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How To Make Money With Your Blog

If you have a blog or are planning on beginning one soon, then you obviously want it to be as successful as possible. It should go without saying that you need to update your blog regularly – at least three or four times a week. However, there are a handful of other things you should do as well.

Here are a few tips to make your blog more successful. You should be writing articles, submitting your blog to digg.com and similar sites, pinging your blog, including the link to your blog in your signature on forums, and including the link on social networking sites.

One of the best ways to promote your blog is by writing articles about the topic and submitting the articles to article sites such as ezinearticles.com or goarticles.com. You can even just cut and paste an actual blog and submit it to your blog. Just put a link to one of your blogs in the signature box below the article.

The second tip to make your blog better is to visit dig.com and add the URL to the site. This will draw in more visitors and will get
you a ton of hits if your blog post is good enough to be selected as one of the feature stories. There are other sites like digg.com
that you can visit as well.

Every time you post a new blog, you should ping your blog. There are many great services on the Web that will ping your blog. All you have to do is enter the URL and the service will do the rest of the work.

The fourth of the five tips to make your blog better is to belong to forums that are in the same niche as your blog. Then make good posts on the forum and include a link to your blog in your signature on the blog.

Finally, the last tip to make your blog better is to create profiles on a number of social networking sites and then include
links to your blog. This will allow even more people to see your blog. Some of the best social networking sites are MySpace,
FaceBook, and Squidoo.

Too often people create a good blog but they don’t do a few easy things that will make their blog more popular. Five tips to make
your blog better are…

1.) Writing articles
2.) Submitting the blog to dig.com and similar sites
3.) Pinging your blog
4.) Including the link in your signature on forums
5.) Including the link on social networking sites

If you’re looking for more advanced blogging strategies, feel free to check out atomic blogging now:

What is Atomic Blogging?

How to Build a Squidoo Lens in 10 Minutes

A Squidoo lens is a great thing to set up. Google once again seems to love Squidoo. That means Google ranks Squidoo lenses very well on their search results. It’s also very easy to build a Squidoo lens quickly. Here’s how to build a Squidoo lens in 10 minutes.

The first thing you need to do is go to Squidoo.com and sign-up for an account (if you don’t already have one). Once you have an account then you’re ready to build your first lens. So you can go ahead and click-on “Make a Lens” at the top of the page. Then go ahead and complete the information they ask you to complete.

The correct way to build a Squidoo lens is for you to include keywords for your topic. Try to do this in the URL and in the title of your lens. You’ll also be able to add keyword tags to your lens after you’re built the lens.

Once you’ve filled in the preliminary information (name of lens, the URL, keywords, etc.) then you want to actually build your lens.

The best way how to build a Squidoo lens in 10 minutes is to include as little information as possible in each module (you can add more information later). You also want to have about 5 modules.

So begin with the Introduction module. In about 3 sentences explain what the lens is about. Include a picture if you have one.

Then include a poll, an Amazon module (books from Amazon that relate to the niche), a YouTube module, and a link list (linking to your website). It will probably take you about 5 minutes to do all
that. You can add more now or later if you want.

One last thing you do need to do is include more keyword tags. You do this by going to the right of the lens and clicking on “edit” beside tags. Then put in as many as 20 keyword tags that apply to your lens.

When this is finished go ahead and click on “Publish” at the top of the page. This will put your page “live” on Squidoo. Remember you can go back in and make improvements later. You can add some other cool modules like “Black Box” or “Sticky Note”. (They are both super-easy to set-up and they look great!) Just to get your lens up and running this is a great way how to build a Squidoo lens in 10 minutes or less.

If you’re looking for a detailed plan that will show you how to use Squidoo to crack the first page of Google just head over to Ultimate Squidoo.

Four FREE Ways to Make Money Online

There are many ways to make money online. Many of the money-making techniques take money to make money. This means that you need to begin with money if you hope to make any money. However, there are several free ways to make money online. Let’s take a look at four of them right now.

1. Offer Your Services

Perhaps the easiest way to get started making money online is by offering your services to other internet marketers. If there is something you do especially well – such as writing, designing web
pages, etc. – then you can find people who will be more than happy to pay for your services.

You can go to some sites that charge you to pay to bid on projects (such as elance or scriptlance) but you don’t have to. In fact, you’ll probably have more success by going to forums and simply putting your email in the signature box and writing that you will write, design, etc. for people. To get started you could even offer to do a couple projects for dirt cheap just to get a couple references.

2. Become an Affiliate and Set-Up a Free Blog

There are many places you can sign-up with to become an affiliate. Clickbank is probably one of the best and easiest to sign-up with.

Become an affiliate for a couple products and then set-up a couple free blogs to promote the products. Just write a new blog three or four times a week and include the affiliate link on the blog. Also remember to Digg your blog and write articles with links back to your blog.

3. Use Social Networking Sites

Social networking sites is another great way to make money through affiliate sales. You can be an active member and create one or more pages on social sites such as MySpace, FaceBook, Squidoo, Xanga, and FacePaint.

You can also use your social networking site(s) in conjunction with a free blog. Also, you can use article marketing to help direct traffic to your social networking sites.

4. Create Your Own Product

You could also create your own product and sell it on your free blog, social website, and on forums. Of course this would work best if you pay a little money and set-up a sales page with the
necessary bells and whistles. But you can do it the free way and make some money as well.

So there you have four free ways to make money online. You can commit to any or all of these free ways and begin bringing in money within a few days to a couple weeks.

For a more detailed plan on how you can get started earning money online feel free to check out the “Your Bill Killer” system. The sales letter seems to contain a bit of hype, however, the product has been receiving some great reviews so you might want to check it
out :

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Here are 10 Simple SEO Tips in audio…listen and enjoy!

One of the simplest ways to rank on page 1 of Google is to get as many one way text links pointing back to your site as possible. As you may know…I’m a big, big fan of automation…and one of my favorite tools that I use to to get one way text links…is a company called 3 Way Links.

If you need some proof that 3 Way Links works….just go to Google and search for the phrase “online business coach” and “online business mentor” …I’m usually on page one for both terms…and I’ve used nothing more than 3 Way Links to do this.

Jon Leger is a master at inventing software that automates tedious little tasks…and this was a complete home run.

Thanks Jon!

What is Web 2.0?

As Web 2.0 becomes less of just a buzzword and more of a reality, the types of sites webmasters need to publish will increasingly become more important. In other words, mini-sites are slowly dying and cookie-cutter article sites are on the way out as well. Web surfers will become more value-focused and web companies will become larger in their niche and will be viewed as an Authority Site.

Web 2.0 is basically a trend or the idea of websites being more interactive with the surfers. These type of sites usually offer a way for the web surfers to voice their opinion through blogs, forums, and other interactive gadgets.

The more important issue is that you are not ignoring this trend…because it is here to stay. And I’ll tell you why…

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Okay, this is kind of long…but I need to tell you the whole story so you understand my story.

About 3 wks ago I was excited to enter the PLR market, and I found what I thought was going to be one of the easiest systems to help people make money online. It all started when I read this post in the WF.

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In the past three years, I have noticed a lot of Plugin Profit Site members come and go. Too many members were not making any money from PIPS and this was becoming a major problem.

Statistics show that about 95% of the people fail in online business.

About 3 years ago when I first joined PIPS, I decided in my heart that I am NOT going to be a part of the 95% of the people that fail.

And I decided that I will do whatever it takes to become successful at this business.

While that worked for me, I saw many people come and go…many tried and failed. And after watching this crazy cycle for several years…

I concluded that there was a major problem with PIPS…

The story usually goes like this…

1. You get all excited and join the Plugin Profit Site

2. You eagerly start going through the “30 Days To Success”

3. You follow each recommendation, and start spending money.

4. You think the money will soon start to come in…but it doesn’t.

5. The 30 days are up, and you are out of money…

6. You quit, thinking that you have failed…but you have no idea why…

The truth is, you didn’t fail……the system failed.

After I realized that this was an ongoing problem…and I decided to create a mastermind group and recruit some of the biggest names in PIPS…or some of the most successful Plugin Profit Site members…and get ask them to offer their knowledge in the form of a mentoring group.

We went into a full launched on Feb. 27th…and the results since have been awesome!

Go take a look right now!

We are the PIPS Power Group!

Ken

Why do people succeed? Because they’re smart? Or lucky? How about: Neither. Richard St. John compacts more than a decade of research into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success. (Hint: Passion, persistence, and pushy mothers help.) Inspired by a chance encounter with a high school student who asked him how to become a success, St. John interviewed more than 500 successful people, then distilled what they told him into eight simple principles.

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I absolutely love this video of Seth Godin…very nice presentation, and very good speaker. I was going to write a detailed post on finding an idea or niche…but this video explains it so well, and much better than I could. So just watch the video…its very entertaining.

Ah, if your like me…after watching this video, you’ll be inspired to invent a remarkable idea of your own.

Good ideas are sometimes hard to come by…if your like me, you might appreciate some help in coming up with great ideas of your own? Perhaps you could Start A Niche Store in almost any niche

…or if you don’t want to do physical products, get some ideas from Anik Singals new Niche Marketing Secrets course where he will teach you how he uses a simple 3 page website in any niche with any idea to create THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS each month while he sleeps Click here to see Anik’s Niche Marketing Secrets

Cheers,

Ken

Yesterday 3WayLinks launched…and is now live and open to the public. This is a dead simple way to get a ton of one way links pointing back toward your site.

In the middle of June, I was invited by Jon Leger to join a team of beta testers to test out his latest invention called 3 Way Links. At that time, I had a site that was nowhere to be found in the search engines…so of course, I thought this would be a perfect test.

Well…within two weeks, my site went from nowhere, to the first page of Google for one of my keywords. At first I thought it was just by chance…but it has remained on page one ever since I started with 3WayLinks. I’ll admit…this really got me excited.

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