Showing posts with label making money online. Show all posts
Showing posts with label making money online. Show all posts

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Story of success-From a newbie to a problogger

Driving much traffic on the blog is one of the top wish of a blogger. We've already discussed that writing contents on the blog is also one of the main source of driving traffic here. Writing top and quality contents on your blog is a super method by which you can gain lots of things like traffic, subscribers and of course money which is one of the main goal of every blogger who wants to make money from blog.

For achieving this goal, most of the bloggers get confused on how often should they posts so that their remains valuable all the time. Today, in KTM-Blogger, I'm writing this post as a story of success, which a blogger will surely achieve if he/she doesn't gives up in the middle.

There are 3 stages of blogging in a blogger's life if he doesn't gives up in the middle.

The Early Stage

In the beginning/start we can say, it has to be mandatory that you post much articles on your blog because this is the time when you've the energy as you're new and you've got too many new things to share to the world. At this time, you're feeling like you're the one who is gonna be successful like the 6 figure income earners and you've got that potential in you. I was also like that when I was in the early stages of blogging.  At this time you're not getting many hits on your blog but you're happy that by posting frequently, you're at least getting some people hanging around. At this time, you won't get much visitors in your blog. If you're in this phase, don't give up on getting less visitors. Its your time fr practice and you've to practice hard at this stage as practice makes a man perfect. When I was new in blogging, I used to post 3 articles in a day and my views per posts were like 15-20. Still, I was feeling great. In this phase, you request everybody you know on Facebook and Twitter to share your post because nobody knows on the net.

The Mid-Term
Now, the time gradually changes. Your blog is getting famous day by day. Slowly or rapidly, you're gaining much visitors than before. Now, you can get 30-50 visitors a day without posting and when you post it, it might increase to 100-150. Now, you've got 10-15 articles and a good response. You might feel like I'm successful now. So, you feel like decreasing your posting frequency. Now, you might post some 5-7 articles in a week. In my opinion, this is the best posting frequency. If you can give continuity to that frequency, things are going to change and your blog is going to be much better. In this time also, you request people to share your articles but things are somehow different this time. You've got some unknown people to share your articles and they're the so-called readers of your blog. At this time, your mind gets distracted in advertising in your blog and you try for some ad-services like Adsense, Chitika and many others. Some of you get accepted whereas others get disapproved this time. Sometimes, such situations will occur in this period that you feel like giving up. You won't get much visitors and also you're advertising dream gets in water. So, many bloggers feel like giving up on this stage but, instead of giving up, you should think of overcoming the failure and reaching towards your ultimate goal.
 My blog is running in this period so, I've also distracted my mind in advertising my blog. I tried Adsense several times but it got disapproved all the time. I was making money from Chitika(not much but I was) but these days even I've got more clicks than before, my reports always show income $0.00 but I don't bother about that as things are going to change by now. I had also given up one time but after reading one article at Problogger, I felt like I can do it. So, I started writing again in this blog and now, I won't let the feeling of giving up arouse in my mind. I've now got last chance for re-submitting my application for Adsense and I'm in hood of promoting my blog and gaining much more traffic these days. Lets see what comes forward for me..

The Resting Time
Finally, you come to the resting time. You've spent years in your blogging career and you've gained too much knowledge and you're a problogger now. You can now create a super-site and write the best contents in the world and get famous in short time if you want. But, before this you've your old site and its running good now. You get at least 1000 visitors a day and have some 500-600 subscribers at least. now, you can get ads on your website and make money online which was your ultimate goal. Now, as you're a problogger, you've probably read tens of thousands of posts in your blogging years and have written hundreds of posts. Now, you can write a mind-blowing post in a little time and even you give less time to your blog, you write a hit. Now, you won't have to worry about your post's promotion. People come looking for your post and they're the one to share it and you won't have to tell anybody to do so.

Now, that's what I call a happy ending although its not the ending. Now, you've a much successful blog which you always wished to have. You've got the super contents which you always wished to write. You're got the rush of people people on your blog and thousands  of subscribers which you always wished to have ad ultimately, you've made money from from your blog which was your ultimate goal.

But, for reaching this goal, see how much you'd to prepare. You'd to read hundreds of blogs subscribe to them and you'd to give almost 5-6 years for that. 
 Think about that. All I wanted to say is don't give up on your failure, learn from it. I've learnt this thing from my English teacher at school. If you give up now, you're never gonna rise up to that level which you'd always wished of. So, write more on your blog and try not to give up when you get in the worst situations. Sometimes, time might come that you won't get any visitors for many days and you think of giving up. But don't think about the failure of present, think about the success you'll get in the future if you don't give up now. That's all I wanted to say to you being a blogger.

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Monday, April 22, 2013

Chitika: An alternative to Adsense

Some of you might be thinking that Adsense is the only and best way to monetize your Blog through CPC adds. You guys must have applied to Adsense. If you have got accepted then, its great. I congratulate you for that. But, there are some cases that you might not have been accepted just like me. I've been once disapproved and disabled in my two G Mail accounts.  

For those who have wish and thought of making money through CPC adds via. your website and have got Disapproved by Adsense, there is another great option to you. I'll tell you at first that it is not as good as Adsense but you know "something is better than nothing". It won't pay you as much as Adsense does but it'll certainly pay you. For those of you, who don't have any ideas about Chitika here's a post defining it.

Chitika is an online ad network that caters over four billion strategically targeted ads each month to a network of over 250,000+ sites, making it the second largest network of its kind. Chitika ads are known across the industry for their ability to perform unlike any other, leveraging its proprietary targeting and optimization technology - a delicate blend of “Art + Science”- to ensure delivery of intent driven ads to the right user, at the right time and in the right place. Chitika’s advertising partners include; Yahoo!, Superpages, yellowbook, ServiceMagic and Shopzilla, and are leveraged by publishers in the network to drive audience engagement and boost revenue.

If you want to learn much about Chitika, its milestones and its advertising partners, click here: 
 
I've already started to run Chitika adds on this blog. Lets see how does it works for me. Hope you'll also get much from it.  

If you any assistance and/or not understanding anything about it, feel free to post your queries on the comment box below or contact me throught my Email address my clicking here

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Top Tips That Make Blog Marketing Easier

There are millions of blogs already. More are being created every day. As this numbers swells more and more, marketing your blog becomes tougher. Even a niche-focused blog faces fierce competition. Therefore, it’s vital that you make yourself aware of the key tactics to get the word out about your blog. You’ll certainly want to reach out a larger audience, right?
Well, given below are eleven of the most important tips that will make blog marketing easier for you.

#1. Write for a Specific Readership
When you have chosen a niche to blog about, you are actually seeking a specific audience or readership. Therefore, every post or piece of content that you publish on your blog should be targeted to that specific readership, to people who really care about what you have got to say. If you are writing for just anyone, you are actually wasting all of your budget and time.


#2. Be Consistent
Even before you launch your blog, you should make sure you have at least 100 topics in advance to write on. In fact, you should have a large percentage of this content ready-to-publish. That’s exactly where the role of an editorial calendar comes into play. By planning your content in advance, you’ll find it easy to post consistently, and keep readers coming over and over again.

Depending on the niche you focus on, you may decide to post multiple posts in a day or at least 3-4 posts every week.

#3. Create a Little Controversy
Controversy works quite well for marketing. That doesn’t mean you need to make every post on your blog controversial. But you can utilize this tactic at least a couple of times every 2-3 months. For example, if other bloggers in your niche are saying ‘right’, say ‘left’. Try to present a different opinion or angle on a hot or trending topic in your niche. This is a proven tactic for attracting tons of eyeballs to your blog over a short period of time.

However, always keep a close watch that you don’t harm your reputation in any way while writing controversial posts.

#4. Guest Post
Guest posting or guest blogging is an extremely powerful way of marketing your blog and reach out to a new audience. Select popular and semi-popular blogs in your niche and start to guest post, at least 4-5 times a month. Remember, guest blogging doesn’t only market your niche blog, but it also improves the overall SEO of your blog for the long-term.


#5. Sell Less, Teach More
If money is all on your mind, you’ll make this mistake quite easily. Over-selling sends a signal that you care less about your readers and are more focused on making money. To make blog marketing easy as a cakewalk, you should focus more on teaching or educating readers, for free.

When Mark Stelzner lauched his blog SocialMediaExaminer, he didn’t sell a thing for as long as a year. Today, his blog ranks among the most successful social media blogs on the web.

#6. Optimize (Both for People and Search Engines)
Appropriate optimization makes blog marketing easier. But you need to optimize your blog both from people’s and search engine’s point of view. On the one hand, simplify subscription by offering readers numerous options of subscribing to your niche blog. On the other hand, pay close attention to the SEO of titles, URLs, images and other parts of content on your blog.

If you are yet to understand how SEO works, it’s advisable to hire an experienced SEO professional for the job.

#7. Respond to Comments
Replying to your readers’ comments is an excellent way of saying you care. Even when people disagree with your viewpoint, you should reply in a polite and tactful way to keep them coming.


#8. Submit Press Releases
Press releases work well even today, provided you do it appropriately. Whether it’s about the launch of your new blog, addition of new features to your blog or the launch of a new product or service, use press releases to market your blog in an effective way. Don’t forget to optimize the press release.


#9. Get Active on Social Media Websites
Social media websites offers bloggers with a powerful opportunity to reach out to a target audience in real time, interact with them and engage them. If you plan to market your blog quickly, social media participation can never be ignored. In fact, you should work out an effective strategy before you join popular social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Linkedin.

And yes, don’t forget Pinterest.

#10. Join Relevant Forums
Identify useful and relevant web forums and discussion threads in your niche and participate actively. Web Master World, Warrior Forum and Digital Point are good examples of these forums where you can share your expertise, and attract eyeballs towards your blog by sharing resourceful posts with other users.

When you join a specific forum, make sure you stick to their terms and post on a regular basis. Since forums are very targeted and specific, forum marketing works extremely well for bloggers.

#11. Network (More and More)
This is one of the best. Networking with other bloggers in your niche brings you several good opportunities to market your blog. You can meet fellow bloggers or niche experts at social media platforms, web forums and industry-related events. Keep looking for such opportunities and connecting.

If you are struggling to grow your blog, you should pay some serious attention to marketing it in an effective way. With these tips at hand, I’m sure you wouldn’t want to waste any more time. So, get started right away!

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Making Money Online

Now that you've a well managed blog, much important resources for your blogging success, its time to go for some extra cash for yourself. I'm talking about making money online. Now the dream is going to be true.
Here are some of the ways from which you can generate money from your blog.

1). Adsense: I don't think there is anyone in blogging who doesn't knows about Adsense. Well, for saying, it is a ad service program run by Google, which enables you to show ads on your website. Google pays you for every ads that are clicked from your website. By showing ads, Google generates billions of dollars as profit for themselves and share some amount to us. We're the one who promote make them make money.
There are lot of policies of Google Adsense. You can see them by clicking here:
This is the best way to make money online of your Google Adsense account gets activated.

2). Chitika: Chitika is also a service as Adsense, but it is slight different. Chitika is based upon the click of ads, that you get from UK and European visitors. IF you have much visitors from Europe, then it is good for you. For me, it is completely worse because I've got gust 100 visitors from Europe till now. But the advantage is you've much chance of getting accepted and if you have European visitors, its a boon to you.  you can see the policies of Chitika by clicking here:




3). Showing Advertisement: This is probably the best way to make money online of you have a well furnished blog with much number of visitors( 1000+). If you're getting 30-40 thousand visitors and good ranking in Alexa and Good Page rank  you might like to show ads on your website. As there are thousands to see your site, there may be some people liking to advertise. All you have to do is show advertisement on your blog/website and charge them according to your will. But for this, you'll have to get much visitors and transfer your blog into a self hosted domain because no one shows ads on a blogger/wordpress blog. So, you'll have to work much harder and as you know, The" hard work pays"

4). Premium Contents: This might be confusing to you. One example is SeoMoz. They have lots of quality contents on their site for free but to get the ultimate SEO resaources, you've to subscribe on a monthly basis. Well, I hope you have understood.To make money fro this, you've to create an interesting and awesome post with some VIP parts password protected and make it clickable to a page from where they have to subscribe by paying money to you via. Paypal or other services. This might help you to make money online from blog.


These are some of the important resources for making money online. You can find lots of them in Google searching keyword "Making Money Online".

If you feel that you've some other points to add, simply post it as Email. We'll recommend your poind\t and add it if it is necessary and interesting with your name and URL.

I hope now you'll now make money from your blog. One thing to tell you, just don't forget to read the polices before doing anything. They're really worth looking for.

                                          I wish you    Happy Blogging

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Blogging Resources


If you are a newbie or a problogger you may face some blogging problem in your blogging journey. And I am quite sure many blogger faces various problems before and after making blog like blog platform, Domain registrations hosting, Image, blog promotion etc. But there are lots of resource site out there to reduce our blogging problem and make our blogging journey easy. Here I am about to discuss some very useful site which will be helpful for you.

Blogging platform

If you want to make a blog, you have to choose a blogging platform. You may choose free blogging platform like blogger or you may use blogging content management software like wordpress in your own host. If you are totally newbie and just want to get the idea or practice blogging then you may use free blogging platform which will host your blog totally free. But every serious blogger who is serious on blogging or want to make money blogging should go for own host. Let’s see the list of some blogging platform.
Blogger.com: Blogger is owned by google and one of the most popular free blogging platform among blogger especially newbie blogger.
WordPress.com and WordPress.org: WordPress.com provides you free host wordpress blogging software. And from wordpress.org you can download wordpress blogging software and host it in your own host. That’s almost every blogger do.
Tumblr.com: This is another popular platform to use free. It is best for media post.
Livejournal.comIt also very popular service. It offers both paid and free service.
Clearblogs.comIt also provides free service and nice user friendly template.
Opendiary.com: you can host unlimited post here for free or you can move paid service.

Domain and hosting service

Domain and hosting service really affect blogging success. So here I have listed some very trusted service provider among blogger.

Free stock image site to use in your blog

Most of blogger like to use photo in their blog. Image not only increase the beautiness, but also help a lot in seo. There are lots of stock photo site to get your free photo to use in your blog.

Blog marketing

After making a blog most of the blogger find it difficult to promote their blog to get targeted traffic. Here I have listed some site to promote your blog.

Blog directory

Directory submission is a great way to get traffic and Backlinks. Here are some blog directories to help you.

Forum

Forum is another place to promote your blog. There are lots of blog out there. Actually it’s really hard to be active of those forums. So try to join at least 4 or 5 forum and be active.

Blog communities

Blog community always helps a lot to make relationship with other blogger on your niche. If you can use it effectively, it can be a great traffic source.

Blog ping service

It’s quite hard even impossible to send your post in all media site. But ping service really reduces this by sending your blog post to social media site at once.

Social media

Social media is one of the best places to promote your blog. Most of the successful blogger are very active in social media site because it really a great place to drive traffic to you site.

Article directory

I am quite sure you know about article marketing. Article marketing really helps to get Backlinks and traffic. To get a better result you should write at least 2 articles and submit those in different directory.

Blog template site

Those sites have a huge collection of blog template.
I think those site will really help you to make your blogging journey easy andmake money blogging. If you have anything to share with me please leave a comment.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Sites for Writing Guest Posts

Hello everyone,

This is my new post after a long period of time. I was out of city for some time and I couldn't write in my blog as I don't have a laptop along with me. So, after coming here, I directly started writing the continuation post that I'd promised. I found out good response in my older post. It was viewed for 50 times with more than 10 share and 2 comments. Its nice for my blog but my traffic was not good. I am now going out of Alexa which is just opposite of my goal in this blog.  Now i'm going to continue my topic . Here I'll write 4 websites which will be best traffic source for your blog if you write for them.

 And here it goes!

Problogger.net

As name it is clear that this blog is of a pro blogger. Yes, it is. Its of Darren Rowse also known as problogger. Also, if you want to be a pro blogger, I suggest you to go in this blog. It has got 3221 Alexa world rank and has more than 100,000 daily visitors I guess and more than 140,000 subscribers. If you write a guest post for this site and it gets approved, then be sure you'll get at least 500 visitors and an unbelievable number of readers for your blog.( I don't mean millions but more than  that you get in average.)
So, try for this web site and wait for it to get accepted. If its not accepted then don't worry, there is always a next time and you can try to other sites also.Also, you'll get a quality backlink from this website.


YoungPrePro.com

This is a web site of a young blogger who is also not less than Darren Rowse although his web site's ranking is. YoungPrePro has been able to secure 17,313 world rank in Alexa( my  blog is ranked 14Million Lolz) and also it has much number of loyal readers. It has a combined of more tan 15,000 readers which is also a great number. Writing for this blog, you'll be knowing what actually is guest post because it is very difficult to get accepted here. This site's owner is Onibalusi Bamidele and he's making more than $5000 from this website and other freelancing works. So, try for this website to get much visitors, more readers and much experience in guest posting so that it can be useful for you to write for other websites. Also, you'll get a quality backlink from this website.



Smartbloggerz.com

As the name, so it the site. This blog teaches you how to blog in a smart way and make smart success in your blogging career. This blog's owner is Sushant Risodkar. He's making more than $10,000 from this website and various other works like affiliate marketing, adds and much more. Readers are not disclose but I don't think it has less than 7000 subscribers. I'm also one of them. Writing on this blog will give you the same experiences and advantages that you get from YoungPrePro.com . So, write for this website. This blog also opens Guest Blogging Contests by participating and wining, you'll get chances to make money online. So, try for this website as much as you can because you'll not be in loss by writing for this website.

JohnChow.com

Website of John Chow, this site teaches you to make money online . As he says, " I make money online by telling other peoples how I make money online", he teaches the actual methods of making money online and getting blogging success. This site is ranked 8,077 in Alexa world rank which is very large number and also this site has much more visitors than other sites. Linking to this website, you'll get much quality backlink. This site has more than 200,00 subscribers and when you write for this blog, you'll also get large number of readers for your blog but as for other blogs, its also very difficult for your posts to get accepted in this website. So, try and try until you die for this website because it matters a lot. This blog makes more than $40,000 a month as according to John Chow, the owner. 



There are many other sites, for which you can write guest posts. I only recommended the best est of the best. So, try for these websites and also search for others..

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