Blogging for profit
I guess you guys have noticed I haven’t been writing to this blog much lately. The reason is I have been TOO busy updating all my other blogs.
I’ve been reading and learning from other “professional” bloggers. People who make a nice living by blogging.
There are a few lessons to learn from these guys. First of all they update their blogs on a daily basis. Very rarely do they ever miss a day of blogging and sometimes they post multiple entries per day. If you are serious about this you can even schedule your blog entries to automatically post, even if you know you’re going to be away on vacation or whatever. That way your blog never goes “dormant”. This is something I’ve been especially bad at. Sometimes I’m in a writing mood and I’d write several entries over a period of two days. What I’m trying to do now is to spread those entries out. Once I’ve reached one entry per day I’ll try to spread out my entries. I’ll write them up today, but I’ll save them as “drafts” in WordPress then publish them tomorrow by simply logging in and clicking on the publish button. I wish WordPress had the ability to schedule it to be posted tomorrow, but so far I haven’t found that feature/plugin? Have any of you guys seen it?
The second thing the bloggers for profit are doing is using Google’s adsense ads on their pages to monetize their pages. They put them into different locations on the page and test their effectiveness. For more information on how they do this see our previous articles on adsense:
Adsense tips from a million dollar a year earner
Google Adsense Tips
So that is what I’ve been doing lately. I’ve got some blogs I’m doing on some other topics. I’m updating them every day. I’ve even setup some smaller blogs that contain a subset of that content and link back to the main blog for more articles. This way the blogs are each unique and really do contain unique content… kind of like a “preview” or “summary” which points over to my main blog. We’ll see how that works. Who knows, maybe the search engines will hate it?
- Ben
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