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Do you sell links on your website?

When you've been blogging for awhile, you'll undoubtedly be approached by PR people wanting to place an ad or link on your website for a fee. What is important to realize is that links going to their site are good for their search engine visibility. And that is fine. However, Google frowns … [Read more...]

10 Tips to Save Time Blogging

The best things happen this time of year - my kids perform the cutest song/dance routines, I get to dress them up, the pine needles cover the unvacuumed carpet, and I get to indulge in a little eggnog and grown-up drink as we call it in our house. With a little down-time over the holidays, I also … [Read more...]

10 Proven Strategies to Increase Traffic

For the business person, we put content online to lure you into our web of products and information. For the mom blogger, we put a lot of love and sweat into our writing. And we love, love, love it when people read and comment! But for every popular blog on the web, hundreds more are read by … [Read more...]

Revenue Streams IV – 6 Books for Bloggers to Sell

Darren Rowse (a very successful full-time blogger) recommends that you diversify your income streams[1]. In this part IV of our Revenue Streams series[2], we're going to look at how to create and/or sell a product that would benefit your readers. That is the key - Your Readers = Buyers. They … [Read more...]

Revenue Streams III – Can you Freelance?

When I started out with Heather, it seemed that there were just too many blog designers. Everbody thought they could design a blog. In some ways, they were right - we all have unique tastes and preferences, and a variety of designers is a good thing for the clients. So I jumped in the ring … [Read more...]

Revenue Streams Part II – Affiliate Marketing

In part one, we covered how to monetize your blog with contextual ads like Adsense and ad networks. Here we go beyond placing ads on the page to:becoming an affiliate sell a product or service create a membership site consult / speaking engagementsAffiliate Income An affiliate is … [Read more...]