Ok so now you have good quality content on your blog and you now have good quality visitors from all the traffic you are getting but you are not making money?? Well it is not gonna fall off the trees like we would like so I will tell you of a few ways to make Moola (money) from your website.

So let`s turn all that traffic into Money…Google Ad sense  is an easy way make money online. If you visit Google Adsense.com you will get a complete run down of the program that they offer. Once your visitors have finished reading your blog they will probably leave and if you have a strategically placed Ad that is relevant and what they like they will click onto that link. So in order to place your Google ads in the right places, and so that they look more like links and not like advertisements consult the Google Ad sense support page to see the heat map of your blog, which is where you can see where the most activity is.

Once your Google account is up and running you can change the colours of your Ad texts and links. What you really want to do is get them to match your website so that they don’t stand out but look part of the blog.

Affiliate Marketing as done with Clickbank.com can also be implemented on your blog. You can post other peoples products onto your blog and in return if the customer buying that product you get a commission.  You can either write a review on that product if that’s what your blog is about or you can place logo`s or banners on your blog/website with an appropriate link to their website.

If your visitor clicks and purchases the product, the merchant will track from the link that the purchase is referred by you, so they will send you your share of the profits. Imagine if 1 out of every 100 visitors you get purchases this product, and you earn $34.00 commission from each purchase! If you get 10,000 visitors a month you would earn $3,400.00 for writing about ONE product or having and displayed. Ha ha Now I’ve got your attention.

So before you run off I need to tell you were to find affiliate programs related to your Niche, just go to Google and search for <your niche> +”affiliate programs”. Another way is to go to associateprograms.com/search to look for affiliate programs in your niche.

Other ways to monetize your blog is to use other advertising companies like Chitika (chikita.com). Chitika is a very innovative contextual advertising program because it can serve very detailed advertisements for you particular product.

Another way is to become affiliates to the likes of Amazon, with Amazon you can target your specific niche or you can send traffic to the main website and receive a 10% referral fee.

The ultimate prize in monetizing you blog is to get lots of page reviews a day so in other words lots and lots of traffic. If you get 10 000 visitors a day you could approach companies and selling advertising space on your blog. Popular blogs like these www.pharside.co.uk and 2oceasvibe.com attract a vast amount of traffic so they can sell advertising space.

If your blog has not acquired large amount of visitors yet, you can still sell ad space on your blog on a, per click or per impression basis. Just visit sites like adbrite.com

To view the amount of traffic to your website I recommend you visit this site statcounter.com there you will be able to see how many visitors per day you had and the duration the stayed on your site. There are various other options you can get from that site that will help you in your venture to a wealthy blogging career.

So now you have the Champions guide to Blogging I hope you have good time making your blog and earning a good income from it. If you have any more questions you can contact me at

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1. Provide “Safe” Place and Build Trust

So what do I mean by a “safe” place. It is a place where they (your target market) can:

• Read valuable subject matter
• Read the “about me” and get to know more about you
• See pictures of you and/or your children
• Get a sense of who you are before filling out their contact information for your lead capture

Not to say you won’t use your lead capture in your marketing. This is just a place for people who are riding the fence can get to know you better. Now you are building trust.

2. Branding and Position

Branding is basically the persona that you put out to the market. It is the difference between looking professional and looking like a leader, knowing what you are doing and having a real business v.s. looking like you don’t know what you are doing to put it nicely. Brand yourself by using your name for your blog domain name.

Branding is the Key!

Position yourself as an expert to your market. Think about going to a bookstore and you see people’s reaction to the authors of books. They typically view those authors as experts. If you wrote a book then you must be an expert on that topic. That is our cultural assumption.

Good blogs are pretty much the same as a good bood. Not just your average everyday blog, but when you land on a blog that really gets your consideration, then it is just like reading a good book in term of respect for the author.

3. Build Your List

Owning you own blog will intensify your list building efforts. This is because you are:

• providing a “safe” place and building trust
• possess a great professional branding and positioned yourself as an expert

You will get more leads into your list, chiefly with social networking. Social networking sites like facebook and twitter, for example, you do not want to send people directly to your lead capture page. It is going to be more effective to send people to your blog first (a “safe” place, build trust and show what kind of a leader you are).

You will show your awesome web presence; and, they will want to follow you.

4. Build Equity

Building your website overtime, let’s say a post a week or even a post a day, you will have oodles of posts on your blog that are worthwhile for prospects to read. This is prime real estate for you. More people will want to join your list and you can then monetize that list.

Your blog will be producing traffic, home based business leads, and have good google ranking. It is going to be a very real piece of virual real estate that you own and it is going to provide payback for your work from home company.

The internet provides many sites to host your blog; however, there are precautions. You will need to set aside a small budget (no more than $10/month) for hosting of your blog.

You may ponder — I’ll just use a free service such as Blogger or WordPress. The problems with these types of free sites is that you do not own your blog. You will lose all your content if these sites shut down for any reason.

With a small budget, you can get your site hosted through GoDaddy.com or Hostgator.com. You will own your own blogand if you chose to change hosting company, you will have access to all the files to be able to transfer to your new hosting site.

There are many additional benefits for owning your have blog; however, I want to keep this as simple as possible. Master this model and watch your traffic explode and your list increase.

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It doesn’t really matter how you ended up with all the credit card bills. Whether you charged only during emergencies or whether you just went on shopping sprees, or perhaps you just had some large purchases for the house you needed to make, it all adds up to lots of unsecured debt with (most likely) high interest rates. People get used to living above their means when they are using credit often, and this always leads to a big pile-up of bills that you eventually have a hard time paying.

These companies kind of put you in a vicious circle. They give you a bunch of credit and then when you charge it all up they raise the interest rates making it impossible to pay down the balance, so you have to charge further just to stay afloat. Okay well maybe it’s not impossible to pay it off, but it sure takes a long time just paying the minimum amount. If you sit down and really figure out how much you will be paying over the next 10 or 15 years (or more) you will probably be sick at the thought of all that wasted money. Just think how much you could be saving if that money were going to a savings account rather than to credit card debt.

But as I said, many others have paid off their debt and you can too. There is help to be found, and that is in the form of debt consolidation. Now, I am not referring to a loan at this time because in my opinion this is not the best way to go. I speak from experience. I have tried it both ways, and the straight debt consolidation is the way that works best. The reason being that if you get a loan and then you end up charging up your cards again, you will be much worse off than when you started.

So what you should do is find a reliable consolidation company, fill out their short initial questionnaire, and see if they will be able to give you a hand. If so, what they will do is take over paying your debts for you individually, while you simply pay them one monthly (much lower) payment. This allows you to get that debt paid off in a timely manner, usually about 2 or 3 years, as opposed to just paying on them forever and never getting anywhere.

Don’t be scared, this is a great way to get some peace of mind. Your credit score will end up going up much higher as well.

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2 Important Characteristics of a Profitable Blog
By Ram Babu

Each profitable blog has a few things in common and clearly identifiable. Characteristics that are not just part of their design but part of the core, part of what makes them successful and profitable.

Our goal here today is to help you identify those characteristics on your own blog and help you join the few celebrity bloggers. For more details www.blog-and-ping.com It is within your grasp you just need a bit of understanding and a proper process in place.

1. Identify Your Main Goal

Sounds simple, right? And yet when you visit some blogs it is so hard to figure out what is it they are trying to accomplish. Blogs littered with multiple banner ads, Google AdSense, multitude of dynamic widgets placed in what seems like random order.
Does description above resembles your blog?

Than continue reading because this part is designed to help you get rid of all he extra clatter and identify what is important. I can guarantee that you will see your blog profits soar as result.

Fact is – too much clatter on your blog not only doesn’t help you achieve your goal and monetize it but actually prevents you from it! Simplest way to do a “usability” test of your blog is to ask your friend or a family member to visit it and tell you what they think.

If they tell you that there is too much stuff on it, more often than not they will be right. It is hard to achieve a perfect balance when monetizing our blogs and this is where identification of your main goal comes into place.

Identify One Single Action you want your visitors to take:

* Be it an affiliate product sale that pays great commissions and directly related to your niche
* Subscription Form to your email list
* Sale of your own product

Whatever it might be – it should be ONE single action you want your visitors to take, action that would be most beneficial to you as blogger and rewards you for the superb content you provide to your niche.

Once you main goal is identified – find a couple more secondary goals. For more details www.building-blog-empire.com Idea here is to not overwhelm the visitor but offer choices besides your main offer, offers that will complement without competing directly with your main offer.

And once above is completed we can move into…

2. Force The Action

And by that I don’t mean you to push visitors into taking it but rather placing your offers into locations where they simply can’t be ignored.

* Main Offer – be sure you place it where it will be visible from EVERY single page on your blog and above the fold, meaning that people shouldn’t have to scroll to see it. It is one action you stand to benefit from the most and you should make it clearly visible and accessible. Top of your sidebar and at the top of each piece of content is perfect place.

TIP: Top left corner get the most clicks!

Don’t be shy about it – it is your reward for your great content!

• Secondary Offers – should be easily found but still below you main offer. Sidebar is perfect location or below the post, integrated into template files. It helps you present your readers with choices and gives you more chances to earn while still making your main offer most prominent.

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Choose Your Niche

The first thing you need to do is choose what you want to blog about. Personally on my blog over at mattadamo.net I focus on blogging tips and internet marketing. I chose these topics because I have passion for them. If you choose a topic that you have passion for than it will make writing fun and much easier.

However make sure you’re niche is big enough to capitalize on. If you pick something really obscure there won’t be enough followers to make a substantial income.

Get a “Branding” Domain and Hosting

The next step is to get a domain name that brands you, your company, or your product. For my blog I use my name (MattAdamo.net) which is an amazing branding tool. I highly recommend using your own name.

And you also need to buy hosting. There are a slew of companies to pick from, just make sure you pick the plan that suits you and your needs.

Install Wordpress and Pick a Theme

After you have your own domain and hosting you need to install wordpress onto it. All major hosting companies have really simplified the process by making it a one click install.

After you have wordpress installed you need to pick a wordpress theme that suits your needs. There are lots of free and premium ones, to see some good examples, Google “wordpress themes” and see what comes up.

Add Plugins, Custom design, and Content

Once your blog is up and running you’re going to want to add plugins to make your site run easier. You’re also going to want to add some custom design to really differentiate yourself. And lastly you need to actually start blogging.

Watch this video to get tips on starting a blog and learn how you can make money from that blog. Matt Adamo is a blogger and internet marketing specialist and he created that video.

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Free up Your Database:-

I love wordpress because it is very rich in features and extremely customizable. Flexibility is endless. Opps, I am de-tracked. Let’s get back to our work.

Wordpress has feature called revision. After every 60seconds, wordpress saves copy of our non-published post which is called “Revision”. After publishing, revisions do exist in database and populates the database with useless data. Compact size of database is fastly executed. Use this SQL query to delete all revisions and free-up your database.

DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = “revision”;

Static Page Vs Dynamic Page:-

Wordpress creates dynamic page by default and uses MySQL and PHP as backend. MySQL and PHP both consume system resources. Just imagine if you have 5000+ clicks then each time your landing page is dynamically generated. A number of SQL queries are executed. Try to change your landing page from dynamic to static. This is very easy in wordpress.

Minimal Use of Plugins:-

Only use essential plugins for wordpress, based on your need, and avoid own hosted Stats program. We have a variety of plugins that generate stats for us. They increase SQL queries and use PHP. Below we have code for showing the number of queries every time executed when a visitor visits your website. Only logged in user will see the query result in bottom of page.

<?php if (is_user_logged_in()) { ?>

Now look at the number of queries that are executed and time consumed in execution. Disable all your plugins and observe the number of queries executed and then activate one by one most needed plugins and observe the number of queries. You will ………

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Of course many people are contemplating, as they do with many products, whether or not this will be the boost they need to unlock the door to online business success. This article will look at what about this product is pure hype, and what might be an actual benefit, in order that you might form an educated opinion about this program.

I might play devils advocate and start with the negative.

Firstly let it be clearly known that no product, software, ebook or membership, is going to make you money – YOU have to do the work YOURSELF – sales letters love to give the impression that a product will do something FOR you but unless you’re willing to MAKE IT happen yourself – nothing will help you.

I expect Firepow to fit this category. Particularly because it’s a software that automates certain tasks, I expect it convey the feeling of doing things for you. So don’t fall for it – whatever it says, remember that YOU will have work to do and if you’re not ready to do that then this product won’t help you.

Phew, now that that’s out of my system, we can continue.

What does seem good about Firepow so far is that it combines the functions of various pieces of software into one ‘machine’ so to speak – which if only for the sake of nothing else but convenience, makes it a good thing. Less programs on my computer, less to think about, and hopefully less to do.

The things it combines are the tasks of (as the sales letter indicates) creating, marketing and managing your niche blog sites.

It does these things with the use of wordpress plugins, and features inside a central software, from where you can view or edit any of your blog sites – another big convenience factor.

The plugins are both a list compiled from existing plugins on the internet and those created specially by Andrew himself.

It’s these fresh meat plugins that seem to be the big selling point as promises have been made of effects like stealing viral traffic, multiplying your content automatically, and giving the site owner the capacity to get in touch with other site owners for extra leverage.

Supposedly it does everything from create your site (content too) to get you traffic and beyond – a hard ask for any program and I guess we’ll have to wait to see whether it delivers.

Most of us know that niche blogging works but just haven’t connected the dots fully yet. If that’s you – Firepow might be worth a look.

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