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I’m a huge believer in sharing with people what you are good at. I have another site that I do this and it’s amazing what has happened after two years of blogging.

So what I want to encourage you with if you want to make money online is become an expert at something (niche) and share it with people. Share How to… What you will find is people will begin to follow you.

I would start with a free blog version of wordpress or blogger and then as you get the hang of things and as you read and grow, then move towards self hosting.

Here is some make money online ideas with your niche:

• Start with one blog – Yeah don’t try and do too many things at once. Make your first blog with quality and fun content that your future readers will enjoy. Doing too many at once will wear you down especially if you got a full time job on top of doing this part time blogging thing.
• Have some expertise – In other words don’t be blogging about something that you yourself have zero experience about. It’s going to be hard and be a struggle to piece things together verses just naturally blogging about the topic with ease because you know what you are doing. In the end this will increase your potential to make money online.
• Don’t focus on Making Money Online – What? I thought that was the point? No it’s actually not. If you talk with any of the big timers in blogging they weren’t set out to make money to make money but rather because they had a passion for what they wanted to do and they just did it. Take your first year and learn and write quality content before monetizing it. Trust me get established first. Read more…

Many people credit me as the first make money online blogger. There were lots of IM before me but for whatever reason I seem to get a lot of credit. Whatever…. Either way the most common question I get is if you had to start over tomorrow what would you do. Well I can tell you how I got here and I notice its becoming a trend with others:

• You fell into your niche after trying and failing and one day started raking in the cash. (for me it was ringtones)
• You notice all these “Gurus” online talking about how to make money online but they seem out of date.
• You start your own blog under a anonymous name and start to call out these gurus. You call the products they sell scams and what not.
• You start to write guides on what is working for you and start to get a following.
• You come out of your shell and start speaking at conferences. (for me this was about 4 years ago.)
• Your original niche where you made all your money starts to die off so you start to leverage your blog following into building a REAL product.
• You start to write your own ebooks and guides (which I used to make fun of people for doing).
• You are now a guru and people attack you and call you a scam without knowing you at all. They also attack your audience saying anyone who listens to you is *sheep*
• You talk about how your blog was never supposed to be your thing and it all just kind of happened because you like what you do Read more…

One of the key reasons nobody reads your blog is because you have tried to become a news site.

People can read news anywhere.

But sometimes in the process blogs can become more credible, trustworthy, and faster for news then traditional news sites. Techcrunch, Mashable, Huffington Post are just a few that have amazing distribution.

Many bloggers think just because they have millions of people that read their website they need to deliver them news. They think people are looking to them for news. But they are not.

People read blogs because they are looking to connect with you. They need to know you are the same dumbass that they are.

The #1 tip I can tell people who want to have a successful blog is to be yourself.

People give me shit all the time for talking about my kids, strip clubs, getting drunk, losing weight, LOST.

People say I need to stay on topic all the time.

I guess they don’t know the topic of this blog is me.

Its a blog. Its not a news site. Read more…

One of the most frequent questions I get is how to monetize websites that have mostly foreign traffic.   Some networks will have some offers but there has never been a network that was focused on specifically international traffic…. until now.

Globalizer has the most complete selection of international offers that we have ever seen.  Whether its:

There is a good chance Globalizer has something for you in a country you are targeting.
Why do I think Globalizer is a good choice, well besides the fact that this is a smaller network, that is actively involved with their publishers.  And Mark and his team ALL have run affiliate networks, done media buying for well known properties (PCH.com, eMusic, RocketProfit, Traffix, FreeLotto and others) and have been Super Affiliates themselves.  This is not your average affiliate network. Read more…

Just because Blogger / Blogspot is owned by Google doesn’t make it SEO Friendly

For years I have been reading absurd suggestions that Google’s Blogger / Blogspot service is SEO friendly. At one time this was semi-true, and it is even possible with the current incarnation. However if you use the service “as intended”, without expert knowledge, you might find yourself up a creek without a paddle.

I am writing this on a Sunday, thus I am going to avoid vulgarities, cussing, and even an attention grabbing headline. The Google engineers at Blogger deserve that and more. Blogspot currently stinks for SEO.

Google Webmaster Guidelines Mess Up

This is probably the root cause of the Blogger problems

Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don’t add much value for users coming from search engines.

Blogspot Doesn’t Have Categories

There was a historical lacking feature in Blogspot, no categories, and users wanted them.

So Blogger introduced labels, but they unfortunately followed the advice from their own Webmaster Guidelines, such as this example from Blogger’s own Blogger Buzz blog.

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow: 

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search

Sitemap: http://buzz.blogger.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated

That causes label pages such as this one on the Google Webmaster blog not to be crawled

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