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Just saw this blog.  The guys over at http://www.internetgangsters.com have started documenting their experiences with different affiliate programs and adsense and stuff like that. It’s really interesting to read.

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Adsense is a way to monetize and earn money from your site by putting Google ads from their advertising network Adwords. It has been around since June 2003 and Adsense has allowed many website owners to earn from their sites. I highly recommend going through the Adsense Quick Tour to learn more about the program http://www.google.com/services/adsense_tour/index.html

HOW DOES IT WORK

You apply and once you get approved, you can put in the Adsense code in your site. Here are the instructions on how to add Adsense codes on your site https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10192&topic=8434

You earn through various ways:

1. Pay per click – this is the common way to earn which is you earn every time a visitor clicks on your ads
2. Pay per impression – an advertiser can specifically target your site and show ads where you earn via cost per 1,000 impression (e.g. You earn every time someone sees your ad, even though they don’t click on it)
3. Adsense for feeds
4. Adsense for mobile
5. Adsense for search

WHAT PERSONAL INFO DO I HAVE TO GIVE?

In the application form https://www.google.com/adsense/g-app-single-1 you will give

- your name
- your address
- if your country qualifies for electronic fund transfer and you wish to be paid by EFT, your bank details
- your SSN or tax account number if you are in the US as Google reports Adsense income to the IRS

IS IT WORTH IT AND HOW MUCH MONEY PER MONTH DOES IT BRING IN?

Some sites do very well with Adsense (even in the millions of dollars a year) while many more sites do extremely poorly with the program (can’t even earn $10 a month). One of the misconception people have about Adsense is they simply slap it in their websites and it will automatically earn them big money — which is not true as evidenced by the many disgruntled webmasters

Your income will depend on:

- the topic of your site (if you have high paying keywords you stand to earn more)
- responsiveness of users to ad (are visitors coming to your site with blinders in their eye or do they look at the ads as additional complementary resource)
- traffic (you earn more with more traffic, even if you have low paying keywords or other metrics)
- how you implement the ads on your site (some positions and colors work better than others)

I suggest you join the program (you’ve got nothing to lose as it is free) and see how your site will do with it.

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Yes. You must be 18 for qualifying for Google Adsense. There are many other working methods to earn online even if you are under 18.
For more details, check

http://www.paidsurvey4indians.blogspot.com/

Also many internet marketers always need cheap article writers (even me!) at about $2 per article.

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If you want to choose a blogging platform other then blogger.com then go with WordPress.org, the open source, buy a domain and web hosting and get started.

See this: Effective ways to make money from Blogging

http://smashapps.blogspot.com/2009/06/effective-ways-to-make-money-from.html

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Try to avoid the data entry and survey sites as most of them are scams. If you are interested in taking surveys for extra income (it wont be much.). Don’t pay for a list of survey
companies go straight to the source.

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I would look at godaddy or hostgator for hosting they are cheap and fast servers and If you want to become pro blogger, you need to get steady heavy traffic, you should consider coaching from a problogger, like shoemoney, yaro starak, ewinchia, etc.

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I would look at godaddy for hosting they are cheap and fast servers and this other site has lots of info on blogging.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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Post regularly with some trendy hot topics.  You can make up your own topics or visit Alexa.com to see what’s currently hot.

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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.

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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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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

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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.

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WordPress.com is free and easy. Doesn’t require a login for commenters.

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Have you never heard of Blogger (now owned by Google)?  Plus Tumblr, Livejournal, and Typepad.  Xanga has a really great community though.

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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!

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Xanga is one I can think of.

WordPress is another.

There are probably millions by now though.

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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.

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Make your blog entertaining and fun to read.  And then get the word out as much as possible so people know your blog exists.