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Real Truth Of Making Money Blogging You Need to Know!

Everyone has different views about blogging and most of people who have never started a blog believe that making money blogging is simple and not hard at all.

They think that anyone can do it and they can do it at any time they want and perhaps that is what never allows them to start their blog. However, the reality is quite different.

It has never been easy to make money blogging and probably never will be in years and years to come. Hence, if you are one of those people who blindly believe it is easy to make money blogging, I’m going to tell you some real facts and the truth of making money blogging.

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SEO Traffic Is Secret of Making Money Blogging

Many bloggers think that creating a blog, posting some content and monetizing it will make them handsome money. But they’re wrong. There is the best way to make money online. It’s called SEO.

We just can’t ignore SEO. SEO is backbone of any successful blog. Without SEO we can’t make passive income. Don’t forget search engine visitors = money.

So, spend some time on learning SEO. Remember it’s not a quick fix, it’ll take some time to boost your visitors.

I see bloggers quit very soon just because their blog do not get approved by Adsense.

The reason is Google AdSense is getting strict day by day. They are rarely approving any account. Even, if you manage to get adsense account by any trick. The chances are they’ll disable your account soon. That’s why I hate AdSense.

So, best way is to focus on more than one income source. Start affiliate marketing, sell your own product and make money using direct ad sales.

You Cannot Become Rich Overnight:

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Get Rich schemes have resulted in more scams online than anything else. Everyone wants to become rich as quickly as possible because getting better and wishing for better is in human nature.

Unfortunately, this nature puts us into some troubles. What you need to understand while stepping into blogging or even if you are in blogging for a while is that making tons of money from your blog is not going to be easy. It is not going to be fast and quick as well.

This would prove to be a long and hard road where you would have to come across road blocks after road blocks. You need to stay focused and determined at all times to cross the hurdles in your path and clear the way to the place where you can proudly call yourself a “Professional Blogger”.

Success is Never Guaranteed:

Unlike some business in offline world, no one can ever guarantee that you or your blog will be successful someday. Not even you. It is like a total gamble because you have to put your hard work and everything into your blog to make it work. And, you have no idea if it will make you any money any day.

You can even spend thousands of dollars into starting and promoting your blogs. You can also hire experts to do the whole work for you, but reality will never change. No one will ever guarantee that you will be successful. And, if someone does, that is a scam alert. That is how harsh the reality of blogging is.

You Have To Keep Learning at all times:

This is not something in which you can claim that you have learned everything. This is because there are millions of things to be learned in blogging and you get to learn something new every other day.

That means you have to work and learn non-stop. There will never ever be a stage where you can sit back just because there is nothing more to learn.

Learning process never ends in blogging and that is the beauty of this business. Newbie bloggers are learning new stuff and experts are learning new stuff as well.

There were some real facts to show you how hard it is to make money blogging. I hope that now you know the reality of a blogger and how hard bloggers have to work. So, what about now? Do you still believe the old way? Or I was able to change your mind a little bit? I am really excited to know what you think about these points.

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5 More Ideas to Sell Your Own Product and Make Money Online

By Mi Muba / Blogging Tips, Make Money Online

[This is second part of ideas to sell your own product and make money.]

In blogging there are more than several ways to make money online. Its only requirement is to know the art of money making. It is wise to pick a few options from lengthy list and stick to it with a clear monetization strategy.

A little patience is must to get the result. From the day one it is not possible to make money online even with any best monetization option. You simply need to pick a few money making methods that confirm give you good results.

But the question is; how can you sell a product in large number that is already being sold by pro bloggers?

You can’t compete with John Chow or Zac Johnson in generating same amount of sales revenue.

Secondly why do your blog visitors buy your referred product and why they should skip the advice of other blogging pros?

There is no reason of preferring the advice of a newbie over the internet marketing icons’.

So your product must have least selling competition.

It means you need to sell a product that has zero selling competition.

Confused?

There is a product where you are the only seller and rests are your sales agent.

Yes you are right it is your own online product.

In my previous post “5 ideas to make online product and earn money easily” we discussed the basics of developing your own online product. It focused the primary aspects of your products; how it should be packaged and how should be its branding etc.

In this post I give you 5 proven strategies to make money online with your blog

Evergreen products make money online consistently

It depends upon niche of your blog and the nature of your audience what type of product you develop. An online product may be:

A tutorial
A guide
A video course
A solutions-based ebook
Blog templates
Blog widgets
Coaching for online money making
Offer to join a group and earn money easily
A tangible product like tea shirt or insignia

Whatever type of product you want to make it must be free from the need of frequent updates. After a quite a long time you can update it to keep it in the list of best products. But it should not need frequent updates or improvement.

So your product must be an evergreen product. You should focus to sell it more and more and don’t worry about its quality control once you make it. In this way you can earn money easily without spending time on its further development.

If you improve your product you need to send the updated version to all who already bought its old version. This exercise may annoy your old customer who might have already applied the trick and tips given in your product.

All in one package to make money online

A famous blogger recently released a complete guide to start a blog. He awesomely made the guide concise. But in his attempt to keep it concise he had to put several links for detail review of the subject. In this situation readers have to shuttle between base product and referral products if it happens. It is not good from benefits point of view.

Your product must be a complete package providing every necessary detail that your readers need. They need not move to other authority sites for further review of the topic to earn money easily.

Supplementary product to make money online

This is a good strategy to make money easily. Make a perfectly complete product but keep space for its advance level to sell another product to your customers who are fully convinced of the quality of your primary product.

But your base product must not be simply a promotional brochure of your advance product. You need to fulfill your customers’ product need completely and perfectly. If they need to grow more you can offer another advance product of same nature.

Minimum theoretical

Good writers start their tutorial with an advice to their readers to pick a pen or pencil and do the practical work after completing each chapter.

So your product should not require simply an act of reading or listening to remember it and then apply whatever is learnt to earn money easily. It must have practical aspect more with minimum theory. After every main point you must ask your readers to do an exercise before moving forward.

Free updates subsequently

Selling good product to your customers means developing long term relationship with them.

For this you need not to stay silent after selling one product. You should send them free updates related to your product as and when need arises.

In this way you will strengthen your relationship with buyers of your product. It means you have wide space to sell your next product to make money easily to your regular customers whom you are in contact. Even you can also ask them to refer your product to their friends if you manage to have good relations with them.

So these are five proven strategies to make money online with your blog. I am sure now you can start making your first online product and be less reliant on affiliate products. Do you still need more advice on this topic just drop a comment to let me reply you?

11 Rarely Known Ways To Build High Quality Backlinks

By Nikhil Ganotra / SEO

Well, you may be familiar with what is a backlink?

If not, here is a brief description. When we talk about page rank actually we are indirectly pointing to number of backlinks. Backlink is an incoming hyperlink from one web-page to another website.Backlinks play a very essential role in page rankings.

“Links are still the best way that we’ve found to discover [how relevant or important somebody is], and maybe over time social or authorship or other types of markup will give us a lot more information about that.” – Matt Cutts

When I started Blogging I usually ignored the purpose of blog commenting, guest posting but time by time I realized its benefits. 10- 20 quality backlinks are far better that 100’s of crap.

I hope you are understanding. Gaining quality backilnks in a day or two is an impossible task. You have to work hard on it. Treat blogging as marathon not a race. Hence, taking my personal experience into consideration I’ve compiled some useful tips for you to Build High Quality Backlinks.

Forum participation

Active participation in forums have a great impact on SERP’S as it helps in building high quality backlinks. It has many other benefits too like relationship building, creating interactions with other bloggers working on similar to your niche. I am active participator of indiblogger helping people in their problems and submitting my content to it for high response.Hence, I got maximum links from indiblogger.

Active participation in the forums is a must for a blog to grow and Build High Quality Backlinks.

Creating long tutorial posts

Creating a post in more that 1200 words builds a great probability of quality backlinks. Going in the depth of the content and making use of pictures, flowcharts, infographics etc. makes your readers to share or insert your link to their websites. Writing “how to” guides creates an ultimate effect.

Like writing “how to install wordpress” , “how to lose weight” blah Thus, it’s a great procedure for building good quality links.

Difference Between Short Length Post Vs Length Posts – What’s Best?

Special post for special days

Plan your writing tasks for special days like writing a special post for valentine’s day. Offer them discounts on your services. This creates a great opportunity for people to visit your site and comment. Thus, you can gain backlinks easily without much effort. Do market research and try to find out the topics which are in great demand. Write about them and obviously you would be the winner.

Request to your readers to add your link in exchange of some offers. Offer them free products in exchange to embed your link tag in their blog or run a contest by offering an ultimate prize in exchange of linking so they are compelled to participate.

Start writing e-books

Write an ebook. Insert your links within the content of your e-book. Ask your friends to share it on the web through social media.

Submit your links to best of the best social bookmarking sites like stumpleupon, digg, delicious and reddit.

“The philosophy that we’ve always had is if you make something that’s compelling then it would be much easier to get people to write about it and to link to it. […] Make a fantastic website that people love and tell their friends about and link to and want to experience. As a result, your website starts to become stronger and stronger in the rankings.” – Matt Cutts

Write attractive headlines

It’s an essential art of writing. You must give attractive headings to your content that compel readers to open your article. Like “best dongles, $500 giveaway contest, top social media strategies. Etc..

Start offering free products

Free offers have a great impact on visitors. It helps in increasing traffic and eventually more backlinks. Either it can be e-book or free blog installation service.

Start collecting paid products and offer them for free to your visitors. I know it’s not easy but you can get it if you are having high technical knowledge.

Create rocking videos

Create your own videos and submit it to YouTube. Nowadays, most of the bloggers are using this technique to increase their backlinks. P.s Don’t forget to add your link to it. Use “screenr” to record your own videos for free. Give tutorials on “how to guides” like how to blog migration, how to install wordpress etc. And I’m sure you will be successful for sure.

Guest blogging

Guest blogging is one of the simplest and effective way to increase backlinks thus traffic.Do a research and find out the reputed blogger of your niche. ;)

Create an ultimate post that goes viral. Give more relevance to guest post than your own blog post. This is most effective way to Build High Quality Backlinks.

But you have to follow the given tips for successful guest blogging –

It’s very essential to do a research for before posting on other website. Start interacting with its owner and commenting on his posts. Find out whether it is a reputed blog or not. See whether it is gaining high response or not.Before guest posting start interacting with its readers from a week before.
Make sure you are having a gravatar for your email i’d.
Have a look at the published posts because you need to write a unique content which is not yet published on his blog.
Check out previous guest posts on his blog. See whether it is gaining high response or not.You need to also look at its targeted audience whether it is targeting newbies or professionals.
Try to make the content relevant as much as you can because they are allowing you to post so that it adds value to their blog and increases their reputation.
Make it a habit. It’s not that posting once you can gain huge popularity. It needs time. You need to keep patience and keep posting on highly reputed blogs.
My friend and I started blogging at the same time on the similar niche but at present he his having more backlinks than me. Why?

Because he is a regular guest blogger and is very active on forums. And seriously, For this I’m very jealous of him.

Blog Commenting

Ahaann.. The most easiest one to build high quality backlinks. Just leaving the most appropriate comment on others blogs drives traffic as well as backlinks. Here are some tips which you must follow-

Never just comment “good article” and “thanks “. Share your views and give your suggestions. Never mind giving a negative comment if you are sure that it is relevant.
Deliver high quality comments to receive high quality backlinks. So Simple. ;)
Make sure to reply every commenter of your post. This generates a sympathetic feeling in the reader and he loves to visit again.
Make sure you have a gravatar.
Don’t comment by registering with different id’s every time.

Interviews

I know you might be thinking how the professional bloggers would give us time to take interview. It may a tough task but not impossible. Be an active reader of their blog.

Keep in touch with them by actively commenting and sharing their posts.Keep re-tweeting their tweets. Give best of the best comments as much as you can. Share their products to all around web by social media. Through this the owner will contact you soon and you can easily ask for an interview.

Read Guidelines You Must Follow Before Interviewing a Blogger

Deliver Relevant content

Make sure you are providing great content to your readers that they are actually seeking for and love to share it.Add videos, infographics, relevant pictures. And… keep patience. Relevant content links over time.

Wrapping up….

Building quality backlinks is not a one day task. It needs some time. Just keep patience and keep implementing the above given tips and I’m sure you would be successful.

What methods are you using to build backlinks?

Giveaway: Win a Premium WordPress Theme from TemplateMonster

By Ammar Ali / Giveaway

Would you like to create a new WordPress site — or redesign your current WordPress site? Then you’ll be pleased to know that we’re hosting a giveaway. Keep reading to learn what you can win and how to enter the giveaway.

THE PRIZE:

A premium WordPress theme from TemplateMonster

TemplateMonster is a US-based template selling company. There are more than 30, 000 templates on templatemonster.com, including WordPress themes (2, 000 themes and counting), Joomla templates (1,500 templates and counting) and thousands of other templates. Btw, the TemplateMonster Team keeps an eye on the latest web design trends, and that’s the reason why many of TemplateMonster templates are responsive. There is also an increasing number of flat templates, you can see them here.

Although, TemplateMonster has a lot of templates to offer, it will not take you long to find the perfect template for your project because you can filter templates by category, keyword, style, functionality, etc.

THE WINNERS:

There will be 3 winners and each winner will get a WordPress theme of his/her choice.

HOW TO ENTER:

Visit templatemonster.com and find the WP theme you like best.
Note: you can choose from over 2,000 WordPress themes.
Then come back to this post and comment, telling us what theme you’d like to win.
For example, your comment can be as simple as “I want to win WP theme # 48245”.
Share this giveaway on Facebook, Twitter and Google+

Please make sure to describe reason in comments why you want to win the theme and enter a valid email address in the form below. Your email address will be only used to send you the prize if you win.

DATES:

All entries must be received by March 3, 2014.

Now you know all about the giveaway.

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Enter to win a WordPress theme for your website or blog!

Can’t Manage Multiple WordPress Sites? Here’s An Effectively Solution

By Ammar Ali / Reviews

WordPress is the world’s largest blogging platform and the most popular one too. And. The basic reason for that is the ease that it provides in every way to bloggers. As we know, it is an open source platform which means people can edit it whatever the way they want. There are plugins for almost everything to be done with perfection and ease. However, things can still be complicated many times.

Making money from blogging is not a walk in the park and to be honest it is a Hercules task that takes so much out of you that if you fail, your heart breaks. It is much easier to make more money with multiple blogs as compared to just one and that is the reason why a lot of people create multiple blogs.

And, again it’s hard task to manage multiple WordPress weblogs. And, even though WordPress offers functionality in which you can manage multiple sites from same dashboard, most people don’t seem to be happy about it and I am just one of those people.

I started to search because I wanted better than that and I found what I needed. I came to realize that there are more than one site that allow you to do the same job with multiple features and I gave a try to few of them. And, one of them was CMS Commander. I was disappointed by others, but this one hooked me. And, I was impressed and that is the reason why I am sharing this post with you guys because I know that many of you are tired of managing multiple blogs.

The site was launched in 2012 and within just one year and a little more it has already crossed the number 20,000. Yes, that is the combined number of websites that are being managed using this awesome service.

But I am not just telling you that this place is a good, but I’ll show you exactly why is it that way.

What Is CMS Commander?

You see, time is the most precious thing that human beings have. If anyone learns to utilize time, he achieves greatness and those who fail to utilize it fall into deep dark holes of pain and sufferings. Blogging is all about doing the right things at the right time, taking the right steps and capitalizing on the opportunities that you are being offered.

CMS Commander is a service that helps people manage multiple blogs from the same dashboard. They don’t have to spend time in logging in and logging out of blogs and websites and instead they can use that time in promoting their stuff or doing other things that are beneficial.

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Why I Love CMS Commander?

a) You can sign up for free and use all of their premium features for up to one month and manage as many sites as you want. If you want to continue enjoying those services, you pay. Otherwise, your account is converted into free and you still use their service, but with limited options. Something is better than nothing. ;)

b) It allows you to write using the power writing tools and with everything that is required for creating killer content.

c) If you want to post the same post on 10 websites/blogs or even more, you can do that with simple steps.

This means that you don’t have to go to every single site and do all the things like selecting categories and adding SEO titles and description and setting H tags and all that stuff. You have to do it only once and the post would be published on all blogs or the ones you wish.

d) You can install plugins or themes on all of your blogs with simple steps without having to go to each of them.

e) Another amazing thing that it comes with is the ability of article spinning and re-writing. Hence, you would save a lot and money by signing up for this services that you would otherwise put in buying software for doing these two jobs.

f) You have the full control of monetization and it can boost your earnings too if you are an affiliate marketer.

g) For those of you who like to create many websites with same design, everything changes now. This is because with CMS Commander, you can copy one site’s whole design within just 1 minute.

All these things and much more. You can sign up for their trial account and test their services for one month and then decide what you really want to do in future.

Final Words:

It has not been long time since I’m using their services and I’m loving every single bit of it. I strongly suggest you to give them a try.

No, I am not their affiliate or anything like that and I will get nothing for this post. I am doing it just for showing you a great thing that I just found. Hopefully you’ll love it.