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Working as a blogger can be enjoyable and full of fun!! In addition, you’ll get to earn money by doing do. Assembling thoughts, words, images, video and audio together in bursts of opinion-bites allows one to share ideas, thoughts and opinions that one would have otherwise gone unheard or unseen.
Do you know that one can be employed as a blogger? Landing on a dream and lucrative job as a professional blogger involves a just simple steps.
Step 1 : Make people want you!! You’ll need to make yourself valuable by being functionally attractive as a blogger that benefits the potential employer.
Step 2 : Connect with opportunities. This simply means passively searching for blogging jobs or actively networking and applying for unadvertised or non-existent positions.
More on being a successful blogger.
1. Create a Blog (Chapters 2 & 3)
Follow Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 on how to create a blog. Your personal blog is a fantastic way to showcase your writing skills, flair for design and passion for blogging. To begin with, blog on a subject or more topics that you are very passionate about. Your blog is your world.
2. Learn To Write Well
Although you may be great with words, you can always improve. Learning to write effectively. By doing so, you can attract readership to your blog. Remember - you’ll also need to maintain readership loyalty.
I personally find it extremely difficult to write in a caustic, humorous style, one that is full of witty sarcasm. Frequent blogging can lead you to develop a grasp of the written words.
Employers going to scrutinize your blog and writing samples. Learning to develop a strong and creative personal style can indeed be very helpful. Use a spellchecker to finally ensure there are no spell mistakes!
3. Identify Your Niche
Identifying a niche that you are passionate about. Perhaps, gadgets, art, mobile phones, dieting, nutrition, exercise, relationships or something that appeals to you dearly to your heart? Start with something you like to do and start building a noticeable presence in the field through your personal blog. Actively participate in the industry or relevant blog community or communities.
4. Build Professional Credibility
After starting a blog you might want to start building some professional credibility by writing for the press, magazines, corporations or NGOs. You can blog for their local community/group or organization. At the on-start, forget about profitability. Showcases will gain you entry with credentials that you have experience working as a professional writer.
Furthermore, you could have a blog that primarily deals with sponsored posts, which would also show creativity by integrating corporate objectives into the overall feel or format of the blog.
Now you’re ready to take the first step to begin working into being a professional blogger.
4 Sources Of Traffic That May Generate Money Online For YOU From Your BlogThink about this. In sales, it’s the number game. Likewise, making money online is the same. The money people see your blog, the chances of making money online is there.
The simple formula for making money online is: “great contents = traffic + conversion = money”
Simply put - Generate traffic with great content and that would equal coverstion into MONEY.
The 6 million dollars question. How do we drive traffic? How do we pull and push visitors to our blog?
What are the traffic push and pull for our blogs? (we shall leave keywords, PPC and SEO out of this chapter for now).
Generally, the four (4) key sources of traffic are -
1. Create direct/organic traffic
2. Buy search engine traffic
3. Lean on networking traffic
4. Indirect Referral traffic
1. Create direct / organic traffic. “Build great contents for your blog and traffic will flow-in”. Content is the ticket to successful traffic pull. Build a blog niched to your chosen audience and traffic will be attracted to pulled in.
Use significant keywords loved by your audience and the search engines will crawl and send traffic to you. Simple write fabulous contents and Google will give you a helping hand.
2. Buy search engine traffic. The words associated with this sort of traffic source include Google Adwords, Pay-Per-Click (PPC), Yahoo Directory Listing, advertising, etc.
My personal experience with Google Adwords (sponsored links) on my website selling teddy bears was an amazement to me. I can never imagine traffic coming to my website in the first couple of hours from all over the world!! A must try and certain, such advertising can deliver. And one can then understand why internet marketing really does have a level playing field with the world market, literally, at your feet.
3. Lean on network traffic. Networking is POWER!!. Get your strategic partner to support and write testimonials about your blog. This brings credibility to your blog.
4. Indirect / Referral Traffic. Here you build links where other blogs are linked back to your blog and promoting yours. Digg, SpicyPage, Mybloglog, del.icio.us, Technorati, FuelMyBlog, Blipoo, Myspace, Squidoo, Bumpzee are some of the sites worth consideration.
These traffic source is instant. Unlike SEO that needs weeks to pull visitors to your blog, Web 2.0 traffic is almost instantaneous. Referral traffic is absolutely free!! What else can one asks for?
These 4 traffic generators have differing monetization strategies as a result of the tactics employed. These strategies will be shared in later chapters as we progress. Do come back and visit.
(Tip: Do you know that visitors coming from the search engines are the ones that would most likely click your Google Adsense ads? Yes. And Web 2.0 traffic are the least likely to click the ads.)
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