Are you on facebook and you have been wondering how some of your friends do insert the LOVE SYMBOL in their facebook status updates? Well, its just a combination of some keystrokes....
How Do I Insert the Love Symbol?
Just type the "Less than" symbol been used in Mathematics together with 3 i.e "<3" in your update and after clicking on "Share", you will see the Love symbol in the update.
That's all.
I hope it works for you.
If you have anything to ask or say, kindly make use of the comment form below.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Pinging: How To Notify Search Engines That Your Blog Has Been Updated
Pinging simply means notifying search engines that your blog has been updated. By Pinging, you let the search engines know that your blog has been updated and hence, they crawl and index your site, publishing your blog contents, thus increasing your blog's popularity.
There are many websites out there that now offer this service free of charge. All you just have to do after updating your blogs, is to head over to the websites and send your PINGS.
Listed below are some of the Ping services I use after updating my blog.
www.pingomatic.com
www.pingoat.com
If you know of any other website that offer such service, feel free to share it using the comment form below.
There are many websites out there that now offer this service free of charge. All you just have to do after updating your blogs, is to head over to the websites and send your PINGS.
Listed below are some of the Ping services I use after updating my blog.
www.pingomatic.com
www.pingoat.com
If you know of any other website that offer such service, feel free to share it using the comment form below.
How To Design A Website and Make Money With It ( + 5 free website providers)
If you are really serious about making money on the internet, you must get yourself a blog or a website. You can start with free ones and upgrade as time passes by. With a free blog or website, you can easily start making money with Google and even use it for promoting your affiliate links, your ebooks etc which in turn will be making you some money. As a newbie, am sure you might want to ask "how do I make a website and how do I make money with it?” The answer is pretty simple.
Here at bloggerbasicsforlearners, I am ready to take you by the hand, upgrade you from a JJC to an internet guru. I am sure you will like this. Well, you too have to be ready to learn and put into practice, whatever you learn. Practice makes perfection.
Below is a step by step tutorial on how you can create your own free online website to make money online. Lets get started.
1. Choose Your Web Host
For your website to be accessible by anyone anywhere in the world, you will need a hosting provider also called a web hosting company. There are free ones while there are some who will ask you to pay certain amount before they can help you host your website on the internet. Though, for serious businesses, free website will not make sense but If you are a newbie, START WITH A FREE ONE. After mastering how websites really work you can then go for the paid ones. Have you seen a driving school that uses Hummer Jeep to train people how to drive a car?..Think about it.
A free web host will allow you to create your website completely free using a sub-domain of course. A sub-domain is a domain name in the form of www.YOURNAME.yourwebhostname.com If you pay for your website, obviously, you will be able to get a domain name in the form of www.YOURNAME.com
Below is a couple of free well known hosting providers, which allows you to create your very website completely free.
1. Blogger : a free blogging platform which you can easily set up within 5 minutes.
2. Bravenet : loads of free webmaster tools for your website project, in addition to free web space
3. 000webhost
4. ByteHost free forum,free tech support, MySQL databases & PHP support
5. 50Webs
These are just some of the great free hosting providers that will provide you the disk space you need to easily start your own website and be able to display advertisements to make money (I will talk about this later). If you are a newbie, you can be using free hosting sites to learn how websites work before starting your very own serious website.
2. Choose a Web Template
As each day passes by, technology makes life easier. Gone are the days that you must master a lot of codes before you can design a website. Today, there are lots of already designed websites out there. All you need to do is just to apply some changes to them and your website will be ready within a few minutes. We call such ready-made websites WEB TEMPLATES and if they are blogs, they are known as BLOG TEMPLATES.
These templates are what some hungry marketers sell for some people, making series of hype like CREATE YOUR WEBSITE IN 3 MINUTES AND MAKE $1000 WITH IT WITHIN 24 HOURS etc...Wonders shall never end...loads of such hypes out there. Just shine your eyes!
There are lots of free web templates you can use on the internet, though you must still posses some web-design skills for you to be able to edit them BUT THERE IS JUST NO BIG DEAL IN WEB DESIGN. The big deal is in web development (I will talk about this later). So, FEAR NOT.
Choosing a web template can be rather hard. When deciding which best fits your website, you must already have an idea of what you want your website to be about, because if you made a site dedicated to computers, and your web template is based on animals design, would that really make sense to you?
Most of the web hosts provide free templates. After signing up with any of the web hosts, login into your account, look around and you should be able to see a link pointing to WEB TEMPLATES. Follow the link and choose the template you want, edit it and within a few minutes your website will be ready for the whole world to see.
If you are in need of free web templates you can download to your PC, go to Google and inside the search box, type "free web templates" and filter through the results to get what you want.
Below are some other free sources that give away free templates for you to use for the respective platforms, free of charge.
Blogger Template Sources:
1. bTemplates.com
2. eBlogTemplates.com
3. BlogSkin.com
Joomla Template Sources:
1. JoomlaTP.com
2. BestofJoomla.com
3. SiteGround.com
3. Build Your Website
After setting up your website with your hosting provider and have chosen the template of your choice, you can then simply add content to your website. Content is the most important key to building up a good website or blog that can both provide users the information they are looking for and at the same time make you money.
Without content, your site is of no value to anyone and I doubt if you will be able to make a dime with it. If you are running a blog, be sure that the topic you are writing about is something you will always love writing on. Adding some great stuffs, such as widgets and tools to your websites are great in terms of adding more value to your website. The more complete your site looks, the more valuable it becomes. Bravenet offers some free webmaster tools you will like. Check it out! If you are running a blogspot blog, blogger is already loaded with loads of widgets to choose from. Just feel free to explore.
There are many tools you can use to build your website. I started designing websites with Microsoft Frontpage, though I now use Dreamweaver for most of my projects. You can easily get Microsoft Frontpage from any computer store around you. With it, you will be able to easily edit your website, add content to it and also upload it to the internet.
Once you have added some valuable content to your website, move on to the next step. Make sure it is of great quality because your content will determine whether or not visitors will come back to your website.
4. Start Promoting Your Website
Without people visiting your web site, your site will be like a burial ground. Please, make sure you already have some good contents on your site before ever thinking of promoting it. If you tell me about your website and decided to check, only to find out that it is nothing, other than a dessert ,do you think I will ever come back to the website again? This is a big mistake a lot of newbies make and are still making....
With the way you are enjoying this article now, I am very sure you will love to come back and read this blog again another day, isn't it?... I can see you nodding your head now...saying YES, I WILL. Smiles** I hope you can grab the gist. LOAD YOUR SITE/BLOG WITH CONTENTS FIRST BEFORE EVER THINKING OF PROMOTING IT.
In webmaster language, getting people to visit and read your website simple means getting WEB TRAFFIC to your site. There are many ways you can drive traffic to your website free of charge (I will be talking extensively on this later).
Below is a list of few great sources of online traffic.
1. Social Networks eg Facebook, Myspace, Twitter
2. Forums eg Nairaland, Warrior Forum etc
3. Commenting
4. Search Engines
I have been using the free sources to promote my blogs and websites and they have been working for me. I believe you can see some of the statistics of this blog on the sidebar.
Please, shine your eyes before you waste your money on those traffic exchangers or sites that will promise to give your site traffic after paying some money. Most of the time the traffic is of little worth and the exchanges is just a time waster. BEWARE!
5. Monetize Your Website
This is where the money comes rolling in. Once you have set up your website with good content and HAVE ATTRACTED A LOT OF READERS, you will be able to easily make money from the website. Take it or leave it, if you have thousands of good articles on your blog or website and no one knows about it , you might not make a cent with the website. This is what forces some bloggers to be engaging in CLICK FRAUDS, clicking on their adsense ads by themselves all just to make money, since no one is coming to their blog to click for them. In the long run, they get caught by Google and Google ban them, loosing whatever tey might have earned. NEVER TRY TO CLICK ON YOUR ADS.
Load your website with good contents, PROMOTE IT OVER AND OVER. With time, you will start having loyal readers and along the line, you will be making money out of them while they too will be benefiting from things they are getting from your website. Readers get valuable information. Writers get a bit of income. THIS IS THE SECRET BEHIND THE SUCCESS OF MY BLOG, SO FAR.
You can make money from your website or blog through:
1. advertising for people
2. affiliate links
3. sales of products eg ebooks.
4. leads
5. Google ads placement etc.
These are just a tip of the iceberg. There are many ways you can make money with your website. All websites have different methods that work best for their own particular website. You just have to find out which works best for your site on your own to maximize it’s true potential income to make money.
That's all for now. So get Started, create your first website and feel free to share the link with me using the comment from below. This way, I will easily be able to help you with some useful tips that can make it look better.
If you really care about knowing how to design websites, I can train you on a one- on - one basis for a friendly fee. I also have some ebooks that can get you started asap.
In my future posts, I will be talking more about how to make money with your blog or website, how to get a free co.cc domain for your free website, cheap web hosts you can patronize for your real business websites and also will be sharing with you some videos that you can be watching to master the art of designing websites.
Here at bloggerbasicsforlearners, I am ready to take you by the hand, upgrade you from a JJC to an internet guru. I am sure you will like this. Well, you too have to be ready to learn and put into practice, whatever you learn. Practice makes perfection.
Below is a step by step tutorial on how you can create your own free online website to make money online. Lets get started.
1. Choose Your Web Host
For your website to be accessible by anyone anywhere in the world, you will need a hosting provider also called a web hosting company. There are free ones while there are some who will ask you to pay certain amount before they can help you host your website on the internet. Though, for serious businesses, free website will not make sense but If you are a newbie, START WITH A FREE ONE. After mastering how websites really work you can then go for the paid ones. Have you seen a driving school that uses Hummer Jeep to train people how to drive a car?..Think about it.
A free web host will allow you to create your website completely free using a sub-domain of course. A sub-domain is a domain name in the form of www.YOURNAME.yourwebhostname.com If you pay for your website, obviously, you will be able to get a domain name in the form of www.YOURNAME.com
Below is a couple of free well known hosting providers, which allows you to create your very website completely free.
1. Blogger : a free blogging platform which you can easily set up within 5 minutes.
2. Bravenet : loads of free webmaster tools for your website project, in addition to free web space
3. 000webhost
4. ByteHost free forum,free tech support, MySQL databases & PHP support
5. 50Webs
These are just some of the great free hosting providers that will provide you the disk space you need to easily start your own website and be able to display advertisements to make money (I will talk about this later). If you are a newbie, you can be using free hosting sites to learn how websites work before starting your very own serious website.
2. Choose a Web Template
As each day passes by, technology makes life easier. Gone are the days that you must master a lot of codes before you can design a website. Today, there are lots of already designed websites out there. All you need to do is just to apply some changes to them and your website will be ready within a few minutes. We call such ready-made websites WEB TEMPLATES and if they are blogs, they are known as BLOG TEMPLATES.
These templates are what some hungry marketers sell for some people, making series of hype like CREATE YOUR WEBSITE IN 3 MINUTES AND MAKE $1000 WITH IT WITHIN 24 HOURS etc...Wonders shall never end...loads of such hypes out there. Just shine your eyes!
There are lots of free web templates you can use on the internet, though you must still posses some web-design skills for you to be able to edit them BUT THERE IS JUST NO BIG DEAL IN WEB DESIGN. The big deal is in web development (I will talk about this later). So, FEAR NOT.
Choosing a web template can be rather hard. When deciding which best fits your website, you must already have an idea of what you want your website to be about, because if you made a site dedicated to computers, and your web template is based on animals design, would that really make sense to you?
Most of the web hosts provide free templates. After signing up with any of the web hosts, login into your account, look around and you should be able to see a link pointing to WEB TEMPLATES. Follow the link and choose the template you want, edit it and within a few minutes your website will be ready for the whole world to see.
If you are in need of free web templates you can download to your PC, go to Google and inside the search box, type "free web templates" and filter through the results to get what you want.
Below are some other free sources that give away free templates for you to use for the respective platforms, free of charge.
Blogger Template Sources:
1. bTemplates.com
2. eBlogTemplates.com
3. BlogSkin.com
Joomla Template Sources:
1. JoomlaTP.com
2. BestofJoomla.com
3. SiteGround.com
3. Build Your Website
After setting up your website with your hosting provider and have chosen the template of your choice, you can then simply add content to your website. Content is the most important key to building up a good website or blog that can both provide users the information they are looking for and at the same time make you money.
Without content, your site is of no value to anyone and I doubt if you will be able to make a dime with it. If you are running a blog, be sure that the topic you are writing about is something you will always love writing on. Adding some great stuffs, such as widgets and tools to your websites are great in terms of adding more value to your website. The more complete your site looks, the more valuable it becomes. Bravenet offers some free webmaster tools you will like. Check it out! If you are running a blogspot blog, blogger is already loaded with loads of widgets to choose from. Just feel free to explore.
There are many tools you can use to build your website. I started designing websites with Microsoft Frontpage, though I now use Dreamweaver for most of my projects. You can easily get Microsoft Frontpage from any computer store around you. With it, you will be able to easily edit your website, add content to it and also upload it to the internet.
Once you have added some valuable content to your website, move on to the next step. Make sure it is of great quality because your content will determine whether or not visitors will come back to your website.
4. Start Promoting Your Website
Without people visiting your web site, your site will be like a burial ground. Please, make sure you already have some good contents on your site before ever thinking of promoting it. If you tell me about your website and decided to check, only to find out that it is nothing, other than a dessert ,do you think I will ever come back to the website again? This is a big mistake a lot of newbies make and are still making....
With the way you are enjoying this article now, I am very sure you will love to come back and read this blog again another day, isn't it?... I can see you nodding your head now...saying YES, I WILL. Smiles** I hope you can grab the gist. LOAD YOUR SITE/BLOG WITH CONTENTS FIRST BEFORE EVER THINKING OF PROMOTING IT.
In webmaster language, getting people to visit and read your website simple means getting WEB TRAFFIC to your site. There are many ways you can drive traffic to your website free of charge (I will be talking extensively on this later).
Below is a list of few great sources of online traffic.
1. Social Networks eg Facebook, Myspace, Twitter
2. Forums eg Nairaland, Warrior Forum etc
3. Commenting
4. Search Engines
I have been using the free sources to promote my blogs and websites and they have been working for me. I believe you can see some of the statistics of this blog on the sidebar.
Please, shine your eyes before you waste your money on those traffic exchangers or sites that will promise to give your site traffic after paying some money. Most of the time the traffic is of little worth and the exchanges is just a time waster. BEWARE!
5. Monetize Your Website
This is where the money comes rolling in. Once you have set up your website with good content and HAVE ATTRACTED A LOT OF READERS, you will be able to easily make money from the website. Take it or leave it, if you have thousands of good articles on your blog or website and no one knows about it , you might not make a cent with the website. This is what forces some bloggers to be engaging in CLICK FRAUDS, clicking on their adsense ads by themselves all just to make money, since no one is coming to their blog to click for them. In the long run, they get caught by Google and Google ban them, loosing whatever tey might have earned. NEVER TRY TO CLICK ON YOUR ADS.
Load your website with good contents, PROMOTE IT OVER AND OVER. With time, you will start having loyal readers and along the line, you will be making money out of them while they too will be benefiting from things they are getting from your website. Readers get valuable information. Writers get a bit of income. THIS IS THE SECRET BEHIND THE SUCCESS OF MY BLOG, SO FAR.
You can make money from your website or blog through:
1. advertising for people
2. affiliate links
3. sales of products eg ebooks.
4. leads
5. Google ads placement etc.
These are just a tip of the iceberg. There are many ways you can make money with your website. All websites have different methods that work best for their own particular website. You just have to find out which works best for your site on your own to maximize it’s true potential income to make money.
That's all for now. So get Started, create your first website and feel free to share the link with me using the comment from below. This way, I will easily be able to help you with some useful tips that can make it look better.
If you really care about knowing how to design websites, I can train you on a one- on - one basis for a friendly fee. I also have some ebooks that can get you started asap.
In my future posts, I will be talking more about how to make money with your blog or website, how to get a free co.cc domain for your free website, cheap web hosts you can patronize for your real business websites and also will be sharing with you some videos that you can be watching to master the art of designing websites.
How To Create Football Jersey On Facebook.
Within a couple of minutes, you can generate your own football jersey to show support for your favorite team in the on going 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP been hosted by South Africa; the first of its kind in Africa.
To create your jersey, you will need to add this facebook application to your profile.
CLICK HERE TO GENERATE YOUR WORLD CUP FOOTBALL JERSEY NOW.
To create your jersey, you will need to add this facebook application to your profile.
CLICK HERE TO GENERATE YOUR WORLD CUP FOOTBALL JERSEY NOW.
How To Create An Ebook With A Free Software.
Ebooks simply means Electronic books which you can easily read on your PC using Adobe Reader. Ebooks are usually in pdf formats which means if you see any file whose name ends with ".pdf" , then it is obvious that the file has been compiled in an ebook format. Creating ebooks is an easy task you can do within a twinkle of an eye. There is no big deal in it at all.
You can convert to PDF from any file you can print, including Microsoft® Word, Excel®, and PowerPoint® formats. This simply means if you have anything already compiled with MSWord, Excel, PowerPoint, you can easily convert it to an ebook.
You can create Ebooks on anything. I could remember when I was in the University, I made some money helping some students to convert their Final Year projects to Ebooks. You too can.....
So, How Do I Convert To pdf ?
There are many softwares out there online that will enable you to convert any file compiled with MSWord, Excel, PowerPoint, to an ebook. One of such softwares is PrimoPDF.
Download and Install PrimoPdf to your PC and start creating your own ebooks.
http://www.primopdf.com/download.aspx
I hope this helps.
After creating your ebooks, you might also be interested in creating covers for them. Well, I will be writing on how you can do this in my future articles.
You can convert to PDF from any file you can print, including Microsoft® Word, Excel®, and PowerPoint® formats. This simply means if you have anything already compiled with MSWord, Excel, PowerPoint, you can easily convert it to an ebook.
You can create Ebooks on anything. I could remember when I was in the University, I made some money helping some students to convert their Final Year projects to Ebooks. You too can.....
So, How Do I Convert To pdf ?
There are many softwares out there online that will enable you to convert any file compiled with MSWord, Excel, PowerPoint, to an ebook. One of such softwares is PrimoPDF.
Download and Install PrimoPdf to your PC and start creating your own ebooks.
http://www.primopdf.com/download.aspx
I hope this helps.
After creating your ebooks, you might also be interested in creating covers for them. Well, I will be writing on how you can do this in my future articles.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
10 WAYS TO MAKE MONEY WITH YOUR BLOG.
If you want to make money blogging, then you'll be happy to hear that it is not that hard to do. Of course, the amount of money you make depends entirely on your ongoing efforts to publish a great blog, grow your audience, and continually test new money making opportunities in order to find the best ways to match your audience's expectations for your blog and your own goals for your blog. With that in mind, check out the 10 fairly easy ways to starting making money from your blogging efforts.
1. Join an Advertising ProgramThere are many advertising programs available for bloggers to join. One of the most popular online advertising programs and possibly the easiest to set up on your blog is Google AdSense, which offers a variety of pay-per-click text, display, and video advertising opportunities for bloggers. With a bit of effort, experimenting, and tweaking you can definitely make some money with Google AdSense.
2. Join an Affiliate Advertising ProgramThere are many companies that offer programs that enable you to sign up as an affiliate of that company and earn money. Amazon Associates is one of the most popular and easiest affiliate advertising programs for bloggers to use.
3. Join an Affiliate Advertising NetworkThere are a number of affiliate advertising networks that link online advertisers with publishers (such as bloggers). Commission Junction is one of the most popular affiliate advertising networks.
4. Sell Your Own Ad Space Directly to AdvertisersYou can attempt to sell your own ad space directly to advertisers, but unless your blog is established with a sizable audience, it can be difficult to manage and make money selling ad space directly. Fortunately, there are sites like BuySellAds.com that link online publishers (like bloggers) up with online advertisers to make selling your ad space easier.
5. Publish Posts and Reviews for PayYou can write blog posts on your own blog in exchange for pay, and there are several Web sites that link online publishers (such as bloggers) up with companies and individuals who want their products and services reviewed or discussed online. Just be sure to understand how to safely publish a paid post or sponsored review on your blog, so you don't negatively affect your blog's traffic.
6. Sell MerchandiseThere are a number of Web sites that make it extremely easy for bloggers to create their own online stores where you can sell custom or stock merchandise and make money doing it! CafePress, Zazzle and Printfection are three of the most popular sites for creating your own online store.
7. Become a Professional BloggerIf you write well and can work autonomously, then you could work from home as a professional blogger! Fortunately, there are many sites where you can search for paid blogging jobs. Keep in mind, blogger pay rates can vary drastically, so make sure any opportunity you take matches your long term blogging goals.
8. Join a Blogging NetworkThere are a number of blog networks that include a number of blogs and bloggers all publishing under a larger brand or company. Many of these blog networks pay bloggers a flat fee per post or word that the blogger writes or the blogger receives a percentage of advertising earnings tied to the number of page views his or her posts generate (some networks even pay both a flat fee and a percentage of advertising revenues). As always, make sure the opportunities you pursue match your long term blogging goals.
9. Ask for DonationsWhile you're unlikely to make much money from donors, it certainly can't hurt to ask for donations on your blog. It's easy to add a PayPal donate button, and you never know who might be feeling generous!
10. Make Money without AdsThere are a variety of ways that you can make money from your blog without publishing any ads on your blog at all. Don't be afraid to get creative!
1. Join an Advertising ProgramThere are many advertising programs available for bloggers to join. One of the most popular online advertising programs and possibly the easiest to set up on your blog is Google AdSense, which offers a variety of pay-per-click text, display, and video advertising opportunities for bloggers. With a bit of effort, experimenting, and tweaking you can definitely make some money with Google AdSense.
2. Join an Affiliate Advertising ProgramThere are many companies that offer programs that enable you to sign up as an affiliate of that company and earn money. Amazon Associates is one of the most popular and easiest affiliate advertising programs for bloggers to use.
3. Join an Affiliate Advertising NetworkThere are a number of affiliate advertising networks that link online advertisers with publishers (such as bloggers). Commission Junction is one of the most popular affiliate advertising networks.
4. Sell Your Own Ad Space Directly to AdvertisersYou can attempt to sell your own ad space directly to advertisers, but unless your blog is established with a sizable audience, it can be difficult to manage and make money selling ad space directly. Fortunately, there are sites like BuySellAds.com that link online publishers (like bloggers) up with online advertisers to make selling your ad space easier.
5. Publish Posts and Reviews for PayYou can write blog posts on your own blog in exchange for pay, and there are several Web sites that link online publishers (such as bloggers) up with companies and individuals who want their products and services reviewed or discussed online. Just be sure to understand how to safely publish a paid post or sponsored review on your blog, so you don't negatively affect your blog's traffic.
6. Sell MerchandiseThere are a number of Web sites that make it extremely easy for bloggers to create their own online stores where you can sell custom or stock merchandise and make money doing it! CafePress, Zazzle and Printfection are three of the most popular sites for creating your own online store.
7. Become a Professional BloggerIf you write well and can work autonomously, then you could work from home as a professional blogger! Fortunately, there are many sites where you can search for paid blogging jobs. Keep in mind, blogger pay rates can vary drastically, so make sure any opportunity you take matches your long term blogging goals.
8. Join a Blogging NetworkThere are a number of blog networks that include a number of blogs and bloggers all publishing under a larger brand or company. Many of these blog networks pay bloggers a flat fee per post or word that the blogger writes or the blogger receives a percentage of advertising earnings tied to the number of page views his or her posts generate (some networks even pay both a flat fee and a percentage of advertising revenues). As always, make sure the opportunities you pursue match your long term blogging goals.
9. Ask for DonationsWhile you're unlikely to make much money from donors, it certainly can't hurt to ask for donations on your blog. It's easy to add a PayPal donate button, and you never know who might be feeling generous!
10. Make Money without AdsThere are a variety of ways that you can make money from your blog without publishing any ads on your blog at all. Don't be afraid to get creative!
Make money using Blog - Lesson 1
Judging from the emails I have been receiving, a lot of my readers are a bit overwhelmed by the online money making business. You probably don't know where to start and it's hard to get anyone who knows what to do to spill the beans. This is by design as letting everyone in on what works and how to do it is thought to be a death blow to all those currently making money online. I don't share this view. There are potentially several billion buyers out there and estimates of about 150,000 online marketers. There is room for every one.
If you are starting out, you probably don't know how to go about setting up an online business.
You have lots of questions;
Do I need a website?
Do I buy one or build my own?
How do I build my own?
What do I put on my site?
How do I find a niche market?
What is a niche market?
How do I sell stuff?
How do I set up adsense?
What is adsense?
What is adwords?
What tools do I need?
How do I generate traffic (visitors) to my site?
What's the secret behind making money? etc...
I'm sure the list could go on for a while yet.The point is most of you want to know where and how to start an online money making venture. The trouble is that all the online marketers are only too happy to tell you what to do... as long as you buy the product(s) that they offer. Everyone has a different scheme for you to try. A sure-fire guaranteed way to get rich! You have heard this enough I'm sure. Who do you trust?
Let's get down to the basics, before you start spending money needlessly. Forget about websites, forget affiliate marketing, forget adwords, forget MLM and JV's, forget everything and start from scratch.
Let's start with "Google Adsense" and Blogs.
This is the cheapest and fastest way to get started making money online. You can set up a blog for free. Google will provide advertisements for your blog for free. You will earn an immediate commission from Google each time some one clicks an advertisement on your blog. Once you get your blog up and running you can diversify with affiliate marketing and other methods of making money. A blog is very simple to manage. The new Blogger (just out of Beta) program (owned by Google) is a beginners dream as a complete computer illiterate can set up a blog just following the onscreen directions. Once you have a blog you will then learn how to market it - get traffic to your site. When you have learned how to do this you can transfer this knowledge to websites and other online ventures. A blog will teach you the basics and you can learn without spending gobs of cash in the process.
I'm sure you have seen screenshots of people who are making hundreds of dollars a day from adsense. Is this bullsh*t? Nope. They earn what they say but beware that they are not telling you the whole story.
There are several strategies for making money with Google Adsense but let's look at the two most common.
1)Using Adwords or other paid advertising to generate traffic to your Adsense sites and hence generate Adsense clicks.
2) Getting free traffic using SEO techniques (Search Engine Optimization) and harnessing the power of multiple Blogs to generate Adsense revenue.
So what is the trick?
Using Adwords
This is what they don't tell you.
A lot of those screen shots show you the money they brought in. They never tell you how much they spent to earn that income. They may make $600 a day but if they are using adwords to generate traffic then they likely spent several hundred a day as well. They always show you the gross, not the net. This doesn't mean that they aren't making a profit - they are or they wouldn't continue day after day - but that their profit is a lot less than they lead you to believe. This is done in order to make you believe that the product they are selling will help you generate profits of $600 a day. If they were completely honest they would admit that it might generate SALES of $600 a day - not PROFITS.
Using free traffic.
This is what they don't tell you.
This is the best way for a beginner to start out. Build a blog on a particular niche(topic), create good quality content for it, have Google index and rank your page high for your keyword (topic) and sit back as Google sends hordes of visitors to your site. Finally, count your money from all the Adsense clicks. Right? Well almost.
This is the procedure but they don't tell you that to make serious money at this you will need to create hundreds or thousands of blogs. Yes, you heard right. Your main blogs will be decent pages addressing the needs of your visitors and suitable for marketing products. The majority of the blogs however, will be set up to simply generate Adsense clicks. The articles will be unique but crappy and visitors that end up on these blogs will quickly leave - hopefully by clicking an ad that will take them to where they were trying to go in the first place. This is called spam blogging and as unethical as it seems, it is how you make a lot of money with Adsense. No one talks about this aspect of making adsense profits. No one wants to admit that they use this tactic and yet this is the only way to generate a lot of money with Adsense with out spending money to get traffic.
This is also the system I recommend to all beginners. It's the cheapest way to start earning cash, it will teach you all the main aspects of Internet marketing and you can start immediately. However, you will have to decide if ethics or making money is your top priority first.
Decided?
Let's begin.
We will keep this simple to start. In future posts I will explain more and more techniques as we go. For now we need to get a few blogs set up.
Go to Blogger.com and set up your account.
When you have completed this we can begin.
Before creating your blog you will have to find a topic. This is called a niche. There is a lot to learn about finding the right niche but for now just pick a topic you like. Let's learn how to set up a blog before we worry about what kind of blog will make money.
I will set up a new blog with you so you can see how I do it.
In blogger select "Create Account".
Select a name. Try and use your keyword in the name and the blog address. (Use Capitals in your name but only lower-case in blog address.)
ie. I want to call my blog "Blogger Basics for Beginners" using the following address "http://bloggerbasics.blogspot.com". When I checked the availability I was told this address was already taken.
When this happens try using a dash like this;"http://blogger-basics.blogspot.com" - notice the dash, this is a way to still use your main keyword by adding a dash between them. As it happens this address is also taken.
Next I try this;
"http://bloggerbasicsforlearners.blogspot.com" - This address is available and I am still able to use my keyword in the address and my title which is "Blogger Basics for Learners".
Note: The more popular the niche the harder it will be to get an address for your keyword. If you are doing a "shoe" blog I can assure you that all possible "shoe" combinations are gone. If you are using "Pre-Cambrian Rock Formations" as a keyword you can probably get it for your address.
It is important to use your keyword in your Blog's Title and Address. This will greatly help you when it comes to search engine rankings and indexing. This is a big topic that I won't get into right now - just trust me on this.
Fill in the word verification and hit continue.
Note: The reason for the word verification is to stop automated programs from setting up thousands of blogs. Basically it is there to stop you from doing what I am going to show you how to do. Don't worry, it doesn't stop the automated programs, they have evolved to take this delay in hand and let you work around it.
It now appears that Blogger has a new flagging system that can catch most auto-software trying to set up multiple accounts. As you can no longer use link farms effectively this is a moot point and you should only be creating 3-4 blogs per account. Do not use the same keywords in each blog. ie. Don't create related blogs in each account. If you want ten blogs targeted to 1 niche then put each blog on a seperate account.
You will now be asked to select a template. Later you can experiment with all the different templates but for now just choose Minima as you will find it easier to follow along with me. (It is the first choice and it should already be selected automatically) I have found this to be the most professional looking template and I use it frequently. You are reading this post on a Minima template. It is also perfectly optimized for SEO without having to tweak it.
Hit continue to select the Minima Template.
Next you will see a page that says "Your Blog has been created".
That's all there is to it.
Hit "Start Posting" and we will begin the next step.
Before posting let's go into "Settings" and make a few customizations.
Fill in your description. Make sure you use your keyword at least once and preferably twice in your description. (Update - see Common Blogging Mistakes and Common Blogging Mistakes - Part 2 for more details)
Mine is;"Learn Blogger BasicsHow to Use BlogsMake Money Online."
In this instance I have used my main Keyword "Blogger Basics" only once but I have also used secondary keywords "Blogs" and "Make Money Online". I used the pipe sign between them to eliminate words that the search engine doesn't use. It could have read; "Learn Blogger Basics for Beginners and How to Use Blogs and Make Money Online." It's better to replace these conjunctions with the pipe symbol. I'll explain this further when we get into Search Engine Optimization (SEO), another large topic.
After your description scroll down the page and hit "Save Settings". Don't change any of the yes/no settings. Leave them on default.
Select the "Publishing" tab.
Select "Yes" where it says "Notify Webogs.com" and hit "Save Settings" (the default is NO) This will help notify the outside world each time you post something to your blog.
Select "Formatting"
Change "Show" to 1 posts on the main page. (Default is 7)
Select your time zone.
Set "Show Link Field" to Yes.
Leave everything else as is and hit "Save Settings".
Select "Comments"
Select "Show" for Backlinks.
Select "Yes" for Pop up Window.
Select "Yes" for Word Verification.
Enter your email for comment notification.
Hit "Save Settings", and leave the rest of the options on default.
Select "Archiving"
Make sure the frequency is set to "Monthly" and the "Enable Post Pages?" is set to "Yes".
Hit "Save Settings"
Select "Posting" and we are ready for your first post.
You will notice that you have a Title Field, a Link Field, and a big box where you will type in your post.
It is important that each and every title you use has your keyword in the Title. (Again this relates to SEO - and again just trust me without further explanation at this point.)
In the link field you want to type in your blog address so that the post links back to your blog (your home page).
My link is typed as follows; http://bloggerbasicsforlearners.blogspot.com - this is the URL of my homepage.
Replace Blogger Basics with your address.
My first post is short and to the point. It will mention my keywords at least twice.
It reads as follows;
Welcome to Blogger Basics for Learners. This site provides tips and techniques for beginning bloggers in order to make money online.
Make your first post the same way. Use your keywords a couple of times and then hit "Publish".
Then hit "View Blog"
Congrats - you are now a blogger. Simple wasn't it?
Now you can customize your blog. You will notice that your title is a hypertext link pointing to your site. On the right hand side of the page is a section called "Blog Archive" and below that is an "About Me" section.
You can add and remove any section you like by selecting "Customize" from the top right corner of your screen.
I am going to remove the "About Me" section and add a new section for Adsense. Always leave the "Blog Archives" so that visitors can find your previous posts.
Select "Customize"
Click the edit link on the "About Me" box. I am going to select the "Remove Page Element" option to get rid of this but if you want to keep the "About Me" section just fill in the info boxes and click "Save Changes".
Let's Add a Page Element. From the main customization screen click the link that says "Add a Page Element" (Use the right hand column box - not the one on the bottom of the page.)
You will get a pop-up screen with a lot of Page Elements listed on it.
Let's add Adsense to our blogs. Click the Adsense "Add to Blog" button. If you don't have an Adsense account follow the instructions to get one. You will get a publisher ID from Google that will enable you to post adsense ads on your blog. Once you have this pick a Format and use the Blend Template option regarding colors. (it's the default).
Update: Note - if you want to use adsense channels to track your blogs then you will have to create your Adsense code in Adsense Setup in your Adsense account and then copy/paste the code generated into your blog manually. Don't use the "Adsense" element for this - use the "HTML/JavaScript" element and paste in the code after the box opens.
Update: As of February 2008, Google requires all blogs using Adsense to post a Privacy Policy on their blogs. To see what this entails view the bottom of this Blog - Look for the Header, "Privacy Policy"
For right hand column ads I stick to the 160 x 600 vertical Banner Format.
Click "Save Changes" and you will notice that an Adsense box has been added to your right hand column at the top.
Click "View Blog" and see the results.
It takes a day or two for Google to recognize your content and place corresponding ads on your site. At first you may only see public service ads until Google figures out your keywords. Just be patient as this is normal. Having said that, I was given ads related to Blogs/Make Money immediately and you may have got appropriate ads as well if you followed my instructions. Why? Remember I told you to use your keywords several times in setting up your blog. I did this so that Google will have no problem figuring out what your blog is about. If your keyword is about something that has advertisements Google will find the ads. If you used the "Pre-Cambrian" keyword you may never get anything but public service ads as I doubt that there are many advertisers selling anything related to this keyword... I could be wrong though.
Let's stop for today and let you concentrate on the next lesson. You will have to sit down and write one decent article about your keyword. (I can hear you non-writers cringing at the thought) Later I will show you how to get unique content without writing your own but for now you will have to bare down and do a little typing.
Before leaving go to my just created Blogger Basics for Learners and make sure that yours is set up like mine. If you have questions the email link I added will work. I will either answer you directly or address your question as we proceed with this exercise. PS. Don't be afraid to add and delete elements on your blog in the meantime. Play around and learn how to use the Page elements. You can also edit the Blog's type, fonts, colors and element positions. Experiment a bit. Just don't delete your initial post.
You can find the remainder of these lessons below;
Cheers
If you are starting out, you probably don't know how to go about setting up an online business.
You have lots of questions;
Do I need a website?
Do I buy one or build my own?
How do I build my own?
What do I put on my site?
How do I find a niche market?
What is a niche market?
How do I sell stuff?
How do I set up adsense?
What is adsense?
What is adwords?
What tools do I need?
How do I generate traffic (visitors) to my site?
What's the secret behind making money? etc...
I'm sure the list could go on for a while yet.The point is most of you want to know where and how to start an online money making venture. The trouble is that all the online marketers are only too happy to tell you what to do... as long as you buy the product(s) that they offer. Everyone has a different scheme for you to try. A sure-fire guaranteed way to get rich! You have heard this enough I'm sure. Who do you trust?
Let's get down to the basics, before you start spending money needlessly. Forget about websites, forget affiliate marketing, forget adwords, forget MLM and JV's, forget everything and start from scratch.
Let's start with "Google Adsense" and Blogs.
This is the cheapest and fastest way to get started making money online. You can set up a blog for free. Google will provide advertisements for your blog for free. You will earn an immediate commission from Google each time some one clicks an advertisement on your blog. Once you get your blog up and running you can diversify with affiliate marketing and other methods of making money. A blog is very simple to manage. The new Blogger (just out of Beta) program (owned by Google) is a beginners dream as a complete computer illiterate can set up a blog just following the onscreen directions. Once you have a blog you will then learn how to market it - get traffic to your site. When you have learned how to do this you can transfer this knowledge to websites and other online ventures. A blog will teach you the basics and you can learn without spending gobs of cash in the process.
I'm sure you have seen screenshots of people who are making hundreds of dollars a day from adsense. Is this bullsh*t? Nope. They earn what they say but beware that they are not telling you the whole story.
There are several strategies for making money with Google Adsense but let's look at the two most common.
1)Using Adwords or other paid advertising to generate traffic to your Adsense sites and hence generate Adsense clicks.
2) Getting free traffic using SEO techniques (Search Engine Optimization) and harnessing the power of multiple Blogs to generate Adsense revenue.
So what is the trick?
Using Adwords
This is what they don't tell you.
A lot of those screen shots show you the money they brought in. They never tell you how much they spent to earn that income. They may make $600 a day but if they are using adwords to generate traffic then they likely spent several hundred a day as well. They always show you the gross, not the net. This doesn't mean that they aren't making a profit - they are or they wouldn't continue day after day - but that their profit is a lot less than they lead you to believe. This is done in order to make you believe that the product they are selling will help you generate profits of $600 a day. If they were completely honest they would admit that it might generate SALES of $600 a day - not PROFITS.
Using free traffic.
This is what they don't tell you.
This is the best way for a beginner to start out. Build a blog on a particular niche(topic), create good quality content for it, have Google index and rank your page high for your keyword (topic) and sit back as Google sends hordes of visitors to your site. Finally, count your money from all the Adsense clicks. Right? Well almost.
This is the procedure but they don't tell you that to make serious money at this you will need to create hundreds or thousands of blogs. Yes, you heard right. Your main blogs will be decent pages addressing the needs of your visitors and suitable for marketing products. The majority of the blogs however, will be set up to simply generate Adsense clicks. The articles will be unique but crappy and visitors that end up on these blogs will quickly leave - hopefully by clicking an ad that will take them to where they were trying to go in the first place. This is called spam blogging and as unethical as it seems, it is how you make a lot of money with Adsense. No one talks about this aspect of making adsense profits. No one wants to admit that they use this tactic and yet this is the only way to generate a lot of money with Adsense with out spending money to get traffic.
This is also the system I recommend to all beginners. It's the cheapest way to start earning cash, it will teach you all the main aspects of Internet marketing and you can start immediately. However, you will have to decide if ethics or making money is your top priority first.
Decided?
Let's begin.
We will keep this simple to start. In future posts I will explain more and more techniques as we go. For now we need to get a few blogs set up.
Go to Blogger.com and set up your account.
When you have completed this we can begin.
Before creating your blog you will have to find a topic. This is called a niche. There is a lot to learn about finding the right niche but for now just pick a topic you like. Let's learn how to set up a blog before we worry about what kind of blog will make money.
I will set up a new blog with you so you can see how I do it.
In blogger select "Create Account".
Select a name. Try and use your keyword in the name and the blog address. (Use Capitals in your name but only lower-case in blog address.)
ie. I want to call my blog "Blogger Basics for Beginners" using the following address "http://bloggerbasics.blogspot.com". When I checked the availability I was told this address was already taken.
When this happens try using a dash like this;"http://blogger-basics.blogspot.com" - notice the dash, this is a way to still use your main keyword by adding a dash between them. As it happens this address is also taken.
Next I try this;
"http://bloggerbasicsforlearners.blogspot.com" - This address is available and I am still able to use my keyword in the address and my title which is "Blogger Basics for Learners".
Note: The more popular the niche the harder it will be to get an address for your keyword. If you are doing a "shoe" blog I can assure you that all possible "shoe" combinations are gone. If you are using "Pre-Cambrian Rock Formations" as a keyword you can probably get it for your address.
It is important to use your keyword in your Blog's Title and Address. This will greatly help you when it comes to search engine rankings and indexing. This is a big topic that I won't get into right now - just trust me on this.
Fill in the word verification and hit continue.
Note: The reason for the word verification is to stop automated programs from setting up thousands of blogs. Basically it is there to stop you from doing what I am going to show you how to do. Don't worry, it doesn't stop the automated programs, they have evolved to take this delay in hand and let you work around it.
It now appears that Blogger has a new flagging system that can catch most auto-software trying to set up multiple accounts. As you can no longer use link farms effectively this is a moot point and you should only be creating 3-4 blogs per account. Do not use the same keywords in each blog. ie. Don't create related blogs in each account. If you want ten blogs targeted to 1 niche then put each blog on a seperate account.
You will now be asked to select a template. Later you can experiment with all the different templates but for now just choose Minima as you will find it easier to follow along with me. (It is the first choice and it should already be selected automatically) I have found this to be the most professional looking template and I use it frequently. You are reading this post on a Minima template. It is also perfectly optimized for SEO without having to tweak it.
Hit continue to select the Minima Template.
Next you will see a page that says "Your Blog has been created".
That's all there is to it.
Hit "Start Posting" and we will begin the next step.
Before posting let's go into "Settings" and make a few customizations.
Fill in your description. Make sure you use your keyword at least once and preferably twice in your description. (Update - see Common Blogging Mistakes and Common Blogging Mistakes - Part 2 for more details)
Mine is;"Learn Blogger BasicsHow to Use BlogsMake Money Online."
In this instance I have used my main Keyword "Blogger Basics" only once but I have also used secondary keywords "Blogs" and "Make Money Online". I used the pipe sign between them to eliminate words that the search engine doesn't use. It could have read; "Learn Blogger Basics for Beginners and How to Use Blogs and Make Money Online." It's better to replace these conjunctions with the pipe symbol. I'll explain this further when we get into Search Engine Optimization (SEO), another large topic.
After your description scroll down the page and hit "Save Settings". Don't change any of the yes/no settings. Leave them on default.
Select the "Publishing" tab.
Select "Yes" where it says "Notify Webogs.com" and hit "Save Settings" (the default is NO) This will help notify the outside world each time you post something to your blog.
Select "Formatting"
Change "Show" to 1 posts on the main page. (Default is 7)
Select your time zone.
Set "Show Link Field" to Yes.
Leave everything else as is and hit "Save Settings".
Select "Comments"
Select "Show" for Backlinks.
Select "Yes" for Pop up Window.
Select "Yes" for Word Verification.
Enter your email for comment notification.
Hit "Save Settings", and leave the rest of the options on default.
Select "Archiving"
Make sure the frequency is set to "Monthly" and the "Enable Post Pages?" is set to "Yes".
Hit "Save Settings"
Select "Posting" and we are ready for your first post.
You will notice that you have a Title Field, a Link Field, and a big box where you will type in your post.
It is important that each and every title you use has your keyword in the Title. (Again this relates to SEO - and again just trust me without further explanation at this point.)
In the link field you want to type in your blog address so that the post links back to your blog (your home page).
My link is typed as follows; http://bloggerbasicsforlearners.blogspot.com - this is the URL of my homepage.
Replace Blogger Basics with your address.
My first post is short and to the point. It will mention my keywords at least twice.
It reads as follows;
Welcome to Blogger Basics for Learners. This site provides tips and techniques for beginning bloggers in order to make money online.
Make your first post the same way. Use your keywords a couple of times and then hit "Publish".
Then hit "View Blog"
Congrats - you are now a blogger. Simple wasn't it?
Now you can customize your blog. You will notice that your title is a hypertext link pointing to your site. On the right hand side of the page is a section called "Blog Archive" and below that is an "About Me" section.
You can add and remove any section you like by selecting "Customize" from the top right corner of your screen.
I am going to remove the "About Me" section and add a new section for Adsense. Always leave the "Blog Archives" so that visitors can find your previous posts.
Select "Customize"
Click the edit link on the "About Me" box. I am going to select the "Remove Page Element" option to get rid of this but if you want to keep the "About Me" section just fill in the info boxes and click "Save Changes".
Let's Add a Page Element. From the main customization screen click the link that says "Add a Page Element" (Use the right hand column box - not the one on the bottom of the page.)
You will get a pop-up screen with a lot of Page Elements listed on it.
Let's add Adsense to our blogs. Click the Adsense "Add to Blog" button. If you don't have an Adsense account follow the instructions to get one. You will get a publisher ID from Google that will enable you to post adsense ads on your blog. Once you have this pick a Format and use the Blend Template option regarding colors. (it's the default).
Update: Note - if you want to use adsense channels to track your blogs then you will have to create your Adsense code in Adsense Setup in your Adsense account and then copy/paste the code generated into your blog manually. Don't use the "Adsense" element for this - use the "HTML/JavaScript" element and paste in the code after the box opens.
Update: As of February 2008, Google requires all blogs using Adsense to post a Privacy Policy on their blogs. To see what this entails view the bottom of this Blog - Look for the Header, "Privacy Policy"
For right hand column ads I stick to the 160 x 600 vertical Banner Format.
Click "Save Changes" and you will notice that an Adsense box has been added to your right hand column at the top.
Click "View Blog" and see the results.
It takes a day or two for Google to recognize your content and place corresponding ads on your site. At first you may only see public service ads until Google figures out your keywords. Just be patient as this is normal. Having said that, I was given ads related to Blogs/Make Money immediately and you may have got appropriate ads as well if you followed my instructions. Why? Remember I told you to use your keywords several times in setting up your blog. I did this so that Google will have no problem figuring out what your blog is about. If your keyword is about something that has advertisements Google will find the ads. If you used the "Pre-Cambrian" keyword you may never get anything but public service ads as I doubt that there are many advertisers selling anything related to this keyword... I could be wrong though.
Let's stop for today and let you concentrate on the next lesson. You will have to sit down and write one decent article about your keyword. (I can hear you non-writers cringing at the thought) Later I will show you how to get unique content without writing your own but for now you will have to bare down and do a little typing.
Before leaving go to my just created Blogger Basics for Learners and make sure that yours is set up like mine. If you have questions the email link I added will work. I will either answer you directly or address your question as we proceed with this exercise. PS. Don't be afraid to add and delete elements on your blog in the meantime. Play around and learn how to use the Page elements. You can also edit the Blog's type, fonts, colors and element positions. Experiment a bit. Just don't delete your initial post.
You can find the remainder of these lessons below;
Cheers
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