The biggest problem most sites run in to is trying to gain the respect of readers and other blogs in their niche.  Knowing that in order to build up traffic, PR, and links you need to reach out to similar sites, but how do you go about getting them to care about you?  This is tricky because if you hit up sites while you are in your infancy most will just ignore you because you don’t offer any real benefit in return, but how to you get to a point where you can offer something if you can’t get any traffic from them?  I must have e-mail TMZ 20 times before they added me to their blogroll so you have to be willing to handle rejection.

1. Message Boards

Starting out you should look to message boards to find similar sites willing to do some link exchanges.  You will find a lot of the users have new sites that they are trying to build up.  This is usually an easy way to gain some simple link exchanges.Make sure you review the sites you are linking to for original content, how often it is updated, and to see how it fits your site.  Remember that links on your site should provide your users a benefit in some way.

Some sites worth checking out are:

• Site Point
• Name Pros
• Digital Point

2. Social Bookmarking Sites

Sometimes getting traffic is as easy as putting your stuff out there to find.  I am a big believer in obtaining traffic from search since organic traffic is usually more stable, but that doesn’t happen overnight. So until it does make sure you hard work is recognized by using social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit, Fark, MyBlogLog, and many other out on the web to drive some visits to your site.  This should help drive some traffic and get you some stats you can show when building link exchanges.

3. Show Link Love

Even before a site decides to add your link to their site don’t be afraid to show some love by linking to some of their content.  A lot of web site owners will look at the logs to see who is referring them traffic and if you show up a few times it might gain you some props.  Links of the Day posts or referencing them in a post is always a nice way to show another site that you respect what they are doing and in return you will get some respect back.

4. Content is Critical

All the linking, begging, pleading, bookmarking, and whatever else you can think of won’t matter if your content is garbage.  You have to make your site something that people will want to link up with.  Focus on making your content solid from beginning to end.  Make it something that other site owners want their readers to see.  Once you get linked with one solid site it gets much easier to get the blog roll rolling.

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1. Study your site

This may seem simple since, after all, it is your site.  The easiest way to do some in depth research is using Google Analytics.  Take a look at the site overlay to see where people are clicking or is you want to get a bit more serious there are some excellent heat map applications that will use a visual map to shot hot spots on your site.  Investigate bounce rate - how fast are people leaving your site - on specific pages.  Does your site lack the ability to draw and keep reader exploring?  When looking at a theme make sure it has good flow and easy navigation.

2. Research other sites

This can be tricky because you never want to come off as copying another site.  However, looking at sites that are successful can give you ideas as to how to incorporate certain features into your theme.  Don’t limit yourself to sites in your niche since blog themes are usually universal they can all provide solid sources of inspiration.

3. Research your designer

The most critical piece of getting a theme done is finding the right person.  You can find people to do a theme for as little as $100 and up to thousands of dollars.  You have to decide which price range is best for you.  When I was researching a redesign for my celebrity site I went to popular blogs and contacted their designers, I posted on message boards, and I ran a contest.  My entire redesign cost me under $600.  It broke down pretty much like this:

Theme Coding/Design $500
Header Image - $25
Custom Video/Image Page $60

4. What to expect from a custom theme

The question you should all want the answer to before you start dropping your cash.  If you had a clean theme with strong navigation you will notice some nice improvements.  Most people, when hitting a new theme, will explore around a bit more which will give you a nice page view increase.  A new theme should also create a better user experience which in turn will have the potential of generating more user interaction in he form of comments.  My theme created specific prime ad locations which enabled me to double earning in the first month and easily pay for the theme.

Hopefully, these few little points will get you started in the right direction when trying to move on to a new unique theme.  If you would like my designers contact please use the contact page to drop me a line and I will be happy to help you out.

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 1. Remain Focused

With so many social bookmarking sites on the web try and find the ones that will fit your niche best.  Don’t haphazardly submit your links to a hundred random sites hoping you will see a return. Staying focused on a few sites will work out better for you in the long run. 

2. Make Friends and Build a Reputation

You have to remember that most of these sites are like high school.  If you aren’t hanging with he right crowd you will have a lousy time. Make an effort to find users submitting similar stories in your niche and drop them a line.  Make friends with other members of the community in order to build some backers for your submissions.  Make sure you stay active on sites by commenting, voting, and helping other members get their stories seen.  This will take a little time, but is critical if you want to see results.

3. DIGG can be fickle

DIGG was once the greatest site in the world for me to gain massive traffic overnight, but the site has changed  a bit.  Certain niches no longer have an easy time gaining popularity and making it to the front page or the front page of a specific category.  I find DIGG takes the most effort to obtain traffic from for my sites, but it is worth trying since it can result in a huge influx of visits.  With DIGG you have to make friends and share your stories - no more than 200 though or you can’t shout your stories all at once. Make sure you reach out to people before adding them as a friend or you end up with wasted spots.

4. Be ready for the traffic

The biggest issues most small sites face once they have a story that gains popularity on a social bookmarking site is their sites aren’t capable of handling the traffic.  Most web hosts grant you nearly unlimited bandwidth, but what is important is blogs use server resources that are tightly monitored.  Look into plugins such as WP-Cache or WP-SuperCache for wordpress to help alleviate server load.

5. Real World Example

Well you heard me talk about Social Bookmarking, but that doesn’t mean I can put it into practice myself. Today I submitted a story to Reddit and after it was voted up it reached the first page.  The first page of Reddit can can generate a huge fast influx of visitors.  Today’s burst lasted for a few hours and since my site is hosted on a dedicated server running WP-Supercache it handled the added traffic without a blip.  Looking at the graph below you can see the traffic spike and slow fade as the story drifted off the first page.

Social Bookmarking should be looked on as a tool to generate additional traffic, but try to avoid having it be your sole source.  The key source should be search engine traffic, link exchanges, and direct hits.  In order for your site to be self sufficient those point are key, but there is nothing wrong with helping it along with some self promotion. 

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Most blogs are often left for dead after a few weeks or months when money doesn’t start rolling in. You have to realize that in order to make money online you have to be willing to take some steps and devote time to building an online presence. Some thing to consider when deciding if starting a blog is right for you will be discussed in this post.

1.What are your goals for starting a blog for the short and long term?

• Remember that in order to make any sort of income online takes time and effort.  This amount of time it takes to see a financial return on your site will vary from person to person and site to site, but assume that with hard work you can start to see some sort of revenue within 6 months.  This will take into account your effort to build your site, network with other site owners, get your site known, generate traffic, play with various advertisers, and eventually make enough money to receive a check.

2. Do you have the time to dedicate to a site?

• A blog starting out can die as quickly as you bring it to life.  A new site needs to be cared for and nurtured like a baby and if you don’t have the time to do that you should hold off until you do.  In order to accomplish the things laid out in the first question you have to keep your site growing or other sites won’t be bothers with you, you won’t gain traffic, and without traffic you will make no money.

3. I am not a coder, but I understand computers

• Luckily for you blogging does not require for you to be a programmer.  You can learn enough basic PHP, CSS, and HTML to get around as you play with most free software packages.  If you don’t want to learn that there are enough forums and free tips out there that will walk you through anything you might need.  Being a bit IT savvy does help eliminate some headaches that will creep up from time to time running a site.

4. My interest is in an obscure topic can i Blog about it?

• No topic is to obscure for a blog.  The whole purpose of creating a blog is to cover the stuff you might not see covered in the main stream media.  Sometimes the best sites on the web are about weird or unusual topics that you just don’t find great content on.  It will always surprise you how many other people have the same interests you do.

5. I need money fast

• Don’t bother blogging!

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I will take another story from my entertainment site as a point of reference.  I posted a story about Dorota Rabczewska.  She is a popular singer in Poland and I only posted it because she had some sexy pictures.   I figured none of my readers would care all that much, but I might gain some page views.  To my surprise a large site in Poland picked up the story and it generated over 20,000 hits and sent me traffic for weeks.

Looking at that little story you can see how a post that you might think is alright can lead to great returns.  As a blogger you have to remember that you aren’t just writing for your friends, your state, or your country because the web is everywhere.  Staying on the topic of seeing the world as your user community don’t be afraid to reach out to sites in other countries for link exchanges or story proposals. In order to be successful on the web you have to be willing to think big.  Part of thinking big is seeing the world as your target audience and generating a global presence.

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How do you go about separating yourself from the pack and creating a site that offer both strong content and an enjoyable experience for the reader? Some of these tips are common sense, but you would be surprised how quickly people drift away from the basics and need some reminding. I will try to provide you with some new ideas or tricks that might help increase page views, readership, and return visits.

1. People Love Pictures

I know it sounds silly, but people will stop to check out pictures before they read a word. Granted that on some sites this is more critical than others. My celebrity site is heavy on the images because people love to look at celebrities, but every site can use visual aids to draw people in to a post. Even if you say that your site doesn’t really lend itself to pictures you can always find something that is relative. Use images to draw people to a particular post to a critical section of a story. Use images to lead people to continue reading on another page or to take some action on your site. Images are simple to add and can pay off with great rewards.

2. Lists

This is an oldie but a goodie. People love lists! Television, magazines, and radio are full of lists they get people hooked because you need to see how a list ends and if you don’t you feel like you missed something. A list within your post makes it easy to skim over and find points of interest. It will get visitors looking through your posts since it won’t require a lot of effort to find the meat of a story. Most people are going to be somewhat lazy when it comes to getting information and if you can make it as easy as possible for them to find what they want you might find a loyal visitor.

3. Rewards/Contests

Who doesn’t like getting free stuff? This can be a great way to gain readers, but it has its dangers. Running a contest or offering some form of reward system for loyal visitors has to potential to bring in a solid influx of traffic. The dangers with this method is that once the contest ends you usually end up with an inflated RSS base since most contests require subscribing to a sites e-mail feed, your traffic will usually drop off, some people will doubt your honesty with running the contest, and unless you find sponsors it will cost you some money. When you weigh the good and bad about this method you have to do your homework and decide if a contest is for you.

By the way i will be putting a contest together on PerfectBlogging.com to officially kick off my ownership. i am just waiting for a new theme to be completed so stay tuned!!

4. Find some friends

This goes beyond simple link building and getting on some site’s friend list with 100 other random sites.  Sometimes getting your posts noticed is done by having other sites link directly to them for you.  I use “Links Of The Day” posts to build a relationship with other blogs in my niche.  They in return do the same back for me.  Remember that the Net is big enough to allow for many sites in the same niche to be successful so working with other similar sites is not a bad thing.  Find out what sites are at the top of your blog topics and reach out to them.  The worse thing that can happen is they never write you back.  Most people are very easy to deal with and can be used as a great resource.

5. Post a series

This one is easier said than done because a series post is difficult.  For those that aren’t sure what I am talking about when I say series I mean a post that is split into several different parts that would go live on different days.  the theory behind this method is that readers who enjoy Part 1 will have to come back to find out what you will say in the upcoming parts not yet published.  This is a great method, but you have to take your time.  You need to select a topic that lends itself to a multi-part series, a topic you have a broad understanding of, and a topic that you can create solid content for.  Pick the wrong topic and you have a post that will waste three days of your time and valuable site space.  Pick the right topic and you will see a nice bump in readership.

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I believe when you look at the ways to create your voice you have to first investigate what you are trying to accomplish with your site, who you believe your readers will be, how you can draw them in and make them return, and finally how do you create user interaction on your site.  If your site doesn’t offer anything to visitors why will they stick around or spread the word of what you are saying?

1. Be Knowledgeable Within Your Niche

This step is critical if you are going to be taken seriously with your site.  Your topic has to fit your skill set or it will come off as a waste of time to serious readers. If you are creating a site about financial advice make sure you have a strong financial background.  If you are starting a cooking site be sure to have a solid knowledge of the subject. If you do not have sufficient knowledge your site will lose steam quickly and become a lost cause. Remember that wanting to do something can only take you so far without knowing how to do it properly.

2. Make Your Writing Fit Your Topic

Aside from having knowledge of your topic your writing style has to fit also. Creating content to match what you believe readers are expecting is crucial.  If you want to be taken as a leading expert within a niche make sure you are able to back that up with your writing.  If your site is designed to be carefree and loose try to avoid being overly critical or serious.  i find people frequent sites that they believe will provide consistent content.  Look at the sites you frequent most often and ask yourself why?  In my case I hit sites where I know i will get the information i want or sites I enjoy reading.  Where does your site fit?

3. Be Consistent

Once you have decided you have a niche you have a passion for, are knowledgeable enough to generate content, and have decided the feel of your site make sure you remain consistent.  This is very important if you decide to incorporate guest writers, paid reviews, or you expand.  Once you have gained an audience don’t alienate them by becoming something that your readers don’t want.  I am not saying to be afraid to take some chances or drift a bit, but just remember that there are a lot of sites covering the same topics and losing readers is easier to do than gaining them.

4. Listen

A big advantage of the blog is the user interaction it is able to generate.  Don’t be afraid of criticism you might get because that is sometimes the most useful information you can receive.  Also users tend to make suggestions on way to improve a site or make it more interesting. A lot of times they will bring up thing you never thought of or overlooked in your zest to get content on to your site.  Interact with people and you will find it beneficial to you in the long run.  On my Celebrity site I contacted people that commented and found many owned similar sites which led to link exchanges, story ideas, and in the end increased traffic.

5. Above All Be Yourself!

Read that again!  If you can’t be yourself when you are writing your content your site is doomed to fail.  if you trying to create an original, entertaining, informative site you have to make sure to stay true to who you are and not what you think you have to be.  If you are able to do be yourself while providing quality content that peolpe will care about you are well on your way to creating a successful site.

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I just wanted to drop a quick post to let everyone know that I have taken over Perfect Blogging as of last night.   I will be posting while on vacation in Aruba and  letting you know  about blogging from the road.  There will some changes going on to the site and I would really to to hear your feedback.  I will also be instituting guest posting and free reviews of your site. If you are interested in either please drop me a line at celebridiot@gmail.com.  I am still waiting for the Perfect Blogging e-mail address, but in the mean time the other address will work perfectly.

Thanks -

John

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The online world is the same in principle, with the call to action representing a large part of how people make their money when they create online mini-sites responsible for the sale of a particular product.

The call of action has three major parts to it: a specific call to action, a consequence of not taking action and a deadline for the action to be taken. These three elements together will create a call to action that will stir the impulsive instinct in your consumers, causing many of them to jump to the call and make the purchase that you want them to make.

Consider the following example: Make sure that you purchase before midnight tonight. Doing so will allow you to get this amazing product at 50% of the normal price. If you don’t purchase before midnight however, then the price will go back to normal and you’ll be forced to spend a lot more money to get the product.

The specific call to action is a purchase before midnight, with the deadline for action being midnight and the consequence being a more expensive product after the deadline has passed. For anyone that is on the fence about purchasing this product, getting the chance to get it for half the normal price is something they are likely to jump at. If the rest of your sales page has done its job in interesting the client, then a call to action with all three elements should definitely create more sales or lead captures for you.

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As a first step in online business, one needs to conjure up a solid idea about the niche market where they are going to market or try to sell their products/services. In fact, this is no new concept for businesses in any domain for they first study the market where they plan to make a customer base before setting out establishing even a franchisee/shop. This approach is important because only after finalizing the target audience, one could start an ad campaign directed at them, and only such an ad campaigns will be effective at the end of the day. Now, in order to figure out who is likely to buy a particular product or service, one may have to do a detailed study of the community in general, their shopping trends, age group and gender of potential customers etc before arriving at a conclusion.

Once done with niche research, the next step is keyword research. You must be able to anticipate the keywords usually used by customers online to search your product(s). There are automated keyword research softwares available such as Keywords Discovery that lists the most used keywords on a given niche by the netizens. On the other side of the coin, however, if you, with the aid of such tools, finds out that nobody really searches your product you wish to sell online, better don’t waste anymore money on the same.

Competitive analysis is crucial to stay in the market, especially if you have competitors already in the market. In other words, if there are competing products already exists in the market, one just can’t price his/her similar product randomly. It has to be competitive, and preferably a tad lesser than the most similar product that is currently sold in the market. Hence, it is imperative that you perform a bit of research into the current pricing trends of similar products in the market, and price your products accordingly.

In fact, there are many other factors that need to be taken into account while setting out doing online businesses. But these two – niche market research and competitive analysis – are two things that one can’t afford to let go sans serious consideration. Without a niche market, a product just can’t simply survive, so is without a competitive pricing strategy. Hence, do your homework properly, and online success won’t be too far away anymore.

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Customers depend on a business, its product or service, for a purpose. They pay for the service or product, and eventually, a part of the payment adds up towards the company’s profit. In a very broad scale, this is how a business-customer relation looks like. But, then there’ll be a lot of companies around to offer the same service/product to the customers, and this builds competition. In other words, a business can’t take it for granted that it’ll become profitable by default whatever comes after few years. This is where the idea of luring customers and keeping them glued to one’s product/services becomes a necessity, and the whole concept of promotion, marketing, customer care etc comes to the fore.

Customers are really wise people. They realize the business equations precisely, and know how to leverage on the advantage they has over the providers as a group. So, to have the customers on one’s side, businesses are forced to offer excellent client services, or in the case of products, better equipped products, to the customers in order to build a solid and loyal customer base. As mentioned above, since there is competition around, other companies will also be trying the same, alongside attempting to outwit its competitors in the race. Therefore it becomes a necessity of sorts for businesses to offer them more than what they expect when they first approached your company. It is the ultimate customer service in a sense for a customer only sticks with a product/service if he/she is completely satisfied with it. If a company could manage to offer better products than what the customer anticipated, quite naturally it goes towards building a strong bond between the buyer and the product, and hence the company. In other words, if a customer could relate him/her to a product, naturally he’ll come back to buy the same product again and again. Extrapolating the same scenario to include a vast customer base and that translates into a very productive and fruitful business equation, something every business out there wants to emulate or incorporate in their business and strategic models.

The bottom line is building a strong company-customer relationship that is based on trust and value. Once done that, customers will come back to the product/service naturally.

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Repetition: While some repetition in copywriting is good in order to brand yourself in the minds of your clients, at the same time certain types of repetition can be deadly. Repeating non-essential details a number of times in the space of the same body of copy can be deadly to your sales because a client that reads it will eventually get bored and transition away from the website. If you want to write excellent copy, make sure that you keep repetition to a minimum; only use it when you have a specific reason to do so.

Long-Windedness: Longwinded copy is not something that you want to use in an effort to sell a particular product. While longwinded copy can be fantastic for blogging and for content websites, at the same time when you are selling a product it is not what you want. You want to state the benefits of the product and the reasons the client should purchase it as briefly as possible; get to the point so that the client can make their final decision within a few minutes. The longer a buyer has to think about the purchase, the less likely their impulse to get this new product will have an effect.

Poor English: While repetition and long-windedness are terrible mistakes to make in copywriting, they pale in comparison to poor English. You are trying to act like a professional salesperson selling a product, so poor English will pretty much guarantee failure. Poor English not only forces your client to use mental power in order to figure out what you’re saying, but it also turns them off big time. If your own facility with English is not good, then get someone else to write the copy for you.

Ultimately there are many different mistakes in copywriting that can kill sales, but these are three of the big ones. Copywriting should be detailed, but to the point at the same time. Follow this general axiom and you’ll do fine.

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In terms of giveaways, the reason that the most successful internet businesses use e-books for their giveaways is because e-books are the best product to use in that role. E-books are cheap to purchase (free in most cases) and can usually be purchased with the rights to resale or to give the book away. In addition to that, e-books usually carry good information that can be used to supplement what you have in your main product and for that reason they make the most logical bonus product to give away. Lastly, the more e-books you give away, the better you look as a salesman and that is perhaps the strongest reason as to why e-books are used by all successful internet businesses.

In terms of the main product, the whole idea behind internet business is to create it with a minimum of cost and derive from it a maximum of profit. Of course, the best way to do this is to create a product that is both original yet at the same time quite easy for you to make. An e-book is a natural choice in this case because writing one is relatively easy to do (and it is relative easy to contract out for a few hundred dollars if you don’t want to write it yourself) and once you have written it you rarely have to add anything to it because the information in the book promises to be good for most of the life of your internet business.

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Here are the best ways to get traffic from Digg:

1. Make sure that you have a way for people to easily nominate your most recent post or article to the network. If you use WordPress there is a plug-in called Share This that you will want to install. The easier it is for people to submit your stuff to Digg, the more often you will be submitted and the more new people will click through to your site from the network.

2. As soon as your post has been approved on the network, hit your own network hard—send an email out telling everyone that you’ve been “dugg” and asking them to “digg” you. The more diggs you get, the higher up you will rise in the network. The higher you rise, the more people will click on the link and visit your website!

3. Make sure that your writing has catchy titles. You would be amazed at how many people will digg something or click through the network to your site based on your titles alone. Try to come up with titles that excite the reader’s imagination. The more interesting the titles, the more clicks your site will get!

4. Keep the content on your site readable. While it is great to get some extra clicks from Digg, you want to turn those drive bys into return visitors. Keep your content interesting. The longer you can keep a person reading your site on their first visit, the more likely they are to return for new material.

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1st place - Moldova
2nd place - Louis Liem
3rd place - entertainment ground
Comment prize - andk

Winners please contact me through my contact form to get your prizes.

Congratulations and enjoy.

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April Contest finished today and I will post tomorrow the prizes. As I promised the prizes will be :

* 1st place 25 USD
* 2nd place 20 USD
* 3rd place a review on Sara’s blog
* 10 USD for the best comment

Check tomorrow to find the winners!

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1. Not every client will take the time to visit your blog. People are busy, they often forget about business blogs. If you send out a newsletter (hard copy or email), your clients are still offered updates on the goings on of your business and they are free to read it when they have time!

2. Special deals. A newsletter is a great way to offer special deals to your clients. These deals will give your clients added incentive to not only subscribe to the newsletter but to keep using your services. Special deals can be anything from coupons to notices of upcoming sales that you do not plan on announcing publicly.

3. Newsletters are a time saver. Instead of sending an e-mail to your client from every department that he or she does business with regularly, have your department heads come up with “what we have done” and “what we have plans to do” statements and include them in the newsletter. This way, everybody knows what is going on in your business and you won’t accidentally flood your clients with email every time you think of a new initiative.

4. Newsletters are a great source of additional revenue. Just like a blog, newsletters often have space for advertising. Use your newsletter to offer advertising to the businesses in your network. Even if you offer them a “friend of business” discount, you have still created an additional revenue stream for your business!

Newsletters are good for business—not everybody will take the time to read a blog, but most people will take the time to read a newsletter!

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2. Do you have any items that you can part with? You would be amazed with how much money you can make by selling things on eBay.

3. Are you arty or crafty? Websites like etsy.com are a great place to sell your arts and crafts projects.

4. Finding a part time job or signing on with a temp agency is a good way to create some extra income to get you through the lean times.

5. Expand your business. One of the best ways to bring in more clients and customers is to expand into another area. For example, if you have a graphic design business, you might consider devoting a small portion of your business area to printing services—color copies, faxing, etc.

6. Can you turn any part of your business into a “members only” service? Membership dues are a great way to bring in some more income.

7. Can you create a training program or any written materials from what you do? Many people will gladly sign up to take a class or buy a book that will teach them the basics of how to do your services themselves. This will also free you up to take on the more complicated projects that you might have had to pass on in order to keep doing the basic stuff.

8. Sell advertising space—sell ads on your website. If you don’t have a website, start one! Create a short newsletter and sell advertising space within its pages. Advertising will provide you with considerable extra income—especially if your site or newsletter is popular.

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If you are new to blogging, Blogger is your best bet. The price is right (free) and it offers you a platform that is easy to use. What’s more, Blogger offers you as much control over your template as you like. There are sites on the internet that feature free Blogger templates so if you do not like the pre-designed ones offered by Blogger, you are free to download one from somewhere else or write your own. Blogger also features a built-in FTP client so that, if you want to buy a domain name and hosting elsewhere on the web, you can easily implement your blog into that site.

WordPress, like Blogger is free. You can have a free blog on the WordPress servers or you can download the WordPress platform and install it into your own web hosting program. You will need your own FTP client to do this. WordPress has thousands of free themes (templates) and there are websites all over the internet that are devoted to promoting independently designed free themes. WordPress also has hundreds of “plug ins” to help you increase the function of your website. Many non-bloggers love WordPress because of its plug-in library and how easy it is to make a blog theme look like a business website layout. WordPress is more for people who have some web experience.

The best thing about these platforms is that it you can play around with both of them and then decide which one is best for you. There’s no money exchanging hands, so experiment away!

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Adsense is easy to use and easy to understand and that is one of the reasons it is popular. You put the code on your website and Google gives you a percentage of the money they make when people click on the ads that you display. Simple right? Yes and no. Adsense has a bunch of very strict rules and it is very easy to get banned from the program. In fact, some of the basic methods of website promotions (traffic exchange programs, etc) will get you banned from the program for click fraud!

Website advertising is becoming more and more accepted and there are plenty of advertising alternatives to Adsense if you aren’t thrilled with the idea of that program. Yahoo and Amazon both have advertising programs. If you are putting advertising on a blog, BlogAds, Text Link Ads, and BlogHer all offer reliable advertising services.

You can also sell advertising as an independent agent, that way you won’t have to split the revenue with anyone!

Before you sign up for Adsense, ask yourself what you want to accomplish with your advertising. Do you want to pay for your hosting? Do you want control over the ads? Do you want advertising to be your sole source of income? Make sure you have answers to these questions before you decide whether or not Adsense is good for you!

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Wordpress themes :

• WpThemesFree
• Wordpress.Org
• Weblog Tools Connection
• Alex King
• Free Wordpress Themes
• FreeWpThemes
• Top Wordpress Themes
• WpThemespot

Blogger themes :

• Btemplates
• Blog Flux
• Blogger Templates
• Blogger Themes
• Free Templates
• Final Sense

That’s all. Enjoy!

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First, there is no such thing as a “bad niche” as long as you are passionate about the subject. Of course we’ve been over that before. What I’m going to talk about today is how to find a niche that you are passionate about and that can turn a profit.

First, you will want to make sure that the niche you choose is not already over-crowded. While you might be passionate about making money online or politics, there are already millions of those sites all vying for attention. If you are set on covering a subject that is already crowded, do your best to come at the topic from a unique perspective.

Read some of the other sites in your niche and find out what kind of a reader-base they have. If you can’t find any sites with a solid or sizeable reader base, you might want to consider a new topic.

You will also want to pick a subject that evolves. This means that the subject stays relevant and that there is a steady amount of new information available for you to discuss on your site. A site about web site promotion might be better than say, a site about Greek history.

Your niche should be timeless—this means that people will still relate to it in a few years the way they relate to it now. This is different than making sure there is always new information. A site about, say, childcare will always be relevant. A site about Blue-Ray DVDs will not.

These are just a few tricks to make sure that your niche is a good one. Finding the right niche takes some trial and error so don’t give up! You’ll find the perfect niche eventually!

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About the author

His name is Gyutae Park and he is an Internet entrepreneur and SEO professional. His passion for Internet made him start and now he has many sites and businesses. For more informations about him check his about page.

About the blog

This blog is about Internet Marketing. I’m reading his posts because this is what I do and what I love and his posts are very good. The design, I love it. He is also holding a big contest. To find out more check his blog.

Now the bad blog. The bad blog of this serial is Entrepreneur to be.

About the author

The name of the author is Steve Seah. He studied about entrepreneurship using Eastern and Western Philosophies and Ideas and he started this blog. More informations about the author you can find on his about page.

About the blog

The idea is not bad but I don’t like the blog. I don’t like the design. I don’t like how it’s structured. Also he is not getting too many visitors but he has a lot of advertising on his blog. The content is good in my opinion.

What do you think?

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I am offering two advertising options , 125×125 banners on the sidebar and paid reviews. The prices are very good in my opinion and the people that advertised here were very satisfied. For more informations you can check advertising page.

Also I am interested in getting some guest blogging posts so if you are interested contact me. Lately I was pretty busy so this is why I stopped posting one post each day anyway I’ll try to post more.

Tomorrow I will post a new Good Blog - Bad Blog serial so stay tuned!

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Of course, more often than not, the perfect domain name will already be taken!

Here are a few tips to help you choose that perfect domain name for your website without having to compromise (much):

1. Consider buying a .net or a .org domain name. Often .net and .org are cheaper than .com but just as respectable.

2. Spell things correctly whenever you can. While a site named MiOpinyonz might be okay for a teenager’s website, it is not okay for a person trying to set up a serious political site. In fact, the use of the letter “z” in place of “s” is generally seen as unprofessional unless you are putting together a site for a much younger audience.

3. Get out that Thesaurus and find some synonyms. “GoodCats” might be taken but “GreatFelines” still works for the cause and means the same thing (though, admittedly it sounds a little more porny than “goodcats”).

4. Keep your audience in mind. Going with the cat theme from tip 3, a site about cats might not fare well when named “Pretty Kitties” or “the Cat House.” Beware of the unintentional innuendo.

5. Keep it short whenever possible. While “thisismyperfectdomainname.com” is certainly easy to remember, “perfectname.com” is easier to type.

6. (and most important) Never ever forget what your website is about! Would you name a site about politics “windowshades.org”? No. Would you name a site about crafts “househunting.com”? No. You want to make sure your domain name reflects what your site is about!

Good luck!

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A lot goes into the reputation of a Blogger. The amount of time they spend on the content of their blog, what that content is, how active they are within their niche in the blogging community, how many links they have—it all figures into a Blogger’s reputation. There are plenty of ways to ensure that you earn a stellar blogging image and there are plenty of ways that you can improve the blogging image you already have.

1. Don’t be a link… [insert unsavoury word here]. If you run around the blogosphere begging for links or leaving comments without actually contributing to the conversation, stop it right now. It doesn’t take long to get labelled a spammer and that label is a hard one to get rid of.

2. If you sell ads on your site, make sure there is actual content to back them up. Nothing damages your blogging image faster than creating a “blog” which is really just an “affiliate link factory.” Not only does it hurt your blog image, you won’t see a high return on your affiliate links because people won’t have a reason to click on them or to make a purchase.

3. When you leave a comment on another site, make sure the comment you leave is relevant to the post. Nothing is more irritating than having someone leave a comment that says “Nice post!” or “Nice blog!” This is only acceptable after you have formed a reputation on that blog as being a regular commenter.

The best way to improve your blogging image is to think of the bloggers you admire and do your best to emulate them. This doesn’t mean that you should copy them or their content, but try to model your behaviour in the blogosphere after theirs.

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The rules :

• The contest started on 1st of April and will end on 1st of May

• Prizes will be updated until the end of the contest

• Each week the best comment will get a prize of 10$

• You must comment only this month’s posts

• Commentators must be subscribed to Perfect Blogging Rss Feed

Later edited: I added a new rule (the last one) when I woke up at 4:11 PM because I couldn’t sleep. I will also add few more rules soon.. you can come with suggestions too. That’s all. I will get back to sleep (at least try).

Good luck eveyone and keep commenting!

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1st place - Hafiz Dhanani

2nd place - Andrew Pavelski

Congratulations to the winners! To get your money contact me with your paypal email. The comments will be restarted soon and the April contest will start. I will post tomorrow the new prizes and the new rules. Because there will be new rules.

Congratulations again to the winners and enjoy!

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