Blogging Bonanza Members Only Area

Nothing fancy here, folks, just the "meat and potatoes". I'll be adding to this area often, as I find out about new directories, ideas, articles and resources.

If you're looking for ideas on how to structure a blog, and what to put in it, check out one or more of my blogs and notice how I've "monetized" them with Ads and affiliate links:

• Blogging Bonanza!



• EmarketingMan Rambles



• Internet Marketing Tool Reviews

Check out more examples from those in my Internet Marketing Blog Index

Basic Resources

Need software, a host, or a place to publicize your blog or RSS Feed?

• Here's a list of Blogging and RSS Platforms.



• Here's a list of Blog Directories. Announce your blog!



• And a list of RSS Directories Announce your RSS feed!



• And a list of More Blogging Resources (e.g., templates)

Advanced RSS Resource

I can't say enough about Rok Hrastnik's Unleashing the Marketing and Publishing Power of RSS.

It's available as a featured item at my ebook store at Blogging-Guides.Com.

This guy seems to know everything there is about RSS, writes with exceptional clarity, operates a killer website and blog devoted to the subject, and was already working on an update to his ebook only one month after it was first published. I read the first edition, and couldn't imagine a more encyclopedic reference on the subject. Many people are calling this the definitive RSS reference.

My ebook and this member's site teach you enough to grasp the basics of RSS and get up and running and using it successfully. If you want to exploit its full marketing potential, and stay on the cutting edge, seriously consider investing in Rok's absolutely outstanding ebook. You won't regret it.

Learn How to Write

Don't know how to write? Want to learn more about writing for the net? Here are my top choices for learning this invaluable skill ...

• Amazing Ad Copy   is from Marlon Sanders. Marlon is legendary for his persuasive writing skills, and his overall marketing genius. If you want to learn how to write, and how to sell, study Marlon! The guy has twenty years of sales experience ...



• Make Your Content PreSell!   is a new, very inexpensive ebook from Ken Evoy. Ken puts out some of the very best and least expensive material on internet marketing and in particular the art of "pre-selling". He argues that your job as an affiliate is to "warm up" the customers, rather than to "sell" to them. That is also exactly how you should be approaching the use of your blogs and RSS feeds for internet marketing.



• The Net Writing Masters Course   is a free download from Ken Evoy. The ideas are similar to those in MYCPS above, which expands greatly on this free volume. Hey, it's free, you might as well grab it!



• Turn Words Into Traffic   Jim Edwards is a prolific writer, and a professional journalist. He advocates writing articles and posting them around the net as a simple and effective method of getting traffic to your website. Lots of "big name" marketers agree with him. In this ebook, Jim shows you step by step how to write articles, even if you think you can't do it. The very same skills will help you write killer blog entries. After all, they really are just short articles ...

Monetizing Your Blog or RSS Feed

If you're interested in monetizing your blog, here are several good resources. In each case, you can put the ads on the sidebar of your blog. Some blogging sites and software will let you incorporate the ads into the body of the blog, but some won't, because most of them use javascript, which may or may not work in the body of your blog. I'm not sure why that is, but that's been my experience.

• Affiliate Power Ads work like Adsense, except the ads are product images, rather than text. Check out any of my blogs above to see how these ads look. This is my favorite monetization vehicle at the moment.



• BlogAds are similar to AdSense, but from an independent vendor. Gaining popularity quickly.



• Google AdSense is the original. Lots of people use them, because they claim to tailor the ads to the content of your page very effectively.



• RSS Ads is a new service designed to insert text ads into RSS feeds. Works like BlogAds and AdSense do within a blog.

If you're using Blogger.com, you can insert the html for the ads by editting your template. Most of the templates are written with comment tags that tell you where to insert the HTML to add content to the sidebar. Use "edit template" and scroll nearly to the bottom of the file to find the code for the sidebar. I'm not familiar with the other online blog hosts, but I presume the routine is very similar. If you're using standalone blogging software, the instructions should clearly tell you how to insert code for the sidebars. I've seen it in both WordPress and pMachine.

You'll notice also that I make reference to various products and services in my blogs, but not so much so as to make the entries appear to be blatant "sales pitches". Of course, many, if not most of the links in the blogs are affiliate links.

You need to focus on offering legitimate content in your blog. Establish yourself as credible and people will end up clicking on your ads and affiliate links.

REMEMBER: People buy from internet vendors whom they perceive to be credible, and whom they like. The more your readers feel that they "know" you, the more likely they are to take your advice and suggestions, and to click through your links.

Focus on establishing your credibility!

Make Money from Blogs Without Having Your Own Blog

Tips, Tricks, Suggestions, and Articles

• Articles about Blogging and RSS.



• Tips and Tricks You Can Use

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