Top 5 Ways to Monetize Your Blog

There are lots of ways to make money online. One great method is to start an engaging blog and be a thought leader in your niche. Some niches are very competitive such as gaming, tech, and finance but others might be quite uncompetitive.

As you’re building up your readership you’ll want to start thinking about ways that you can turn that traffic into money. The following five monetization methods are an excellent place to start:

1. 
   

   Ad sales

   You can sell ad directly on your blog. This cuts out the middleman and you can usually make more money than you could with just Adsense.
   Selling ads can be a much more time consuming monetization method because you may have to manage a lot of ads. If you only have a few ads then it might not be that difficult to keep track of your billing schedules. You also need to find advertisers that would pay for space on your blog. This can be difficult too; especially if your blog is new.
2. 
   

   Google Adsense & other contextual ad networks

   When people think about monetizing their blog the first thing they usually think about is Google Adsense. A lot of people have used Adsense to make money from their writing and it can work great if done right.
   Make sure you place your ads in locations that don’t look too spammy and make sure you’ve placed Adsense on the pages of your blog that are getting a lot of traffic. Adsense is likely the easiest of all of these monetization methods but it is also the lowest earner in many instances.
3. 
   

   Online affiliate programs

   If you have a blog with a decent amount of readers then you can get paid a commission every time those readers perform an action or buy something from another website. Affiliate marketing can be tough work because your business model is reliant on your visitors converting on another site. If you have enough traffic or enough highly converting traffic it might be easy but otherwise you may have trouble with online affiliate programs.
4. 
   

   Selling products

   This can sometimes be the hardest way to make money from your blog but it can also be the most profitable. If you already have a product to sell then a blog can be a very helpful marketing tool. Don’t fill your blog posts with self promotional garbage though. Write about things that people are interested in relating to the products you sell.
   Engage your readers. Make them laugh, give them useful information and advice, and give them a reason to come back often. It’s not easy but it can be very profitable.
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   Selling services

   Creating an noteworthy blog can be a great way to find new clients. If you’re a web designer or photographer then your blog can showcase the work you do and the things that you’re interested in. A blog will give a potential client an idea of the type of person you are and the work that you are capable of.

There are the top 5 ways to help you monetize your blog. The best part about most of these methods is that you can test them out without having to commit longterm. See which methods are making you the most money and which ones might be best to avoid. Try moving your ads around your site and try to find the perfect placement to make money and keep your site looking clean and credible. Good luck with your blogging.

How to decrease your Blog's Alexa Ranking?

I want to share simple blogging tips to get your blog break 100k. Here the list:

1. Sign Up for Alexa Account and put your blog at their data base.
2. Put Alexa Badge on your blog and Install Alexa toolbar on your browser.
3. Create contents, at least one article per day, few blogger believe one article will decrease you Alexa Rank about 1k, so if you post two articles you will decrease your Alexa Rank 2k 
4. Alexa Review. Ask your friend to review your blog on Alexa, some blogger said this is nothing to do with Alexa Rank, but in my experiences review is the powerful tool to boost my Alexa Rank, better than publish an article a day 
5. Talking about Alexa on your blog, share your experiences how you gets your great Alexa Rank and hope people find your blog through search engine.

That’s all the simple blogging tips to decrease your Alexa Rank, its pretty simple and everyone can do all things I said above. Alexa Rank is still debatable, some said its not important factor for a blog and the traffic is bias because Alexa’s algorithm, but for me Alexa give a motivation to keep creating articles to decrease the rank.  In fact few advertiser still using Alexa as a factor to rank a blog in their system.

Ten Tips for writing a blog post

The following post on tips for writing a blog was submitted by Lyndon from Flockblog

Here are tips that help me with my blog writing.

1. Make your opinion known
2. Link like crazy
3. Write less
4. 250 Words is enough
5. Make Headlines snappy
6. Write with passion
7. Include Bullet point lists
8. Edit your post
9. Make your posts easy to scan
10. Be consistent with your style
11. Litter the post with keywords

1. Make your opinion known
People like blogs, they like blogs because they are written by people and not corporations. People want to know what people think, crazy as it sounds they want to know what you think. Tell them exactly what you think using the least amount of words possible.

2. Link like crazy.
Support your post with links to other web pages that are contextual to your post.

3. Write Less
Give the maximum amount of information with the least amount of words. Time is finite and people are infinitely busy. Blast your knowledge into the reader at the speed of sound.

4. 250 is enough
A long post is easier to forget and harder to get into. A short post is the opposite.

5. Make Headlines snappy
Contain your whole argument in your headline. Check out National newspapers to see how they do it.

6. Include bullet point lists
We all love lists, it structures the info in an easily digestible format.

7. Make your posts easy to scan
Every few paragraphs insert a sub heading. Make sentences and headlines short and to the point.

8. Be consistent with your style
People like to know what to expect, once you have settled on a style for your audience stick to it.

9. Litter the post with Keywords.
Think about what keywords people would use to search for your post and include them in the body text and headers. make sure the keyword placement is natural and does not seem out of place.

10. Edit your post
Good writing is in the editing. Before you hit the submit button, re-read your post and cut out the stuff that you don’t need.

Thats all
I hope you enjoyed my tips for writing a blog post - feel free to share your own blog writing tips below.

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Highlight Author's Comment in Blogger

This is a nice way to make your ( author's ) Comment different from all other comment that your readers left. Its is a very Interesting and useful Blogger tip..

1. Login to blogger, then choose "Layout --> Edit HTML". Don't forget to backup your template first.

2. Check the "Expand Widget Templates" box.
3. Copy this script and put it before ]]></b:skin> or copy to your CSS area.

.comment-body-author {
background: #E6E6E6; /* Background color*/
color: #000; /* Text color*/
border-top: 1px dotted #223344;border-bottom: 1px dotted #223344;border-left: 1px dotted #223344;border-right: 1px dotted #223344;
margin:0;
padding:0 0 0 20px; /* Posotion*/
}

4. Then find this code:

<dl id='comments-block'>
<b:loop values='data:post.comments' var='comment'>
<dt class='comment-author' expr:id='"comment-" + data:comment.id'>
<a expr:name='"comment-" + data:comment.id'/>
<b:if cond='data:comment.authorUrl'>
<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='nofollow'><data:comment.author/></a>
<b:else/>
<data:comment.author/>
</b:if>
said...
</dt>

<b:if cond='data:comment.author == data:post.author'>
<dd class='comment-body-author'>
<p><data:comment.body/></p>
</dd>
<b:else/>

<dd class='comment-body'>
<b:if cond='data:comment.isDeleted'>
<span class='deleted-comment'><data:comment.body/></span>
<b:else/>
<p><data:comment.body/></p>
</b:if>
</dd>

</b:if>

<dd class='comment-footer'>
<span class='comment-timestamp'>
<a expr:href='"#comment-" + data:comment.id' title='comment permalink'>
<data:comment.timestamp/>
</a>
<b:include data='comment' name='commentDeleteIcon'/>
</span>
</dd>
</b:loop>
</dl>

5. The orange color text is the code that you have to add to your script. The position must be right.
6. And then save your template

More about blogger tips

Blogger

Blogger for Dummies

Blogger Guide

Blogger Tricks

Add HTML, CSS, or Any script in Blogger Posts

I thought to post about Adding Scripts to Blogger posts as i think many of the people are facing problem, when they add a Html script to their post then that post after publishing comes to its layout........... to stop blogger from doing that you should do a simple and an easy step with your html.

Add < instead of < and > instead of >

For example

you i wanna add this html to blogger post

<p align="left"><form id="searchthis" action="YOUR BLOG URL/search" style="display:inline;" method="get">

I would change those starting and ending tags

like this:

p align="left" > form id="searchthis" action="YOUR BLOG URL/search" style="display:inline;" method="get"

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Submit your Blog to Major Search Engines

Greetings
After creating your blog what should you do?
Ans: To Tell the World About your Blog....

But

How to ?
By submitting your blog to major search Engines
like Google
Yahoo
MSN

On Google you can submit your url by typing http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
On Yahoo you can submit your url by typing http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

On MSN you can submit your url by typing http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx

By adding your url to those search engine, you almost told the world about your blog.

Adding a Shout Box to your Blog

Hi friends how r u ?
I want to show you a good tip for making your blog very good for your readers.
By Adding a "Shout Box".
When someone read your blog and they want to communicate with you then it is a great way to put a shout box to your Blog.......
With this shout box you will know your reader and you can communicate with them.
I may provide you some links for the Shout Box for free
www.shoutmix.com
www.oggix.com
www.freeshoutbox.net
www.freeshoutbox.net
join one of them and get your shout box....

Aha you can also search for a free shout box from google.
by simply googling about it

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Be a "BLOGGER" (start Blogging)

Its very simple.......

What ever do you want with your blog?

Sharing your Knowledge?

sharing your experience About anything?

Or
Whatever..........

Then its very simple and you i think you dont need to wait ......... If you have anything to write about any topic or you have any kind of Interesting Pics ( all of you will have i m sure) Just Post them to you blog and start blogging....... Even your videos would work for you..

So start blogging

If you have any Question or any problem you can ask me i would love to help...

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