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2011 Free Hustle Tip #2 How to Blog For A Living

D Town Redd

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What's good, fam? This your boy D Town Redd dropping another BGOL exclusive on how to make money online.

My past Free Hustle Tips include:

Making Money off Adsense searches using Facebook Traffic

Making money off Domain Names

Making money off Domains part 2

Making money off Photo sharing sites

How to get traffic

In this new thread, I'm going to start a CASE STUDY on how to make money blogging.

The case study will follow the blog project from CONCEPT to BUILDING to CONTENT GENERATION to TRAFFIC BUILDING to MONETIZATION to OPTIMIZATION to MAINTENANCE and on to EXPANSION

If already have a blog and would like to blog along and apply the concepts here, please go on ahead and do so. Report your efforts here so I can help you get your blog in shape.

If you don't have a blog yet, follow this thread and report back your results. I will help you get your blog in shape.

Special thanks goes out to my friend, Justine, for letting me use her blog for archiving and detailed explanations. Here's the Archive blog where all detailed explanations for this Case Study will be posted.

Shorter info will be posted in this thread but if you want more details, you have to check the archive.

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Our first step isthe SYLABBUS for the Seminar. We'll go through the sylabbus methodically so no steps are missed.

Thanks for your support, fam. Show your appreciation and support by BUMPING this thread.
 
Blogging For Money Case Study Syllabus

( note: to see the full listing, go to the archive at bit.ly/gniiCm )

Concept

What to consider when picking a Subject to Blog about

  • Money versus Passion
    How to find subjects that you can be excited about but also pay well
    How to tweak low money subjects into decent money blogs
  • Traffic versus Money
    How to evaluate your subject matter for traffic pulling ability
    How to evaluate a low traffic subject matter's advertising revenue value
    Avoiding low paying niches
    Avoid chasing traffic that doesn't exist
  • Little Money versus More Money
    Determining revenue potential based on Traffic potential
  • Analyzing the Competition
    Who else is doing what you're doing?
    How are they doing it?
    What can you learn from them?
  • What content strategy to pick?
    Blogging for authority
    Blogging for traffic
    Blogging for social media
    Picking the right categories to focus on
  • Getting inside your target demographic's head
    Strategy for maximizing ad clicks
    Strategy for maximizing viralization
Goal Setting

  • Realistic goals
  • Traffic goals
  • Revenue goals

BUILDING YOUR BLOG

Picking the right platform for your blog


  • Free Hosted blog or Your own Custom hosted blog
    Pros and Cons of each option
  • Picking the right blog platform
    Wordpress vs Everyone Else
Theme Strategy that matches your concept

  • Finding an initial theme
  • Starter theme must help you meet goals as blog grows
Required tools to start your blog

  • Statistics Counters
  • Duplicate Content Checker
  • Google Adwords Keyword Selector Tool
  • Google Alerts
Future Syllabus sections

CONTENT GENERATION

TRAFFIC BUILDING

MONETIZATION

OPTIMIZATION

MAINTENANCE

EXPANSION
 
D town Redd you are the man. Thx for the info. Bookmarking this shit right now. Keep dropping more jewels on us :bravo::bravo::bravo::bravo::bravo::wepraise:
 
Question.. Has anyone noticed that adsense clicks from blogger.com blogs pay a lot less than clicks from adsense ads that are hosted on your own site?

I dont know if its caused by the content but my blogger.com clicks are paying $0.10 max with an average of 0.03 to 0.05 per click

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Edit

I've done some more research and now see that its my keywords that are worthless. Its back to the drawing board to try and find a good niche
 
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mc2 said:
Question.. Has anyone noticed that adsense clicks from blogger.com blogs pay a lot less than clicks from adsense ads that are hosted on your own site?

I dont know if its caused by the content but my blogger.com clicks are paying $0.10 max with an average of 0.03 to 0.05 per click

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Edit

I've done some more research and now see that its my keywords that are worthless. Its back to the drawing board to try and find a good niche
Click to expand...

We'll cover Adsense payout rates in this seminar. There's a quick and easy way to find fat paying niches.
 
Seminar Post #1

Money versus Passion

The FULL discussion/archive post is posted at http://bit.ly/i63VnT This forum post only posts the steps. If you want to see the full explanation and analysis, check the archive post.

How to find subjects that you can be excited about but also pay well

Sadly, just because you're excited about one particular topic it doesn't mean other people will be excited too. Or, more likely, if they are also excited, it doesn't necessarily mean they'd PAY MONEY for goods/services related to the topic, get it?

The key to blogging for money in a sustainable and successful way is to blog passionately about something that people will pay money for. They don't pay you directly—they pay by clicking on Adsense ads or clicking on affiliate program links and ads on your posts.

So how exactly do you find out if your “passion topics” can make money? Follow these simple steps

1) List out all the topics you're passionate about

2) Ask yourself, what is it about these topics that truly fascinate me? Write subtopics. Delete the general topics.

2a) VERY IMPORTANT STEP: What are your subtopics related to? What general topics are they related to? Medical issues? Legal issues? Health? Make a pairing on your list.

3) Once you've finetuned your list, go to spyfu.com and look for keywords related to your subtopics and your general related topics.

4) Filter the results to find the following PAIRING:

High volume of search traffic
High number of related subkeywords or terms
Decent payout per click
Decent number of advertisers targeting those terms
Managable volume of competition.

CASE STUDY

Case study with screenshots will be posted soon


NEXT SEMINAR TOPIC:

How to tweak low money subjects into decent money blogs
 
I've got a question about content. I saw in one of your other posts that you buy your content from some sites for $0.05 per word. Can you show us an example of something they wrote? Im currious to see what quality is like.
 
D Town, three questions:

What do you think is the minimum amount of time that must be set aside in a week to do this right?

How much time did you spend starting out?

What is the most time you've put into this in a week?

Good thread, thought I'd wait for the thread to fall a little bit before posting my questions.
 
D town I love the infom but really how is this working out for you. There is a lot of time and effort needed for this, it would be nice to know what the possible returns could be
 

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