Blog For Profit

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I know it sounds tedious to back up all your blogs files, but it’s neccessary and it doesn’t have to be difficult as there are loads of easy ways to back up all your blogs files and more importantly the database where all the posts are stored.

I was the one who set up a blog ready to make money in under an hour. It’s a Halloween themed blog which I could have added Adsense to, but instead I put up some ebooks in the Halloween Niche for sale to monetise the blog for me. So here’s my step by step account of how I setup a new blog in under an hour.

A ping from your blog tells other places around the internet you have put up a new post. Some sites collect these pings and are always being followed by the search engines robots which are looking for new content. These ping services such as Pingoat.com often also link into other sites which will add your blogs link to their pages.

There really doesn’t seem to be much you can’t do with Wordpress when you add the right plugins, at least in the online world. So if you’re considering setting up some kind of online presence a blog powered by wordpress is a good place to start, then see if there’s a plugin to make it do what you want

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I am a hoarder, if I can find something to collect I will. That goes for online marketing goodies too, like domain names, ebooks and anything else I can get my hands on. It was this hoarding which has lead to me having far too many domain names to keep track of, therefore some get left behind. One of those blogs was ArticlesAnd.info, recently found languishing with an out of date wordpress version and a dead front page due to an expired plugin.

I decided I quite liked the look as it had been made to be an article repository and for articles to be added by authors and used by others on their sites. It looked like an article directory due to the plugins and a great theme which was intended to do so. But it also looked dead, 9,000 + articles had been scraped up until the scraper plugin or the site it linked to went AWOL.  So the look was staying, but what else can you do with a site called Articles And Info?

Now I had to decide what I was going to do to try to monetize the blog, and keep it adding content. The first parts was discussed when I wrote about the uContext plugin I had discovered which monetises the blog with links to keywords going to Clickbank Products. The second part was key to keeping the search engines and hopefully people coming back for another look, how to add content regularly while remaining lazy.

The answer came in another handy plugin, the Smart Autoblogger currently available for just $7 as I write this post. This plug in will add posts it creates from a zip file you point it to which contains txt files. As I personally collect all sorts of stuff, I had tons of PLR articles (Private Label Rights) which means I have tons of content for lots of different subjects.

With that in mind I added the Smart Autoblogger plugin  to ArticlesAnd.info and looked at some of the empty categories. I searched for some articles on my hard drive and then found a little more work had to be done. The Smart Autoblogger plugin uses the txt file name to create a title, so I had to ensure they would look ok, a quick Google found a small program which will rename batches of files by removing numbers and hyphens from the filenames, and replace the hyphens with spaces. Perfect for renaming the articles to make good looking titles.

I rezipped the files and added them to the blog using the Smart Autoblogger plugin which then found the txt files, and automatically scheduled them according to some rules I set. I added several sets of txt files to be scheduled over a few weeks in various categories (did I mention autoblogger lets you choose categories for each set of articles?).

So with automated dripfed content, and automatic Clickbank product linking with a touch of Google Adsense added for good measure my scattergun blog will hopefully make a little money from its various categories. Even if that one doesn’t I can leave it alone and start another WordPress blog on another of my hoarded domains and automate it in a similar way. It doesn’t take long to setup and if they fail well it’s all a learning experience.

P.S. the links to Smart Autoblogger go directly to the sales page, I make nothing from any of the sales it might get, this link is to help you and only you dear readers.

I just discovered a plugin which is most useful for anybody blogging for profit. I was searching for a Clickbank plugin to automate adding some revenue streams at http://articlesand.info which is a site I have had for a long time and forgotten about. When I got there and updated it to get it working I started looking to automate it a little more. I already had automated article submissions going to it but needed to add relevant affiliate products.

Whilst adding a couple of links I started searching for a Clickbank plugin of some sort and found UContext, which turned out to be a contextual link plugin. Basically what uContext does is turn a selection of keywords on your blog into links to related Clickbank products automatically. You get to select how many links per page, and can set things like the minimum percentage of the sale you want the links to have available among other criteria.

You have to sign up at the uContext site  which is actually free, but there are paid options too. The free option will get you one of your blogs on the system, but upgrades can be had at a very reasonable cost to add more sites, or get more features. I know with some online sites they will get you with the freebie, but the addons are horrendously high priced that isn’t the case here even for a startup, this would be worth adding once you have tested uContext for free.

I’d recommend uContext to anyone with a blog they are trying to make money from, as all your keywords which have potential profits from Clickbank will be automatically linked to make you cash. The plugin is available on the site and also from the WordPress add plugins search, but you still need to sign up to get the API Key (a sequence of numbers you copy and paste into the plugins settings page). It’d be nice to hear from some users in the comments below.