Making Money Blogging

Blogging for Dollars
How to Monitize Your Blog

Believe it or not, it’s actually possible to make money from blogging. Many internet entrepreneurs are earning $5,000 and more a month on their blogs! Is there a method to making this kind of income or is it just pure dumb luck? Well my fellow bloggers, it does take some skill, and it also takes some luck to make money from blogging. “OK Exalted One,” you ask, “how exactly am I going to generate income just by posting blogs?” Whoa, hold on there Captain Under-pants, don’t lose your leotard.  That is exactly what I am about to disclose to you in this here post. You are about to learn that it does take a bit of knowledge to make money blogging and today, you will learn about three specific methods of making money on your blog: Adsense, Pay Per Lead, and Affiliate Links.

So how exactly will I make money on my blog?

You will make money with your blog by working with other companies that want to use your blog as a form of advertising. “Oh no, Dave, that sounds like selling out, I don’t want to ruin my blog with a bunch of cheap commercials?”  Well don’t fret amigo, the advertising can be as in your face or as subtle as you want it to be. And it can still make you money, provided you have enough visitors to your blog.

What is Adsense?

Adsense is a program offered by Google. The program, if installed, will display ads on your website provided by Google. Google AdSense is the program that can give you advertising revenue from your website—It will take you very little time to set up and it will cost you zip…ziltch… nada… zero.

AdSense delivers relevant text and image ads that are targeted to your sites type of content. Plus if you add a Google search box to your site, AdSense will deliver relevant text ads that are targeted to the Google search results pages generated by your visitors’ search request.

How do I get Adsense?

First you need to go to Google.com. At the bottom of the screen, click on the link for “Advertising Programs”. Then click on the link for “Adsense”. Scroll down on the page that comes up and find “Click Here To Apply!” Click there and fill out the form with information about yourself. After 12-48 hours, Google will send you an email informing you whether or not your site has been accepted. When you’ve been accepted, you will set up your ads by doing either of the following:

1. If your blog is hosted on Blogger.com, you can set up your AdSense ads by going to your profile, selecting settings>template>add an element. Then select AdSense and login with your account info. Next, you’ll configure your ads and save the template. That’s it you’re done.

2. If you are self-hosting your blog, you’ll have to set up AdSense in more of a manual way. You’ll create your ads (which can be as small or as tall as you want) and then copy the HTML/Javascript code Google gives you. Then you’ll paste it into your blog (on the left, right, or top of the screen).

For the first few days, the ads displayed by Google will be Public Service Announcements. After the ads have been up a few days, though, the ads will switch to ads that are relevant to your blog.

How does Adsense work?

Every time a visitor clicks an Adsense ad, you get a little bit of money (usually around 30-60 cents). The amount you get for each ad clicked depends on the number of unique visitors you receive on your blog. The more visitors you get the more money you can earn.

Google will send a check or pay you through Paypal once you’ve made at least $100 from the ads.

Remember…. Google will penalize you if you click your own ads, don’t do it! Also don’t ask visitors s to click ads for you.

Pay Per Click

Pay Per Click is basically just like AdSense, except you work with multiple companies you don’t just work with Google—.  BidVertiser is one such company you can sign up with to do Pay Per Click advertising.

How do I get Pay Per Click

You sign up with a site like Bidvertiser and then follow their
instructions to set up the Pay Per Click ads on your site.

How does Pay Per Click work?

Pay per click works by paying you money each time someone clicks an ad that you display. You only get paid for legitimate clicks. You won’t get paid for multiple clicks from the same user in the same visitor, nor will you get paid for someone simply visiting your site..

Affiliate Links

Affiliate links are basically links which people pay you for.  Companies will actually pay owners of popular blogs to post links on their blog. You can do as much Affiliate linking as you want.

How do I get Affiliate Links?

You can get Affiliate links by searching for “Affiliate Link Programs” on the internet. Once you find an Affiliate link program that fits your criteria and looks good to you, sign up for it. Then you can follow their instructions for putting the link(s) on your blog.

How do Affiliate Links work?

Like the other two methods mentioned above, Affiliate links work by paying you money each time they are clicked and the person doing the clicking buys something. You then receive a commission for the sale of the product or service.

So that’s it. There’s three legitimate ways to make money from blogging. “So, how much money can I make Dave?”  Well… keep in mind that the amount of money you are able to make is directly related to how many visitors your blog draws. If you draw a lot, you’ll make a lot. If not, the money you earn will be modest. But extra money is extra money… so why not do it?

So if you’re blogging anyway, why not grab some of the money that’s available by using Adsense, Pay Per Click or Affiliate Link programs. It is an easy and effective way to start monetizing your blog today!

See you at the top…sooner than you may think,

Dave Carter

Deciding What Type of Blog You Should Use?

Self Hosted Blog or Free Blog

With the information I am about to give you on both types of blogs, you should be able to choose the one that is right for you. In this post, we’ll go over services like blogger.com and others. We will also talk about software that allows you to host your own blog. I’ll also cover the pros and cons of each. After reading this, you will have a better idea which is best for you.

Now if you’re like me you enjoy getting things for free. Well guess what Sponge Bob…with blogging you have hit the Mother Lode.

Free blog hosting?

 

What software can I use to host my own blog?

Like free blog hosting, there are many options for software that will make hosting your own blog easy. Most of them are free to use. These include:

WordPress(the most popular software)

B2evolution

Geeklog

 

Nucleus

Textpattern

LifeType

 

One drawback about using software and hosting your own blog is that the process can often be complicated. You have to download the software and install it to your server, which isn’t always a snap. It’s particularly hard for those who don’t have a lot of experience installing things on servers. (Huh! What’s a server?).

Why should I use a free host like Blogger?

Places like Blogger allow you to host your blog there. It’s a good option for many people.

The Pros

·        It’s friendly for beginning bloggers. Someone who is completely new to the concept of blogging can do it easily by taking advantage of the good tutorials on how to start your blog and make your blog postings.

·        All you have to do is sign up for an account and start posting. It’s easy to set up and maintain a blog. You don’t have to go through the trouble of installing software and configuring it to work on your server.

·        Most blog hosting sites are completely free to use. There is no need to pay for a domain name and hosting.

·        Monetizing your blog is easy. Rather than having to manually put HTML/Javascript codes on your blog to manually set up things like AdSense and Pay Per Click advertising, you can select an option on most blog hosting sites that will do much of this work for you.

 

The Cons

·        You have to stick with what is provided to you with looks and features.

You don’t have as many options to customize your blog. Remotely hosted blogs are a bit limited in terms of what you can actually do on them. The URL you get is always username.BLOGSITE.com. You don’t get to have a custom domain name like YOURNAME.com. This can possibly hurt traffic to your blog.

·        Blogs hosted on free blog sites don’t look as professional as self hosted blogs.

 

Self-hosted blog – Pros & Cons

The Pros

·        You will have the ability to make your blog look more professional. Blogs that are hosted on sites of their own tend to have a much better look than those hosted on free sites.

·        You will have more options and much more flexibility. You will be able to design the blog to your own style.

·        You will have more space. Free blog sites usually place a restriction on how much space you are allowed for things like music and photos. By self-hosting your blog, you will have as much space as you need.

·        You want the search engines to find you not WordPress.
Your own URL is your address for your blog. Rather than having go to where your blog is hosted to read it, the search engines can read it right from your site.

This last reason is why I choose to host my blog on my own site. If you have an internet business it’s all about driving traffic to your site. When you host it on your own server, you can get a better page rank, PLUS, you can add other pages on the server.

I know this would be a big step for many of you and the thought of it might be giving you a lot of heartburn. Here’s some help. My friend and associate in the travel business, Melanie Milletics has an excellent video on launching your blog. Congratulations Melanie on being featured in Travel and Lifestyle magazine. You can view the video here.
http://www.mlm-list-building.com/webinars/launchyourblogvid.html

The Cons

·        There are sometimes problems with setting up blog software to run on your site and server. If you aren’t experienced when it comes to working with mySQL, the process will be rather difficult.

·        Updates aren’t as easy to post.

·        You have to manually set up programs to monetize your blog.

However, if you are good with HTML/Javascript, this shouldn’t be too hard.

·        You have to pay for your own hosting and domain

 

As you can see, there are many pros and cons to both. Which method should you choose? Well, it depends on who you are and what you intend to use your blog for. If you intend to use it for business, then a self-hosted blog is the best idea. If it’s a personal blog, then a free hosted blog will probably be fine for you.

To your success,

Dave Carter

 

Next Post - Blogging for Dollars

 

Introduction to Blogging

In case you didn’t get the point in my first two posts, Automatic Sponsoring and Attraction Marketing are all about getting people to come to you to sign up for your product or program.  Here’s the rub – if you want folks to come to you, in some large way you need to establish a presence on the internet.

The fastest, cheapest, easiest way to establish a presence on the internet is by blogging.

Blogging, what is it?  You’ve heard talk about blogging but frankly you don’t have clue one what it is. In fact with all this techno-jargon buzzing around your head like a squadron of annoying mosquitoes, you feel like you may be missing out on something big but don’t quite know what it is..

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That’s alright, no stress here, loosen the drawstring on your jammies and relax, we’ll go over what a blog is, the history of blogs, what they are used for and why they are important to your online business. And what’s more Kemo Sabi, we’ll make it easy to understand.

What is a blog

A blog is essentially like a journal where people can post their thoughts and have them read and commented on by anyone.

What is a blogger

A blogger is someone who creates a blog and posts on it. What’s posts on it mean? Simply writing an article and posting it.

See, I told you we’d make it easy to understand.

Brief history of blogs

Weblogs, simply known as blogs now, haven’t been around for that long. The roots of the blog can be traced back to 1994 when people kept online journals (diaries) in which they wrote about things going on in their life.

The current blog has been around for an even shorter period of time. In 1998, Open Diary created a site in which its users could post blogs. The cool thing they introduced was that their articles had the ability to be commented on by other people.

The popular free blogging site called Blogger was created in 1999 by Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan. Blogger was later purchased by Google in 2003. Side note; Don’t ever wonder why Google is so successful – when you have an in-house brain trust that is able to identify new trends and jump in ahead of the curve – you simply cannot fail.

Despite the fact that blog sites have been in existence since 1998, they have only been popular for 5 or 6 years. In 2001, how-to-blog manuals were published and the phenomenon has only taken off since that point.

What are blogs used for?

Over time, the use of the blog evolved. People began using the blog to post their opinions about everything from politics to religion to sports to music, among other things.

Nowadays, blogs are even used to make money—one 20-year-old makes $5,000 from Google per month because he has Google Ads on his blog. In the very beginning, blogs were usually used to talk about a person’s life. People would make blog posts about things happening in their life, thus using the blog as a public journal.

Businesses have also begun to effectively use blogs for their own purposes.

Why are blogs important to your online business?

Millions of people from all over the world read blogs every day.  Those who have a blog are given a lot of exposure—there is the potential for them to have millions of unique readers each day.

Can you imagine having a million people see your business’ name each day? That sounds pretty incredible, doesn’t it? Yet, that’s exactly what could happen if you create and maintain a successful, well-read blog. And that’s actually a pretty easy thing to do.

So how exactly can you use the blog to help your online business? Well, you can use it in a variety of ways.

You could:

·        Use the blog to discuss things related to your field of business. For instance, if your business provides web hosting services, you could discuss things related to web hosting, thus showing potential customers how much of a guru you are.

·        Let your employers have their own blogs to talk about your services/products. The more active blogs that reference your business, the more exposure you’ll get.

·        Use your business blog to keep current customers updated on new services/products available.

·        Post news about your business, as well as start rumors about potential happenings in your online business.

·        Get feedback from current and potential customers on your products/services. For instance, you could make a post on a new product, giving details about it. Then your existing customers or potential customers could give their opinion on it.

·        Promote your online business on your blog by making blog posts with information on what your business offers.

·        Install Adsense on your blog and make extra revenue from ads clicked, thereby helping your business to be more profitable.

There are really a lot of possibilities to how you can use a blog to help your business, even more than those listed here.  Blogs that are hosted on your site (by using a program like WordPress) can help your site achieve a higher ranking in search engines. This is because blogs are search engine friendly (Google is known to list them after only a few days, whereas it takes regular web sites weeks to appear on a search engine).  Having a high search engine ranking is crucial to having a successful online business. Blogs help you to increase your ranking, which will increase your business.

The great thing about blogs is that they are easy to use and also very effective. Start a blog today and watch your business’ notoriety grow.

Blogs offer your business the chance to be known by millions of people. If you’re looking for a surefire way to gain customers and increase revenue, try business blogging!

To your success,

Dave Carter

P.S.  Stay tuned for my next post – What Type of Blog Should You Use?

How to select a domain name.

Selecting the right domain name for your website is one of the most important steps you will take when starting your own business.

What’s in a name? – Simply EVERYTHING!

Your domain name will tell people what you have to offer and will help them decide if they are interested in looking further. There are several ways you can select your domain name to bring in your customers.

So think about what it is your business offers.  Try to select a domain name that reflects your product or service.

If you are just starting out with your first website it can feel a tad bit overwhelming trying to find your perfect domain name.  You thought you had it – the perfect name – and then dag blast it you found out someone else already snatched it up.  Oh you may be able to buy it – for an arm and a leg as well as a few other un-named, body parts. Don’t despair, there are ways around that.

Try a hyphenated name.  There’s nothing wrong with having a little “dash” in your domain name. As a matter of fact many times a hyphenated name is easier to read.  Case in point, www.automaticsponsoring.com vs. www.automatic-sponsoring.com .

Most of the domain registration sites offer name selection tools to attract business. Here are a few:

NameBoy (www.nameboy.com) has been around awhile and is one of the best. You enter a first and a second choice word to work with, plug in the type of site you have, and whether or not you want to use the hyphenation and rhyming features, then presto! It generates a list of possible names.

MakeWords.com (www.makewords.com) lets you select the language and the length of a possible domain name, plus prefix and suffix. Then it generates possible matches and lets you know if they are available.

DomainFellow.com (www.domainfellow.com) You start with a keyword and Domain Fellow adds up to 1,000 popular prefixes or suffixes to that word. For each combination you can see which domains are available and which have already been taken.

DomainNameSoup.com (www.domainnamesoup.com) Here you can mix and match words with domain names. These tools allow you to experiment with various combinations of hyphens, appending and pre-pending words, changing letters of a domain name and searching for typos. You can also try multiple choices, look for synonyms or juggling word combinations, etc. For the results they’ll tell you what’s available and what’s not.

But take note! The above services don’t necessarily have the lowest cost or best domain registrar services. I recommend GoDaddy or CheapNames.com these are the ones I currently use.

Now you may ask, “What type of extension should I get?”  As Well, here’s a fact; people are going to remember your website as a .com whether it is or whether it isn’t. So if you place an ad with something like www.Cakes-R-Us.net  and they go to find you online, they will most likely type in www.Cakes-R-Us.com . You will have lost your potential customer to the.com address.

Specifically for the reason stated above for all your offline advertising you should always use your .com name. 

Here’s something else you should do.  If they are available you should pick up the other extensions .net, .biz and .info.  With these other extensions you will be able to track your online, clickable advertising.  By using a different extension with your advertising you will be able to see which ads are generating the most hits.

You will also use the different extensions to send people to different areas of your website.  Logically, www.Cakes-R-Us.info  domain is forwarded to the information pages about your business. www.Cakes-R-Us.biz can take prospects to your business opportunity page and so on.

Hope this information has been helpful.

If you enjoyed our little chat please stop by and see us again.

Until then,

See you at the top

Dave Carter

The Law of Attraction

In this post, we are going to discuss The Law of Attraction.
Why are we discussing The Law of Attraction? Because we believe in it - it works.
On the Automatic Sponsoring blog you will also learn specific nuts and bolts applications of attraction marketing that will have prospects coming to you, clamering to sign up for your program.

Here is a definition of The Law of Attraction from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia;

This article is about the New Thought principle. For the scientific and historical laws, see Laws of attraction. For the film, see Laws of Attraction.

* Since many of the claims of the law of attraction appear impossible without violating established scientific principles and our understanding of the universe, it has received criticism from the scientific community. Physicist Ali Alousi, for instance, criticized it as unmeasurable (and therefore unscientific) as well as questioning the likelihood that thoughts can affect anything outside the head. The Associated Press is also quoted as saying that “some medical professionals suggest it could even lead to a blame-the-victim mentality and actually be dangerous to those suffering from serious illness or mental disorders”.

* Response; Now I don’t know about you but sometimes I think our “scientific community” is blinder than a bevy of dingbats on a bright sunny day. They say the Law of Attraction’s results are unmeasurable. That’s just closed minded. The mind is like a parachute, if it doesn’t stay open – well – the results won’t be pretty - hair, teeth and eyeballs all over the landscape.

If the scientists can put a monkey in a cage, observe him, take notes, record their observations, measure the results of behaviour modification and come to scientific conclusions – then – why on earth can they not put a human in a real life situation, have him apply the principles and techniques of The Law of Attraction, observe him, take notes, record their observations, measure the results of behaviour modification and come to scientific conclusions?

There are numerous examples of spectacular results when the principles of The Law of Attraction are applied!

History is filled with successful leaders and most of them were willing and even eager to share the secrets of their success with others. Andrew Carnegie shared his secrets with Napoleon Hill and encouraged him to interview the great successes of his time. Men like Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller, Harvey Firestone, Woodrow Wilson, John Wanamaker, George Eastman, F.W. Woolworth and the list goes on and on. Napoleon Hill found that these great men had much in common. One thing they all shared was the use of goal setting and visualization which are two of the core principles of the Law of Attraction.

Jim Carey
Some years ago I saw Jim Carey being interviewed by Barbara Walters. Jim told her about how a few years earlier, when he was still a struggling comic and washing dishes part time, he wrote a check to himself for $10,000,000. He dated it November 1995, and tucked it away in his wallet. In the Fall of 1995 he signed a $10,000,000 contract to film “THE MASK”.

Bruce Lee
A framed original copy of a contract hangs on display in the Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas. The contract with the word “SECRET” written across the top in red letters reads as follows:
MY DEFINITE CHIEF AIM
I, Bruce Lee, will be the first highest paid Oriental Super Star in the United States. In return I will give the most exciting performances and render the best of quality in the capacity of an actor. Starting in 1970 I will achieve world fame and from then onward till the end of 1980 I will have in my possession $10,000,000. I will live the way I please and achieve inner harmony and happiness. Bruce Lee, January 1969.
Bruce Lee’s life was cut short but there is no question that he more than reached his goal by the end of 1980.

George Burns
George Burns, actor and comedian, understood goal setting.
George had an outstanding career in Hollywood. Although his Burns and Allen performances with his wife Gracie were well accepted in his early career, his super success came in later years, after the age of 80. He was so successful at his craft that he was selected to play GOD in a couple of movies. It was George’s goal to reach 100 years of age. George died at age 100. Perhaps both George and Bruce should have set their goals a little further out.

In 1952 a poll was taken among the current Yale University graduating students. One of the questions asked was whether the students had definite goals in place or not. It was found that only 3% of them had goals set. In 1972, almost twenty years later, the students were again contacted to see what they had achieved. The results were astonishing! It was found that not only had the 3% achieved more than the others but that the net worth of that 3% exceeded the other 97% combined! Of course, money doesn’t indicate success in all things but it is a good yardstick to measure with in today’s society. So as you can see, goal setting is very important. But what kind of goals should you set? You should dream big and establish goals larger than yourself. You should visualize yourself already having accomplished these goals. You should review and visualize these goals daily.

You should have a lifetime goal. As you travel on life’s journey you need a destination. If you don’t have a destination you will surely get lost along the way.

‘Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?’ ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.
‘I don’t much care where—’said Alice.
‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.
Lewis Carroll,
ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

Hi, and welcome to Automatic-Sponsoring, my name is Dave Carter, many of you already know me as the author of The Freedom Formula, the book that has changed many lives and set those lives on the road to personal and financial freedom.

If you haven’t read The Freedom Formula, I encourage you to get it and read it as soon as possible. You will find your copy at http://www.amazon.com/ http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ http://www.abebooks.com/ or most other book re-sellers. We will be using many of the principles of success found in The Freedom Formula when we lay out the exact procedures that will take you to your goal of building a giant networking organization automatically.

More - Better - Bigger - Faster - Easier

You are going to learn how to sponsor more people into your organization. You will learn how to build a better functioning sales team. You will see your down line grow bigger than you ever thought possible. I’m here to tell you that when you use Automatic-Sponsoring techniques it really is easier to build larger and faster than it is to continue struggling with your inefficient methods that are bringing you ineffective results.

Imagine how you will feel when you start living the life you so richly deserve.

The problem that most of us have encountered in trying to improve our situations is that we have used techniques that were programmed into us in the government monopoly school system.

We have been taught;

You get ahead by hard work and determination
You need to keep your nose to the grindstone
You have to use your willpower
No rest for the weary
Stay within the lines
Speak when spoken to
Don’t ask questions
Do as you are told
Wait your turn
Obey Authority

But when we applied those methods and obeyed those rules by going to work for Corporate America did we find the American Dream?

No – what we found is that as long as we work for someone else we are only helping them achieve their dreams.
We knew that as long as we were on someone else’s payroll we were only a participant in someone else’s dream.

Most of those who have tried to adhere to “the path of success prescribed by the establishment”, have given up after a time in utter frustration.

Many of you have come to the conclusion that “The American Dream” is a crock. After busting your butt and doing as you were told, you find that instead of “Just a Bowl of Cherries”, your life is “Just a Big Bucket of Bull Pucky”.

What we were never taught…indeed, what they didn’t want us to know, was that mastering those “principles of success” prescribed by the state programming machine, the public school system, will only make us good obedient workers for someone else.

So then –we tried to break free – become entrepreneurial and start a home based business of our own. What happened? We were given a whole new outdated set of rules by which we were going to realize the American Dream.

· Make a list
· Become a salesperson overnight
· Pester your friends and family
· Use the 3 foot rule
· Spend money on advertisements
· Do home parties

And guess what – if you are still using the methods taught by 96% of the MLM companies out there – you are even worse off than when you were grinding out those long tedious hours in Corporate America.

So what’s the answer? How can you possibly get to the other side of the money?

Well, first of all let me congratulate you. If you are in a home based, networking business – you have found the right vehicle.

Your instincts were right. The stories you have heard about folks getting large checks and residual income to last generations – well those stories are true. There is nothing out there that compares to the network marketing industry. Where else can you get involved with a business that has the potential to put millions of dollars in your pocket with an upfront investment, in most cases, of under 500 dollars?

The problem is – 95% of you who try network marketing will fail within the first year. So how do you become one of the 5% who win the magic networking lottery? You just need to know how market your business with 21st Century methods.

Let me put it this way;

The other day, while I was giving a presentation, I asked a member of the audience. “Joe, let’s say you and I were both taking a trip. I was going to a city a thousand miles away but you were going only 50 miles – who would get to their destination first?” Joe said, “Well I would of course.” Can you guess why Joe’s answer was wrong? Joe didn’t have all the information. You see, I was taking a plane to my destination and Joe was driving a horse and buggy.

Now listen up. This is very important.

If you are not using modern technology by marketing your opportunity on the internet – you are still driving a horse and buggy to work.

When you apply the techniques you will learn with Automatic Sponsoring you will see the ease with which your networking enterprise will fall into place.

Now I’m not going to sit here and tell you that you can just snap your fingers and presto you will wake up in the morning with a giant organization. But what I am going to tell you is this;

If you follow the steps laid out for Automatic-Sponsoring. If you do the processes and implement the strategies exactly as they are explained – then my friend – you will experience a growth that will start small but soon gather momentum and then that elusive success will be yours.

On these pages you will learn the exact methods to bring your dreams to reality. Stop by on a regular basis and you will soon be living the dream.

Til next time

Yours truly,

Dave Carter