Blogging, what a wonderful activity made by many people around the world. Many of them write on their blogs for fun, others for money, and others simply to make another activity in their days.

The truth is that for everybody, blogging represent the same thing, a life’s style. If you love/like to blog, once you have started it, is too difficult to get rid of it. When you neglect it, you feel that you need something else to complete your routine, and that’s to write something in your blog :cool:.

As you noticed, I was away the last month. I was very busy with many things, but now I have a little more free time for blogging, socializing and all those activities I regularly made :smile:. My schedule was full everyday, and I had not time to do anything related to my blog. In fact, I have many ideas to blog about which I could not write in the past, but I will be publishing in them the next days.

I don’t know if you already got the point of this post. If you didn’t yet, don’t feel bad, I was not enough clear. I want to say that Blogging is a road that you never stop crossing it. Why I say that? Well because in the last month, thought I didn’t post anything, I received hundred of invitations, friendship requests and emails!! So I could stay away of my blog, but all those mentioned things called me everyday to keep blogging and doing my job :grin:.

If you like blogging, eventually you will take your blog back, of course, if you left it for a time :grin:. The great of take a break, is that you will return reloaded, and you will write and participate with more passion than ever!! I speak from experience :twisted:.

So my fellow readers, tomorrow I will post about the suggestion in my Skribit’s widget, so stay tuned this week to get more reloaded tips from me!

Bye bye, have a nice blogging!

Today I was talking with my sister about my blog. She is very wondered about what I’m doing here, and how I’m doing it. She asked me many things related to the monetization, because she never imagined you could make money online.

As she, I’m pretty sure that many people is wondered about the topic, so in this post I’m going to tell you how it is possible.

There are many ways which I make money with my blog: by displaying advertising, by reviewing services provided by other websites and by selling private advertising. I’m going to focus in the last one, the private sales.

What can you sell in your blog?

In your website, you are able to sell whatever you want. This includes banners (125×125, 468×60….), text links, reviews, packages, ebooks, a kind of membership or anything else you want to sell. In fact, there is a plugin for wordpress called WP Auctions, which you can sell whatever you want though bids. Of course, that’s if you are using wordpress to manage your blog, but as you see, there is no restrictions to sell on your website.

How to motivate the people to buy in your blog?

This is something very interesting, and a doubt which many people have. This is not an easy task, in fact this is pretty hard, and sometimes it can be impossible. You need to do your best to get people buying stuff in your blog:

• By taking part in social media networks: Being an active member of many social communities, you will get credibility though a wide audience, making your blog a potential marketplace to advertise on.
• By having many subscribers: Let’s face it, nobody will buy a banner on your blog if the only person who visit your blog is your mom. If you have just a couple of subscribers (I’m talking about 20), will be very hard to sell a banner, for example. The most subscribers you have, the most banners you will sell because this is an indicative of your popularity and brand in the web. But to get many subscribers, you need to be good on what you do.
• By having good traffic: The most expensive advertising is these which is in a highly visited website. And this is something obvious, you can’t sell a banner at the same prize of JohnChow (who gets thousand visits a day) if you get only 100 visits a day. To learn how to increase your traffic, check the category Improving Traffic.
• By having good rankings: This relates the preview point. If you have highest rankings, will be best for you because this suggest that you have a defined presence in the web. This mean that many people knows about you, visiting your blog several times a month. To learn how to increase your rankings, check the category Improving Rank.
• By displaying ads on your site: If you are selling ads, you don’t want to show a hole of empty slots. If you do this, you are saying that nobody is interested on your blog, and you are not having success with your sales. This is psychology, if the people see that you are selling banners, the customers around your blog will feel motivated to reserve a slot for them.
• By promoting your stuff: Well this is an obvious point. If you want to sell something, you need to let the people know you are selling something! So a page or section of “Advertising” would be great on your site, this way the people will know that you are selling something.

By following the tips mentioned above, you should start to sell some banners, text links or another stuff in your blog, and start to make some money from your home.

This business is all about socializing and imagination. If you have a great idea never revealed before, make sure to materialize it and if the idea is enough good, you will get a lot of money from it.

Happy Selling

Hey there, today I read something that I never expected. One of big popular bloggers aka “John Cow” is selling him blog! What do you think about it?

I think a blog is unique, because it depends of a personality. You could like to read a blog just for the funny comments the author does, or for the way he say the things. However, this is unique! and the new owner will not be the same, although he work under the same nick name.

Once you sell your blog, it will still alive. The people will still reading it, but it will be not the same. At least, the subscribers, or the people who follow a blogger daily, feel him as a friend. Once you leave them, they will not want to go back to the blog.

That is my opinion, but you don’t need to follow it if you are not agree. Let’s check why John Cow is selling him blog:

This dude is moving, from Europe to Australia, and he will be busy finding a place to live. As he arguments, he will be very busy doing this, and it is reasonable. Cow is a very persistent blogger, I followed him. But as he says, he will not have time to attend him online business, so he prefer to leave it.

It is a good reason but Cow, if I were you, I would not sell it. Instead, I would hire many guest bloggers, to keep my blog updated for a couple of weeks, may be months. He is a popular blogger, he has many subscribers and people who would like to post on him blog. Also, he can find help with bloggers like Darren, Chow or ME! (I’m a guest blogger already :cool:).

these are the statistics of JohnCow.com

The stats:

* PageRank 3
* Alexa 22,100
* Compete 41,020
* Technorati 1696, Authority 1457
* 382 Posts
* 13,417 Comments
* 47,412 Backlinks (Yahoo!)
* 2,830 indexed pages (Google)
* Average of 40K uniques per month (without social media)

This guy made a great work with him blog, I don’t understand why are he leaving it… However, it is him choice.

The blog price is 25K~50K dollars. He get about $2500 per month, so if you buy it, you could get your money back very quick… So do you want to buy JohnCow.com? Contact him! and say to him that you read about the sale in my blog (by doing this, I could get 5% of the sale).

Happy Weekend!

Hey there, recently some many bloggers have being asking me to exchange textlinks. Unfortunately, I have rejected all these requests because I’ll be giving many text links this month, in some sponsored contests. You have to understand that I don’t want to overload the sidebar of textlinks.

However, I want to tell them that I’m happy to receive these requests, and I could give you some backlinks through my posts if you want.

Anyways, in this post I want to tell you the importance of socializing and be friendly with the people who visit your blog. This is very important for a simple reason, 6 degrees.

What is Six Degrees?

This is a law which talk about the connectivity between the people. Following the definition of wikipedia:

Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that, if a person is one step away from each person he or she knows and two steps away from each person who is known by one of the people he or she knows, then everyone is an average of six “steps” away from each person on Earth. Is a little hard to understand, I recommend you to visit the link to wikipedia and read the law with more details.

Never happened to you that you find a connection between you and another person through a familiar or friend, but you never thought they know themselves? Well, this is because the law of 6 degrees. Basically, you are connected with every person on the world through a patch created for 6 persons. Everything is connected, and as you can imagine, you should never reject a business opportunity, because you don’t know the turns the world can give.

Also, by the same way you should never be disagreeable with anybody, because tomorrow that person can help you, specially if we talk about business. Every single blogger, can be a potential partner in the future, following the six degrees law.

To conclude this post, I recommend avoiding underestimate every opportunity you get. That insignificant idea, could be the one which explode your blog, giving you thousand readers, improving you revenue and all the things every blogger want to have.

This also apply to everything on the life, don’t forget it