While I would love for this post to be another “best month ever” update, unfortunately it’s not.  In early August, I shared with you that the traffic to one of main income generating niche stores plummeted.  Here’s a screenshot of site visits from Google Analytics from the end of July to early August, the sudden [...]

If you’ve been following my Start a money making blog series, together we have: set-up your blog, consistently published content, and worked to increase your traffic.  If you’re averaging more than 100 visits per day, it’s time to consider placing some advertising on your blog so you can begin earning that side income we’ve been talking [...]

Building traffic to your blog

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In addition to continually writing on your blog to build up your content, you’ll want to begin building traffic to your blog as well.  Traffic will become the key ingredient in earning a side income from your blog.  The more traffic you get, the more visibility and click throughs your ads and affiliate offers will [...]

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The importance of diversity on your blog

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When someone mentions diversity, two things generally come to mind: 1) Diversity as it pertains to corporations – who and how they hire and 2) Investment diversity.  I’m going to give you a third to consider: Diversity and your blog.  Diversity is defined simple as variety. Side income diversity as a whole I learned a [...]

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Importance of links – a real example

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Most of us know the importance of links and link building when it comes to getting search engine traffic.  Incoming links to our blog or website from other credible websites are critically important to the ranking of your site on Google search engine result pages and on other search engines.  Personally, I’ve known this for [...]

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July Side Income Report

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Seems August is here along with preparations for school and football.  I have 6 kids so this time of year is always very busy (and expensive) for us.  We have to buy schools supplies and new clothes for our kids.  Additionally, all of my kids are involved in football.  Our 5 boys play football and [...]

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Register your blog with Google

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At this point in our Start a Money Making Blog series, you should have your blog up and running, looking great and have at least 10 high quality articles published.  A common mistake many bloggers make is to think that their blog will just suddenly get picked up by Google and a rush of traffic [...]

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The Friday Most Excellent – Google+ Edition

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I’ve spent a decent amount of time this week hanging out on Google+ along with 10 million other people.  I’m still learning all the ins and outs and still struggling with exactly how to set up my circles, but so far I really like it.  For me, it’s like the perfect blend of Twitter and [...]

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