Start to make money with bloggerwave
Bloggerwave gives me the first chance to make money with this blog. I have earned some dollars from Bloggerwave with my Chinese blogs, but I really want to try it in my English blog. Bloggerwave is a good choice for newbie bloggers to monetize their blog. If you have a blog, you are already closing in on the money. Although the paid is not much, you can have a try.
What distract me from writing
We can see the benefits of working from home obviously, but it is not easy to take out. In the last two months, I was working as a professional blogger. Everyday I spent more than ten hours on my blog. Reading the posts in Google Reader, browsing websites on the network, writing some posts, playing games and watching TV when tired are my daily life. Day after day, time passed away. I subscribed many blogs, most of which are english blogs. I did learn much from some professional and famous blogs. But my blog product was few. I even can not achieve the goal of one post a day. After a full-sided consideration, I think the main reason is I did not arrange my time in an efficient way. You can see aspects of wasting time as follows:
Spending too much time on reading - I subscribed many blogs and had to read almost 100 posts in Google Reader everyday. Sometimes I spent a whole day on reading, and considered writing only at night. Actually reading 100 posts did not take me a whole day. Sometimes a post is not just one post. We often quote some words from other blogs and have some text links to their posts or our own posts. A post with some text links is helpful for readers. Now I am a reader, I also want to know more about the post, then I will click the links in the post. So some posts together is like a “link factory”, you do not know where you will go and when to stop.
Checking emails often - I have several Email boxes. I often use 163-Email when needed in China and gmail on abroad network. Sometimes I use my own domain’s Email, such as yiyix@tobloggers.com. I often send email to my friends, my readers and other bloggers, then everyday I receive many emails, but these emails are not in the same box. So I spent much time on checking and replying email.
Paying too much attention to blog stats - After reading and checking emails, I would see the blog stats. How many visitors? How many page views? Where did reader come from? What are the keywords? I paid much attention to them. Examining the stas everyday or several days a time is helpful to blog’s orientation and development. But looking over the stats several times a day is wasting time.
Checking revenue - The more revenue of blog, the more motivation I have. I often check how much I earned today. I check revenue of google adsense, examine the eCPM, and consider optimizing ads desgin when eCPM is lower. There are so many affiliate programs. It really took me too much time.
Searching themes and plugins - You know, bloggers want to have their single theme. But not all of them can design a theme. Some bloggers desin single theme by themselves, some buy a theme, and many use the free themes. I am the one using free theme. I search themes, download what I like, and modify them to my own style. I could design logo, banner and chang font, background image and color, even the layout of the whole theme. I often search and install some good plugin too. If I do these everyday, I really distract myself from writing.
I think the above five aspects cut the time for writing. Probably we shoul force ourselves on writing when we can not concentrate on it.
benefits of working from home
Before I write the posts about working from home, I have to claim that I am not a professional blogger or freelance writer who is working from home. All I will tell you is my experience of blogging at home in the last two months. In this summer, I had a long vacation of two months. I did not travel anywhere, just stayed at home and spent most of time on blogging. So I really have some words to say about working from home.
I know many peopele want to be self-employed and work at home if they can receive a steady income. It is really fascinating to be your own boss, and the advantages are obviously to be listed as follows.
Save Time and Save Money - When you start working from home, you do not go to company or workshop. Thus, you do not need to waste time on on the way to work and back home. You do not need to pay for the gas burning in your car. When you woke up, you can devote to work.
It takes me about thirty minutes to go to work and forty mintes to come home. If I work at home, I will spare time and have one more hour for writing. I do not need to refuel for the car.
Manage Time By Yourself - Since you are your own boss, nobody will command you to do something at a certain time. You’ll manage time according to your schedule. You will decide when to work, when to sleep, when to rest and take exercise. It is really flexible. You can find the most efficient time and do your work effectively. When you are tired or sick, you can have a break.
I changed my work time in the months. I find that my efficient time is in the midnight. So I often stayed up at night and got up late in the morning.
Convenient and Casual - When you work at home, you dont need to be dressed like a gentleman. In the last two months, it was very hot. I only dress pants when I worked on the keyboard. You can work in bedroom or sanctum, anywhere as you like.
Help Do Housework - Sometimes you may notice that your wife is busy in doing housework. Will you give her a hand? Yes, you will certainly do it because you are the boss and you have time.
Take Care of Children - I do not have children, but I think I would have more time to care my children if I had. When children were sick, you could take them to hospital as quickly as you can. Parents spending more time with children is helpful to their growth.
These are the benefits I can see when working from home. However, to be your own boss is not so easy. I will say about some troubles I encountered in the last two months. If you are interested in working from home and have some ideas of it, please tell me in the comments.
My tips on writing for a newbie
As a new blogger, sometimes you may find it is difficult to write something fluently. You actually get some good ideas in mind, but how to organize the words and sentences in legible structure? How to attract readers’ attention to your posts? I got some tips of my experience in my other blogs.
Write everything down Write everything pop in mind. A word, a sentence or a paragraph, everything is ok. Then you can outline what you have written and organize a whole article. You can also save the tips in a folder on desktop. Two days later, you may have more fresh ideas and continue to write.
List key tips, then extend detailed description You can tell a story, quote a famous saying or share your own experience. The details verify the tips and appeal to readers. Readers will trust you and continue reading.
Structure small paragraph You need not to write a post in one or two paragraphs which may be too long to read. Just as I said above, list key tips and extend details. A tip is a pargraph. More tips, more paragraphs. A long article probably comes out easily. Readers can select important tips(vary from readers) to read and get what they want in short time.
Use numbers Count the tips you have in your post, then name your title in type of “10 tips…”. This type of title is widely used by many bloggers and really appeals to readers.
These tips which I took when I was a newbie are easy to follow. However, they may be out of date in blogosphere nowadays. So if you have other helpful ideas in improving writing, can you share with us in the comments? We are looking forward to fresh ideas.
Tips for a post in weekend
Every week you write ten posts or even more, and everyday many new readers come to your blog. You may always think about how to make these readers to read more articles. What should we do is to write a post concluding our weekly blogging in the weekend. In the weekend post, we can make navigation for readers to view what we did in the week.
The post needs to include the following tips:
The most viewed posts – list the most viewed posts in you article, let readers know which posts the other readers enjoyed.
The most commented posts – you probably wrote some posts that readers like to comment on. So listing the most commented posts will enable new readers to comment, and you can increase your comments and know more readers’ opinion to your ideas in the posts.
The posts never commented on – you should not only give the links to the most commented posts, but also list the posts which readers did not commented on. Tell them that s/he will be the first commentator on the posts. You know, the first excellent comment would attract other readers to view the commentator’s site.
The posts recommended – you can recommend five posts to readers, tell them which posts you like the best. Readers will mostly click the link and enjoy the wonderful article.
The posts you appreciate most by other blogges – every blogger is also a reader. You must have read many posts written by other bloggers, tell your readers what you read, and recommend ten posts you appreciate the most. This indicates you are an open-minded blogger and like to share good things with readers. Remember to send trackbacks to the posts you recommended. More and more bloggers will know you, and probably come to your blog and link back to you.
A post including these tips is really a nice navigation and helpful to readers. If you are not a productive blogger, you can do it monthly or half-monthly.
Let me know in the comments if you have other tips for a post like this.
blog action day launched today
Blog Action Day launched today, with the aim of uniting thousands of blogging voices, talking about one issue for one day. This year on Blog Action Day, which is slated for Oct. 15, 2007, bloggers will be discussing the environment.
I am very glad to participate in Blog Action Day, and I hope all blogges will take part in too! There are three things you can do to participate in Blog Action Day:
Post on October 15th relating to the environment
Donate your day’s earnings to charity
Publicize Blog Action Day
So even if you are not a blogger, you can still support Blog Action Day.
So far Blog Action Day have rallied together a core group of some 35 of the biggest blogs around including 4 of the top 100 blogs. Collis and Leo have being done a lot of publicity work for Blog Action Day. We can expect more and more bloggers to support and participate in this non-profit initiative.
Blog Action Day will be an annual event. As an alternative to blogging about the environment on Blog Action Day, bloggers can opt to participate by donating their blog’s proceeds from Oct. 15 to one of several environmental organizations chosen for this purpose: Greenpeace International, the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), the Conservation Fund, and the Sierra Club.?Bloggers who would like to participate in Blog Action Day should visit BlogActionDay.org or email Collis Ta’eed at collis@eden.cc, so they can be listed on the Blog Action Day site. To participate, a blog just needs to write about the issue of the environment on Oct. 15, 2007, or donate its proceeds for the day to one of the chosen environmental organizations.
what are the bloggers care about
In recent years, more and more people start blogging on the internet. Here is some Important Blogging Statistics from blogworldexpo.com.
- Over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog.
- More than 147 million Americans use the Internet.
- Over 57 million Americns read blogs.
- 1.7 million American adults list making money as one of the reasons they blog.
- 89% of companies surveyed say they think blogs will be more important in the next five years.
- 9% of internet users say they have created blogs .
- 6% of the entire US adult population has created a blog .
- Technorati is currently tracking over 70 million blogs .
- over 120 thousand blogs are created every day .
- There are over 1.4 million new blog posts every day .
- 22 of the 100 most popular websites in the world are blogs .
- 120,000 new blogs are created every day .
- 37% of blog readers began reading blogs in 2005 or 2006 .
- 51% of blog readers shop online .
- Blog readers average 23 hours online each week .
Then some questions may pop up in our mind: as so many people joining the bloggers team, what are they really want to get from blogging? What is the goal by blogging? What are they most care about?
Make money online According to the statistics, 1.7 million American adults list making money as one of the reasons they blog. We also can see many examples of blog which achieve making a lot of money via blogging. Problogger is the authority of making money online. Johnchow became more famous and attracted more traffic after he showed his blog income. Who don’t enjoy making money from home by working on the keyboard? Some of us may be very confident to achieve their success.
Make friends We all know that there are many successful blog and excellent bloggers on the internet. In your niche, you can find some bloggers who have the same topics with you. Communicate and work with them, both you will have a great improve. S/he may be one of your best friends you can not have in real life.
Acquire information and knowledge Information explodes in network everyday. Bloggers have a acute sense to events happened around them, and then show their viewpoints to the events in their blogs. From their blogs, we can get the news as well as their comments on it.
Improve writing To some people, blogging is easy and natural like talking. We can say they are born to blogging. Sometimes we find it is difficult to write something, especially some good articles. Then we can go to problogger or johnchow or some other successful blogs, find some tips we can write about and learn their writing style and voice.
Build reputation After blogging for a long time, you will probably become the expert in your niche, and get a high reputation. Then search for some affiliate programs that fit your blog, you’ll find it is easy to make money with your blog.
These are some main reasons people blog. So what are your reasons you start a blog? Please let me know in the comments.
