Well, we being pretty busy with our startup and also recently we are building up and testing our SEO effort with the objective to capture long tail search engine traffic by improving our “landing” page. This being a very rewarding week for us. We still pretty much in the “SEO” mode yet.
We know our reader is not that technical to hear what we want to say about SEO. So we decide to cover more interesting and simple blogging topic such as how to get paid to BLOG rather then more on internet marketing and SEO.
We think get paid to blog is more like a getting a job rather then a business. Anyway, it’s the simplest way to start out to start make money online besides “taking survey” and “paid to browse”. And we believe this fit in perfectly for “start small and think big”, and definitely better then taking survey and paid to browse because who know what blogging might bring you …
Here is our story. We have to go and check it out ourselves.
We pick the 4 blogging networks that we feel good about, and see how good is their online customer service. Here is our first 4 lists:
PayPerPost.com
ReviewMe.com
Smorty.com
Bloggerwave.com
We sign up for PayPerPost.com first since they have receive $7 million venture capital funds, we thought they might be the best. Well, guess what, their server is “very very” slow, and it’s took forever to load just a few pages and how they approve our blog and their interface seem very confusing for us. Very disappointed!
ReviewMe.com by far is the best for us, instantly login, quick approver. I guess they really did they homework and have some automation tool that detect our PageRank and Alexa Traffic.
Well, we still waiting for Smorty.com and Bloggerwave.com for approver. But we can’t be too hash on them since we just sign up today. * We did go for PayPerPost and ReviewMe first * yesterday. We heard pretty good story from Smorty, but we need to check it out to confirm. Well, bloggerware.com being buying a lot of ad and even go extra length to other blogging network to paid other blogger to blog about their service. With that at lease we know they have some budget and we are looking forward to test out their service.
Just like adsense, we are publisher and advertiser at the same time. If you want to make money online, you need to know what is the tools are available to help you to grow your business.
Anyway, we will let you know once we start getting paid from those blogging network we just sign up. And we will review and compare them one by one.
Aug 30, 2007
Is Blogging Really Paid Well?
Ultimate Way To Make Money Online With Blogging!
Sure, they are so many way to make money online with blogging. But we think the ultimate way is Recommendation With Commission Or Affiliate Program.
But Not All Blogger Can Do It
In order to make this happen, you must focus, have a flagship blog, be credibility and most important things is your reader must like you and listen to your recommendation.
If you create blog just for Adsense or advertising money, you are missing a very important element of making money using blog which is INFLUENCE. With Blog, you are very very POWERFUL, you just like a mini-station that allow the world to tune in and listen to you. If you are not using that strength to put in to your action plan to make a lot of money online or “live life to the fullest with wealth” strategy, you just cash in too fast and selling it short.
Very Good Example
Oprah Winfrey book club, do you know much they make? The figure will shock you, and I can promise it’s even ten times better then most of the highest pay blogger out there.
Well, when we said it’s ultimate is also mean the hardest to do, you can’t expect this to happen in months. You can only build your credibility and brand by continue deliver and bring value to your reader, create win-win, care about helping … and those take times to build. But we think that’s the true potential for blog to make money online.
Question, Aren’t You In For Making Money?
We all know for sure that you can’t straight away be credible. The the main question is how your make money online while still be credible? We don’t have the right answer for you as we are still learning the way. For now, what we can say is you need to set your rule of conduct through blogging EARLY, always be ethical, be honest, and credible. And with that, you still can make some money online through advertising money, ethical paid-blogging and recommendation for the affiliate product you think that will benefit your reader greatly rather then making a quick buck.
What Do You Think?
LinkBait : Pragmatic Way To Unleash “Content Is King”
Well, we ask a lot of successful blogger out there, what is their secret to be a successful blogger. And they answer is …
Content Is King
A lot of marketer out there will disagree with “content is king ” and say without help of promoting the content, no matter how good is your content, no-body know about it!
So they come up with a better word for content is king, a content without the linkbait nature, it’s useless. So linkbait is the pragmatic way to unleash “content is king” power.
Anyway, this is just our logic to explain why linkbait is important - Don’t take this seriously
3 birds In One Stone
We think LinkBait is the number one things to do if you have a new website to launch,. Seriously, write quality content, and promote it as linkbait.
First, if people like your content, they will link to you and might become your reader. (Readers)
Second, with linking, search engine will love you. (Search Engine)
Third, with great content, you are start creating brand. (Brand)
Well, you can’t find many online strategy … a strategy that can kill 3 birds in one stone, can you? Bummer, after launching our website for 3 months, now we know … duh.
No More Theme Sponsor Link In Themes.Wordpress!
There is a lot of talk about whether Themes.Wordpress should allow theme sponsor or not. Now it’s confirm theme sponsor links are not allow anymore in themes.wordpress! Just kidding, it’s just on weblog tools collection.com, but they are leading the movement.
And themes.wordpress.net might just consider the idea to ban sponsor links someday.
Personally, I don’t see it’s unethical to leave a sponsor link there as long as it’s stated that it’s a sponsor wordpress theme download. Blog theme designer need to make a living too. And to have proper incentive is what make our system great in the first place (capitalist).
You got have something to motivated people!
But Are We Taking It Too Far?
Is the whole theme sponsor thing is taking too far? As you know, it’s very valuable to have a theme sponsor on a blog that have google page rank 4-6 and have more then 200 postings. That’s mean the sponsor will get 200 different page rank quality in bound links with little costs. This is why a lot of online marketer have use this to exploit the opportunity. And sometime, you will see 2-4 sponsor links. I said good for them.
Well, as long as it’s inform people that this is a sponsor links theme, and use it as your own risk, we don’t have a problem with sponsor links. But it’s definitely not right not to inform that this is a sponsor theme, and use coding to hide your sponsor link. This is just not the right way to improve your google ranking and make money online.
The Way We Look At It
We don’t like the decision because we think it’s should give incentive and credit to the sponsor who actually paid the bill. But when you look at how the system being exploit and affect those who like to make money online, then you know this stand is necessary.
I know a blogger who write solid content and have good quality incoming links. But his blog can never get a good google page rank. With my little help, we found out that he actually got penalize by Google because of having a sponsor link that link to the “bad neighborhood”. Hmm, this is definitely a sad thing for him and since he has lost so many hair try to figure out what has happen.
Imagine that you are that hard working blogger who is waiting to make some money online and want to see your google page rank go higher and higher, and want to see your traffic coming more and more from google search engine. And it’s never happen! This is why we can see it’s necessary to take the stand now, because base on themes.wordpress, they don’t have the resource to check one by one for the “bad neighborhood” or “sponsor links that go too far”. It’s necessary to protect those new bloggers who know nothing about SEO, but like to make a nice living online. Well, we think …
This is not a right decision, but is the best decision for lacking of resource to check the bad neighborhood.
Anyway, it’s crucial to know a little bit SEO for blogger just like any business owner starting a business without know how to do marketing can cost the business greatly.
How to check bad neighborhood?
Well, you must be wondering how you can prevent this so that you don’t lose all your hair:) You are definitely in good had if you read our hoobin.com blog ( shameless self-promoting trick learning from john chow ). Try this tools Bad Neighborhood Link checker tool here
Anyway, we do favor “black hat” or “quick and easy way” method sometime if it’s ethical and for the best, but honestly we think to learn “white hat” method is best return of investment(ROI) since it’s always apply and relevant for the next 5 years.
By the way, Nate is honoring us the Power Post Blog. This really motivate us to write more great story, compile more information and share our little experiment with what is best to make more money online.
The Number One Challenge For Make Money Online!
If you ever ask what is the number one challenge for us to make money online is GETTING TRAFFIC. You can get google page rank 10, or have all the monetize things going on in your blog. But if you don’t have any traffic, you can’t monetize or earn anything!
That’s why we talk about getting online traffic most of the time. This is our number one priority if we want to make money online. Once you get the traffic, it’s much easy to test out and maximize your monetization plan on web conversion.
There are million of blog and website out there. How you share or get traffic is our number one challenge.
How People Find Your Blog?
We have blog about a bit dry and technical topic subject such as search engine optimization(SEO) and we going to cover more about blogging and social network.
If you check, how people actually find your blog?
Search Engine & Blog Search Engine
Social Network Blog
Blog Community
Other Blogs
News Website & Website
Forum
Offline Media
We being focus on search engine tremendously because we think people who actually search online is beginning to look for information how to make money online, this will be our best target audience.
Using search engine to drive traffic is definitely a tough market to be break in, since it’s getting more competitive in search engine result. But the reward to master search engine can be tremendous. And the easy way to get good result in search engine is blogging.
Through observation of many blog out there, blog that post one post a week wouldn’t get much traffic from search engine, even though they have great quality content! We have seem it. Of course, it’s best you have good quality content and blog more often. But what really make a different to get more traffic from search engine is you need to blog often, blog frequent, blog consistent and blog about your variety topic of your niche subject. One of the main reason is by blogging often, you have more contents, you stand a better chance to capture “long tail” keywords traffic. Besides that, by having bigger size blog, you will get higher page rank too.
I think we have talk a lot about SEO and blogging, maybe too much. For the next couple weeks, we hope we will cover more about how to bring in more traffic using social network web 2.0 site. But our main point is … let tackle the toughest problem first : How To Bring In Traffic!
Well, what is your number one challenge to make money online?
Top 10 Ways For Doing It Right In Blogging
We read a lot about how to doing it right in blogging. We think the most solid advise come from Robert Scoble in his book, Naked Conversation. Here are the top 10 list of his tips how to do it right in blogging:
- Get the title right for search engine result
- Read bunch of blog before you start
- Keep it simple. Keep if focus
- Demonstrate Passion. Show Authority
- Add Comment
- Be Accessible
- Tell A Story
- Be Linky
- Get out into the real world
- Use your referrer log
Money Blogging Risk! Is There Any?
Blogging is cheap, very cheap (that’s good to hear) Your expenses and financial risk should should be minimal. But we are sure there is some risk involved! And we think ..
Biggest Risk
We think the biggest money blogging risk involved is “our lost of opportunity”. Blogging take time, and the time might be much well spend to pursuit some opportunity. So in blogging, our greatest risk isn’t that the mistake that we make, but is the mistake that we didn’t make, the opportunity we didn’t pursuit and the time we didn’t learn!
Time Is Money
Time is money, lost of opportunity might be our greatest lost after few years of blogging.
This is our concern. Even though we blog for money, we try every possible way to do new thing to make money, we try every possible new way to build traffic, and we try every possible way to learn from the mistake. Then at least we know are pursuit and maximize every opportunity.
Anyway, we see most of the successful money bloggers out there always try something new, push the limit, and go for every possible opportunity to build traffic and to monetize their blog. And they are doing it to minimize their blogging risk. Sound weird huh? We know:)
Anyway, this is just our personal opinion about blogging risk for money:) How about you? What do you think of your biggest money blogging risk?
