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Blogging is fun and can be highly profitable too. I’ve been blogging for a decade, and over that time I’ve discovered many ways to make blogging successful for me. Here are five of my favorite tips.

1. Schedule Your Posts for Each Blog You Own

As you continue to blog, you’ll create new blogs. You can find this both demanding and frustrating as you try to manage all your blogs, or you can get organized. Create a spreadsheet for each blog, and add your blogs’ post titles as you create each post.

Use columns for items like posting date, number of comments, search engine rankings and so on. As your blog grows, you’ll find additional uses for columns.

2. Keep Track of Your Blog Posts

Once you have several hundred blog posts on a blog it’s easy to forget great blog articles that you posted months or years in the past.

Your spreadsheet will help you to track your blog posts, however you should also use your website referrer logs and analytics program to track posts’ popularity. Check your analytics program once a week. You will discover which searches are bringing people to your blog. Update posts which are very popular with your latest thoughts and opinions.

3. Encourage Comments on Your Blog

You’ll find that your readers are shy about leaving comments if you fail to encourage them. Ask questions in your posts, and ask readers to leave comments.

Of course you won’t have comments enabled on all your blogs — if you’re creating a niche blog for example you usually won’t want comments on it.

4. Watch for Opportunities to Hive off Your Blog

As a blog grows and you have more than 1000 posts, opportunities will arise to hive off your blog. A giant blog becomes too unwieldy to manage as a complete entity, so look for categories which you can break out into their own blog. I’ve often done this with my larger blogs, with great results.

5. Track Your Monetization Methods

Traffic to your blog is worth money. You need to make the most of all the traffic you receive, since you worked so hard to bring that traffic to your blog in the first place. This means keeping an eye on your monetization methods, and constantly testing new methods to increase your blog’s income.

Blogging makes a great home business

Many bloggers blog full time in their blogging home business, and earn a great income – much more than they could earn at a job.

Discover how you can make money blogging, with Angela Booth’s blogging bestseller, Blogging for Dollars – blogging is fun, and profitable.

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If you want to make a full time income from blogging, you may be wondering whether this is possible. Yes, indeed it is. Many people are already doing just that. Can you do it too? Let’s see.

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal stated that half a million Americans listed blogging as their primary source of income; this would translate to millions of bloggers making money from home worldwide.

So, what does it take to make a full time income from blogging?

1. You Need to Understand Blogs, and be Able to Create a Profitable Blog

If you’ve been blogging for fun, then chances are that you will be able to make a full-time income from blogging.

You already have a passion for blogs and blogging. Even if you’ve never made a cent from your blogs, your interest will take you a long way to developing a blogging career.

2. You Need to Decide How You Will Make Money Blogging: Will You Be a Blogger for Hire, or a Publisher?

You have two alternatives when it comes to making money as a blogger. Firstly you can become a blogger for hire — that is, you blog for others, and get paid for it.

Here’s a tip: don’t bother looking for blog jobs. You’ll get the best results and build up your stable of businesses for whom you’re blogging more quickly if you approach businesses directly. Approach local businesses first. You’ll soon have more blog jobs than you could take on, even if you manage to clone yourself.

Your second option when you want to make money blogging is to become a web publisher. This means you create blogs, and monetize them in various ways.

Of the two options, blogging for hire or web publishing, you’ll make the most money over time as a web publisher. However, since most of your blogs will take time to make money, blog for others while you’re waiting; this builds both your experience and income.

3. You Need to Commit to Blogging, As You Would to Any Other Job

If you want to become a full-time blogger, you have to take it seriously. This means blogging daily, and blogging for three to four hours at a time. The rest of your time you can spend finding monetization options for your blog, and marketing your blog.

Most of the bloggers I know spend anywhere from five hours to 14 hours on their blogs every day. It’s not a job for someone who wants to kick back and relax on a beach in Tahiti. (Paradoxically however, once you’re established, you may well be able to do that if you wish.)

So, can you make a full-time income blogging? If you have the desire, and you’re determined, chances are that you can. It’s a great way to make a living.

Blogging makes a great home business

Many bloggers blog full time in their blogging home business, and earn a great income – much more than they could earn at a job.

Discover how you can make money blogging, with Angela Booth’s blogging bestseller, Blogging for Dollars – blogging is fun, and profitable.

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A blog is a great promotional tool, especially for products, either your own, or someone else’s. If you have a product you want to sell, consider creating a blog.

Blogging has huge advantages over static websites in the search engines, which means you’ll start getting traffic to your blog almost immediately

1. Buy a Domain Name and Create Your Blog

Your first step should be to buy a domain name which describes your product. Next, buy hosting for the domain, and create the blog.

Although you can use free blogging tools like Blogger, you have much more control when your blog is hosted on your own domain. Depending on whether you just want to create a few posts, or create an authoritative site, choose WordPress or Joomla.

The benefit of using WordPress is that there are so many plugins for the program which will help you to build traffic. For example, some plugins help you to create video posts on your blog.

2. Creating an Info Product? Start Blogging As You Create Your Product

Do you want to sell an e-book or other info product? Information products can be expensive to promote online. However your blog offers you free opportunities for promotion, so start blogging as soon as you get an idea for your product.

The reason you should start blogging early is so that your blog gets indexed by the time your product is ready to sell, and also so that you can start creating a mailing list of people who are interested in your product. This means that as soon as your product is launched you’ll have a list of eager buyers.

3. Promote Your Blog

As soon as you’ve created some content for your blog, start promoting it. You can promote your blog in various ways: by buying advertising, by using the free online classified sites, and by posting on other blogs.

The more ways you can use to promote your blog the better. Of course you won’t be able to follow all these methods of traffic generation at once. Pick one method of generating traffic per week, and do a little each day. You’ll find that at the end of a couple of months, you’ll have a constant stream of traffic and sales for your product.

Step by step to blogging success

Blogging for Dollars is a comprehensive blogging package which helps you to make money blogging.

Pro bloggers can make serious money, whether you choose to blog for a company as a freelance blogger, or build your own entrepreneurial blog. Many bloggers make six figures annually, and blogging networks have been sold for millions of dollars.

Make money blogging today – you’re sure of success with Blogging for Dollars to guide you.

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