Blogging for Dollars Blog

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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Want to work from home and make money blogging? Then consider WordPress to be your most powerful tool. Once installed on a site, WordPress is endlessly customizable, allowing you to create exactly the high-traffic and high-income site you want.

Here are three steps to consider when creating money-making WordPress blogs.

1. Decide on Your Business Model: Will You Keep Your Blog or Sell It?

Your first step must always be to decide on a business model (how you’ll make money) with your new WordPress blog.

Business models to consider include: creating a blog to sell (known as blog “flipping”), creating a blog on which you’ll sell one or more affiliate products, creating a blog to sell your own product, or creating a blog on which you’ll sell advertising.

Whichever business model you choose, you can use WordPress plugins to customize each blog for a particular model.

2. Choose Money-Making Blog Topics and Styles

Your next step is to choose a money-making blog topic. You can make money with thousands of topics, but here’s a big hint: sell what people are buying. Often new bloggers are told to find a niche which has little or no competition, but this is useless advice. Niches will little competition have few customers.

Here’s a shortcut to finding a profitable topic: find out whether magazines exist for this topic. If magazines exist, it’s a money making topic.

Once you’ve chosen a topic, it’s time to choose a style for your blog. My favorite style for small money-making blogs is a review style. Review blogs, as the name suggests, focus on reviews. Since people always want to know the good and the bad about products before they buy, any review blog will attract traffic.

Another blog style to consider is a news blog. A news blog offers the latest news in the topic you’ve chosen. The benefit of a news blog is that it’s easiest to create content for such a blog.

Unless you’re an experienced blogger, be wary of straight content blogs. Content-heavy blogs need hundreds of posts to gain traction; and you would need to post to the blog at least once a day. However, the benefit of content blogs is that you can build them into authority sites, which you can eventually sell for five or six figure sums.

Once you’ve added some content to your blog, look for WordPress plugins for that particular style of blog. For example, you’ll find eBay plugins for various styles of blog.

3. Testing Blog Ideas: Is It an Eagle or a Duck?

Every blog you create will surprise you at some stage. Therefore, test lots of blog ideas. You’re looking for a few soaring eagles amongst a lot of waddling ducks.

WordPress makes it easy to test blog ideas. You can set up a blog in minutes, customize it, and add content to it. You’ll soon see whether it’s an eagle or a duck.

If you want to make money from home, WordPress blogs will help you to create a great income. Get started today.

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Blogs demand content. Are you running out of ideas? This article will give you seven ways to build content for your blog.

1. Read Forums in Your Niche

No matter what topic your blog covers, there are forums in your niche. Scan them each day, and take note of discussions, and questions asked. Forums keep you abreast of new ideas.

Take the time establish yourself in at least one forum. Becoming a trusted forum member will attract readers to your blog.

2. Keep a Running List of Questions

I have many blogs, so I keep a content file for each one. Whenever someone asks me a question on a blog’s topic, I make a note of the question so I can add it to the content file. I also write questions which occur to me into a small notebook; each night, I copy the questions my blogs’ content files.

Question are useful because they trigger your thinking. Each question can lead to several blog posts over the course of a year or two.

3. Read Your Referrer Logs

Read your blog’s referrer logs at least once a week. What search terms did visitors enter into one of the search engines? Copy the search terms into your blog’s content file.

4. Write Way-Back Posts when Your Blog’s a Year Old

Time passes, and suddenly your blog is one year old. Because blogs are structured chronologically new visitors are unaware of the great content you’ve posted in the past.

Not you can write “One Year Ago Today” and “One Year Ago This Month” posts, linking to great content they’ve missed.

5. Write Series – You Can Keep Them Running for Years

I love series, because you can keep them going as long as you wish.

Here are three ideas for series:

* 100 Ways To ________

* 99 __________ Tips

* 25 Things You Need to Know About _________

Tip: When you start a series, keep track of them in your content file, copying the URL of each new item into your file. It’s easy to forget about a series, even if you only have one blog.

6. Read Comments on Your Own and Others’ Blogs

You do read other blogs in your area, don’t you? Others’ blogs can spark ideas for content. Read the comments on blogs, and comment yourself when you can add to a conversation.

7. Write Draft Posts

At the start of each week, I create several new posts for each blog. Each post may only contain the post’s title, and five or six sentences. I then save each post as a draft.

When it’s time to complete the draft, it usually only takes me ten to fifteen minutes, because I already know what I want to say.

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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