The Rise of the Multi Blogger Blog - Outsourcing Content Creation
There’s something in the air today - everyone seems to be talking about outsourcing your blogging (or elements of it).Daniel is writing about it from a perspective of outsourcing some of your non core blogging activities (like design, blog maintenance, marketing and even content creation) and Yaro is talking about his journey of outsourcing his […]

A Blog Isn’t Just For Christmas

A Blog Isn’t Just For Christmas.

By John Taylor

I waswatching the news on TV last night and there was a warningabout buyingpuppies as Christmas presents. There’s nothingworse than visiting thekennels in the new year and seeing allthose unwanted dogs that werechosen as presents because theywere so cute at the time. It reminded meof people who start ablog in the hope of making some money online onlyto give upafter a few days or weeks when things don’t work out.

Theaverage blogger makes around $20 to $50 per month. So, ifthat is theaverage, it stands to reason that some people makeless than that andsome people make more. The amount ofpotential income that can begenerated by blogging dependsentirely upon your ability to build aloyal audience of peoplewho have money to spend.

There is nopoint in creating a blog and then looking for anaudience. Your firsttask is to identify a hungry market andprovide it with high qualityinformation. Once you haveestablished your blog and created someinteresting content, yournext task is to attract your hungry audienceto your blog. Thereare many ways of attracting traffic to a blog siteincludingbanner adverts, ezine advertising, pay per click traffic,linksfro other web sites and submitting your site to the specialistblogsearch engines.

There are literally hundreds of blog sites thatlay desolate andabandoned like an old frontier town with tumbleweedsblowingthrough on the breeze. Their owners failed to identify ahungrymarket, they failed to attract visitors or they simply gaveupposting fresh new content to their blogs.

Blogs are dynamicweb sites, they require time and attention.Search engines love thembecause they are frequently updatedwith fresh new content. People lovethem because they regularlyprovide new and interesting information. Butyou have topersist, just like any other business, online or offline,youhave to work at building up your content, building up anaudience ofloyal readers and creating a portfolio of productsand services thatwill appeal to your readers and generate someincome.

There aremany ways of generating income from your blog. Severalpeople havecreated successful niche sites that offer productreviews includingbooks, software, videos, DVDs and otherpopular products. Other bloggersearn their income from the saleof advertising space and yet othersgenerate income through payper click systems such as Google’s Adsenseprogramme.

There is now another way of building a profitable blog. A brandnew hosted blog service -http://www.Blog4Cash.comhas married afully featured blogging service with a two tieraffiliateprogramme thus allowing you to build up a residual incomefromeveryone who signs up through your referral. This provides agreatopportunity to build up a regular income to supplementyour regular blogprofit.

So remember, to become a truly successful blogger youmust takea long term view and seek to provide interesting content forahungry market with money to spend. Don’t expect to achieveprofitovernight and plan to build a portfolio of income streamssome of whichhave a residual element that will provide you willa recurring income.

Aboutthe Author: John Taylor is a prolific writer, he is the author ofseveralInternet Marketing related eBooks, for example…http://Test-and-Track.com&http://Blog-Traffic-Secrets.comJohnis also runs a very successful"Virtual InternetPortfolio"Learn howyou too can become a VIP owner withJohn’s latest free report:http://ClickForContent.com/vip

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A Blog Isn’t Just For Christmas

A Blog Isn’t Just For Christmas.

By John Taylor

I waswatching the news on TV last night and there was a warningabout buyingpuppies as Christmas presents. There’s nothingworse than visiting thekennels in the new year and seeing allthose unwanted dogs that werechosen as presents because theywere so cute at the time. It reminded meof people who start ablog in the hope of making some money online onlyto give upafter a few days or weeks when things don’t work out.

Theaverage blogger makes around $20 to $50 per month. So, ifthat is theaverage, it stands to reason that some people makeless than that andsome people make more. The amount ofpotential income that can begenerated by blogging dependsentirely upon your ability to build aloyal audience of peoplewho have money to spend.

There is nopoint in creating a blog and then looking for anaudience. Your firsttask is to identify a hungry market andprovide it with high qualityinformation. Once you haveestablished your blog and created someinteresting content, yournext task is to attract your hungry audienceto your blog. Thereare many ways of attracting traffic to a blog siteincludingbanner adverts, ezine advertising, pay per click traffic,linksfro other web sites and submitting your site to the specialistblogsearch engines.

There are literally hundreds of blog sites thatlay desolate andabandoned like an old frontier town with tumbleweedsblowingthrough on the breeze. Their owners failed to identify ahungrymarket, they failed to attract visitors or they simply gaveupposting fresh new content to their blogs.

Blogs are dynamicweb sites, they require time and attention.Search engines love thembecause they are frequently updatedwith fresh new content. People lovethem because they regularlyprovide new and interesting information. Butyou have topersist, just like any other business, online or offline,youhave to work at building up your content, building up anaudience ofloyal readers and creating a portfolio of productsand services thatwill appeal to your readers and generate someincome.

There aremany ways of generating income from your blog. Severalpeople havecreated successful niche sites that offer productreviews includingbooks, software, videos, DVDs and otherpopular products. Other bloggersearn their income from the saleof advertising space and yet othersgenerate income through payper click systems such as Google’s Adsenseprogramme.

There is now another way of building a profitable blog. A brandnew hosted blog service -http://www.Blog4Cash.comhas married afully featured blogging service with a two tieraffiliateprogramme thus allowing you to build up a residual incomefromeveryone who signs up through your referral. This provides agreatopportunity to build up a regular income to supplementyour regular blogprofit.

So remember, to become a truly successful blogger youmust takea long term view and seek to provide interesting content forahungry market with money to spend. Don’t expect to achieveprofitovernight and plan to build a portfolio of income streamssome of whichhave a residual element that will provide you willa recurring income.

Aboutthe Author: John Taylor is a prolific writer, he is the author ofseveralInternet Marketing related eBooks, for example…http://Test-and-Track.com&http://Blog-Traffic-Secrets.comJohnis also runs a very successful"Virtual InternetPortfolio"Learn howyou too can become a VIP owner withJohn’s latest free report:http://ClickForContent.com/vip

Source:www.isnare.com

MyBlogLog - Is it Adding Value?
ProBlogger’s MyBlogLog community has continued to grow in number over the last couple of weeks since I added it to my sidebar however the last few days have given me numerous reasons to wonder if I continue with it.Community Message Spam - I am increasingly spending time deleting spammy comments left on the community from […]

Email Laws That Could Bring You To Jail Even If You’re Not Spamming

Email Laws That Could Bring You To Jail Even If You’re Not Spamming

By Mohamad Zaki Hussein

Firstthings first, I’m not a legal expert and so this article DOES NOTrepresent any legal or professional information and nor can I guaranteeits accuracy. I only wrote this article to introduce you to these emaillaws that might affect us, email marketers.

OK, so what’re these email laws?

They’re the Child Protection Registry laws that have been taken into effect in the State of Michigan and Utah.

Theselaws established"Do Not Email"registries into which individuals orinstitutions that primarily serve minors can enter minors’ emailaddresses or any email address to which minors may have access.Institutions or entities that primarily serve minors can also registertheir entire domain names.

People are prohibited by these lawsfrom sending email to the addresses that have been in the registriesfor 30 days or more if the email contains material or link to materialthat is illegal for minors. And it doesn’t matter whether the email issolicited or unsolicited, you still can’t send such email.

Youmight think that the materials must be something obvious such aspornography, gambling, alcohol, etc. Yes, but they’re only part of thematerials.

The other part consists of less obvious stuff, namelystuff that looks fine, but might be illegal for minors because minorsare prohibited by law from viewing, receiving, participating,possessing, or purchasing this stuff. This includes automotive sales,etc.

And according to the Institute for Spam and Internet PublicPolicy, these laws apply to almost all people in the United States andeven those outside the United States who have a physical presence inthe United States. (seehttp://www.isipp.com/child-protection-email-address-registries.php)

So,imagine you have some email addresses in your list that happen to bealready in the"do not email"registry for 30 days, but you’re notaware of them. And one day, you send an email that contains a link to awebpage that has some Adsense ads that advertise some automotive sales,guess what may happen to you?

Well, your action may beconsidered as a computer crime and you might face civil suit and finesor/and you might even face criminal suit and penalty.

So far, there are two things that you can do to prevent you from getting trouble with these laws.

First,make sure that you never send email that contains material or link tomaterial which is illegal for minors. This is so obvious, right?

Second,if you think that you can’t comply with the first option, then you canpurge your list by matching it against the registries in a regularbasis. But there are fees for this.

Don’t panic about theselaws. Instead, find more information about it. You can start learningmore about these laws by visiting the references below:

- Michigan Children’s Protection Registry site:
https://www.protectmichild.com

- Michigan Public Act No. 241:
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2003-2004/publicact/htm/2004-PA-0241.htm

- Michigan Public Act No. 242:
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2003-2004/publicact/htm/2004-PA-0242.htm

- Utah Code - Child Protection Registry:
http://www.le.state.ut.us/~code/TITLE13/13_26.htm

- Michigan government’s press release:
http://www.michigan.gov/gov/0,1607,7-168-23442_21974-121645–,00.html

About the Author: Mohamad Zaki Hussein is the webmaster ofhttp://www.webtrafficideas.com.To learn how to increase online traffic to your website by using acombination of Viral Marketing, RSS and Blog, grab the FREE"InstantTraffic Formula"report athttp://www.webtrafficideas.com/getviral.

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How To Build A Niche Web Site In 9 Simple Steps

How To Build A Niche Web Site In 9 Simple Steps

By Donna Monday

Maybeyou’ve been wondering how to go about setting up a niche web site.Well, here’s a quick little article that will show you how to createyour very own affiliate web site. Please note: this is the cheat sheetversion. There is a lot more information you should learn about thissubject before you get started.

Step 1. Pick a Niche Subject

Thismay be the hardest part of your web site project. There’s literallytons of subjects to choose from. People are interested in a variety ofthings– from parrots to pilots. You don’t have to necessarily picksomething you’re interested in, but it helps.

You’re more likelyto do a better job at building your site when you have some interest inthe subject matter. It’s like taking a high school or college class.Some subjects are more interesting than others.
Make sure you choosesomething that a reasonable amount of people are actually searching foronline and want to find out more information about.

Here’s a free tool that will help you check the popularity of specific subjects: (http://www.nichebot.com)

Step 2. Do Keyword Research

Thisis a part that many people skip. I’ve made that mistake myself andsuffered the consequences– a failed web site. Even though it’s nice tothink that you can write anything you want and have total creativefreedom, not using keyword rich content is a BIG mistake.

I’drather lose some creative freedom and attract visitors to my site, thanhave a lot of flowery prose that zero people will see. You MUST includetargeted keywords in your web site copy. Also, make sure you use yourtargeted keywords in the upper third portion of your web site pages.This is also called optimizing your web site for the search engines.Use the Overture Keyword Tool for research:
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion

Note:keywords must be relevant to the THEME (subject) of your site. Becareful not to over use them. Search engines don’t like keyword SPAM.

Step 3. Get A Domain Name

Havinga unique domain name is important, although some don’t agree. However,a unique domain name makes your site look more professional andtrustworthy to visitors. I use BuyDomains (http://www.buydomains.com).They are not the cheapest, but I stick with them because I like theireasy interface and good customer service. Nameboy(http://www.nameboy.com) is also good.

Step 4. Write Keyword Rich Content

Thismay be a hard step for those of you who don’t consider yourselveswriters. But, writing web site copy is not as hard as it seems. Justthink of it as having a conversation with a friend about a product orservice you’re really enthusiastic about.

Don’t think you canextol the benefits of your subject? Tune your TV into QVC or one of theother shopping networks to see how they can spend several minutestalking about the benefits of all kinds of mundane products. This iswhat you’ll be doing for your web site.

Your copy should featurea good balance of friendliness and professionalism. Remember, you’repassing along useful information to your visitor. Put yourself in theirshoes. What would you want to know about xyz subject if you were them?Now, write that down. Don’t forget to sprinkle targeted keywordsthroughout your copy. I print out a list of them to use for my sites.

Ifyou simply can’t put words onto the page and find yourself staring at ablank screen, then visit Internet marketing forums like WillieCrawford’s (http://www.williecrawford.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi) forsuggestions on finding writers. Or, visit Elance(http://www.elance.com).

Step 5. Build Your Web Site

Ok.You’ve created your copy. Now it’s time to build the actual physicalweb site. I use Homestead (http://www.homestead.com), but there aremany good point and click web site builders out there.

You havea lot of creative freedom on how you want your site to look (I preferblack copy on white backgrounds with photos), but remember that peopleare looking for attractive, easy-to-navigate sites with usefulinformation.

Step 6. Sign Up for Matching Affiliate Programs

You’vecreated a web site about xyz subject. Now look for affiliate vendorswho perfectly match the theme of your site. Integrate your affiliatesattractively into your web site copy. Don’t confuse your visitors bygiving them too many choices.

If you want to list a lot of affiliates on the same page, you can create a helpful“resource guide” page.

Step 7. Include Google Adsense Ads

Googlehas a great program for web site owners who wish to make a little extramoney for simply displaying google ads on their web site. It’s easy tosign up and free. Just visit google (http://www.google.com/ads) andsign up for their Adsense program. They’ll give you some html code tocopy and paste on your site.

While google decides which ads willactually appear on your site, you can decide how the google ads willlook– choose colors, borders, etc. and where to put them on your pages.

Step 8. Find Link Partners

Ifound out that exchanging links with other web site owners is a MUST ifyou want to improve your search engine rankings. Google especially willconsider your site more relevant if your site has other sites linkingto it. Also the ad copy from other sites, if relevant, can add morevaluable keyword content to your own site.

I use Linkmarket (http://www.linkmarket.net) to find credible web sites to exchange links with. It’s free to join.

Step 9. Write Articles to Promote Your Site

Ohoh. Here’s that writing thing again. Well, you better get used to it,because writing articles like this one (normally your articles will beabout the subject matter of your web site) will help give youraffiliate web site much needed exposure. It doesn’t matter if you writethem yourself or hire others (ghostwriters) to write them for you.

You’llfind that the best Internet marketers all write articles to promotethemselves, their newsletters, and products and services. Remember,there’s a reason the Internet is called the“information” super highway.

Afterwriting your articles, you can post them to article submission sites,which you can find by typing“article submission” in Google. People caneasily find your articles to use as free content for their sites.

Now,I suggest that you print this article out and refer to it often as yougo about creating the next great affiliate web site. Good luck!

About the Author: Donna MondayCopyright 2005Find it Quick in a Clickhttp://www.1MinuteSolutions.com

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Speedlinking - 21 February 2007
There are lots of good posting being written in the blogging space at the moment - here’s 10 that caught my eye over the last couple of days.Philip Liu writes a piece with 17 factors that he’d consider when determining the value of a blog in his post How Much Are Blogs Worth And […]

Making The Most Of Public Domain And Private Label Content

Making The Most Of Public Domain And Private Label Content

By Sandra Stammberger

There’sso much public domain content available all over the internet, withMaster Resale Rights available and sites springing up left and rightwith Private Label articles you can use to create your own products,but what do you need to bear in mind, what is the best way to use allthis content and what can you create with it?

What to Look Out For:

Copyright- you absolutely must check on this - violating someone’s copyright isnot clever and can be a really expensive mistake not to mentionseriously damaging your reputation. Is it really public domain? Allthose lawyers fees can really mount up when checking into all this butbelieve me, you really don’t want to end up in court over it.

PublicDomain Content - If you have the money to have a lawyer look atcopyright for you then fine, go ahead and get started. Where can youfind this type of content? It can be difficult to find content that isfree to use but here are a few links to get you started:

http://www.gutenberg.org/
http://www.wikimedia.org/
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html

MasterResale Rights - If you can’t afford expensive lawyers what else can youdo? One rather less pricey way is to buy Master Resale Rights to aproduct - this gives you the opportunity to name yourself as theauthor, use the content in another product, rewrite the whole thing -the possibilities are endless. Just be aware with this that you willneed to look at the terms and conditions of what you are allowed to dowith the product before you buy.

On a budget? - not to worry,there are still many ways you can find great content without spending afortune or worrying about whether you can legally use it. Sites such ashttp://www.infogoround.com, and http://www.thelostfiles.com provideguaranteed public domain or private label content for a monthly fee.You could also sign up to some of the well known internet marketer’snewsletters. Why? Well if you’re serious about internet marketing youshould be checking out all the latest happenings anyway, but a lot ofnewsletter owners will have free ebooks, giveaways and articles todownload - some of which you will be able to use as your own.

Soyou’ve got your content ready to go and you’ve checked your rights andpermissions but there is one more thing to think about - sites such ashttp://www.copyscape.com can check for duplicate content on theinternet and of course so can the search engines. This could meananything from the search engines deciding they won’t rate your site ashighly because the exact same content is available elsewhere to somesmarty pants asking you if you really did write that incredibly goodarticle because they’ve seen someone else claiming that they wrote ittoo, so you do need to be aware of this when looking to use content youhaven’t personally created, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t goahead and make the most of all that wonderful information.

What Can You Do?

Youcould just read the information to learn from it yourself; you couldread it to get ideas for businesses, more articles, content, the listis limited only by your imagination.

How about:

Ebooks
Print Books
Presentations
Membership Sites
Face to face courses
Mini courses
Teleclass content
Webcast content
Podcast content
Blog content
Content for your Autoresponder
Ezine content
Articles for your site to build AdSense income pages
Viral Reports
Tips Lists

Whenit comes to using all the content you have gathered, you need to lookthrough it all and decide what you want to produce. If you plan to usecontent from more than one source, such as 2 or 3 articles by differentauthors to be combined into a report, you will need to go through andchange the content into a similar style, check that it is all writtenin the same tense, make sure the formatting is the same throughout,check for spelling and grammar (for example - spelling for some wordsis different in the US than the UK) and look through all the articlesto see if any of the points made are duplicated.

Once you’vedone this, make a list of points you want to make in your report, readthe articles through again and start combining them together to fitwhat you want to say - cut and paste to copy sections into the rightplace.

Next, look at the way your draft reads now and see if itfits your style of writing, your personality and your business. Rewordit to fit with this - there’s no point in producing a very formallywritten, stiff sounding report for a hobby site.

At this pointyou could just tweak it, proof read it, and then go ahead and publishit but to take it a step further and make it really unique, why notlook at how you might rewrite it so that all of the content is yours -now you’ve got the basic idea down and laid out, it shouldn’t take youlong to reword things, add in some of your own ideas and keywords thatfit your site, and maybe a few quotes and suddenly you’re looking atsomething that no-one else has got, that the search engines will loveand that no-one can claim you copied.

Time to start creating!

Aboutthe Author: Sandra Stammberger is the owner of Insider Scripts. AtInsider Script’s programmers are working around the clock to developaffordable, powerful money making scripts that will help you drivetraffic to your business.http://www.insider-scripts.com

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Speedlinking - 21 February 2007
There are lots of good posting being written in the blogging space at the moment - here’s 10 that caught my eye over the last couple of days.Philip Liu writes a piece with 17 factors that he’d consider when determining the value of a blog in his post How Much Are Blogs Worth And […]

10 Mistakes that Will KILL a Forum . or Blog
I love learning things from people in other arenas and applying them to blogging so today when I saw SEOrefugee has a post titled 10 Mistakes that Will KILL a Forum I immediately wondered whether the 10 mistakes might also apply to blogging. Lets see:1. Excessive AdsI’d completely agree. While different blogs can get away […]