Bloggers Journal

Everyone would love to make a little extra cash – let’s face it, in the current economic climate, the cost of living is getting beyond a joke.  Some extra cash is always a relief as it eases the strain.  Some of the most straight forward ways of generating more income is to get another job.  But who really wants to be working longer – if they really have to?  I know I don’t, and I’ll bet if you’re reading this now, you don’t either.

The internet is a great resource which has been used by many to carve new careers for themselves.  What’s more is it is relatively straight forward – so why doesn’t everyone have an internet job?  What stops the masses from being successful running a website and making cash? Read more »

Choosing a niche is one of the joys of starting up any profitable internet venture.  I have written on discovering your niche, and how obvious it is.  For instance, my niche site is a Couple’s Guide to Disney.  What makes it different is that I (with my fiancee’s help!) want to provide help, a guide, and tips on holidaying in Disney based on first hand experience.

When I started out, I wasn’t sure what a niche really was.  To me, a niche was something new and novel and not done before.  But can this really be done?  There are literally millions of websites, and chances are that you will be reinventing the wheel.  Here is what I learned. Read more »

Everyone is familiar with spam emails or postal mail.  We all hate it, and try everything under the sun to try and prevent it.  There are plenty of spam filters for email.  If it’s your postal mail, you do everything to get your information off the circulation list.

These problems are also associated with busy websites.  It may surprise you that it doesn’t take a lot of traffic either to get spammed.  Naturally the more popular your site, or in tech speak, the more inbound links you have, you will end up with more likelihood of being spammed.  Even on my site, which isn’t receiving massive traffic, I have had some spam comments.  So where does it come from?  What can I do to prevent it? Read more »

Managing a blog is not always as simple is first appears.  I mean you have to write regularly, and write well.  You have to advertise to get readers.  Okay, so you don’t have to – you can blog just to get things off your chest.  But, if you are like me, and thousands of others, and wouldn’t mind making a few extra pounds (or your own currency), you want readers to visit your site so you can monetise through advertising, affiliate marketing and selling stuff.  I recently wrote about how writing good comments boosts traffic.  Another valuable source of traffic is blog directories.  There are literally tons of them. Read more »

Social networking has taken off in a massive way in recent years.  It is easier than ever to communicate with anyone in the world.  It used to be that websites were quite boring pages of just information, and if you wanted to talk to people, you used chat rooms or email.  With the development of various web technologies, and their ease of use, more often nowadays, readers can interact with the authors of their websites via commenting.

When you are starting out a new venture, blogging about your passion, say for example, about holidaying in Disney , you want to try and get as many visitors as you can to your site.  You will read a million times over, on this site included, that commenting on other blogs is a great method of marketing. Read more »

Blogging can be a fun hobby were you share your views and opinions on whatever you are interested in.  For some, your blog can be a means to generating additional income.  This income can come from a number of sources; advertising or product purchasing, for example.  However, regardless of whether or not you want to make money from your blog, you should aim to write to as high a standard as you can.  Without a good standard to your articles, you will not gain or retain readers.  But how do you write good content? Read more »