Blogging for Dollars Blog

You’ve created a blog for your business, and you’re blogging away; getting great traffic.

That’s wonderful, but you may be missing out on traffic, too. What about your customers? Do they know that you have a blog?

They may not.

Do what this post Writing on the Web from Patsi Krakoff, The Blog Squad: The Mysterious Case of the Hidden Blogs suggests:

“Blog check: If you’re not making it big and obvious on your home page that you’ve got a blog and it’s just a click away to reading great content, tips, etc. then please stay after class and write this sentence 100 times:

Click here to read my blog! Click here to read my blog…”

This is one of the best tips I’ve read — do make sure that people know about your blog by linking to it from your main site(s).

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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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You want to start a blog. However, it can take months for a new blog to start showing a profit. Could you make money faster by buying an abandoned blog?

A blog which is been online for several years has many benefits. Even if the blog hasn’t been updated in a year or two, if it has pages which are indexed in the search engines, it has value. If it still gets traffic, it has even more value.

Let’s look at two alternatives when starting a new blog.

1. Start a New Blog from Scratch

The big benefit of starting a blog from scratch is that you can set up the blog exactly the way you want it. Every decision is up to you, and you can set the blog up for search engine optimization benefits right from the start. If you know your industry, you’ll set up a capable, efficient and professional blog which is primed to make money for you.

However your blog will take time to get indexed and to start generating traffic. You’ll need to build content, and build links. For most blogs it takes at least six months before they are generating a reliable income.

But what if you could buy a blog which is already established, and which already has traffic?

2. Buy an Established, Abandoned Blog

Thousands of blogs are started every day. Most of these blogs are abandoned after the first post. Many more are abandoned after the tenth post. Unfortunately many of these blogs were never indexed, because they failed to get links.

However some old blogs remain indexed, and if you’re lucky enough to find them, you could approach the buyer and make an offer. Most of these blog owners have completely forgotten about their blogs. They may be surprised that somebody wants to buy the blog.

When you actually buying when you buy an established blog?

Firstly you’re buying the domain name, secondly you’re buying the fact that the blog is indexed in the search engines and has some degree of Page Rank. You’re also buying traffic. Using common online tools, you’ll be able to estimate the amount of traffic any blog gets every day. If there is traffic it may be minimal, but it’s still worth money.

Any blog is a long term investment, and you can shortcut your route to profitability when you buy an established, abandoned blog. Consider this option, when next you’re planning a new blog.

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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