Blogging contests are a great way to gain traffic and links to your blog. If you write a great article, then you’ll attract as many people to read it as possible, who might not otherwise read your blog. Daily Blog Tips recently ran a tutorial contest, and these are my own personal votes in order of preference. (more…)

Having been a webmaster for a while now, I’ve started, been through and come out the other side of the proverbial Google Pagerank tunnel. Having been in this world, I now understand how little Google Page Rank (PR) matters. If PR does matter, then you will always be limited in what you can achieve. If you are selling links to gain PR, then Google will eventually catch up with you and kill the pagerank of your site. That means your source of income dies off with your site’s loss of green magic. (more…)

Once you’ve built a new website and got it ready to receive visitors, you need to get visitors. There are many techniques for getting traffic to your site, but the best way is organically via the search engines. Something that helps gain good rankings in search engines are backlinks. An easy way to gain free backlinks is to submit your site details to a number of free web directories.

Web directories are essentially databases of links about websites. These directories are picked up by the search engines and the links to your site are noticed. Backlinks are one of many factors used by search engines that affect what position your site appears in the search results.

In this step-by-step tutorial I’ll show you how to submit your website details to completely free web directories. Usually the process of filling in your details on a web directory involves a lot of copy and paste work. Therefore I’ll show you how you can save a great deal of time using a great tool for Internet Explorer and Firefox called RoboForm. (more…)

Hopefully you read my previous tips in Part 1, so here are my next set of 7 tips. Most of these ideas are based on what I’ve learnt myself or what I’ve learnt from reading other people’s blogs. The tips are not rocket science, but they go a long way to helping you run a successful blog in any niche. (more…)

From doing some reading around, there’s a small amount of discussion around something called a mini site. A mini site is essentially a very small website featuring just a few pages about a specific subject, with affiliates and Google Adsense advertising on it. The whole point of a mini site is that you spend time creating it. A mini site does result in mini earnings (usually low $xx a month), but there’s little effort maintaining it. (more…)

So you want to make money online, but where on earth do you start? If you have no investment capital to start with, then you need to start making money somehow. This post assumes you are starting with a balance of 0. So we want to find ways of earning money without investing anything. There are lots of ways to do this, and here are a few ideas on what you can do. (more…)

My goals for making money (Ha!)

So rather than just talk to you about how you should make money, I think its fair that I explain what my goals and approaches are. I currently use all of the ideas that I mention on the site unless I say otherwise. The ideas that I refer to are things that I’ve tried, so I’ll try to highlight the mistakes that I’ve made so that you can avoid them where possible. (more…)

Paid blogging is an area of the web that has been a massive growth area in the last couple of years. Blogging has been a massive growth area in itself, and its no surprise that people wanted to make money from doing it. If you’re not familiar with blogging, we’d best start off with a definition. Thanks to elise.com, here’s a pretty good definition of what blogging means nowadays:

Blogging is easy, almost instant, publishing of content to a website, where every entry is preserved in a database and is therefore categorizeable and searchable. Content can be photographs, recipes, restaurant reviews, or anything digitally storable on a computer that you can categorize.

Paid blogging is the process of deriving money from writing blog-based articles, stories and reviews. (more…)

Happy New Year everyone! Let the new year be filled with opportunities and happiness! On the opportunities front, let’s make our own opportunities, earn some extra cash, reduce those financial burdens and hopefully feel a little happier! So I’ve got a little idea for you. I’ve got a suggestion on what you can make one of your resolutions for this year. (more…)