Want to make big money from your blog? Thousands of people are already doing that. You can too, if you avoid four fatal mistakes.
A money making blog is a destination; it has loyal readers, because it provides them with information and entertainment they can get nowhere else. It's important to keep this in mind, because the amount of income you make from your blog depends on your traffic.
So let's look at the four fatal mistake to avoid.
1. You Write About Yourself
If you're not a celebrity - that is, if you've never hit the front pages of a newspaper - don't write about yourself.
You could do this successfully, if you have writing skill and can write like Dave Barry, but for 99.5 per cent of bloggers writing about yourself and your life is a fatal mistake.
2. You Write in Areas in Which There Are No Advertisers
As soon as you decide on a subject for your blog, check whether there are advertisers. Here's a tip: if there's a glossy advertising-supported magazine on your subject, you're good to go.
Type the subject of your blog into Google's search query field, and look to check whether there are Sponsored Links on the right of the query results page. If there are, your subject has advertisers, and again, you're good to go.
3. You Lack Enthusiasm for your Subject
Does your blog's subject excite you? I'm a writer, so I'd write about writing even if no one ever paid me to do it.
You'll need passion for your subject, because blogging is a marathon, rather than a sprint. You need the enthusiasm to write about your subject every day.A lack of enthusiasm for the subject of the blog is the main reason many blogs which are otherwise well thought out, and which have great potential, fail.
4. You Rehash Material That's Available Elsewhere
Over the past year, everyone has discovered blogging, from major corporations to kids. So aim to project your own ideas, thoughts, experiences and insights into your blog. If your blog just covers what everyone covers about the subject matter, there's no reason for people to return to your blog every day.
So there you have four fatal mistakes to avoid for a money making blog. Will your blog be a success? Of course it will - get started today.
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Chances are, you are more likely to purchase an item if you are able to see it and touch it. Unfortunately, when people shop online, touching an item, or looking at a floor model is not possible. Therefore, pictures are immensely important to internet sales. When blogging for profit, you will need to consider what types of pictures will help you achieve your financial goals.
As an example, you may want to start a blog dedicated to snow blowers and rotillers. If you enroll in Adsense, or other types of affiliate marketing, you will need to find a way to induce readers to click on the links that will garner some revenue. If you add pictures of products along with text, you may be able to accomplish this more easily.
For the most part, pictures should be sharp, clear, and focused on your topic. You may also want to include a video clip of the item in use, or explaining how owning it can be of advantage to the reader. That said, it is important to prevent your blog from looking like a sales flyer.
When you look at a picture, you know immediately if you are interested in the item or not. While a picture will not make up for poorly written text, it can help retain the interest of blog viewers. As may be expected, this is an important step to encouraging readers to either purchase items from you, or clicking on links that lead to affiliate sites.
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There are many ways to gain readers to your blog but what I will share to you in this article are the best ways I used in my blogs and these ways are also recommended by other professional bloggers.
5 Ways to Gain More Blog Readers:
1. Detailed Blog Title
The title of your blog is the one being displayed on search engine once being search so your blog title must be clear for search engine crawlers. Most importantly, it must be clear to readers, try not to use acronyms with your title. A title like "A Piece of Idea" is much better than just "APOI".
2. Contents must be originally yours
Your ideas may be the same from other professional blogger or perhaps you have just read it from a blog but if you wanted to rewrite it for yourself, it is much better if you write it in your own words. Remember that bloggers are also readers and once they noticed that your introduction is just the same from what they have read, they will surely not read the rest of the post.
3. Use Search Engine Friendly URLs (Permalinks)
One way to gain traffic is to be enlisted in search engine results. If you have read some SEO tips, it is said that most search engine or perhaps all search engine crawl permalinks (post1.html) faster than query stringed urls (index.php?p=1). If you are using wordpress, I would recommend that you change your URL settings.
4. Enlist blog to free web directories.
One way of getting a higher pagerank is being listed by top ranked websites. And the more high ranked sites that links to your blog, the higher the pagerank we get for your blog. To do this, you should submit your blog to hundreds of free web directories available.
5. Submit post to social bookmarking sites
Another way of increasing traffic is to submit new post to social bookmarking sites like technorati or del.icio.us. You can submit post automatically using various paid wordpress plugins and other subscriptions. However, there are also free tools provided in web that can help you submit your post automatically to social bookmarking sites.
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G1 WallpaperIt sounds glamorous, doesn't it? No job to go to early in the morning, choosing your own working hours, living every hour at maximum intensity. That must be one of the reasons why so many people are attracted to betting or gambling.
But not many are thinking ahead about the risks, or at the hours spent in front of the computer every day searching for information, and to be honest you don't really choose your working hours, you depend on the games schedule. Those two words: betting and gambling should never be considered as having the same meaning.
One could make a living by betting, but nobody could make a living by gambling. All those roulette systems that we can find online aren't good for anything except time wasting. The only ones that are making money with the help of any casino winning strategies are the ones who sell them in their books or videos or so on.
But how can someone make a living from betting? Nowadays people can bet on everything they can think of. Political elections, when will the first man land on Mars, what kind of haircut will Bechkam have next week and so on.
Of course betting on sports is what I had in mind. To be more exact, betting on football (soccer for Americans) games. Some may say that it's more convenient to bet on tennis or on hockey, as there are less people involved, less people you have to study before placing your bet. I couldn't agree more, but football is and will remain the king of all sports, and also we have to take in consideration that many of the 1st 40 ranked tennis players are under investigation for suspicion of game fixing. Of course this happened in football too, and games are probably being fixed right under our eyes, but we can still avoid them.
There are many people out there who know a lot about the game, and i don't mean just knowing some of the players names, but they observe well the tactics, the weaknesses and strengths of players, or just people that do their homework well enough to get a glimpse of what to expect .
In general, those who bet, bettors, are people that are willing to take risks. And since we are all humans, no matter how hard we try, sometimes we slip up.
And if in the past a risk was taken, the precedent was created and all the premises for taken even biger or higher risks are created. After a good series of 3 or 5 days in profit, almost every time bettors raise the stake, and this proves to be fatal. Everywhere we can find money management articles for bettors, and everyone has his own strategy, but like i said we are all humans, and even if we are helped by thousands of years of evolution, we are still very much influenced by our primary instincts. When the confidence grows at higher and higher levels, you can't help felling like on top of the world, and thinking that there aren't any barriers between you and your goals.
Also there are many talented punters out there, with good judgment (one of the most important things in betting) but they fail to make something in this business because either they let themselves influenced by others opinions, or get to lazy to quick, and stop updating the information they have . That is how talented and gifted punters quit this job (as it can be a full time job) and start selling peanuts down the street.
In spite of all I said there are still people that manage to make a living just by betting on football games. Those are the ones who team up, because you will never be able to make a living from betting on your own. There is just not enough time available to do the proper research for one person alone. Also when there are more persons with the same objective, one can temperate another when there is the need to.
The interesting thing is that you can make a living from betting, or just add a substantial amount to your income without having to do any work on your own. How's that? With the help of tipping services . But be aware, most of them aren't what you expect of. With a nice website design and with the help of a good marketing strategy they manage to make themselves known in the online betting world, they start charging for their services, when in fact they are just lovers of the game (football game) and nothing more.
I remember that once, a tipping service owner asked for my services. We agreed and i started tipping. I was the only one he had hired, his entire company was just 1 man. He was a betting man too, but the funny thing is that he didn't even knew what a handicap bet is ... And what is even more funny is that at that moment, his tipping service had the most no. of clients on the market. He was ranked very high in the major search engines, as his real job was something related with IT, and he was only a football lover, but like i said, people were paying big money to receive tips from him.
That was possible because his clients were impressed by the marketing strategies and the great web design, but clearly they started missing their subscription money very soon...
But not all tipping services are like this.
There are some that are formed by many punters from different countries. They joined efforts in order of making a living from betting, and it seems that they have pulled it off. They make their income by betting themselves and also by selling their bets to those who are interested. Some of the tipsters over there even know what the players ate before the game...
In this business people come and go overnight, some satisfied with the result and others (those who aren't willing of accepting advices) in big depths, the idea is, that it is possible and you only have to really want this to happen.
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