Todays budding blogger has a wide range of blogging platforms to choose from. Wordpress, LiveJournal, Blogspot, Squidoo and many others all seem to boast similar features at face value.

It can therefore be a daunting task to decide which of the available blogging platforms will best meet your blogging needs. However, most professional bloggers name Wordpress as their “blog of choice”.

Wordpress, like the majority of other blogging platforms, is free to use. However, Wordpress has a higher storage allowance then it’s competitors — a whopping 3 gigs! Additionally, unlike most other blogging platforms, Wordpress has the option of allowing you to install it on your own personal website. Should you install Wordpress on your own domain, which isn’t necessary but is recommended, you’ll have complete control over it and you are given all the bandwidth your internet hosting plan allows. That already generous 3 gig limit then become limitless!

While most blogging platforms allow for only the hosting of image files, Wordpress offers another another benefit in that as well as hosting images, you can also host a variety of files including PDFs, Word documents and PowerPoint presentations.

A further benefit of Wordpress over other blogging platforms is it’s open-sourced nature. This gives bloggers a great amount of flexibility. Wordpress has become a favorite among many bloggers for this reason alone. Your blog can be almost completely customized in terms of appearance and functionality, making it possible for you to recreate the exact impression of your blog that you’ve formed in your head.

Lets review the benefits of Wordpress over other blogging platforms. We see that we have the option to house the blog on our own sever. We have the function to host a wide range of file types, and the the limitless flexibility afforded by its open source nature. If you haven’t already started using Wordpress, then now is the time to start!

This is a guest post by Matthew Wolfe. He teaches entreprenuers how to create blogs, generate traffic, and make money with his free video tutorials at The Wordpress Classroom. You can also find out more about Matthew, as well as learn more tips and tricks at his personal blog, MatthewWolfe.com.

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How Much Do You Actually Need To Earn Online To Survive?

There are so many people online that figure if you are going to blog for profit you need to be a really dedicated professional and blogging about one’s hobbies doesn’t play a role in earning money online.

That is fine for those willing to put in the amount of time and effort required to be a pro blogger. For me, well I am online to earn what I need to enjoy my lifestyle.

It might cost me a few thousand dollars a month to survive but when you take into consideration that my wife works a full time job we don’t need that much.

Now realistically speaking I only need to earn about $1000 a month to have all we need and still have a bit of fun money left over.

Heck I know people in other countries that would consider $1000 a month in expenses really high. Earning money like that for them would be like hitting the lottery.

My way of marketing is far less stressful and I don’t need to be nearly as professional as I was in the brick and mortar world, before 2001 when I started my online business.

So, how much do you really need to earn monthly to make a living?

Answer that question and set your goals to focus on that amount.

Is it necessary to have multiple blogs?

Yes and No. This one will take some research on your part so that you know what the market is like for your niche.

Currently my blogs don’t make a lot of money individually. For that reason I didn’t just stop with one site per hobby.

I like fishing and started with one fishing blog. When I saw that I was making some money I created another fishing blog focusing on a slightly different aspect of fishing.

Once the second fishing blog was earning from affiliate sales… Yes I started another one.

I did the same thing with a garden blog when we decided to start gardening. That started earning a little but the domain name had nothing to do with the niche so I started a second gardening blog that was keyworded.

The second garden site blew my first garden site out of the water in half the time it took for that first blog to start earning.

Then I decided to start a specific gardening blog. I focused this one on vegetable gardening tips. It’s new so I don’t have anything to brag about with this one yet, but you get my drift.

What goes great with a garden? Recipes to make the best of what we grow in our garden so I started a blog about great garden recipes.

Now I like to be truthful so I am letting you know that not all of my bright ideas for blogging worked out. That’s alright, it would be nice to be on all the time but GoDaddy Domains are cheap and I pay one low price for all my hosting with HostGator Hosting.

One of my flops was my digital photography blog. I gave it a try, twice I might add. I should have found guest bloggers for that site, it might have done better.

The key to your success is to keep working. Don’t give up and stay focused on hobbies that people actually spend money on.

I would like to add something about a recession.

We are having some hard times in the Maritimes and have had the need to cut back in a few places to save money, but you know I have not cut back on the spending I do for my hobbies and neither has any of my fishing buddies or gardening friends. Hobbies keep us young and we can’t give them up.

That is why you can always make a littel extra money talking about your hobbies.

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Some people sell products from other website owners while others sell products and services that they offer. Whatever your online business is, we need to generate a lot of traffic to our website. Of course, you want traffic that are interested with your product or services.

When I started studying internet marketing, I learned about many techniques on traffic generation. Many of the programs and services that I have purchased did not have a lot of effect on my website traffic.

Listed below are the three traffic generation techniques that I found most effective:

• Text Link Advertisements

Linking can be by either paid or unpaid methods. Adding links in e-zines or in other websites are some examples of paid linking methods. Make sure you need the traffic from that source before buying advertising space to make the most out of your money. For ezines, make sure they have a good number of subscribers before you advertise.

The unpaid method is through article creation . If you keep doing this, it will definitely make a good impact in your business. Keep in mind, your articles should be relevant and address the subject matter of your site and products.

• Pay Per Click (PPC)

If you have some advertising budget, it makes sense to put it in pay per click. In this advertising method, you create an advertisement like in the classified section of the newspaper and bid on the keywords that you would like to target. This takes time, energy, persistence and money  and research unless you know the google secret loophole by now. Make sure you understand the rules of the search engine where you want to do PPC before you start your campaigns.

• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

The main goal for SEO is to make sure your website is ranked well in the search engines by optimizing your website. Although you get free traffic with SEO, optimizing your website can be time consuming.

These are traffic generation tactics that are the most effective.

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Writing eBooks is one of the ways to make money online. In today’s paperless society, the proliferation of eBooks became a phenomenon because it gives readers the capability to read and to take with them about a dozen books without having to carry loads of stuff. It is also a good way to save the environment since the books are no longer printed on paper. These eBooks are can be easily bought and downloaded through many different websites and can be stored in your computer and many other devices. This is why writers have now shifted on learning how to write eBooks to keep up with the trends.

Here is your step-by-step guide in writing your very own eBook:

Step 1 – Do Your Research

Choose the category of the eBook you want to write about. You have to also determine what the book will be written about. If you are starting out, it is best to research about topics and reports that have not been saturated by other writers. Choose subjects that are interesting and relevant to your target market.

2. Layout Your Idea.

There could be numerous ideas that may come up. So, the best way is to outline them in such a way that you don’t loose track of the different points. A good way will be to form a general concept going down to the details and specific points. The content of the eBook should be presented in a manner that is appealing to the customers and readers. Keep it organized. This is a basic tenet on how to write an ebook as so may ideas may come into your mind and you have to arrange them coherently.

3. Tell Stories.

Expand Major Benefits. When you write an ebook, facts and information are needed. Gathering these from other people who have tried and tested the product will help. And a good way of keeping readers attentive to your ebook is to share experiences of those who have tried. Good experiences about the product you are writing about will attract them to try it out as well.

4. Get Testimonials.

People who have tested the product and got great results will always be happy to share their experiences. Testimonials are a great source of product validity. Just make sure though that there is sincerity and honesty in their given testimony.

Step 5 – Edit carefully

This is probably one of the most neglected parts on writing eBooks. Before submitting for publishing, make sure you have edited your eBook carefully. Edit for grammars, and possible mistakes in spelling and typographical errors. Make sure that your outline was followed and that your sentences make perfect sense. Remember that readers can be very critical at times and that a lot of professionals may be viewing your work. So be careful in editing your piece. Use word-processing programs that have the option to check grammars and spellings to help you make the necessary revisions.

Now that you have a better idea on how to write eBooks, you may begin creating your very own book and market them soon. Just remember all of these steps and you are ready to go

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What’s up with Article Marketing Automation lately?

I feel the need to write this post to update how I feel about the Article Marketing Automation web site.

Like most places they were great at the beginning. I was extremely happy to join Article Marketing Automation back when it first arrived on the scene.

Unfortunately, like so many other businesses online, the excitement wears off and instead of improving they go down hill. Well that seems to have happened with AMA and I am now rejecting more than 75% of all articles coming from AMA.

I have published a few thousand articles from AMA and of course had to reject a lot, but that was fine, until those articles I rejected started showing up again forcing me to reject them all over again, and again.

Obviously a glitch in their system and it would correct it’s self but that never happened.

I used was checking off the junk article box and leaving comments on the articles I was rejecting but they still kept returning.

Articles Filed Under The Wrong Categories

Then I started getting articles that claimed to be rewritten 381% but they were exactly the same as the other articles this member submitted.

I get real estate articles in my horseback riding, gardening and fishing sites because the members aren’t staying in the right categories. So I spend most of my time on Article Marketing Automation just rejecting articles.

They have an option to leave feedback and to mark junk articles and I use them every single day but those articles just keep coming back.

Then to make it worse I get none, or very few articles for my horseback riding blog yet I get all kinds of horse related articles in my gardening or MMO blogs. That makes good sense, NOT.

Just this morning I went through 7 pages, with 50 articles per page, and had to delete 6 of those pages of articles. So I had to click each article to reject and delete, so that was approx 300 articles I had to reject. Most were duplicates that I have to delete day after day.

I also went into another of my blogs listed on AMA only to find that I had to reject the same articles 29 times on just one page of the 7 pages I have to go through. I have compared these articles and they keep getting put back in day after day even though I complain on almost every one of those articles and mark it as junk as well.

AMA Lack of Support – They don’t seem to be responding to support tickets. More than a week waiting is very frustrating.

Like I said I figured it was glitch in their system and when it never got corrected I sent a support ticket.

Well it’s been more than a week and I am still waiting for a response. Looks like they have it running on auto pilot and everyone else has left the building.

I am currently looking for a replacement for AMA as I have lost all confidence in them as a service and all the commenting and rejecting articles is becoming old real fast.

I can’t see that there is any control system in place to check articles at all.

My personal opinion of Article Marketing Automation is that you should not join with them until they smarten the hell up.

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I can’t believe that two of my blogs were hacked. They weren’t even blogs I make money with, just a couple of blogs that I share thought through. I hope they got a great sense of satisfaction teaching me a lesson.

I guess I was one of those people, even though I have a fair bit of online experience, who just figured they wouldn’t go after a blog that wasn’t important but I guessed wrong. Many others with Internet experience of all levels have worked to make sure that their websites, web service accounts and browsers were as safe as they could be from computer hackers.

The weakness discovered by the hackers is the WordPress Blog. Many may never believe their blog worthy of the attention of a hacker, but with advertising and marketing dollar potential rising, the hacker will likely hunt you as a victim.

The hacker attacks on WordPress Blogs take the person who wants to come to a particular blog to a different site that’s full of ads, many of them obscene and many of them virus filled, which obviously does not present what was the assumed landing point blog in the best light. In fact, one hacker attack, no matter how quickly it’s spotted and dealt with, can destroy all the work that the owner of that blog has done. You may have spent years building your blog’s reputation, and just one vulnerability discovered by a hacker can transform your years of work into a worthless mess.

The attacks launched on WordPress Blogs by hackers get even worse for the blog owners. Google, for example, when (not if) their robots detect something suspicious about a WordPress Blog will include the following in the search result for that WordPress Blog.

“This site may harm your computer.”

If a person clicks on that phrase, which appears as a link within the search result listing, they will be taken to a page that will repeat the warning of harm to their computer and suggest that they go to another site or blog that came up in their search results.

Even if a WordPress Blog owner catches the damage quickly, the time it will take to repair that blog’s reputation will be costly at a variety of levels. People will remember the warnings of computer harm no matter how strongly it’s presented that all with that WordPress Blog is well. A loss of blog traffic will mean a loss of ad revenue. In many cases this could mean the loss of advertisers since many affiliate ad programs require a specific level of traffic activity.

WordPress Blog owners make the mistake of thinking that since the warning signs that their blog has been hacked are so obvious that they’ll be able to catch the problem before it becomes a major disaster. They would have to take action and keep track of their Wordpress Blog every single minute. Only five minutes under the control of a hacker can destroy the connection that a WordPress Blog has made with every single person who visits the site at that point.

While WordPress does the best they can with security updates, that’s still just a reactive option for the WordPress blog owner. One proactive step on your WordPress Blog is all that is needed to prevent a hacker from destroying your work and reputation.

Internet developer and expert James Stein, with 15 years experience in the development of programs that assist and educate people, has created WordPress Secured. Instead of one plug-in fix after another, WordPress Secured brings total security to every WordPress Blog that anyone can learn and benefit from.

WordPress Secured shows you how to plug the security holes that many WordPress blogs have that hackers take advantage of. It teaches how to find a blog’s softspots and strengthen them. Users discover how to protect their important avenues of ad revenue. WordPress Secure will make the blogger secure, smart and will give them an awareness about their blog.

WordPress Secure contains the added feature of BadBot Killer.This script puts a halt to those bad bots that scan a WordPress blog’s vulnerabilities that are open to blog hackers. BadBot Killer stops the hackers even before they can find the front door to a WordPress Blog.

WordPress blog owners don’t realize the time and knowledge that is required to repair a WordPress blog after it has been hacked. WordPress Secure is one easy and educational package that keeps the WordPress Blog owner steps ahead any hacker.

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Several people are looking for sources of income in the internet. They do so, since it’s a lot easier when compared to an 8 hour job where you have to deal with a boss who keeps watching you. A very good way to earn an income in the internet is writing your very own online marketing ebook.

Writing and selling your own online marketing ebook is a good source of income since it makes you an authority in this field and gets more potential customers to buy your other products which then converts to income for you. Perhaps you can also consider an affiliate marketing strategy to earn. If you’re still not convinced that writing an online marketing ebook is something you should try, then pay attention to the reasons listed below, and decide if ebook writing is the thing for you.

Less Effort? Write an Online Marketing Ebook!

First, it’s really easy! Most people get discouraged when it comes to ebook writing because they are not equipped with writing skills. However, before you even start getting discouraged, try to look back and you will be amazed that you can actually write a mini book! A speech that you wrote, a small article, to a piece of your seminar can be used as material for your ebook. Moreover, ebooks are actually short and may contain only anything from 20 to 40 pages.

That online marketing ebook will not only make you credible, give you a good reputation online and who knows something more. It may even lead you to become popular! People often have this perception that a person who writes an ebook about a certain subject is an authority of the said topic, thus it makes you a respectable person. People will also want to know more about the author, making you a pseudo celebrity.

It’s also relatively easier to produce, compared to the traditional book. You can start with a small booklet, audio cassette or a special report on anything. As you slowly get used to it, you may start producing an online marketing ebook. Besides, ebooks are cheaper to produce. Unlike a traditional book, you will not need to spend for the printing, publishing and binding. What you basically need is just a computer to write your ebook and people just download it thru the internet if they purchase it, thus eliminating the costs for purchasing paper to be used. This way, you can focus your financial resources on other more important tasks, such as promoting and marketing your ebook. Using squeeze pages will help you advertise and market

The Cost of Writing an Online Marketing Ebook

Of course the main reason why you should create an online marketing ebook is it does bring in money. Think great profits at minimum cost and effort! Once you sell your first ebook, your reputation and value increases, and you can charge more for the succeeding ebooks you write. Some ebook publishers are even requested to do public speaking or hired for the purposes of consultation. It’s just like a stepping stone for other ventures that will ultimately pay off big time in the long run.

At this point, you would have been convinced to write an ebook already. Now that you have decided to write your online marketing ebook, take your next step and figure out what topic you want to write about, write it down then begin promoting it then in time be ready to receive your profits.

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Most of the web affiliate program guide ebook get you to focus on getting a product through Clickbank and then create a blog for it. Wordpress Goldmine, however does not do that. Instead, the ebook takes a hard look on the various aspect to the process of finding the right domain names and what products to promote the site to maximize the conversion.

This e-book takes an in-depth account at not just the marketing processes, but also at the different kinds of website that one can build. It also proivdes many real life examples that is very unlike the other e-book. The thing that make this book so special is that those who have already used it have found it very easy to follow. This is because the author tokk great pain to break up the whole book into five separate sections.

In section one of the ebook, the author looks at different ways of building a WordPress blog, in addition to the steps one needs to take in order to get your blog up and running in the shortest possible amount of time.

The section 2 of the book explain about the different contenty type that one can use on the blog. Overhere, the author talks about everything from PLR articles to writing original content. You will also find out how to obtain unique content and have it posted to your blog regularly and for free.

Section three is probably the real gem as the author shows you a number of different ways in which you can monetize your WordPress blog effectively. However, be mentally prepared to spend great amount of time as it provides a very good in depth explanation on how the author himself had made a ,000 income through only one blog post.

Among all the sections in the book, this very one alone is worth the money that you have spent purchasing the book itself. It is also over here that you will learn about the different ways on how to make money on blogging. It is through this simple plan that one can understand about how to make money from home by within a year, which is a refreshing change from traditional plans in which say “earn $$$ in just under 30 days”.

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If you operate a business from home and you are trying to make a site for the business or to start from scratch with your old one, a first-rate job is essential. Potential future clients will judge you and your company based upon the navigability, layout, and design of your site design. It won’t be enough just to employ internet marketing tools to bring in targeted traffic. You must ensure that your website finishes the job, and if possible, you should try to find ways to cause people to put your site in their favorites and revisit on a regular basis.

If you want to give your website the ability to work for you, consider the below tips.

1. Prior to domain registration, look into its past ownershim. Check Archive.org, and type in the domain name you are interested in. This will give you the chance to view all of the types of businesses that have ever been in that online real estate. This is important information to know, especially if the domain space has been used before for types of activities that you might not want to be associated with.

2. Use a domain name that tells informationa bout your business. Ideally, web surfers should be able to know what your website does just through looking at your business’s domain. Most businesses cannot be a billion-dollar company like Google or Apple that have recognizability. If you want to use your company name in the URL, try combining your business name with a phrase or word {describing} what your business does. Later, when your business has achieved a large following, you then can use only the name of the business, if you want. For instance, if your last name is Brown and you sell jewelry, register the domain brownjewelry.com. And after a few years, once your company grows, you can then go with only brown.com. Be paitient, and you may reach that point later on.

3. Don’t use internet annoyances. If you include ads on the web site, it sometimes can be difficult to prevent an occasional obnoxious banner. But outside of that, don’t use anything that might inspire targeted traffic to surf away from your website before looking around. A few examples or web design pests are embedded audio or video files that begin automatically, fly-out menus that don’t fly back in, circular links, too-bright pictures, language in all caps, or lots of marketing language.

4. Use your experience to market to traffic. Instead of assaulting potential customers with a monotonous wall of pushy marketing language, which can instantly turn off potential customers, use your web site to give them important data that they can use. Establish a blog, and use that space to provide pertinent information relating to your business on a regular basis. In the end, if you work from home in this field, there’s a pretty good chance you can teach people some things about it. If you can provide consistently strong information, you’ll keep targeted traffic interested in your business, and this translates into long-term clients. This will
help you create success with your work from home career.

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Okay, don’t call me but please write two articles but make them slightly different yet use the same keyword phrases. Always write at least two articles on the same keywords.

Don’t Over Use Your Keyword Phrases

Note: Most newbies to writing articles for article marketing tend to over use their keyword phrases. This can cause more problems than it’s worth. The main problem being keyword stuffing penalties.

Example: If I write an article of about 300 – 500 words I will use my keyword phrase 3 times. Once in the title, of course, the first paragraph and then again close to the end of the article.

Funny Keyword Stuffing Memories

As I was sitting down to write this article I immediately started to laugh as a memory of one of my clients came to mind. A client that did more keyword stuffing than I had ever seen, before and since.

John is one of my web design clients but this was about 5 years ago, maybe a little longer.

John wanted to start a web site and gave me a call. He had heard of me through friends. Gotta love that word of mouth marketing.

John was very new to the internet, from the business point of view and didn’t know anything about having a web site other than he wanted a presence on the net.

I explained to him about using the keywords that his best customer would use to find what he was promoting.

Well when he sent back his first draft for his main page he had stuffed three keyword phrased into each and every sentence. Not just paragraphs, sentences.

I waited about a half hour, after I stopped giggling every time I looked at his content and then I called him and explained his error. Once he realized what I meant and what he had done he started laughing, which broke me right up.

Now his site is great and he gets lots of customers and business.

Glad I was there to guide him but not everyone has a guide that will help them out like I did. So just remember that you can easily over-do it with keyword use.

Why Write Articles in Pairs?

If you want to attract visitors to your site then you need to get the word out and I have found no better way than to write articles. One for my blog or web site and another for article directories.

First pick the keyword phrase you want to focus on for this article and then write the second article using the same or very similar keyword but they have to be different so they don’t get classified as duplicate content.

Put the first article on your site first, this is so you have something to link to from your second article which you will publish on EzineArticles.

I publish to EA as the first article directory because they seem to be the pickiest and will not publish duplicate content.

Once I get my article published on EA I will modify it slightly and start publishing to other article directories.

Note: I only publish to article directories with a PageRank (PR) of 4 or higher.

If I am going to spend my time writing articles to get attention I don’t want to bother with article directories that have little or no PR. Focus on the places that will get you the most action from Google.

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