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6 Ways to make money off your blog

August 20th, 2008 by Gareth | 5 Comments | Filed in Blogging

Dollar SignEvery blogger is always willing to try new ways to monetize their blog, but no one likes trying something out and turns out it was rubbish. I’ve compiled a list of ways you can make money off your blog, nearly all of these ways are brilliant.

The only thing I dislike about some of these are they use Google Adsense and many people know I don’t like them, love the search engine though. Hopefully some of my suggestions might come in use for the beginners and the experienced bloggers. (more…)

What makes your blog interesting to read

August 6th, 2008 by Gareth | 1 Comment | Filed in Blogging

In this post I’m going to talk to you about how you can improve your blog, so its interesting and will make readers who visit your blog come back and visit it again. This is a very hard task because all readers want to see different things and to maintain this you have to keep all your readers happy.

The major problem people make whenever they start a new blog is they think of all the success they could make, but they forget the major thing and that is actually doing it. In order for you blog to be a success you need to have daily posts, interesting and useful at the sametime. This is quite a hard task to maintain each day for your blog to make any success on the internet. (more…)

30 Ways to make your blog better friends with search engines

July 29th, 2008 by Gareth | 3 Comments | Filed in Blogging, Search Engines

Wether you are starting a new blog or fortifying your current blog. Having all these 30 tips is a major way to get higher rankings and staying there.

1. The beginning and the basics

Whenever you start a new blog, I love doing these things. They make the building of a blog more fun. If its for the new bloggers who haven’t experienced this before, sometimes it can be a bad experience, but its vital for your blogs success on the internet.

 

2. SEO friendly URL’s

The first and most basic is that you make your URL’s friendly. This means that it isn’t full of PHP code, search engines hates seeing this “http://www.url.com/jokes=?p/page1.php”, plus it looks ugly. (more…)

Generating money on new blogs isn’t hard

July 28th, 2008 by Gareth | 1 Comment | Filed in Blogging, Business and Finance

I have recently got some friends into blogging and I am glad they are getting into the whole blogging community because you can update family and friends whilst make decent cash on the mighty internet. Everyone gets lost a stage and the place they get lost is when they make their blog and think how will I generate revenue and get visitors?

Everybody makes it out as if its hard which it really isn’t. Like I stated in the title of this blog post.. “Generating cash on new blogs is hard, or is it?“. I have listed to the right three sites (Bidvertiser, Chitika and Smorty) for you guys, unfortunately Blog Spot are tightening up and don’t allow either Bidvertiser or Chitika. (more…)

21 reasons to why you should blog

July 27th, 2008 by Gareth | 1 Comment | Filed in Blogging

Whenever I started making websites my brother was into blogging and always told me I should start blogging, but I always thought it was a bit lame. Now I regret it because I could have been making twice as much money off my blogs as I’m making now.

I’ve been generous and gave some reasons why some people should become bloggers. I love blogging and really have became addicted to making a blog post each day. Also I’ve been trying to persuade a friend Josh and several others to get into blogging and this post is directed in their way as well. (more…)

Top 10 bloggers under 21

June 12th, 2008 by Gareth | No Comments | Filed in Blogging

A while back there was a list made for the top bloggers under 21 years old. Somehow I made it onto some of these lists. It really has got JustGareth a heck of a lot of back links, so thanks a lot to those guys!

The only thing that really bothers me about the whole thing is, I think its kind of copying content. I seen some of them and seems that they have tried to make it look a little unique, kudos to them. But from now on I am going to try and blog more often.

8 Tips to make your blog better

June 10th, 2008 by Gareth | No Comments | Filed in Blogging

Who doesn’t want to make their blog better. Well obviously no one doesn’t want their blog to be bigger and better. So I have took some of my precious time to write this article about 8 ways to make your blog a heck of a lot better.

1. Your template is your blogs image
I absolutely hate copied templates or these blogs that use templates that are free. Okay my template is free, but I customized to make mine look more unique. Make your template the best it can be as that is what the visitors look at these days. (more…)

21 Ways to work harder when at home

May 28th, 2008 by Gareth | No Comments | Filed in Blogging

 

Loads of webmasters are working from home now and its obvious everyone finds it hard to work harder. I sometimes find it hard to work on something that I set to be done within days, so here is a few tips from me.

If you want to get your sites anywhere you might want to take some of these points into consideration, because it worked for me, so why couldn’t it work for you then. The last point is the most important, pay attention to it the most. (more…)

Promote your blog via MySpace

May 23rd, 2008 by Gareth | No Comments | Filed in Blogging

Every single webmaster wants to target their audience easily and for one thing MySpace is the easiest way to target large amounts of a certain topic. For example a TV show, you find the group, you post around the group with your links on it and easily enough people visit your site. At the end of the day if they don’t register to your product, at least you got extra visitors.

Ok, now your dead keen to get going and telling everyone in MySpace about your site, right? Well slow down there cowboy, your nowhere near ready to get going because you have to go through some vital steps of MySpace promoting. (more…)

Make money using Smorty

May 15th, 2008 by Gareth | No Comments | Filed in Blogging, Business and Finance

Blog Advertising - Get Paid to BlogEveryone wants to make money, well as far as I know they do. This is how it went, once upon a day I was looking round the Digital Point forums and seen some threads about this company Smorty. I said to myself I must look at this, some people were making over $250 a week by just reviewing sites by using this site called Smorty.

Later on after looking more into it I decided to sign up and give it ago, so far its been good I have done 4 site reviews that are about $6.00 to $12.80 each. Those were done in one day and I have sent them off to be reviewed by the site owner, if I don’t get accepted I will be really cheesed off!

Really hope this turns out to be a profitable way to make money from blogging. I got some other sites I have signed up to, but this one looks a little more professional than the other ones I went too and plus it pays via PayPal. The others don’t. If you’d like to get paid to blog go to Smorty!