Friday, June 21, 2013
How to Earn Money Blogging
1. Sign up for advertising sites like Google AdSense, Chitika or Kontera to add advertising links to your blog. When one of your readers clicks on the link, money is paid into your account. Never click on your own links.
2. Sign up for affiliate marketing websites like Linkshare, ClickBank, Shareasale and Google Affiliate Network. You'll need an established blog with several blog posts to qualify for most affiliate partnerships. Whenever someone clicks an affiliate link on your website and purchases a product from your affiliate partner, you receive a commission.
3. Sell advertising spots on your blog to companies. Once you have incoming traffic and growing popularity, approach companies that fit with your blog topic. Offer advertising space on your website for a specific monthly price. This type of advertising differs from a program like Google AdSense, which only pays when someone clicks. Selling ad revenue guarantees monthly income.
4. Turn your blog into an e-book. Companies such as Amazon, Apple and Smashwords allow authors to self-publish their work on their electronic platforms. Assemble your blog content into an e-book using their formatting guidelines. Advertise your e-book to your blog traffic and on your social media networks to generate sales.
5. Sell your own products on your blog. Technology bloggers may want to sell WordPress templates or their own programming applications. Sell your expertise using a membership site. Fashion bloggers with craft experience can create crafts, jewelry and clothing to sell. Figure out what your skills are and sell them on your website.
How to Get Review Products for Your Blog
1. If you want to obtain products to review, and if you have already crafted some superb content for your blog, the next thing you need to do is make sure people are reading it. Ping search engines, tweet out links to some of your best posts using relative hashtags, comment on other blogs, and promote the great blog you already have put together. Public Relations departments are more likely to respond to a blog with an established readership than to a new blog with an introductory post and a couple of AdSense modules.
2. The second thing you want to do to get products to review for your blog is to establish communication with the type of companies that manufacture products you would like to review. If you are an organic product lover, then find organic company fan pages on facebook and follow their twitter feeds. Casual communication is great for opening doors and for giving you the confidence to pursue step 3.
3. Step 3 is to cold call the companies who create products you would like to review on your blog. Look up their Public Relations contacts online and send an e-mail. If an e-mail address is not available, you can use a 'Contact Us' form to request contact information for a company's PR department specifically.Have a form review product request letter ready that includes the basics of your blog readership numbers, monthly clicks, and comment averages. Present this information along with a tailored pitch related to why you would like the opportunity to review their products. Let the company know the basic types of information you would include in a product review, and let them know the methods of communication you use to promote your blog content.If you are turned down by one company, don't take it too hard. Dust yourself off and contact the next person on your list.
How to Optimize Your Website for Google
1. Design your website in CSS. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets, which are written instructions for how the site is presented to your visitors. CSS allows you to update the text and appearance of your entire site with little effort.
2. Keep your site design simple. Do not have music or videos loading when someone visits your home page. Keep your site clean and easy to navigate.
3. Use meta tags. Google mainly uses meta tags, such as your Title, Description and Keywords to correctly index your site and put it in the right category.
4. Avoid using giant files that take forever to load. Optimize your images before uploading them to your website.
5. Check your links often. The Google bots won't know what to do if they find a broken link or can't find their way off of your home page. Their only option is to leave, and you want your entire site indexed, not just your landing page. Use text links and avoid JavaScript when creating your navigation, and provide the search spiders with a Site Map.
Thursday, June 20, 2013
How to Add AdSense to a WordPress Theme
Install Advertising Manager
1. Navigate to your WordPress blog and log in to your administrative panel.
2. Click 'Plugins' and then click 'Add New.'
3. Type 'Advertising Manager' into the search box and click 'Search Plugins.'
4. Click 'Install Now' to install the Advertising Manager plug-in.
5. Click 'Activate Plugin' to enable Advertising Manager and begin using it to add AdSense code to your WordPress theme.
Import AdSense Code
6. Click the 'Ads' button that now appears in your WordPress administrative sidebar. You will be presented with an input box that you can use to add Google AdSense code.
7. Navigate to Google AdSense in a new tab or window and log in to your account.
8. Copy the AdSense code for an existing advertisement or create a new one if needed.
9. Paste the Google AdSense code into the Advertising Manager input box and then click 'Import' to add the AdSense advertisement to your WordPress administrative panel.
10. Title your advertisement and adjust any other settings related to the ad and then click 'Save.'
Add AdSense Ads to Theme
11. Click 'Appearance' and then 'Editor' in your WordPress administrative panel to edit your theme.
12. Select the theme element where you would like to add the AdSense advertisements.
13. Type '[ad#name]' replacing 'name' with the name of your AdSense ad in the position of the WordPress theme element where you want the advertisement to appear.
14. Click 'Appearance' and then 'Widgets' to add a simple advertising widget to your WordPress theme sidebar.
15. Drag the 'Advertisement' widget to the position on your sidebar where you would like the advertisement to appear and then select the ad that you'd like to display.
How to Make Money Using Paid
1. Avoid paid-to-surf scams. Carefully select programs that are fully operational and disclose their ownership to members. Also ensure the companies have a good track record of paying members punctually and that the sites are fully operational. Some paid-to-surf sites will have all sorts of flashy banners and 'join now' ads, but these features might not even be currently available, meaning you won't make any money until then.
2. Seek paid-to-surf sites that have good referral programs because earning such passive income is a good way to increase your earning potential. Don't choose a site only due to referral incentives but do give it consideration for its added earning potential. Such sites should have a good referral tracking system in place; thus, you receive a commission when someone registers under you. Seek programs that pay 10 to 30 percent commissions three to five levels deep.
3. Seek paid-to-surf sites that pay internationally, if you reside outside the U.S. Most programs are U.S.-based and some claim to accept members from other countries but then will have some sort of disclaimer in fine print stating that members outside the States are not paid but are welcome to sign up and 'be the first to benefit.' Obviously, then, it is best to choose a program without such restrictions. If you live abroad, be sure to read the fine print before enrolling with any paid-to-surf program. You do not want to make the unpleasant discovery that you are not getting paid.
4. Enroll with a site that pays decently. While the amounts are small, remember that using several of them at the same time makes your earnings quickly add up. Using multiple sites simultaneously is the way to make money. Try to find sites that pay at least 50 cents per hour and have a good referral program. Most have a limit of how many hours can be used every month. Try and find ones that allow 50 hours monthly but don't sign up with one limiting less than 25 hours. Find out the mode of payment. Some pay only via check, while others use Pay Pal.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
How to Create a Hyperlink Post Title on Blogger
1. Visit the Blogger blog's homepage and then click 'New Post' in the upper-right portion. Alternatively, go to Blogger.com and click the 'New Post' button located under the blog you wish to modify.
2. Input the following string into the Title field: ' Post Title ' excluding the outer quotation marks. This code creates a hyperlink to the website you specify within the 'URL' example provided. The 'Post Title' field represents the clickable anchor text users see as the title. An example of a hyperlink post title would be: Click Here to Visit Cnn .
3. Click 'Publish Post' to effectively post the entry. Optionally, click 'View Post' on the ensuing page and then click the post title to ensure the hyperlink worked successfully.
How to Obtain a Tracking Pixel in Google
1. Navigate to the Google Adwords account page and enter the login credentials for the Google account. In addition to accepting the existing Google credentials, the page will provide an option for creating separate login credentials for the Adwords account.
2. Set the country and time-zone settings for the account. Select a payment currency from the 'Currency' drop-down menu and press the 'Next' button to continue. Ensure that the correct selections are made prior to clicking 'Next'; the time zone and currency preferences cannot be modified later.
3. Click the link labeled 'Sign into your Adwords account' now displayed on the screen.
4. Click the link labeled 'Conversion Tracking' located at the top of the Adwords home screen.
5. Select 'Other' from the list of conversions displayed on the screen and press the 'Continue' button located on the bottom of the page.
6. Choose the color and format of the tracking button. The shape of the button and color can be set by clicking next to the desired options. Press the 'Continue' button to save the selections.
7. Select a language and security setting from the drop-down menus located at the top of the conversion page screen. Then copy the code displayed in the box at the bottom of the screen; it contains the tracking pixel. Insert this code on any website that requires the tracking pixel.
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