Yes, I realize that I am addicted to blogging. So what? aren’t you one too? I suppose there is nothing wrong with that. After blogging for money for a while, I realize time management is a very important factor. Why? with so many tasks, if we have to allocate so much time for blogging, what would happen to our work and family?

Everyday when I get back home and sit down on my chair, I tell myself to finish a list of tasks as my daily blogging home work or at least 70% of it. I know if I don’t manage my time well, I can’t accomplish 70% even.

1. Write a unique blog article. As unique as possible. I know I will run out of ideas one day. So I will skip for the day if I am without one. Cos I always believe in quality post than rubbish post. After publish it, I will submit to article submission sites.

2. Leave at least 5 comments with my favorite blogs which share the same interest like me. I would try to leave the latest article URL in the comment too.

3. Promote my article using social networking sites to increase its exposure and draw readership.

4. Promote my article in forums or discussion groups. I try not to spam but discuss it in a way which you think may interest them. I will try to do it with popular forum like Site-Point forum.

5. Lastly if I have additional time, I will participate in forum discussion or continue to explore more blogs to get some new ideas for my blog.

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Most blogger make money blogging with text where they write ideas in words of minimum 250 words and publish onto their blog to their readers and RSS followers. As the internet technology advances, the next generation of posting products and ideas is video blogging, also known as vlogging. As picture speaks a thousand words, the benefits of video blogging have been widely seen though a lot of resources are required behind it.

Can We Really Make Money With Video Blogging?

The answer is Yes! If you are looking from a business prospective, just think of it as a powerful tool to market your line of products and services using a commercial video all for free. You show your product and your visitor watch it. If they like it, they will buy it. Even if they don’t need your product but if you present it well, they will buy it too.

Otherwise, simply let your creativity juices flow by creating a short video of something unique which you think can attract people. A crazy idea, a step-by-step how to, or even a special moment, if it is truly something which worth your visitors spending 5 minutes of their time watching, they will do so. Next, embed some Adsense ads (currently for U.S only) in your videos and you can make money right away when your visitors click on your ads.

4 Essential Things You Need To Make Money Blogging With Videos :

1. A Good Web Or Video Camera

Invest in a good web or video camera. Well, at least for me, I do. Get one with better resolution so that the output looks better when playback or uploaded onto the web. To make sure you present your goods in the most optimal way, get the best web or video camera if your budget allows. It is a long time investment as video blogging has been seen as a long term trend.

2. A Good Working Microphone

If you like your sound or voice to be heard in your video blog, get a microphone as well. Record your voice as a voice over for promoting your product and its benefits to your consumers. Make the sound effects as enticing as your videos as sound is as important as your video in the world of video blogging.

3. Good Lighting Control And Background Selection

Most videos I watched on You-Tube are created with poor lighting quality. Lights are extremely important in a video production as it affects visually what you are going to present. Choose your background carefully and ensure that you illuminate entirely the area you are going to use to create video blog. The brighter the area, the crispier the images will be. Make sure that the background and the light complements each other.

4. Video Editing Software

You need a good video editing software i.e. Adobe Premium Pro to finalize your work. If you are low in budget, you can use the free version one that comes with your video or web camera. Touch up your final work by adding sounds, deleting some bad angles or inserting some still pictures or welcome message into your video.

Lastly, do not just present your videos alone, accompany them with a short summary in text to explain what are they about and why your viewers should watch it. Do not entirely give up your text and images to accommodate all possible viewers for your blog.

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Most blogger love to make money blogging about how to make money online. The interest of blogging has come at a stage where people would blog for anything that concerns about money (example, loan, insurance, credit card) than anything else. Today, I am going to turn the table around and share with you how to blog about food and make money at the same time. Sounds impossible? Read on then

Most food lovers would usually be interested in food recipes and food reviews. Hence if you focus and write about them well, you can expect some good readership and followers for your blog.

Food Reviews Or Food Recipes?

If you have a great recipe to share, why not just write a blog post on it and share with your fellow readers. However, I would not suggest that you copy a recipe from somewhere and post it, or create a recipe out of your own when you have never try the food yourself. You may drive your readers away consequently. Hence, I would not encourage you to write about food recipes unless you are pretty sure of what you desire to share.

Assuming that you are a food lover, food reviews would be an easier choice and more popular approach since most people love to eat and keen to know where they can find the best food in town. Below are 5 useful tips that you may follow to make money blogging about food (particularly reviews and ratings).

1. Take Good Food Display Photos When Served

Food lovers usually love to see nice photos on the food display when served, follows by the food reviews itself. Food photos taken in very bad environment (eg. poor lighting) would require some Photo-shop skills to “touch up” the photo so that it looks nice and appealing to your readers. With these skills, you will be able to display “mouth-watering” photos to accompany your reviews. Great isn’t it?

2. Add Your Profile If You Are A Popular Food Reviewer

If you are a well-known and popular food reviewer, why not add your profile to the homepage of your blog and give yourself an introduction? This would add credential to your blog and your reviews would naturally attract tons of readers due to your influence and popularity.

3. Provide Honest Food Ratings And Reviews

Apart from appealing photos, food lovers love to see ratings and reviews too. Give yourself a range eg. out of 5 stars on how you would rate the food that you have tried. Write your most honest review in short paragraphs. Do not always give nice reviews, remember to mention the bad points too. However, you should always support your criticism with facts.

Tip: Remember! Your first food review is crucial to the success of your food review blog. Be more descriptive and always share your taste well.

4. Keep Your Readers Coming Back. Gather Your Supporters!

Your reader today might be gone for tomorrow. So how to keep them coming back? Well, apart from providing regular food reviews, provide means for them to return too. First, setup an RSS Feed for them to subscribe to your blog just like mine “Subscribe To My RSS“. Whenever you post a new review, they will be notified and read in their own RSS reader. Another way is to create a Twitter account like what I did so that they can be your “follower” and get updates whenever you are reviewing food again. You may follow my Twitter here too.

5. Monetize Your Blog With Adsense

Fastest and easiest way to monetize your blog is to add in Google Adsense ads. Adsense is the best pay-per-click advertising program so far as it rewards well and display ads that are most relevant to your blog content (food reviews). Competitive keywords like “food reviews” or “Spanish Food” will drive tons of visitors to your blog if you work on your SEO well.

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Making money on the internet may seems like a dream in the past but not now anymore because there are really many ways to make you a successful online money maker. In fact, it is really hard to believe if you put in enough effort yet you can’t make any money on the internet.

Below are top 4 ways I have explored through the internet for the past few months, carefully picked and understood them well in order for me to write out this precious article for you totally FREE. In the next few articles, I will elaborate more on how you can make money out from them individually.

Top 4 Ways To Use Your Blog To Make Money On The Internet

1. Google Adsense

If you ever ask anyone what is the best money making program on the internet, the first response you will ever get is definitely Google Adsense. If you have a website or blog, simply put up Google ads on it and when your visitors click on them, you get paid a commission.

Tip: Choose the right niche, right keyword(s) and drive relevant traffic and each click on the ad will worth a lot of money as a result. Refer to my previous article “8 Golden And Most Effective Adsense Tips That Would Increase Your Earnings” to learn how to make more money with Adsense.

2. Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is nothing new in the online money making industry. It is a multi billion business as most successful stories of people making tons of money on the internet comes from affiliate marketing.  So how it does it work exactly? Well if you have a website or blog selling a product, simply direct your traffic to the their site with a referral link. When your visitors purchase something through your referral link, you will earn a percentage of commission out from the sale.

Tip: Drive lots of traffic to your website and participate in popular affiliate programs that pay well. Recommended affiliate programs are Commission Junction and Clickbank.

3. Online Auctions

Making money through auctions is a slow yet profitable way to go if you have the knowledge and right skill to buy a product at low price yet sell it at a high price and benefit from the profit. Power seller in Ebay have been making tens of thousands of dollars every month from online auctioning alone.

Tip: Learn and adopt the right skill to make a profitable sale. Do not give up easily as it may seem really tough for a start. Learn and improve yourself along the way.

4. Private Ad Sales

Private Ad Sales is a new way to monetize your website or blog and the profits can be huge. In fact, popular internet gurus like John Chow, has been making $11,730 alone from private ad sales with his blog in the month of September. In simple terms, how it works is to open up your website or blog directly for advertising. You make an income through advertising fees paid to you without going through any middleman.

Tip: Build a website or blog that offers value to your readers. Drive more traffic and build stronger page rank to it. In turn, this will make it more valuable for advertisers hence advertising fees will increase.

Have a great money making tip to share? Why not leave a comment below and share it with everyone.

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I realize that many new blogger or website owners aim to blog for money but never use the proper way to achieve their objective. The building of a new blog or website presents an interesting analogy of nurturing a new born baby. You give birth to a new baby (create and host a new website), give it a name (create a domain name), educate it (customize it with themes and plug-ins) and feed it (add new contents) everyday.

Based on the analogy, there is no “quick-fast” way to make a new website becomes mature, popular, and ranked high by search engines overnight. If you are working on SEO (Search Engine Optimization), you must remember to do it slowly and gradually. You cannot rush, trust me! That’s why I hate black-hat SEO. The reason is because even if you succeed in making your website or web page ranks top in search engine results, it wouldn’t stay there for long. Search engines will discover your trick and ban you. Simple as that.

To understand what are the important factors of SEO, you may read the following guide I have written for you. This is only the first part of the guide. The rest will follow shortly.

SEO Guide For New Bloggers Or Website Owners (Part 1) – Building Your Website For SEO

A) Find The Right Niche

The right niche is always one that you are most comfortable with, well versed in and be able to think of new ideas and topics to write about every day. So far, the most popular niche would be webmaster and money-making related.

B) Think Of The Right Keyword(s)

Ok, now you found your niche, the next thing you should do, is to think of your keyword(s). Decide whether you wish to go for a single keyword or multiple keywords. Also decide on whether you wish to work on general term or keyword phrases. For a start, I would recommend you to go for “single keyword phrase”. A very good example would be ”How To Blog For More Money”.

C) Choose A Suitable And Unique Theme

Once you know what to blog about and identified your keyword, the next thing you should do is to find a right and unique theme that suits your niche. Example if your website is about blogging for money, you should go for a theme that has a professional look to convince your visitors that you are serious in this business.

If you are into blogging, I would recommend WordPress as the blogging software to use. If you have some cash to spare, I would recommend you to go for customized theme. Free themes are typically used widely hence may lost their uniqueness.

In order to make the whole guide more organized, I have decided to break it into several parts (sections) to enhance your reading pleasure. I have also included this part of the guide into my SEO page, this will allow you to navigate here easily from the main page.

If you know any important SEO tip, or if you have a great idea to contribute, kindly drop me a comment below so that I can include into this guide and share with everybody.

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Apart from reading the best practices of using Yahoo Buzz, below are the top 7 mistakes you should avoid when using Yahoo Buzz too. These are some of the most common mistakes people make and I am sure this article will benefit you a lot.

Top 7 Mistakes You Should Avoid When Using Yahoo Buzz

Mistake (1) – Submit Every Single Article Or Video In Your Website To Yahoo Buzz Without Knowing How They Would Benefit The Buzz Community

Just like any other news or article submission site, you should not submit every single article/video in your website to Yahoo Buzz easily, thinking that since it is a free service. You should ONLY submit quality articles or those which you think is unique and will benefit other Buzz users. It will also be a waste of time if you submit inappropriate contents like spam or porn as they will naturally be rejected or removed by the customer care team.

Mistake (2) – Using Too Common Headline Or Headline That Does Not Attract Readership

This is a common mistake made by most people when they create titles or headlines for their articles. Who would be interested to read your article when the headline itself does not even sound interesting to them? An interesting and catchy headline will certainly out-stand your article among all those within same category.

Mistake (3) – Submitting Your Article To The Wrong Category

This should not happen as far as I am concerned. However it does occur sometimes when people are careless, in a hurry, or only concern about gaining a back-link from Yahoo Buzz without putting it in the right category. Submitting to the right category will drive more relevant traffic to your article especially from Yahoo Buzz.

Mistake (4) – Leaving “My Buzz Activity Is Public” Unchecked

All the signs of benefits are apparent if you make your Yahoo Buzz activity public. So I would encourage you to check the “My Buzz Activity Is Public” option (by default it is unchecked) unless you think your online privacy is a concern. Otherwise you would probably miss out the best part of getting popular in the community as well as driving traffic to your submitted articles too (will be explained more later).

Mistake (5) – Misusing The Buzz Up or Buzz Down buttons

Be responsible when you use the Buzz Up or Buzz Down buttons to vote for the articles in Yahoo Buzz. Buzz up only you think it is worth giving it a buzz. Buzz down only if you truly think the article is worthless or inappropriate. Misusing these features will serve unfair to the author of the article or the community itself.

Mistake (6) – Asking Your Friends To Buzz Up For You Or Register Multiple Accounts To Do So

You should not beg or ask your friends, colleagues or family members to buzz your articles up for the sake of getting into Top Buzz in Yahoo Buzz. Similarly, you should also not register multiple free yahoo accounts to do so. This is against the guidelines and not a long term practice. Why not focus on writing a quality article or creating an interesting video to share with the buzz community? Isn’t it better this way?

Mistake (7) – Abusing The “Report A Story” Flag. Do Not Increase The Workload Of The Customer Care Team.

As much as Yahoo Buzz appreciates your help in helping them to fight spams and adult-related articles, you should not abuse the “Report A Story” flag by going around reporting articles for fun, or for the purpose of bringing down the reputation of your competitors. By doing so, you are actually ruining your own reputation since you are required to sign in when you need to vote. Think a level deeper and you understand what I trying to say.

As Yahoo Buzz is still in the BETA phase, the more we really need to spread the news and educate the community users in working with this free social news service by Yahoo.

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Finally, after working on it for some time, I have launched my own Do  Follow & Comment Luv Directory and Community. As I am starting to see more and more blogs embracing Do Follow & Comment Luv concept and displaying their logos, I thought of creating a community to gather all of them together for discussions, idea sharing & advertising etc.

My first step is to have a Directory Listing to allow our blogger to submit their Do Follow blogs into categories. This would allow visitors to my blog to search for their niche blogs in the Directory. As I am going to market the Directory tremendously, blogger would expect to see traffic coming from my site.

To make my Directory more successful, on a weekly basis, I would pick 2 bloggers with the most interesting or popular blog content, and allow them to place a 125 x 125 banner on main page for a week. Afterwhich, I would then pick another 2 bloggers to place their banners for the next week. So and so forth… Sounds interesting to you?

Update 18th July 2010: We have officially shutdown our Directory Listing service.

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It is always good to self-host your blog especially if you are seriously into blogging. There are several reasons why self-hosting are beneficial but the more important ones are because,

1. Certain features might be disabled by some free blogging service eg. java-script.

2. You have more flexibility and control over your blog which some free blogging service may not give you.

Especially for WordPress lover, now there is a chance for you to self-host the latest version of WordPress easily and more importantly, it is absolutely FREE. This is possibile because it comes with Fantastico De Lux 1-Click Auto-Installer which does the job for you in less than 5 minutes. Believe it or not, we are not talking about those limited free web hosting but truly real honest to God web hosting. Other features include:-

• 250 MB Disk Space, 100 GB Data Transfer

• PHP with MySQL Database Support

• cPanel Control Panel For Free

• Fantastico De Luxe 1-Click Autoinstaller

There are only 2 limitations:

1) No CGI support

2) No email accounts

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As we move on to Web 2.0, blogging has become part of every online people’s life. We love to write and read blogs as well as leaving comments in other blogs too. But isn’t it fantastic if we can show our avatars in the comments column just like how a forum?

Introducing Gravatars. A place where you can upload your avatar (or a 80×80 small photo) so that for every blog you visit (WordPress 2.5 & above when the blog owner does not turn off gravatar), and you leave them a comment, your avatar will be automatically shown. Wonderful isn’t it?

Visit Gravatar.com to upload your avatar today!

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What is MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad?

A cool stripe that appears at the top of your blog, with a call-to-action to get your blog readers to click on it and be taken to the appropriate landing page.

The ad itself is simple, easy to use, and you can have multiple ads rotating according to your needs.

Apart from ads, you can also make use of the service to…

• Draw attention to a certain post or page on your blog for example a contest page, your services or a poll.
• Show your disclaimers or Terms of Service (TOS)
• Display an announcement or important news
• Welcome new users and ask them to subscribe to your RSS feed (by displaying the ad for the first 3 visits or a particular user

I would also use this service to…

• Frequently point my readers to check out the latest update to my programs and campaigns (rather useful for me).

Please feel free to post your comments below.

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