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here’s where my big tip comes in. It’s in two parts which is going to help you save money while you make money. The first part is, those blogs cost money and although they are worth it there is a way to get some of them without paying the full price of $17 each, or $97 for 10. You can sign up to a membership club I belong to which has a monthly fee half of the cost of the 10 blog packs

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 One of those blogs was ArticlesAnd.info, recently found languishing with an out of date wordpress version and a dead front page due to an expired plugin.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

Often I get asked how to get started making money online. In the past, I had different answers I would give depending on the person.Today though, I tell nearly everyone the same thing.The first thing you should do is to learn how to use the power of WordPress.

This simple content management system is your gateway to online profits.

You don’t have to learn the programming or developing stuff. Just learn the basics of how to use it.

Once you know WordPress, the opportunities are everywhere. Whether you decide to help businesses get a website or you decide to build affiliate or AdSense based websites, WordPress is your solution.

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.

If I was prone to exageration I could claim that I am making thousands from one quick and simple blog. I could write a short e-book on it and then sell that book for silly money to people with a disclaimer that their earnings may not be the same as mine. I’m not prone to exageration, and am too lazy to write the e-book to cash in, so instead I’m going to outline a way to make a quick bit of extra pocket money from a simple blog.

The blog in question at http://www.articlesand.info could probably make a bit more profit with tweaking, probably will make a little more as it grows, but in reality was just a way to use up a domain I already had paid for.  It took next to no time to set up, takes a few minutes a week to keep it going and brings in a little pocket money. Now that’s a way to get started blogging for profit.

So how did this come about?

Firstly I had the domain http://www.articlesand.info sitting around awaiting a script for me to publish an articles directory (I have used a couple before but they were insecure). I also have a reseller hosting account for all my domains at Hostgator which is paid for by my other sites profits. If you are web hosting more than a couple of sites, Hostgator is a great place to put them. So I had everything I needed to put together a site except the script for the article directory.

That’s when I saw something about using WordPress as an article directory. I experimented on my own but it was a bit hit and miss. I googled for a WordPress article directory plug in and found there was one available at http://articlesss.com/article-directory-wordpress-plugin/ which also offers a nice article directory style theme to go with it. To get it up and running quickly, I used cpanel to install WordPress from Fantastico (all included in your hostgator hosted account) filled in a few fields on a form and WordPress was installed. I then installed the article directory plug in and theme. Now it was ready to take some articles from other authors.

Actually it wasn’t ready yet, if you have ever installed WordPress on your own domain, you will probably have encountered comment spam. So one of the first plugins I activate in WordPress blogs is the Akismet one which is usually installed with WP anyway. There are other comment spam filters, but Akismet does the job well enough. So this helps to keep my time spent on the blog to minimum as most comment spam is removed for me automatically.

part 2 to follow soon.

Many people dream of blogging for profit, and this goal is not far beyond the reach of someone with average intelligence, a willingness to work hard, and a basic grasp of blogging technology. However, very few people manage to reap the profits they want from their blog. Most people who attempt to make money with their blogs do not succeed for two reasons.

Often, bloggers have unrealistic expectations of how fast their readership will grow and how much money they will make, and when these expectations are not met the disappointment can crush the desire to continue blogging.

The other trap that many bloggers fall into has to do with lack of planning. If you want to turn a profit as a blogger, the key to success is to make a realistic plan and stick with it.  

To succeed at blogging for profit, the main thing that you will need is a large readership. The higher your traffic, the more advertisers will agree to pay you. However, cultivating the regular visitors that you will need in order to make a profit isnt easy. As more and more blogs appear each day, having a great idea or a wonderful writing style is no longer enough to get attention. You need to be able to market your blog effectively.  

Too many bloggers spend all of their time writing posts and almost no time marketing their project. To be certain, updating as often as you can is a great way to keep your blog high on blogrolls and high in blog search engines like technorati, and once your readers know that you update frequently they will return to your site on a regular basis. However, it does not matter how often you update if nobody is reading your page, so dont skimp on the time that you spend drawing visitors to your site. To make your dreams of blogging for profit a reality, try decreasing your number of posts and using some of that time to draw new visitors by setting up link exchanges with other bloggers, making contacts in the blog community, and following other established modes of winning traffic. 

Of course, even if you are a marketing genius or have a really great idea for a blog, success is not going to happen overnight. Building the kind of readership that blogging for profit requires takes time, and in all likelihood it will be at least several months before you are able to turn much of a profit. Try to stay committed to your blogging project during this initial rough period. To stay motivated, set goals for how often you will update and how many readers you want to attract, and then reward yourself for sticking with your plan.