Blogging these days has become a way to earn livelihood rather than just “out of interest” thing as it was earlier. We write posts, so that others will read, which will help them solve there problems or in any other way.

But we not only write, we also do many other things to get more traffic to our blog, which works for some and not at all for others. Even if your not doing anything fancy and you just keep writing unique and helpful content, eventually you will pick up some decent traffic, thanks to the search engines

But if some basic techniques can get you more traffic early, then why not give it a try??

Here are three basic blog strategies which every blogger must do :-

1. Link Love:

The most basic thing, develope links to your blog. And the most effective strategy (according to me) is quality link exchange. What you need to do is search for blogs related to your genre (Google Blog Search) and leave a request for link exchange in their contact form or in comment. Just try to be reasonable while doing this, obviously PR4 will not like link exchange with a PR0-1.

Other thin g you can do for links is commenting which was not that useful for me.

2. Submit All Your Blogging To Web 2.0:

The way you get fast rankings that stay for certain keywords is by submitting them to sites that the search engines love…Web 2.0 sites.

This includes the bookmarking sites, status sites and all the social sites…

One problem though… We all don’t have time to go one by one and post to all of them…

So you use a tool called OnlyWire.com and submit it all at once. Just go there and set up all the accounts and then with just a push of a button you can submit your link, instantly giving you high rankings.

3. RSS Feeds

Include a RSS subscribe box at the bottom of your posts, this will encourage people to visit your site regularly.

If you are doing a good job with your posts most people will want to read more of your stuff. Just make sure what your offering them is quality content, that is important to them.

Just follow these 3 steps and you will definitely see a decent rise in your blog traffic.

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Inserting Ads in your blog’ RSS feed can be a good idea to boost up your earnings. You may have seen many peoples doing this.

If you publish your feeds with FeedBurner (now acquired by Google) then you can easily show Adsense ads there at by using Adsens for feeds.

And if you want to show other ads in your RSS feeds, then you can do this by modifying the functions.php file (if you dont have one create it).

<?php
function insertAds($content) {
$content = $content.’<hr /><a href=”http://webmasters-blog.com/”>Keep visiting webmasters-blog.com</a><hr />’;
return $content;
}
add_filter(‘the_excerpt_rss’, ‘insertAds’);
add_filter(‘the_content_rss’, ‘insertAds’);
?>

Here, we first create a function called insertAds(), which concatenate a code containing our advertisment to the $content variable, which contains the content of the post.
Then, we use the add_filter() function to overwrite the the_content_rss() function with our insertAds() function. We use another filter to overwrite the_excerpt_rss() function as well.
That’s all, your rss feeds now displays your ads!

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Many webmasters using Google Adsense programme to monetize their site complain of getting lower ecpm rates and thus lower earnings. This has led to many webmasters opting for Adsense alternatives which promise of higher ecpm rates.

Method I
As the ecpm ratues of ads on your site is mainly determined by the content of your site, writing good quality content can really boost your ecpm rates. In addition to quality content, you should try to write about a specific niche. For example, instead of writing about mobile phones in general, writing about specific phone models will get you higher ecpm ads. Also it will display highly targeted ads which can increase your CTR value further increasing your earnings.

Method II
Other popular method is to ban the low ecpm ads. This involves using “Competitive Ads Filter” tool available with Adsense. You also need to install “Adsense Preview Tool” available for free over internet, just Google for “Adsense Preview Tool”. Using “Adsense Preview Tool” you can get urls of ads displayed on your site without clicking them. Just visit each url, and check the landing pages, whether they are “Made for Adsense” or “Clickbank” pages. These pages have very low ecpm, hence you should put these urls in your competitive ads filter list. Wait for 2-3 days and you can see a visible increase in your ecpm rates.

Method III
Another method is to improve the placement of ads. Below is the image displaying hot, medium and cold areas for ads placement.

According to some, placing ads in “hot” areas can get you higher ecpm rates.

Method IV
Another method involves use of tags to help find Google, which part of your content is comparatively important. Following tags can used for this purpose –

google_ad_section_start google_ad_section_end

This will let Google display the ads relevant to your content.

Method V
Avoid link units. As link units have very low ecpm try to avoid them wherever possible.

Hope these simple steps will work for you and boost your Adsense earnings. If you want help of anykind just leave a comment.

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Buying and selling domains is one the methods to make money over internet. But you may have noticed that every single dictionary word that you can think of has been registered. And also you may have learned that it is very difficult ta earn a good profit from either a lengthy meaningful domain name or a short unmeaningful domain name.

Here comes the role of expired domains. Though most of the “Premium Dictionary Words” have already been registered, it is also true that many of them were registered some one decade ago and they are on the verge of getting expired. Thus you have a chance of registering an “Expired Premium Domain” for normal price.

Lets have a look over the benefits of expired domain names -

♦ As they are Premium Domain names, many other people will be interested in buying them from you at your price, as you will have many optins of buyers.

♦ Secondly as they have been over since quite a few years, search engines will be giving them a high preference in their results, thus increasing its price.

♦ Also as they are old, they are obviously going to have some PageRank….. the older the domain, more will be the PageRank… and the higher the PageRank more will be its value.

♦ If you have been lucky enough to buy an expired domain which had some good traffic, then BINGO!!! you have hit a jackpot. As this traffic will obviously get inherited , if you yourself make a site over it or sell it to anybody else.Either way you are going to make handsome money over it.

Now comes the most important question – “where to find these expired domains?” If you do a google search for “Expired Dmains” or “Deleted Domains”, you will get list of sites providing the list of expiring or expired domain names. But this facility comes for a price. You have to first join their paid membership, then only will they inform you about the expiring/expired domains.

Or if you are not willing to pay any dime for this and have ample time then you can do manual search over “Who.is“. This is not a site related to expired domains, it will just give evry information you want abuot any domain name you search for.

So its upto you what you prefer. But I’ll advice first have some basic knowledge about domain brokerage before going for it. Well WISH YOU A GOOD LUCK WITH EXPIRED DOMAINS.

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Now-a-days internet has become a part of daily life and it have opened a lot of portals of earning money by sitting at your home (obviously in front on computer). One of these portals is through monetization of your site.

There are various ways to earn money through your site, but the most commonly employed method is by displaying ads. Here, I am going to write about this method only.

You display ads on your site, either through some advertisement networks like Google Adsense, etc or by contact individually with the potential advertisers.Both options have its merits and demerits, like with Advertising networks, you dont have to worry about getting advertisers, you have to just place one HTML code on your site and related ads are automatically displayed on your site, while with direct advertisers you have to first search for potential advertisers and later convince them to place their ads on your site at some reasonable price, but with direct advertisers you get 100% of what the advertiser pays for their ads which is not the case with Advertising networks, they keep their commission and give you remaining earnings. There are many other merits-demerits but I’ll not like to get into details.

For my sites I use both Advertising networks as well as direct advertisers.

Some important advertising networks I would like to mention are -

♣ Google Adsense -

Its the most commonly used advertising network. It accepts publishers from most of the countries. It displays contextual ads on your site, and you get paid for the clicks your visitor makes. If you have a high content site I’ll recommend this.

♣ Adbrite -

It is also very common these days, publishers banned from Adsense especially those having warez sites are exclusively using this network.My experiment with Adbrite was not good, I earned less than one-fourth of what I earns with Adsense,,,,, well I just used it for 1 month only. So, if you are having warez sites, or you’ve been banned from Adsense I’ll recommend this network. Between Adsense and Adbrite, Adsense is a lot better. Important point to note is that you cannot use both networks ads simultaneously on your site.

♣ CPM networks -

These netwoks pay for the page impressions your site gets. The clicks doesn’t matter in this case. Some important CPM networks are – Casale Media, Tribal Fusion, Burst Media etc. This can be used simultaneously with Adsense.

♣ Text Link Ads networks -

This networks places links of interested sites on your blog and you get paid fixed amount monthly for that link. The best link ads netowrk is Text Link Ads (according to me).Here the breakout of the earnings is 50-50 i.e. you get 50% of what advertiser pays for link on your site.

♣ In Text advertising -

Here the ads do not consume any more space on your site, but these are displayed in the form of underlines on important keyword, and pop-up opens when visitor brings cursor on that word. Here you get paid for clicks that your ads receive. The most leading network in this category is Kontera.

This is all with Advertising networks I’ll write in deatils about them and the direct advertisers in subsequent posts.

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Now this is a recent trend seen, may established bloggers are now writing ebooks on ‘How to blog?’ and sell them at high cost.Whenever you visit their blog you may see this banner, asking you to buy their book and earn more from your blogs. You may also seen their banner on other sites which get share for every sale.

I once bought such ‘How to blog?’ ebook and checked out what it really contains. Though I will not disclose here, who was the author of that book.

It was having total 34 pages. The book started with the introduction about author. Then it explained what is blogging, what are different blogging platforms etc. etc…. But it was no different from what I’ve read so many times over internet.

Next was importance of good content and how to write good content. Again nothing new,you may get same tips on the authors own blog, about how to write good content.

Next was traffic. Here also I got disappointed because the methods listed were outdated and I myself know more methods on how to get more traffic. After that keyword research, PPC campaigning etc.

After reading that ‘How to blog?’ ebook I think that why shall anybody spend money on such thing when you can get more usful and practical information by reading blogs and doing some reasearch yourself. May be other such ebooks are not like this one or some ebooks may be really helpful. But I myself will neiteher buy any such ebook in future nor will attemt to write one .

Final advice – try to read as many reviews as possible about the book before buying it. But again many of these review writers may be getting share from sale of that book, so try to find it out in some forums like Digital Point etc.

If you think that I am wrong at any part of my post and want to correct me you are always welcome.

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Actually I tried this plugin earlier for one of my blogs. Though it was installed successfully,I was not able to build sitemaps with it. I don’t know what was the problem that time. Whenever I click on build sitemap link I use to get some fatal errors. I checked whats worng, but everything was ok,also I changed the permissions of files – ‘sitemap.xml’ and ‘sitemap.xml.gz’ successfully but still no use. But now on this blog everything is fine.

What does this plugin do ?

This plugin creates the sitemap for your blog and submits it to major search engines -  Google,Yahoo,MSN and ASK .This way helps getting more pages from your blog to get indexed in these search engines, thus more chances of getting traffic through these search engines.

Does this plugin improves your Search Engine Ranking ?

I don’t think it can help you get higher ranks in search engine results page.I only indexes more pages from your blog.

Where to get it ?

You can get this plugin from WordPress here.

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Now-a-days there have been a great increase in people looking internet as their source of income.There are guys who have left their jobs and took blogging as their profession making a good livelihood from internet.

But there have been a lots of Make Online Money scams  like earn by clicking ads,reading emails,receiving sms on your mobile etc. I haven’t found any guy paid for this.(If you have,plz tell me wid proof and I’ll update this post.)

Here I would like to tell you the various “genuine” and “legal” methods of making money over the internet.

1.Blogging-

This is the most popular method of making money over internet.You can start with some free blogging platforms like Blogger,WordPress etc.(Get complete list of free blogging platforms here.)

If you want you can host your blog on your server using WordPress.

Various ways of earning from your blog -

• Showing contextual ads like Google Adsense.
• Showing CPM ads.
• Selling text-links on your blog.(your blog sholud have PR3 or above for this.)
• Posting reviews about different sites or products.
• By Affiliate Marketing.

Though it requires a lot of hard work and patience ,but it pays after some time.Average bloggers make $10 per day easily,and for professional bloggers,there’s no limit.They can earn 5-figure or even 6-figure amount per month.

Some Inspiring examples-

• John Chow – http://www.johnchow.com/
• Jeremy Schoemaker – http://www.shoemoney.com
• Darren Rowse – http://www.problogger.net/

2.Writing Articles -

If you are good at writing and have good knowledge of English then you can try this.There is a huge demand for the content writers these days.

You can write articles for blog, make posts for forums, write content for websites.

But you should write on niche of which you have good knowledge.Because of great competition quality of your articles matters a lot.

If you are good at your work you can easily get $10 per 300 words article.Some experienced quality writers charge above $100 per 300 words post.

3.Buying and Selling Domains -

This is becoming a lot popular these days.

What you have to do is buy any domain related to some keywords like make money,blog etc. for just $6 per yr. do some seo (comment spam) to get some backlinks for this domain and after its 1 yr old sell it anywhere between $20 – $2000 even more depending on the backlinks your domain have and keywords it have.

4.Providing SEO services -

If you have some knowledge of SEO which stands for Search Engine Optimization,you can make good money with your skills.

What you have to do is get some clients and post their site’s URL to various directories.Also you can do comment spam to get the backlinks to that URL.

Your ultimate aim is to get as many backlinks s possible to your clents url.

Usually these SEO experts charge like $25 for 1000 directory submissions.

5.Reseller Hosting -

If you have some good amount to invest then you can try this.

What you have to do is buy some reseller hosting plan and start selling smaller hosting packages.

Cheap reseller hosting plan may cost you upto $90 per year and you can make $240 per year from selling one account for standard rate of $20/mo.

But this requires some manpower also,as it’s not easy to handle it alone.I also don’t have much knowledge about it,hence I’ll not talk much.

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