Tuesday 4 February 2014
Thursday 30 January 2014
2014 Resolutions For Bloggers
It is almost the end of January. Have you thought about your
resolution for 2014? Even a blogger also have a resolution or few resolutions. Remember
that blogging is a business. You must have a goal for your blog. Do it slowly
but it is a must. Don’t waste time blogging if you are not in to it.
If you like blogging, I guess you already have a resolution
for this year. Resolutions are different for each blogger. It is according to
their achievements. If you failed to achieve your last year resolution, you can
also do it this year. No one is forcing you to do something because that is
your own duty.
For my resolution this year, I want to draw more traffic to
my blog including this blogger blog. I love this blog even though it is not
perfect. It is a place where I can write my personal emotions about blogging
and my blog development. If you need help to find your resolution, you can read
take note below:
Start a new blog
Register to another mailing list service
Changing the entire template
Sell old blog
Changing SEO style
Give more comments on other blogs/make friends
Driving more traffic
Get more sales
Increase more profit
Finding sponsors
Register new affiliate programs
Learning new techniques in web development
Learn some HTML
Create a landing page
Work more on social network
Get your article published in article directory
Increase blog security
These are only examples. You can choose one if you are
interested. If you already have your own resolution, get it going now. Make sure
that you can finish it before the year ends. Start your engine immediately.
Tuesday 28 January 2014
Top 7 Myths About Blogging
If you ever came across some advertisements, blog posting or
even a landing page selling blogging ebook, you might have been thinking is
this guy is for real? Many thoughts will come across you because the way the
person creates his promotional method is sometimes look like a get-rich-quick
scheme.
Most of the time (maybe they don’t exist anymore), common sentence
used are ‘all you need is a computer’, ‘no computer skills needed’ and ‘I
earned xxx in just two days’. In common sense, this trick also will not help
you sell. Even if you do, there will be enormous returned back.
Many people are desperate to look for other alternatives to
find money. Money is the no1 motivator for an individual. It is not a wrong
thing to do but the way you put your mind into it is wrong. It is like working
the worst job you ever had just to put your meal on the table.
Here we are going to see some blogging myths that have been
circulating around the internet. I’ve seen a few still exist. I don’t know the
rest of them. Maybe they have been removed by Clickbank or banned. Most of the
products are ebooks.
Myth #1: All you need is a computer/no computer skills are needed
Basically, this is true. What you don’t know is, if you
don’t know how to use the computer or some skills on the internet, you have to
pay somebody to do it. The costs for all this html, marketing, seo and any
other internet crap is not cheap buddy.
You really need computer skills. You don’t have to know all
of it. A little bit of basic html is fine. This simple Blogger blog that I have
also requires me to have some html skills to tweak and maintain. You can hire
someone to do the hard part.
Myth #2: Bloggers sell male enhancement products
This is not totally untrue. Bloggers start their blog with
the niche that they are expert in or want to be expert in to. It is a common
thing that bloggers sell male enhancement products. Maybe that is the niche
that they like so much.
What you really need to know is, bloggers have many niche or
sub topics. They can technically sell anything they want. If all bloggers sell
male enhancement products, I will not read another blog my entire life.
Myth #3: I made $xxxx for xx days
With great confidence, this IM guru brag about how much
he/she can earn for a certain period. Usually the period is only for a few
days. To gain that kind of money is not impossible, you heard right, NOT
impossible. That takes a few simple tricks to do so.
What the guru don’t tell you is it takes for example $4000
to make $5500. The $4000 is for ads purpose and to buy email lists. Be extra
careful when you come across this type of ads. You might lose more money than
earning them.
Myth #4: Get rich with blogging
I think everyone is aware about this is really a myth. By blogging
it doesn’t mean that you are joining a get-rich-quick scheme. But, some people
still thinks that way. Internet involves so many scams. When someone is not
familiar with the internet world, when they think about internet, the first
think that cross their mind is scam.
It is true that many things that you read online are scam. Do
some research about the product if you are interested to buy them. It is a good
thing that these days you can find many product reviews are available online. Read
a few reviews before intending to buy. I also use this method to shop online.
Myth #5: Blogs are used for internet marketing
It is not only for internet marketing or teaches you to blog
and make money. Blogging is freestyle. You can blog about any niche topic that
you want to. Basically, you can blog about anything. People get confused what
blogs are usually for.
It’s not their fault to get confused. This is because of the
‘misunderstanding’ that the blogging gurus taught them. People read blogs like
Copyblogger, John Chow, Entrepreneurs-Journey, Problogger and so much more
blogs that teaches them how to blog. Beginners sometimes think that they should
do the same blog like what they are reading.
Myth #6: “I got this information from a blog”
Blogs can cover many topics such as funny, sad, touching,
current news, entertainment and so much more. Not everything that you read is
true. The blogger’s intention was only to attract readers and subscribers. They
‘cheat’ their readers for a good purpose and sometimes also for bad intentions.
Good intentions means that the blogger want his/her content
to go viral on the internet. Even big company like Google does this with their
first 3D glasses video that they post on Youtube. Google want to see the public’s
reaction on the video. Entertainment blog can post a few gossip articles. The story
doesn’t have to be true because it is gossip.
Bad intentions mean that the blogger intentionally writes a
negative story and post them on their blog. Their intention was to give a
negative image to an individual, a product or a company. This is not a very
good idea to begin with. You can face charges by the party involved in your
blog content.
Myth #7: Blogging is the only money-making tool on the internet
This is totally untrue. There are a lot of money-making
methods that you can do on the internet. In my opinion, blogging is the best
because you can have a long-term earning. But blogging is still not the only
way to make money. Some people don’t have the skill to write but they are good
at something else.
For example, if you have a shoe store by your place, you can
sell those shoes through Ebay. You don’t have to have a blog to do this. But if
you are very good in shoes, you can have a blog and write articles about shoes.
Tell your visitors how good your knowledge with shoes.
Another example is a gambler. Gambling is a habit just like
smoking. It is hard to leave behind. If you are really a good poker player, you
can register your name and your credit card at a known gambling site. You can
earn through gambling from the internet.
Tuesday 21 January 2014
How To Add Hostgator Email To Microsoft Outlook
I found this video on Youtube to share with everyone. This is a simple explanation on how to add your Hostgator email account to Microsoft Outlook. The video is only a few minutes long and I guess that you will be setting your email for that period of time also. Enjoy!
Saturday 18 January 2014
Methods To Promote Your Blog For Free
Bloggers are so crazy about
visitors. Many bloggers check their blog visitors every day to see how many
people are visiting their blog. This is because all bloggers want other people
to read what they are trying to say and their personal opinion.
Leave your comments at other
blogs that have the same topic or niche as you are. Keep the blog’s address for
you to go back in the future. It is a good idea to make friends with people who
have the same interest as you.
No one creates a blog for the
sake of blogging without anyone visiting them. That is what a blog is all
about. Blogging is socializing. You don’t have to be a great writer to start a
blog. You blog because you want to hear other people’s opinion and also show
others what is your opinion on a certain topic.
Bloggers that have extra cash
to spend, they sometimes spend big only to bring people to their blog. One of
the most popular place to advertise your blog is through Google Adword. If you
don’t know what you are doing, you can create a hole in your pocket through the
wrong step you take.
Don’t feel down with
competitors that have the cash. You can go slowly in driving traffic. The best
way to bring traffic to your blog is through free methods and not by spending
so much in ads. Don’t get me wrong. If you have the money, you can go the
faster way.
In the other hand, I prefer
free traffic through free methods. I hate to pay for ads except for driving
traffic to a landing page. That is a different story because you are trying to
sell something. You will usually get your money back if you can sell something.
Here are the free methods that can make a difference to your blog:
Blog commenting
Leave your comments at other
blogs that have the same topic or niche as you are. Keep the blog’s address for
you to go back in the future. It is a good idea to make friends with people who
have the same interest as you.
Blog commenting allows you to
leave your blog’s address when you leave your comments. Don’t do this to spam
other blogs or they will block your comments. Leave quality comments so that
other people who read your comment knows that you are not a spam bot.
Use social media
Social media such as Facebook
and Twitter are use widely around the world and the best part of it is you can
use it for free. Post something that people love to read about for instance
something funny, sad and touching story. When other people likes your post,
they will help you share.
Blogging style social media
such as Tumblr, Pinterest and Squidoo also plays an important part. You can
write something about your blog or about your topic and leave a link there. If someone
is interested in your article, they will click your link and you will have free
traffic.
Article marketing
For me, this is the hard part
but this is the best way to make your blog known to others. English is not my
first language. That means I will have grammatical errors everywhere on my
article no matter how much I check my article. for this reason I stick with
social media.
If you think your English is
great and you know how to format your article, you are good to go. The best way
to send your article is to Ezine Article. People always look around Ezine to
find free articles and probably they will find yours. Ezine is just an example.
You can send your article in any article directory website that you prefer.
Word of mouth
This is a traditional way of
promoting. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t intend to ask you to promote your blog
to anyone you see (that also works). What I meant here is when your blog is
popular and worthy to read, people can introduce your blog to their friends.
If you have a business card,
you can write down your blog there. Some people start a blog for business
purpose and giving business cards away with their blog’s address is a pretty
normal thing to do. Don’t be so down in promoting your blog.
Thursday 16 January 2014
Easiest Way To Monetize Your Blog
There are many ways to monetize your blog even if you are
using free platform such as blogspot. It doesn’t matter what platform you use. Monetizing
can be done anywhere. For instance, google adsense allows you to put their ads
no matter what are your blog ranking or what platform do you use.
However, the monetizing method can be very limited for new
user even for paid host blogs. It really doesn’t matter because you can still
do it slowly. No one ever said that blogging is a get-quick-rich scheme
program. Start slowly and you will be rewarded for your patience.
Below is a few monetizing methods that you can use. For some
of you who know a bit about monetizing a blog, you may notice that I didn’t
mention some of them. That is because below are used by baby blogs which means
the blogs are still new and they still don’t rank well and have low visitors.
Google Adsense
If you don’t know about Google Adsense, you might have
living under the rock for a while. This is a common and the easiest method to monetize
your blog. All you need to do is register with Google and you can access Google
Adsense immediately.
Google Adsense is a Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising. To use
Google Adsense, you can log in to your Google Adsense account, copy and paste
the html given and post it in your blog. Whenever visitors come to your blog
and click your ads, you will get paid. The range of payment is from
$0.01-$3.00.
The payment range can change according to the advertiser. To
cash out your payment, you will need to reach $100.00. Payment will be made
using checks.
Infolinks
I think this is the best ad network available, at least
according to my own opinion. Infolinks create link ads within your blog post. The
links will be underlined in any color that you choose. When you hover over the
link, an ad will appear. They also have banner ads and categories ads.
Infolinks claim that they are the highest payee for
publishers. I don’t know if this claim is true. All I know about is I’m going
to make money out of it. I am still new with Infolinks so I don’t have much to
tell. You can check it out yourself.
By the way, this blogspot blog is not approved by Infolinks.
I only add Infolinks to my wordpress blog which is a paid domain. Don’t worry
about this. I have seen Infolinks on other free blog platform. Blogs are easily
can be accepted into their ad network. Maybe there are some content on this
blog that they don’t like.
Bidvertiser
This is also one of my favorite. I like how they manage the
page and ads settings. It’s like looking at Google Adsense page with a better version.
You can register as publisher, advertiser or affiliate but you can have all in
one account.
Bidvertiser is like Google Adsense. They have the same format
and methods of advertisement. But one thing I don’t like is the ad setting. If you
put more than one ad on your blog, the template of the blog is the same. You can’t
customize it differently.
Monetize your Website or Blog with BidVertiser
Chitika
This ad network works depending on searches. They have
banners with the searches that you made using the search engine, usually
question based searches. If the visitor clicks on your link and came to your
website, they will see the question they search is on the ad itself. Link ads
also available.
Payment is still the same thing. It requires visitors to
click on the ad before they pay you. Chitika is also easy to manage and their
dashboard is simple enough for you to make your own settings. They also have website
traffic graph for your convenience.
Adf.ly
I don’t think that everyone likes Adf.ly kind of method in monetizing.
But I wrote them here because it is easy to use. Adf.ly is link ads just like
Chitika and Infolinks. With Adf.ly there are no ads when you hover over the
links. Visitors have to click on the link themselves for you to get paid.
This is easy money because all you need to do is put a link
on your blog. Most people use important links for people to click on it. But the
payment is not a satisfaction. One click is worth like $0.0005.
Conclusion
I know that you are thinking that there are other monetizing
methods that pay higher. You are right but those methods are for professional
bloggers that requires your blog to rank high. For instance, Review Me. They won’t
accept your blog if it is still new and have a few visitors per month.
That is why I only recommend the above method for you to
try. It is a bit slow but please be patient. Everyone that succeeds already
feel what you feel now. It’s up to you if you want to be like them or to give
up.
Tuesday 14 January 2014
How To Start Blogging From Scratch
Before you start blogging, I guess
that there are a lot of things in your mind bugging you. People always worried
about costs, research, keywords and so on. These things are normal. Sometimes
it feels like getting married for the first time. I was like that before and I even
think too much.
Let me tell you this, most people
don’t even know how to start including myself. I thought what do I have to do? Should
I do this or do that? It seems small but a lot of internet marketing gurus don’t
care about the starting point where it is the most important step in starting
an internet business.
The first step is important
because that what makes you start and if you don’t know what to do, it can paralyze
your step for a while. People need guidance from successful people. They need
to imitate what others do before starting to do it themselves.
What I want to share with you
today is about the product that helps me going through those ‘big steps’. The first
time I started blogging, I bought this product and I think that this product is
one of the best products when you want to start blogging.
It is called Blogging With JohnChow. I don’t know who John Chow was but I find him around the internet when
you search something about making money online. I have read that his website
Johnchow.com was penalize by google a few years back and he is not on the front
page of google anymore.
I also have been to his blog and
became a regular reader because I like how he teaches us new bloggers on how to
blog and I also like his explanation on things. He uses simple English like
mine here because both of us don’t use English as our first language (I think
mine is worse).
John Chow himself now is one of
the successful internet marketers in the internet world. His ebook, BloggingWith John Chow shows that how does he started blogging and now he shares it with us.
This is not the best book available online but in my opinion it is the best for
newbies to start up their blog.
Advantages of Blogging With JohnChow
The best thing about this ebook
is the thirty days action plan to follow. You will be given a thirty days plan
about what you need to do from the first day until day thirty. It’s a to-do
list. Don’t worry because it is simple and easy to follow.
You will be given nine modules
for you to read and understand about blogging and other things that you can do
with your blog such as making money from it. There is another one bonus module
for you called ‘Automation Empire Module’ is where John Chow reveal some secret
and ‘tricks’ about his success.
You don’t have to worry because
there is no black hat tactics in this ebook. This ebook even can’t be copied
because you only can access it online. I think this is for copyright purpose
and I don’t have a problem with that. Nobody wants to get scammed, right?
Bonus
If you buy Blogging With John
Chow, you will be given a few bonus. When I look at this bonus, I think it is
for the convenience for us to start up a blog. I don’t want to share what is
the bonus. You have to buy the ebook yourself for you to find out.
Disadvantages
One thing that disappoints me is
the module part. I think it is too simple and short. Maybe John Chow himself doesn’t want us to get
information overload or it’s only just me who wants some more. It is really fun
to read and entertaining too.
The second thing that I don’t
like is the bonus part. It is rewarding if you have the right niche but for me,
I couldn’t find my niche there. Because of this, I don’t feel that I have the
bonus. Make sure you have a common niche with high demand before purchasing the
ebook.
This ebook is for total beginner
and intermediate level. If you think you are good enough and have started
blogging before, this book is not for you.
Overall
As conclusion from reading the
whole ebook and follows what it tells me, it is the best ebook that I can find
that really can help you get started. I know how a beginner feel and think. That
is why I recommend you to purchase this ebook for your own convenience.
Some of you might think, there is
no way an ebook would tell me how to start from scratch. Well, this ebook does.
It has step by step guide for you to follow for each day. This ebook is quite cheap for the quality it gives and it is a value for money product.
Bonus Technical Videos
I think I will pass to make a
review on this but I think I should share it here briefly. John Chow also have
video collections about blogging technical stuff such as setting up the blog
for yourself. It’s kind of do-it-yourself video. It is called Wp Blog Videos -Step-by-step Blogging Tutorials.
The collection is over 100 videos
of setting up your blog. This video collection is not sold with Blogging WithJohn Chow. It is sold separately.
Product Name: Blogging With John Chow
Type: Online Ebook
Price: $37.00
Rating: 4 star
Product Name: Wp Blog Videos -Step-by-step Blogging Tutorials
Type: Video format
Price: $97.00 (A lifetime access)
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