Guide to be a blogger

If you’re just started blogging, first you must aware that blogging is not easy as you think. As everything has it ups and downs blogging also has its own ups and downs, also when it comes to blogging the difficulties you’ll face are much higher than others because blogging is an activity which has no formal steps to follow. So blogging needs a good self confidence and a desire to do the best.

Here’s a list of things you must need and follow to be among the best in the business.

Self confidence
Without the feeling self confidence not only in blogging but in anything, it is very difficult to go with a good rhythm. Surely self confidence may go up and down but it is important to be focused on your future goals and improve your self confidence. As long as you maintain it the more higher and quicker you get in to the top.

Learning
One doesn’t necessarily have to start blogging in a paid domain or hosted space. You can start your blog in a free service in the internet like blogger.com or wordpress.com and after being stabilized transferring it to a paid domain and a hosted space. It is good to start your blog in a free service because you can create many websites and do experiments without any cost. It is a good learning process. So start few blog sites with different contents and keep experimenting them. Also if you find it worthy to keep that free domain keep it.

Set of tools
Using good set of tools for your blogging is also important. Use analytical software like Google Analytics to keep track of your visits and everything. Use social book marking sites like Digg, Stumble upon, and Delicious etc. to show your site to the public. Use social networks like Facebook, use mini blogging tools like twitter.com. A good set of tools will lead you to amazing results.

So if you’re just in to blogging. First get in to that attitude. First learn what you’re doing and how to do it. Read as much as you can. Everything will guide you to a good income in blogging.

Ways to make money from websites

After the article ‘Blogging as leisure time into part time’ I think it’s the best time to tell you the ways to make money from your blog.

There are many blogs on the internet with single topic having hundreds of similar things, so if you have read above article you must have got an idea that you must first be stabilized in your niche to go forward with money making. Here I’ll discuss you main ways you can earn money through blogging, even Problogger Darren Rowse is following,

Contextual advertising

Adsense and YPN could be enlisted under this. This type is the most popular method popular among the bloggers to make money online. How this type works is these programs scan the content of your blog and put ads (usually text and image) relevant to the content. Payments are made according to the CPC(Cost Per Click) method where it counts every click that was made on the ads.

Impression Based Ads

These kinds of ads pay a small amount for every person who view the ads. There are various kinds of ad systems found on the net, like FastClick and Tribal Fusion. These won’t earn you much if you don’t have a big traffic.

Text Ads

Text ads are also increasingly popular because it don’t need a big space on the layout, it just need a single line for it. The user can have more control over these ads. Examples are AdBrite, Bidvertiser and Adzaar

RSS Ads

Even most of them are in testing modes, but RSS feed ads are seem to be improving. Pheedo is a system you might like to try.

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Blogging as leisure time into a part time

Since the start of blogging culture in the Internet, blogging and blog sites has been increased in big numbers. Just by searching in blogsearch.google.com for any topic that comes to your mind, you can get an simple idea about how many people are involved in this culture.

It is arguable but some can say blogging is a money making thing and some can say it is a kind of leisure time activity to share the knowledge. But blogging is actually both, you can start blogging as a knowledge sharing portal and if you wanted, can expand in to a money making blog. But you must also note that from the total number of blogs in the world (112.8 million) stated by Technorati in 2008, most of them are just knowledge sharing websites, but not for money making. If you’re interested in blogging you can start it as a leisure time and expand it in to a part time.

The important point about leisure to part time or to full time is, when you start a blog or any other website you first have to have set of unique audience to present your blog, if you do not achieve this there is no point of wasting more time on that blog, that’s why you must not start blogging as a job straight away.

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Universal Writing Ethics

Some times there are things that can be called as universal because they are globally recognized. Even in web writing (Especially in Blog Writing) there are things, that are globally accepted.

Here even though the writer says these are Rules, I'm not going to say they are Rules because they are actually not rules. 

Here I'll list down the 5 Universal Writing Rules from a Guest Writer at problogger

8 Proofreading tips and techniques

Daniel at DailyWritingTips has written a nice article about Proofreading tips, A summary of them is,

1. Concentration is Key

2. Put It On Paper

3. Watch Out for Homonyms

4. Watch Out for Contractions and Apostrophes

5. Check the Punctuation

6. Read it Backwards

7. Check the Numbers

8. Get Someone Else to Proofread It

Read the full article here from DailyWritingTips.

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