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Making Money Efficiently from Blogs

The chance is that you know about Adsense and how to make money from it using your blog. If you haven't heard about it, well, you can generate money from your blog and the most popular way of doing that is using the Google Adsense Program. In fact, successful bloggers earn more than $100,000 per year from their blogs.



In this blog I've posted some articles to guide you generate money from blogs. Most of the tips come from extremely long articles of successful bloggers that I've compressed to make the readings much much shorter for you. Trust me, if you have no idea about monetizing blogs, learning to do it from the basics can take a really long time. Having short articles that compresses all the important points can help you a lot, because you don't want to spend too much time on learning how to do it. There are 3 basic questions you should be asking yourself when learning to build a monetizing blog:
  • How to get more visitors to your blog?
  • What's the best programs to monetize your blog?
  • How to optimize your blog and ad designs to maximize your earning?
If you're a first timer on this, I'll give you some quick pointers on what are some of the major things you should know if you want to successfully monetize your blog. It can hurt you a lot if you don't know these things (hurt = cost you time and energy with little in return). This list isn't the most comprehensive ones on the subject, but will give you the big picture on what to learn.
  • Adsense - Know Adsense and learn how to optimize its use in your blog. Using Adsense isn't just about putting the codes in your blog. There are tips on how to maximize your earnings by optimizing you Adsense placement, colors, and overall design.
  • SEO - Learn Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This is needed to help you get your blog to rank high on search engines, e.g. Google. In other words, you'd want your blog to be in the first page of Google search result when somebody googles keywords related to your blog.
  • Keyword Research and Niche - Think carefully on what niche area you want to blog about and what keywords are the best for your blog URL, titles, descriptions, and post titles. Simply using www.yourname.com as a URL will put you at a huge disadvantage at getting rank well, unless your name is Paris Hilton, which gets search the most (to learn from what she has to say about life, I guess).
  • Blog Promotion - Money only comes in when there are visitors to your blog, thousands of them. How to get them to your blog isn't easy. You have to learn how to promote your blog.
  • Monetizing Programs - Bloggers out there don't just use Adsense. There are tons of other programs, affiliates, and sponsorships. The trick is to know which is the best for you and how to optimize their use in your blog.
  • Quality Blog Content - Anybody can write anything on their blogs. But what articles attract the most readers? Blogging isn't just about posting articles. You have to learn the tips and tricks to get others read what you write.
  • What NOT to do - There are things that if you do will hurt your monetizing effort. For example, if you have Adsense put in blogs that are 'smart-priced' by Adsense, you'll earn very little. Read also the Adsense Terms and Conditions so that you don't do anything that'll get you banned from the program. 'Smart-pricing' is explained below.
  • Social Media - One way of promoting your blog is through networking inside social media networks, such as Digg.com, StumbleUpon.com, etc. There are tricks to get the most out of them.
  • Getting Visitor Traffic - How to bring visitors to your blog? And how to get more and more of them, over time? There are many ways to get people to your blog - social media, search engines, word-of-mouth, recommendations. The more you know about this the better.
  • RSS Subscribers - People will subscribe to your blog if you have good contents, which means you'll get more readers, more visitors, and most importantly more exposure. Are there tips out there how to increase the number of subscribers? Yes, there are (read some of the articles below).
Articles Related to Monetizing Blogs
Here's the list of articles I've posted that can help you learn the tips and tricks to make money using your blogs. The essence of these articles come from the best tips out there written by successful bloggers. They're not listed in particular orders but the top one, 'Methods to Make Money Online from Blogs', is a good place to start. The rest of the articles covers most of the big topics in monetizing blogs as listed above.
Top image by jenn jenn.

Posted by Zaff on 17.3.08 0 comments  

List of Useful Contents


Template Guides and Instructions:

Making Money from Blogs:
Useful Blog Tips:
Template Design Tutorials:Top photo by Paul Worthington.

Posted by Zaff on 16.3.08 0 comments  

Our Blogger Templates: What's in Here?


Thanks for visiting Our Blogger Templates. This blog is for all bloggers who wants to use new templates to replace the all-too-common templates provided by Blogger. There are tons of other templates out there, so, what makes this one different? I designed them with the priority of giving you huge freedom of modifying the templates completely - just from the Fonts and Colors panel.

When designing the Blogger templates here, I focus on the users' need to have full control of changing or modifying the templates easily from the Fonts and Colors tab in the Layout panel. This means that you can easily change the colors and fonts of almost all elements (background colors, font colors, font type and size) in these templates without going through the XML and CSS code. This is the easiest way to make your template personal and unique without tweaking the code.

List of Contents
I've also added some tips and guides that I've learned throughout building this blog. Rather than letting those tips in fade away slowly from my thoughts, I have them posted here for your convenience. To give you some ideas, those tips can help you improve your blog ranking, earn more from Adsense, get more subscribers, etc.

Share These Templates
If you see templates or posts worthy of getting a praise, you can promote them to other bloggers by clicking the Bookmark button at the bottom of each post. From there, you can choose which sites to share the content with (i.e. Digg, Facebook, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, etc). I'd be the first to thank you on your effort of supporting the well-being of this blog.

Blogger Templates
Blog Tips and Monetizing Guides
Blogger Template Design Tutorials
Top image credit: Refracted Moments.

Posted by Zaff on 13.3.08 4 comments  

Some quick guides for these templates...

Here are the links to some important guides that you might want to have a look if you're using my templates...

  1. Installing the template in your blog
  2. How to upload your own header image
  3. What are Linkbars in my templates
  4. Customizing the templates easily
  5. Tips and problems when installing templates
  6. Having problems with my templates?
  7. Start designing from an existing template
  8. Testing and viewing in other browsers

Posted by Zaff on 4.1.08 0 comments  

Table of Contents:

Template Guides and Instructions:

  1. Installing the template in your blog
  2. How to upload your own header image
  3. What are Linkbars in my templates
  4. Customizing the templates easily
  5. Tips and problems when installing templates
  6. Having problems with my templates?
  7. Start designing from an existing template
  8. Testing and viewing in other browsers
Tutorials:
  1. Introduction: Tutorials on Blogger Template Design
  2. Tutorial 1: The Structure of a Blogger Template
  3. Tutorial 2: The Structure of a Blogger Template Code
  4. Tutorial 3: The Structure of CSS Styling Section
  5. Tutorial 4: Setting the Properties of a Container
  6. Tutorial 5: Common Containers and Elements in a Blogger Template
  7. Tutorial 6: Using the Generic Blogger Template
  8. Tutorial 7: Setting the Template Size
  9. Tutorial 8: The Body Section of the Blogger Template Code
  10. Tutorial 9: More Explanation about the Body Code
  11. Tutorial 10: Making a 3-Column Template and More ...
  12. Tutorial 11: Starting Your Own Blogger Template
  13. Tutorial 12: How To Embed Images as Background
Miscelaneous:
  1. Compilation of other useful posts

Posted by Zaff on 21.5.07 0 comments  

Compilation of useful guides

In the process of creating this blog and producing materials and templates for the posts, I had to go through a lot of readings related to blogging, monetizing, Adsense, HTML coding, template design, ad positioning, and what not. There were lots of tiring hours Googling to fetch the good reading materials among the haystack of so-so ones. Rather than just leave them stacked untouched in my folders, I thought it'll be better if I just put them up here as a Compilation of Useful Guides for others to have them handy. It'll be quite a service for me to put down some of the stuffs that might be valuable. I'm placing them in proper categories (but not in the order of importance):

Blogger Template Hacks and Tips:

  1. How to put Adsense code into your Blogger post body?
  2. How to insert Adsense code into your new Blogger post body?
  3. Inserting Adsense inside your post in the post-page only.
  4. Adsense code parser by Blogcrowds - putting the code inside the post.
  5. Adding language translator to your blog.
  6. The proper way to write codes in your blog.
  7. Postable - turning codes into post-friendly form.
Monetizing the Blog with Adsense and Other Ads:
  1. How bloggers make money from blogs?
  2. How much money can a blog earn?
  3. Making your Adsense earnings grow.
  4. Is click fraud really a problem?
  5. How to profit from knowing the most expensive keywords?
  6. Adsense can be run on the same page as other contextual ads.
  7. Text Link Ads is great to monetize blogs.
Keywords and SEO (Search Engine Optimization):
  1. META tag help pages, free META tag analyzer & builder - web tool that analyzes builds a META tag in your blog to make it search-engine friendly and improve SEO.
  2. Adsense top paying keywords.
  3. Highest paying Adsense keywords.
  4. Google Adsense top paying keywords.
  5. Current top internet searches.
Blog Design Resources:
  1. W3Schools Online Web Tutorials - excellent for learning web programming.
  2. Colormatch - color picker for template designer.
  3. FontList - font listing to help pick fonts for template designer.
Improving Your Blog Value and Visibility:
  1. Calculating the value of your blog or other blogs/websites.
  2. Big list of blog search engines.
  3. Blogs and RSS Search Engines.
Other Useful Posts:
  1. Why he is not an Amazon.com affiliate?
  2. Recommended Ad networks and Affiliate programs to make money.
(I'll update this frequently whenever I see good posts...)

Posted by Zaff on 15.5.07 1 comments  

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