Increase Your Blog Traffic

1) Comment on BlogsLook for large traffic Blogs in your niche, visit them and leave your comments on their blogs posts. You may use blog search engine like www.blogsearchengine.com, www.google.com/blogsearch and www.searchengineblog.com to find blogs in your niche.

2) Submit ArticlesWrite articles that are related to your blog and submit them to popular article directories such as ezinearticles.com, Isnare.com, Articledashboard.com, Articlealley.com and goarticle.com. Quality articles may drive you a lot of free targeted traffic.

3) Participate in Community ForumsUse google to search for forums that are related to your blog. Look for forums that has over 10,000 members and read the rules of the forums to see whether you can promote your blogs and websites in your signature. Join forums that allow you to add a link to your blog in the signature and start participating in discussion. You can ask questions, answer other members questions and post your articles, ideas and thought in the forums.

4) Submit Your Blog to DirectoriesThis isn't working to me but some bloggers claim that they gain a good amount of traffic from their listings in directories.

5) Post OftenYou can lose traffic if you seldom update you blog, try to make it at least 5 posts per week. This not only will maintain your traffic but possibly attract more readers.

6) Write about BloggingWrite helpful and quality articles related to blogging can attract other bloggers link to your articles and gain may be truckload of free traffic.

7) Post Breaking NewsIf your found a breaking news of your niche very earlier, post it to your blog. It may give your blog's traffic a boost.

8) Social BookmarkingBookmark you blog posts in the large social bookmarking sites like Netscape.com, Digg.com, Simply and Reddit.com.

9) Run a ContestStart a contest on your blog. Think about the prizes that people really want. It will create a viral effect and bring in new visitors.

10) On-page OptimizationMake sure your blog's title tag and description tag contain your targeted keywords. When you have posted plenty of quality blog post and done a lot of blog promotion, don't be surprise to see your blog ranks top 10 in Google and get free search engine traffic daily.

6 Ways to Make Money Blogging

1) Cost-Per-Click (CPC) Advertising ProgramsCPC advertising programs are the best money making programs for most of the bloggers. They are suitable to all kind of blogs with family-friendly content regardless of their traffic level and age. CPC programs work well on blog because they display contextual ads that are highly relevant to blogs content and bloggers will earn anywhere between 10 cents to 50 cents for each contextual ads click by their visitors. With proper CPC ads optimization and consistent amount of traffic, a blogger can earn a steady amount of money displaying CPC ads on his/her blog. Google AdSense is no doubt, the undisputed king of CPC advertising programs and Yahoo Publisher Network is the closest alternative of AdSense.

2) Cost-Per-Action (CPA) Advertising ProgramsCPA programs is quite similar to CPC programs except CPA programs don't pay bloggers for each click on the CPA ads hosted by bloggers. The blogger only makes money when the visitor takes an action on the CPA advertiser website. The action can be a sign up, making a purchase, generating a lead, downloading a product and more. CPA networks pay a lot more than CPC programs, for a visitor sent by the blogger from his/her blog to a CPA advertiser website and the visitor taken an action on the advertiser site, the blogger can earn few dollar to fifty dollar depend on the niche. But CPA ads tend to work well on large traffic blogs only. AzoogleAds.com, Commission Junction and Advertising.com are some of the largest CPA networks.

3) Promote Affiliate ProgramsMarketing affiliate programs is very common nowadays. You sign up with affiliate program of an online company, then decide whether to use the company's text link or banner ads on your blog to promote the company's products or services and earn affiliate commission when a visitor make a purchase through your affiliate link. Affiliate programs can be promoted without a website and blog too.

4) Pay Per Post ProgramsPay per post programs started last year. The programs pay bloggers to write a blog post about a sponsor's website. The paid blog post can be a review or an introduction on the advertiser's website, products or services. The blogger will be paid a least $5 for each sponsor post. Blogs that have massive traffic, high Google PR and large number of subscribers can charge a few hundred dollar for just writing one sponsor post. Here's are the two most popular Pay per post networks that offer this type of earning opportunities:www.reviewme.comwww.payperpost.comThe downside of pay per post is that writing too many sponsor posts that are not relevant to your blog content can seriously affect your traffic.

5) Sell Text Link AdsSelling text links on your blog can be a great source of additional online revenue. It is not difficult to get started, just go to Text-link-ads.com to sign up an account, then decide which part of your pages you want to display paid text links, set your price and you are ready to take order. Text-link-ads.com will handle all the promotional works. Another company that offers the similar services as Text-link-ads.com is Reverselinks.com

6) Hosting Web PollVizu Answer offers a pretty new way to monetize your blog's and website's traffic. The pays the publishers on a cost-per-thousand impression (CPM) basis for hosting targeted web poll. The money a blogger can earn from hosting poll is depending on the page views. The more page views, the higher the earning.

eBay Money Making Tips

Your eBay reputation is almost everything you are on eBay - without it, you will find profiting on ebay very difficult. Your reputation is worth as much as every sale you will ever make.If you've ever bought anything on eBay (and the chances are you have), then think about your own behavior. Buying from a seller with a low feedback rating makes you feel a little nervous and insecure, while buying from a PowerSeller with their reputation in the thousands doesn't require any thought or fear - it feels just like buying from a shop.A Bad Reputation Will Lose You SalesIn fact, a bad reputation will lose you almost all your sales. If someone leaves you negative feedback, you will feel the pain straight away, as that rating will go right at the top of your user page for everyone to see. Who's going to want to do business with you when they've just read that you "took a month to deliver the item", or that you had "bad communication and sent a damaged item"? The answer is no-one.Your next few items will need to be very cheap things, just to push that negative down the page. You might have to spend days or even weeks selling cheap stuff to get enough positive feedback to make anyone deal with you again.It's even worse if you consistently let buyers leave negative feedback - once you get below 90% positive ratings, you might as well be invisible.You Can't Just Open a New AccountBesides eBay's rules about only having one account, there are far more downsides than that to getting a new account. You literally have to start all over again from scratch.You won't be able to use all the different eBay features. Your existing customers won't be able to find you any more. Your auctions will finish at a lower price because of your low feedback rating. Opening a new account is like moving to a new town to get away from a few people who are spreading rumors about you: it's throwing out the baby with the bathwater.A Good Reputation Will Get You SalesWhen a PowerSeller tells me something, I tend to believe them. They can be selling a pretty unlikely item, but if they guarantee it is what they say it is, then I trust them - they're not going to risk their reputation, after all. This is the power of a reputation: people know you want to keep it, and they know you'll go to almost any lengths to do so.This is true even to the point that I would sooner buy something for $20 from a seller I know I can trust than for $15 from someone with average feedback. It's worth the extra money to feel like the seller knows what they're doing, has all their systems in place and will get me the item quickly and efficiently.

Lulu TV

Lulu TV uses a slightly different model, with users signing up for a membership. 80% of the total of all of the subscriptions is put into 'the pot' and distributed among the most successful videos. If the site gets 1 million video views and your video(s) get 10,000 of those. That's 1% of the total views. So you get 1% of the Shareholder cash pool. You can have up to 10 clips per month in the pool.

Video specifications: 100 Megabytes maximum file size. Accepts FLash, MPEG-4, WMV, AVI and QT formats

Monetization Model: See below

Profit Share: Based on a percentile of overall site views and monthly subscription revenue

Advantages: Lulu.TV claims to have paid out over $20,000 to video makers. Community element and crowd sourcing a novel approach.Disadvantages: Having to pay $14.95 a month to stand a chance of turning a profit.

Sign Up for Lulu.TV.

Metacafe

Metacafe runs a Producer Awards scheme that pays out anything from $100 to $10,000 on views of user-generated videos.Metacafe will pay you $5 for every thousand views your video gets on their site. Payment starts when your video reaches 20,000 views and has a rating of 3.00 or higher which is an indication of the video'spopularity. With claims of over 1,000,000 users per day, the potential to earn good money from viral content is there.

Video specifications: No limit set, but under 5 minutes considered good form. Entertaining or funny clips are encouraged.

Monetization Model: $5 per 1000 views over 20,000

Profit Share: N/A

Advantages: Popular videos are capable of earning large profits. Rights to video content are retained by the video producer.

Disadvantages: Unless your video hits the right note, your popularity may effect your potential to earn.

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Stage6

DivX Stage6 offers a marketplace for producers that want their work to be viewed in high quality, full screen DivX, either on a computer, or when burned to a DVD, whichthe DivX format allows for. Using a Download-to-own model, rather than the optional rental service offered by Brightcove, Stage6 video producers can set their own price, of which DivX take a 10% transaction fee, and $0.0033 per megabyte surcharge. Viewers require a Windows PC with the free DivX Player.
Video specifications: Any length, DivX format only.

Monetization Model: Download-to-own sale of videos, with the price set by the producer.

Profit Share: 90% of the profits go to the producer, minus the $0.0033 per megabyte surcharge.

Advantages: Super high quality video that can be easily burned to DVD and almost 90% of the profits for the producer.

Disadvantages: The need to download and use the DivX player, and access to the service only available to Windows users.

Sign Up for DivX Stage6.

Brightcove

With the launch of Brightcove's new and improved range of services, as recently reviewed in full, there are now a great many ways for independent video producers to make use of the Brightcove network in the monetization of their work. Among them is the use of pre-roll, post-roll and mid-roll (advertising set in the middle of a video, between segments of a line up for instance) video.
The video producer can define key points within the video to decide where the advertising will be played, and advertisers can take advantage of a breadth of options by utilizing the Brightcove Adnet. This is in addition to the host of other monetization features offered by Brightcove, as further detailed below.

Video specifications: Any length, or size. Flash video, although Brightcove's console will convert almost all footage to this format automatically.

Monetization Model: Pre-Roll, Mid-Roll and Post-Roll placement, defined by the video producer

Profit Share: 50% for video producers, 20% off the top for those sharing Britghtcove video

Advantages: Ability to select and place Pre-Roll, Mid-Roll or Post-Roll advertising, integrated with other monetization solutions (see below)

Disadvantages: Greater control of content makes for lengthy preparation for publishing as compared to more user-generated focused sites.

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