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In order to make money blogging you need to blog. I do about 5 – 15 posts a week on different blogs. So I am no stranger to writers block. If you can’t write a good post, you have no way of making money. You could try to pull a half baked idea out of your hat, but you already know that will make for a bad post. So what do you do? How do you get ideas or motivation to post?

Well you’re reading one right now, a blog. Reading other related blogs will give you ideas. Ideas that will give way to new ideas. Don’t just take someone else idea and re-write it, unless you plan to mention their post in yours… which would be a good idea. I find reading other blogs gives me ideas on topics I can discuss. Read the rest of this entry »

I am all about free, so long as free can make me money. Sometimes giving away something for free can make you money. For example, you give free information on your site or blog in return for paid advertising. I came across this service called RSS Hugger. It is a free online directory for bloggers.

The purpose is to help you find new readers via your RSS feed. You can pay $20 to get listed or blog about them and get in for free for 10 years. They have limited features but I am sure that will change soon. Take a look at the site and sign-up. It fast a easy to sign-up and may be well worth it.

Google has hit many sites with a PR penalty due to the fact they were selling links. To avoid getting hit with a PR drop, you need to stop selling links…ok, that was a joke..lol Well, that is an option, but not one most people want to explore. I mean it is your site, why can’t you sell links from it if you want?

The first thing I would do is remove any affiliation to any link or post buying / selling sites on your blog. You could use a re-directed link and then use a no-follow tag, but even then you will be taking a risk. I know it means less sales, but it is worth it in the long run. Read the rest of this entry »

Stumbleupon… just like Digg is a a great resource for traffic. However, in order for you to be successful you need to know the ins and outs of stumbleupon and how to harness its power. Below are a list of things you need to do to fine tune your Stumbleupon posts. Read the rest of this entry »

As a blogger page views mean a lot. The more page views I get the more chances I have of making some money. There are some cool ideas and tools to get visitors to dive deeper into your site. Below I have a list of my top favorites. Read the rest of this entry »