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   6/16/08

   Majik

   There are many ways to make money with your blog. Adsense and Project Wonderful are a couple of ways to make a little. There is also sponsored posts as well as sponsored reviews. You have an interesting blog if you want to monetize your blog I would suggest reading some of the Make money online blogs here on BC. There are quite a lot of them and they do have lots of tips even if you don't want to monetize your blog.

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   6/16/08

   momscrazylife

   YA,umm this freak doesn't blog for money purposes..sorry

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   6/16/08

   balidreamhome

   Well I am still not sure myself, but I do make some along the way, not much as I am not intend to blog for money, and there hundreds maybe thousand way to make money through blogging activity the only thing is that you have to trade your time and maybe your live with blogging, it's a full time job! so instead of try hard making money, manage your blog nicely and let the money come to you!!

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      6/16/08

      kirs10dee

      Sounds good to me. Thanks for the input!
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   6/16/08

   tamalds

   I'm blogging for 5 months and made over $200 so far. The key to make money from a blog is to focus on the quality of your articles and the traffic will come.
   
   Most of the successful bloggers write about make money online, but I don't think you should write on that topic. Write about the topic you are good at and can write forever.
   
   I would suggest you to read make money blogs which have high authority and readership like, problogger.net

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      6/17/08

      carlgalloway

      I agree on writing what you know. As for most successful bloggers writing about making money, utter rubbish, those are the failures who are a dime a dozen. Everyone I know who makes a good living online has an interest they write about, and they develop a community around their topic, that's what makes them money
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      6/17/08

      travelerfolio

      Hi Tamalds,
      
      Thank you for your sharing! You are certainly doing alot better than me! I have also been blogging for 5 months but I only made $22 so far LOL!!
      
      Please enlighten me! My travel blog is Travelerfolio.com
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   6/16/08

   app2usadvisor

   Totally agree with Tamal. Write in a topic where you have something unique to offer. Focus on quality, then traffic then money.
   
   You need to have patience for one year at least before significant money will come.

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   6/17/08

   br3adman

   People are just smart and use it to earn money on there blog

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      6/17/08

      tamalds

      Yes some people are smarter than John Chow or Darren Rowse, but can't make any money because they don't work.
      
      To earn money, you have to be active and hard working, not just only smart!
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   6/17/08

   tamalds

   @Travelerfolio, the X FACTOR of your blog is all about new and unique images. You must put some interesting articles with each pictures.
   
   If you wish to build it up as a photo blog, then you have to post a lot.
   
   Optimize your images with descriptions or you could optimize far more like, put the image name as Japanese-style-hotel-bedrooms-travelerfolio.com-traveler-folio.jpg than just image1.jpg
   
   Be sure what sites you are linking to. If you have not relevent sites in your blog roll, google will thought its a link farm and ban you.

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      6/17/08

      carlgalloway

      Tamalds, did you even bother to look at the source code for travelerfolio's blog? All of that is already being done!
      
      @travelerfolio, I think the biggest issue on your site as far as on-page SEO goes is that you may be focusing on keywords that mean something to you, but may not be what your visitors would type into the google search box. For example I see your title is "TravelerFolio.com - It's my passion to travel, so I blog..." which tells me nothing. The only keyword in it is the word travel.
      
      Same thing with your site description, instead of sounding like natural writing, it looks like a bunch of keywords separated with commas. This is not likely to get you very far.
      
      Also, the internal links (such as the Disneyland link in your latest post) don't have any titles in the link, when you use the WP popup to insert a link, the input box directly below the url is where you add the title and it does help.
      
      Overall you're doing a great job of onpage optimization.
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      6/17/08

      travelerfolio

      Ok Tamalds and Carlgalloway,
      
      Thank you very much on your feedbacks on my blog. Both of you are so PRO! Guess only talented people like you both are able to give me such valuable advices!
      
      I will study it and improve on my site. Hope that one day I get a better review from you guys again!
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   6/17/08

   bigbear6208

   hey wats up Carlgallow and Tamalds
   
   i just started blogging about 7 months now and i feel like i want to take it to the next level.
   
   I am a photographer and I have a creative imagination
   but,
   My blog is plan and simple
   Is staying the right way to go.. Or should I enhance my blog

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   6/17/08

   CrotchetyOldMan

   @Momjeans: I read your blog and liked it a lot. Sign up for adsense, and also keep doing what you do.
   
   I'm making about 12 hours a dollar, so obviously, I'm not in for the money.
   
   Everything after this is opinion
   
   While some folks are making money, some a ton of it, the overwhelming majority of us don't, or only make a little bit. If your desire is to make cash, it becomes a job. If that's what you want, then be prepared to work a lot. Look at those who are doing well, and you'll see they put a lot of effort into their posts. They are of high quality, and they don't blog intermittantly. John Chow, for example, may put out as many as 4 articles a day.

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    6/17/08

    barryfromtexas

    My blog is more for a gateway to my site - which does make some money, but more for giving out tips and information and occasional nonsense for people interested in investigations/investigating people.
    
    I have made a few bucks off of the items/ads on my blog, but that is not it's main purpose.

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