There are many ways that you can make good blog money and creating content is where a lot of your blogging money comes from.

SEO Articles – I get random emails that say ‘please take a look at my site. How much?’ Making blog money is still a mystery to some. The first thing I would offer any company or website is to create SEO articles in their niche and scatter them on their website and the web. Writing SEO articles from scratch can make you good blogging money for any website or blog. Your blog! Organic traffic is the #2 method for blog money on the Internet so keep reading for #1.

SEO Copywriting – Go over a websites copy and pre-existing articles and re-write them. (This post is updated and tweaked.) I find a lot of offers to re-write certain types of articles because they need updated keywords mainly, better placement and believe it or not fewer word count. Keep it simple. Re-write articles, posts, and make improvements in copy if you can because it will be less work and more blogging money for you. Do the same for your blog to gain more organic traffic.

Write Reviews – If you have slammin’ traffic you can make good blogging money to post reviews on your site or blog. Blogs work best for this. You can also write a stockpile of reviews for a company and leave the marketing to them. This again comes down to SEO copy. Offer this service to prospects and clients if they haven’t thought of it yet. They may know all about the marketing aspects and they just need people to write for them. Review other sites and post them to your blog. Review products and submit SEO product reviews and articles in forums, Craigslist and article directories for even more traffic. More blogging money for you!

Get Paid to Blog – Guest blogging. These are not things you should be doing for free. I understand that guest blogging is to swap traffic and introduce one audience to another. Too many sites take advantage of bloggers and exploit their guests. You should be blogging to make money for yourself not anyone else. Unless they pay you! Did you know that one of the largest blogs that brings in the most money does not pay their bloggers? They are relying on the sole pleasure that bloggers will have blogging for them. Whatever! Don’t blog for free! That is not what you are here for and there are better ways to get exposure without selling yourself short.

Ebooks – If you can write an ebook for someone they will pay you handsomely for it. Some people don’t want to monkey around with the writing and adding links portion because they want to make money in other ways. Learn how to deal with graphics, PDF’s and incorporating links from your clients sites. This could be an ongoing way for some blogging money. Write a review and sell the book on your own blog! Write your own book and you’re in business.

Press Releases – This by far is the easiest and if you do this well it can be an on going service. I’d charge monthly and decide on the maximum press releases you are willing to do for X amount of money. This is only to write the press release and not distribution. You could charge extra for that. Easy stuff. Place SEO press releases on your own blog. You’ll have more optimized content, more pages and more blog money coming to you!

Direct Email Marketing – Yep saved the best for last. This is the lifeblood of most blogs. Your blog has excellent content and you need to pass on this valuable info to your readers somehow. Look into email marketing and know the laws in your state. There are strict rules for email marketing so know the law. Direct email marketing is the number one way businesses in real life make money. Before the Internet it was direct mailing. Still a good way to market and make money but cheaper and more effective to use email.

Mainly use your blog as if it were a business card. Show examples of your writing, marketing and traffic stats. Show off some of the SEO optimization.

The writing portions are different from the marketing, SEO and viral marketing (sometimes incorporated) but that is how it goes in order to make good blog money. Those are extra or up-sale services and more blogging money for you. Make sure you decide what it is you want to get paid for and make that your primary focus. What else do you do well that you can turn into a blogging service that will benefit others? I like getting paid to blog, write and market so that is what I do. Since I know a fair amount of SEO and other blogging tactics I’m able to charge a little more.

As you can see there is no silver bullet in making blog money but many rounds in the clip. Find the best ammunition and you can kill in the blogsphere. (Okay I ended on a bad joke, but you get the idea.)

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The most important part of SEO is patience! I was not shooting to be on top right away I knew if continued to work what I have learned eventually it would happen.

Also my organic search is up by 10%!

What did I do:

Exercised Patience – This cannot be stated enough. Just do what you are supposed to be doing and your efforts will off shoot an outcome that you had been working towards.

I’ll read some SEOs asking “why haven’t my links indexed yet?” Well they are only a day or week old so give it some time. Instead of worrying about it either link to sites that are already indexed or sit on your new posts and eventually they will show up in the serps.

Restructured Backlinks – Do you comment market? I do and I mainly blog on older blog posts that have been around for a few weeks. Not like it matters but it helps. I also rearranged my internal links and changed some of the titles to reflect the keywords I was looking to bank on.

Keywords – Like I said my organic search results have gone up 10% since November and just 6% in the past three weeks. I like to pride myself on being better at keyword research than other SEO things as I use a mix of highly competitive and keywords with low competition.

Followed My Own Advice – Obviously most of what I have learned I got elsewhere. I just happen to be an observant person and if people say it works you should probably be doing what works. My one piece of knowledge I would pass on is pick and choose what works for YOU! I still hear people rave about article marketing. Perhaps it works for them but I find it to be too time consuming and would rather keep my intellectual property for myself. It works, just not for me.

What worked for me? Making useful lists like Blog Marketing Tools or post with specifics like How to Get Backlinks One Way or the importance of simple SEO methods like Dofollow or Nofollow? That is the Question. These posts have been shared, bookmarked and passed around. Not to tens of thousands of readers but to enough to give me some honorable backlinks and mentions.

So there you have it. I no doubt think that my site will slip here and there but I’ve taught myself more and implemented tenfold my tactics since October 07 so I will keep you all posted.

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The purpose of my Blog Money Series is to fill you in on the what has worked for me in the past year. Some of the techniques you probably already know and I would love to either have a spin on those ideas or hear from my readers. What worked for you and what didn’t.

The Blog Money Series will cut to the chase as I’ve goofed around with a lot of blogging stuff and found that there really are only a few proven methods to making money with your blog. So I’ve done all the leg work for you and will show you what I focus on and where not to waste your time.

Let me know how some of these techniques work out for you.

Coming soon…

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This is my own little formula on how to get backlinks, and it may not work for everyone. There may be easier backlink methods but doing it manually and at a normal pace can be very gratifying, takes little time and is free.

So how do I get backlinks? The simple answer is this:

How to Get Others to Link to You

1. Ask.
The worst you will hear is no. The second best thing is a reciprocal or link exchange. LE’s are okay as long as they are relevant and you don’t go overboard. Other bloggers are usually okay with backlinks. Just ask.

2. Have a compelling website.
Is your content useful? Helpful? Solve an ongoing issue? Make sure it does and readers will bookmark you for future reference, write about you, share with others and make your stuff go viral. The more people that see your post and can use them the more possibilities for backlinks to your site.

3. Know what you’re talking about.
It will be evident if you have done your homework or not and this goes hand in hand with having a compelling website. Know what your talking about and spare nothing for others to build off of. Be the authority. Explain in detail what you did and how you did it. Some bloggers hoard information. Don’t be a hoarder. Share.

How to Build Backlinks on Your Own

1. Social bookmarking.
Every time you post document it. Add your links to social bookmarking sites that offer you backlinks. Make it automatic. Find 5 or 10 of your favorite dofollow bookmarking sites and submit to them every time you post.

Depending on the social bookmarking site, if enough readers add your bookmark it’s possible to get backlinks from the page and get a flood of traffic. Del.icio.us, Mister Wong and Reddit are good for a traffic avalanche. Mister Wong and Reddit front page are both good for getting backlinks.

2. Comment marketing.
Two ways: Google alerts and RSS subscriptions.

Google Alerts – Subscribe for the keywords you want to get backlinked for. When you find sites and blogs that allow comments (without signing in) that are dofollow subscribe to them.

RSS Subscriptions – Find dofollow or no ‘nofollow’ blogs and subscribe. If you can find newspapers from across the country that is even better for getting backlinks. Some will allow a link without having to sign in. When you are at a loss as to what you could be doing go to your RSS or email and build backlinks.

3. Posting in Forums.
There are a fair amount of forums that are dofollow because they want you to contribute to their site. Offering a backlink is an incentive to keep you around. Master the art of link baiting in the signature and add useful backlinks from your site.

If you have a post or site that is relevant to the discussion, add an anchor text back to your site.

Other helpful tips:

o Don’t go nuts – Honestly I don’t know how many backlinks in a short amount of time is allowed, tolerated, whatever. To me is seems ‘beyond humanly possible’ is backlink overload. Be consistent building backlinks, not quick.

o Don’t spam the comments area – if you find a blog that gives you backlinks for comments one link in the website field will do. If you are *adding* to the discussion then drop a link with anchor text or however you want to do it. Unless the link is relevant or contributes to the discussion trying to stretch for a backlink is usually not a good idea.

o There is nothing wrong with ‘nofollow’ – Obviously you want one way backlinks that give off some PR power. Having a mix of dofollow and nofollow links is a good guideline. Sometimes the ‘nofollow’ links from high traffic sites have a trickle down effect. Don’t ignore ‘nofollow’ entirely. Don’t just go to a Web site or blog to get drop links. Consider a backlink a bonus.

o Spread yourself thin/don’t put all your eggs in one basket – Sorry for the cliches but you need to use several methods of link building. If you only build backlinks in comments, or forums what happens if you get kicked out, or a blog or site simply disappears. When you start checking your backlinks on a regular basis you will see an influx and once in a while you’ll lose links. Pardon me, another cliche, don’t choose one method to be your ‘ace in the hole’ or a ‘done deal’. Some of your hard earned links can go bye bye.

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Forum is a great addition for any website. It is a good tool to attract visitors to your site. But, what exactly is a free web forum? Well, it is a platform to bring like-minded people together to discuss things and share their experiences.

There are many ways to attract visitors to your website. A free forum is the most suitable and effective tool to get people to visit your site and come back frequently. A forum hosting valuable communities and quality posts will make the users come back frequently to share their own experiences and gain knowledge. Incorporating a free forum on your site is not a simple task. It requires you to have a lot of time, patience and enthusiasm.

If you want to know more and create your own forum, you must visit MakeForum.

The basic things you need to consider while starting your own free forum are firstly, that it is pointless to add new forums in your site if you have no members and no posts. It will not work. It is like an empty hall where the silence can be deafening. You need to have members and you need to have quality content, too, to be successful. You will get more visitors if the quality of content is good. It is therefore a good idea to provide a feedback link to the visitors to hear what they have to say.

There are forums that offer special advertising options and other incentives to active members who frequent the forum. The options can be in the form of text links or banners. These members are prompted to start their own discussions chains to avail of the free advertising options. You also hold a lucky draw to pep up regular users.

Another way to make the best of free forums is to source content for your website forum. It helps to work together in a give-and-take relationship. For example, you take their content and post yours on their site. If you don’t mind dishing out some money, you can hold discussions and lure them with cash incentives. But, you will have to be extremely quality conscious. Make sure the visitors don’t copy from other forums and paste it in yours. It will get you a bad name.

If you do not have a huge budget or if you find that you cannot attract people to start discussion on your forum in anyway, the last option for you is to ‘clone’ yourself and start various threads of discussions yourself. Once you do this, the other visitors will get out of the ’somebody -needs-to start-a-discussion-first syndrome’.

Once it gets started, you can bow out quietly and let them take the discussion further. You can then let the community grow by itself. It is the initial warm-up that is the toughest part of building an online community. After doing that successfully, you can relax and see it grow and flourish. However, you may have to prod it at times.

Michal Jajko is the creator of the free forum site makeforum.org. A knowlegeable website designer, he also offers free forum hosting. Click to find out more.

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By the hammer of Thor there’s a lot of blogging myths out there; myths that keep you from generating more online leads and building lasting relationships with clients.

The problem with these myths is that if they’re not challenged they turn into conventional wisdom. If you’ve been looking to drive more traffic to your Web site and improve communications with customers, you owe it to yourself to give a business blog a try.

Below are some of the hurdles–exaggerated or imagined–I’ve heard business owners use to avoid starting a blog, and real-world experience to debunk these myths.

1) My customers don’t read blogs. I hear this all too often by business owners who don’t completely understand what a blog is. Now, perhaps your customers don’t subscribe to any blogs, or they don’t return daily to a favorite blog. However, if they use Google or Yahoo for search, chances are they stumbled upon a search result from a blog. Since blogs often rank high at the search engines, if your customers use the Internet, you can capture their attention with a blog.

2) Blogging is for teenagers to share the minutiae of their lives and what they think of the remaining American Idol contestants. While teens certainly took to blogging quicker than businesses, these days companies of all sizes and shapes have realized the benefits of a business blog. You wouldn’t dismiss the telephone as a communication device just because your teenager spends hours each night on it, would you?

3) Blogging is just a fad/This too will pass. Didn’t you say the same thing about the Internet back in 1997? Of course no one can predict the future and much of the hype about blogs is just that. However, it’s important to realize that blogs are a powerful, easy-to-use communication tool, and communicating with customers and prospects will never go out of style.

Besides, blogs are an effective marketing tool today, so don’t worry if in five years you’ve moved on to your next communication medium. If you’ve cultivated an active audience, they’ll follow you to other distribution channels.

4) Blogging takes up too much time. I run a growing business, sit on the board of MEBSR (Maine Businesses for Social Responsibility), participate in a business-owners group, do a lot of writing and speaking, and carry my share in raising our two daughters. Trust me, I know from being busy.

However, in the past two-and-a-half years of blogging, I’ve discovered that it’s probably the most effective use of my marketing time. Blogging helps establish your expertise, generates loads of search engine leads, and delivers your message through three distribution channels each time you write. (Read more on the three faces of blogs.)

As business owners we have limited time in the day to market our services; blogging provides great return on that investment.

5) Blogging is fraught with dangers, like people leaving negative comments. These days, consumers can vent their frustration with your product or service anywhere on the Web, whether it’s a post at their own blog, a review at Epinions.com, or a scathing YouTube video. If I had my choice, I’d rather have that conversation happen where I have home court advantage. How you handle negative feedback can establish your authenticity, and help you win over new converts.

And, if you happen to find yourself with a PR nightmare, you don’t have to worry about letting the media tell your side of the story. By using your own blog you have unfettered access to anyone with a connection to the Internet.

People are looking for transparency and authenticity from companies these days, and your blog is the perfect tool to match these needs.

6) My customers don’t read blogs. Whoa. Feelings of deja vu. Didn’t we respond to this earlier? Oh, you mean that you don’t get leads from the Internet? That they only use the Yellow Pages or go on advice from a friend? Well, then your audience is shrinking. The average consumer is much more likely to use the Web to search for a product or service, or at least visit your Web site to learn more about your company.

If you haven’t gone after this audience before, you’re missing an opportunity of getting in front of a younger audience…your customers and clients of tomorrow.

And trust me, they read blogs.

The truth about blogging is that it’s proven an effective marketing tool for a wide range of businesses. You can start a blog on your own through a service like TypePad or by installing a blogging platform like WordPress on your own server. Alternatively, you can hire a Web design firm to design, develop and promote your blog and get you up to speed quickly.

Whatever path is right for you, don’t let these myths keep you from giving business blogging a chance.

Rich Brooks is president of flyte new media, a Web design and Internet marketing company. Download his free article, The 11 Biggest Mistakes Small Business Bloggers Make.”

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There are many ways to use article marketing to increase traffic to your blog and thereby increasing the possibilities of more sales including promoting your own products, good affiliate marketing results and even generating more Adsense clicks on your blog.

Placing your articles in popular article directories will give you the opportunity to direct traffic to your blog using your author’s bio to link to your site.

Writing insightful, quality content gives you a better chance of having someone reprint your article on their site with your link in the bio. Others may like your article so much they will send it to their list and overnight you could receive a lot of traffic and make a lot of sales.

One thing you want to be sure to do is have the content on your blog related to the article you are having published. The search engines will frown upon having a blog about dogs linked to an article about cows and they will not want to send you any traffic. Also, the people reading your article will expect your blog to be about what your article is concerning. If you disappoint them, they will not be back.

Using the same search engine optimization on your blog as you would use on a web site will ensure that you will have a steady flow of traffic visiting your blog.

You need to continually have your articles published in the article directories to keep your place in the search engines. One article might bring you a burst of traffic but you will want to keep the momentum up. Even one article per week should help maintain a good amount of traffic.

Get started on your article marketing now by writing compelling, useful articles and you will start to see your stats climbing.

For more tips and information on blogging visit Marilyn Robert’s site at Blogging Strategies to start an exciting future with blogging.

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