Don't Submit All Blogs to Paid Posts

It is a hard decision to make. I have 30 blogs. They are not all submitted to PayPerPal, Smorty, etc. I have two trains of thought on the purpose. I do have blogs that will earn money at all. I think I would probably make $500 - $1000 more a month if I submit to all.

The problem is, can my blogs carry 30% more load for every new agency? If I submit a blog to all of the big three, that might mean I will need to post 5 – 10 new posts per blog, per agency. This translates into 15 – 30 new blog posts.

This doesn’t count the ‘real content.’ I do use free content, but each of those posts start with up to 100 words of my own thoughts. I already write about 30 posts a week, with 60 more ‘real content’

Not only would my workload increase if I submitted all blogs to all PayPerPost agencies, but so would my subscriber load. I currently have about 35 subscribers. Each of these receive up to 30 posts a week in their email. Doubling this would not only be rude, they would leave me.

It is something a blogger needs to consider. Even paid post blogs have loyal subscribers and they have people who visit their website on a regular basis. I have about 300 return visitors on one blog. I consider them more valuable.

So, what do you do if you need to make more money? The solution is either to increase your page rank so you earn more money per post (I have earned as much as $50 for a post). Or, you can just create more blogs. (note: I said blogs not splogs)
Before answering the question you need to determine which blogs you want to selectively choose the blog posts you want to be on your site, and which ones you don’t mind having ads on.

This will organically divide your blogs. If you are striving for PR4 or higher on a blog, then don’t sign with a company like blogsvertise which doesn’t give you a choice and penalizes you if you continually reject blog posts.

Should You Control Google’s Adsense Ads?

There is a lot of controversy over whether a blogger should put meta code in their blog templates, and use H1, H2, H3, heading tags to control the ads Google puts on their blog.

I am on the pro side. I find that the meta tags and heading codes gives me the freedom to go a little ‘off topic’ without worrying about having random, low paying, and off topic ads appear in my Google Adsense towers.

That said, many bloggers think they are missing Google’s highest paid opportunities by trying to control the system. They argue that the click through rate may be lower, and that google’s sliding scale will slide farther down in Google’s favor. All – reasonable and realistic possibilities.

The answer to the question is personal, but should also depend on whether you expect to earn most of your revenue from Google. Most bloggers do not.

In fact, most bloggers are lucky to receive one or two checks a year. Not Google’s fault. They tell you how bloggers how to succeed. There are a lot of blogs like this one that teach bloggers how to succeed. The problem is that most bloggers do not get it.

I’ve talked to many new bloggers who think that posting 10 articles a month is horrible, let alone 50 or 100. Yet, they want the same income as bloggers who do post this number of blogs. The facts are clear. Bloggers cannot work on their blog ‘in their spare time’ and expect to earn a full time income.

But, if the blogger does put the work into their blog, I think they should stick with the ads that have proven to pay in the past, the ones which their readers click through most often…and to do that, you need to control Google using legal SEO tricks.

Spring Renovations

I've been working inside too long. I've been giving myself a lift by looking at ways to renovate my home. The new products are making home renovations fun. I've been looking into fiberglass columns as an addition to my home. I have been looking into quite a few stylish, low flammable, building products.

I'm thinking of these shutters. It will set our house's brick off nicely. The most important thing to remember is to think of the entire house before done. We want an antique look to the house, but trying to use old products makes the house look dirty or worn. Instead, we want to use new products that stand out and 'frame' our house.

30 Days to a Pro Blogging Career: Pt3

The last 10 days should be the easiest. There are a lot of thing that you are just repeating. You've already registered with the services. Now you just need to promote.

Day 20

Learn how to optimize the templates, adding meta information, and learning how to optimize for the Pay Per Click programs.

Day 21

Time to post again. Post articles regularly to keep the search engine’s interested in your blogs.

Day 22

Find a bunch of free for use images and post them to Flicker, and publish them in your posts. This will create interest in the posts as well as bring traffic to the site.

Day 23

Interview a few gurus in the industry to add credibility to the blog’s topic.

Day 24

Subscribe to industry blogs and associations, newsletters, or RSS feeds so you can keep ‘cutting edge’ information on your blog.

Day 25

Start looking at plug-ins to make your blog work better. It is vital that you learn how to use widgets and plug-ins. There is no need to learn code.

Day 26


Time to learn how to read your stats. It will take months, if not years to learn how to properly translate the data offered by webstats, but you need to get started now.

Day 27

Start soliciting writers. I find that offering to trade free promotion on sites that receive 10 000 hits a month or more, in exchange for first crack at a public article, is enough to attract writers.

Day 28

Join some of the larger blog communities such as bloggerparty.com and communati.com to use as promotion tools.

Day 29

Want to know who is linking to your blog, use: http://www.wholinks2me.com/link/blog-dir.blogspot.com

Adding this code to your blogs will help you manage a link campaign, and know if your ‘paid inclusion’ program is giving you at least 60% links

Day 30

Create a brand for yourself. People use blogs. They want to meet you. They want to know who you are. Branding is the first step to become a recognized figure in the world.

30 Days to a Pro Blogging Career: Pt2

Joining a course or working with a networking group will help with motivation and help you answer questions. We answer questions in the divanetworking group, or you might want to look for a yahoo group.

Day 11

Add advertising to the site, whether Google’s Adsense, Affiliates, or others. Make sure the widgets are installed and everything looks good.

Day 12

Start buying traffic. Don’t invest a lot. It may take a month or two of experimentation before success is achieved.

Day 13

Start a PPC campaign with Google’s Adsense. This makes Google index the site immediately. The cost is worth it.

Day 14Use a program such as WEBCEO to submit your blog to search engines.
However, they have not created a Vista version. Hopefully, they will. This is one of the best SEO and keyword marketing tools I’ve ever found.

Day 15

Find a few good free content sites. Contacting good authors and asking them for new articles directly for perks …such as picture included is a great way to stay at the top of the pack and add seemingly ‘original’ content.

Day 16

Upload articles in your website until there are 50 articles. Start doing this twice daily so that your blog is pinged twice a day to the search engines.

Day 17

Go to the social networking sites and tag your articles to create a stir.

Day 18

Write articles on your niches. Add links to your blogs, then submit them to free content sites. Use paid submission services, or take a chance on buying a software program to do the work for you.

Day 19

Have some fun. Create banners for your blogs to personalize them and take away the cookie cutter look of the main blog platforms.

30 Days to a Pro Blgging Career

That is right, it doesn’t take years to make a blog. In fact, the only people I see that make claims that it takes months or years to make money from a blog are people who have a secret or $50 ebook to sell. The secret of blogging is working 10 hours a day for 4 - 5 days a week - for 30 days. Don't fluff. Work hard. This tutorial will help you get started.

I don’t trust people who sell ebooks for $50, when I can buy the same thing from a bookstore for $14.99.

Day 1

Do some blog research. Take a look at keywords and ideas. Create a niche or target site. Buy domain names.

Day 2

Find a web host that lets you make multiple blogs on one site. Make 10 wordpress blogs. If this is too complicated, then make 10 blogs at www.blogger.com.

Spend the rest of the day looking at topics and keywords to bring focus to your blogs. Do not make them general – the more niche or focused the blogs are, the more profitable they would be.
On place to find topics is to
hit the free article sites and look at their categories, or look at the ‘buy traffic’ site you are working with and then customize the site for the topics available.

Day 3

Start writing. I start all blogs with 10 articles of original content. I will use free content later, but not to start the blog.

Day 4

In the signature box, create 2 or 3 links to other blogs in your network. This will help with the link building campaign.

Day 5

Go to www.feedburner.com and create RSS feeds for your blogs. Blogger’s blogspot blogs can link directly to this feed. It is important to put the links on your blog so people can subscribe. You’d be surprised to realize how many people create feeds but never publish them.

Day 6

Subscribe to a ping service. Some sites have ‘auto ping’ others do not. If you haven’t already, start a Google Adsense account.

Day 7

Subscribe to social networking tools so your subscribers can ‘tag’ articles, and you can use the tools for promotion. I subscribe to Blog Catalogue as well as Delicious, Digg, and Technorati. I also create a lens at Squidoo which directs to all the other blogs.

Day 8

Subscribe your blog to directories. There are services that will auto subscribe blogs, with no link-back, for as low as $150 per 1000 directories.

Day 9

Consider adding blog tools: polls, bookmark us code, and learn what it means to ‘pip your blog.’

Day 10

Upload enough articles to have 25 articles in each blog.

New Keyword Tool a Must for SEO Keyword Optimization

I've been working this morning on keywords using a new tool, NavWord. This is a powerful tool in the right hands. It only takes a few seconds to use, and can be mastered by any 'new to net' ecommerce owner or blog owner.



Step #1: Enter your keyword
Step #2: Enter URL you want to point to
Step #3: Click Save

That is all. You can use this site to build links to network member's blogs or articles, your own websites. Any site you want to direct using a specific keyword.

I did a site: and links: check on the site and there are already

The best bonus is that only one keyword phrase is accepted - ever. Once you grab your keyword then you are locked in, with your domain name - until the rules change. No one else can have that keyword.