Some blogs get acquired by another company or another blog. Few weeks later they announce they are professional bloggers or full time bloggers. Now let’s debate what professional or full time blogging is.
I can say that Darren Rowse is one of the first professional blogger among others as well as full time blogger. Now many of you know who Darren Rowse is or let say ProBlogger, he got that tittle since 2005 and he did well earned it.
People make mistakes by going full time blogging all the time, they quit their job, they quit their hobbies and dedicate 4-8 hours a day to blogging instead of working for somebody else. Problem is that many of them think by covering mortgage and all other costs, they can live that way forever, yet they don’t think about long term investments, remember if you don’t save for your retirement you are screwed, if you don’t have at least 6 months of saved money on your savings account you are screwed again. That is exactly where so called “professional bloggers” make mistake.
What is full time or professional blogger ?
Professional blogger isn’t profession tittle, there is no such thing “yet” as Professional blogger or blog. You can’t go to University or College and ask “Do you offer Masters Degree in Professional blogging?”. To be clear, professional blogger is only a word that bloggers started calling each other when they: A. Earned enough money to leave work, B. They work more then 4 hours a day, C. Because they feel that way.
Full time bloggers are just bloggers that spend way too much time blogging, someone like me.
I spend every day over 10 hours blogging for different blogs I own, yet I enjoy every single minute of it. To be clear, I still work, go to college and take my dog potty! and don’t tell my friends I am Full time self-employed as blogger.
You should not feel bad about receiving traffic from other popular websites. I did not say that I DO that all the time, but if I find my topic related to the topic of popular website, then I always leave link in the way that it does not look like spam.
Those same popular websites / blogs did the same thing, maybe a bit different, by sending email to authors and asking for opinion or if they could include backlink to their next post.
I noticed that by leaving links in comments or forums
A. increased my traffic
B. get more Rss Feed Subscribers
C. Visitors come back out of interest what you are going to post next.
How about leaving link to your blog on other blogs and websites as third person, have you thought of that?
Example:
Website: Engadget.com
Post Topic:AT&T’s free iPhone WiFi is live at last
Your Comment: “I found this awesome link “Your Post url” which has some additional informations on where to get free WiFi. WiFi should be free for everybody not just iPhone users”
If you check your blog stat’s tomorrow I can tell you one thing, it’s going to get you at least 20 visitors if not even in some cases 5000 visitors! (Belive me it can be true!)
How To find Popular Posts?
Google it!, look for keywords that your post is about which you want to promote or thing is good. For example if your post is about Make Money Online, type that in Google see what blogs you are going to stumble upon, and leave some comments.
So what do you think about this post ?
No I will not tell you how to get or chose blog domain name but rather I share some blog domain names that are going to be expired and deleted in next few days.Things to do:Pick and chose blog domain name you like. Let say domaintools.com click on whois , and you will find out when blog is expiring , after the expiration day you can register it!
Another thing this blog list can provide you is the domain name that you could not think.
blog domain names
Today I will give you some of my expertiese on why I think every company should have blog instead website or website with blog.
Long time ago back in 2001 I started building websites on my own primarily I used html, I build sites in the way blogs work now. I would have one page full of my notes which you had to scroll down for at least 1 minute and then at the top and at the bottom I had links [Page 1| Page 2 | Page 3]. So I could say that I started blogging in 2001 but I do not, because those text’s are just my 21y old notes on how to hack pc’s and I feel bad now when I think about it lol.
So let say you are about to open your very first company and thinking of building website. Now what are you going to do? Post some pictures slap About Company page and thats it? You think people will come and see that website all the time? NO they will NOT unless your company get’s popular locally and people anyways will tell you to update your site with some press releases because in todays business world people want easy and quick access to your information.
What you want to do is open website with blog inside, and everytime you have special “press” releases or something special to say about company you write it.
Now on the other hand if you open blog only it might be borring to see blog post that is 1-2years old
So chose wisely, is your blog/website going to be updated regularly or not ? If Not you might want to build Website with About Company Page but then also link to your blog called Press Releases, or Company Updates if you know what I mean?
While last week I spend some time lurking around for affiliate programs I stumbled upon this Affiliate Website. I mean first time I found It, I thought that its just another website, but then later on while I was going through some posts and articles I found out to be very helpful.
I think the part of the website that got me attracted was Education affiliate programs because it was providing the right information I needed. How much I make from commission, what it is and the score they have. If you go down that link I just provided you above you can check out categories that might suit your needs.
I learned a lot from Affiliate Tips website and to be honest I don’t think I found any other website that will provide you with such good information unless you subscribe to them for some monthly fee.
Why affiliate programs over google ads?
Simple enough, you make more money from affiliate programs then from google adsense. Now some of you might disagree with that, but when you have technology blog google adsense is going to bring you maybe 1$ per day because most tech people know that its “google adsense ads” , but with affiliate programs you can do much better you just need to read sites like Affiliate Tips to understand the whole concept of running affiliate programs, otherwise you will end up having banner or link that is not making you any money.
My tip: Don’t place affiliate program that is nothing relevant to your blog.
I have enough entrecard yet I don’t buy any ads because it is time consuming. Instead I would like to create entrecard contest which I will credit your entrecard account with 1000 points.
I have enough links, I have enough of comments yet I would like some more publicity.
Contest I think it’s very easy! If somebody else would do this I would jump right on it.
Things to do:
Find blog post on bontb.com that you had fun reading and would like to share with others. After that I would like you to go to other blogs and post 5 comments about that post. Remember! 1 comment per blog NOT 1 blog 5 comments!
Things Not to do:
Don’t spam other blogs with comment like “Check this out URL” or “Awesome URL”
Things I am looking from you:
Find blogs with posts that are related to post you pick on bontb.com , comment in way that you had fun reading my post.
Winner:
Will be announced after I check all links, and also I will provide back link to your blog in my “Winner post”
This contest is going to end on Tuesday next week (Jun 8th 2008)
Fair?
UPDATE: No winners nobody entered the contest, I guess it was too hard?
Every blogger in my opinion should be affiliated with one or own Web Hosting provider. Why? Because they pay really good!Here is an example of my webhosting ( Click on Affiliate) that I use and also sell privately.
Now I only do this with my webhosting because I am very confident that many people will like what they offer, and if you check reviews online about LunarPages you will see they rank good between 1-4 depending on review page.
So if you don’t have any advertising going on or have another spot for 125×125 link, place your webhosting or even LunarPages affiliate program.
Here is what they offer to me as an affiliate client:
- $65 base commission rate
- $5 2nd tier commissions
- ready made banners
- a unique, close-knit staff
- incentives and commission raises at 100 referrals/month!
- tailored landing pages at 150 referrals/month
Now tell me if that is bad ??
I already got 7 commissions this year 4 of them ware my friends! They asked me who do I host with I explained and they bought it.
