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Posted on June 16, 2008
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A web directory as most Internet Marketers will know is a useful place to register your sites in order to get a backlink to them. Most of them, especially the free ones however, require a reciprocal link back. That rather saps some of the link juice from your link. So here’s another rather more novel way to make use of a web directory.

A Web Directory in the Hand…

Host your own!

Yep, I’m not joking either. If you want more control over links generated to your sites, then go buy a domain name that is relevant to a directory of some kind and put up your own web directory! There are many scripts available for doing that and some of them are free, or will cost a minimal amount. I personally put a web directory together a couple of months ago using a free Link Bid Directory script (look it up in Google, there are lots of them).

The beauty of a Link Bif web directory is that while its not free for other website owners to place their links, it is for the owner! You can link out to all your main sites from your own web directory while promoting it and getting it links from elsewhere to boost its own PR and SERPs authority. Once you get some Page Rank for your web directort, you will attract offers from other website owners to place their links. This is your opportunity to make some money from your own web directory!

You see, while Google is mad as hell at blog owners who sell links, they are not bothered about owners of web directories charging a small fee for their directory listing services.

With a Link Bid you set a tariff of minimum “bids” a website owner can make for their link. For the minimum of say $5, they’ll get a standard listing with a main page link plus up to three deep page links. If they increase their bid, they get a chance of that listing being displayed on the web directory’s front page - meaning they get the most link juice, which they are happy to pay more for. The bidding comes into its own when several site owners are vying for the top places on the web directory’s front page as they will try to outbid each other to stay on page one. More money for the web directory owner, who does no work for this by the way - the script handles it all and yo collect the money in your PayPal account.

Cool.

While my own web directory is growing, I’m quite happy for it to just send link juice to my own sites until it builds up some PR of its own. As I’m hosting the web directory on my own reseller account, it isn’t costing me any more for hosting, so its a nice investment. It can also be sold down the road if you get fed up with it, using information in Trent’s previous post at Flip PLR Products For Quick Profit. I just saw a web directory up for sale on sitepoint for a minimum bid price of $2,000 so its very worthwhile as a long term investment.

My web directory can be found by following this link: Web Directory

Terry Didcott 

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Building Blogs and Flipping Them for Profit

Posted on May 6, 2008
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In the past few years, the make money online niche has become almost a jungle situation where it’s “survival of the fittest” and if you haven’t been an internet marketer for quite a while then tapping into the make money online niche is going to be a long uphill battle. I’m not saying it’s impossible to compete in the MMO niche because it’s not. However, it won’t be easy. But there is a fairly new trend that is quickly gaining popularity and you could jump on board and cash in on it…

The title of this post probably tipped you off to what I am about to say, but there is a huge market right now for buying and selling blogs, and if you’re even a little bit knowledgeable about blogging, then this is a great opportunity for you to start making money online.

Flipping blogs you won’t have to learn a lot of the usual internet marketing stuff, like:

1. Adsense
2. List building
3. Affiliate marketing
4. Niche marketing
5. SEO

And the list goes on and on….

Instead, you can focus on a different way to make money through blogs, and really do well with it if you follow a few simple guidelines. Blogs are hot right now and you could be banking some serious cash by flipping blogs. The steps below should be taken using the Wordpress.org blogging platform.

Here are the basic steps you need to take so you can make money flipping blogs:

1. Pick a niche or topic that you want the blog to be about. It could pretty much be any niche, but make sure there is a market for it.

2. Purchase a related domain name for the blog, and hosting if you don’t already have it.

3. Buy a premium theme for your blog, so that it looks more professional. If you don’t know where to find these, then do a Google search for “Premium Wordpress Themes”.

4. Write (or outsource) about 20 or 30 articles centered around various keywords in the niche to post on the blog, and time stamp them so that you have a new one posted automatically every day or every other day.

5. Customize the blog with a cool logo for even more of a professional look (you can outsource logo creation pretty cheap on most of the webmaster forums in their “buy/sell/trade” section).

6. Once you have the blog ready and customized to your liking, then you need to start promoting the heck out of it. Comment on dofollow blogs, network with other bloggers, utilize social bookmarking/networking sites, submit to directories, do some article marketing, press releases or any other way you can to build up traffic and links to the blog.

7. When you have all the steps above done and the blog has aged for a while, it’s time to sell! Head over to a site like the Sitepoint.com marketplace, and list your blog for sale. Get a feel for what you should list it for by looking at similar blogs being sold and what kind of stats (traffic, revenue, RSS subscribers, etc…) they have. Even fairly new blogs with some traffic and readership have sold anywhere from a few hundred to several thousand dollars. Make sure your auction listing details everything about the site, and emphasizes the strong points to make it attractive for potential buyers.

You can do this over and over again for as many blogs as you have time to keep up with. Some of the blogs you flip will sell for a huge profit and some won’t make you much money. You will probably even have several that don’t sell at all. That’s not a big deal. Just move on to another one.

One more hint to remember is that when you build a blog that gets a lot of bids or sells for a lot of money then it’s probably a good idea to build more of them in that niche. Using the steps above will give you a nice head start on flipping blogs for profit, and it really is pretty darn easy to do!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
Owner of a top Make Money Online site and a popular Work at Home Blog.

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Are You Blogging Just for the Sake of Blogging?

Posted on March 26, 2008
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Have you ever sat back and asked yourself why it is that you spend day after day blogging? Do you have a purpose? Do you make money? Do you want to make money? Do you even know how to go about building a profitable blog? Are you trying to get famous? Are you just trying to get yourself heard? Do you market your blog?

There are far too many people who blog day in and day out without really knowing why, and without getting anything in return. I’ve seen countless blogs over the years come to an end far before their time. These were blogs that I visited often and were updated frequently with great posts and packed with tons of useful information. The owners wrote new blog posts all the time but eventually they had to quit because they weren’t making any money or getting anything else in return for their efforts. But why?

Think about it…

If you are blogging to make money, you need visitors so they can take the actions necessary for you to make money. If you are blogging for fame, you need people to come to your blog so you can get famous. If you are blogging just to get your personal thoughts out there, you still need visitors to read them or else there is no point in doing it. Do you see the recurring theme here? It’s people coming to your blog! And to do that you need to market your blog instead of just blogging.

Remember that blogging by itself will get you nowhere. It’s the marketing of that blog that really counts. A mediocre blogger who is an excellent marketer will win every time over an excellent blogger who doesn’t market their blog. I know of many blogs that don’t teach much of anything but they make thousands of dollars per month because they are marketed very well. I also know of numerous blogs that are loaded with great information but they don’t make money because they are not marketed properly.

As an internet marketer, the biggest part of your business is to “market” your website, blog, product, or whatever you built your online business around. That’s how you will make money online!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
Owner of one of the top make money online websites
and the free home business tips blog.

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NOT For Sale!

Posted on March 12, 2008
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Ok, you had your chance to snap this little baby up for a song. Too late!

Blogging Web 2.0 is OFF The Market!

Yep, now its off the market, we decided its too valuable as a future asset to simple give away especially so cheaply. We are NOT accepting any more bids of a few hundred dollars for a site that is potentially worth thousands in future revenue and re-sale value.

That’s the great thing about online real estate, it goes up in value over time, not down! Especially a valuable piece of cyber real estate such as Blogging Web 2.0, which thanks to the recent upsurge in Web 2.0 interest across the Internet, is poised at the forefront of this modern online revolution.

If you think the social networking and blogging scene is on fire right now, imagine where it will be in a year’s time!

Oh yes, you’ll be kicking yourself now that you’ve had too long to hesitate and think it over, because he who hesitates is lost - and if you were contemplating getting your hands on this baby for a song, you hesitated a little too long and now you’ve lost out. Its out of your reach.

It would take a damn BIG offer to prise this treasure trove out of our hands now!

We’ve talked this over and realized what a gold mine we have on our hands here with the last little mini-experiment I did with keyword sniping for the term “On Site SEO” it got us onto page one of Google in a few days. Now that we know the SERPs authority this baby carries, that experiment can and will be repeated for more lucrative keywords.

And it will work. Want to know why?

Because this site is NOT mired down in any one niche. It is not set in concrete and our posts (its content life-blood) are on a number of different topics making it a blogging all-rounder capable of dominating several different niches with sub-pages backed up by solid keyword-heavy posts.

Think I’m joking?

Just wait and see…

Terry Didcott
Blogging Web 2.0

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Blogging Web 2.0 Is For Sale!

Posted on February 28, 2008
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Terry and I have been umming and arring as to whether to sell this blog or not. It is sad really as we have both put our heart and soul into this blog. But with the recent change of structure in both our businesses we simply don’t have the time to continue and give this blog the love it really deserves.

Blogging Web 2.0 has heaps of potential. It is a great domain name and lends itself to several twists of change if needed. Traffic wise it has done rather well considering this blog is only a little over 4 month young. I’m happy to provide any serious buyer with stats from my cpanel admin. We also made a couple of dollars revenue. All up I calculated it to be around $50 since its launch. Nothing to boast about but then we simply played around with different income streams.

The ones who worked were:

The strength of this blog is its well established content for bloggers in aspects of business, social networking, traffic generation, personal development, marketing, SEO and much more. The content on here is priceless but having said that, we don’t look to make a fortune as realistically we can’t. If the blog was to make money already on a regular basis, the story would be different.

At this stage we are happy with a few hundred dollars and we will transfer the domain name with it, as well as all the existing content. For a blogger who is serious at taking this blog to the next level, you have the perfect frame to work with.

Many useful Plugins are already installed and I’ll even throw in an extras years of domain name registration for good measure before I transfer the blog. For those who are not familiar with WordPress I’m happy to give you one on one help for a couple of hours for no extra cost.

To contact us regarding the sale please use the contact form and don’t forget to leave us your details so we can reach you.

As I’m writing this, I’m kind of sad but also know that it is the best for the blog. We both truly hope that somebody with a passion for Internet marketing and blogging will grab this great offer and continue with Blogging Web 2.0

In the meantime I want to thank our regular readers and contributors for sticking with us and helping to enrich this blog.

You can still find me on my own blog and Terry is also busy with his projects.

Monika Mundell & Terry Didcott

Blogging Web 2.0

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How to Get More Subscribers to Your Blogs RSS Feed

Posted on January 28, 2008
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As bloggers one thing we all have in common is that we want more subscribers to our RSS feeds. There are plenty of ways to increase the amount of subscribers to your blog but many people just don’t know how to do it. Below I have given some simple and very effective strategies to help you gain more feed readers.

* Write great content - This should go without saying but there are still plenty of people out there who think all they need to do is post anything on their blog and they will bring in subscribers. Nobody will want to subscribe to your blog unless your posts are informative and quality enough for them to want to keep updated on what you have to say. You must also post frequently enough to keep them subscribed.

* Ask visitors to subscribe - Usually when we want somebody to do something in our daily lives offline we simply ask them to do it. Well there is no reason why you can do that online as well. Put a little note under each of your posts asking them to subscribe if they haven’t already done so.

* Make it simple to subscribe - I’ve many seen many blogs without any visible way for visitors to subscribe or if they do have one it’s not easy to find. Your feed subscribe button should be in a prominent place on every page of your blog and very easy for anyone to find.

* Write extra posts just for them - One great way to get more blog feed subscribers is to write posts that only your subscribers can read. It makes it more special for them because they are getting bonus information that nobody else gets. Make it well known that you do this for your subscribers so more people will want to subscribe.

* Put your feed URL in blog comments - This is something I have just started doing recently and it works very well. When you visit other blogs and make comments on their posts you are usually able to put a link to your site. However, most blogs have nofollow tags on the link so it doesn’t help you any with your inbound link count. So instead of putting a link to your blog put in the URL to your feed. When people click it they will be more likely to subscribe simply because you have already taken them that far.

* Contests - Holding a contest in one of the fastest ways to increase your blog subscribers. All you have to do is give away money or prizes, or anything of value to your readers. You will have ways to enter the contest and one way to enter should be to subscribe to your feed. You can even give subscribers extra entries as further incentive to subscribe.

* Do/don’t display your reader numbers - Displaying your feed count can help increase your subscribers but only if you already have enough subscribers to make them want to join the crowd. If you have at least 100 subscribers then do show your count. If have less than 100 subscribers do not show your count.

Alright, now you have some very effective ways to get more subscribers to your blogs RSS feed. It all starts with great content and regular posting, and goes from there. Put these strategies into practice starting today and you will have a growing amount of blog subscribers almost immediately.

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
Owner of the free money making tips blog and one of the top make money online websites.

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Are We Turning Readers Away?

Posted on January 21, 2008
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Probably the biggest worry for any blogger would be to see his blog being mainly comment free. It is disheartening after all that hard work to see our blog devoid of any comment love by fellow bloggers and nobody likes to feel abandoned.

But what can we actually do to attract more comments and why don’t we get them in the first place?

I sometimes wondered why certain blog posts attracted a stream of comments and others simply didn’t? Did I suddenly fail to make contact with my readers?

I’m afraid the answer in those cases would be: Yes

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Many factors play into the flow of writing a blog post that reads fluently enough and animates our readers to give their point of view at the end.

Sometimes regardless of what we do, there is simply no action and this could also be down to not having sufficient traffic. But what if we do have traffic and still nothing happens?

Here is what I found helps me to get better conversions:

  1. If I write posts that are informative and helpful I normally get tons of comments
  2. I also noticed that when I write from a more personal perspective my readers are much more responsive to me and are likely to comment more frequently.
  3. Interaction with my readers has always been a must for me. This means I pretty much answer every comment I receive. (Admittedly I do miss some for whatever reasons).
  4. Asking questions always helps. Most people do like to talk about themselves if given the chance and they will hop onto your comment thread if you ask them open ended questions.
  5. Easy navigation: if the blog is too cluttered or the posts are not attractive to the eye then nobody will stay long enough to even bother commenting.

Alternatively we might turn readers away from commenting:

  1. By not replying to your readers comments
  2. Being rude to them
  3. Being too authoritative (bossy)
  4. Closing the post with a command without inviting our readers to comment.
  5. Distracting them with plenty of ads
  6. Blog is slow/not attractive/hard to navigate

Are you happy with your comment numbers? Do you get enough comments on your blog or would you rather have more? What do you think we can do to have you comment more often on this blog? Please do let us know, your opinion matters to us.

Monika

Blogging Web 2.0

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