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Grand Central by Google is still in beta and I know there are a lot of people looking for these. Seems I have about 10 to give away. The first ten that sign-up to this blog and post a comment will receive their very own Grand Central number.

What’s this have to do with making money blogging? Absolutely nothing. It’s just my way of thanking people who read this blog.

Why does your blog suck? I already know what it is before I even look at it. Yeah, I am sure the content is awesome. That’s not your problem. Your problem is that you are so worried about making money that you are scaring away any potential subscribers. Seriously, your greed has made your blog unappealing to readers.If you don’t have any readers how will you make money? Let me explain. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »