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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