75% Adsense Income with Info Barrel
Info Barrel is a exciting, new site offering a whopping 75% of Adsense impression earnings to writers. In addition, Info Barrel rewards writers for referring other writers. You earn an additional 2% from the content your referrals create.
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InfoBarrel gives an assortment of templates to choose from. You can opt to write a Blank, Video, How To or Review Article.
Payment goes directly to your Adsense account.
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Niche Blogging
A few years ago I found myself in a position where I needed to make some extra income. I had not worked in a while and with the economy I knew it would be tough to find a job. I also wanted to continue to stay home with my family and the idea of picking my own hours and working in my slippers appealed to me. So I looked for ways to make money online. Today I make a very generous full time income from my online activities. I have a variety of income streams online and one of my most lucrative and favorites is niche blogging.
Niche blogging is selecting a very tightly defined niche area and writing about it. For example instead of writing about weight loss which is a very broad topic you would write about a small segment of weight loss such as cleansing to lose weight.
If your goal is to make money niche blogging then you will want to select a topic that will earn. Some commonly know popular earners would be weight loss, going green, relationships, travel, acne, hair loss and other topics. Take one of these and zero in on a segment of it. When I made my niche blogs I considered the articles I had written at pay per click sites and how much they made. I personally found that recipes, music, crime and life skill ideas did not do well for me. What did do well for me were articles on weight loss, making money, beauty etc. I took my favorites and developed them into websites.
But if you just throw a website up and start writing you will rarely make money. You need to target words that people are searching for so you show up in the search engines. And of course many of these topics are very competitive because they can make a lot of money.
So you need to find keywords to target that will fit in with your niche blog. I personally use and highly recommend Micro Niche Finder. When I started I used Google Adwords tool. But I found it to be a long frustrating process when looking at so many keywords. With Micro Niche Finder the work is done for you. You type in a keyword to search and it will pull up associated keywords. Then it will look provide different information; how many people are searching for the term, how much the term pays in ad clicks and more. Most importantly it will tell you how hard it would be for you to rank high in Google for the term. It will give you a green light if its a go and a red light if it is a no. Micro Niche Finder is a huge time saver.
I print the list of key words that are green and this will be the basis for my niche blogging website. Next I select a name. When you are searching key terms in Micro Niche Finder you can click on the domain name tab and immediately know if your best keyword phrase is available in .com, .net or .org.
What happens if it is not available? You can either choose another key phrase or add something to the key phrase. For example if your key phrase is PinkWidgets and PinkWidgets.com, PinkWidgets.net and PinkWidgets.org is already registered you could go with PinkWidgetsZone.com, PinkWidgetsCenter.org or PinkWidgetsSpot.net.
Should you take a .info or different extension if .com, .net and org are not available? That is a personal decision. I have had good luck with .info’s but many stay away from them.
I recommend registering your domain name at NameCheap.com NameCheap offers good pricing on domain names and privacy. A domain name runs around $10 a year.
Hosting is next on the list. Sometimes people ask if they should use a free hosting site like Blogger or Blogspot. The answer is no. Because you do not control those sites. So you are niche blogging on a site that can change rules, delete your account or disappear. Hosting runs under $10 a month and is an essential investment. I recommend Hostgator.
Now it is time to pick a WordPress theme. You can use a free or paid theme. One easy way to find a theme you like is to google the terms you are looking for along with WordPress theme and then look under the images instead of the text results. You can waste many hours looking for WordPress themes. If you plan to build many blogs my advice would be to find a flexible theme you can use over and over.
Now it is time to install your WordPress theme on your website. You must first install WordPress on your site. This is done at Hostgator through the Fantastico Panel. Hostgator has step by step tutorials for you to follow. This is very simple to do so don’t be afraid to try it. If you purchase Hostgator hosting through my link email me and I will do it for you; Hostgator hosting.
Now it is time to log in and see your site. There are a number of plug ins you will want to add to your site to make it work efficiently and there are online tutorials on how to add plug ins. I will also do this for you if you use my link for Hostgator hosting. I recommend using All in One SEO pack, Google Adsense (to add Adsense automatically) and other plug ins depending on your need. For example if you plan to only post once in a great while you may want to add Old Post Promoter which will rotate old and new posts so your site looks fresh.
One plug in I love is Reviewazon. This plug in pulls content from Amazon based on keywords you give it. So you can pull in anything Amazon carries and earn a commission. Brad at Reviewzon is amazing and will give you step by step help if you have any trouble with the installation. Click here to get a substantial discount on Reviewazon.
Now that you have your blog set up it is time to start niche blogging. You will want to use the keywords you found with Micro Niche Finder. Use the keywords in the title of your post and sprinkled through out your post. On the side of your blog you will see “Post Tags”. It is important that you include tags or keywords from your article post. Click publish and you are on your way!
Next it is time to think about monetizing your niche blog. There are many ways to monetize a blog. Adsense is one of them. Google Adsense is free to sign up for; sign up at Google. With Adsense advertisers pay to have their ads on your site. Micro Niche Finder will tell you how much the rate is, as will the Google Adwords tool. You will get a percent of the rate shown.
It is important to note that with Google Adsense you must have a privacy policy on your site. If you need help with this contact me.
You can also put affiliate products on the blog. There are many different affiliate companies. You will make a selection based on the type of niche blogging you are doing. Some of my favorites are;
Share A Sale – wide variety of products.
LinkSynergy - wide variety of products.
MoreNiche - health and beauty products, excellent support.
Amazon – Low commissions but wide variety of products.
Clickbank – Online products ebooks, software etc.
I would recommend starting out with just two or three companies. Select products that you feel add value.
Recent changes in FTC laws require that you post on your site that you are an affiliate of the products you sell on your site. You can post a disclaimer in the About section of your site or elsewhere on the niche blogging site.
So now that you have products and/or Adsense and posts on your site it is time to get traffic. You can have the best niche blog in the world but if you don’t get traffic no one will see it.
There are many ways to get traffic. There are many ways to drive traffic to your site. Some of these methods include article marketing, posting on forums, using a link to your site in your signature, submitting the RSS feed of your niche blog to feeds such as FeedAge and social bookmarking. I will go into more detail on traffic in another post.
Once the traffic comes to your site, you may want to capture your readers email address depending on the type of site you have. The best way to do this is by offering a free report. You can write a report yourself or find a pre-written PLR report. PLR stands for private label rights. These are articles you can rewrite or publish verbatim. They are usually inexpensive and a quick way to get a report for your niche blog.
To get the report your readers will need to opt in to your mailing list or auto responder. In my opinion the best autoresponder and the one I use for some of my sites is Aweber. They offer a $1 trial for a month. Once you have an autoresponder set up, it will automatically send out your emails. You can also make a pop over box to pop over when readers visit your blog to invite them to sign up for your newsletter. There are so many blogs out there it is easy for people to forget about your blog if you don’t have an autoresponder so it is well worth it to get one. Use my link to sign up for Aweber and I will help you select and find a report, make a pop over and help you put the newsletter sign up code on your site.
One of the most important things with niche blogging is to offer your readers value. You will want to provide great content and offer goods and services that you believe in. That is how you will build your readership.
It takes time to build your readership and you may have questions along the way. One community that can help you build your blog is WP Goldmine. WP Goldmine is a group of very supportive people that discuss ideas and strategies to take their blogs to the next level. The site focuses on Niche Blogging and offers step by step how to videos and reports. If you are interested in joining a trial member ship is only $1. Click her to try WP Goldmine for the $1 Special Offer. I am a member of the site and am constantly learning new things there, even though I have been niche blogging for some time now.
It took me several years of working diligently to build up my niche blogs and to learn what to do. But it was well worth it. I won’t say exactly what I make but I will share that it is very financially rewarding for me.
I have picked out the best of the best methods and things that I use that took me much time to ;earn. Hopefully this report will save you some time and help get you on the road to niche blogging fast.
If you have any questions do feel free to email me at info@WriteForMoneyOnline or info@MyLilGoldDress.com.
Happy Blogging!
Lee
Affiliate Income, Ad Clicks and More Writing for Squidoo
Squidoo is a social writing site, that allows writers to earn income from multiple sources of income. You can earn affiliate income, ad clicks and more writing for Squidoo. At Squidoo, writers create lenses. A lens is a webpage that focuses on a particular topic. The more quality lenses you create, the more money you can potentially make. Click here for Free Squidoo Training Information.
The best way to write at Squidoo is to select a niche topic and create lenses about it. For example, if you are interested in skin care, you could write lenses on exfoliating the skin, winter skin care, creams for the skin, caring for acne prone skin etc. Select a topic broad enough to create a number of lenses. You can also add more topics.
There are a number of ways to earn income with Squidoo. The first is income from Squidoo itself. You can elect to include on your lens affiliate links to companies such as eBay, Amazon and others that are contracted through Squidoo. These companies will decide what to run on your site and do the work for you or you can select which products to show. When you use companies contracted via Squidoo, your payout is 50%.
You can also sign up to be an affiliate directly with places like ShareaSale, and LinkShare. See the Affiliate Marketing section at My Lil Gold Dress (Earn at Home) for more information on Affiliate Marketing and keep the full amount earned through these links. More work but potentally worth it.
Squidoo also places Google Adsenses ads on your lenses. Half of the earned revenue from these ads is distributed amongst lensmasters based on traffic, rank etc.
Another way you can increase Squidoo income is by referring others. Squidoo pays you $5.00 for every $15.00 a lens created by someone you referred earns.
Squidoo is the type of site where you can build income, but it will take time. To increase traffic and generate sales you will want to promote your lenses by joining groups and using Squidoo promotional tools.
Think about a niche you enjoy and some topics you can write about within the niche. Or go directly to affiliate companies and write articles based on products you believe in. Keep writing, become recognized in your niche area and promote. This is a great way to generate traffic and sales.
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HubPages
HubPages is a revenue sharing site that offers you the opportunity to create mini web pages. You select a topic (topics) of your choice and create content “capsules”. Fill the content capsules with the media you desire. You can includ text, photos, videos and links.
Hubs are rated with the top score being 100. The rating is determined by traffic, unique content, viewer ratings and quality. You retain all rights to your work.
With HubPages your earnings come from revenue generated from affiliate accounts. These may include *eBay, Amazon, Kontera* and Google. HubPages pays you 60% of the impressions generated from these sources. If an actual purchase is made ie someone clicks through your hub and buys an item from Amazon or eBay for example, you keep 100% of the affiliate revenue. Hub also pays for referrals in two ways. If you send traffic to another Hub you receive a percent of total impressions 9% -12% depending on if they have an affiliate or not. Hub also pays for new writer referrals. * Note: Kontera pays out at a $100 minimum so if your Hubs do not generate traffic, it is unlikely you will see pay out. *eBay has tightened their standards making it more difficult to get an account with them.
Because your earnings from HubPages is determined by affiliate relationships, you must set up an account with each of the affiliates on your own and enter the information in your account settings at HubPages. Hub gives you step by step directions on how to sign up for these affiliate relations in their FAQ’s.
HubPages also offers a Flagship Hub program for the best Hubbers. A $25 payment is given for a Hub that is written on an approved topic and meets the standards set. Bonuses are also given.
Making a Hub is fun and easy. I recently created my first Hub, “How to Lose Weight Fast and Easy with Fat Loss 4 Idiots.” Using the modules, I created text and added a photo. A slideshow option is also available if you have 5 photos or more. Hubpages automatically added the Adsense. It gave me the option to include Kontera advertising. On the side there are boxes to add eBay and Amazon. I opted to add the Amazon box. I selected products from Amazon that I felt fit well with the hub. But if desired it can be done automatically.
Earnings from HubPages will vary according to Hub. Some writers seem to do well and others find the earnings mediocre. But one nice thing about HubPages is you can get backlinks to your other websites and potentially pick up earnings.
Just a note, I have two Hubpages accounts (which is allowed) and have written most of my Hubs for the other account.
Click here to see my latest Hub on The Keyword Academy.
Name Your Price at Constant-Content
Constant-Content is a site offering a variety of media; articles, photographs, video and illustrations to publishers. One of the nice things about it, is it gives the writer, photographer, filmmaker and artist the opportunity to not only name their price but to resell their articles over and over. When you submit a piece work to Constant-Content, you select the option for each article. You can set a Usage Price, Unique Price or Full Rights Price.
Usage Price-When a publisher pays a usage price, they have purchased the right to use your article on their site, in a magazine or in some other media. You retain all rights to your work, keep your byline and the content can be resold to other publishers on Constant-Content..
Unique Price-When a publisher pays a unique price, you retain your byline. The publisher can use your article but not resell it. The article is removed from Constant Contents database.
Full Rights Price-When a publisher pays the full rights price, it essentially allows them to do whatever they want to your article. They can change the wording, resell it, put their own byline on it. You no longer have rights to it.
Constant Content does give pricing suggestions. For a 300-500 word article they suggest a range of $10-$25 for Usage $30-$60 for Unique and $40-$80 for full rights. Pricing strategies differ from author to author. Some prefer to potentially resell their articles over and over and will not give a full rights price option or will set a very high price for full rights. Others give just a few dollars difference in articles they sell for Usage and ones they sell for Full Rights. Keep in mind as you price articles that you are paid a percentage of the price you post.
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My Top eHow Money Earning Article! (New Update 3/25)
*****UPDATE! See bottom of article for latest update*****
My top eHow money earning article has made exactly $176 since its publication at eHow in October of 2008. Not bad for less than an hours work.
My second highest earner has generated close to $95.00. Some of my other articles have earnings in the $50 range. With most articles earning a few dollars.
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Update! (3/25) It’s been about 3 weeks since I wrote this and my top earning article is now over $200. The second top earning article mentioned above is at $104.28. But amazingly, one of my other articles that was around the $50 range when I wrote this on March 3rd, jumped to $121.28 due to a lot of interest in the topic in the media!
Update! (7/09) My top earning article just jumped past the $300 mark and is at $305.69.
Update! (11/09) My top earning article is now at $500.33.
Update (2/03) My top earning article is now at $629.96.
Update (3/25) My top earning article is now at $707.50
Master Blogger Yaro Starak Shares $10,000 Month Money Making Tips
Master Blogger Yaro Starak rakes in $10,000 a month and works about 2 hours a day. Here Yaro shares his top traffic tips. See link at bottom for a free 50 page blog profits blueprint report
10 Blog Traffic Tips
by Master Blogger Yaro Starak
In every bloggers life comes a special day – the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader – you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.
Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.
It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called "traction", which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.
Top 10 Tips
10. Write at least five major “pillar” articles. A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good “how-to” lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.
9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.
You don’t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.
8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need a easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that’s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you’ve done a good job!).
7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people’s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.
Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.
6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger’s article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry – it’s sort of like your blog telling someone else’s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.
This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important – it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will likely come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.
5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.
4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival often enjoy a spike in new readers.
To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at blogcarnival.com.
3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it’s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it’s worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!
2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn’t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it’s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have – your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.
How you benefit is through what is called your “Resource Box”. You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.
1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I’ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won’t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.
I hope you enjoyed my list of traffic tips. Everything listed above are techniques I’ve put into place myself for my blogs and have worked for me, however it’s certainly not a comprehensive list. There are many more things you can do. Finding readers is all about testing to see what works best for you and your audience and I have no doubt if you put your mind to it you will find a balance that works for you.
This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.
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