How I Started Making $3,000 a Month Blogging About Travel

It has been about one full year since I started blogging about travel, and I have started to generate $3,000 or more a month via my travel blogs. My very first post was published on May, 4th, 2010, and it was nothing but grammar mistakes and partaking in an activity that I really don’t enjoy: writing. I’m telling you this because even though I am a horrible writer, English os not my first language, and I need other people to proofread my work, I’m proof that you really don’t have to be the best at something in order to do make money via your blog. I have started to make at least $3,000 a month via my main travel blog, wanderingtrader.com.Initially, I started my blog to capture traffic for a day trading business that I was running. I wanted to get more people interested in day trading and,...

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What Aspiring Actors Can Teach You About Blogging

If you were an aspiring actor, and you spotted a famous movie star on the street, would you run up to them and ask them for help? You might, but I’m willing to bet that 99 times out of 100, you would get nowhere. In fact, those odds are probably very generous.I am willing to bet that those odds would improve if you were to approach them, briefly introduce yourself, compliment them on their work, and ask if it would be okay to write to their agent with a few questions that they might consider answering if they get time.When you’re dealing with people above your station, the hard sell is almost always a failure. If you were to deal with your fellow bloggers in the spirit of the more polite and unobtrusive aspiring actor, you would establish some highly valuable relationships.As Darren explained,...

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7 Powerful Reasons Why Companies Will Pay for You to Blog

Influential bloggers are being paid top dollar to write sponsored posts (thousands of dollars per post is not unheard of). They’re gifted with luxury items, cars and overseas trips, and invited to events previously exclusive to A-List celebrities and long-established journalists.Bloggers worldwide are proving to be fierce competition for mainstream media, as companies decide how to get the best return on investment for their marketing buck.If you have the following seven things, then your blog and social media networks will be highly valuable digital assets, sought after by major companies.Even if you don’t quite have the same reach and clout as some of these bloggers, you can still apply these principles to negotiate your own deals with smaller businesses in your niche.ProBlogger Training...

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Run an Awesome Blog Contest in 5 Steps

Running a contest on your blog can be a great way to generate new readership, reactivate stagnant subscribers, and increase the engagement of your readers.Competitions can be a lot of hard work for little or no results, unless you run them to a plan and have a clear objective in mind.Here are five tips for running an awesome blog contest campaign.As bloggers we love readers, we love engagement, we love community—a contest can help you achieve any or all of these things. When planning your contest, set a goal as to what you need to achieve.Do you want more:email SubscribersRSS readerssocial media fanssales of your productcomments and engagement?Set your goals as numbers—if you wish to increase your email subscribers, how many do you want?The true measure of a successful competition is in its...

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3 Ways to Reduce Bounce Rates and Increase Conversions

One of the many tough obstacles that newer bloggers have to deal with is the fact that many of their visitors, which they work very hard to get, will often “bounce” away from their pages—they’ll immediately leave the blog after landing on the homepage.This “bounce rate” can have a drastic effect on your blog’s success at any stage, but especially in the beginning. It’s very important to be able to keep the interest of your earliest visitors in order to build the loyal following that’s the essential foundation of any great blog. So, what can you do to keep people around your blog long enough to explore its great content?As a blogger, you’re probably very familiar with (and even have) a navigation bar on your blog, and you likely recognize its importance in helping readers get to your content.However,...

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The Science of Blogging

The word “science” comes from the Latin root “scientia,” which means knowledge. This is the reason why the word science is attached to many “non scientific” terms like “the science of theology.”A blog is defined as follows:A blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent “post” (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom.—Darren Rowse, What is a Blog?Most websites are intended to acquire or spread knowledge, hence science and blogs have a lot to do with each other.The following scientists’ quotes do not refer specifically to blogging, but I think they can teach us a lot about it.I am sure that I am not smarter than other scientists. Psychologists have said that my IQ is about 160, I recognize that there are...

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Guest Posting: Link Building VS Familiarity

I enjoy guest posting when I find the time as it allows me to write about subjects I can’t cover on my own websites. More importantly, it’s a great way of raising my profile, pushing traffic towards my websites and connecting with an audience that I have not had any dealings with as yet.I’m sure you are all aware of the benefits of guest posting so I won’t speaking about that too much today. What I would like to do is compare the benefits of guest posting on a small selection of blogs and websites regularly against guest posting on new websites every week.Obviously, it benefits you more to write on large traffic websites that have a large audience. That’s a no brainer. For the sake of argument though let’s assume that all websites you will be writing for will have the same traffic and give...

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5 Ways to Improve Your Writing and Become a Better Blogger

When it comes to being a better blogger and building a successful blog it is important for you to realize that your communications skills matter a lot. Working on improving your writing as a blogger can result in great rewards for you since writing is one of the major modes of communication for bloggers.Whether you like it or not as a blogger you have to write everyday. Your writing can be in the form of articles on your blog, it can be in the forms of guest posts on other blogs, it can be in the form of your contribution on forums and it can be in the form of comments on other blogs. This article will be giving you a few tips to help you improve your writing and make you a better blogger.1. Write EverydayThis can be something extremely difficult to do but is something that can help improve...

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At the End of the Day, It’s Still About People

Sure, you want to make money. You want to make a lot of money. Maybe you’re doing all of these things to help you make money. But, you know what? Without people, there is no money. You absolutely cannot make money without people, unless you’re a bank robber, and I don’t suggest that.Your online business is about people. It doesn’t matter how great your report is or your new product or your blog, if there’s no people, there’s no sales. You have to cater to the people. It doesn’t matter if you sell information, offer a service or even what niche you’re in. It ALL revolves around people–the consumer.You’re told to build traffic so your site will be a success. You need traffic or it will fail. What is traffic? Yep, people.You’re told you need a list so you can promote your products to. Without...

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The Importance Of Scheduling Your Blog Posts

One of the most important responsibilities of running a popular blog such as Blogging Tips is scheduling posts. This is particularly true for blogs in which the blog owner doesn’t write every day themselves. That is, they just need to organise the articles written by staff and guest posters.Scheduling is just as important for blog owners who write the majority of their content (this is perhaps less true if your posting frequency is irregular or you only publish an article once a week). One of the most important lessons I have learned over the last 4 or 5 years of running blogs that publish articles daily is that it is vital to schedule posts in advance. You never know when something unexpected will come up that will take away time from your usual working routine. Sickness and family emergencies...

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How PPC Campaign Works to Get Traffic for your Website

Pay per click (PPC) is an internet marketing campaign that is designed to attract targeted customers to your website. There are various other techniques that plays important roles in the vast field of internet marketing but PPC is one that I know well! Some people feel that running a PPC campaign alone is enough to get users to their website and have a successful business. I personally think it is a bad idea to just run PPC. People should start running other campaigns such as search engine optimization, social media marketing, etc to get good rankings and have a successful website.  Here is a little teaser on getting PPC traffic to your website.  Also, top comment below will receive a code for $100 if free Google Adwords PPC traffic to your site.How to Set Up a Successful PPC ProgramA...

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FREE Is The Future of Business

Right now I am reading a book by Chris Anderson called “Free – The Future of A Radical Price”.  You can find this on iTunes for FREE.  You can also search Google and find it pretty quick. Chris Anderson is Wired magazine’s editor in chief and gives us a glimpse of why the cost of doing business online is falling closer and closer to zero.  I really like how this has helped me with everything I am doing online.  The best way to get people online is to give them something free.  You see this on all the top blogs you read, top sites you visit and pretty much everywhere online.In Free, Anderson breaks down the priceless economy into six broad categories, demonstrating how to make money in each:- “Freemium”: Free Web software and services, and some content, to users of...

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Blogging Tips That Can Help You Become Successful

For many people, blogging represents a steady source of income. However, this activity can easily bring along not only a nice monthly income but also a great reputation. In this post we will go over thing that you should do to help you achieve online success, while making good money doing it. However, if you want to get some truly amazing results, you must consider a few important tips to help you become everything you possibly can.The Most Important Tips for Successful BloggingThe most important element, which can help you become successful and earn money, is the traffic towards your blog.  Getting traffic and knowing things about your traffic will play a vital role. The more visitors you have, the better it is for your income and reputation. Furthermore, if you are able to write interesting...

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Key Concepts in Blog Marketing Strategy

Blog marketing has emerged as a great way to promote online businesses. While new concepts on blog marketing are evolving every day, there are few strategies that have been time tested and proven worthy. Here are a few clear and pragmatic concepts that will boost up your online blog marketing.Using the right blog templates that match your theme is important to create an impressive blog. Similar to the way the marketing brochure templates help in creating effective marketing collateral, website blog templates can make the task of designing your blog much easier.It is a well known fact that blogging evolved out of personal interest in expressing self, business blogging on the other hand is concerned with growth of the company and exploring the mindset of customers. This is why customer centric...

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You Can’t Wow Them Until You Whoa Them; Writing Headlines

Do you suck at writing headlines? Does it seem like you can’t get your blog posts read? Maybe it’s your headline. You want the headline to stop them from skim reading so you can wow them with your content.There’s been a lot of talk about content lately. I hate to repeat that content is king, but it really is. However, if your content isn’t getting read, it doesn’t matter how great it is, no one will know about it.How do you get your content read? First you have to grab the reader’s attention. You do that with a killer headline. In fact, you should practice writing headlines as much as possible. If you’re sitting there bored, can’t think of what to write, try writing some headlines.First and foremost, headlines should be capitalized. That’s what grabs the reader’s attention. Filler words like...

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4 Tips For Writing A Great Blog Post

Contributed by a comprehensive education system today, it’s not a strange sight to see young kids able to churn out Shakespeare worthy poems on an everyday basis. However even so, their eloquence doesn’t always automatically translate to an article that is able to leave an impression on people from all walks of life. In this case, the essence of a great blog post is often related to the personality imparted on it and thus as elaborated below.1. Use catchy yet short titlesIn the effort to create an enjoyable read, the blog post title is more often than not underestimated as simply a title. Borrowing from the phrase “Never judge a book for its cover”, it is precisely the anti-thesis of the phrase that stimulates the initial desirability of choosing the blog post to read. The ideal format of...

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Does Unlimited Web Hosting Really Exist

It is indeed sad to know that the web hosting companies which claim to provide unlimited web hosting space isn’t really true. Infact, this is more of a sales tactic or a promotional jig to convince users to buy hosting from them. Even the best web hosting companies are not hesitant of using this cheap tactic.Ok, lets not talk about an experienced webmaster here as he would have already come to know the truth by now. But what about newbie bloggers or webmasters ? Obviously, when a user comes across the word unlimited, he thinks that he won’t face problems In future as far as space is concerned and he won’t have to worry about traffic and bandwidth issues. But when a user carefully analyses the hidden terms and conditions, they come to know that the so called unlimited space is hardly 20 GB...

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What Makes Windows 8 Wonderful

Here’s something that makes Windows 8 beautiful, delicious and the OS of future!1. Innovative DesignWindows 8 is blessed with an intuitive and an innovative design. The design though basically made for touch screen netbooks or a few desktops, runs wonderfully on normal computers i.e. the computers without touch equipment as well.If you have had a look at the Windows 8 interface, the user interface is totally tile based just like you see in Windows 7 powered mobile phones. The tile based interface is quite attractive, but if I am not wrong you will get a phony experience even in your desktop! Some might like it, while some might not. I somewhat like the interface as it’s something I haven’t ever seen in a desktop, but I am not sure if with time it will prove boring.2. Security +1Have you ever...

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4 Effective Strategies For Boosting Blog Traffic

Nothing beats SEO when boosting your blog’s traffic. SEO after all was designed for one thing and that’s to get your website more visibility. Getting to the top of search engines can be considered the holy grail of any SEO strategy. Sometimes it’s not what your competition is doing but what you as a blog owner fails to do.1. Links, Links, LinksThey always say that you just can’t get enough links. These are like tiny votes for your website and more votes get you ranked higher. There is no other way for search engines to know your website’s reputation but by looking at other websites that link back to your site. This increases your websites value and increases your ranking.Guest PostingBlog CommentingArticle SubmissionsSocial BookmarkingForumsIt would be a good idea to diversify your link building...

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6 Essentials A Blog Must Have To Become A Charming Blog

There are few essentials things a blog needs in order to succeed. If your blog is missing any of these essentials it would be harder for you to create a successful blog or I can just say if you miss these essentials you are increasing the probability for your blog to fail !Here are few essentials that I consider to be a key to your blog’s success.ContentQuality content will be the first essential thing that will decide any blog’s quality. If you are missing it then definitely your blog is not going to be a successful one. Have you ever seen any blog that has become popular without any quality content or anything that attracts people?I can be sure, you can’t find any such blogs. Let me know any such blogs I would be very interested to know about it  TrafficTraffic is the second essential...

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Get Great Content Ideas For Your Blog [How-To]

As bloggers the content we put out on our blog is a very integral part of our success. Building a successful blog is not just about pumping out just any content at anytime, it is about finding out what works and what people really want to read.I have been achieving a lot of success with my blog where I talk about nutrisystem and medifast lately by leveraging some time-tested and proving tips I will be sharing with you below. You will be able to see your results go over the roof by implementing the tips below alone.Leverage the Power of Blog CommentsWhenever I’m really desperate about writing link bait and viral content on my blog the first thing I do is look for the top blogs in my niche. For example, I talk about medifast and nutrisystem on my blog. I know a lot of people are willing to learn...

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8 Lessons growing from one Site to a Million monthly page views

Mark pages views some time ago one of my sites crossed the$ 1 million each month. Below is the screenshot of Google Analytics for the month of August.While I know, there are thousands of other Web sites out there with much higher traffic, reaching that milestone made me very happy, as it is a Web site, I built from scratch (i.e., I still remember when I registered the domain).Below are the eight most important lessons I learned then:Most of the who read this blog probably think this is my site more and more cost-effective. Well, is not. The reason? Tips traditional blogs, to make the money online, SEO or Internet marketing trucs traditionnels les blogs, faire de l' argent en ligne, referencement ou Internet marketing assez en comparaison avec des comme blogs sont petites enough assez en comparaison...

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12 Steps to launch a successful Blog

I decided to start my first blog back in February 2011, I was all excited and ready to be able to share my knowledge and experience with the world. Even if, initially, traffic is very low, after having had a specific plan in place and know the subject, I was blogging on very well, managed to reach 4000 unique visitors last month. In short, the key to a successful blog ingredient is to create great content that teaches people something, to optimize content for search engines and distribute via social media.I have a list of 12 steps that you must follow to create a blog with success. They come from all of his personal experience, from one idea to the creation of a blog to help people to learn social media, SEO and blogs.1 Decide what you are going to blog, it is by far the most important decision...

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