7 Killer Tips For Optimizing Your YouTube Videos

At present most difficult task you find in blogging is to send in lot of traffic toward your blog. There are many ways and technique that I discussed here on this blog from time to time to build up traffic and increase visitors to your blog. Today am sharing with you a new technique of using YouTube to get traffic. This is called YouTube Marketing. This techniques help us drive traffic from youtube to your blog.

Gideon Shalwick published one of his most powerful and practical training videos taken directly from inside the members-only area of Become a Blogger Premium 2.0. One of the most consistently effective techniques for driving traffic to a blog today is YouTube marketing.

In this video you will learn some of the “insider secrets” that Gideon has been using and teaching to our members on how to get the most out of YouTube. The video can be watched on our Become A Blogger blog here.

Join Become a Blogger Traning Program HERE

Appeal to These Guys

This is an open letter to all these three giants of India telecommunication scene. Mr. Anil Ambani of Reliance Communication, Mr. Ratan Tata of Tata Indicom and Mr. Sunil Mittal of Bharti Airtel Limited.

I request you guys to take The Internet broadband in India to the next level now and make sure it comes within the reach of one and all. Stop sucking our blood for giving a broadband speed of mare 1 Mbps.

I am not graduated from Howard ( Read Harvard University) so I can’t understand your cleverly designed tariff plan. I know as per the definition of any TRAI any connection which is above 256 Kbps speed is called a Broadband connection in India (did I heard someone saying shame shame shame !!!).

Oh come on now, you know what the average internet connection speed is in all other fast growing countries. Please stop charging our bill on Time bases or usages bases, give us some freedom to play around the amazing World Wide Web.

Please do something about it and Gimme hope JoAnna before the morning come.

Sad and In Deep Pain – I Lost My Mentor, My Inspiration

The man whom I worship like god, the man who always been an inspiration for me to do good in life and make efforts to achieve my dreams, I grow listening to his music , the man who was like a father to me , just like my brother, my mentor and my guide Michael Jackson is no more.

I wake up this morning and stunned to hear this news, black Friday, I’m still not in a position to believe that he has gone. And yes in some way it’s true I feel with his music legacy he will be with us all the time.

As I told you I’m very big fan of Michael Jackson, when I was in college I used to sign his songs a lot and try to imitate his unique dancing style. I still remember when once I performed one of his songs and steal the show in college talent show. His songs always fill you with great energy. When he was in India in 1996, there were these final university exam of mine were going on, I missed the big opportunity to watch his live show. Thinking at that time that there will be more such events will come in future do not knowing that this is his first and last visit to my country. And I will never ever get a chance to see him.

I remember when I lost someone very close to me a few years back; I tune in to one of his song “gone to Soon” and cried all the night. Some time I am confused whether he is a good dancer or a better singer or a great composure or a great poet or a great actor. Actually he was a complete package of entertainment, liveliness and performance.

My Four Year son aditya Sings his songs

When I got married to shivani and have this cute little baby named Aditya I’m very surprise to see that this four year little boy prefer to listen to his song than of anyone else. Heredity, you can see in one of the YouTube video here how my little cute son is dancing on Michael Jackson’s song ‘don’t care about us’.

I started this blog on his birthday

And this not a co-incidence, he always been an inspiration to me, so when I decided to start blogging I started it on his birthday 29^th August.

Larger than life

Whatever Michael did its always larger than life, his “Doing Big” attitude always encourages you to brace yourself and do good in life, despite the fact that am  not from a very financially strong background I achieved a lot in life and proudly can say that a big part of it is belong to this attitude of doing BIG in life which I borrow from the king of pop Michael Jackson, that’s why I call him my mentor, you can’t imagine how much pain I am going through since I heard this news of his death. I never met him in life but I have learned a hundred and thousand of things from the man.

Receiving phone calls from my family and friends on his sad demise

My brother and other family members knows that how much I love his music and how much I admire him, they are calling me consolidate me. I am feeling like I have just lost someone very close to my heart. The vacuum is big and deep, I don’t know how I would come up from this reconcile this sorrow.

RIP Michael Jackson

I am like broken and shattered inside, can’t pour more word here, leaving you with one of my favorite song and some picture of the legend.

I will pour in some more stuff about him all through next month.

Loss is deep, I pray Jujus for his soul to rest in Peace.

How to Become a Blogger?

Do you have a roadmap with you of your blogging journey? Do you exactly know where you are heading and what you will after a certain period of time? Okay let’s ask you this way, do you know how you could become a successful blogger, is there any way through which you can learn how far you are from your dream destination and how you can be there?

Lucky you, because now you can get answers of all these questions, Gideon and Yaro are back with their mastermind The Roadmap to Become a Blogger.

If you haven’t set up your blog yet, go to this site where Gideon Shalwick takes you through ten videos that show you how to set up an optimized WordPress blog

Become a Blogger -Videos

While you are there, make sure you opt-in for the ”Roadmap to Become a Blogger” report, which Gideon and Yaro Starak has created. It’s also free, but don’t let that fool you, it’s packed with great content starting with a guide to successful blogging based on blogging system. The second half of the Roadmap is particularly important as it takes you through a series of techniques we call the ”X-Factor”. X-Factor techniques combine multimedia with social media to help your blog stand out from the crowd.

It’s tough nowadays to build a blog that succeeds because you need to do more than the average person does. That’s why the X-Factor techniques are critical. Once you read the report you can ask yourself whether you are doing anything to give your blog an X-Factor. From the Roadmap report you will learn the two key concepts:

1. The step-by-step “formula” that Yaro Starak used to create his amazingly successful blog.
2. Thirteen X-Factor strategies that you can implement immediately to put your blog into super drive.

YOU CAN GRAB YOUR COPY OF THE REPORT HERE -Its FREE!!!

Followed By Five Thousand

It’s good to see I am now followed by 5000 people of twitter. This Sunday when @GIFT4Tw8 Clicked on my “follow” button probably he did not know that he was my 5000th Twitter follower. It’s cool; great to see when you tweet something and it appears on twitter’s 5000 user’s screen. It’s not easy to get as many followers for me until I learn to handle twitter through some useful lethal tools to do tweeting in great style. Let me share with you how I tweet.

Twitter Follower: You Scratch my back and I’ll Scratch yours

When someone follows you on twitter he/she expects you to follow him/her back, it’s as simple as that. People with equal numbers of followers and people followed by are the once who preferably followed by more people. My Guru John Chow has come up with a new startup called TwitterFollower.com. You can use it for mass unfollow people whom you are following and who are not actually following you back.

TweetDeck

I use TweetDeck for tweeting. It’s a powerful tweeter application designed in adobe AIR. This made my tweeting experience really easy and handy.

Twitter Page Background.

I have designed my twitter background. I think this helps me get more followers. Your twitter page background must look impressive, if someone land on my twitter page he immediately click that ’Follow’ button and moreover he also visit to my blog through that link given at the top right of Twitter page. I have designed my Twitter background by myself but if you wish you could find some free resource where you can get your twitter background deigned.

Tweetlater

This Twitter Tools has so many features like posting a direct message immediately when someone follows you. Schedule tweets and keep your Twitter stream ticking over with new tweets even when you’re not in front of your computer. Publish tweets when your international followers are online and you’re asleep.

What’s your Twitter Story?

Share your experience with twitter in comments section below. Thanks for following me.

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What’s Your Business’s most Valuable Asset?

If you ask me for my business, I will say e-mail and RSS Subscribers base. For a blog like this nothing could be more valuable then having a huge rss subscriber base. You can always count on your RSS readers. It does not matter if they do not visit your blog and read it only through e-mail of through RSS reader’s software/client but I always value a RSS reader. The bigger your RSS Subscriber list is the more worthy your blog would be. As they say money is in the list.

It used to be that a business’s value was measured by its “tangible assets”, now “intangible assets” are usually even more valuable. Tangible assets are like real estate, your car, the cash in your bank, investments, your equipment, etc.  They are considered things that you can sell if need be and turn into hard cash. But now, the most valuable asset that any practice, or business for that matter, has is their contact database.

For example, just yesterday I read that Facebook was valued at $10 billion.  And the value comes from Facebook’s subscriber database and all their Joint Venture Relationships.  You know all those fun and weird applications that are on facebook.  Well those are all created by joint venture partners of Facebook.  And Facebook profits whenever someone uses those. The point that I really want to to over-stress is this:

[1] Asset Is Your Client Database.

[2] Asset Is Your Business Partner Database.

This is something that cannot be emphasized enough.  Usually the first thing we do when we work with our coaching client is evaluate how they are communicating and strengthening their relationship with their client list.  And the second thing that is so valuable to assess is how your business contacts and colleagues can work together to get more success.

Here are a few ways that you can stay in touch with your client database to help keep your practice at top of mind:

• Email newsletter
• Direct mail newsletter
• Birthday cards
• Christmas cards
• Phone calls
• Email updates

Learn from mistakes

Better to learn from our own mistakes but the best thing is to learn from others mistakes. Today I’m giving you a chance to learn about how you can avoid 10 most deadly common mistakes that can ruin your business practice. You must know which the common mistakes that people do which devalue their business assets so that you should not repeat them.

Get your FREE Reports at HERE

Grab OIO Publisher WordPress Premium Plugin for Free

This is one heck of an offer you can’t afford to miss; I know you love to have this powerful weapon OIO Publisher in your arsenal. Now this is the best time to fix it in your blog because now you can now grab it for free (Well almost).

Let me tell how get it for free. This authoritative ad manager is a WordPress Plugin focuses on maximizing your revenue, saving you time, and keeping you in complete control of your ad space.  It has made my life easy as I now have complete control over my advertising, with fully automated sales.

• The original Price of this WordPress Plugin is $47
• I will get $10 Discount if you will use Coupon Code MIDSUM-SHANKS
• Plus you will get $37 “AdSense Business In-A-Box” for free.

Just email me the confirmation mail for the above purchase and I will send you this awesome “AdSense Business In-A-Box” package to help you build a better web business and make more money.

Here is how OIO Publisher benefits you:

• Complete control over your advertising, with fully automated sales
• Make money from your websites whilst saving valuable time
• Keep 100% of your revenue, forget middleman commission
• Sell all forms of ads, and even your own digital products
• Run 3rd party ad networks alongside your own ads
• Gain exposure through free ad marketplace

This is one WordPress Plugin you must have if you are serious about making money online.Now let’s tell you something about “AdSense Business In-A-Box” profit package.

AdSense Business In-A-Box is a collection of a whopping 155 AdSense-ready websites, complete with multiple keywords and articles for each website. Each site is already optimized so that you can start making an AdSense income immediately. The AdSense Business In-A-Box is a 4 volume collection of a whopping 155 AdSense ready web sites, almost 70megs zipped. It’s complete with multiple articles for each web site, keys words and each site is already optimized so that you can start making an AdSense income immediately. A completely Plug and Play Solution.

So it’s a complete cool offer. But before you jump to snatch it I wish to tell you that I am using OIO publisher, it’s a great money making tool to have that’s why I’m recommending it but I haven’t use “AdSense In-A-Box”  package so I don’t have experience how it works, but since its free as bonus then there is no harm trying it.

Get Your OIO Publisher Now!

Make Sure you use Coupon Code MIDSUM-SHANKS. Mail me the confirmation mail for the above purchase and I will send you this awesome “AdSense Business In-A-Box” package.

This Offer is upto 30th June 2009, So hurry!!

A Tribute To Rajeev Motwani

Last week Silicon Valley lost its most cherished Gem, This blog do not suppose to report Silicon Valley news but this is something shocking and heart breaking. So I think I must give tribute from me and my readers to the great soul Rajeev Motwani.

Rajeev Motwani passed away on 5^th June in his pool in the backyard in his Atherton home. He was a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science.

He was an early advisor and supporter of companies including Google and PayPal, and a special advisor to Sequoia Capital. He was a winner of the Gödel Prize in 2001.

Rajeev Motwani was well-known for his mentoring of Google co-founders Larry Paige and Sergey Brin.

Remembering his mentor Rajeev Motwani Sergey Brin wrote on his blog named TOO

Of all the faculty at Stanford, it is with Rajeev that I have stayed the closest and I will miss him dearly. Yet his legacy and personality live on in the students, projects, and companies he has touched. Today, whenever you use a piece of technology, there is a good chance a little bit of Rajeev Motwani is behind it.

• He was an early advisor and supporter of Google and Paypal.
• He was a winner of the Gödel Prize in 2001.
• He was one of the co-authors with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Terry Winograd of an influential early paper on the PageRank algorithm, the basis for Google’s search techniques.
• He also co-authored another seminal search paper What Can You Do With A Web In Your Pocket with those same authors.
• He was one of the youngest professors at Stanford University.

A very supportive and kind person at heart Rajeev was a luminary in many academic disciplines.

Please post a comment if you wish to tribute legendary Rajeev’s extraordinary life and legacy.

Gurus -Do They Really Selling Secrets of Success?

Well as they say “Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll steal your fish” All these big Internet Marketing and Blogging Gurus are selling their marketing skills, they claims they are revealing what they have learned through out their entire life, they claims they are sharing the inside secrets.

My question is dose they really shares secret of their success?” If someone promises you that if you join his course he will teach you how he has build an empire and how he has made a huge ton of money, Dose he really teaches you inside secrets? Well who want to share his Trade Secrets? Is there really anybody? off course not, they are not fool, they are gurus, I’m also not saying that you are a fool who spend so much of money for joining these promising course, the reason is If they will not share the complete secret still at least they will show you a path through which you can sense where to head to reach to that success.

You can really learn a lot if not the whole. There no one in this world who will tell you the complete story about how he has made the entire empire how he succeeded in Internet affiliate marketing or in blogging for that matter. ShoeMoney himself confirm this in his latest 12 weeks Internet marketing course. He says:-

“Affiliate marketing is a lone wolf career.  Contrary to public belief, there is no website that is going to take your hand and walk you through it.  No forum, no blog, nothing.”

No body dares to share these well earned secrets

Have you earned it?

you can not become a super affiliate or a super blogger by just joining a blog, master mind course, but surely this will help you understand how these people has pass through and made it happened and you can also sense a bit how long and how hard these guys has done to establish themselves as a marketing guru or blogging god.

You see what you want to see

And what you learn is also what you want to learn, sounds crazy, in a class if 200 students join a course of blogging or affiliate marketing dose not guarantee that each one of those 200 students will rule the affiliate marketing world or blogging world next following years. Only those will succeed who have that extra zeal, a passion and ability to execute what they learned. You can be a good learner but you also need to be a good executor. You must also learn the art of executing your learning.

Whether you should join these courses by Bog Gurus?

Definitely yes, it will help you to get first hand experience to learn from the master. They will not teach you all inside secrets of their success but by joining these courses it will definitely motivate you to reach at a certain level in your niche. Hope you will learn and then earn hell lot of money from teaching of these big Gurus.

Over to you

Tell me what you think about it? When someone ask you to join his course and he will show you up how he made huge money, what exactly he means. Dose he really tell you the whole story or it’s a marketing game and nothing else?

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Free Traffic-Getting SEO WordPress Plugin from Jeff Johnson

The important thing which most of the bloggers fails to manage is Blog Traffic. You can have a great blog design, write great contents, but still may have experience with no traffic or no readers for your blog, you always wonders how people gets tons of traffic from search engine giant like Big Daddy Google.

Would you like to try some “Free Traffic-Getting SEO Plugin” for WordPress? I’m sure you would and I recommend you should definitely give it a try. I know you have tested various means and ways to increase traffic and failed miserably. Try this one, It works.

Lucky, we have Jeff Johnson who has decided to give you his Traffic-getting SEO Plugin for FREE. It’s his newest free SEO software that you can use to grab more free traffic from the search engines. All you have to do it plug it into your blog and his software does all the rest.

Don’t worry, if you already have a WordPress blog you can simply plug it in and let it work its Traffic-Getting magic. And if you don’t have a blog then Jeff shows you how to install a free one in as little as 2 minutes using a secret “push a button” technology that even the newest of newbies could use. The great thing about Jeff’s brand-new Free Traffic-Getting SEO Plugin is that it is easier to use and it is 100% free and Installs in minutes.

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Learn How to Build a Better Blog in Just 31 Days?

They say it only takes five minutes to build a WordPress blog. It’s true, and with just clicking few button you can start your blog on so many free blog sites, yes its true you can start your own blog in just few minutes, and starts writing posts. But then these challenges come in your mind as how you can engage your readers, how to make it popular and how to establish your blog’s brand in blogsphere.

Well as I said you can build a blog in five minutes but how much time it will take to build a better blog. If you ask blogging guru Darren Rowse he will say in 31 days. You must have heard about his latest blogging training book “31 Days to Build a Better Blog“.

Darren needs no introduction; he is regarded in blogsphere as the “Godfather” of professional blogging. Darren runs several blogs and has created many in his long blogging career. In terms of fame, he’s most respected for his work teaching other people how to blog professionally from his Problogger.net blog. He’s got over 80,000 subscribers to his blog about blogging, the largest readership of any blog
in our industry. He’s a true pioneer and as anyone who has met the guy knows, he’s very humble and a ridiculously hard worker.

I’m following Problogger Darren Rowse’s blog Problogger.net since beginning of my blogging vogue and learned a lot from him. Lets se what you can learn from his latest book “31 Days to Build a Better Blog” :-

1.       Intense Training – bloggers setting aside days, weekends or weeks to go through multiple tasks at once

2.       1 Task a Day – the way we designed it – one day at a time

3.       1 Task a Week – bloggers taking their time with the challenge and making the tasks week long tasks

4.       Monthly Cycle – bloggers using the tasks again and again each month as a monthly routine for their blogging.

5.       Occasional Inspirational Resource – bloggers dipping into 31 Days to build a better blog on a more occasional basis – using it on days when they have time or lack inspiration.

Grab your copy of 31 days to build a better blog now.

It’s an action-focused workbook to improve your blog through a 31-day “bootcamp” style training
regime.  It’s not about making money from blogging, the focus is a lesson a day and action activities to go along with each lesson, to make a dramatic improvement to your blog’s overall performance.

Grab your copy HERE.

Blogging as Moonlighting

What is Moonlighting?

One out of every seventeen Americans working on more than one job. That’s comes to 7 to 8 Millions Americans. Working on more than one job called moonlighting. This word moonlighting sound pretty interesting but it is a helplessness rather than a charm. Well who want to do a job and who want to do more then one job?

Why Moonlighting?

You can come to me with so many reasons for moonlighting but I know most of us do a second job simply to increase the skill to pay the bill and meet out the living expenses.

Blogging as Moonlighting

Well people do blogging and now there are so many ways through which they can monetize their blog. There are people earning hell lot of money through blogging and affiliate marketing. Well this seems to be a better option then doing a second job. More over if you do it properly and succeed in establishing a small business enterprise it can also help you quit your day job.

What you say?

Given an option what you would like to do. A second job or try to set up your very own small Internet business venture through blogging and internet marketing which can further help you out to quit your day job?

Look like blogging as moonlighting is a better option but if you are poor at time management it can also create problem succeeding in your FIRST job. Give your opinion in comment below.

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Learn Internet Marketing from the Professor Shoemoney

Jeremy “Shoemoney” Schoemaker is a very well known, self made Internet millionaire. His blog, Shoemoney.com, is hugely popular and driven largely by the personality of Jeremy.  He has done some crazy stuff over the years and he certainly knows a lot about how to make big money online, so you need to listen this guy.

Jeremy just let me know that he made available a 12 week training program that covers all the fundamentals of Internet marketing.

Here is the weekly breakdown of the program -

Week 1: The Beginner’s Guide To Internet Marketing
Week 2: Affiliate Marketing 101: Everything You Need To Know To Start Promoting Products
Week 3: Market Research: How To Crush Your Competitors And Discover Hot Niches
Week 4: Pay Per Click: How To Earn Cash With Each Click
Week 5: SEO: How To Rank Higher And Increase Traffic
Week 6: Site Creation: How To Build A Site With Zero Programming Knowledge
Week 7: Content Creation: How To Create Articles That Attract Users And Increase Sales
Week 8: Marketing: How To Use Social Media To Spread Your Brand
Week 9: Make That Cash: 10 Ways To Monetize Your Site And Increase Profitability
Week 10: Testing & Tracking: How To Optimize Your Site & Make Sense Of The Figures
Week 11: Building Your Team: How To Network With Others And Find Long Term Partners
Week 12: Launch Day: How To Kick Start Your Business And Manage Your Projects

Jeremy was planning on releasing a book, but decided instead to release his lessons through this course, and best of all, he’s giving it away for FREE.

I’ve just signed up for the training, so it really doesn’t matter if you’re a newbie or an oldie to Internet marketing like me. There’s always more to learn, especially from experienced experts like Jeremy.

If you have some time available over the next 12 weeks for some very practical training from
Jeremy, you can sign up for the program here -

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ITS FREE , ABSOLUTELY FREE , NO CATCH

What is Blogging and How Bloggers Make Money from Blogging?

Back to the Basics

Whenever someone come across to my blogging thing or whenever I tell someone that I am a blogger and write a make money online blog, then surprisingly a question mark immediately appears on their faces, hands goes up and a little shout “what the hell blogging is, I still don’t know what you are doing man”.  Ha Ha, Blogging is still not very popular on India. The next important question they ask to me is “are you making money out of it?’. Actually in India we believe in doing everything for money, and if it isn’t for money we Indian consider it as waste of time.

So I’m trying to explain here what blogging is and how we make money from our blogs. It’s a efforts to introduce blogging and making money from blogging to a newbie and a journey back to the basic for those who are already blogging and making money out it.

What is a blog?

A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries called blog posts consist of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.

It means:

• A blog is a specific website
• These are organize by writing articles called blog posts
• Blogs usually maintained by Individual persons
• Posts are displayed in reverse chronological order i.e. most recent post at the top.
• Each blog posts can become a discussion to comments left by its readers

From year 2003 more then 113 millions blogs have been created worldwide. The big deal about blogs is that each individual works as a news media source, express his or her opinion which is read by a high number of a small community.  Its now has become a powerful tool to convey your voice and reach a large audience. Most blog readers are other bloggers of similar interest who reads, comments and links each others blogs. A celebratory blogger can now interact with his/her fans through a blog.

A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important feature of blogs.

How to start a blog?

[1] You can start your own blog for free as there are so many websites which provides you space to create and maintain your very own blog. There is not much of technical or web designing skill required for creating and maintaining a free blog with these sites.  Two most popular website which offer free blogging space are:

Blogger.com

WordPress.com

[2] If you decide to blog but don’t want to use free blog services like blogger.com or WordPress.com then you can setup your blog on a remote host by buying web space form any hosting company, install a blogging software available at WordPress.org, Joomla, Drupal, etc  and start blogging. No doubt you need some technical skill to install and setup blogs on a self hosted space. The basic difference between a self hosted blog and a free blogs are:

• If you chosen a free service then your blog URL would be something like www.yourblog.wordpress.com or www.yourblog.blogspot.com whereas in self hosted blog you can buy any domain of your choice. Like this blog is setup on a self hosted space using WordPress blogging software.

• In a free blogging site you probably not have much control over designing and look of your blog and would have to choose your design from free generic theme or templates available by free blogging service. While in a self hosted blog you can adopt various themes and design to give unique look to your blog.

• If you are blogging to make it a business then free blogging sites will not help you a lot as you would not have much control over selling ad space and monetizing your blog.

How to make money from blogging?

Now the second question how bloggers make money from blogging. But First I want to make it clear that there are various ways you can make money from “internet” but I’m giving you only means to make money from blogging.

[2] Google AdSense

This is the most popular and easy way to make money from blogging. You just need to register with google AdSense program, submit your blog to google for approval and then if they approve your blog for AdSense program then you need to paste Google AdSense codes at space where you want to show Google AdSense ads. Google AdSense display targeted Google ads on your website’s content pages and earn from valid clicks or impressions. AdSense gives you access to Google’s vast network of advertisers, so you can show ads that are suited to your audience’s interests. But do remember before submitting your blog to google for their AdSense Program you must fill in your blog with 20 to 25 articles or blog post on your subjects.

After that you need to optimize your blog for google search engine, gain high page rank and increase visitors from organic search.

Sign Up for google AdSense

[2] Selling Private ads on your blog

Selling ads on your blog is not easy, for this your blog must receive high traffic, high readership. You can sell ads on your blog in various formats. Selling ads on a blog which is on a free blogging platform like blogger.com or WordPress.com is hard. Whereas a blog on self hosted space can place and market private ads more easily.

Read this post for further help.

[3] Paid Review

If your blog has a high page rank then you can submit it to various sites which offer paid reviews. To rank high in google index various products and service sites needs bloggers to write reviews about their products or services and pay high amount in return. This is a great way to earn a little extra money from blogging.

I’m giving you some sites where you can register your blog for writing paid reviews.

• B5media
• Bloggerwave
• Blogitive
• Blogsvertise
• InBlogAds
• Payperpost
• PayU2Blog
• ReviewMe
• Smorty
• SponsoredReviews
• Weblogsinc

[4] Selling Affiliate Products or services

You can sign up with various affiliate networks, a small list of recommended affiliate network given below, can opt to market an affiliate products related to your blog niche and promote it by writing reviews, if someone click on those affiliate link and purchase the product or services then you get paid a handsome commission by affiliate ad network. Again the condition is that your blog must have at least 1000 or more unique visitor per day then only affiliate marketing through blogging can be effective otherwise people choose to use e-mailing system to earn through affiliate marketing.

• ClickBooth
• Market Leverage
• Pepperjam Network
• Motive Interactive

Hope this article will help newbie to understand what blogging is and how bloggers make money from it. If you still need any clarification or have opinion about any thing explained above and you are more then welcome to comment below.

How to Create a Membership Site with WordPress?

There is a lot of buzz in blogsphere about membership sites these days; it seems membership sites are the only way left to make huge money. I know some of you guys out there have already join Yaro Starak’s Membership Site Mastermind program, but what about those who can’t afford this course but still want to create their very own membership site and then wish to make a big big money out of it.

I’m here to help you. I will give you some idea about how you can create a premium membership site with your favorite blogging platform WordPress.

What is a Premium Membership Site?

A premium membership site is one where visitors pay either a subscription or one-off fee to access special members-only content. You must have experience this sometimes where you have been refused to have access certain area or contents of a website as you are not the paid member.  Well this is exactly a membership site where you charged to access “members only” content.

How to create a Membership Site using WordPress?

WordPress can be used to build a premium membership site. For this you need to use couple of WordPress Plugin made specially to create paid membership functionality.

[1] WP-MEMBER

WP-MEMBER is a premium WordPress Plugin. It is basically formed to create unlimited membership levels and select which post, page and category can be viewed by each membership level. Select one or multiple membership levels per post, page & category and WP-MEMBER will automatically manage users’ subscriptions, payments and access rights.

Membership Plugin is the most sought after and most used WordPress membership / subscription plugin in the world. It has been built using the latest technology to provide you with the most powerful membership plugin around. Our technical support team are highly trained and experienced in WordPress, web 2.0 and customer services so that should you ever have any queries, they can be answered swiftly and accurately.

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[2] EasyPayPal WordPress Plugin

EasyPayPal is a WordPress plugin that allows you collect payments from your WordPress membership site users. When a new user creates a login on your site, they will be taken to PayPal to process their payment. When they return to your site, the next payment date will be updated based on a period that you define. After the next payment date, the user will attempt to login and they will be taken to PayPal to process their next payment.

There are some more features EasyPayPal WordPress Plugin has like:

• Charge for Content’ using Pay Buttons
• Simple Pay Now (No Login Required)
• Charge to Publish’ using a Custom Payment page
• Custom Subscription Page
• Subscriber-only Content

Download EasyPayPal WordPress Plugin

[3] aMember Professional Membership Software

aMember is a bit costly affair but very useful and flexible membership and subscription management PHP script. It has support for PayPal, BeanStream, 2Checkout, NoChex, VeriSign PayFlow, Authorize.Net, PaySystems, Probilling, Multicards, E-Gold and Clickbank payment systems and allows you to setup paid-membership areas on your site. It can also be used without any payment system which means you can run voucher promotions, give out free memberships, and integrate with other payment systems. It is indeed recommended for those who are well versed with coding stuff.

Buy aMember Professional Membership Software

Hope the above information will help you to create your paid membership site. So go and create one like this guy did, make lots of money, buy a mansion and have fun.

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