Blogging: Not Just a Hobby Anymore

Blogging is a great way to express yourself, keep in touch with family and friends. Blogging is not just something you do for fun anymore. It is a great tool to also increase traffic to your website and your business. While we have had a tough economy, it's also one of the best avenues for free advertising. There are many ways you can blog and make money. I see blogging as one of the best Marketing tools to help boost my business, and any leads I get from it I see as a bonus to what I am already doing.

Blogging has been very successful for many people, but don't count on it to be a stable income. What you want to do is build multiple streams of income. Most successful bloggers have been doing it for several years. I have been now blogging for one year, and I am happy when I do get the occasional paid blogging job.

Here's a great post:
13 Tips to Recession Proof Your Blog

Some of my friends have great blogs:
http://doubledeej.blogspot.com/
http://www.joelcomm.com/


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Be a Magpie on Twitter

You have probably noticed by now that I am a twitter user and I have written a few blogs about twitter. Did you notice I just added an icon in the right hand column of my blog? It is called Magpie. This is a great new program to bring you some income for referrals that click on your link. Here is how it works you click here to sign up.

Magpie works one of two ways to earn money for you. When you sign up as a twitter user Magpie will place a text add in your twitter account that is relevant to your tweets. You tell Magpie how often you want the add to run. You place an icon on your web page or blog. You earn money for everyone that signs up.

You can also advertise on twitter by using Magpie. You can use your earnings to run ads on twitter.

Top 10 Social Networking Websites

Social Networking websites if you don't already know is the hottest trend. Not only is it the hottest trend, it's all free and these networking websites will also drive more traffic to your website and expand your community of friends, business. There are new networking websites popping up everyday. Here is the current top 10 networking websites.

1. YouTube

2. Facebook

3. Myspace

4. Blogger

5. WordPress

6. Flickr

7. Freewebs

8. Squidoo

9. Twitter

10. Mashable

Networking, Networking Networking.

I want to tell you how great networking community websites are. It all started with Myspace, Facebook etc. A new trend I am trying out is Twitter. It's all about what your doing. You can do it from your cell phone on the go. The big positive about network communities is that you drive more traffic to your website. I believe in turn you can make more money and sell more products my using Twitter. I am conducting a Twitter study of my own. I want to see how many people will "Twitter" me in the next 24hrs after I post this blog. I want to get their thoughts on how Twitter could capitalize on expanding their network.

New ideas in upcoming seminars.

I have been talking with a few of my mentors and will be bringing some local seminars that you will be able to take advantage of. I am really excited about this because this is going to be Life Changing. Some real hands on opportunities on learning from the pros to be more profitable in your business or with your website. There will also be a range of subjects you will be able to choose from.

Stay tuned and I will tell you more.

The key to making money is Advertising.

As my ongoing campaign to help people make money, I really want to help everyone make money. I feel by doing this it will give people some hope and a way for everyone to make some money in our downed economy. I have blogged about different types of advertising. I thought I would take a slightly different approach to get the message out. The key to making money on the internet and getting noticed is advertising. This does NOT have to be PAID advertising. You just need to get the word out to get your site noticed. To key is to get on as many sites as possible with the most exposure possible. The second thing you need of course on your site is content. It has to be interesting enough that people will want to read it. The third thing you need is the correct key words to get noticed when plugging in your site. This can be the most difficult in generating the best key words to get you noticed that won't produce allot of junk. Here are a few FREE websites you can get signed up with that will help you to get noticed. I recommend signing up with all of them. Of course there are many other ways and sites to get noticed.

1. Twitter
2. Technorati
3. Compete
4. Alexa
5. Google
6. Blogz
7. RSS
8. Zimbio
9. Blog Explosion
10. ISEdb
    
11. YouTube

Making Money With Affiliate Advertising

Have you ever wondered how affiliate advertising works? Here is some information I am going to tell you about, it's FREE ADVERTISING. Affiliate advertising is one of the FREE ways you can start making income on your site.

You can sign up for affiliate programs to sell things on your site. These programs that you apply to will give you a commission for every sale or lead. I Love Commission Junction because they do direct deposit in my account every month for affiliate advertising, and it is one of the most user friendly sites out there. How it works is you place a link such as a banner or text ad anywhere on your site. I recommend applying to programs that would be relevant to your site as well as places you would shop. There is now law that you can 't earn commission for your own sales unless otherwise specified by the program.

What is AdSense?

If you notice here on my blogs I have Google ads. If you don't know what AdSense is, you should start using it. You could be missing out on a big opportunity to make some money with your blog. Google AdSense is an ad serving program run by Google. Website owners can enroll in this program to enable text, image and, more recently, video advertisements on their sites. These ads are administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or per-thousand-impressions basis. Google is also currently beta-testing a cost-per-action based service. This is one of Google's free advertising programs you can join that will specifically target text or banner ads that are relevant to your site. I found it is also a complex program to use. I am still learning it and it may take me a couple of years to master it. There are also many other programs that Google also offers, such as Google AdWords, for those wanting to advertise with Google's targeted ad system.

I want to introduce you to my friend Joel Comm. He is the author of The New York Times Best seller, The AdSense Code" and the Host & Executive Producer of "The Next Internet Millionaire" reality show, Joel continues to produce top-quality resources and training materials that have helped thousands of people increase their online income. Well, Joel is thankful for the support he has received over the years, and he is doing something truly amazing to say "thank you".

It's been over two years since Joel last released an pdated version of his best selling "Google AdSense secrets" ebook. This book is the definitive guide to making money with AdSense and it is the only book you ever need to master AdSense. Joel regularly sells this book for $97.00. It's worth every penny. But what is doing now is going to send shockwaves through the industry! Joel has completely revised and extended AdSense Secrets 4.0 for 2008 to include all the latest AdSense cash-sucking strategies and techniques that allow him to continue earning over $500/day in passive AdSense income! So how is Joel saying "thank you" by offering this book? It's the price! Are you sitting down? You are going to think I am toying with you, but this is the honest truth...For a limited time, Joel is offering AdSense Secrets v4.0 to you for just $9.95! Yes, you heard me right! That's just $9.95!

http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?Clk=2474771

Ok, I don't need to go on and on about this. Welcome to the biggest no-brainer of the year. Go pick up a copy of AdSense Secrets 4.0 right NOW while it is still priced at this amazing bargain of $9.95. You'll be able to instantly download your copy and begin implementing the same strategies and techniques that Joel and his customers have used to generate incredible passive income! Honestly, I don't know how long Joel will make the book available at this price, so I recommend you hurry and download it NOW! http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?Clk=2474771

I hope you have great success with this. This is a great opportunity to train you how you can start making some real money with AdSense.

Technorati is Cool!

I found a really cool site that I am excited to share a little piece of information about. This is so cool because you can look up any subject or blog and it will give a rating according to how popular it is. This is a way of easily filtering out what you really don't want to read. There are many other cool tools and widgets on this site that are very useful when trying to promote your website or blog. This is a great tool to add to your website. It's free to sign up, so check it out.


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