Blogging for Profit

If you're interested in making money with blogs, then this article was written for you. Specifically in this article I'll give you a brief overview of what it takes to have a successful blog, and some strategies you need to incorporate for your blog in order to get maximum profit from it. After reading this article, you should have several ideas you can use to start earning money from your blog immediately.

The main reason blogs aren't profitable is because they are neglected. The first rule of creating a profitable blog is to make a schedule for updating it regularly. A blog is nothing more than a fancy name for a website. And all websites need to be updated in order to keep visitors coming back to them. Set a schedule to post something of value to your blog once every few days. If you don't do this, the none of the other strategies work.
In addition to updating your blog, the single most important thing you can do to get people coming back to it is to capture their e-mail address so you can tell them when you update your blog. The way you do this is to sign up for our and not a responder service, which will generate the code for you to put on your blog to get people to sign up. They can either sign up for a newsletter where you send them information on a regular basis, or simply sign up to be notified when you post something new on your blog or when you want to tell them something.

By having their e-mail address, you can promote products to them were you get a commission if those products sell. Or you can put Google adsense on your site, and by getting people to continually come back to your blog and telling others about it, you'll earn money because a certain amount of people will click on your adsense ads.

Finally, in order to really get people to come back to your blog, it must be interesting and innovating. It can't be the same old thing as all the other blogs out there. Look at your blog compared to other blogs that revolve around the topic you're writing about. Now ask yourself what you can do to add more value to your visitors than what everybody else is doing. You will be surprised at the good answers you come up with.

In conclusion, turn your blog into something that generates profit is easy. First, updated regularly. Second, give people a way to constantly remember to check your blog often. And third, be unique so you can catch people's attention and keep it. Do these three things and you should start earning some money in your bank account from your blog.

Adwords In Print For An Extra Few Hundred Dollars Each Week
This one can put an extra $200/week in your pocket. Or an extra $300. Or an extra $500…

Step 1 - Go to your favorite Affiliate Network (Commission Junction, Azoogle, Hydramedia, etc. - if you aren’t signed up with any, do it!), look through the CPA* offers for credit repair, debt relief, mortgages loans, cash advance payday loans, student loans, and similar offers and sign up for a few. Many of these offers pay $4-$20 or more simply for filling out an application! [Read more →]

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Ad spying is based on the premise that if an affiliate ad is running long enough it must be profitable, or else the owner wouldn’t continue to pay for it. Ads cost money, and if they aren’t returning more profit than they cost, they don’t last too long.There are caveats to that theory, most notably […]
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Niche Research Bonanza!

The idea behind niche research is to find a topic or need that you can exploit by offering a product or solution. There are as many methods of niche research are there are niches, some better than others. The objective of good niche research is to find a group that has a common need or […]
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Ad Spying - ZamDoo, GCD, and AdSpyPro

Ad spying is based on the premise that if an affiliate ad is running long enough it must be profitable, or else the owner wouldn’t continue to pay for it. Ads cost money, and if they aren’t returning more profit than they cost, they don’t last too long.There are caveats to that theory, most notably […]
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Malware Protection, Yahoo’s Ad Generator, Maximizing your PPC, Cool Tools, and More Free Stuff!

Welcome to another Super-Action-Packed issue, Melanies Tips #19! Welcome to another Super-Action-Packed issue, Melanies Tips #19 where we’ll talk protecting yourself from malware, Yahoo’s new Ad Generator, maximizing your profitable PPC campaigns, , more Cool Tools, and of course, yet another Something For Nothing Thats Actually Worth Something!…
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5 Step Plan for Budding Internet Marketers with Little Time and Less MoneyI received an email from someone on my list saying: “Help! I am just overwhelmed. I really want to make money online, even if it never makes me rich, just gives me a decent income stream. The problem is that I’m completely overwhelmed with too much information. Also, I just can’t afford to spend much money, […][Read more →]

There’s NO SUCH THING as a 10 cent keyword!A few months ago I wrote an article with that title. It drew lot of attention and criticism. But it’s important to understand the premise. When you create an ad campaign in AdWords, each of your keywords has a Minimum Bid that you must meet in order to trigger your ad for that keyword. One of the ongoing objectives for any campaign, is to pay as little as possible, while getting the best conversion. [Read more →]

How to Use Google AdWords Keyword Tool in a Way to Get You Hot Keywords
While the google adwords keyword tool isn't technically free, it only costs $5, which you get as credit to spend on adwords. This will be the best investment you will make for keyword tools. Think about it. Google is the biggest company in the whole world created for giving data to people who are buying keywords. Google wants to give you the most effective real-time keywords so you will continue to use their services. Why would you want to neglect this resource? [...more...]

Quickies: 50 Tips on Getting More Traffic to Your Site!
October 11th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Getting traffic to your site, whether it is an Affiliate Marketing niche site, a blog, review site, etc. is one of the most basic, ongoing practices for Internet Marketers. Of course, many of us use PPC, but even with that, we should always be looking for additional means to drive traffic. Here is a neat […]
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Keyword Research Tools to Improve Your Internet Marketing. We offer Tips, Tricks, and Strategies for Beginners & Pro's at Improveyourinternetmarketing.com. Check out Melanie's Tips for “The Mother of All Research Tools Lists” and so much more on Internet marketing.

Affiliate Marketing Ideas: Ad spying is based on the premise that if an affiliate ad is running long enough it must be profitable, or else the owner wouldn’t continue to pay for it. Ads cost money, and if they aren’t returning more profit than they cost, they don’t last too long.There are caveats to that theory, most notably […][Read more →]

Google Still King Of Pay Per Click?

Google Still King Of Pay Per Click?

You know that Google has a corner on the market when people refer to pay per click advertising as Adwords campaigns. This is a testimony to the Google empire. But while Google Adwords may be the biggest game in town they're not the only game in town. Some say there is a good chance that Google may very well be knocked off their thrown. This article is going to look at some problems with Google Adwords that could lead to their downfall. Sometimes, when a company gets big gets too big for their own good, they think that they can do and get away with just about anything. That may hold true for a while, but anybody who thinks that a giant can't be knocked off its thrown, should take a look at what happened to AT&T and IBM. They are both no longer the monopoly that they once were. And in the case of IBM, they're not even number 1 anymore. [...more...]

Keyword Spy can cut the time it takes to build a keyword list down from hours or days to a matter of seconds. One of the best features is that their return for results happens instantaneously. Most keyword tools take minutes to hours to return results, but you never have to wait when using Keyword Spy. Simply put in a term like flowers, and it will return all the competitors on Google who are bidding on the term flowers. Then you can look at each competitor, and find out all the keywords with the word flowers they are bidding on. In a matter of moments, you can get someone's whole adwords keyword list -- sometimes having more than 27,000 terms!You can export these terms with one click of a mouse button. This is another strong point with using this tool.Besides building keyword lists instantly, keyword spy also returns information on how many competitors are bidding on each keyword, the ad effectiveness of a keyword based on its position/rank on search engines result page, and the approximated price pay per click of the advertisement advertising under the keyword.Is the keyword spy tool right for you? Can it increase your ad campaign profits a hundred times over, as their website claims? I'm not sure, but you can find out for free. Simply go to [http://improveyourinternetmarketing.com/keywordspy.htm] and sign up for a free trial and find out for yourself if it is right for your keyword researching needs.Michael Ullman is President of Analogy Marketing, a leading NY-based Internet Marketing firm, and a Google Certified Professional. You can visit their blog Improve Your Internet Marketing for proven strategies from over 5 years of Internet Marketing success, or subscribe to their widely acclaimed free newsletter "Melanes Tips"!

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Ad spying is based on the premise that if an affiliate ad is running long enough it must be profitable, or else the owner wouldn’t continue to pay for it. Ads cost money, and if they aren’t returning more profit than they cost, they don’t last too long.
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There’s NO SUCH THING as a 10 cent keyword!A few months ago I wrote an article with that title. It drew lot of attention and criticism. But it’s important to understand the premise. When you create an ad campaign in AdWords, each of your keywords has a Minimum Bid that you must meet in order to trigger your ad for that keyword. One of the ongoing objectives for any campaign, is to pay as little as possible, while getting the best conversion. [Read more →]