When you’re using a program like WordPress it can be so easy to add a plugin to give your site extra functionality. It’s easy to go and search for a privacy policy plugin or a contact form plugin when you know that’s what you want. There’s so many plugins for WordPress it’s just fabulous and when new plugins get released these days they are offering more and more ways to optimize your blog. So if you don’t keep up to date with the new options you might be missing out on something that could add a great deal to your visitors experience at your blog or simply make on site SEO easier for you. Read more »

Article marketing is a great way to drive traffic to your blog but having an article marketing strategy can mean the difference between success and failure. If you are trying to build a list or generate any type of income from your blog then you need traffic. The more I talk about traffic the sooner you’ll realise that without it there is no money! So the best free method around to get traffic would have to be article marketing. So what sort of strategy should you have? Read more »

When you first start out with the idea of building a list of subscribers and managing the process all yourself it can be quite manageable. However if your list is growing and or you’re creating more opt-in forms for a number of offers then you could start to find it overwhelming not to mention very time consuming manually sending out follow up emails to your list. So is it time you stopped fiddling with this and instead look into the many email marketing services on offer? Read more »

I’ve been discussing how you can set up a contact form to collect subscriber emails to build a list. Then I talked about how to write ebook content quickly and easily that you could give away to your subscribers. But now what? Should you just send out any old email to your subscribers as you feel like it or should you have an email marketing strategy? Read more »

Giving away a mini ebook or report is a proven method to build a list. It can seem quite daunting to some people to sit down and write an ebook especially if it isn’t their first language and or they just aren’t confident in their writing skills and think it will take them all year to get it done. If that sounds like you then you can relax as I’m going to share with you how to write ebooks quickly and easily. Read more »

If you’re trying to build a list of subscribers then you’ll no doubt have realised that simply giving them a place to put in their name and email address isn’t going to drive a ton of sign ups. You need to of course give the subscriber something in return for their email address. There’s nothing to say you must give something away for free but I would strongly recommend it. Who doesn’t like getting something for free? A freebie for a simple exchange of an email address can be very enticing for your readers; sounds easy doesn’t it? Well don’t think that just ’cause your report or newsletter etc is free that people will sign up. Read more »

In yesterday’s post I gave you a simple way to put a contact form on your blog so you could start building your list by collecting subscribers. There is more for you to do than just put up a form though. When you first start to build your list you might be thinking that quantity matters, because isn’t that what all the gurus have; massive lists? Read more »

You might have heard the saying ‘the money is in the list!’ when it comes to making money online. Well there is a great deal of truth in that, many successful marketers make a sizable percentage, if not all, of their income from their list of subscribers. Sometimes when you’re just starting out online it can be a little daunting to set up a basic contact form where you can manually take subscriber details and or just give your visitors a place to contact you. There’s no need to worry about how to ‘code’ a form as there is a brilliant contact form plugin for Wordpress and I distinctly remember using this when I first started out online. Read more »

Have you thought about the power of a membership forum or simply a forum attached to your blog’s niche? There are endless ways to use a forum as a monetization method but is there an easy WordPress Forum Plugin? Read more »

My last post was about making a small investment to get some instant free traffic; today I want to talk to you about article marketing. Article marketing is essentially about writing an article on a specific topic and at the end of the article including links to your blog or website in the hope that the readers will click through and you receive traffic. Does article marketing only generate rubbish traffic though, after all it is free? Read more »

When you start out with a new blog it can be very exciting especially if one of your aims is to make money from it. So you pick out a domain name, install Wordpress and then choose a lovely theme. You might write a few blog posts and set up your Adsense ads and affililate links. But then you discover that without any traffic things can seem pretty gloomy on the monetizing side of things. One of the most common questions I’m asked is how to increase blog traffic? Well there are many ways but here again is my number one pick for quick traffic. I love this method so much that I rave about it; the fact that it’s super simple, super quick and super effective is why it’s a favorite of mine. Read more »

Images add interest to your blog and there are many places online where you can purchase images for websites. But did you know there’s a handy tool that you can download and then grab free images related to your blog posts all right there in the Wordpress admin screen as you write your posts? This tool is really quite a gem as it offers up more features than just images. Read more »

If you’re blogging and trying to make money from it then you have probably thought about affiliate marketing. There are a number of ways to promote affiliate products such as writing blog posts that review products and including your affiliate link in the content. Often the owner of the product offers tools for their affiliates to use for their promotions such as image ads. You’ve most likely noticed little square ads on many sites and maybe wondered how to get them there easily. Well there is a fantastic Wordpress plugin that can help you manage your affiliate ads. Read more »

If you have a blog or blogs in a niche that would lend itself to a photo gallery then you might be interested in free photo gallery software. Before I get into telling you about this free software I wanted to talk about how a photo gallery can be a great tool for almost any niche, not just the obvious ones such as photography or art. Read more »

Wordpress is becoming the tool of choice for blogs these days; it offers a very easy to use interface and is constantly being improved. There are many Wordpress templates to choose from that not only look great but are free! Here is a fantastic selection to choose from; Read more »

Although this blog doesn’t have Adsense ads on it I have a number of other websites that do. I posted way back about my initial Adsense earnings and promised to get back to you with how my income went after implementing some tactics I read about. Well there is LOTS of good news after I heard about a little tool that you should utilise for your sites that are monetized with Adsense. This is one of the tools for blogs that will make it into my top ten list I’m creating. Read more »

Today is the beginning of a challenge to add a post everyday for 30 days to this blog. What’s prompted such a frenzy of posting you might ask? Well there’s two reasons. Read more »