One of the more common group of questions I get on a daily basis from readers and clients is about "advertising on my blog" and more specifically "when should I start advertising on my blog". Unfortunately there is no real clear and concise answer to this question and answers from experts vary greatly. I'll provide you with my perspective on this and give you some items to consider, but ultimately the right answer is that you should start advertising on your blog when you feel Continue Reading
Monetizing your blog – Several Choices You Need To Make
This guest post has been written by Mike from The Financial Blogger. He runs several other personal finance blogs and aims to live from his online income. When we all started our blogs at the very beginning of this movement, it was often because we were passionate about a specific topic. We had something to say and wanted to share our thoughts with readers. But after a while, especially if your site enjoys some success, a question arises: how can you transform your effort and passion into Continue Reading
Why you need to write in advance (and I do to!)
The past two weeks at my full-time job have been just crazy busy and the unfortunate reality of that is I haven't been able to write near as often as I would like here on Side Income Blogging. The good news is that this little predicament made for a great article topic (this one). My plan here on Side Income blogging was to have a consistent posting schedule of two articles per week: one on Monday and one on Thursday. Monday would be the big article since Monday's are big blog traffic days. Continue Reading
How to set-up WordPress Part 2
In part 1 of how to set-up WordPress, we walked through the Settings menu and adjusted the default settings. Now we'll dive into a few other areas and complete the base set-up. Again, we'll return to the Settings menu of the WordPress administrative console. If you need a refresher on how to login and get there, review the How to set-up WordPress part 1 article. Ping Services By default, each time your publish a new post on your blog WordPress notifies any web sites listed in the Continue Reading
Increase blog traffic – 5 easy ways
New and experienced bloggers have at least two things in common, they want to increase traffic to their blog. Traffic drives many things on your blog including earnings and growth. There are many different ways to increase blog traffic, but here are 5 easy ways that new bloggers can easily start driving traffic to their blog: Comment on other blogs in your niche Commenting on other blogs in your niche should be a priority for all new bloggers from day one. Commenting on other blogs does the Continue Reading
How to set-up WordPress Part 1
On our journey to start a money making blog, we've: determined what to blog about, picked a blog name, set-up blog hosting, and installed WordPress. Now it's time to do some set-up on WordPress and get it ready so we can start creating pages and writing articles. General Settings When you initially installed WordPress, you specified an initial blog title and tagline, but let's verify that what you keyed in is exactly what you want. We'll also tweak a few other WordPress general settings Continue Reading
Two pages your blog must have
One the items new bloggers struggle with is what pages need to be created on their blogs. I've often started working with new clients and visit their blog for the first time and find they don't have any pages created at all. WordPress pages, generally accessible from the main menu, are a great way to to share important information with your visitors. Pages can be used to: Tell people more about you Provide contact information Highlight a series of posts Highlight your most popular Continue Reading
Look to your readers for article ideas
Writers block, it happens to the best of us. You sit down to write an article and literally nothing comes to mind. What do you do? When I get stuck and can't come up with a topic to write on, I often turn to my readers. Here's how: Blog Comments Read your comments. Readers often write very thoughtful comments in response to your articles. They'll also frequently ask questions or for your perspective on something related to what your article was about. Of course you could just respond to Continue Reading
How to install WordPress manually
If your hosting company doesn't provide an automated WordPress install like HostGator or Bluehost, you'll need to learn how to install WordPress manually. The step by step guide below will walk you through the process. Installing WordPress manually isn't difficult, but it is a bit tedius. How to install WordPress manually Download the latest version of WordPress to your local computer from the Wordpress.org download page. The Wordpress download file is compressed and you'll either need Continue Reading
What is FTP and why you need it for your blog
File Transfer Protocol, better known as FTP is a communications standard that allows you to move files to/from a server on the internet. FTP is commonly used to install software to a web server or to copy files up to a web server to make them available on a web-site. Thanks to many different software programs available, FTP is really rather easy these days. Back in the day, you had to use FTP from a command line. While not terribly complex it did require knowing the syntax along with some Continue Reading