Making Money by Blogging

Making money by bloggingA lot of people think about making money by blogging and don’t know where to start and what methods to use.

There are loads of different strategies: affiliate marketing, articles writing, advertising campaigns etc. But all of them require traffic. A lot of traffic. And traffic requires your time. A lot of your time. So basically, you have to sit in front of PC almost every day, write interesting articles in order to make your blog popular so visitors will keep visiting you.

I’ve tried all of the strategies and found the best one for making money by blogging (well, at least for me). Now, at the moment the money are not big (I earn about 70-80$ per month from two blogs), but I don’t have to sit in front of PC every day. In fact, I post one new article on my blogs once per 2-3 months.

The strategy is extremely simple and requires very small amount of effort. I sell a place for links on my blogs. For doing that I use two online agencies: Link Worth and Text-Link-Ads.com.

Link Worth is really good and I get the main proffit from them. They offer a lot of helpful settings, you can earn not only from links, but from writing articles and sometimes you can earn over 40$ for 300 words article there. Really good offers and prices. The main their requirement is your blog must have at least 19 posts.

Text Link Ads is not so good and it sells words inside your posts. If the advertiser wants to optimise his page by using keywords, he can buy he relevant keyword on your blog. The profit is not so good as with Link Worth, but I get 15$ for three words.

And the best thing is – they pay monthly. So if you sold a place on your blog, you know that you will be getting money up until the advertiser decides to remove the link.

Now, here comes the interesting bit: the price for the links depends on your blog PR (page rank). From my experience you can earn good money if your blog has PR3 and higher. But that doesn’t mean that you won’t be able to earn money if your blog has PR2 or 1.

How, to get PR2 or PR3? It is not very hard. All you ave to do is to submit each of your post to Social Bookmarking Services. I use SocialMarker.com for that. This site allows you to submit your post into 50 social bookmarking sites. It will take some time for you to register in all of them but it is worth doing. If you submit every article you have in to all of them, you will get some backlinks and Google will give you higher PR. Easy.

So let’s imagine you have one blog with two links and it brings 30$ per month. That’s fine isn’t it? But you can spend some time by creating some more blogs. Let’s imagine, that after one year you have 5 blogs with 2 links? This is 150$. Plus you can add Addsence on all of them and it will give you some more extra money. With five blogs you will be able to earn about 200$ and you won’t need to sit in front of PC every day. Only once per 203 months you can write an article and submit it.

This is my strategy for making money by blogging. Please fell free to ask any questions you have and I will do my best to help you.

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How to make URLs in Joomla search engine friendly

1) Login to your FTP.
2) Find htaccess.txt file (normally in public_html folder) and rename it to .htaccess
3) Go to Joomla! admin panel => Global Configuration => Site
4) Change select yes to all three SEO options. The action of the three parameters is as follows:

  • Search Engine Friendly URLs. Converts the URLs from the native Joomla! format to the SEF format.
  • Use Apache mod_rewrite. Uses the Apache “mod_rewrite” function to eliminate the “index.php” portion of the URL. If you don’t want to use mod_rewrite, set this to “No” and don’t rename the htaccess.txt. The SEF URLs feature will still work. The only difference is that you will see “index.php” in the URL, for example, http://www.yoursite.org/index.php/faq.html.
  • Add suffix to URLs. Adds “.html” to the end of URLs.

Done! Now your site will have search engine friendly URLs.
Enjoy!

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Changing a theme for WP blog

Hi, today, I’ve changed a theme of my blog. It is now more bright and clean.
The original idea was just to have a couple of pages where visitor can read about services I provide (free blog setup is the main service, but apart from that I offer hosting discounts and technical support for any issues connected with web design), but a few months ago I decided to write some posts from time to time, so the old design didn’t suit my needs.

It is very easy to change a theme for WP blog. If you want to know how to do that, watch the tutorial below.

Wordpress: How to Change Themes

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Translating Polls in Joomla! using Joomfish

A lot of people who run multilingual sites on Joomla! have problem with translating polls.
The problem is related to the MySQL driver. If you switch to MySQLi “with i” it works right out of the box. This is the preferred driver for JoomFish. Alternatively you can change the modules/mod_poll/helper.php file a bit:
in getPollOptions function set

Code:
$query = ‘SELECT p.id, p.text’ .
            ’ FROM #__poll_data as p’ .
            ’ WHERE p.pollid = ‘ . (int) $id .
            ’ AND p.text <> “”‘ .
            ’ ORDER BY p.id’;

And it will be working with no problems at all :)

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What is Ping? Plus All-Inclusive Ping List for Wordpress

A lot of blogers (even those who have been blogging for a while) don’t know what in the Wordpress’ admin panel they have poverfull weapon for increasing their blog popularity. It is so called Update Services  that can be used to let other people know you’ve updated your blog. WordPress automatically notifies popular Update Services that you’ve updated your blog by sending a XML-RPC ping each time you create or update a post.

The most popular service is Ping-O-Matic and it is already listed by default in your blog. But you can increase your blog popularity by adding more Update Services. You can do that very easily. Just read THIS ARTICLE and follow it’s instructions. Good luck in blogging!

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How to move your wordpress blog to another hosting

Sometimes you have to move your wordpress blog to another hosting. It is very hard to for people who don’t know how.  And it will cost you about 50-70$ if you will get a qualified support. But with these two step-by-step video tutorials you will be able to do that by yourself with no problems at all. I hope it will help you!

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