Tips For Making Money Online Blogging – Part 2

Tips For Making Money Online Blogging – Part 2

The techniques used to make a blog more popular are similar to those used to drive traffic to your website. This may include searching for sites on the internet to link back to it. It can be a good way to drive traffic to your blog as long as it is done correctly. .

Social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and YouTube provide link opportunities as do social bookmarking sites such as Reddit, StumbleUpon and Digg to promote your blog and attract more traffic. Forum sites which discuss the topic you blog about provide further opportunities to engage in link building as well as commenting on sites which discuss similar subject matter as yours does.

 Blogging on a popular blog site such as Google Blogger or WordPress can help to attract for your blog. Hosting your blog on a  blogging network in order to make money online through blogging has its distinct advantages. Alternatively you may choose to have your blog on an independently hosted blog and install a popular content management system such as wordpress which has great plug-ins for search engine optimisation.

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Make sure that your blog is designed and set out well so that readers can navigate it and find the information they are seeking. Readers get irritated when information is set out in a way which isn’t easy to read. Break your  posts up into small paragraphs with headlines so tht internet readers can quickly scan for content that interests them. Your blog doesn’t have to be the most unique or aesthetically pleasing, however it is important that you choose colours that make the content on your blog legible and pleasing to read.

Article marketing means submitting articles on the subject matter of your blog to popular article marketing sites such as ArticleBase.com. It is a good strategy because when you write an article you receive a link in the resource box at the conclusion of each article you compose. If your article is interesting enough it can increase your readership as readers may be enticed to  click through to your site.  If your articles end up being re-distributed to other blogs and websites this equates to more backlinks, which means more traffic and more conversions. It is a cheap form of promotion and can brand you as an expert on your subject matter.

If you are trying to make money online by blogging you need to create a popular blog with value added content, use ways of promoting it such as link building and article marketing, and use a clean design which is appealing to readers so that they want to return to your blog. . Read about more tips to making money online from blogging in Part 3 of this series of articles.