Give freebies to your readers

After writing a post on the importance of dofollow blog commenting in SEO, and checking forums and googling a lot, I have come to a conclusion that many of the webmasters are paying for dofollow blog lists. I even visited a thread in DP where a person(well settled in SEO business) was offering a list of 25 high pageranked dofollow blogs for a fee of 5 dollars.
That means that a dofollow blog list is in high demand for linkbuilding and the quest for a good pagerank.
Well, I have got an idea, which you can take as a tip, give freebies to your readers. Well, in the coming days I will be creating my first free ebook to thank all those who visit this new blog. It will contain a list of dofollow blogs with stats(pageranks and alexa and other stats) which you can then use for your linkbuilding campaign. Thats the way I can thank you all. Hope this little hardwork from my side will reap me some traffic.

How to make money from home by placing google ads under the post title and in the post footer

I have seen many websites where Google ads are placed somewhere down the site, into the footer or some isolated place in the sidebar or somewhere in the header and so on. Such sites have a low CTR(click through rate) and hence they don't earn the money that they deserve for their hard work.
The most visible areas of a site, mainly blogs are its contents or posts. So how will it be if the google ads are placed right beneath the title and above the content or in the post footer?- yes! These are the most visible places and many of them have experienced high click through rates after placing the ads in these positions and learnt an easy way of how to make money from home.
I have been playing with my template for the past few days and in the process learnt many things. Today I am going to share with you how to place your ads, may it be your Google ads or your Chitika ads or Adbrite or any other ads in such places which are more visible to your visitors.
This tutorial is going to teach you how to place your google ads right beneath your post title and above the contents of the post.

For this you need the following tools:
1)Computer(kidding!hehe!)
2)Online Code converter

Now do the following:

1. Login to your Adsense account and go for ad setup, set up your ad according to your like, I recommend the large rectangle layout(336x280) for ads as it contains 4 links. I also recommend you to design the colors of the ad as it will match your template colors.
   
2. Once your ad is setup and ready for use click to get the code for it.
3. Use the code Converter tool at eblogtemplates to convert your code to XML format which can be easily parsed by Blogger templates. The reason is that the code generated by Google adsense is in the Javascript format.
   

Now backup your existing template by clicking on 'Download Full Template' since if you mess with it you can revert to it any time later.


Now in your "Edit HTML' under 'Layout', check 'expand widgets'.
The next thing you will do is search for the following code in your template. You can use CTRL+F.

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>

beneath this line paste your converted code you got from the Code Converter.
Now save the template and check your blog.

After I did the above I saw the following on my blog.

You can see the ads between the title and the post content.

Now because according to Adsense TOS, you can place only 3 google ad codes on your blog, only 3 of your posts will be having the ads on your homepage, the rest of the posts will show a white space between the title and the content. But as mostly, the search engines send your visitors to your internal pages, so I don't think there's going to be a problem. Remember you can place 3 ad links too on your blog along with the 3 ad boxes.

Another visible place where you can get more clicks for your google ads is between the post content and the comment form or the comments, in other words, at the end of your articles or in more simple words 'the post footer'.

This can be achieved by the same method above. You just need to find the following code in your template.

<div class='post-footer'/>

And then paste the google ad code you converted by the Code Converter right beneath this code.
Your ad will appear beneath the post content but above the Comments.

My suggestion is that to maximise your earnings and to cope up with the Google adsense limit of 3 ad boxes, you can place Chitika or Adbrite advertisements(or any other ad code which can be simultaneously placed with Adsense ads) in the post footer.

Feel free to ask questions and I will also appreciate feedback from you my dear readers.
Hope you learnt another way of how to make money from home.

Free Image Upload

Mnay bloggers, be they on any platform, always are worried of image hosting and stuff like that.
But the nice thing is that you can do free image upload and host images for free. Today I am going to discuss with you a method to how to upload images for free here on Blogger which can be used anywhere on the web, meaning even on your wordpress hosted blog(hehe!). Blogger has its very own image hosting service Picasa Web Albums which you might be knowing. Whenever you upload images here on Blogger, they are actually saved in Picasa Web Albums.
Now the funny thing is that you can use it anywhere.
How to upload images for free? You can do it in following steps:

1)Go to 'Create' under 'Posting' tab in Blogger
2)As you can see in the image below, you can upload images to Blogger with the help of the 'Add Image' graphic button.

















3)Browse for the files you want to upload by hitting the 'Browse' button and then click the 'UPLOAD IMAGE' orange button.












4)After that your images are added to Blogger...Beneath you can clearly see powered by Picasa Web Albums.
















5)After your image is uploaded you can go to the preview mode and then mouse over the image preview and right click to go to 'Copy Image Location' and click it.













6)Then you are done. For your convenience, you can copy the link and save it in a text editor like Notepad for future references. You can either save this post as draft or delete it forever, the images upload don't get deleted till you decide to delete them from your Picasa account.

The header you can see on this site JUNKAMANIA was uploaded by this same method on Blogger itself!














Now you don't need to create an account at photobucket.com or imageshack.us. Blogger is superb and at its best too. Give it a try. You can save images for free.
While going, I am going to share an SEO tip with you related to images... Always rename the images you use to upload to your posts with the keywords to the related post topic. For Example, the images uploaded to this post have names like free image upload.jpg, etc.
Let me hear from you guys about this.

How to make money from home?

A question that seems to be eating your mind is How to make money from home?Well I am just going to direct you in your mission to pay your bills. Yes, this article is going to show you how to make money from home?

There are basically two ways according to me to make money at home. Those are Online ways, for this you require a computer and an internet connection. The second way is to fetch your local newspaper and find a 'work from home' job in the classifieds section and try your luck. Neither of them is easy. Both have their own pros and cons. But the most risky are the Online jobs, where you may be working for a company which is on the other side of the hemisphere, which may or may not be a scam.

The truth is that the hopes and dreams of the honest hard working people making a better life for themselves trying to work at home, have fallen victim to these work from home opportunities online. From a source, it is found that 30% of the average middle class are spending about $275 per year on work at home scams.

But, hey listen, not all the online sites are scams. There are lotta genuine sites also. To earn from home, from your computer, online, there are many ways to do it.

MAKE MONEY FROM HOME BY BLOGGING:

The first and foremost and the easiest thing you could do is set up your blog. Search Engine love blogs . Choose a topic(niche) for your blog and post daily. After making enough posts submit it to blog directories like blogadda.com, blogtoplist.com. Blogging is a very powerful tool. Now, what is a blog? It is short for weblog. And you are currently reading an article from a blog, yes this is a blog. You could make one for you.

There are many free blogging platforms you can decide to choose from like blogger, wordpress, typad, joomla, etc. blogger.com is by far the best because it can be customised very easily.Just follow these steps to make for yourself a free blog:

1. Go to http://blogger.com
   
2. If you already have a google account, no need to sign up, Just Click the 'CREATE A FREE BLOG' option. If you don't have a google account already, then create one. Its free of cost.
3. Follow the instructions, its easy.
4. Post on your blog.

Now, the main question is, what are you going to post? Well, you thought it was easy? Man, you can write anything you want in your blog, its yours.
Now, how will you earn from it???

Many methods to earn from your blog are available. They are:-

• Placing CPM(COST PER MILLION) and PPC(PAY PER CLICK) ADS on your site:This process is easier than creating a blog. There are many publisher companies which serve advertisements to your site. Google Adsense has the biggest network of advertisers and the ads placed on your blog will be according to your content. Go to http://adsense.google.com and register for your adsense account. Now, you get an email confirmation within 2 days. Here you need patience. Now, the main question arising in your mind is, what if I don't get a confirmation? No worries. You get confirmed. You just need to wait. Once you are confirmed, login with your adsense account, create a new ad, generate the code and place it in your blog(All that information, you can get in Adsense help. If any problem, comment and I'll answer) and then cash checks on monthly basis. The minimum payout is $100. It first takes time to reach that much, but once you reach there, its like clockwork.

Other such programs to make money from home from your blog are

1. http://adbrite.com
   
2. http://bidvertiser.com

, both are genuine sites and both pay their members.

One thing you should always keep in mind is to read the Terms of Service of such sites, so that nothing goes wrong. Like for example, you get a life ban on Google Adsense if you click on your own ads.

• Sell Ad Space on your blog :If you start getting say about a 1000 visitors per month to your blog, you can even start selling ad spaces on your blog, so passive income at its best. You can sell your ad spaces on money making forums. One of my favourite which I use for my blogs is Digitalpoint. There are many people over there ready to market their products for reasonable price. So, if you could sell spaces at a reasonable price, then you will surely have a deal and can add a few bucks to your kitty every month.
  

• Sponsored Reviews:There are several companies which needs review for their product and they pay well, up to $5 per review. But for this you need to wait a minimum three months with atleast 30 posts for some pay per post sites. Some good pay per post sites are payperpost.com, reviewme,blogvertise,etc.
  

• Affiliate Marketing:Hordes of internet marketers are spending and investing in the Affiliate Marketing. This is the big industry where millions of internet marketers are promoting affiliate programs. Affiliate Programs consists pay per lead, pay per click, pay per impression and pay per sale offers which we have to promote. There are thousands of Affiliate Network which pays good amount per sale. I have listed some of my favourite affiliate programs here(). They are the best earners and they can sometimes earn you more than what Adsense has to offer.Any affiliate program can earn you a lot of money. It's about finding programs that fit YOUR niche, i.e. finding programs that fit your blog topic.
  

• Sell your blog-The last thing you could do to make money from home :I know its painful and irritating to sell your blog, your baby after it comes very close to your heart. But, you can make a huge amount of money from it in a short amount of time. This is the last thing to do to attain your goals. You can sell your blog site on popular online forums like Digital Point. There are many of potential buyers active over there. Your site's value can be set by some factors like the amount of revenue generated by your site per month, the quality of your site, your niche topic, etc.. You can do the reverse too, i.e. you can buy someone else's site on the same factors mentioned above.

Money making from blogging is not difficult. It just needs common sense, consistency, content and confidence and above all, patience. Because, it is a long an continual process. Its not a 'Get Rich Quick' scheme. It surely needs hard work and it can be fun at times. So, enjoy blogging if you have started already.

MAKE MONEY FROM HOME WITHOUT A WEBSITE:

Now, the point is that, it is not necessary to have a blog always to earn online. And to blog you need the the 4 C's I mentioned above (common sense, consistency, content and confidence). and it is certainly not in the interest of lazybones(like me you'll say! hehe!). So, I am going to show you HOW TO MAKE MONEY FROM HOME without a blog.

• Join the following social Networking sites that pay:

1. MYLOT.COM. Click Here for the review of the site.
2. YUWIE.COM - Pays to post and upload pictures.
3. YOUTAZ.COM-pays to write and post videos.

• Join PTC(Paid To Click) sites :These are sites which pay their members when they click certain amount of advertisements and visit the webpage for certain amount of time. Some pay referral income, which is a good money earner. You can even buy referrals who will click ads under you and earn you money while earning for themselves. You can find many PTCs by searching. Beware, most of them are scams.

• Join paid to read email sites :These sites pay upto 2 cents to read emails delivered to your mailbox. You select the topics of which emails you want to read. The most popular one internationally is donkeymails.com. For Indians, rupeemail.com really pays.
  

• Join paid to perform tasks sites:There are many get paid to sites which pay to sign up, pay to shop online, some pay to test products, some to drive a car, some to take snaps, some pay to read text messages on your cell phone and many other things to do. Some sites known worldwide are gptreasure.com
  

• TAKE Online Surveys - This can make easy money by taking simple online surveys, some survey recruitment companies pay well for product surveys. Ciao.com is the best online survey site which pays its members handsomely. The UK site of Ciao Surveys even pays some amount for writing product reviews.
  

• Sell Products : You can create your digital products and sell them on the internet via forums like Site point and Digital point. For example you can create an informative e-book and sell it online to earn big bucks. You can even make money by selling your things on sites like Ebay.com. You can sell your stuff such as books, old collectibles, DVD’s, etc. You can also try other sites that help facilitate selling books such as BookHolders.

• Freelance Writing: Sarah does a lot of freelance writing. You can read her article on freelance writing here Tips for starting a freelance career. As Sarah also suggested that there are sites looking for bloggers and writers. Some of them are digitalpoint.com, problogger.com and more. You can get more info on her blog.
  

• Get paid to Upload Files:-Get paid upload your files and posting your links in worldwide forums. You get paid $10 per 10000 US downloads of your file. Surely its a passive mode of money and to make money from home.
  

Following sites pay you to upload files:
1.Ziddu.com
2.Bizhat.com
3.Netload.in
4. Uploadjockey.com

• Get paid to surf:The article is here.
  

• Get paid to search:The article is here.
  

This post required a lot of hardwork and research. I feel that this list is just comprehensive one and think that you could suggest us some more methods. If so, please let us know. Please comment on this post how to make money from home?

Article writing-Another great source for genuine traffic

Writing articles for sites like Ezinearticles and Isnare is a great way to help create traffic to your website. I mentioned them last month in the College kid's cool Traffic Tips. You can check it here. I want you people to go to the tips and complete a potential conversation waiting for you since days.

Sites like ezinearticles.com don't pay anything to you for the article, however they do allow you to include quite a bit of self promotion down the bottom of the piece that you submit to them.

Its better that you don't abuse the actual content you submit to them filling it with your links. They simply won't allow the piece to be published if you go against their terms of service. You are allowed to place your links at the bottom of your article as your signature. I guess each of those readers will be certainly interested in the topic you write about, and they will surely see the links to your sites at the bottom. Who knows but they could end up being your regular visitors.

Certainly a great idea if you are looking to build long term traffic, and quality links to your website. I am thinking of submiting some of my articles from this blog to them, and so I require your help. Please suggest me the articles from this blog for the same.

Have you the Fortitude of becoming the PROBLOGGER???

Its a serious question? Can you blog day after day, for about many years? Yes thats how long it will take to build a good income and a better living from your blogging? Well even if you could, it should be quality content. You just cannot start a blog and hope to make money straight away from it, not just by filling it with adverts can help you lol.

Well if you have enough confidence and fortitude to make it happen, I appreciate it and would like to SWAP links with you if we go the same niche topic.

Its a true fact that however confident you are and however are your intentions, willpower begins to drop after a few weeks. So its really important to motivate yourself to get going and set a goal.

Until your goals are achieved, working continually towards achieving them is the only way you can be successful. So set a goal and try to achieve it.

This blog is a goal setting basically. Actually its a mission to earn some money. I am damn confident that someday this blog will help me to pay my bills. really is motivating in itself.



Don't forget to comment please. Your feedback is what I look forward to.

To make it blogging, we need a dream!!

In some way or the other my outlook has changed towards my blog and I think you should follow these to be successful in your online endeavours:

1. Willpower and Self confidence:
It is in our will to make it to our goal and we should stick to it. We should possess that self confidence and never give up whatever may be. Have a never-say-die attitude basically.

2. There isn't any time limit:
I fully accept and understand that this may take a fair amount of time, there are too many days left however on this blog and it will be continued further too, so that's OK and there's no pressure.

3. Change is a necessity:
There will be many things which won't work for us, while many will stop working for us afterwards. Prepare to change your thinking and know that this is a necessary trait in the pursuit of the end goal, which for me is to earn a lot from this blog. For example if this Blog may not attract readers after several months of effort , then I may change my tacts.

4. Update and Update more frequently:
Update your site regularly for good search engine results as Search engines love updated information and search engines bring a decent loyal traffic. I am trying this on my own and advising you to do the same.

5. We aren't the only people on the scene:
As there are many people making money already on the web we can also get our share along as we follow a plan and keep at it, we really should be able to do it. So stick to it and Never Say Die.


You can share your ideas with us if you have any or give us some links taking us to good information.

then good bye and keep thinking about Dollars and Rupees...

Do you have the passion???

Online blogging is not so easy. We have to look into the coming future to benefit long term than short term.

Basically you should have a passion for blogging. You need to just plough on when things get tough. Most sites don't make it because they give up. One thing I will tell you is post articles and keep on posting. I am new to this blogging thing and I have no background online but I think everyone starts from scratch. You will need to build your empire from zero.

If you need some inspiration and looking for it desperately consider reading the following blogs:
www.problogger.net
www.sevepavlina.com

Both the owners Darren Rowse and Steve Pavlina started their empires from scratch. You can get inspiration from the problogger fame Darren Rowse by reading his story of how he became a full time blogger.Its really inspiring.

Surely we are in the new era where world is a global village and we can influence billions with the power of words. Blogs have the most value today and if you can keep your content fresh you are on a winner.

If you would say to someone 10 years ago that you earn blogging they would look at you and say on your face, 'Are you Crazy???'. But now its reality and it involves a lot of hardwork and I know that wont pay me initially but on a long term basis I will surely reap the benefits. It is like investing in my future of course.
However little promises of success and just glimmer of hope at times.

So, Happy blogging and dream big and aim high.



Have a nice day!