Monetize Blogs
Posted at December 11, 2008
Blogging is a lot of work if you are up at night writing and researching for three hours. It does take a lot of time, I will not deny that. Here are a few tips to maximize your blog’s potentials.
- Drive Traffic to Your Blog
Organic traffic from search engines is what you’re always suppose to be focusing on. Work with your main keyword, search this keyword in search engines and advertise on the top sites you see on the list. Search engines love fresh content, be sure to update your blog daily with new content.
Link Exchanges
Link exchanging is another way of driving traffic and build backlinks without using any of your profits. Search for partners relating to your niche.
Advertising
Always have some money set aside for marketing your blog, my suggestions are to pay for directory submission services to help build your backlink and pagerank. Purchase text link or banner advertising on webmaster sites, such as blogs, forums and such.
- Keywords only about a specific topic
Say you made a post today about the internet, what would the postmostly talk about? Yes, that’s right – the internet. Blog posts would mainly only talk about one thing, it would be easier for search engines to determine its theme thus making it rank higher than a webpage talking about both the internet and music piracy.
Not many people would like to read 1000 words for a blog post each day, thats why posts are so short, so having the post only talking about one subject means that you have a good chance of a high keyword density.Having keyword rich titles give search engines a good overview of your site and also increases your keyword prominence (how early a keyword appears in text).
Having your URLs as www.yourblog.com/blogpost-title or www.yourblog.com/blogpost_title is more search engine friendly
than having www.yourblog.com/?p=123. Most blogging systems (like WordPress) gives you the ability to change this.
Services such as BlogLet allows you to generate a form for your visitors to subscribe to your blog.
Everytime you update with a new entry, your subscribers receives an email notification.
So what are trackbacks?
Trackbacks, also known as pingbacks is a method in blogs that enables automatic cross-references between weblog articles.
For example, if someone writes an entry on the importance of water, and you have a related article base on the topic, you can point your entry link to the article you just viewed. This way readers can read your piece too via the link submitted.
Ping.in is a blog ping service that pings or notifies weblog services and blog directories that your blog has been updated. Thus enabling them to index your blog fast and make your content available for a larger audience.