as Amazon Associates) in which by linking your readers to the business you receive an agreed share of their revenues; developing blogging related career which can range from a ghost blogger to newspaper columnist through business blogging counselor and merchandizing, whether by offering t-shirts with your blog logo for sale or by selling an e-book on your field of expertise.

How to Lower Your Minimum Bids With Google AdWords

Why does Google Adwords Want $10 Minimum Bid? This is a question I hear all of the time.

You've spent time and money researching a market, more time and money putting a website together for that market and
your ready to go live. You decide to give Adwords a shot because you've heard so many great things about it. You
sign up and begin creating your account, getting excited with anticipation off all that high quality traffic your
about to get. You put in the keywords and Boom! Google adwords gives you this message "Increase quality or bid to
$10.00 to activate" What is going on here!!?? What a scam.

The thing about Google is they reward relevancy and penalize websites that are irrelevant. Who decides whats
relevant and what's not? Google does based on it's algorithm from Google Bot. I have used $10 minimum bid as an
example, it could be $5 or a $1 minimum bid. Your minimum bid should be cents not dollars.

How do you make Google Bot your friend? Make your website relevant in Google's eyes. This is done by a 3 pronged
attack. First make sure your ad groups are "themed" around 1 keyword with variations.
For instance adgroup name -
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Discount Laptops
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Keywords:

discount laptops
cheap laptops
affordable laptops
really cheap laptops

By doing this your account is organized into a tightly knit group of keywords that makes it easy for you to write
ads for. When you write your ad Google loves it when you use the keywords in your ad and so do searchers. This is
an essential step in lowering your minimum bids.

Cheap Laptops
Discount laptops to fit
your budget. Free shipping
http://www.example.com/

Google will consider this ad highly relevant to your ad group's keywords. Google will also bold any keyword that
the searcher typed, in your ad. Which will catch your prospect's eye. In the above example if a
searcher typed the keywords 'cheap laptops' all instances of the words cheap and laptops in your ad would appear in
bold.

Using the keywords on your landing page

Google and searchers love this also because you are focusing your landing page around the keywords that have been
searched both Google Bot and the searcher will consider this very relevant, provided your supporting content stays
on topic. This technique will increase your Quality Score which in turn will lower your minimum bids.

Lets recap the three pronged attack for lowering your minimum bids.

1. Tightly "themed" ad groups
2. Keywords in ad
3. Keywords used on landing page

10 Easy Tips & Techniques to Increase the Traffic to Your Blog

Traffic is the key to any successful online business. The following is a list of 10 tips and techniques to increase your traffic to your blog greatly.

1] Post to your blog often. You don’t want to post too often, but you want to post enough that keeps people coming back. The downside of posting too much is that people have to scroll down in order to see your posts, most won’t. They’ll only read your very top post.

2] Submit your blog to blog directories. Submitting your blog to blog directories is crucial because, it gets your blog link out there for people to see and click on.

3] Use compelling and interesting headlines. Thats the first thing people see before they read your articles is the headline. If its compelling people will probably stick around and read more than that of a boring headline.

4] Network! This is very important if you want to drive traffic to your blog. Email other blogs, attend expos and events. Do a link exchange with them.

5] Leave comments on other blogs and link back to your site. I’ve noticed that this technique has really helped me drive traffic to this blog.

6] Set up your email signature with you blog link in it. This is another really good tip. I send out tons of emails per day and each email has my link in the signature.

7] Post on Craig’s List and Ebay with your blog link attached.

8] Post often to forums and link your blog with the signature file. Signatures can help all around the board.

9] Sign up for free linking sites. I recently signed up with Text-Link-Ads.

10] Most importantly create original and virgin content. Nobody will stay at your site if they see that all you do is just copy things from other websites. I see a lot of this, and its unfortunate because then people never come back because they assume that you will always just copy content that they’ve already seen.

If you use these tip and techniques, I can guarantee that you will have traffic flowing like no tomorrow.