How To Make Money With Your Blog!

I found a very good online article about how you can make money with your blog. This is something that I myself have been doing with my own blogs.

There are so many legitimate ways that you can make money with your blog and this article would be a good first place to start reading.

4 Smart Ways To Make Money With Your Blog

Should You Allow Comments On Your Blog?

The short answer is Yes! You really should allow for people to post comments on your blog because that makes your blog more interactive and also too people may return to your blog again and again just to see if there has been any response(s) to the comments that they have added.

However there is a problem that comes up and that is that sometimes people will leave a comment on your blog that really isn't a comment but an attempt to either advertise or just plain-out "spam" your blog.

In that case it would be a good idea to allow comments on your blog but but you should also moderate the comments first before you decide whether or not you want to add them to your blog.

Blog sites such as Blogger.com does give you the option of being able to moderate the comments before you post them to your blog

If You Have A Blog On Blogger.com....

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"How Can I Make Google See My Site?"

Please check my website at www.xxxx.xxxx I use a popularity machine to check on my site google not see my website. How can I optimize to make google see my site.

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You optimize your site by deciding which keywords/search terms that you want associated with your site.

For example my blog about being an Adsense Consultant shows up on page 1 of both Google & Yahoo's search engine results when the terms "adsense consultant" and "adsense consulting" are typed into the search boxes.

Also indirect links to my blog turn on on the first few pages of the search engine results as well - mainly due to comments I have made elsewhere online. And since the name of my blog is "The Adsense Consultant" then those two terms are the ones that I want my blog to be associated with when people type those search terms in.

So you have to decide what keywords you want associated with your site and then see where your site ranks using those search terms. If you don't like where your site ranks (or it doesn't rank at all) then you start incorporating those search terms within your site.

People have remarked that they have been able to get into the search engines within 24 hours!



You might also want to take a look at my
The SEO Consultant Blog for more information about how to get higher search engine rankings.

Blog Sells For $15 MILLION Dollars!

Still don't think that you can make money with your blog? Then you should know that one person has sold their blog for $15 Million Dollars!

You can read more about this by going to the Problogger's blog by clicking here.

Never Underestimate Your Blog Posts!

I was looking at some of my google adsense numbers today and I was also looking at the stats for my websites and blogs. It's interesting to see that I have gotten a lot of blog traffic from some of my older blog posts - some dating back as far as 2008!

What this tells me is that you shouldn't think that just because your blog post is old that someone somewhere may not read it because that is simply not true! From my own stats information I can see that a lot of visitors to my blogs have gotten there because they were looking for information that was similar to the information on my blog even though my blog post was a few months or even a few years old!

So don't underestimate your older blog posts!

Earning Money With Your Blog.......

As well as being a blog consultant, I am also an Adsense Consultant as well!

There are no adsense secrets or secrets to earning money with Adsense. What you have to do to earn money with Adsense is to generate traffic to your blog because more traffic means more potential clicks on your Adsense ads.

Another thing that you can do is to put higher-paying keyword content into your blog. There are some keywords and subjects that advertisers are willing to pay more money for and if you use those types of keywords in your blog you have the potential to earn more money with your blog.

I'm currently experimenting with some of the high-paying keywords that I have on my own high-paying keywords list and I'm also trying to implement some of those high-paying keywords into my clients' blogs as well.

You do have the potential to be able to earn a LOT of money with your blog using Google's Adsense program and there have already been some people who have earned $1 Million Dollars using Adsense!

Is that the kind of money that you would like to be making with your blog?

It's not an impossible thing to do because there have been others who have managed to earn that amount of money using Google's Adsense program!

Unemployed Lawyer Loses His Unemployment Because Of Adsense Earnings!

Well this is certainly surprising news!

It seems that a lawyer who was unemployed is losing his unemployment benefits because of money he earned using Google's Adsense program on his blog! According to an online article, the lawyer was making $1 a day using the Adsense program and the state of New York where the lawyer resides considers that money as earned income. However since this seems to be a relatively new kind of issue, New York has yet to decide whether or not the Adsense money should be considered as income or as residual money.

Here is a link to the online article:

Unemployed Blogger Loses Unemployment Benefits Because Of Earning Money From Google's Adsense Program

You Can Have Adsense BUT You Have To Pay First!

Another popular blog site seems to be a website called LiveJournal. This is another website that lets you create a free blog for yourself.

Up until now you could not add any Adsense ads to a journal / blog on the LiveJournal website. But that has seemed to changed now!

Apparently LiveJournal will let subscribers / users of LiveJournal add Adsense ads to their LiveJournals but only if those users / subscribers are PAID members of the site!

What this means is that if you have a journal on the LiveJournal site but it is a free journal then you can not add adsense to your journal. However if you are a paid member with a paid subscription then you can add Adsense ads to your journal.

It seems a lot of trouble to go through when you can have a blog for free on Blogger.com, a site that encourages you to add Adsense ads to your blog.

How Can You Get (More) Followers To Your Blog?

The most simplest and basic answer is for you to provide good content on your blog.

The reason why people follow a blog is because they find the information on that blog useful and helpful. The blog may also provide interesting and one-of-a-king information that a visitor may find worth reading and they will want to visit the blog over and over again just to see what new content the blog has.

If you want to make your blog more popular then the best way to do that is to find some type of niche - a subject that you are well-acquainted with - so that you will know of what you blog!

If you think that what you know about wouldn't be a popular topic then you may be surprised to know that lots of blogs are popular with the most bizarre of topics - but it is best to stick with what you know!

You can invite everyone to follow your blog but if they don't find the information interesting then they won't feel obliged to come back!

If you don't know why you're not getting followers to your blog then you should think about hiring a blog consultant to look at your blog so that they can help you find out how to make your blog more popular. A blog consultant can help you get more traffic and find sites that can help you gain more traffic to your blog.

If you don't want to hire a blog consultant, you can ask people to look at and assess your blog - those who won't charge you - to see where you can make improvements and help show you how to get more traffic to your blog.

Please remember though that this will take some time. Your blog needs to build up a reputation and that will take some time. But don't worry though because if other blogs (on various subjects) can get lots of traffic - your blog can too!

"How Do I Get Comments To Show Below My Blog Post?"

Please note that this only (so far) works with Blogger.com blogs.

If you would like the comments that you get to show below your blog posts instead of having them show on a separate page then what you can do is to go to your Blogger.com dashboard, then:

• go to the "settings" tab
  
  
• then go to the "comments" tab
  
  
• then scroll down until you get to: Comment Form Placement and check the box "embed(ded) below post"

*Please note that this does not always work and if the comments aren't showing or you are getting feedback from visitors saying that they can not comment on your blog that you should change your settings back to your original setting.