There are a few way to make money from your blog, by selling advertising, selling products or enhancing your other online/offline business.
If your blog turns out to be popular in the future, you might get offline opportunities like invited for speech and seminars.
Bloggers’ block is the common term when bloggers are running short of blogging ideas and couldn’t deliver frequent posting.
Bloggers’ block can happen to blog newbies as well as season bloggers. The key is to equipped yourself with the proper technique to overcome the block, or totally avoiding the bloggers’ block at the first place.
Link exchange is another basic element for SEO, and it has better value than directory submission, as quite often links from other topic related websites/blogs are generating much better direct traffic than directories.
Where to find websites for link exchanges?
There are a few ways of doing so..
Life will be easier if you have the proper bonding and networking with the right group of people. Networking is essential in any business, same rule applies for being a webmaster as well.
You need to make friends with other webmaster, particularly those that share the same interest and writing the same thing as you do. You can learn from the experience of others, and if you have good relationship with some webmasters, you can cross-promote each other websites from time to time.
One of the easiest way to get incoming links for your blog is to submit your blog to blog directories.
Getting incoming links is the basis of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and to rank well in Search Engine Results Page.
List of free blog directories, with their criterias and specifications (if any). Listed in A-Z order…
All-blogs.net - reciprocal link required
Bestblogs.org
Blogarama.com
Blogdirs.com - reciprocal link required
Blogdup.com - reciprocal link required
Blogdust.com
Blogflux.com
Bloggernity.com
Bloghop.com
Bloghub.com
Blog-search.com
Blogsearchengine.com
Blogsweet.com - reciprocal link required
Blogwise.com
Easy-seek.com - reciprocal link required
Easy-seek.net - reciprocal link required
Eatonweb.com
If you have started posting once a day as suggested, you should have at least 6 blog posting by now. Time to start submitting your blog to directories.
Nowadays the main purpose for directory submission is not to get direct traffic, but to get incoming links for SEO purpose.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the skill or knowledge to boost your website into a good position in Search Engine Results Page (SERP).
SEO is a huge topic, it’s not something that we will be able to master in a day or two. We will start with understanding some of the basis of SEO skills.
A unique and professional blog design will give your readers a good first impression and some sense of assurance that your blog are serious stuffs.
If you are a good web designer, cool.. go ahead and give your blog a nice makeover. Else if you have some money to spare, get a designer for around USD400-USD800 for a unique and great looking blog design.
