Blogging

Every month I share with my readers what I earn from blogging and my sources of income, I do this to both inspire other bloggers and show them what companies you can earn money from, as well as to educate to the real difficulty and time consuming nature blogging is and that when you start out you will make far below minimum wage while blogging for profit. For October 2009 my total blog related earnings were $284.98, with again the largest portion coming from SocialSpark which is one of the best blogging programs on the web. I did make $14 from SponsoredTweets and $2.31 ... Read Full Story

I discovered a new view under the Content Tab -> Content Drilldown in Google Analytics the other night, this “Pivot” view is which is found by pressing the right most button next to the graph buttons just on top of the statistics shows you your top pages, and which referrers yield you traffic to which pages. With this I was able to see which specific pages StumbleUpon sends traffic to, vs Google and Entrecard as well as much more. I was surprised that a single post of mine about the HP Gift Card giveaway from September received over a thousand hits from StumbleUpon in ... Read Full Story

PayU2Blog released an announcement to all bloggers registered with the system that any “review” type assignments are now required to have a disclosure statement in the post to meet FTC compliance guidelines. However, if you receive “freeform” assignments where you are just required to put a keyword and a link you are to not mention the company at all, nor write a review of any kind. You are to specifically write a normal blog post and insert the keyword somewhere unobtrusively in your post. By doing this you are not endorsing a product or service and your are technically only being paid to insert ... Read Full Story

Blog Money Bootcamp Ever wanted to know how people blog about themselves and make money from it. Do you have a blog and want to know the best way to convert your traffic into cash? Click Here For Instant Access To Blog Money Bootcamp. Blog Money Bootcamp is a new series of videos which shows you how to get your blog making money. Money which you may give you the freedom to do what you want. When you want. Now, the program mentions that it will “force” your blog to make money. That statement is something I don’t agree with. From personal experience, I ... Read Full Story

Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett have combined their blogging for money expertise in the book ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income . If you are serious about blogging for money, then you have got to buy this book ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income . ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income will tell you everything you need to know about blogging for money. The following chapters have a wealth of information that will help you succeed at blogging for money: Chapter 1 - Blogging for Money Chapter 2 - Niche Blogging Chapter ... Read Full Story

Looking for How to Get Quality Backlinks Part 1 ? Now you know how to find sites to put your backlinks on. Find sites within your niche with a high page rank. Now we'll discuss exactly how you go about getting your quality backlinks. First, set up a spreadsheet to keep track of where you put your backlinks. You can set it up like this: Number Date Website Name Website URL Google PageRank Now you're ready to go! Checking Google PageRank First you must know how to check a page's pagerank. If you've found a blog or website that you want to put your ... Read Full Story

TweetMeme 1.7.1 fixes many issues that bloggers were having with Wordpress 2.8.4 where the plug-in was causing errors in the PHP code when activated. Some bloggers were able to find work around solutions by uninstalling and re-installing the Tweetmeme plug-in but this hadn’t fixed the issue for my 3 blogs. Fortunately the new Tweetmeme 1.7.1 plugin fixes all known issues that I have encountered and my TweetMeme button is now back in place. If only Twittley would fix their plug-in now I would be a happy Wordpress blogger. -Dragon Blogger Related Posts Google Chrome Still Has A Long Way To Go I have been ... Read Full Story