Self Made Minds - A Must read blog for Internet entrepreneurs

I have been a regular reader at this money making online blog http://www.selfmademinds.com. Even through this is a very young a month old one it has already created a buzz in the blog sphere with 1000’s visitors a day. Thanks to Al Carlton and Scott Jones very successful internet entrepreneurs. AL has been earning revenue online since Jan of 2006 through his website Coolest-Gadgets.com and Scott through his Tattoos membership website Tattoos-by-design.co.uk.

Even through both of them are based in UK didn’t deter them from earning a significant income online.

It is always good for budding bloggers to visit their site and take their blogging tips and incorporate that into their blog. Their blog talks about different ways to make money online through affiliate marketing and SEO which is key to any who is aspiring to become online entrepreneurs. Some of the key posts which I really like from their archives are:-

Starting a new forum : this blog posts has inspired me about my article site forum which is still lying inactive for a while. The ideas which they have given is quite impressive for anyone who what to start a new forum or to add additional member to their existing forum.

How long will your trade hours for money : this posts has given me a really though about a membership site. Membership sites are very good ways to increase your residual income which comes year after year. These kinds of sites doesn’t need to much of work once it is set up and if you have a certain number of regular membership. The only effort is marketing the site in the beginning to get membership signed up. Once that is done the maintenance is just easy and doesn’t need too much effort like a content site.

When to monetize a new site or blog : this is one of today’s posts which really tells you about monetize our blog and making money with Adsense.

They are quite promoting this blog very well. Recently I found a review them in Entrepreneur Blog Post Earn a Six-Figure Income Online and Today at John Chow’s Make money online blog. I am a regular reader at John Chow’s blog but I was quite surprised to see a Review me review about SellMadeMinds.

They have a nice blog layout too. Which I think is quite a very good WordPress Theme and quite blends with Adsense optimization.

So check out their blog for more online money making tips.

TJ

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Blogging – How to earn revenue from blogging

There are many form of making revenue online using the internet and writing interesting blogs is just one way to achieve that.

As the web continues to evolve there would be more and more ways to make money online. Also blogging will find its own place too. 

If you are going to start a blog there are several ways you can earn revenue from that. One of the easiest ways is place Google Adsense program on your blog. Optimizing the Google Adsense can generate more revenue as well. The other form is by writing for other, there are several established blogs on the net who are hungry of content and you can get opportunity to write for them and earn revenue. Joining a blog network would be an ideal if you are planning to write for others. 

Writing review is another form of increasing revenue with your blog. Websites like review me, pay per posts offers programs where you can review products, blogs, websites or services on your blog and get paid. 

Do affiliate marketing via your blog is a good source of revenue. There are several Affiliate networks where you can join for free and write some review posts about their products or services and insert their links within the content can earn you revenue if you are able to sell their products through your blog. 

Selling text links is another way to add revenue through your blog. Sites like text-link-brokers offers program which is easy to add into your blog and would be able to earn a recurring income every month if your blog is able to sell all the text link spots. 

Earning revenue through blogging couldn’t be easier. Just remember to keep it simple, until you blog is evolved into an established blog in your niche otherwise it is pretty hard to be successful with a bunch of affiliate links and online advertisements.TJ

Challenges of running multiple websites

Trying to set up a single website and running is itself a difficult task. So what about running several website it will be a nightmare for everyone. But there are ways and means to solve this problem if done properly you can have control, keep consistent and streamline your everyday maintenance and run more effectively.

Some of the reason webmaster runs several websites is to increase income from online advertisements and affiliate revenue. So without getting out of hand you need to run these sites smoothly. How do you do that? Have a reseller hosting account will help you to have your server needs in control.

This will also allows you to maintain several sites fast and easy. Always create a uniform way of naming the username and password for each account. This avoids you to figure out or remember 100’s several passwords. Even through your sites are completely different niches you still can share the common policy like legal and privacy content. This will allows you to save a lot of time too. This also saves you time with managing and keeping track of all the hosting renewal
dates.

Each website need unique email address to identify also it helps in branding. It is not a good idea to have a similar email for your entire website which is not professional but also visitors will be confused. But to manage several emails will consume a hell lot of your time. So here is pretty simple technique which you can make. If you have access to you hosting control panel it can be done it easily. If you don’t have one ask you hosting guys for it. Inside the control panel you can forward all your email into a single email account like Gmail or your personal email. By this way all your emails from different website will be routed to a single email account instead of logging to each and every account.

Save time with your website submission, create a list of website directories and search engines and use that while you make submission for your newly added website. Also when you come across a new website directory or search engine which you might be interested in making a submission add that to the list. Also in a note pad write down you a couple of website title, website description and website keywords which makes it easy while you make a submission.

Adding content – if you website is content based and the revenue source is online advertisements like Google Adsense and other contextual ads, and also you might be looking for unique content so that your web pages will rank higher in search engines. It is better to outsource your content writing to ghost writer who are available around the world with a very little fee. The words of caution is check with their previous writing skills and ask them to write you couple of articles on your topics and if you found satisfactory you can hire them for longer run.

Domain name Management:- Webmaster often find problems like managing their domain registration. Having multiple domain names is a daunting task. It is better you manage that in a proper way. Chances are that some of your domain name might get expired and didn’t notice the expiration email and you bypass that when you check the domain at a later date you might see that your domain is been used by some else. So don’t allow your hard work go in vain. Keep a chart of all your domain name and expiration date of each domain inside these charts. Another best practice is to book and host your domain under one domain registrar. So that you will have a control panel with these guys where you can check often about which domain is going to expire soon and you can renew that earlier. Also another method is to register your domain for a longer period so you need not worry about renewing it each and every year. Saves time on this too.

Bottom-line is running your multiple sites are consistency. Otherwise you may run into different directions at once and spin out of control. So instead of earning revenue your might be trying to stay at the top of everything.

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TJ

Blogging to Make Online Income

Internet opens up a world of opportunity and resources that otherwise would have been impossible so why don’t your take advantage of this. There are several programs which can make your money and build passive income.

I started making money online using Google Adsense program in 2004 when I was admitted to that program. Later I started diversifying to Affiliate programs, pay per lead program several other online money making programs which earns me to make a good amount of money online.  One of my favorite ways to increase income to my earning is blogging. I run and maintain several blogs which is bring me in couple of thousands per month and blogs or web logs is one of the hottest trend going on the web today. It seems like every internet marketer is doing to earn some money online. A web log is defined as a online dairy where the owner of the blog writes about this business or topic of interests.

An active blogger posts several posts a week on niches which he or she is comfortable writing and is an expert in that niche. Before start your online venture understand which area you are comfortable and expert and is it able to write 100’s and 100’s of posts about that subject. If you can then start a blog online and start posting interesting posts about that subject.

Before starting a blog you need to find a domain name for your blog which should be closing related to your niche. I recommend to have a keyword rich domain name, For example if you are planning to write about technology I would Advice to have a name like www. mytechtips.com or www. mytechblog.com having these names is easy to remember for a reader when he do the revisit your blog. After you have decided about the name look for a web hosting company who can host your blog at affordable rates and keep running your blog 24/7 with any trouble. You can Google online for cheap web hosting companies , usually a hosting company charges between $ 7 to $15 a month to host a small web site. If are can’t make a decision about which hosting company is good or bad. There are several web hosting reviews website where you can make comparison about the hosting packages and you can choose one of them.

Once you are done with the hosting issue you can download the Free Word Press into your site and start blogging. Word Press has several themes to choose from. If you find difficulty in understanding and maintain the Word Press program I recommend downloading Gobala Krishnan’s EasyWordPress where he educates you how to use WordPress and make money with Google Adsense.  Also you can hire a web developer to design you blog with the theme you like, also there are several word press themes available online. The advantage of having a web developer is you can customize the blog according to your choice.

Once that blog setup is done you can apply for Google Adsense it may take couple of days to review your blog and get a response from Google. Once you are admitted to the Adsense Program you can generate code and place it on your web pages with different ad format.

The challenge for any blogger is to write posts with interesting content. So to be successful blogger you need to added unique and quality information on your blog at least 3-4 times a day for couple of months. Start of with articles which can write about your niches and once you are out of ideas you can visit other website and article directories where people have written about the same niches and rewrite those articles in your own words. Some other ways to added content is write reviews about products and services in your industry, visit other blog which is in your niche and read their archives and get some idea from it and write about it. Find free products and information about your niche from other places on the web and post it. Add current events happening in your niches. Take interview of people who are expert in your niches and post it on your blog. These are few tips on how to you would be to write blog posts if you are out of ideas.

Adding blog posts for a while will be a daunting task and you won’t find much traffic as well unless you site is been indexed by search engines. For some people this phrase could be frustrating and they finally give up. But I recommend don’t waste the time your spend all these days to build  up your blog hang in there and start adding more content. A good blog at at-least 100 pages to get a 20-30 visitors a day which is not a lot of traffic. If you add at least 3 pages a day for at least 6 months you will be having 540 pages of content which a good amount of page which can get you a decent traffic as well as a good page rank.

Once your blog is established you can add affiliate program link and add products and services which is related to your niche from www.cj.com www.shareasale.com etc which can also bring you some passive income in the long run. You can add Text links on to your blog though text link brokers I high recommend Text-link-broker.com, once you are admitted to their program you would be placing text links from advertisers on your blog and start earning a recurring monthly income.

There are other ways to monetized your blog site with programs like Kontera, Chitika  and more which will also generate you some small monthly income online.

You can have a advertisement page on your blog where you can list the price you charge for each banner or text on your blog and talk directly to advertisers who is interested in placing an ad on your blog.

There are several bloggers who do this to make money online. So there is no secret or hidden thing in making money online with blogging.

Please feel free to leave comment on this post.

TJ

How to Start an Affiliate Program for your website

Having a affiliate marketing program for your product and services can increase the visibility of your website and brand for your website, sell your products and services and finally traffic to your website. Website owners struggle to get traffic for their website and make sales for their products through these banners from these affiliate websites. The majority of this traffic your website receives is very high quality targeted traffic and these visitors can buy your product or services. There are two options if you are going to have an affiliate program on your website:

Join a network of affiliate program – This is one of the easiest and best for a start because it is easy and no hassle. All these affiliate networks have its on program set up which makes your task easy. They will promote your program and all these affiliates will drive the traffic to your site as well as increase the link popularity and gain ranking on search engines. These are several thing you need to look at while you choose a affiliate network each network has it own set of fees and rules. So picking the right network is daunting task.

Most of the website owners get into a program just makes a start rather than creating an internal affiliate program. And for these folks this is the best direction to go.  Some of the best way to figure out the best network is tap on to the industry related affiliate forums and blogs where you will find the best and the worst comments about every network been discussed or posted often. Also don’t take these comments as granted you need to check the source and are these comments really good.

Find the right affiliate networks by comparing with each other and find what they are offering always in business the unique one stand out from the crowd and that’s the one we have to choose if you are planning to join these networks. Some of the important thing to keep in mind is the fee they charge for the merchant, how many number of affiliate are active on the network, weather it is related to your niche and what is the acceptable method of payment to affiliate.

www.paydotcom.com
www.leadflash.com
www.linkconnector.com
www.zanox.us
www.kolimbo.com
www.avangate.com
www.cj.com
www.fusionquest.com
www.pantheranetwork.com
www.implix.com
www.brightshare.com
www.regnow.com
www.thebingoaffiliates.com
www.searchfeed.com
www.wagerwebaffiliates.com
www.dotaffiliate.com
www.precharge.com
www.affliateshop.com
www.worldwidebrands.com
www.casalemedia.com
www.affiliatetraction.com
www.revenuepilot.com
www.affiliator.com
www.tradedoubler.com
www.shareasale.com
www.qualityunit.com
www.clixgalore.com
www.linkshare.com

Some of the area where new merchants should look while shopping around for affiliate networks.

Fee structure - Price is the most important part while choosing the affiliate networks. Some networks charge a set up fee while you start; others charge you a certain amount as deposit to ensure that the networks will be able to pay to its affiliates their commission. Some networks charge on a monthly basis. So analysis the rates of the network and select the best suitable for your business.

Support and service:- Always choose the best networks which offers you full services the key is to find the level of service and support they provide after you join them, find out that are they easily accessible when you want and get things fixed when you have a problem. Also choose the one who help you with all sort of technical difficulties and make recommendation to your products and services.

Check the competition:- having a competitor in a network is an advantage as well as an disadvantage for you. Advantage is that if many competitors are on the list the chances are there that more affiliate to promote your program. The disadvantage is that too many competitors in the list can be a fight and messy among these competitors to attract more affiliate to their program. A good Affiliate Network limits the number of competitor in their list.

Buy an affiliate software:- The next option is to buy a affiliate software. The good thing about having affiliate software is you can avoid the hefty fees that you are paying to the affiliate networks. But the problem buy software is that you need to install and maintain yourself. While that sound little hard but actually it is a easy task. Before you buy any software program for affiliates do some research and test and look out the demo of these program and pick the one which suits well for your business. The other disadvantage is having a standalone affiliate program on your website is you are responsible for maintaining and promote the program to affiliates.  Affiliate marketers are smart people so make sure that you affiliate program you are offering is professional and you are giving them the best commission whey they make a sale. Otherwise affiliate marketers will be driven to your competitors who are offering high payouts and best interface for their program.

So always look for a affiliate network or affiliate software which is ideal and best suits for your website to increase the sales of your products and services.

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