by Rachel Ng

Below are the five general mistakes that bloggers need to look into:

1. Mistake One: Not focused on the theme

Some new bloggers do not blog frequently. They keep an eye out for a theme, hoping to hit on something that works, or are just sprinkled in general. Remember, this will not bring a good result as most of readers need a quality contents that can let them gain more information in your blog. So, keep your posts focused on the theme that you set out for your blog.

2. Mistake Two: Unattractive blog

Blogging isn't just about posting contents. Unfortunately, most people think that if they post it, traffic will come in automatically. They lack of useful and fascinating information on the blog. You need to make your blog unique and attractive by adding some interesting pictures and other information of interest to visitors to your blog. Blogging needs just as much attention as any other sites otherwise you'll find that you don't make much of an impact.

3. Mistake Three: Not connecting with others in your niche

Driving traffic to your site can be fairly simple. You can comment on other blogs in your niche with wide exposure to gain far more traffic than simply relying on SEO Solution. One of the best ways to do this is to 'mutually' recommend one another's sites. You can do this by asking other site owners to review your site and at the same time you can do the same for them. It is important to contact others in your niche, because it gives you a chance to participate in link exchanges.That way, you'll build a more valuable 'link base' with the other owners' site you're reviewing.

4. Mistake Four: Not fully utilize the advantage of blog

Another reason why bloggers are unable to increase the earning potential through their blogs is they don't fully utilize the advantages of blog. In fact, you can earn some money by adding Google Adsense ads on your blog. When a user clicks on the Google AdSense ads on your blog, you can earn money.

5. Mistake Five: Affiliate products not relevant to the theme of blog

You need to promote affiliate products and services that match your theme of your blog for your affiliate program in order to make money. You should always promote those affiliate products that are relevant to the key words and the content of your blog in order to be successful with your affiliate program.

That's the five things to watch. Good luck good luck continues....

by Jeremy Gislason

If you're just starting to blog and you don't have your own network yet, don't worry. In this article, I'll show you how to make money blogging using 5 simple steps. As long as you're willing to learn and take action, you can skyrocket your earnings in no time.

Step 1: Decide the specific topic or niche of your blog.

Your blog topics should be something that both you, and your audience, are familiar with or passionate about.

Let's say you want to make money blogging about video games. If you'e a WarCraft fan, and you understand the game from top to bottom, you're more likely to come up with beneficial content than if you were to write something completely uninteresting or foreign to you.

Step 2: Create a professional-looking blog.

Choose an eye-catching design and style for your blog. You can find free themes and plugins on the internet, so you can build attractive blogs and maximize their full moneymaking potentials.

Step 3: Post valuable, entertaining or controversial content on your blog.

It's better if you write the content yourself, so that your personality may shine through. But in case you can't think of any ideas or you're pressed for time, you could always outsource the task to a dependable freelancer. Remember, if you want to make money blogging, you need to invest time and/or money in providing excellent content.

Let's say you have a WarCraft blog offering free tips for a soon-to-launch ebook, what's a good plan?

Well, you could write 300-600 word quality articles related to your World of WarCraft blog, and post an article at least 5 times a week in it. If you give quality content, your credibility or authority level shoots up.

Getting people to write comments is an excellent way to get free content and make money blogging. People love to join hot discussions. Encourage comment posting by offering certain prizes for blog commenters of the month. For example, you could give $50-$100, gift cards to Amazon, or copies of your own products (in case you don't want to offer money).

By posting valuable content and encouraging comments, you're slowly building a network of fans to your blog.

Step 4: Monetize it.

There are a number of ways to make money blogging through various monetization streams.

You could promote your own products related to your content. If you provide good solid information and they're satisfied, they are more likely to buy from you.

If you don't have your own products, you could buy products with resale or private label rights. But if you don't want to go through any hassles, you could simply promote affiliate products related to your content.

You could also post Google adsense on your blog, so you can make money blogging whenever someone clicks on those ads, even if they didn't buy anything.

You can also make money by using pay-per-action programs. These programs usually pay you more than adsense, but less than the normal affiliate programs. How do you earn with pay-per-action programs? Every time someone does a specific action that the advertiser intends them to do (whether it's filling up a form, downloading a report, subscribing to a list, etc.), you get paid a certain amount.

If your blog becomes popular enough, you could also offer advertising space where marketers will pay you to put their advertisements in your blog.

Step 5: Bring in the traffic.

There are different techniques to generate traffic and make money blogging.

Set up your blog posts to be "pinged" automatically to a list of ping sites every time you make a new post. Pinging is a method that allows your content to be indexed faster by the search engines.

Use Google Adwords or other pay-per-click methods to advertise your blog. When people search for certain keywords related to your blog, your pay-per-click ad comes out. You only pay every time someone clicks on your ad.

Create informative or entertaining videos, advertise your blog in that video, and upload them to video-sharing sites. Youtube may be the most popular one, but there are other sites worth uploading your videos to. You may use a free service like tubemogul.com to simultaneously upload your videos to a variety of video-sharing sites of your choosing.

Submit your blog to blog directories. Simply search for "blog directories" in Google and you'll get a list to submit your blog details to.

One of the most effective ways to make money blogging is to contact other bloggers and set up a proposal - you put their blog link on your blog, and vice-versa.

Write articles and submit them to article directories. You can then advertise your blog in the resource box. You could even use your blog content as articles to submit to article directories. But that's not all…

There are many methods to profit from Facebook and here are three of the basic methods below:

1. Facebook paid advertising - as mentioned before you can now pay for advertising on Facebook. This can prove an excellent way to target customers if you have your own product or service. Even if you are an affiliate marketer you can make an excellent income through Facebook paid advertising.

2. Fan page - it is possible to start a fan page on Facebook and use it to make a profit. The idea is to make your page become popular and then sell your product or service to the people that visit your page. This works well if you can make the page funny or entertaining as people will pass it on to their friends if it is amusing.

3. Facebook app - these are small programs that are used through the Facebook platform to enhance the user experience on the site. They can be anything from a short quiz to an online game. Some of the apps on Facebook become very popular and this is a great method as you are then able to target the people with adverting that are using your app.

It already offers a paid advertising solution that rivals the main search engines in terms of price and advert targeting. So it is little wonder advertisers are moving over to Facebook to make money in their droves.

So is it easy to make money with Facebook? The answer is no - it isn't easy but it is possible with a bit of research and good plan to make a huge profit.

by Fedor
It was back in June when I decided that I was fed up with all the information on how to make money online. I was tired of being bamboozled, tricked, and lied to about how to make money using my computer and working from home. So when I landed on the Wealthy Affiliate website, I was skeptical. I had been burned before.
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