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Blogging Basics: 11 Blogging for Profit Posts! Make money NOW!

December 5, 2012 by Kelli 4 Comments

Jessica brought us 11 weeks of Blogging For Profit posts and I must say it has certainly helped me! The month prior to her posts starting in September, I made slightly over $100.00 per month on Google Adsense. By following her tips, I have seen that grow to over 400 bucks! Plus, with the holidays upon us, I am expecting more income! In case you missed them, here they are again in all their glory!

Week 1 - Introduction to Jessica Martin, Blogging for Profit Expert and list of what she is going to teach us!

Week 2 – Know Why You Blog! This post explains why you should (and how to) examine WHY you are blogging.

Week 3 – Ten Ways to Earn Blogging Money – get right into the heart of how to make an income from this crazy online world!

Week 4 – 15 Ways to Find New Content… we all tend to get stuck occasionally or simply need some back up posts in case of unfortunate circumstances.

Week 5 – Using Images to Create Compelling Content – with Pinterest netting out the bulk of blog traffic these days, everyone is on the hunt for the ways to better images.

Week 6 – How to Get More Comments – make your house a conversationalist power house using these 14 ideas. Companies want to know that you have it going on with your readers.

Week 7 – How to Grow Your Blog Following – We enjoy new readers to our sites, but oh man we especially love it when they continue to come back to us!

Week 8 – Grow Your Mailing List – Without my weekly newsletter, my traffic would be scare! Find out how to get people to sign up and keep coming back!

Week 9 - Be a Well-Rounded Blogger – don’t get stuck doing the same thing day after day. Spice it up while keeping your readers happy.

Week 10 – How to Make The Most of Guest Blogging Opportunities – don’t just look for people to come to you, go to them and make it work!

Week 11 – The Profitable Blogging Formula – Build Your Monetization Plan with this tried-and-true money-making formula!

I hope you enjoyed this 10 week series! This is Jessica signing out!

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Blogging Basics: A Huge Post of Blogging Tips and How Tos

June 8, 2011 by Kelli 27 Comments

**NOTE: I update this page every few weeks to reflect my newest Blogging Basics posts. Scroll to the bottom for the most recent posts!

I have a ton of Blogging Basics posts now on my blog and I realize that people simply can’t find what they are looking for. So, this post is simply a compilation of those posts so you can click what you need without getting lost in the shuffle.

17 Tips to a Better Blog: After my first 17 or so posts, I wrote this quick recap. Go here to see some of my older posts.

Doing Events to Increase Traffic: I have found one of the best ways to get “new blood” to my blog is to have a huge event… it doesn’t even have to be with other people! Read this short post for ideas and insights!

Where to Find Ad Buyers: Here’s where the bulk of my blog income comes… independent ad buyers! You can learn, too, how to find them!

How To Make Money With Google Adsense: Getting frustrated? This articles talks about my own trials and tribulations with Google Adsense and how I finally started to make a bit of money. It still isn’t my biggest thing, but every little bit counts!

23 Must Have Word Press Plug Ins: Blogger/Blogspot girls, don’t let the title fool you! This post also has instructions of how to get the same for your Blogger Blog!

How to get more comments on your giveaways – You can’t just write it and expect people to show up – this isn’t Field of Dreams. This is the world wide web where there are millions of contests going on at any given time. You have to work hard to get people to see your contest and this post shows you how.

Comments – Ahh.. the Holy Grail! The reason we blog… to get people to leave us comments. This post can help you do that. (It has 25 comments on it, BTW. LOL!)

Do Your Research – Know your job and do it well! This post gives you hints, tips, and ideas of how to accomplish that.

How to Handle Your Incoming Tasks – As bloggers we do so much more than just write posts. This article gives you tips to manage it all.

How To Get More Fans on FaceBook – Great meme to help you increase your FaceBook fan base.

How, Why, and When to backup your blog - Yeah, that is pretty self-explanatory.

Make Some Extra Cash – An awesome way to make some extra cash with your blog.

What Exactly Does Sponsored Post Mean? – Not only explains this but tells you places to go to find sponsored posts!

5 Steps for Increasing Traffic (for the average blogger) – This is actually a guest post that I submitted to ProBlogger and they didn’t want it. LOL! They said they had already covered it in depth. Oh well, it was worth a try. Great tips for the beginner, though.

Always Be Prepared – Let’s talk scheduling. The basics behind scheduling your posts and why you would want to do that.

A Little of this and a Little of that – Alexa, Stats, and Speeding up your site. Short post with some interesting tips.

Reviews, Giveaways, and Brand Ambassadors Part 1 – top PR agents and some of the well-known review bloggers weigh in on what all of this means to them. Also includes contact information for some of the companies.

Reviews, Giveaways, and Brand Ambassadors Part 2 – PR agents tell us the real deal on how they choose which bloggers to work with and who to continue working with! Plus, Bloggers weigh in with their tid-bits on how they choose companies to work with!

Reviews, Giveaways, and Brand Ambassadors Part 3 – PR folks and Blogger alike weigh in on what a Brand Ambassador is to them. Also includes contact information for some of the companies.

How To Get More Twitter Followers – A quick run down of different ways you can ethically increase your Twitter Followers.

Blog Maintenance – All the things you need to do on a monthly basis to keep your blog running smoothly and the bots visiting regularly!

What is a media kit and who needs it? – What’s in a media kit so you can make your own PLUS how to purchase one if you don’t have the time or design skill

Are People Writing About You? – How to monitor the web using Google Alerts

Clean Up Your Computer – Steps to keep your computer and your blog running smoothly!

Mentor Program – Get one / Be One! – A mentor will review your blog and give you a few tasks to complete each week. You will be expected to not only complete those tasks (your mentor will be available to help you with them if necessary), but will also be expected to spend some time helping your mentor improve their blog.

Get Ahead of The Game – How to fight the “I can’t schedule because of the nature of my blog” frustrations.

Are Reader Surveys Important - and how to make one, what to include, and how to get your readers to actually complete it!

How to Get GOOD Twitter Followers – Anyone can purchase Twitter Followers and get junk, but can you get GOOD ONES? The ones that are actually reading you? Find out how!

Do You Have an Editorial Calendar? I think this is by far my most favorite plugin these days!

Analyzing the Results of a Reader Survey and Actually doing something with those results.

Get More Blog Readers – I love About.com and get newsletter from it on a daily basis. Today, this came in my inbox and I was so excited about it that I simply HAD to share it with my readers.

How to use Google Friend Connect, Even on WordPress – Did you know that GFC has a newsletter feature? What about Polls? Yeah, you can interact with your readers pretty easily with this awesome tool.

Monetize Your Blog – New paid-for-blogging company promises 750 dollars per month with guest blogging!

Does Collaborating Work? I get deeply into my own personal blogging collaboration to talk about the positives!

Making Money With Your Blog – a wrap up of some of the best money making tips and ideas around the web!

Planning Your Conference Schedule – Although this discusses my own BlogHer2011 Schedule, it does have tips to help you plan any conference trip!

The Proof on Blogger Collaborations – More about my own collaboration, including the statistics straight from my own Google Analytics account!

Using Google Analytics to understand your blog traffic - a neat little web round up to help you understand everything under the visitors tabs of your google analytics account.

Making Twitter work for you – I discuss my twitter followers and goals and how I am planning to reach those goals. (BTW I surpassed those goal in one week by following the tips!)

If there is something you want to know, please drop me an email and I will see what I can write for you!

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Blogging Basics: How to Make Money with Google Adsense

May 19, 2010 by Kelli 14 Comments

I took a few weeks off from Blogging Basics during my Home Office Organization Series. Today we are going to spend a little bit of time talking about how to make money. We all want to make money and ProBlogger makes it sound so easy for him to make money, but we know the reality is that it isn’t actually so easy.

I know some people who swear by Adsense, but it doesn’t work for me right now. However, I must also say that I have made some changes and am making more with it than I was and am hoping to just watch that number increase. From everything I can find, your Adsense earnings only get larger with time.

I spent over a year blogging and only made 4 cents on Google Adsense. At the end of March, I added a larger adsense ad to my sidebar and put some in my posts. I have now made about 23 dollars. No, it isn’t great! Heck, it isn’t even semi-good. LOL! But, it is better than 2 cents in over a year. I am getting there, I am seeing changes.

Once you get it set up, you need to generate traffic. The more traffic, the more money you make. Now, obviously, you make a bit more if people actually click on the ads, but you can’t ask people to click on the ads! You must be very careful with Google Adsense or they boot you from the program.

I suggest signing up for affiliates, pay-per-posts, pay-per-clicks, Adsense, pay-per-views, and private ads on great ideas on how to make money. Once you have done them all for a few months, you can see which things are generating the best income and spend more time on those.

Just to be clear:

Sign up for Google Adsense.
Put it in several places on your blog.
Put it in your feeds.
Sit back and track your earnings.

Remember: more traffic equals more money. So, be sure you are doing everything you can to generate traffic.

*this post is linked up to Works for Me Wednesday*

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BLOGGING BASICS: 23 Must-Have Word Press Plug Ins

May 5, 2010 by Kelli 6 Comments

*IF YOU HAVE BLOGGER, BE SURE TO READ! Some of the plug ins have Blogger options!*

I started a blogging conversation in my Blog Frog community about my plug ins, but the entire message didn’t show up. So, I promised my community friends that I would re-do the post and put it on my blog. Here’s my list! Be sure to drop by the community to leave your opinions of your must have Word Press plugins!

1. AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget (can be used on Blogger, too!)

Help your visitor promote your blogging site! The AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget allows any visitor to bookmark your site easily with many popular services. Sign up for an AddThis.com account to see how your visitors are sharing your content–which services they’re using for sharing, which content is shared the most, and more. It’s all free–even the pretty charts and graphs.

2. Akismet

Akismet checks your blogging comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a Word Press.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.

3. All in One SEO Pack

Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog.

4. Batch Categories

Easily manage the mass categorization of posts that match various criteria.

5. Broken Link Checker

Checks your blog for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the blogging dashboard if any are found.

6. Comment Email Responder

Emails commenter when an admin replies to the comment, if commenter is not subscribed to email updates via Subscribe-to-Comments

7. CommentLuv for Word Press (Blogger Too!)

Plug-in to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog by parsing the feed at their given URL when they leave a comment. Rewards your readers and encourage more comments. CommentLuv for Blogger, go here!

8. Contact Form 8

Based on Takayuki Miyoshi’s Contact Form 7 version 2.0.1. Has better support for checkboxes (clickable labels, actually separate onto different lines)

9. Full Comments On Dashboard

Show full comments in the Recent Comments box on the admin dashboard.

10. Google Friends Connect Widget (you will have to search for this one in the Word Press dashboard)

Google Friendsconnect OpenID & Faces widget. FOR BLOGGER

11. Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.

12. NoFollow Free (Blogger Too!)

Remove the nofollow tag from your blog’s comments with a lot of options customizable, per user type removal, per comments count removal etc… FOR BLOGGER

13. Profile Pic

Allows authors to add a picture to their profile and automates the process of displaying profiles. Highly configurable via plugin and widget settings

14. Quick Adsense

Quick Adsense offers a quicker & flexible way to insert Google Adsense or any Ads code into a blog post.

15. Search Meter

Keeps track of what your visitors are searching for. After you have activated this plugin, you can check the Search Meter section in the Dashboard to see what your visitors are searching for on your blog.

16. SEO Friendly Images

Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well.

17. Technorati Tags (will have to search dashboard for this one)

Returns a list of technorati tags associated to the post (http://www.technorati.com/tag/). Follows the same convention of listing tags native to Word Press 2.3. the function the_techtags(); must be used within the loop.

18. Ultimate Google Analytics

Enable Google Analytics on your blog. Has options to also track external links, mailto links and links to downloads on your own site.

19. What Would Seth Godin Do (BLOGGER, TOO)

Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors and another to return visitors. For this same concept on your Blogger Blog.

20. Wordbook

Cross-post your blog updates to your Facebook account. Navigate to Settings → Wordbook for configuration.

21. WordPress.com Stats

Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.

22. WordPress Thread Comment

wp thread comment allow user can reply comment and same comment On display, can choose ajax or not.

23. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (For Blogger, Too!)

Returns a list of related entries based on a unique algorithm for display on your blog and RSS feeds. A templating feature allows customization of the display. GO HERE FOR BLOGGER WIDGET!

After installing your word press plugins, be sure to go to your settings and configure them to work for you! Have fun and don’t forget to stop by my Blog Frog Community to give us your input!