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Your Questions About Blogging Tips
June 16th, 2011 | 
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Lisa asks…
When you’re looking for the best blogging tips from expert bloggers, who do you turn to?
I get overwhelmed by all of the excellent info about blogging that’s available. Give me the best of the best! I’m looking to take the advice of the ones who give actionable, easily implementable ideas that work. Names and website info please. Plus, the best tip they’ve given you that really works. Thanks!
webdesignerscotty answers:
Though, you will read and be approached by many so-called experts, who tell you how they made millions out of blogging and how you too can earn that much. In addition, they tell you blogging is all play and no work. But blogging is nothing like what most people tell others. It’s a serious hard work and the chances of success, to passionate people, are more or less the same as with other real world professions.
To get you a fair idea of blogging, from earning perspective, let I share with you some facts:
Before answering to your question, I want to put a fact: majority bloggers earn nothing, a small number earn something equivalent to a cup of coffee a day, rest make either modest or big money.
So when you ask “Can someone make a living out of blogging?” then the true answer is, even if very difficult, it’s possible. One can earn a living, and one can earn big money too. But why one limit the scenario to blogging, most professions and careers present the same picture, more or less.
Now let I give a preview of the earning potential of a blog:
If your idea is to earn by showing ads from ad programs like Adsense, Kontera, Adbrite etc. Then your earnings will depend on the number of clicks you manage to get on your displayed ads. On an average, if your blog content is good, means if the content shows good context ads, and if you have 300 blog visitors then you will have 2-6 clicks on your ads. Studies show ads on websites have a click ratio of around 2 percent. Thus for every 100 visitors one can expect to get 2 clicks on ads. Or in other words, out of 100 visitors to a blog, only 2 visitors click on an ad. This translates into, 1 or 1.2 dollars a day for a 300 visitor a day blog.
If your idea is to earn revenue by selling products through affiliate links; or sell your own products/services, then again, the earnings will depend on your blog traffic. And the chances of a visitor going for a buy, is again around 2 percent.
Keeping that in mind, it is possible with perseverance and commitment
Thanks
Jenny asks…
Video blogging tips: How do you talk into a camera?
Yea when I watch videos after I make a video, it seems very mundane.
Also, it’s really hard for me to stare and look at a camera and act like I’m talking to a person. I don’t know why. Any tips?
Also, I’m not good at acting. People say I don’t have enough “feeling” when acting.
So I don’t know how to make my blog any more interesting, or how to look directly into the camera for long periods of time without feeling weird.
webdesignerscotty answers:
This may sound really silly, but it works for a lot of people. Take a paper plate and cut a hole out of the middle. This is where you will attach your video camera lens. On the paper plate draw a face. Now when you talk to the camera it will feel like you are talking to a person. You could name your new plate-person-friend something silly. That way you will smile when you look at the camera. Also, you could just put a real person’s photo there – it works just as well. Good luck.
William asks…
What are the top ten blogging tips for driving traffic ?
I would like to collects as much info as possible on this topic and add to my site.http://www.kenwong.com.au.
I have only just started this site but hey you have to start some where
webdesignerscotty answers:
For WordPress users…
Word Press already pings one service.
Here’s a lot more to add.
In WordPress just log in to the Admin Area,
Go to Options–> Writing, and at the bottom
you’ll see a text area under Update Services.
Paste the list below in there and click
Update Options.
After that, whenever you post to your blog
Wordpress automatically pings all the services for you.
Posting will be just a little slower due to
the amount of pings going on, but it’s worth the
wait because it’s free promotion for your blog.
You can add these websites in the list:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
I would also recommend going to
http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/
to submit your Feed URL to all the blog directories
manually, to initially get listed.
I also get quite a bit of traffic from these
Blog Directories.
Http://www.blogexplosion.com/index.php?ref=webmasterauto
http://www.blogmad.net/?ref=df8210aba318329
http://www.blogsoldiers.com/?rid=5165
All are free.
When your writing a post for your blog,
treat it just like an individual web page
your trying to optimize for the search engines.
Include the keywords in the title & body of the post.
Also, you want your post to look similiar to this…
Http://webmasterautomation.com/blog/2007/01/27/reciprocal-linking/
where the keywords are included in the url.
You do this under Options–>PermaLinks.
Then choose date & name based.
Hope this helps.
Daniel asks…
What are some blogging tips?
Hey, so I JUST started a blog! What are some tips you guys can give me? I’m on blogger, and have zero clue on what I’m doing! Any clues on how to get more popular? Or how to change the setup of my page, or background, or make it unique? thanks!
webdesignerscotty answers:
Try these site and find
http://www.geekblogger.org/search/label/Blogger%20tips
http://www.bloggertipsandtricks.com
Yes you need to find it out becoz you are the creator of your own world, See others what they doing, how they doing, what they like, think about those things, think more more and more on it, if these features are really good, implement it by better way, this is how we started learning since childhood. Prove yourself in your eyes, not in others.. One day you will find an improved,proud blogger.
Nancy asks…
Can anyone give some tips on blogging and making it efficient?
webdesignerscotty answers:
It takes a lot of work to get loyal readers and subscribers. You need to know what your topic is, who you’re targeting and how you’re gonna promote what you write.
Here are some post that I think will help you out which I found.
Http://www.hectorjcuevas.com/fast-blog-growth
http://www.hectorjcuevas.com/popular-bloggers-share-wisdom
http://www.hectorjcuevas.com/guest-blogging-tips
http://www.hectorjcuevas.com/top-4-traits-successful-blogger
http://www.hectorjcuevas.com/8-simple-ways-free-traffic-blog-cheat-sheet
These are all my friend’s articles, I’ve managed to get thousands of visits every week, Enjoy!
Linda asks…
What are some tips for blogging?
I want to do some sports blogging. Any tips?
Also what is the best catagory for tips on blogging?
webdesignerscotty answers:
Post regularly with some trendy hot topics. You can make up your own topics or visit Alexa.com to see what’s currently hot.
Betty asks…
Blogging tips please..?
I am new to blogging.Can you give me some tips.
webdesignerscotty answers:
1.Determine the purpose of your blog.
2.Figure out what you want to write about and how often you will update the blog.
3.Set up a free WordPress or Blogger blog and have at it.
Joseph asks…
blogging tips for a starters?
I’ve recently started out my blog but i have not received any feedback. how ca i increase the number of visitors? any other tip is appreciated too.
webdesignerscotty answers:
To get traffic you can do following:
1. Article Writing
2. Forum Posting
3. Blog Posting (Check for Do follow blog)
4. Social Networking ( Use OnlyWire firefox plugin to bookmark to 29 sites at a single click. But don’t do only yours. Bookmark others also. Otherwise you will get banned). Its also known as Web2.0
5. Try to get backlinks. Also known as Offpage optimization
6. If you are using wordpress blog use all-in-seo pluggin
Only commenting on others blog is not enough to get traffic.
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Making Money Online With Google Adsense And Free Blog Sites
One of the appeals of making money online is that it does not take a lot of money upfront. It still takes a lot of time, but money wise even if you pay for services and help, it is still much cheaper than running your traditional storefront busienss. However, you can actually do fairly well with little to no money spent using Google Adsense and various free blog sites.
The first thing to do is get approved by Google Adsense. This involves submitting your website for approval and most of the time you cannot use a free blog for this. You will need a nicely constructed self-hosted website to get approval.
One exception:
Blogger.com Blogs
Not long after Google bought Blogger.com, they made AdSense available to Blogger blog owners.
The big bonus of this is not only is it free, and not only do Google and Yahoo crawl the blogs quickly, but Google is fine with approving Blogger.com blogs for Adsense!
So if you’re looking to get started with AdSense and not spend much money, Blogger is a great way to get started.
Before I talk about how to setup a Blogger blog for AdSense, though, let me tell you what an RSS feed is and how it works. This is important for setting up your free blog.
An RSS feed is basically a list of all of the recent posts made to your blog.
People can use “RSS Aggregators” to keep up with new posts on your blog. Websites can also syndicate your posts by checking your feed for new articles and then reposting on their blog. This is one method of “auto-blogging” (blogging on auto pilot) to give blogs fresh content. It is a win win situation since the publisher can get “fresh” content on auto pilot while you get your posts syndicated. With Blogger blogs, RSS fees are built in so you do not need to do anything to get it to work.
First, figure out what topic the blog will focus on.
You can blog about products, create product reviews, or just blog about your hobbies. The main thing is to blog about something you enjoy and are passionate about because money won’t necessarily come rolling in right away. It is important to be consistent with your blogging. If money is coming in, that is a great motivator to keep blogging. If money is nto coming in, then it is your passion that will keep you with it until the money comes in. Brainstorm your skills and interests to determine what you would enjoy writing about. It’s important that you like to write about it, since you will have to do so to build up the blog!
Now you are ready to create your blog.
From the Blogger homepage click the “Create Your Blog Now” link and follow the step by step instructions. This is very straightforward and you will have the framework of your blog up and running in no time.
When you choose your blog URL, you can come up with a clever name as your brand. However, for marketing purposes, you can also choose “keywords” to be in yur URL. For example, if you’re creating a blog about dog training tips, then you could check to see if “dogtrainingtips.blogspot.com” is available, or some variant of it such as “myawesomedogtrainingtips.blogspot.com”. Having your keywords in your blog title will give you a boost in search engines.
From here, you also want to choose a template which suits your blog theme. Just think about readers that come to your blog and what they would be looking for and choose a theme that fits your blog, not one that distracts from it. You can always pick a plain one also just to get your blog up and running and then change it later. Changing your blog theme is as easy as clicking a few buttons. Once the blog is created, then click on the “Templates” tab and select one.
To further setup your blog, there are some various settings you can now set.
On the “Basic” settings tab, set your blog title to the keywords you want to show up for in the search engines. That will help you get ranked. So an example blog title would be “My Awesome Dog Training Tips”.
You can also give your description here as well. Include your keywords, but make it a “human friendly” blog description (this will also help you get your blog Adsense approved). An example would be: “Welcome to my blog! I am a dog lover and come from a family of dog lovers. In this blog I will give you my awesome dog training tips I have accumulated over the years”.
Not only will this help your blog more readable, but the RSS feed will show this description and help people choose your blog to syndicate or add to their RSS readers.
One very important setting is to set “Notify Weblogs” to “Yes”.
This is in the Publishing tab. You want to set the “Notify Weblogs” to “Yes” so that each time you create a new post, notifications are sent out to the Weblogs site (which in turn is crawled by many other spiders). This is an easy and automated way to let the internet at large now you have updated your blog.
Another setting is to accurately set your archiving to reflect how often you post
Set your archiving to daily if you post every day, or weekly if you only post every few days. And by the way, you should aim to post almost daily if you can. The more content, the more often search engines come, the better for traffic and Adsense clicks and thus revenue.
Here is a very important tip about the site feed: Use the short feed.
By using the short feed, only a summary or description is shown in your RSS feed. If people want to read more, they need to come to your site. If they come to your site, they may click on an Adsense ad. For this reason you want to make your blog titles compelling and your post description compelling as well. Also the first 50 words or so will be seen so these need to be your hooks to get readers to your blog.
And now: Google Adsense
After you have a few posts set up, you can click on the “AdSense” link and apply for one straight from the blog instead of having to go to Google.com to apply. YES! This is very convenient!
From there it’s just a matter of pasting the Adsense code into your blog and Voila! You now have a monetized Google Adsense blog on a free blog out there that can make you money!
Your Questions About How To Blog For Free
William asks…
How to bring more visitors to my blog. Or whats the easy way to get more traffic to my blog. Free traffic?
I am looking for adsense blogging. Can some one suggest me how to bring a bit of more traffic on my blog?
webdesignerscotty answers:
Create great content. Everything starts with content. Give a reason why visitors will frequent your site. Why will they want to read your blog? Why will they want to spend their time in your blog? Provide value, useful information and other benefits to the readers.
As you have found, creating a blog is one thing but getting traffic is whole different story. Getting traffic is going to be your biggest challenge. Basically anywhere where you can post a link to your site do it. Check out this article
Backlink Building For Newbies Part 1
Sandra asks…
How do I set up a free site traffic meter on my site?
webdesignerscotty answers:
Http://www.sitemeter.com/
or
http://www.website-hit-counters.com/
Yeah it’s both free
Daniel asks…
How to stream h.264 Mpeg-4 video in website and blog Free.?
Pls. any way to stream h.264 mpeg-4 video in website or blog for Free?
Pls stop sending useless links…
webdesignerscotty answers:
There is a onlie tutorial should can help you.
Http://www.flash-video-mx.com/webplayer-resources/add-videos-to-blog.html
Tips: You can use the free trial version of moyea web player pro
Jenny asks…
Is it possible to have an affiliate marketing blog that is free, and still earns you money?
Or do I need to pay for a more ‘professional’ blog domain?
Also: Is it worth it to be an affiliate marketer? How much could I earn with a free blog, working part-time on it, and not paying anything to increase my blog search rankings? Is running an affiliate marketing blog a worthwhile thing (financially) to do when I can only do it part-time – or is it something that needs a full time worker?
webdesignerscotty answers:
If you are just starting out and don’t have a budget to get a domain name and hosting then I would suggest doing a combination of building websites on places like wordpress.com and also submitting relevant articles on places like ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com, and more.
This should be a good start to help you learn more about internet marketing as it takes awhile to get used to all of the tips and tricks involved to make a large profit. I have personally known people who are making $100+ a day without having their own website which isn’t huge money but to many it is a great extra income.
Richard asks…
How can I set up a free blog site of my own?
Hi! I am wanting to set up a blog website about my Purse Party business. Does anyone know of a site that will let you do it for free that is easily located by other people? I’m wanting to do this to market my business.
webdesignerscotty answers:
Hi you can go to Blogger.com, WordPress.com, Typepad.com, or Livejournal.com
Maria asks…
Does anyone know how to gain free blog traffic?
I get a few hits(about 50-100 a day)but I’m looking for a steady flow.Any free tips?
webdesignerscotty answers:
Optimize your blogs for the search engines, use a great title for your blogs, and optimize your content. Then build as many backlinks as possible (links to your website). Check out this article
David asks…
Which free blog service is the best?
Which free blog service is the best and why?
I would like to know how the features are and whether it is good for SEO etc. Thanks.
webdesignerscotty answers:
Heya !!
There are a couple free sites where you can start blogs like:
Wordpress.com
Blogspot.com
Typepad.com
The problem with these free ones is that you are not in total control of SEo,layout or content that gets approved.
I can honestly recommend buying your own .com domain and hosting and setting up a blog on there. It will cost $10 a year for the domain and $5 a month for hosting. It will be strange if you cannot make $100 a year from your blog to cover those costs, so that means your blog will cost you nothing 
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Your Questions About Blogging Jobs
Richard asks…
Blogging jobs?
Can I get a job blogging for a company? I have my own and its a huge interest of mine, moreso than writing news stories. Instead of being a journalist I’d rather just blog. Where do I go from here?
webdesignerscotty answers:
Sure, you can write some blogs for companies as models and then look to sell them. First get yourself acquainted to why business should blog, then see if you can contract yourself out.
Five Reasons How You Can Boost Your Business By Starting A Blog
Robert asks…
blogging jobs?
What are some places for an experienced or beginner blogger to get paid, pay doesn’t have to be much. I want something to do in my spare time.
webdesignerscotty answers:
Hi,
You can check our b5 media, who pays people to blog: http://www.b5media.com
Or, PayPerPost, pays bloggers per post:http://payperpost.com/bloggers/marketplace.html
Check out this feed of latest blogging jobs available on the web:http://www.lillymouse.com/blog-jobs/
Ken asks…
Are there any online blogging jobs to get paid for?
I want to rack up some cash. Any online blogger gigs would be great!
webdesignerscotty answers:
If you have a blog with good PR , you may offering a review on your blog to online forum such as “digital point forum” they will buy a review from your blog, this is easy job you can get from blog.
Sandra asks…
Looking for blogging jobs.I am expecting and need a way to make money from home.?
does anyone know were to look or were to start.Any other ideas will help…thanks…
webdesignerscotty answers:
You should look at doing website reviews on your blog. You can write for http://www.sponsoredreviews.com or you could write for http://www.payperpost.com
Your blog does have to be a certain number of days old before you can start earning money so you have to post some for free before you can get paid with these sites.
Donna asks…
Are there any reliable blogging jobs out there?
Or is anyone on here a blogger possibly? Do you know a website where I can contact someone looking for that kind of work. I want to be a blogger
webdesignerscotty answers:
Do you mean getting paid to blog? If you’re looking for that, try payperpost.com
A friend of mine is a stay-at-home mom and does that. So far, she’s made over $10000, but it took her a year or two. It really depends on how often you blog.
Sandy asks…
How do you get a job blogging?
Hoe do you get a blogging job what website do I go to I’n order to get started blogging? How do you make money from your blog? How does it all work?
webdesignerscotty answers:
Make a best blog and add on your blog the Google Adsense ads it give more money and you earn more money from your blog.
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Your Questions About Blogging Websites
Mark asks…
Blogging Websites???
What are the names of REALLY popular blogging websites….
Like, as popular as Myspace…. ( used 2 be )
webdesignerscotty answers:
Here is a huge huge list:
Www.tumblr.com/
tumblrmap.net/
www.bloglines.com/
www.blogflux.com/
www.lijit.com/
www.coveritlive.com/
www.zemanta.com/
triggit.com/
budget.rustybrick.com/
www.meemi.com/
http://blogs.mu/
http://www.blerp.com/
http://templatr.cc/
www.blogonize.com/
http://streem.us/
http://co.mments.com/
http://write4.net
http://panels.net/
www.i-want-blog.com/
weebly.com/
http://blogger-templates.blogspot.com/
http://xanga.com/
blogarama.com/
createblog.com/
adwords.blogspot.com/
www.threehosts.com/blog
http://thoughts.com/
www.blogger.com/
www.blogspot.com/
www.weblog.com/
wordpress.org/
wordpress.com
Donald asks…
Blogging websites?
I want to start blogging, ive heard of blogger.com and am considering it but does it have any privacy terms? I want to be safe about it at the same time.
webdesignerscotty answers:
I don’t know about blogger’s privacy terms, but I like tumblr.com. They have a neat system where you can post text, a picture with a caption, a song file, or a website, and it’s really easy to design your layout. It’s just super user friendly.
Maria asks…
What blogging websites let ANYONE comment on your blogs?
I am looking for a blogging websites that lets anyone comment on your blog without having to sign up for that website and/or sign in with other ids (ie: livejournal, blogspot, etc).
I want a blogging website where people can comment and just type their name and their message.
Can anyone tell me any?
webdesignerscotty answers:
WordPress.com is free and easy. Doesn’t require a login for commenters.
Lizzie asks…
blogging websites?
Is there another site out there that’s free that is similar to xanga, myspace, or bebo? If you do and have a sample of the site you are suggesting, please send me a url of your website and I will see if it meets my standards. Thank you so much.
webdesignerscotty answers:
Have you never heard of Blogger (now owned by Google)? Plus Tumblr, Livejournal, and Typepad. Xanga has a really great community though.
Laura asks…
What are some good blogging websites?
i really would like to start blogging, but i need some ideas of good websites
webdesignerscotty answers:
Tumblr and Xanga are probably the two most popular blogging communities. Other than that, wordpress, blogger/blogspot, typepad, and livejournal are very good.Hope this helps!
Richard asks…
What other blogging websites are there about from blogspot and livejournal?
I’m talking websites for mainly blogging…?
webdesignerscotty answers:
Xanga is one I can think of.
WordPress is another.
There are probably millions by now though.
William asks…
Are there any free blogging websites for teenagers?
Well, it can be for anyone 13 and up really.
I can’t find any good blogging websites for teens.
I don’t like Blogger
I already tried Xanga and WordPress. And don’t suggest Facebook, it isn’t technically and blog-only site.
I can’t find anything else.
Help please?
I tried Tumblr.
webdesignerscotty answers:
You named a lot of really good ones. What do you not like about them? They are all very rich in features. Xanga and Tumblr are very good with community blogging, the others have a lot of great features for blogging.
Ken asks…
How do i get popular on blogging websites?
I think I’m fairly good at blogging, well anyone could be. I want to be popular on these websites, any advice? Thanks!
Tumblr: http://destiny3.tumblr.com/
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/diamondlepord14/
webdesignerscotty answers:
Make your blog entertaining and fun to read. And then get the word out as much as possible so people know your blog exists.
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