Drive Traffic To Your Blog With These 8 Article Writing Tips

*Write a review on a book, experience, movie, radio show, or something you really liked. People like sincere reviews.

*Write tips on something you really know. You don’t have to do much research. It can be something you heard about recently, some opinions and advice, any bit of inputs. People love tips!

*Pick out a few questions people want to know the most. Do a little bit of research and answer their questions. They’ll love you for it.

*Write like you are talking. It can be very casual and may be more interesting for people to read. You don’t have to be an expert in writing, but just write whatever comes to mind.

*Choose a topic that is in less competition with other articles. Instead of home based business, you could write “how to start a home based business” or “How to find an online business that really works”.

*Give readers an introduction to what you’re going to tell them. Once you caught their attention, tell them in the body paragraph.

*Write a brief paragraph about you at the end of the article. This will help people know you better. If you are writing more articles, what is a better way than introduce yourself first?

*Add a link back from your article to your blog to increase traffic and potential sales.

The duo of Blogging and Pinging is not a singing group. It is a way to attract visitors to your website. If you are attempting to make money blogging this is essential and more importantly FREE.

At this point, we all know what a blog is. So what is a ping?

Pinging is a method of informing others that your blog exists and also lets them know when a new post is made. Putting blogging and pinging together is extremely effective at getting your blog, no matter how big or small, indexed by the major search engines.

Some may say ‘who cares, I can get my site indexed now’.   Blogging and pinging solves the problem of  having to wait for spiders to come index your site which can take weeks.

All of us that are blogging to make money need all the automated help we can get and pinging is one way to notify the world that we have new content.

Check out sites like:

Ping o Matic

Ping Goat (love the name)

Also, your blogging platform should also give you a place to list websites that you want to ping everytime you add a new post.

For example, WordPress gives you a place to add these sites by clicking on settings/writing and update services at the bottom of the page.

What are vlogs exactly? The general term refers to a number of web pages that choose to use videos as journal entries instead of articles. Presented in a reverse chronological order, they find a great support in the use of photos and text; depending on the nature of the videos, there may be need of additional comments to make information relevant. The great part about vlogs is that they perfectly meet the present-day tendency of communicating via the Internet on a very familiar basis: when you see the person behind the text, the blog seems to actually live in from of you.

Most video blogs use some form of web syndication in order to upload and spread the videos online and at the basis of every transmission lies the RSS technology or format. Presently, vlogs, may even be accessed on mobile devices such as pods and mobile phones. Though, the very vlog phenomenon started as a collective attempt, there are many individual video logs that are authored by people who make a hobby out of it. It is a good thing to know that content contributors can get to be paid for their share in the process: on the sole condition that they upload viable material.

Let’s take the case of the Google video blogs that enjoy massive success all around the world, it is a collective effort of keeping in touch with people that are thousands of kilometers away from you. Uploading and sharing videos is an instant procedure on http://googlevideo.blogspot.com/, not to mention that Google also provides a directory of vlogs where you may find whatever you’re looking for. A similar example of a vlog collection that is also administered by Google is the very popular YouTube, which has attracted thousands of users ever since its beginnings in 2005.

The vlog working principles are less complex than those specific to a regular blog, though the basics are alike. For instance, if you join a video blog community, you’ll need your own channel, and signing up is usually required in order to be able to follow the rest of the necessary steps. Once you have a channel, you can simply organize the favorite shows, videos or podcasts from everywhere in the world or simply load and send them across the web. Ipods, iPhones and iTunes are perfectly compatible with vlogs, so that you can pretty much take the web with you everywhere you go.

Make Money Blogging, Do you have a strategy?

Have you leaped into Internet marketing with your blog and you’re still kind of fuzzy on what’s next? I know if you are new, you probably have. If you have some experience, you might be like me and sometimes get deterred or distracted from your objectives.

I have found that my success has been enhanced by breaking down my strategy in to categories.

Strategy 1 is based on my need to stay on top of the latest trends and products.

• I keep a list of areas that I feel I need to enhance my knowledge an I am willing to invest.
• I have a budget that I am willing to pay which is generally under $100.
• I try to find honest reviews before purchasing on places like the Warrior Forum
• If  I sign up for the recurring billing items like club membership’s I make sure to save all the contact info so I can cancel if it is not beneficial. Even then I make it a practice to  give it at most 3-6 months if they don’t keep the info fresh and updated with new ideas.
• I remain on the email lists of the creators of the products I have purchased looking for free stuff that I know will be offered and for new products.  I almost always review what they offer.
• I use the  The “Cost Of No” Strategy for myself.  The “think it costs too much? What is the cost of not…” strategy tells allows me to analyse if  the cost of not gaining the desired benefit could cost me way more.

Strategy 2 is more like a task list of what I have to accomplish on a daily basis but also involves the strategy I use to market products.

Daily:

• Morning’s are for putting the schedule together for the day.
• I modify one of the many articles I have gotten from my purchased from the article products I bought and I submit them to numerous Article directories. 
• I make a blog post on at least two of my money blogs ( I have 5).  Often I use one of the articles for the particular niche from the thousands I got from my purchases. 
• I monitor the Warrior Forum for new ideas and product offerings.
• I check my Google Analytics statistics.  This has turned out to be a great source for seeing what long tail keywords people are using to find my sights.  I use these with the Google Sniper techniques I bought.
• Post blog posts to various shared directories.

Once a Week (usually Saturday mornings with my coffee )

• I read other blogs to check out other ideas and site designs and make comments to obtain linkbacks.
• I re-read the materials from the products I own for new ideas or things I might have missed.
• I read through the offerings that I have gotten via email during the week.
• Check my clickbank accounts for earnings and traffic statistics to adjust.
• Make note of any interesting looking niches to create a new blog.

Monthly

• Usually once a month I spend an entire day searching for a new niche to create a new blog within my notes, my purchased sources and clickbank.  
• I revisit Google Sniper because it has a wealth of knowledge for starting a new niche blog and I always get a refresher.
• Create a new niche blog using the Blogging to the Bank and Google Sniper techniques.

Basically the key for word for most business owners is discipline.  Get into a routine and be patient.  This stuff works but not overnight!

Firstly, we all want to know How to Make Money Online, and one of the best ways I have found is by creating blogs. In this post I intend to show you how you too can learn How to Make Money Blogging by telling you how combining the techniques I have gathered from across the web helps to make me $$$ every day. Secondly, I am not trying to sell you my latest “Get Rich Quick” scheme because I don’t have one. Each eBook you read will have a wealth of information within them which will, without a doubt help you to discover the secrets of How to Make Money Online. I am only going to tell you which ones out of the 100′s available you SHOULD read if you too want to make lots of money.

I use a 10 step guide to setting up and starting all of my blogs.

I will give you a list of the top 7  resources later that I use and recommend to everyone who is serious about making lots of money online. One of the vital aspects people seem to miss out when they first get into blogging is the fact that their blog must contain information that people want to read.

Many bloggers are looking through closed eyes in this regard and if you browse through 50 blogs you will notice that most will tell you they know How to Make Money with Blogs when really all they tell you is where they went on their vacation or how many cars they have.

Are you ready to learn How to Make Money Blogging?

If the answer is YES then read on and start to make money with your blog. I am not here to tell you how to write your blog, that’s up to you, but what I am about to tell you is the 10 things I use to make money on the internet. You can choose to use these techniques or not, that’s your prerogative.

Step 1 – Finding a Topic

Turn off your computer, grab a pen and some paper and sit somewhere you can relax but also stay focused (if you are just starting out this step can be a pain because we all want to know How to Make Money Online and we want to know how to make it NOW). Think of a topic you are interested in and write it down (this helps because you will be more committed to trying instead of giving up in a day or two) and also make sure it is something other people are interested in too. A couple of ways I use to think of a topic is by using MetaSpy to find out what people are searching for, Ask IQ to find what’s popular and VRE Toolbar to find out how many people search for the topic (this is also useful later on to get traffic). Write down your top five keywords, you will want to use them later in your blog.

Step 2 – Create Your Blog

Find and create your blog online. I like to use Wordpress but other popular Blog platforms are Blogger and Movable Type. You can find all the help in the program you use to get information when setting up the blog. Create your content, make it original, and make it informative. This is one of the main keys to learn How to Make Money with Blogs. You need to include the keywords you wrote down in Step 1 in the content of your blog. Try not to overuse these as it sends out bad signals to the search engines, and this is 100% not what you want.

Step 3 – Go Google

Sign up for Google Adsense and insert the code in the margin of your blog. You can customize your ads in many ways, such as including text links or image links. I prefer the text links only, as they are easier to blend in with your blog and don’t take the focus away from the information. Google Adsense will probably not make you a millionaire but it is an instant way of generating a small amount of money.

If you want to track where your visitors are coming from with regards to direct hits or from search engine results then I would suggest you use Google Analytics and again you can get all the help you need setting that up from within the program.

You will also want to add your URL to Google’s index.

Step 4 – Find Something to Sell

If you don’t want to sell anything and are happy with the income Google Adsense is bringing in then you can skip this step. If you want to maximize your income and truly learn How to Make Money with Blogs you will want to find an affiliate program to join. A couple of affiliate programs I would suggest are ClickBank and Commission Junction. You can sell anything from office furniture, pet supplies, movies and clothing to PC games, Dieting tips and Audio software.

Step 5 – Social Bookmarking

There is no better advertising than word of mouth, but the next best thing is social bookmarking. You will want to make things easier for people to do this. Social bookmarking sites I use and recommend are OnlyWire and SocialMarker and they are used for people to share their bookmarks or websites that they have liked with other people in their online community.

I would not suggest you add your own links to these services, but provide visitors to your website the ability to do so.

Step 6 – Write an Article

Whether your blog is about a specific product, for example a certain MP3 Player you are promoting, or just about giving people information, I would suggest you to write an article or a review of it. Most article directories require articles of 500 words and over so I would use this as a rule when writing to ensure your article is published.

Submit your article to any of the 100′s which are out there. I personally use a few of the Top Article directories such as EzineArticles, Article Dashboard, Amazines.com, isnare and SearchWarp. I also use a nifty piece of software called Article Submitter which will submit your articles to over 600 article directories, which saves you lots of time and leaves you to focus on writing your blogs.

Step 7 – Ping The Heck Out Of It

Every time you add new information to your blog, you want to let the blog directories know about it, this is known as pinging. Some Blog providers automatically send out pings when you update, but to be on the safe side you will want to do this manually too. ONLY PING WHEN YOU UPDATE.

There are a couple of Ping sites I use which will send a ping to multiple blog directories at the same time. PingMyBlog would be my first port of call and then if for some reason that site is down I would use Ping-o-matic. Remember, to only ping when you update or you could get blacklisted, and that is bad.

Step 8 – Yahoo! Answers and Forums

One of the easiest ways to get targeted visitors to your blog is to make use of the people you want to target. I would suggest you sign up to at LEAST one forum in the topic you are writing about, and don’t just go straight in there and start posting comments for people to look at your blog, they won’t.

The secret is to add the link to your blog in your signature and actively become a member of the forum, posting relevant topics and starting debates within them. The more you post, the more your link will show, and if you provide someone with good info the chances are higher they will click your link.

Yahoo! Answers is along the same lines as forums but the beauty of this is it’s viewed by thousands of visitors each day. If you don’t already have a Yahoo! account get one and then login and search for questions relating to the topic of your blog and answer them well. You can then insert the link to your blog and as with the forums, if you answer well you may have not only earned yourself a point or two on Yahoo!, but also earned a visitor to your blog.

Step 9 – Update Your Blog

This can be by several means, one is to add new reviews or content to your blog, and if you are going to do this I suggest updating every couple of days. This helps to keep the search engines happy as they love to see new and original content.

Another way of updating your blog and keeping the content fresh is to add RSS feeds to it. Make sure the feeds are relevant to your blog and provide visitors with helpful information. Visitors to a World of Warcraft blog don’t want to read feeds about knitting, or do they?

Step 10 – More, More, More

Repeat steps 1 – 10, this is the only way How to Make Money Blogging.

Step 11 – A Bonus Step

If you have your own product or newsletter, give your visitors an easy way to sign up to receive updates or information. This helps you to contact the visitor again with more great info or products you wish to sell.

How to Make Money Online is easy if you follow the above steps.

Some important things to remember so you don’t get disheartened with your blog is the fact that you will not become a millionaire overnight, it takes hard work and a lot of effort. If you are really serious about learning How to Make Money with Blogs then stick with it and eventually you will have an Ah-Ha moment. This is when things start to work and you think to yourself Ah-Ha, that’s how they do it. Your moment could be sooner than you think.

My Top 7 resources I use and recommend are:

How To Blog For Money Blogging Software and SEO Training (Step by Step Instruction)

2. Mass Article Control (Submitter and Creator)

Host Your Make Money Blog

1. blueHost – Hosting Solution

Make Money Blogging Coaching and Niche Marketing Ideas

1. Maverick Money Makers Club

Promote your Make Money Blog with Socal Bookmarking

1. Social Bookmarking Automation Software and Blog Comment Software

See Also:

10 Ways To Increase The Pageviews of Your Make Money Blog

What Is Your Budget For Earning Money Online?

I have become amazed even more lately at the people that want to make money online but think they can do it fast and also think they can do it for FREE! I can tell them with all honestly that the simple answer is You Can’t!

So, I have to ask the question. What value do you put on your education. Do you look at a product and while thinking it might help, discard it to find something FREE or cheaper. People spend thousands of dollars going to colleges, seminars and who knows what else so why short change yourself and your education.

I can honestly say that the products I advertise here, I own. I can also say that I picked up new tips and techniques with every one of them.  Afterall, isn’t education ongoing for our entire lives!

So, if I spent a few hundred bucks over time to educate myself, was it worth it. Or better yet, am Iworth it?  The answer is ABSOSULTELY!  You see I believe if we quit learning, we die.  Now I don’t advocate getting in huge debt just to create a money making blog, but I do endorse the products here.  I just bought Gsniper for $77 to learn how to enhance my existing make money blogs, but I also want to learn how to create more of them.  Presto, Gsniper delivers in educating me and it and I was worth it.  Will it be easy?  Heck no!!  Do I know a heck of a lot more than I knew last week?  Heck YES! 

So, I have to ask.  What value do you put on your education!

A note to the wise:  When you buy a product from the good guys, you will always end up with some FREE stuff too!

Blogging To Make Money and Drive Traffic with Article Creation and Submittal

There are many people who dread having to write papers or articles. Many just feel like it seems to be too much work and it all just goes to waste when no one reads the. To some people, reading articles seems like work to, especially if the article is boring and very bland. Well, articles are supposed to be read, that’s their purpose to impart your message and information. If it is not read then it is a waste of time and effort.

But all the same, articles have to be written to be read. It’s just a matter of making them good. Making a good article doesn’t have to be strenuous and straining. There are just some points needed to be reminded of, and some guides to follow. Once you get the hang of it, writing articles could be fun, as well as profitable for you and your site.

Of course, writing articles must be about something you know about, that’s why if you own a site, you probably is knowledgeable about that certain topic and theme. When you write about it, you won’t have a hard time because you already know what it is and what it’s about. It’s just a matter of making your articles creative and interesting.

To make sure that your articles get read,enjoyed and traffic delived to your make money blog, here are six red hot tips to get your articles read. These tips will make your articles readable and interesting.

Note:  The blog posts on your Making Money Blog should also incorporate many of these tips.

1) Use short paragraphs. When the paragraph are very long, the words get jumbled in the mind of the reader just looking at it It can get quite confusing and too much of a hard work to read. The reader will just quickly disregard the paragraph and move on to much easier reading articles that are good to look at as well as read. Paragraphs can be a single sentence, sometimes even a single word!

2) Make use of numbers or bullets. As each point is stressed out, numbers and bullets can quickly make the point easy to remember and digest. As each point, tip, guide or method is started with a bullet or point, readers will know that this is where the tips start and getting stressed. Format you bullets and numbers with indentations so that your article won’t look like a single block of square paragraphs. Add a little bit of flair and pizzazz to your articles shape.

3) Use Sub-headings to sub-divide your paragraphs in the page. Doing this will break each point into sections but still would be incorporated into one whole article. It would also be easy for the reader to move on from one point to another; the transition would be smooth and easy. You will never lose your readers attention as well as the point and direction to where the article is pointing.

4) Provide a good attention-grabbing title or header. If your title can entice a person’s curiosity you’re already halfway in getting a person to read your article. Use statements and questions that utilize keywords that people are looking for. Provide titles or headers that describe your articles content but should also be short and concise.

Use titles like, “Tips on making her want you more”, or “How to make her swoon and blush” .You could also use titles that can command people, for example, “Make her yours in six easy Ways”. These types of titles reach out to a persons’ emotions and makes them interested.

5) Keep them interested from the start to the finish. From your opening paragraph, use real life situations that can be adopted by the reader. Use good descriptions and metaphors to drive in your point, just don’t over do it. Driving your examples with graphic metaphors and similes would make it easy for them to imagine what you are talking about. Making the experience pleasurable and enjoyable for them.

6) Utilize figures when necessary and not just ordinary and insipid statements. Using specific facts and figures can heighten your article because it makes it authoritative. But do not make it too formal, it should be light and easy in them and flow. Like a friendly teacher having a little chat with an eager student.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

The author has a FREE CONTENT ARTICLE DIRECTORY located at http://authorarticles.com/12129.html where you can get free content for your web site, newsletter or ezine. Additionally, If you have your own original articles you can submit them at this site. You are allowed to place an authors resource box at the end of your article containing a link pointing back to your web site. This is a proven way to add more in-bound links to your web site and improve your site’s popularity.

The first WordPress plugin I highly recommend: Sociable.  Once you setup this plugin, your visitors will be able to save your post’s link into their favourite social bookmarking sites.

 The next WordPress pluging for your make money blog is called Google Sitemap Generator. This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.

The fourth plugin that you should get as fast as possible is called Link A Dink. Link A Dink is a cool way to include affiliate links inside your posts, that once you start using it smarter, it can direct people to ClickBank specific products. The plugin will replace exactly the keywords you want to use for affiliate marketing.

The last important plugin you need it is called Ultimate Tag Warrior which will help you setup tags for each and every one of your blog posts. 

Another great resource to get traffic to your make money blog for free is BlogsRater.com. The site lets you review and rate other blogs and in return you can get your blog seen more often. Do as many reviews as possible and you’ll see results.  You will want to join now and be ready for a great stream of traffic.

Make Money Blogging with Mass Article Control

How To Use Mass Article Creator™ & Mass Article Submitter™ to make money on the Internet.

It’s not a secret that Mass Article Creator can literally create thousands of articles on the fly, but how will you mail out so many articles? …

The answer is…YOU WON’T!
Here’s the most effective way to use Mass Article Creator and Mass Article Submitter.

Ok…just because your car can do 160 mph doesn’t mean you’re going to drive that fast everywhere you go right? This is how you need to look at your article submissions.  This is a ‘no brainer’ for those wanting to make money blogging or make money online!

It’s true that Mass Article Creator can literally create 1000 articles from just one article,but there’s just no way possible to submit that many article variations with Mass Article Submitter to the same directories without getting penalized and seeing negative results for your efforts.

So what you want to do is:
1. Create 5 really good variations of each article and name each of them with a different title, so that way they are all unique.
2. Submit just one article per day to all the directories using Mass Article Submitter.
3. Repeat this process with the next article.

So if you have 10 fresh articles, you can turn that into 50 high quality articles that you can submit and make money by driving traffic to your product or affiliate links.

In the end, you only need to submit 3-5 different unique articles per day using Mass Article Submitter.

Never submit the same 5 variations of each article at the same time!
If you have 10 articles and you create 5 good variations of each all with different titles, then you will submit 3-5 articles in different subjects or niches. That way the article directories don’t see 5 similar articles trying to be submitted at the same time.

Mix the articles up, so they see you are submitting 3-5 totally different articles, then go back the next day and do it again. Before you know it, you have submitted 50-100 quality articles per month and you are actually making money!
 

With Mass Article Control, you get hundreds of sample articles, Mass Article Submitter and Mass Article Creator.  The articles alone are worth the small investment.  This took really is a no brainer for anyone serious about making money online.  

See Also

Article Marketing Made Easy With Mass Article Control

How To Make Money Blogging

Have you bought other make money or how to make money from your blog products trying to figure out how to make this happen?

Let’s summarize what all  the products and experts say about how to make money online.

• You either need a product or find a niche and related affiliate product(s).
• You need a make money blog or website.
• You need to market and drive traffic ( this is one place that the same things are said but in many differnet ways).  I am a huge advocate of article marketing.  All the ‘experts’ agree with this.
• You need to build a list.

What steps are you taking to fulfill these steps?

Here is how I take care or plan to take care of these steps.

• I use Blogging to the Bank 3.0 to build my blogs.  I currently have two that I created using Blogging to the Bank 3.0.  One is Blog To Make Money and the other is Money Savings Advice.  This allows me to create the blog I need with the URL that the search engines love using blueHost to host my blogs.
• I use Clickbank and RoiRocket to find the products I want to market.
• I use Mass Article Control for article marketing and content in my blog (also using the hundreds of articles from Mass Article Control) to drive traffic to my blog.
• Now the next step is to build a list.   The consensus is to offer a free report or product and ask for an email address to receive it.   You will also need to use and auto responder to create the offer page and email capture.  Check out  aweber.com for an example of an auto responder.  You can also check out Master Resale Rights website for products you can offer for list building.

There are a couple other products I use to assist me with my efforts.

One is Keyword Elite which really helps me with keyword research.

The second is Maverick Money Makers Club which gives me ongoing support and ideas for new niche ideas and how to tips. 

Note:  I am having success without a list because of the article marketing and blogging I am doing but list building is my next step.