7 Ways To Make Money From Your Blog

Its the core strategy of a vast number of successful internet marketers. Blogging has proved to be one of the most enduring methods of income generation working online. Why? It fulfills the basic requirement of any online marketing campaign, it gives value to its readers first. The sales side has to follow after you have established a rapport with your audience just like any other social media platform. It takes time and effort and I will be sharing the required strategies with you over the coming weeks.
For now lets look at the methods bloggers use to monetize their blogs
1/ Adsence
The starting point for many bloggers on their journey to making money online. Run by Google, Adsence sells advertising to business which then places ads on blogs and websites in the form of banners. It is possible to make a reasonable income doing this but you will require an engaged regular audience and lots of traffic. Google will require your blog to reach a certain standard before it places ads on it but you can apply and wait until their criteria are met.

2/ Affiliate Offers
Acting as an affiliate for online products is the most popular method of making online sales, but not the easiest. It takes a lot of work to engage with your customer first but there are "Super Affiliates" out there making large sums doing it - but not just from blogging. The best route is by writing a product evaluation followed by a link. Sources of affiliate products are Clickbank, JVzoo, Clicksure, Amazon, Ebay, to name but a few.

3/ Banner Ads Place banners on your blog either for an affiliate offer or for another independent marketer. Use banner ads to promote your own online/offline products.

4/ Email Marketing You will hear this a lot "the money's in the list!". An email list is still considered to be the best method of making an online income bar none. Build a list and send them useful information about your niche and include sales emails from time to time. A Blog is considered one of the best ways of collecting email addresses as the person is already engaging with you. An accepted sign up rate is 1 in a 100 visitors so not a fast method of email collection but much will depend on how much traffic you send to your Blog.

5/ Produce an Ebook After you have written 20 or so articles on your Blog, put them together to produce an Ebook. If the content is of a high standard (and it should be) then you can either sell it, usually for around $1 or give it as an incentive to join your list. Remember you can promote your Ebook on your Blog.

6/ Website Link This method suits small business that may struggle to get their main website ranked on search engines. A much overlooked SEO method, probably because its free! Google obviously loves Google Blogger and given that you post quality content regularly its not difficult to rank on the first page in your niche. link your Blog to your website using hyperlinks.

7/ Blogging for Big Business For Bloggers that become accepted authorities in their niche there is the opportunity to work for big name retailers reviewing and promoting products or working for multi nationals as part of their PR campaigns. Not many of us will want to do this or indeed be good enough to be considered but the rewards are there for those who do.

There are many more ways to make money from Blogs but here are but 7. None of the above is of any use at all unless your content is very good and you drive traffic to your Blog so people read it!
Until my next post.... Anna

Another 10 Sites for FREE Traffic from Social Bookmarking and Q&A Sites

Its simple, no traffic, no internet business. Set yourself targets for the traffic you generate for your Internet Marketing website or blog. To grow traffic, in addition to all the generation strategies you will need to ensure that your content is of high quality and that you post regularly.

The key to success with Social Bookmarking sites is to make connections with many other people on those sites. Generally you won't see floods of traffic from these sites, but the opportunity is there for you to gain some visitors to your content.
Some great Social Bookmarking sites:
www.delicious.com
www.Slashdot.org
www.Digg.com
www.StumbleUpon.com

Many people swear by using Q&A sites for highly targeted traffic. Find the questions that need answering in your niche and provide them with solutions. One thing that can't be denied, many of these sites are VERY popular.
Some great Q&A sites:
www.answerbag.com
www.answers.com
www.answers.yahoo.com
www.aolanswers.com
www.quora.com

More traffic generation strategies coming soon... Anna

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Another 8 Free Methods of Traffic Generation.

So, its on to my next list of 8 free sites for traffic generation. You need not pay a fortune for traffic to your website as long as you are prepared to take the time to do the legwork. Suggest you split your time, 20% content to 80% traffic generation. The best content on the planet is of no use if its not seen or read! Whether you are affiliate marketing, Online marketing, dropshipping, or using your site as a "brochure site" or to carry your shopping basket YOU NEED TRAFFIC.

FREE Traffic from Tutorial Sites
These sites are usually geared towards the design and technical niches, but there are still many
opportunities in other niches. Sites like these are great places to establish yourself as an expert in your
niche.
www.Instructables.com Very cool Visual Tutorial Site
www.Tutorialized.com Technical and Marketing Topics
www.Udemy.com is a great site for video tutorials. Your content must be First Class, but this is a
wonderful site that is gaining a lot of attention.
www.learni.st is kind of like a Pinterest for educational tutorials. The content isn't created here, but if
you have tutorials on your site or YouTube this would be a good place to join and submit your content.

Guest Blogging and Forum Marketing
Guest Blogging lets you create content on other peoples blogs. Helps establish you as an authority and
gives you a link back to your site. Can even help you promote a product or service that you offer.
Use Google and do a search for: ["guest post" your niche]
Also do a search at Bing for the exact same thing. Google and Bing use different criteria so you will
find many more opportunities using both Search Engines.
Some great places for guest blogging:
www.myblogguest.com
www.slashdot.org/submission
www.sitepronews.com/call-for-writers/
www.bloggernews.net/write-for-bnn

Not all of the above will be suitable for your website but there are a number of really useful options for you to explore. The most important thing you can do is ACT NOW and start driving that traffic to your site.
Look out for the next list of free sites on my Blog coming soon.... Anna

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Free Traffic From Video Sharing Sites Social Media and Web 2.0 Sites

Uploading multiple review, demo or tutorial videos and the have a Call To Action to drive traffic to your site is a method may successful marketers use. This is among the top performing methods of sending traffic to your website. Some popular video sites are; www.YouTube.com, www.Metcalf.com,www.Dailymotion.com, and www.Vimeo.com. people spend a lot of time on Social Media sites and its easy to find very targeted groups of people. remembet these sites are mainly used for social interaction, so a heavy sale pitch usually does not work. site like HubPages,Blogger and Squidoo are good for creating additional portals to your main site. What is very important is that all these sites are VERY popular and can be used to send traffic to your website. www.Facebook.com, www.Twitter .com, www.hubpages.com,www.LinkedIn.com, www.Squidoo.com, www.Pinterest.com www.Tumblr.com, www.Blogger.com Today I have shared with you 12 traffic generating FREE sites. Over subsequent posts I will share with you a further 45 FREE methods of traffic generation 'Til the next post... Anna

5,000 Unique Visitors to a CPA in One Week

Traffic is the lifeblood of any online work from home business, E Business or Internet Marketing.You hear about new traffic sources all the time. Almost every product creator out there claims to have found an untapped traffic source that generates super cheap traffic. This may be true, but most of the time these are garbage untapped sources that do not have the quality of traffic you need to be profitable consistently. That’s why it is important to test traffic sources over a long period of time to see if the results you may get one time are sustainable. This is the exact process that well-known and respected marketers Timothy Miranda and Damon Korte go through. They are always revealing cutting edge CPA strategies that they test thoroughly so they can be sure their customers can achieve positive results through Affilliate Marketing or indeed any online marketing campaign. There have been countless success stories from their teachings and tomorrow they are launching another groundbreaking CPA product called CPA Quick Strike. With CPA Quick Strike you will be able to generate laser targeted traffic for $0.002 (less than one cent) per visitor! Not only is this traffic cheap, but it converts and they have been able to achieve mind blowing ROI on a consistent basis. You do not want to miss out on this so be sure to look out for my Blog Post so you can get in right when this launches at the lowest price.