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.)

What do you think? Leave your thoughts in the comments area or email me with your questions.

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There are many ways to promote your website, but we often forget some of the most effective. Let’s review my 11 ways to promote your website.

Headers, Tags, and Titles – Search engines continue to evolve but there are a few things you still can do to give them a clue about what’s on your website. One is to include your keywords in header tags. Additionally, craft a one or two sentence description that explains the content of each page, including some keywords from the page. This should go between the Head tags. Finally, you should write short, descriptive titles for each page. Don’t use the same one for each.

Keywords – Look at your website copy. Are your keywords in the first paragraph? They should be because that is where the search engines expect to find them. But don’t go overboard with keywords.

SEO – The above tips actually are fairly basic SEO activities, but there are some higher level SEO tactics that will help raise you site above the crowd. Hyperlink your keywords to make them stand out for both search engines and for carbon-based web visitors. Make the linked keyword more noticeable to search engines by linking it to a page that uses the keyword in its address. For example, if you hyperlink the phrase “ad agency” the page to which it is linked would have “ad agency” in its address to raise its profile. While we’re linking, let’s make these linked pages truly focused on information about specific keywords. If you really want to place your SEO program on steroids, purchase one of the software packages that helps you analyze each page on your site for its appeal to search engines.

Submit – There are both search engines and directories where you will want to submit your site. Key search engines for url submission include: Google, Yahoo, MSN Live Search, AOL and Ask. More than 95 percent of search volume happens at these engines. So, don’t bother too much with all the small fries. And it is not hard to complete free registration for these engines. Typically, they will have a link that says something like “add your URL.” There are a number of directories like DMOZ.com where you will want to submit your site, too. And, I think it is worthwhile to pay the $299 at the Yahoo directory. There may also be directories specifically for your industry.

Link – Develop a linking program where you solicit links from sites that cover the same topics as you. This directs traffic from those sites. Additionally, it tells search engines that you must have something worthwhile on your site if others are linking to you.

Write – Articles, blogs, news releases – all of these can help you increase your exposure and drive traffic to your primary website. Craft your “About The Author” box to include your web address. Once your article is picked up by other publishers, this will become a one-way link to your site, possibly helping boost your search engine ranking. Submit your press releases to PRWeb. I get a ton of traffic for myself and clients using this service.

Go Email – Develop your own e-newsletter, like Think, to help drive repeat traffic to your site. I use nTarget for my email marketing. Then, archive the newsletter on your site. This solid content tells search engines that there is a reason to visit you. Try to get other enewsletter publishers to mention you, consider trading ads with other publishers, or just buying ads outright. Finally, don’t underestimate the power of a good email signature to drive site traffic.

Give Yourself A Promotion – Sponsor contests or develop your own promotions and then submit them to contest directories like Contest Hound. You could give away copies of your book, e-book, or white papers for people who sign up for your newsletter. Give away your product or service to randomly selected registrants. This is a good way to build your list of contacts so you can then drive them back to your site.

Pay The Man – ReachLocal is my pay-per-click ad engine of choice. If you are truly local, this is a cost-efficient way to reach people in a specific market only. However, you also can launch nationwide campaigns, too. You deal only with ReachLocal and it handles placing and paying for the ads with multiple publishers. It works for budgets of all sizes.

Speak Up – All right, let’s go analog. There is no better way to make a good impression on a large number of people at one time than to deliver a good speech. Be sure to have business cards or some type handout that lists your website. Every time I do a presentation I see a spike in web visits and enewsletter sign-up.

Go Offline – Look at every printed piece that you have. Is your web address featured prominently? Is it in small type or – horrors – not even there! Businesses with fleets of cars and trucks should have the web address on their vehicles. Think about other physical places you can promote your site.

Those are my 11 ways. Get to it.

About the Author
Harry Hoover is a partner in advertising agency My Creative Team. He has 30 years of experience in crafting and delivering bottom line messages that ensure success for serious businesses like Bank of Commerce, CruisingTheICW.com, Duke Energy, Focus Four, Levolor, North Carolina Tourism, Premier, Rubbermaid, TeamHeidi, Ty Boyd Executive Learning Systems, VELUX, and Verbatim.

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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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In my search for “article directories” in the article directories (that is not a repeat or a typo) I came up short on what were some of the easiest sites to use.

With much research I’d like to give you a list of article banks and directories that I found were easy to submit and search for articles to use for your online business:

Ezine Articles – EA has got to be one of the easiest and most popular sites as far as submitting and finding quality web content. The site is well organized and the HTML editor and submitting features are non confusing to say the least. Ezine Articles literally has thousands of articles on any topic. There is also a nifty badge as an Ezine Article Expert to put on your site as a part of your online marketing tools.

Go Articles – Writing online articles was never as simple as GoArticles.com! They too have a comprehensive stash of articles for website marketing as well as easy article submission.

The only difficulty I found with the site is trying to find other articles by the same authors. There are seperate hyper-links for both the first and last name so you need to search for the authors articles on your own.

The other drawback is if you look at too many articles in a short amount of type you will be mistaken for an article submitting software program and have to type code into a text box to prove your not a bot. Conduct your research carefully to avoid this!

On a good note a nice feature Go Articles offers is the option to have multiple articles sent to your e-mail inbox. Very convenient!

Article Express - Relatively new I found this article directory on one of the many article directory searches I been conducting. Again I am not repeating myself or keyword stuffing…

AE (not to be confused with EA – Ezine Articles) seemed easy enough to use for submission. The HTML editor was pretty straight forward but lacked the little buttons at the top so you have have to manually key in tags yourself within your articles.

Search Warp – The best part about this article directory is you can also submit your web site url and they will add it to the major search engines! Seartch Warp is a little pickier about their online article submissions but that makes for better web content for you to use.

This information should provide you with a good start on researching articles and submitting your online marketing articles to some of the better directories.

Please share your thoughts on article submission sites, article site links or submit your article directory to us for review.

Jordan Pearce loves marketing! Check out some of the latest information on marketing your business, article writing and marketing your blog at BlogThatMakeMoney.net.

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