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All you need to do is download and install Link transformer and put in your keywords and links and your blog can start earning for you. Start today…

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.

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

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 One of those blogs was ArticlesAnd.info, recently found languishing with an out of date wordpress version and a dead front page due to an expired plugin.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.

I am an Internet marketer who loves WordPress. I have come to discover that there are lots of ways to make money online using the power of WordPress..

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When I take on consulting clients who are trying to get started online, the first thing we will do is brainstorm various ways to start an online business depending on their skill set and focus.

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Blogging For Profit The Simple Way – Don’t Hang around

Despite the fact that blogs may well have got the most news coverage a few years ago, they are still as popular as ever. When they first started, they were typically used as a manner of online diary. In spite of this, it didn’t take long for people to commence blogging for profit. And, once more and more people realized there was money to be made with blogs, they took off to a whole new level. Today, it’s a safe notion that most blogs are started in the hopes that they will earn money. With that in mind, here some tips to help you make more money with your blog.

1. Treat it like a business. The intent of every business is to make money. Therefore, if you want your blog to be profitable, then you have to run it like a business. That doesn’t necessitate you have to hire employees, or anything like that, but instead that you need to take it seriously, and be willing to invest some time, money and resources to make it successful.

2. Have a plan. You might as well start off on the right foot. The vast majority of successful businesses began with a written business plan. Try to be as precise as you can. How will you generate income? Who are your visitors? What percentage are likely to click on ads or buy something? How will you get traffic to your blog? What is your marketing plan? These are only a small amount of of the questions you should answer.

3. Free isn’t always best. Blogger.com and WordPress.com have made it simple for any person to start a blog for free. There is nothing incorrect with using free blog services to learn about blogging. In spite of this, you will have less control over your blog if you host it on those sites. Yes, it’s free of charge, but they can also take off your blog without any warning, and that’s not good for blogging for profit.

4. Invest a little. Okay, so going the free route isn’t good for business, but what’s the other alternative? The good news is that you don’t have to pay anything to Blogger or WordPress to benefit from their blogging platforms. Nevertheless, you should set them up on your own domain name and web hosting. You should be able to get a new domain name for under $10 per year, and suitable web hosting can be found for as little as $10 per month. That’s almost nothing when compared to starting a conventional business.

5. Monetize it. There are two main ways people use to generate income from their blogs. The first is by selling affiliate products. This is where you get a percentage of each transaction for selling somebody else’s product. You will get a exclusive link that identifies you as the seller, so they distinguish you made the sale. The second way of monetization is Google AdSense. You sign up for their program, then add a fragment of code to your blog. They will then add targeted adverts, and you receive money every time one of your visitors clicks on an advert.

in easy pocket money blogging part one we discussed web hosting the blog, and setting it up. We also looked at the first few plugins used to make it an article directory and avoid spam from comment spammers. In part 2 we will look at how we get traffic to the new blog, and how we monetise it.

Firstly I will run through the basic plug ins I add to all my blogs for traffic generation from search engines. I set these up first as they will be helping every time a new article is added to the directory. My first suggestion is All in One SEO Pack as this helps to make your blog posts get ranked in search engines with the appropriate tags, and titles etc. This helps no end in getting traffic for free from search engines, and making sure your listing is right in the searches. Using the defaults in most of the settings works well enough for the lazy people like me too.

In addition to All in One SEO I always ensure my blogs use permalinks, and use the structure
” /%category%/%postname%/ ” in the “Custom Structure” field in permalink settings. These together help give the search engine rankings a boost and bring the traffic in. Once you have traffic you can start monetising your articles, oh yeah we haven’t got to the articles yet have we? Don’t worry it’s coming but lets get it all ready for making your pocket money on the blog first.

To monetise a blog, I use a widget with Adsense in on the right of the page, and also a plugin called Adsense Injection available at http://www.biggnuts.com which will place Adsense blocks in the article text automatically wrapping it in the text. You can also add Link-A-Dink plug in to turn some key words and phrases within articles to text links to affiliate products or your other sites. Of course how you monetise your blog is up to you, and you may do it even better than I do, this works for me and I’m too lazy to experiment.

On this blog I also addeed Role Manager, WP-PageNavi and  MaxBlogPress Favicon plugins. The last of these helps to get your blog noticed by adding one of those little icons to the title bar of the browser and also to the title when bookmarked, which helps it stand out a little and makes people come back again. You can add your choice of plugins too, if you have other things you like to see on your sites.

We now have a WordPress blog, which looks like an article directory and works like one. It also attracts traffic from search engines to the articles which we don’t have yet. This is where the best bit comes in, free content added automatically. The plug in for this is on the Unique Article Wizard Plugins  page UAW Plugins for Various Article Directories where you can download the unique articles plugins for various scripts including WordPress. Activate the plugin, and fill in the details in the settings, and you will start receiving articles to your new site almost immediately.
In my case I have had over 3000 articles in a few weeks, and the search engines have started sending enough traffic to earn me some extra Google Adsense cash this month.

You can setup an article directory or any niche themed website with WordPress, and start getting article submissions in minutes. As it grows, hopefully so will your pocket money. And if you’re one of those people who likes to test and tune, fiddle around with the settings, and you could probably be making a bit more than pocket money from a blog like the one outlined here. The choice is yours. But whatever you do, get started on your pocket money blog soon.

Professional blogging is a very new idea with a lot of potential for entrepreneurs who have insight, drive, and a basic understanding of today’s innovative web technology. The ranks of so-called pro bloggers are still quite small, and there are very few people who make their living entirely off of their blogs. However, every day there are more and more people who have managed to turn their weblogs into cash cows that supplement their income. The number of pro bloggers is growing by leaps and bounds, but it is difficult to say whether this trend will continue.

Many bloggers dream of entering the sphere of professional blogging. There are very few people who happily devote an hour or more each day to their blog without at least occasionally wishing that they could earn some kind of financial reward for all of their work. Several models exist for making money with a blog, the most popular being to sell advertising space through Google’s AdSense program or directly to a company that wishes to reach the demographic that your blog appeals to. However, there are very few people indeed who can make a comfortable living just by selling space on their blog sidebars.

A lot of the people who read weblogs are bloggers themselves, in part because of the fact that the people who use blogging technology on a daily basis are most likely to be interested in what other writers are doing with the medium. This fact begins to explain why the people who succeed in the world of professional blogging are mostly people who have devoted themselves almost entirely to learning about, talking about, and writing about blogging. More than any other topic, pro bloggers turn their attention to the phenomenon of blogging itself. A lot of pro bloggers make the topic of blogging the stunningly self-reflexive ongoing focus of their blogs.

Of course, professional blogging is destined to become much more complicated in the future than it is today. In the current moment, pro bloggers who attract the largest audiences and make the most money are mostly concerned with investigating the blogging movement and with offering advice to amateur bloggers. However, as the kinds of people who regularly read blogs changes, and the demographics of bloggers expand and diversify as blogging software becomes more user friendly, it is very likely indeed that the world of pro blogging will begin to reflect these changes. Indeed, it is very difficult to predict exactly what kinds of blogs will be reaping the greatest financial rewards five or ten years down the road. The world of pro blogging is one of constant change and flux, which is part of what makes it so exciting.

Easy Link Exchanging With your WordPress Blogs

If you didn’t already know it, one thing which can help your blog get more traffic is backlinks. Backlinks are any link which points to your site. The more links you have pointing to your site the better, not just in the hope someone will click on the link from someone elses site, but also for Search Engine rankings.

Search engines (some of the major ones anyway) use the amount of links going to a site as part of the algorithm for deciding its position. That oversimplifies it somewhat as they also take into account many other factors but for the benefit of brevity and staying on topic we’ll just say that more backlinks will help your ranking in the search engines.

There are lots of ways to get links back to your site, such as writing and submitting articles, which is highly recommended as it gives you one way inbound links which count more towards your score. Another way which can help is by exchanging links with other site owners.

As the phrase “link exchange” implies, you will be exchanging a link for a link. So in other words you find someone with a similar site to yours, link to them and they in turn put a link on their site back to yours. With a blog this can seem a difficult and time consuming occupation, as you’d need to post a new page for your link exchange partners, and edit it each time you add a new link.

WordPress comes with a built in link system called a Blogroll, which shows the links you add to it on your site. Obviously this could become unsightly and take up a lot of space in the sidebar as you start getting more and more link exchanges made. Because WordPress blogs are easily upgraded to perform new tasks with “plugins” it isn’t as hard as it may seem to deal with link exchanges using the Blogroll.

You can download the Blogroll Page Plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blogroll-links which turns your blogroll sidebar widget into a full blown links page. Each time you add a link to your blogroll it will be added to the page. It even allows categories to be used to segregate the links however you wish.

Increase your sites visibility start your link exchange process today, it’s easy now you know how to make WordPress Blogroll work for you.

Article by Douglas Titchmarsh (c)