Earning from Blogging!!!!

Installing WordPress and Start Blogging:

Before we can get started  and I can show you how to make money online, we need to sort the essentials out that means we have to get you online! Today I will show you how to build your first blog, Which is surprisingly easy! Make sure you take action as you read through my emails or you will find yourself a month down the road and you still haven't started! If you do have any troubles with the ecourse, then hit the reply button and I will be happy to respond to your email.

First thing you need is a Domain Name:

always creating blogs because you can literally set them up in a hour, one of the fundamental things you need to have is a good domain name. For those of your aren't quite sure what a domain is, its  one of thous.Com URL's you type in your web browser to visit websites. It's super important to choose a good domain, I often see long wined domains like, RobertSmith4CentralOregonHomes.com? For a start  It's really long, boring and has so many words you will spend so much time just typing the domain that you will give up. When coming up with a domain name I have a little test I use, basically you have to be able to tell someone on the street your domain and then a hour later when they must be able to remember it. This basically means, make it simple, no. Net co.Uk. Info domains, no dashes in between words and try to keep it to a 3 word maximum.

every keyword under the sun in your domain. Another way you can come up with new domain names is by putting the benefit and your keyword in a domain.

When buying a domain you want to use a big company so that you know they will look after your domain and give you the support you may need.

Hosting your domain:

the most important thing about running an Internet business is that you have a reliable host, without one,

you are wasting your time. I recommend to everyone always to use HostGator, it's cheap, reliable and I have

never heard bad word said about them. if you do decide to go TRY find a better deal then please research

who you are getting hosting with, the worst thing is to find your website goes offline and they don't have a recent backup of your server. I have personally lost some really big website's due to hosts who just don't

seem to care for their customers. Another thing to remember is that they faster your website is, they better it ranks in a Google, it is proven that people buy more on a faster website.

Connecting your domain and host:

To host your domain and internet is really simple, login your domain company account and click domains.My domains and then on your domain. Now click on the Name serves Icon and change the custom name servers to the ones  would of emailed you, they would have been something like;

Once this done, you will now be able to upload and install your blog.

Installing your blog:
Now to show you to install wordpress using fantastico which will allow you to save a lot of time trying to do

it manually. please remember; not all hosts have cpanel and fantastico  but if you are using HostGator like  I recommended, then this wont be an issue

so to start, go to your domain. com/ cpanel and login with the admin details your host provided, scroll to the bottom and click fantastico. now on the left hand side is a like to worldpress, click that and click new installation, fill in the from and then click install wordpress and you are done, now go to your blog will be installed.

Adding Posts To Your Blog:

If you go to your blog on the right hand side of hyour blot, there will be a link called Loging (yourdomain.com/wp-login.php) click that and now login with your username and password. You will be presented Wordpress Dashboard, on the left side you will have a link to Add New under Posts. Click this and you will be able to add your first blog post.

Uploading Your Blog Design and Plugins

Finding a Premium Design For Your Blog.

Once you have purchased your theme, uploading is simple. Login to your Wordpress Admin and click Appearance followed by Add New Themes and then at the top of the page click Add New. Search for your theme zip file and then upload- it's as simple as that, back when I first started we had to do it manually which took hours, so there's no excuses!

If you bought your them from Woothemes, then you can play around with all their really cool settings by logging in to your Wordpress Admin and scrolling down to the bottom of the sidebar and click the name of your theme.

Wordpress Changes:

One major thing I see a lot of new blogger's do is not make their website URL's search engine friendly which the engine friendly which is the easiest source of traffic. If you look at your first blog post URL, it will be Domain.com/?p=1 when your really want it to say Domain.com/how-to-make-your-links-seo-friendly. Your want your URL’s and blog post titles to be what you expect people to be searching in Google, not something that always sound, good. a mix of both usually goes down well!

To make your links search engine friendly like I just said, go to your Wordpress Admin and click Settings and then Permalinks on the left side. Change the settings to Custom Structure and use the /%postame% - This will now make your blog post link’s SEO friemdly.

Another important SEO change is your page title and description, I personally use a FREE Plugin to do this called All in One SEO Pack but al you guys are just starting, you may just want to edit these details from Wordpress Admin by clicking General under Settings. It is really important to choose the right page title. You also have a Blogroll on your blog, this is a great way to start building links and traffic to our weblite. Find 5 to 10 blogs just like yours and ask them to link to your site and you will do the same for them. You can add or edit your blogroll by clicking Links in the sidebar of your Wardpress Admin.

RSS Feeds and Building Your List:

A RSS Feed is basically a reminder for regular readers to alert them when you have a new blog post, this is one of the most important parts of a blog. I use Fedburner to manage all our feed updates, sign up  and create a code and update your RSS link to the feedburn one. Feedburner also has an email update script that you can use ,when you are logged in at Feedburner.com clik Pubicize and then Email Subscriptions ,they will give some code and then you can add it as a widget on your blog .To edit your RSS widget is remally simple ,login to your Wordpress Admin again and click Appearance and then Widgets , then click on RSS and paste your email code in and then save the changers . Your readers will now be able to subseribe for updates ,when yon add a new post and they wil get an email or RSS message alerting them to check your blog out.

Ask any Problogger what their blogging miskate, they will tell you they wish they started building a list sooner! Creating a list is so powerful and a great way to make money online. Say you had 100 people visit your site a day, you want to get around 10 of them to sign up for your list, that means you can promote your website and products to them in future. What I do is create an auto responder series which automatically sends them an email every day to encourage them to work harder and make more money online – then I will promote them a product or two. Don’t be scared to promote product to them from day one, after all you only want people who are willing to spend money on your list.

Don`t take any of these tips for granted, I actually turn away a large amount of advertisers now from my blogs because I just don’t have room for them anymore and don’t need the money!

The secret to advertising deals is to not treat them like advertisers but to treat them as partners. Most bloggers will find advertisers and will add the advert to their blog and that’s it, then at the end of the month they have to find a new advertiser. What I do is I reach out to every advertiser, I express to them how important they are to me and see what else I can do for them. By doing this I usually manage to up sell them with mire advertising and create a long term partnership. The benefit of this is every month I don’t have to look for new advertisers because they are happy and get results. The biggest loss in revenue for bloggers is the time where they have no advertisers, so keeping every advertiser for as long as possible is really important! Some of the advertisers on Retireat21.com have been advertising with me for 8 months now!

You also want to make sure you get every advertiser on a subscription payment so each month they automatically pay via PayPal and you can sit back knowing the money will be there every month. Another thing I do is when I reach out to my new advertiser, I offer them something for FREE, perhaps a review, text link or a mention on my website just to make advertising on my website look superior to advertising on any other website.

A really popular Wordpress Plugin for managing advertising and statistics is OIO Publisher, it is an manager with a focus on performance, control and ease of use. Serve advertising of your blog or website and deep 100% of the revenue you bring in. This software is a no brainer for any new or advenced blogger because you don’t need to know any coding, it is all done automatically for you!

Every time you are recommending a product or service, you could be earning money! it’s so easy but the only down side is you are not guaranteed to make money but with advertising banners you are. A good thing to do is to have multiple sources of income for your blog.

Finding affiliate programs to run on your site is also easy, I use affiliate networks. Singing up is FREE and once logged in you can search the marketplace for products in your niche to promote! They provide you with banners and suggested text links to help selling a lot easier! If you are looking to sell physical products such as Books, DVD's and Computers etc then you can actually sell on behalf of Amazon using their Associate Program. This is great for review websites because every time you do a review of a product, often people will go and then buy it, well now you can be rewarded for doing that!

Google Adsense and other PPC netwarks can be your saviour! For those of you who don't know PPC means Pay Per Click and so every time someone clicks on an advert on your website, you will be paid for it, this could be from 5 cent to $5 depending on your niche. I also run a web design blog and I had sold adverts on the site which brought in around $300 a month, I decided to change and use Google adsense and instead earn $1500 amonth from the website. It's about testing and seeing what works best for your readers.

The trick with PPC adverts is where you place them of the website. You will get more results if you place  them right above each blog post and at the top of your side,

CPM advertising is when you get paid per 1000 impressions. this can be a valuable monetization technique for a blog with huge amount of traffic struggling to bring in any advertising revenue at all. there really isn't much to say about this method, just that it's easy, typically large companies will use this type of advertising because it builds on there brand and will get them sales later down the road. I have a 16 year old friend who owns a Film blog and as you can imagine, he has little amount of time, being at school and having exams. He uses CMP advertising on his blog which earns him around $4;000 a month for his 100,000 monthly visitors, it may not seem like much but his blog niche is hard one to monetize but driving traffic to it is easy. The film companies will often buy out his advertising for just tee day before a film is launched to create some buzz!   

How To Get Your First 1000 Visitors To Your Blog!

Content is king!

If you write great content, the traffic just comes! people will regularly visit your website looking for more great posts and other bigger sites will like to you. I use to try to write 5 blog posts a week and had a good following but found if I had two really good posts a week, spent two or three times the amount effort and time into making sure the post would making sure the post would make their jaws drop, then my following would be incredible. thank about it this way, you create a blog post called''7 Ways To get More Traffic'', sounds alright and you would probably check it out. but now imagine you created a post called ''7Traffic secrets that made we 6 Figures last year on Autopilot'',  you would be getting linking to all over the place ,the difference in the two titles is that one is used daily and one isn’t. You have to provide something new and make sure it’s 10x better than anything else people are providing. This may sound really hard but   it isn’t instead of just offering a post about how to become a pro poker player, you could also include a list of top earning poker player ,poker tricks and how to shufflre cards like a pro. The big thing is just keep offering more value ,time after time!

How to Get 1ooo’s of Twitter Followers and visitors To Your Blogs:

It’s a service called TweetAdder which will basically add people on Twitter for you and when they go to your profile to follow you back, most of the time they will click your website URL and then follow up by clicking your links in your Tweets.

The software is real simple to use, to find out more about it, check out TweetAdder.com!

Creative Content and Link Bait

Creative content and link baiting has sent me 100,000s of visitors to my website, gave me number 1 Google Rankings, features in top newspapers, Yahoo News AOL and some of largest websites in the world. More money means more traffic, PERIOD!

Search Engine Optimization:

Search Engine Optimization (know as SEO) is probably the most important thing to look, the main reason being – constant targeted FREE traffic from Google and other search engines. This will allow you to really live a life of financial freedom and to have a passive income, so that you can really make money while you sleep.

Work with the search engines in mind, every time you create a blog post make sure you call your blog post something that people will be searching for in Google,

A lot of the time you find it’s a bit of everything in this email that results to driving a lit of traffic, I rank number 1 for some search terms because of creative content which then went and got featured on 1000s of others websites.