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Wordpress Plugins – AdsenseDeluxe
If you are using google adsense in your blog, uploading the adsense deluxe wordpress plugin might be a great option for you.
Rather than having your adsense appear at the top and bottom or in the sidebar of your blog is okay, but much less effective than having the adsense appear in the middle of each blog post you make.
After uploading it and activating the adsense deluxe plugin, go to options and you will see an adsense deluxe tab.
You install your google adsense code into the appropriate box and save it as your default. If you also use yahoo publisher or have other adsense accounts or channels, you can set up more than one adsense account inside your adsense deluxe plugin.
When you are making a post, in some versions of wordpress, you may have to “save and continue editing” each time you post before you hit publish, then the adsense deluxe toolbar will appear above your text box.
Simply put your cursor where you want the adsense to appear in your post and choose the adsense account you wish to use from the dropdown. Then hit publish and adsense should appear where you wanted it.
Easy to use and increases your clickthrus. I recommend it!
What Should My Blog Be About?
Advice is a funny thing. Everything from what doctor to use, to what car to buy, everyone has an opinion and most are ready and willing to give you advice about almost anything.
People base this on their own experience. You have to decide what advice you will use or not use. The same goes for advice about all things related to seo, Internet marketing, blogging, web design, etc.
The short answer to the question this blog post is about, “What Should My Blog Be About?”, is whatever you want it to be about. it’s your blog. Blogs are a funny animal. No matter what the blog is about, it should have your own personality and choices built into it.
Don’t let anyone tell you that you are not blogging the way you should or that your blog is not a “real” or “legitimate” blog. That is just their opinion about what they think every blog should be like.
If every blog was done the same, then blogging would soon be history because it would be extremely boring.
Seo advice for blogging. What works for one blog may not work for another blog. 2 different blogs + the same seo techniques = 2 different results. You have to find what works for you. That means listening to what worked for someone else and possibly trying it out. Then based on the results you get, you decide to keep that going or try something else.
Content Advice for Blogging. Again, here you will get a lot of opinions. One thing I do know is your blog needs it’s own personality. You have one of those, so use it. Do not be afraid to be yourself. it’s what makes you different from everyone else and what will make your blog different from all the other blogs. Don’t conform your blog to fit what the other bloggers are doing. have your own style.
Keyword advice for blogging. There will be some who advise you to use a 15% keyword density, some who say 8%, some who say more or less %. Ignore them all. They have no clue as to an exact percentage for keyword density. Talk about your topic, whatever you choose that to be. Use keywords and phrases naturally associated with your topic and the search engines will pick them up and help people find your blog post. Do it naturally. Don’t spam the blogpost full of keywords just because you want a top listing in google.
Make money blogging advice. This is where it really gets messy. If you are blogging to make money, there is nothing at all wrong with that. There are bloggers who tell you that if you are there to make money, you are not a “real” blogger. They think it’s an art form or whatever. That is okay too. That is what they want THEIR blog to be for. That is their right. Just like it is your right to blog for money.
Some bloggers make money with adsense or yahoo publisher. Some blogs never do well with either of those things. Some blogs can get revenue directly from advertisers. Other blogs cannot get people to advertise. Some use paid posts through companies like PayPerPost.com.
Other blogs directly sell a product or service. They are more of a store than a blog you might say, but once again, you get to define your own blog. It’s not up to anyone else.
Other blogs point people to a website the blogger owns to get the readers to buy a service or product. Other bloggers use affiliate links. You can post about topics related to a product or service someone else sells and make a commission if a reader clicks the affiliate link you provide and buys the product.
You can do book reviews and give your amazon.com affiliate link to where people can find the book to buy.
You have to see what works for you and try a lot of different things. And I repeat, it is YOUR blog. YOU choose what it is about. use YOUR personality in your blog posts. You have to find the things that work for YOUR blog.
Be confident and bold. try new things. The best blog in the world has not been created yet. Make your own path. maybe everyone else will soon be following you instead of the other way around.
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Top 100 Make Money Blogs
I found this list on John Chow’s blog, who used it to brag that he is No. 2 on the list. Too bad is the list is 27 blogs short of the 100. That leaves room for others to move into the clique.
John found out about the list through e-mail from 45n5, the original publisher. I’ll recount the Top 10 on the list for you now:
- Problogger
- John Chow
- Shoemoney
- Dosh Dosh
- Entrepreneurs Journey
- Andy Beard – Niche Marketing
- eMoms at Home
- Nate Whitehill
- Carl Ocab
- NetBusinessBlog
What’s So Interesting About This List?
I find this list interesting for a couple of reasons. First, I’m always intrigued that on such lists there is always some work-at-home mom group involved. It’s not surprising in the sense that “OMG, I didn’t think moms working at home could be that successful.” Rather, it’s intriguing because there are a lot of work-at-home moms who earn a supplementary income to their husband who is the primary breadwinner and those moms have become a powerful force in the U.S. economy. Then there is the work-at-home mom who has risen above the pack and made a success of herself such that her income has surpassed her husband’s. Such moms are the essence of what is beautiful about the U.S. economy and why we like living here.
The second reason this list is interesting is because each of the top 10 blogs on the list (and I’d presume the full 73) are as different as night and day. They all have their own individual personalities, seem to fill their own particular niches, and most of them have a clearly defined purpose and target a specific audience. These are all things I’d say are necessary for a successful social blog. And these blogs do fall into the category of what I’d call social – social in the sense that they attract a large group of readers primarily through word of mouth, social bookmarking, and other similar online marketing techniques. For instance:
Expanding On The Differences
ProBlogger, the most popular make money at home blog on the Internet, is a blog primarily targeted at other bloggers. In fact, the About Us page of ProBlogger says this about itself, “a Blog that helps bloggers to add income streams to their blogs.” That’s a pretty specific niche.
John Chow bills his blog as a personal blog, but he likes talking about making money online. He recently wrote a blog post that discusses why he doesn’t write about making money more often even though some of his readers have asked him to. Interesting read.
eMoms at Home is, obviously, targeted at moms who work at home, and written by a work-at-home mom, Wendy Piersall, who has met with some level of success working at home. I must admit, this was a great idea and Wendy talks about how she started her blog on her About Us page. It wasn’t meant to be her primary enterprise, but I’ll let you read it yourself ….
Carl Ocab is 14 years old. Can he teach you something? Probably, but find out for yourself.
I could go through the entire list and give an overview of why these blogs are all different, but I think you get the idea. I did see one more interesting thing at the bottom of the list of 73. One of my favorite bloggers, Michael Martine, was listed as being in the Sandbox. That’s just one more reason the list is intriguing.
The Most Important Question of All – Why?
So why am I discussing this topic on this blog? The reason is simple and a little self serving. Each of these bloggers targets a segment of BCPs own target market. Of course, anyone with a blog to write is a part of the market we’d like to target, but make money-at-home bloggers are a group that can benefit tremendously from the services that we provide. We can leverage their time so that they can make more money. If you know any make-money-at-home bloggers who need someone to help them buy back some time, send them our way. We’d like to talk to them.
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