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Make Money Blogging

“Make Money Blogging” is gaining popularly now a days. There are many ways you can make money blogging articles, but here are the top 4 most effective ways to make money blogging articles.

Here are lists of things you can do to make money blogging articles

1. Include PPC Advertisement Advertisements Into Your Blogs
If you are unfamiliar with Pay Per Click (PPC), there are free systems like Google Adsense which pays you to put their advertisements onto your website. These advertisements are generated by Google and when someone clicks the advertisements you make money blogging the content as it paid based on the number of clicks on the advertisements

2. Make Money Blogging Tips On Interest
Let say you like to play baseball as a hobby, and you know everything about baseball. You can make money blogging about baseball articles and get paid. Just recently launched by pay per post, they will pay you from US$5 to US$50 for selected articles that you post of your blog.

Do make sure that you do have knowledge and experience in that interest when you blog, as people will start to question your articles if they feel your articles are not up to standard and that may cost people to leave your blog.

3. Make Money Blogging Affiliate Products
Do not have a product in mind? You can go to search engine and search for top affiliate products, start writing articles on the products and you can too make money blogging about the affiliate products.

All you need to do is write a review about the affiliate product or give out free reports about the products and people will get the products if you blog it right. Do not have affiliate articles post in every post of your blog.

The biggest mistake you can do to make money blogging affiliate products is you hard sell to your visitors. Never do that in your blogs, what you want to do instead is to have ratio of about every 4 information articles have 1 promotion article.

This way while you are trying to make money blogging the affiliate products, the readers will not feel they are been hard sells to.

4. Make Money Blogging Other People’s Blog
You can also make money by offering reviews on other people’s blog. Basically you can charge a fee from US$60 to US$250 to write reviews on blogs. The concept is that, they will pay you through ReviewMe.com and you will only get paid once you do a review up for them.

Note while writing to make money blogging about other people’s blog, you would want to have a mix of both the goods and bad of the blog to show people that this review is truth and honest review and not give readers a concept that it is a paid one.

These are the top 4 commons ways you can make money blogging about stories or articles. The main thing is blogs are most often seen as a marketing product to some. But actual fact, blogs are just a marketing tool to promote content and gather traffic to your sites.

Alvin Phang
Singapore
23 Mar 2007
www.gathersuccess.com

Creating A Widget For Your Websites And Blogs

With a widget you can place the current information from your blogs and or/websites on other webpages, and your personal pages on social networks like myspace, ning.com and your private clubs. This is not only fun and informative, but an excellent promotional tool.

What is a widget? According to Wikipedia a "web widget is anything that can be embedded within a page of HTML, i.e. a web page. A widget adds some content to that page that is not static. Generally widgets are third party originated... Widgets are also known as modules, snippets, and plug-ins. Widgets can be written in HTML, but also in javascrípt, flash and other scripting languages..."

Applications can be integrated within a third party website by the placement of a small snippet of code. This is becoming a distribution or marketing channel for many companies. The code brings in 'live' content - advertisements, links, images - from a third party site without the web site owner having to update."

You have probably seen widgets on web sites you have visited. When clicked on the widget will take you to the source of the information. Although widgets have been around since the late nineties, they are becoming increasing more popular especially with the rise of social networking.

I first started playing around with widgets as a way to promote my own AC published content. While widgets are not that difficult, they can be a little tricky at first if unfamiliar to you. It took me several tries to perfect my own widgets and place them on my blog and social networking sites. They now work perfectly without any problems. As I add content to my AC page for example, the widget automatically updates to show the most current article titles.

If you have not had the opportuníty to work with widgets or have attempted to do so without success, this article is for you. With little effort you will be able to make the widgets and place them on the web pages that you choose. Once mastered the widgets are really cool and worth the effort.

Making A Widget
At widgetbox.com you can make a widget to place on your pages. You can customize the widget with size, details, title and colors and even líst it in their blidget directory which gives more exposure to your blog and AC page (every little bit of promotion helps). You can make as many widgets as you want, I have one for my blog at Women-sense.com and another for my AC content producer page so far.

Go to widgetbox.com, on the left sidebar clíck on the button that says 'Make a blidget'. This will open up a box that asks for the url where the information is being gathered. For my blog I just entered the blog url, (http://women-sense.com). Widgetbox.com automatically draws from the rss feed for that URL. Don't ask me how, I have no idea but it works. For my Associated Content I added the actual RSS link which I found by clicking on the RSS symbol and copying the url address from the browser address bar.

Once you add the link to the blidget box it will open to a page that will give you customizing options. You will see your widget on the right hand side with your information from the RSS feed. You can opt to líst article titles or titles with article summaries. Different colors as well as sizing and/or images are other options available. Fool with the options until you get it the way you want it to look.

When you finish setting the options and you are happy with the way it looks, clíck on one of the article titles to assure it is working correctly. When clicked it should clíck thru to the site your are promoting.

Registering and Getting The Code
If working correctly, the next step is to get the code. Now you will need the code in order to place the widget on your myspace page or other website of your choice.

Before getting the code the next step in the creation of your widget offers you the chance to líst your widget in the blidget gallery. I opted for this and you will probably want to do so as well. It can only add to your exposure. Add keyword tags and clíck 'publish blidget'.

You will then be asked to register if you do not already have an account. Don't worry, the service is absolutely frëe. By registering you will be able to come back and make as many widgets as you want and add them to your account for editing.

Once you have registered you will now be taken to a another page with several options. Near the top you will see the title of the widget (example: AC Media) on the far right of the title clíck the green button that says 'get widget'.

Placing The Widget On Websites
A drop down líst opens up for you to choose where to place the widget. You will see there are many choices. If you are placing your widget on myspace, for example, choose that selection. You will be asked for your myspace email and password, along with what section you want the widget to be placed. Widgetbox.com will automatically place the widget on your myspace page in the section you desire.

Perhaps you want to place the widget on a site that is not listed. In this case you would choose the section that says, 'get code'. There will be two choices to choose from, a javascrípt and a flash scrípt. At this point you may have to experiment to see which code will work on the site you are attempting to place the widget.

Many sites do not allow javascrípt. If you are working on your own webpages you can probably use the javascrípt code. Copy and paste the code in your website's html, save and upload your page as usual. The widget should work fine.

For other sites like ning.com you want the flash scrípt. Select all and copy the code for the flash scrípt. Paste the code into a block where you are able to add information by clicking on edit/add in the box and paste the code. You are almost done.

Before saving you will need to add opening and closing div tags to the code in order for it to show up. At the beginning of the code place the <div> and at the end of the code include </div>.

Clíck save and close the opened text box and your widget should be displayed. If correctly done, your widget will automatically update every time you add new content to the site your widget is promoting.

Doran Roggio
10 July 2007

Doran Roggio is a freelance writer & online entrepreneur. For business resources visit Doran at http://atdorans.com and http://adsense-smarts.doranunlimited.com.