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Determining Whether a Blog Is a Good Idea for You

By Randy R on June 13, 2010 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Adsense Earnings, Blog Beginning, Blog Business, Blog Feeds, Blog Posting, blogging, Blogs

Before you even think about investing money into blogging you should take a close look at whether or not you’ll be suitable for blogging. There has been a lot of noise made about how blogging is everyone’s key to riches, but the fact remains not everyone is going to be suitable for blogging. There are plenty of factors out there that you need to weigh out in order to determine whether blogging is right for you. In this article I’m going to show you some of the questions you should be asking yourself before you go out and spend money on hosting and domains, not to mention all the other cool tools most bloggers invest in.

Do You Like Writing?

If you don’t enjoy writing then blogging won’t work for you at all. Writing is the backbone of every blog and if you aren’t willing to write content everyday then blogging is not for you. There are plenty of options out there for other types of websites that don’t require daily updates, but as a blogger if you want to be successful you need to make blog posts everyday.

Writing or Speaking?

Most people can consider themselves either a writer or a speaker. I personally consider myself a writer and I actually have lots of problems speaking in public. I get nervous when I’m speaking in public and this is normal for some people which make them good candidates for blogging. If you love to speak though, then you might want to consider starting a video website or podcasting website.

How Much Time Do You Have?

To really run a blog you’re going to need about two hours everyday and you can’t leave days out because you just don’t feel like blogging that day. You need to take it seriously as you’ll be the one paying for your hosting and domains. If you’re not going to be consistent then you’re not going to make money and you’ll be throwing money away for hosting and domains with no return. Make sure you have plenty of time each day so that you can write a blog post and build some links.

Technical Ability?

You’ll want to have some technical understanding when it comes to the computer and the internet before you start blogging. There is plenty of small things you need to do in order to have wordpress run properly and you don’t want to hire someone every time you need to do something. WordPress is one of the easiest CMS systems to use, but you need to still possess some technical ability.

Do You Like Reading?

As a blogger you need to become active on other blogs as well and if you don’t then you will fall behind the competition quickly. If you like reading blogs and commenting on what you read then you’re really looking like you’d be a great blogging candidate.

Working Ability?

You need to be ready before you even begin blogging to work hard. You should know ahead of time that blogging is a lot of work and you won’t see quick results. A lot of people neglect to mention that money isn’t found quickly in blogging and you need to invest time, sweat and a bit of money to make any sort of return.

These are only the questions I came up with off of the top of my head, there are plenty more you should ask yourself before committing any money and time to blogging. I would say that roughly 80% of everyone who starts a blog gives up after a month or less due to not seeing any instant results. It takes time to rank in the search engines and build trust between your readers so the money will come if you can pass the test. You need to build a blog with loyal readers the first few months and if you can manage to do that then the money will start rolling in. In some instances it can take weeks only before seeing money from your blog, but I don’t like giving false impressions so expect to spend six months working on your blog before seeing any results.

Do-you-want-to-be-an-Internet-Marketer

By Randy R on June 13, 2010 in Blog Beginning, Blog Business, Randy Roedl, Web Design, Websites, wordpress

Do you want to be an Internet Marketer?

An Internet Marketer is one who creates websites and sells products online. For that, it is not necessary to create our own products. We can sell products that are made by others as well. But what’s in it for them? Actually we’ll be just driving sales to the sales page of the product – and if anyone orders the product from there, we’ll be getting commission that would have already been mentioned in the merchants website.

So, what we’ll be doing is that – we’ll be finding quality products that would be easy to sell without much efforts. There are millions of products our there. From those products, select the ones which you think – would be worth the time and efforts that we’ll be putting on it. Before you plan to promote a product, make sure you’ll be getting good commissions after the sales. Also, make sure that the payment will be guaranteed or not. There are a lot of affiliate sites – like CJ, clickbank etc-these are sites, where you will find some great products to promote in your sites.

The benefit of promoting products found in sites like CJ and others is that – we’ll be surely getting paid if we make a sale. That’s because we are not dealing directly with clients. We are dealing with these big companies and hence we can be assured that we’ll be getting payment at the end of the month.

But the main thing is to drive sales. And for that you should be having some kind of platform. Creating a website is the best option in front of you. It won’t take much time – you can even create a WP blog and then start promoting the products. After the site is ready, you should select products to promote in the sites. Create a lot of sites and each should be for promoting a different kind of product. In the site, you should be reviewing it as if you have already bought the product and satisfied with it. At the end of the review you can put a link which will be allowing others to go and buy the product from the authors site.

WordPress Settings

By Randy R on June 10, 2010 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Adsense Earnings, Blog Beginning, Blog Business, Blog Feeds, Blog Posting, blogging, Blogs

There are quite a few WordPress settings that you need to remember and constantly check to ensure that they are working or running properly and sometimes people forget very important settings that aren’t talked about often. Most people always understand that they need to enable plug-ins to get to them work and to change the theme and basic settings like this, but some of the most vital settings are usually overlooked by people.

One of these settings that most people often overlook is the privacy setting which is the setting that will determine whether or not you will be found by search engines. Sometimes by default this will be switched to block the search engines from accessing your blog and if you do this then you won’t be indexed or receive any search engine traffic. This setting is under the settings area in the WordPress admin section and called privacy. Make sure that it’s switched to the option that will allow search engines to crawl your site, after all the most targeted traffic comes from the search engines and you’ll need this traffic to make any money as a blogger.

The second setting is the permalink structure which is in the same row as the privacy button in the setting menu on the WordPress admin. By default the permalink structure is set to page number but you definitely don’t want this for SEO purposes and instead you’ll want to not use any of the options except for the custom option. The custom option allows you to set your own permalink structure and there are two options ideal for SEO purposes.

Either…

/%postname%/

/%postname%//%category%/

Either of the two is great for SEO purposes as you should be making sure your title has your keywords in it. Using the second option might be beneficial but depending on your category names it may also not be beneficial. If you use keywords as category names then by all means use the second custom permalink option, but if you don’t then only use the post name option.

Both of these settings are important to making sure your blog is set-up properly and you should double check both of these settings if you have any doubt.

Flipping-websites

By Randy R on June 10, 2010 in Blog Beginning, Blog Business, Randy Roedl, Web Design, Websites, wordpress

Flipping websites

Flipping websites is something any noob can do. But before you start you should be taking a pledge that – you’ll be selling your site – if you are getting profit. That should be the only aim of yours from now on – if you are thinking of flipping websites. From now on, don’t create sites for keeping it with you – you should create sites planning to sell them for the best price. The better the site and the domain name, the better will be the profit that you’ll be seeing from them. There is no need of keeping sites for long. But it will have advantage when selling – if the site is with traffic. But there is no use of getting traffic and all, if your aim is to flip sites.

I’m not completely against – getting traffic to sites before flipping it. But you should do these things on a rapid manner. Your aim should be to create more and more sites. This way, you’ll see money coming in your pockets pretty fast. And using this money, you can make these things done by others. Yes, you can hire professionals who are experienced in making sites. You can hire separate professionals for writing content, designing the pages, driving traffic etc. And when you do things this way, you’ll be able to create more sites per month or even per week.

Again, as a website flipper, never create sites to keep it with you. Create sites to sell off for profits. If you register good domain names, then the profit that you’ll be making after selling the sites would be much higher. Some buyers give more preference over the domain name rather than the content or design of the site. So, keep these things in mind. If you start flipping sites, you’ll surely be making some easy money online. And one more thing, don’t start hiring workers now, do that only after you make some money by flipping your first 10-20 sites. By then you’ll be having money to hire them and pay what they ask. Don’t hire cheap workers – hire those that are qualified to do those works. Again, don’t spend any money out of your pockets. First of all, earn some money by working on your own. Then using the profit that you got, hire workers and earn more.

Easy Ways to Make Money with Blogs

By Randy R on June 7, 2010 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Adsense Earnings, Blog Beginning, Blog Business, Blog Feeds, Blog Posting, blogging, Blogs

Easy Ways to Make Money with Blogs

Internet is undoubtedly the most revolutionary invention of modern
times. And to add to the interest associated with it, internet keeps
evolving continuously. One of the major reasons for the growing
popularity of internet is that it provides ample money making
opportunities to people. With a little bit of effort and hard work, one
can easily create decent earnings through the internet and it would not
be wrong to say that blogging is one of the easiest ways of making
money on the internet. It is because of this reason that many people
have dropped their regular jobs to make it big in the blogging industry.

Given below are some tips and strategies which will help you in
earning a decent income through blogs:

Placing a Google Ad sense on your blog can prove to be the initiation of a regular source of income for yourself. Since these
ads are usually for products or services which are related to the
topic of your blog, it is more than likely that the readers will click
on those ads, which in turn will result in constant income for
you. In fact, direct ad sales contribute to about 70% of the total
revenue generated from a blog. It is highly recommended that
one secures an advertisement page on the blog; this will ensure
that your customers can easily buy ad space on your blog.

Another easy way to make money through blogging is by
becoming an affiliate of an ad or affiliate network. This form of
money making becomes more relevant if your blog is related to
a technical niche. These networks require you to promote their
products or services through your blogs and offer you a monthly
amount for doing so.

One of the smartest ways of making money is by reviewing the
affiliate products of your advertisers. This can result in double benefits
for you as a review will not only add content to your
blog but will also earn some extra cash for your blog

If you have a service to offer, utilize your blog to offer your
services to your readers. Since your audience is already
interested in the content of you blog, it is more than a
probability that they would try your services which will add to
your monthly income.

Writing an e-book which is on the same niche as your blog will
result in extra income. Just remember to make your e-book
more spicy and juicy. An e-book is a smart way of creating a
win-win situation for oneself, as if the readers cannot afford to
buy the e-book, they would definitely visit the blog to pull some
information on the niche which will result in a boosted traffic for
your blog.

There are several other ways of making money through blogs;
however the above mentioned methods are by far the easiest ones
and can take your efforts of money making through blogging to
another level.

Getting-backlinks-the-easy-way

By Randy R on June 7, 2010 in Blog Beginning, Blog Business, Randy Roedl, Web Design, Websites, wordpress

Getting backlinks the easy way

One of the easiest and most natural way to get backlinks is by article marketing. It includes submitting articles in article directories, and also writing and publishing content on different blogs. One of the best article directory at the moment is ezinearticles.com – you can submit articles there and also get a backlink from the site to yours. It is a high authority site, and so, even an inner page will be of great value when it comes to deciding the quality of a backlink.

The advantage of submitting articles to ezinearticles is that you’ll be getting traffic, and also quality backlinks. Yup, you heard it right. The articles in ezinearticles are published in a lot of sites. When people publish these articles in their site, they’ll be including the link that is at the bottom of the article as well. And this link would be to your site if the article that they are publishing in their site is something you have already published in ezine. The number of people who copy your article may vary depending on the quality of the article. So, if you want a lot of people to copy your article, then you should be publishing quality articles. This way, you are getting more than one backlink. In your article at ezinearticles you’ll be able to put a maximum of 2-3 links at the end of the article. And when these are copied by others, then the number of backlinks will multiply to a big number!

This way, you are getting not only backlinks, but also traffic to your sites. The number of backlinks that you’ll be getting will depend on the quality of articles that you are publishing in the article directory. If you just don’t care about the quality of the article, then you can use some article re-writing software and then rewrite an article to many and then post to many article directories. This way, the number of backlinks can be increased pretty easily. But the quality of a software re-written article won’t be that good as a manually written unique article. So, think what’s better for you, and go for it.

Getting-traffic-to-your-sites

By Randy R on June 4, 2010 in Blog Beginning, Blog Business, Randy Roedl, Web Design, Websites, wordpress

Getting traffic to your sites

If you have decided to create some websites and make some money out of it, then you should make sure that you’ll be spending at least 5 hours daily for your sites. These things can’t be done by spending an hour or two a week in an internet cafe. It would be great, if you are with a laptop and a dedicated internet connection.

After you create websites, you should be pouring in traffic to those sites. Simply spamming here and there wont do any good. For that, you should go on with things the natural way. Yup, I mean it. You should be creating an identity for yourself online. You should make others contact you for help or for any other kinda stuffs. What I wanted to say is that – you should be active in online communities.

Being active in online communities means to respond to discussions that are discussed over those places. It’ll benefit you in many ways. This way, you’ll be better known by others – not just that, your skills will also be known by others. This way, you can get some potential clients if you are good at doing some kind of services online – like article writing, logo designing, programming etc. But, our primary aim should be to drive traffic to our sites.

Almost all online communities allow to put a link to our websites in our profile page which we’ll be getting after registering an account there. And some sites will even allow you to start blogs there. And being an active member out there, your blog will be visited by many. Take this as an opportunity to drive traffic to your sites. I hope you guys will be knowing how to deal with things from then on. If you are able to follow things till this stage, then the next stage is something that you’ll be able to do pretty easily without anyone’s help. So go for it – you’ll surely be succeeding if you have followed what we have explained here.

Blogging Can Help Your Business

By Randy R on June 4, 2010 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Adsense Earnings, Blog Beginning, Blog Business, Blog Feeds, Blog Posting, blogging, Blogs

Blogging Can Help Your Business

Blogging can have miraculous effects on the success of any business
and that is the reason why many businesses are indulging themselves
in blogging. In fact, it would not be an exaggeration to say that
millions of individuals and businesses have woken up to the
importance of blogging and hence have created their own blogs. If you
are wondering how a blog can boost your sales and business then read
on, as this chapter has all the relevant information.

A blog is the cheapest and the best marketing tool

Blogs are very easy to create and hence take very less time and effort
to be created. Not only that, a blog requires very less investment. On
the other hand, the impact of a blog is far-reaching and it can act as a
great marketing tool for the products and services offered by your
business.

Blogs come handy in market research

Since the blogs generate traffic which is already interested in your
business, conducting a survey or a poll can create a win-win situation
for you. Not only will it help you in market research, but it will also
help you in abiding the interests of the visitors of your blog.

Blogging is much easier than maintaining a website

Blogging does not compulsorily require one to be technically correct.
Blogging is as easy as sending emails or typing letters on a word pad.
This makes the maintenance of blogs much easier than maintaining
websites where one has to pay a web designer or a web developer to
add content to the website. The best part is that, blogging allows you
to add latest information on your products and services without any
additional cost.

Blogs allow you to interact with the target audience

It is more than a probability that, majority of the traffic is visiting
your blog to know more about your products and services. Blogs
provide an amazing platform to interact with your potential customers
and hence provide you with ample opportunities to impress and
encourage them to try your products and services.

Blogs are an effective tool to collect constructive feedback

Most of the customers, who have purchased your products or services
through your blog, are likely to leave a review or feedback for your
products or services on your blog after using it. It is best to collect all
such entries which can help in the improvement of your business.
Once the suggestions of those customers have been implemented, it
can be added as a special entry in your blog, which will result in more
feedback and more traffic for your website.

Earn money through monetizing your blog

However large or small your business is, it always pays to monetize
your blog. You can place ads of related products and services, and you
can get paid for placing those ads on your blog.

Someone rightly said that best things come free in life. Though a blog
might sometimes ask for a small investment, it would not be an
exaggeration to say that it can work wonders for your business.

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