Making Money from Blogging

I thought you all would find this post interesting it shows how PayPerPost is real picky and has lots of rules about blogs and if they have to many ads they will not accept you this is why I still say Smorty Post is the best one to sign up and write articles for they pay you good money and even give you several days after you choose which ad you want to write about to think abut what you want to write and you choose the ads that pay the most its great> Smorety POst is easy to get into and does not have all those ;picky rules I advise all of you to go and click on the banner below and check it out and this is if you want to earn some fast easy cash just for writing about as ad you chose. I joined and you also get a chance to write several posts after you finished one. SO go now after you read this and click on the Smorty banner underneath this post. Now You all can read this Post written by Mommy Mia about PayPer POst................."Well, I started this blog with the intentions of trying to make some money. I have signed up with PayPerPost to do some paid posting and have gotten one whole opportunity to blog about. But then I just started and it takes time to get things going!! Most pay to post sites require your blog to be open for 90 days with consistent posting to qualify. PayPerPost only requires that your blog be open for 30 days. As we speak, PPP is going through and auditing blogs to see if they contain quality content. No one that I have talked to understands what they mean by "quality" content. Are they looking at the posts or the overall appearance of the blog? Several of my friends seem to be removing all of their ads and widgets from their pages because several of the removed blogs had quality posts and a lot of other widgets and such on their pages. I am not going to do remove mine as I feel like it is my blog and I am trying to make a few dollars and if I remove my ads-then what is left when I have only gotten one post from PPP? I know a lot of others have been with PPP for a while and have made pretty good money from them. But if PPP is removing bloggers due to too many ads on their pages and not removing them for poor post content then the advertisers are going to wonder where PPP's priorities are. If I were an advertiser-I would want quality posts as opposed to a naked blog with nothing on it. If PPP removes blogs due to other advertisements and the widgets that someone elects to put on their pages-then it would appear to me that PPP is monopolizing the blog for their own monetary gain. I may get removed from PPP for posting this-but I am just posting an opinion which is what blogging is all about. I plan to sign up for more companies as I go along as I am a stay at home mom and have to get some income from somewhere. Anyways, just thought I would share my thoughts on this subject. If someone from PPP reads this-I would welcome some feedback as to what is considered a "quality" blog and what criteria you require in order to keep a blog in your system.

Edited to add: I have since seen the criteria they are looking for and I wholeheartedly agree with the way they are doing things. They are trying to remove the blogs that are too cluttered with too many widgets and ads, background music (which is annoying to me too) and they are looking at the consistency of the posts-are they regularly posting, keeping sponsored posts separated by other posts so that it is not just one sponsored post after another, whether the posts are actual posts and not just nonsense, etc. Way to go PPP-get rid if some of the junk blogs!!


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Comment Here If You Want A In Depth Blog Review

I have decided it is time to not only talk about ‘Stand Out’ blogging from a hypothetical perspective, but to take real blogs, with real bloggers and do a full analysis of what they do right and what they can improve on. This will not only benefit the owner of the blog, but it will be a great opportunity for all our readers to learn how their blog can be improved also.

I Am Planning On Reviewing A New Blog Every Week!
Starting with a four week trial to test the results of the reviews. Especially your comments on whether you like it. I think this is a great way for me to give back to you, my readers, something that is valuable and will help improve your blogging.

What Areas Of The Blog Will Be Reviewed?
Great question. I will be looking at the blog as a whole, starting with an introduction of the blog explaining a little bit of background information. Then I will start looking at the pros and cons of the following key areas:

Target Market
We will take a look at exactly who this blog is targeted at. This needs to be identified if we are to correctly analyse the following four areas.
Design & Branding
Here we will spend some time looking at the blogs theme and logo as well as how brandable their blog currently is and what they can do to improve it.
Content
Content is king, as everyone says, so we will spend some time analyzing the content of the blog, posts and pages, and the based on the target market of the blog see what can be done to improve conversion of visitors to subscribers and subscribers to raving fans.
Marketing/Networking
How active is this blogger in their niche? This is what we will tackle in this section. We will look at the bloggers current marketing and networking efforts to see how they can increase awareness of their blog in an efficient manner.
Monetization
What is being done to make money from this blog? And how can the monthly income generated from this blog be improved? We will look at ways to optimize revenue and increase the blogs earnings.
Would You Love An In Depth Blog Review Like This?
If you want to be the first blogger to get their blog reviewed on StandOutBlogger.com then don’t expect it to be easy. No you don’t have to be a subscriber to enter. This is open to every blogger but I expect a level of effort from the winner.

Answer A Few Simple Questions About Your Blog
Before I visit your blog and start working on the review, I will want to ask you a few questions about your blog so that I can look at things like your target market and your current promotional efforts. This step is important and I will need the info emailed back to me within 48hours of receiving.
Be Prepared For Criticism
I am a big believer in constructive criticism, however I am a positive person and love to focus on the good things, as well as the ways that good things can come from current bad situations. However, my readers may not be so kind, so be prepared a chain of readers opinions
Simple… So How Do I Enter
This part is so easy all you have to do is:

Comment Below, Nominating Your Blog For A Review
Tell Me In 100 Words Or Less Why Your Blog Should Be Reviewed
Post Comment
How simple is that!

You Have 48 Hours To Enter…
So start getting creative with your 100 word answer as this will be how I chose the winner. Here are some ideas that I might like:

A Funny Answer
A Serious Answer
A Suck Up Answer
A Self Sacrificing Answer
In other words ‘be creative’. Make your answer Stand Out from the crowd and get noticed - then get reviewed!

I Will Only Be Reviewing One Blog A Week, so comment below to give your blog a chance to get an in depth blog review for free!
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I ran across this post and thought thoose of you who read it might be interested in getting your blogs reviewed , if you are stop by there and leave your comments, I did! Oh and Be Sure to Leave Your Comments here as well: thank you Lilyruth

Tips to Increase Your Adsense Revenue

The brain trust over at Google has come up with a little wacky, off-the-wall idea about Internet ads. Make them less annoying.

No, that’s it. That’s the whole plan. Seems like someone should have thought of that one a little earlier.

But bloggers can cash in with Google’s AdSense network. Instead of posting blinking lights, cheap animation and a bobbing and bouncing monkey (or the paper football, although I totally rock at that one) Google matches vertical or horizontal blocks of text with the content of the web page. The ads don’t blink or jump around. Instead, they match or relate to the topic at hand, so the reader isn’t seized with the immediate need to get it off the screen right now no matter what it costs.

Traffic goes up, income goes up. Making money on the Internet - it may be the World Wide Web’s Holy Grail. Still, despite the simplicity, there are several steps savvy bloggers can take to give AdSense added oomph.

Here are some other almost obvious tips:

* Don’t make it boring. Boring equals bad. More importantly, boring drives readers away in two clicks. No one wants to read for three days straight why organizing your closet via season, not color, makes sense. Try to keep content fresh and continually updated. The more often people check in to see what else is going on in your world, the more often you hear cha-ching. Wash-rinse-repeat a few times, and you have created a loyal and happy reader.

* Make it easy to read. People cannot read blue text on a black screen! Keeping the layout simple and clean is the easiest way not to screw anything up. A general rule calls for placing an advertisement “above the fold,” or in place on the first portion of the screen before any scrolling is required.

* Think about ad placement. Don’t try to squish a horizontal advertisement into a vertical one. Google provides plenty of ad options from including a link to placing an ad in the middle of some text so no need exists to use the wrong ad. If you don’t know what size to make an idea, going too wide will look the best.

* Listen to your readers. Most of them are not to hesitant to give an honest opinion of a new advertisement type or content or anything else for that matter. If moving all your ads to the bottom of a rambling ode to your dead parakeet causes income to crash, then, well, maybe you shouldn’t do that. Consider making small, gradual changes and watching your traffic numbers.
* Remember why you started blogging. Bloggers blog for fun, for release, for a creative jolt and any other number of reasons. But, usually, not because the idea of sitting at the computer makes them think of a dentists’ drill. If it stops being fun for you, your readers will likely realize it. And who wants to be around that guy? If you find your self in a slump, give yourself permission to take a day or two off. Then, think about why you do this and what you want out of it. Plus, it’s totally an addiction, so after a day or two you will be itching to get back.

Just because it took surfers years to almost literally rising up in arms against pop ad is no reason your blog can’t start earning money now. Follow these tips and let Google’s AdSense do most of the work.

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Images for your Post are Important

Any good Blogger will tell you that images and imagery are important in the development and rise of any good blog, but they are often also quite frustrating, and time consuming aspect of any blogs life as well. None the less its important that you know about them. Design imagery incorporates images you may wish to use in the design of your blog, the header, sidebar or footer. Comment imagery is photos and images you post to your blog. If you don’t want to spend money on image editing software though I’d highly recommend downloading The Gimp, which is available for PC, Mac and Linux. It’s a fully fledged Open Source (free) image software package that many claim is as powerful as Photoshop.