Social Networking and Blogging for Profit work Best Together.
Monetized blogging tools and add-ons that improve traffic, SEO, rank, and readership.
Striving to make a profitable blog without these four rules in place is like having a gas station in the middle of the desert. You might get one or two visitors, but nobody really knows you exist. These four rules every blogger needs to follow to start blogging for money. First, add-ons. Second, social media and plug-ins. Third, database submissions. And fourth, promoting others and being social. Follow them and your blog will become the gas station smack dab in the middle of a bustling metropolis bursting with traffic and profits.
Add-ons to Improve a Monetized Blog
Some blogging platforms have these built in, most do not. However, the built in add-ons usually don't work have as good as an outside source simply because the add on puts you on the list for search engines to crawl, while the outside ones actually force search engines to crawl your site sooner.
The most essential add-ons are Feedburner, site meter, and friend adder. Feedburner, when properly set up, gets traffic nearly as instantly as you post a fresh blog posts. You will see increased traffic using this one simple free tool even if you don't do anything else. Sitemeter is a great–spam and virus free–traffic counter that provides statistics, demographics and other services for free. A friend adder service is built into most blogging platforms, sift through the available widgets or get your own through Ping.fm, TwitterFeed or other service. It allows people to follow your blog with one click of a button, great for repeat traffic.
Social Media and Plug-ins Essential for Profit Blogs
If you have not jumped on the twitter bandwagon, do so as soon as possible. Then use a service such as Tweetfeed to automatically post a link to your twitter account every time you post a new post to your blog. Facebook is also a great traffic booster especially when utilized with Twitterfeed and Hello.txt. If you are using Mozilla Firefox as your web-server, try out Sharaholic. Its worth the one or two days you will spend setting up the accounts to have a link of your most recent blog post reported to nearly 100 other social media databases automatically.
Article Database Submissions Improve Traffic and Credibility
Start getting articles posted free databases. Don't mess with the ones you have to pay membership fees, they are ripping you off. Stick with the free ones floating about. There are hundreds to choose from and several that pay commissions. Earning commission for articles posted online that link to your monetized blog and its advertising on it is a bonus you shouldn’t miss out on.
Pick at least 10 to 25 sites you like the most and get cracking at article submissions. Keep these articles as informational as possible and avoid writing sales pitches for your money-making blog. Think of them as a way to show how much you know on topics related to your blog or other topics not related to your blog rather than promoting your profit blog exclusively. Strive for five posts, per database, per month at minimum.
Promoting Others and Being Social Increases Blog Followers
The whole point of blogging for money is actually making money. You’ve heard of the secret and six degrees ideologies, live it with your blog. Rather than try to promote yourself with comments on other blogs such as, “hey look at my site will ya!” and “visit My Website,” instead, find 10 to 12 blogs, forums, and social sites you related to personally and leave at least one meaningful comment each day about THEIR post.
Take part in forum discussion without promoting yourself, but do leave a link if the comment form allows for that. The more you promote other people, ideas, discussions, and blogs, the more you will get promoted in return exponentially. If you just try to promote yourself, nobody will listen and eventually you will be ignored and even banned from some sites. Be smart, take a meaningful part and the traffic to your site will follow because they will want to hear what you have to say.
The right tools in terms of add-ons, social media, and database submissions are essential to make it successful in terms of money for blogging. Having a monetized blog without outside websites pointing people to it is like having a shopping mall in the middle of the Sahara. Search engine rank is soon to be more dependent on how many links from well-known websites a site has rather than how well its key worded. People listen to you because you first listened to them.
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