8:28 PM

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Traffic: Measured in Words, Not Numbers

John Onam

Recently, I wrote frequently asked questions about my SEO clients. Here are a few can be identified:

* How much traffic do I need to earn $ 10,000 a month in sales?

* How do I get people to click my Facebook page?

* Why would anyone follow me on Twitter?

* If the only success online because they are famous?

* How many links do I need to hit the first page of Google?

These questions will be invited to almost every call. Of course, the keywords and markets are different, but it's my job to manage customer expectations and provide them with the facts. Most callers just want straight answers, but sometimes one of them will listen and begin to understand what it really is, to get a good search rankings. I know that the ProBlogger is full of great listeners and students, here is my advice to three years of SEO knowledge.

Forget the numbers look at the graph forms

Well, you can use numbers as a guide, but unless you start a magazine or a website focused on advertising, why worry about the numbers? The difference in sales was generated from 5,000 visitors per month or 10,000 per month is very low. Believe me!

What you need to do is look at the shape graph for the last six months. Is that in the right direction?. If not, see where your best traffic source, and seeks to add content to this source. For example, if your Facebook page makes 500 visits per month, add a few photos per week and perhaps a video or two.

Trying to integrate action buttons after surgery

A recent visitor did not know about you, but the buyer is not likely. I read ProBlogger two years before I gave Mr. Rowse any cash, but when I purchased the audiobook from iTunes, I have recommended a product for post-5000 people on Twitter.

I believe that much stronger, what to buy for traffic, as quickly share the story. Web designers talk about this. Integrating the Share button on the transaction, your blog can take five minutes to encode and cheaper than you thought!

Build your story

It's amazing how many business owners I speak for fear of the Internet. When I suggest that you must have a photograph and a brief history about themselves on their sites, which are resisting the idea.

Look at every successful business there, and you can quickly see the trend: there is one face of the company logo on the website and other media. In most cases, a short story belongs to the owner of the most memorable. GaryVaynerchuk example, its history, it turns out rapidly Family Guy, wine expert and loves the New York Jets.

I always ask my clients to start slowly and build up to this, perhaps starting with the name and photo, or even a picture of their faces. Over time, they become more comfortable to build a list of their hobbies or completely, for example. It is great exercise that will enhance your Web site. I'm working on mine now!

Imagine that you are visitor

We've all seen thousands of sites. So these days when we visit a site, what happens in our minds? "Nice Logo? Not interested." (Well, maybe graphic designers.) "Post Blog? Not so great." Most bloggers are not so great at writing persuasive messages, and good content is not enough to stop a visitor back button.

My advice is to think of it this way: Your goal is to keep the brand new visitor to your site for two minutes. I noticed that it is a good incentive to get the client to make changes I've mentioned here. Try it yourself and let us know how you go to the comments.

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Blogging from iGoogle and Gmail

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Blogging from iGoogle and Gmail

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Top 100 Blogspot Blogs By Google Ranking

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10:22 AM

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How to Create A Free Blogger Account and Blog

There are so many ways to make money online and blogging is just one wonderful means. If you have been thinking of how to start your own blog, then this article is for you. If you have not yet read that,please do so now at this link: What is a blog? before reading this one.

In summary, a blog is a website that we use to provide information on the internet and make money without having to work 9 to 5.

Now I am going to teach you how to create your own free website that you would need to make money online,and here it comes!

Blogspot is a blogging medium provided by Google that enables us create free Blogger.com web logs.

Create A New Email

First,you need to open a new email address that would serve as a username for logging in to your Blogger account. A Gmail account is preferrable for this purpose,but you may also use any other email provider such as Yahoo, AOL, etc.

To open a new:

After opening your new email address, you will need to open a free blogger account using the email address and password of your new email.

Create a Blogger Account

In order to get started with Blogger, you need to create an account.

First,go to the Blogger homepage, and click the "Create Your Blog Now" button close to the top right hand corner:

Screenshot: Create A New Blog

On the following page( that is the page that loads) fill the form you see. (If you are using gmail, click the Sign in first link at the top right hand corner of this form.

If you are using Yahoomail or any other email address,just read on.)


Note: Look to the right for instructions about each box you will fill in.

Enter the new email address you just created and its password( 8 Characters) in the spaces provided for such.

Display Name is the name that appears after each post you make.

Finally,Enter the word verification and click on the empty box to accept Blogger's Terms of Service.

Then click the red button that says 'Continue'.

Once you're done with this, you'll be prompted to Create a Blog and get started!

The next page Says: Name Your Blog

For Blog Title, type TEST. (Don't worry,you will change this later.)

For blog address(url) type your full name,(Don't worry,you will also change this later.)

For instance my name is Chinyeaka Onam, so I will write chinyeakaonam (that is in small letters and without any space.) as my url.


Then click on the link that says check availability and wait for confirmation if it says Sorry, this blog address is not available,then add 101 to your name, so for me it will now be chinyeakaonam101.

Then click on the link that says check availability again and wait for confirmation and
if it says: This blog address is available.


Then Click 'Continue' button.

You are taking to the Choose a template page.

Just scroll down and click Continue.(Do not worry! I will teach you how to design the blog soon.)

The next page should say:

Your blog has been created!

Click the Start Blogging button you see below and wait for the next page to load completely.

Then you are required to create your first post.So in the box called Title:, write this Test Post

Then, click inside the bigger box, then write this: "I am making my first post now and I wish to discover more details about blogging later."

Then click the red button called PUBLISH POST.

The next page confirms by saying: Your blog post published successfully!

Click on the link that says View Blog and what you see in the page that loads is your own blog.

Hurray! Your blog is available for the world to see.But,not yet ready.

I have created series of article on How To Start Blogging With Your New Blog. If you want to read them, please go to www.MakeMoneyBanc.BlogSpot.com

For additional study,please go to Google Help.

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5:27 PM

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How to Advertise Your Blog or Website For Free

John Onam

Everyday you update your blog, but no one reads them if you don't get to advertise it. As you post and update your site everyday, everyday promote and advertise it. If you don't know how to do this, learn it today from me

Here I will share with you some tips on how to promote and get more readers to your site. I’m not site advertising or marketing expert but I have some little knowledge that I am sure should get your site some nice deal of visitors.

Submit to Blog Directory/Topsites

There are many blog directories on the Internet. Submit your site to as many blog directories as you can. Most of them are free and some of them will ask you to add some HTML code to your site before your site will be listed in their directory.

And join topsites too. If your site is on top rank, traffic will flow to your site in droves.

Join bloggers' forum

Join and participate in bloggers forum or portals. Introduce yourself and brief politely about your site. Tell them what your site is about. I’m sure in every bloggers forum, there is a section where you can promote or show off your blog. Post something there.

Describe your blog and invite them to visit. If the forum admin enable signature in post (usually it is enable), put your site link in your signature. That way, the forum users can see your site link when you post or reply someone’s post on the forum.

Visit other blogs

Start visiting other people's blog and drop them some comments about their blog posts. Not comments say like, “What a nice site!” or “Your site's Cool!” No! Say something useful to readers of the post. It could be an additional tip to the blog post. If visitors to that site read your comment, especially if it is useful, they also will visit your own site.

Add your blog URL to Emails

In every email you send out Put your site link in your email signature. So each time you send or reply email, the receiver will see it. So they’ll know that you have a site and they will visit your site to see what your blog is about.

Exchange Link with other Bloggers

Ask other bloggers to put your blog's link on their site while you in turn will put their blog's link on your site. Do this especially with someone whohas a pagerank equal to or a little greater than yours. This will increase your page rank, thereby bringing more people to your site.

Social Bookmarking

Submit your contents to any social book marking sites like del.icio.us, Furl, etc. But make sure that you submit in your blog's category, otherwise users will ignore it.

Ping your site

This is a must. Ping your site to www.Pingoat.com or www.Pingomatic.com each time you update your site with a new post. This service will tell search engines that you have new posts that may interest them.

With these, I think you will have regular visitors to your site. But write good and useful contents on your site or you will loose them one by one.

If you have any comments or want to add up your own tips, feel free to say it by clicking on the LEAVE A COMMENT link below.

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4:20 PM

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How To Bring Traffic To Your Blog

John Onam

If you want to make money from blogging, you need high traffic on your blog. Many bloggers think there is a twist about getting traffic to their blog, but after going through this article and applying all that is therein, you will get high traffic to your blog. Here comes the best traffic suggestions I have learnt from and used to increase traffic to my blog:

1. Write valuable content
The reason you are blogging is to provide value to online users. Work hard to create comprehensive problem-solving articles. Sit down for one hour daily and brainstorm topics you can write about. Then, invest enough time to write the post and keep editing till you get a very good write up, then publish the post.

2. Publish Original Content Only
Do not copy other people’s content online and paste them on your own blog. Write your own contents from scratch to finish; that is the hardest work you will do in blogging. You can read other people’s articles and reproduce them in your own words( not verbatim.)

3. Write Regularly and Consistently
You should also choose whether you want to write:
a. One article daily
OR
b. Three times weekly
Which option would be convenient for you? Write/publish posts on your blog as regularly and consistently as you have chosen

4. Write Timeless Content Only
Write for the future; choose a niche that is timeless for your blog and create articles that would still be valuable many years after you wrote them. This ensures that traffic keeps coming to your blog for the same series of content you created years back and that you make money from those same contents.

5. Advertise the blog
Submit your blog to as many directories as you can so that Google and other search engines would list your content in searches relating to your niche. Then, after each post on your blog, visit http://blogsearch.google.com/ping and enter your blog address, so that Google will crawl your site to register the new contents on it.

As the number of content on your blog increases over time, traffic to your blog will also increase, since your blog will have something for everyone who searches a topic on your niche. Also, visitors to your blog will always be eager to come and read what new contents you have to offer.

OTHER POSTS

How To Get Original Posts For Your Blog


How To Choose Your Blog Niche


Financial Plan Of Your Blog

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4:18 PM

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How To Google For Original Blog Posts

John Onam

If you are not sure about a niche to blog about when starting your new blog, then this post is for you. Maybe you have looked through the list of Timeless Niches I enumerated in my previous post and you have still not been able to choose a niche for your blog. In that case, please follow the following guide to choose any niche today and start writing original posts on it today.

Search engines are good internet tools for learning. Hence, new bloggers can as well use it to learn a niche and start blogging that same niche. Therefore, it is not a must that you know a niche before you can blog it. You only need to follow the following instructions to start blogging any niche today even if you don’t know anything about it previously:

1. Pick any niche:

You can visit the post CHOOSING A NICHE FOR YOUR BLOG to see a list of niches from which you can choose.

2. Google That Niche:

1) Go to www.google .com, type your niche and search. You should get a list of all websites that talk about that niche.

2) Open one website by clicking on it’s link.

3) Visit all the webpages on that website and save a couple of those pages on your hard drive, so that you will be able to view/edit them offline.

4) Open another website, repeat process (3.) again until you are satisfied with the quantity of content you now have on your hard drive.

3. Edit/Summarise the Googled Contents

Nobody wants to come with a website that contains posts they have seen elsewhere, so do not just copy, paste and publish the saved webpages on your blog. This is what you should do with the web pages you saved on your hard drive:

1) Open each of those saved webpages.

2) Read the content.

3) Write what you learn in your own words.

This is necessary in order that you may have original contents for your blog and not copied contents. This is very important to making money with your blog.

4. Publish the Summary

Now, copy all what you have written and publish them on your blog. Then go googling again and repeat the process until you have exhausted all topics on that niche.

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4:14 PM

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CHOOSING A NICHE FOR YOUR BLOG

John Onam

Every blog should have a niche that it writes about and it is the first and paramount part to be considered for a new blog. For instance, this blog talks about Making Money With Free Blogs – that is what the whole blog is all about and that is its niche. This means that every topic you find on this blog will offer tutorial that help you start a free blog and make money from it.

So, now that you also have created your own free blog, you may be wondering which niche you should choose for your blog. Here is what you need to do to make a wise choice:

1. Choose a niche that is Timeless: Timeless Niches are niches that will be useful today, tomorrow as well as years to come.

2. Choose a niche you are familiar with: That is, when you are choosing a niche for your first blog, select the niche that you can confidently write on without consulting anybody, website or book.

Below is a list of Timeless niches you can select from and start blogging about:

Food and cooking

Marriage and relationship

Parenting

Computer Troubleshooting and maintenance

Money and Personal Finance

Forex Trading

Stock Trading

Educational Courses and subjects

Business

Health

Renewable Energy

Just choose the one you are very sure you can comfortably write on and start writing for your new blog.

It’s possible that after looking through this list, you did not find any niche you know about. In that case, Read my post about Google For Original Posts.

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9:31 AM

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The Financial Plan of a Blog

John Onam

Every blogger ought to have a financial plan , which is basically a vision of how much the blogger is going to be earning from his/her blog on a regular basis.

In this post, you should learn that the financial plan is:
  • the first action a blogger should take, before creating his blog, but,
  • the last thing that should be on his mind when he/she has started the blog.
Also you would be able to see how the financial plan is the center-piece of your internet business (blog) and how it affects other plans for your blog.

Then finally, you would be shown an example of a financial plan- mine to be precise- to serve as a guide to creating your blog's financial plan.

What is a blog's financial plan?

Blog financial plan is a projection of how much money( net income) a blog should make at a defined rate(time.)
For instance, when a blogger says: "I want to earn $200 per month from my blog."
That blogger is saying:

  1. How much money - $200
  2. The rate the money is to be made - every month.
If this blogger goes ahead to create a step-by-step outline of how to achieve that level of income from his blog, he would have succeeded in creating a financial plan.

Why all bloggers must have a financial plan

In order to see why you need a financial plan for your blog, let's first consider why we blog.

Bloggers blog for two major reasons:
  1. For Fun: That is, doing it as a hobby or pastime. This how most people start
  2. For Money: This involves blogging primarily to make money regularly as a result.
But then, even if you are blogging for fun, when financial needs arise, like that for bandwith expansion due to increased traffic to your blog,and such like, then you would have no other option than to blog for money. Examples include Ashley Qualls, Chloe Spencer, and so on.

So however you wish to start blogging, you must end up blogging for money. This is enough, a reason you need to have a financial plan for your blog at the onset.

From another point of view, a blog is your internet business. And, just as every successful business, no matter the size, starts with a business plan; and every building,must be built according to a plan, so also must your blogging be done according to a plan if you are to succeed in making your target income from it.

The Blogging Plan

A blogging plan would contain the following:
  1. The Blog Financial Plan
  2. The BlogContent Plan
  3. The Blog Make-up Plan.
But this topic is addressing the first and foremost, because the blog financial plan, like I said earlier is the Center-stage and connects with every other plan in your blog as you will notice shortly.

How to Create a Blog Financial Plan

Creating a blog financial plan is no rocket science, in fact it is as simple as following the procedures I would give you below:
  1. How much money do you wish to make from blogging daily?
  2. How much traffic is it going to take you to make this amount?
  3. How much content do you need to give in return for that amount of traffic?
  4. How many blogs do you have to created in order to publish these lots of content?
If you have completely supplied answers to these questions, what you now have is your blog financial plan.What could be simpler than that?

Let me show you my own financial plan now to serve as a guide to creating your own.

My Financial Plan

  1. How much money wish to make from blogging daily?

  2. $10

  3. How much traffic is it going to take you to make this amount?

  4. 1000 visits per day

  5. How much content do you need to give in return for that amount of traffic?

  6. 1,000 posts

  7. How many blogs do you have to create in order to publish these lots of content?

  8. 10 Blogs , each with 100 posts.

That is it. Easy to create. Now go ahead and create yours. Next week,I would be on to How to Create your blog's Content Plan, and introduce you to the concept of niche so you can start writing for your own blog.

If you have any question or suggestion, please leave a comment below. Cheers!

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8:34 AM

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How To Make $10,000 Per Week with A Free Website

John Onam


After reading this post,and applying all I have taught therein,you should making $10,000 from your free blog would be a piece of cake.But,I know that you may be asking:
"$10,000 per week!How possible is it?"
Whether you will be making $10,000 weekly or monthly or yearly or biennially,is a matter of choice.Read on and you will discover why I said so.

Making $10,000 per week with a Blog is Simple

Since I picked an interest in this wonderful and fun internet business called Blogging, I have read success stories of bloggers who make up to $70,000 a month, and that include teen bloggers like Ashley Qualls, the richest and youngest blogger according to my record- even far richer than older(both in age and experience) bloggers-the likes of Darren Rowse, John Chow, StevePavlina.The list can go on and on, even including several other teens and I hope to join this list in few weeks as I follow my own blogging plan, which is what I am teaching you how to create in this post.

But rather than being carried away by such gigantic income,I instead chose to study closely, the secrets behind the success stories of these wealthy bloggers.The totality of the lessons learned is what I will be passing on to you all,so that just like them,we could also make nice income from blogging.

You Want to be Rich...Do What the Rich Do.
So by learning and applying the simple lessons derived from these bloggers story, I will be able to make $10,000 from my free blog.It can be that simple.

Even the Hard Part is Easy
If making money with a blog is easy, then why is every blogger not making money?
That brings us to the 'Hard Part' of blogging - the To-Do aspect of making money with your free blog, that is what you have to do before you start making money with your blog.This is what most bloggers do not pay attention to, and it is the only reason why they fail to make money.

The Hard Part of making money with a blog is as follow:
  1. Provide Value for free - FREE CONTENT
  2. Get people to see it - ADVERTISE
Just keep doing 1 and 2 above repeatedly 7 days a week, 4 weeks a month, 12 months a Year, for as many years an necessary and $10,000 a week would come as simple as ABC.So even the hard part is easy, and this is what those successful bloggers do,that is what I am doing and it is what you have to do to make such a huge sum from your blog regularly.

Now I am sounding like a voodoo priest or an abracadabra! magician,but, that is purely true and I will explain with this anecdote below:

Free Value Content

T
here is no such thing as success without hardwork- Shortcut Success. Success has been defined as 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, and that is why even though I got the inspiration of starting this in a flash of moment,I am going to spend time, a whole lot of it for that matter to materialise that inspiration.

The problem is that many people think that hardwork means that excruciating kind of work of being a construction worker for instance, but far from it.Let me remind you that:

2 Youngsters started Google.com approximately 10 years ago. And their mission was, and is still to provide a free search engine to help internet users find information easily online.

Also,2 youngsters,founded Yahoo.com.Their own mission was and still remains to provide free email service to all internet users worldwide.

The list can be endless, but the story remains the same, and from these two we can draw a conclusion.

Today Google founders are each worth more than $18 billion, and the Yahoo founders more than $2 billion each, and are one of the richest yougsters worlwide.

From Free Services?! How come?!!

They were providing for the people's need with value services and even without charging a dime in return. And humans like that,I mean "why buy it when you can get it for free"

Then what happened?!

Advertising

With an increasing number of people testing and enjoying the free services daily the news spread, as internet users who were happy started to tell their friends and so the fever caught all taht heard and since others had to tell others after using the user base of both Yahoo and Google grew astronomically to millions of visitor daily, mostly via word of mouth.

How then did the money Come?

Browsing certainly is not our only need.We also have the need for a variety of other things such a s food, house,clothes,computer, and so on.

Realising this, and to make very good use of this daily mammoth crowd that thronged their website, these guys introduced their own products for sale. And having enjoyed free service from them,users were more than happy to patronize Google's and Yahoo's products. Because they have enjoyed free service from them, they feel comfortable to buy also from them- it's called Goodwill. You do not expect to get free clothes also from them, do you?!!

This is the psychology utilized by other netpreneurs like myspace.com, hi5.com, and so on.It is this same psychology that other successful bloggers have applied and used over the years to make hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it is this same technique that I am using.

That is why I started www.makemoneybanc.blogspot.com and my own mission as you may have known is to provide free information on how to make money with a free blog.

And since you want to be making $10,000 per week from your blog,you should be using the same technique,I recommend that and you can quote me anywhere.

Lessons Learned

From the story of Google and Yahoo summarised above,the lesson learned is that in order to make money online:
  1. First, Give something free,
  2. Second, Advertise your blog,
  3. Third, monetize the resulting traffic.
But before you start blogging you need to have a plan. And your plan should state how much you wish to make at a specified period. When you do that,you will realise that in order to use the lessons I stated above you will be working bottom up:
  1. First,How much do you want to make?
  2. Second,How much traffic do you need to make that amount of money?
  3. Third,what do you have to do to bring in that much traffic to your blog?
If you adequately know the answer to these three issues, making money with your blog would be easy and fun. But if you really don't know how to go about it,join me next week as I teach you how to create a blogging plan that would show you how to tackle those issues and help you make $10,000 per week from your blog. Before then, leave a comment, if you've got anything to say.
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What Is A Blog And Why Do I Need One?

John Onam

Have you been caught up in the buzz on blogging?
Have people been telling you that you MUST have a blog?
Have you read other websites on blogging and still DON'T GET IT?

Is everyone telling you that you need a blog but you have no idea what blogging is and why you need one?
Don't worry anymore cos I was once like that and like my blogging mission states, I am out to create blogging millionaires from just simple and free blogs.

To save you from the pain and agony I went through trying to figure out blogging I created the simplest, most straight forward explanation to share with you.

On this blog, you will learn that a blog is more than just a website. You will also learn how it can help you build a community, attract more customers, make money and what it takes to get started. You won't believe how easy it is and that it could be free.

What Is Blogging?

Blogs have been around for many years but have recently become one of the most popular internet technology due to its wide application by internet users of today.

You've probably been hearing the buzz on the Internet about "Blogging" and you're asking yourself, "What is Blogging?"

First of all, it is one of the hottest ideas to hit the Internet in the past 10 years.

A Blog (short for Web Log) is basically an online journal that can be set up at no cost at all, which (among other things) is used for making money by simply writing and publishing free and useful information on it.

A blog is more than just being referred to as a website. The following are just a few ways blogs can be used:

1) Updates: Keep customers/clients up to date on changes to your website. Also new product announcement and new related websites.

2) Reviews: You can give opinions, advice and personal recommendations on specific products or services related to your field.

3) Personal and Business uses: Blogs are a great way to keep track of your goals and plans just by open writing.

4) Stress Reliever: Jot down your vents, gripes, thoughts. Some also find general writing therapeutic.

5) Search Engine Optimization: Search Engines love text and content. You can also include links to your website which equal backward links which in turn equals high ranking.

6) Money Makers: Yes, you can make money with your blog by providing readers with quality copy writing and a few affiliate links. This is my own application of a blog.

Blog is a cross between a website and a discussion group/forum.
It is more interactive than a website but not as interactive as a discussion group.

Here is a brief explanation of all the different ways of broadcasting your message.

• Websites introduce you to an individual, company or organization by communicating their company’s mission or offering you their products or services. It’s like an online brochure. The information on a website is static with the content changing once in awhile. Since there is programming involved, most people need a web designer to make the updates.

• Email is sending a targeted message to a certain group of people that you select.

• Ezines/Newsletters are considered an electronic magazine. In an ezine you publish short articles that let your customers know what’s happening in your company, your industry or about products and services they might find valuable. The format is written in a more formal tone. They are usually published weekly, bi-monthly or monthly. Your audience can be narrow because ezines are only available to people who have subscribed.

• Discussion Groups/Forums are like having a telephone conversation on a computer. Lots of people can be in a discussion group and you send messages back and forth. Unlike a blog, there is no leader that directs the conversation. There is also no linking between different discussion groups, whereas blogs can refer to each other.

• Blogs fall somewhere in the middle. Think of them as an online journal or diary where you can share what's on your mind with others (family, friends, customers).

  1. Blogs are written in a more informal style.
  2. Blog are web pages that are date and time stamped.
  3. All messages (posts) are saved and archived for instant access at a later time.
  4. Blogs are frequently updated with new information, which search engines like. It is recommended that you post 2-3 times per week.
  5. Blogs differ from forums in that they link to other blogs and websites. This is called a blogosphere.
  6. Blogs are interactive. Visitors can leave comments about your post.
  7. Blogs are published instantly. There is no need for a web designer.
  8. Blogs get around the email spam filters so your message will be seen.
  9. You can create a blog for free using Blogger™ software.

What makes a blog stand out from a website or discussion group is that you plan what you want to say (versus a discussion group where it's live). The best part is that YOU have full control over creating your blog - no web designer, no cost!

Why Do I Need A Blog?
I'm sure you're probably saying to yourself, "Why do I need a blog?" "Can I live without one?"Justify Full No, not really. Why? Because blogging is the easiest way to get your message out to the world. Here are a few highlights of "why you should blog."

• Become a trusted expert
• Build rapport with your customers
• Share information among employees at different locations or on different shifts - cuts down on email
• Stay in touch with your family and friends
• Make money through Google AdSense and/or links to products or affiliate programs.


Read the following examples of how a blog will benefit you.

1. Do you own a business? Business blogs are cutting-edge. Do you ever say to yourself, "Boy, I wish I had more customers?" Blogs can give you an advantage over your competition. They can help you be viewed as an industry expert, which can attract new customers.

For your current customers it’s a great way to keep them updated on what’s happening in your company – from great specials to new products. Because reader’s can leave comments, blogs build rapport and keep you on the pulse of what your customer’s want.

Blogs also add a personal touch because you are writing them from your own experience, not one of a corporate message. By blogging you become a trusted expert in your field. When you write and publish, you are seen as an expert with credibility. People do business with people they trust. Even when you use other people’s content you are seen as the "go-to" resource of information.

2. Use Blogs For Internal Communication. Blogs are ideal for sharing information among employees. They can be used to give team updates on a project, especially if team members are in different locations. An employee can be given a blog to provide project updates or business trip reports.

Blogs are also great for disseminating company information and policy updates. Because all posts are archived, blogs become a wonderful source of information.

3. Staying in touch with your family and friends. We all lead such busy lives that it's difficult to stay in touch with our family, let alone our friends. Let's say you want to tell your Mom and Dad and your Aunt Sally and Uncle Mike and... about your daughter's dance recital or son's baseball game. Creating a blog is a quick way to give ALL your family and friends an update and only do it ONCE!

Consider the pain-staking alternative - give everyone a call or write an email, look up everyone's email address and send it out. With a blog, writing a quick paragraph or two is all it takes. You can even post pictures! Because your family can see the comments left on your blog by other family members it's another way for your family to stay in touch.

The other great thing about blogs is that each message is stored so it can be found again. It's a great way to keep a diary of what's happening in your life. Picture this...with one quick email to your family that gives them your blog address they can check in anytime to see what you're up to. You also have the ability to decide who can see your blog.

4. Maybe your message is about concerns in your neighborhood. With a blog you can post the latest information about the traffic problem your councilman is working on or a new restaurant that opened up in the neighborhood that you want others to check out.

5. You might have kids at college. Blogs are a great way for kids to stay in touch with ALL the family.

6. Making Money • You can put links on your site for products or affiliate programs (where you sell other people’s products) • You can activate Google AdSense links on your blog. This is where Google puts relevant ads on your blog and when people click on the ad you make money. • You can also use blog entries to repackage articles into e-books and e-courses that can be delivered through auto-responders.


How Do I Create A Blog?

So how is a blog set up?

There are several options you can choose from when starting your own blog, and a few are:

1) Using a free service such as Blogger.com ( http://www.blogger.com ).

2) Using Blogger.com (or other free blog provider) with your own domain name that you can purchase through places such as Mommy’s Helper Domain & Hosting Services ( http://www.mommyshelperonline.com/web-hosting.html ) .

3) You can also choose a paid services such as Blogit.com ( http://www.blogit.com ) for as little as $5.95 a month.

But, my advice to you would be to simply follow option 1 above.That is, "Using a free service such as Blogger.com ( http://www.blogger.com )"

You can set up blog up for FREE. To begin blogging you only need two things.

1. What you want to say (your message)

2. Software to create your blog. As far as software goes, there are many blogging softwares on the market and each has its pros and cons. To get started quickly and blog at no cost to you I recommend the #1 blogging software, Blogger™ (from Google.)

In just 3 easy steps you will be blogging. It takes about 15 minutes to set up your first blog.You will learn how to do that in my next post
When I created my first blog it was easy to do the 3 steps to get started but then the questions started…

• How do I edit my post?
• How do I change the background?
• How do I add Google AdSense?

I searched the Internet to find a simple step-by-step guide but there was none to be found so, being the computer freak that I am, I decided to write one for the internet world and myself, the product I called Make Money Blogging At No Cost (makemoneybanc for short) which is what I will be teaching you at www.makemoneybanc.blogspot.com. (I hope your hobbies are more fun than mine!) Wouldn’t it be nice to finally have a user guide that teaches you, in plain English, how to use the software so you can have your questions answered in minutes, not hours?

This blog www.makemoneybanc.blogspot.com is a guide to help you have a profitable Blogging experience.

The Blog will walk you step-by-step through finding your niche, using keywords to attract readers/customers and showing you how to monetize your blog.

But, for that, you have to visit MakeMoneyBANC at least on a weekly basis, as it would not be possible to expose you to all the nitty gritty of blogging in just one single post.

My next post would show you how to open your own free blog if you have not already done so.

That is my opinion.What is your comment( or question) as to what a blog is?

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How to Best Use this Website

Information on http://www.makemoneybanc.blogspot.com/ is presented in a descriptive step by step way,hence forming a one stop tutorial on Blogging for money with free blogs.This is done so as to carry readers along as I teach them how I make money using the banc group of free blogs.

Hence,when you first approach a post,I would advice you to read it from the begining to the end,and i am sure that each one would be worth your while,especially if i am teaching something you do not already knowmuch about or have not ever heard of.

Although some posts may be lengthy,if you think printing it out and reading later at your leisure is better,feel free to do so.

If I have written a post you think have benefitted from alot,please share it by digg,redditt,stumbleupon or via any one you feel comfortable with- so that other internet users who may be interested or who have similar problem would benefit and share in the euphoria of your discovery and my creativity for free, and without much hassle.

I am still learning as more and more internet technologies,softwares and products are created in their numbers on a regular basis and I would share whatever it is I learn with you all.But I am not an island of knowlege or oasis of discovery,and as a matter of honesty, I do not claim expertise.Most of what I teach here are learned by googling,and some of the money making programs I introduce you to were discovered via adverts some place online.

The internet is a compendium of knowledge, hence I enjoin you to share in the discovery frenzy by sharing with us new programs you have discovered one way or another,in the process of learning. Although I am more of a teacher here,I also am a student when you teach me.So if and when you find anything,please share with us by way of comment,cos I do not want to develop the god complex here. Even if you have just stumbled on something and you wish to get a good understanding of it, I would be more than ready to help you out if you comment.

Furthermore,I would try my best to present all that I know about each topic in a post so that you do not have to rummage through the net looking for additional information. That means that after devouring each post,you should learn something unique to apply to your blogging business.

But,if in the process of applying the lessons from a post,you encounter difficulty, go to the forum and leave a your question. I will dedicate Saturdays to answering reader's questions and observations. But, note that when you are at the forum, you firt need to register.Every other time you want to post,you have to log in before you will be able to post.

Moreover,I am open to requests for partnership from any interested persons.This would help us both because,just as I would benefit from a free article post from you,you will be able to share from my traffic. This partnership would be through providing an original niche-related content for my blog alone.If you are interested,please check the Contact me link at the top of this website to see my email address and send me an email with subject GUEST POST.

I also would be willing to write guest posts free for others who may so desire, but only if you have a pagerank(alexa and google) higher than mine.Otherwise, I would charge you $8 for every 500 word article. This is because the only rational behind writing guest post for others free is to get and share some of their traffic.

Finally, http://www.makemoneybanc.blogspot.com/ would primarily contain posts that describe what I do online(blogging) to make money, and would come one post at a time - on mondays, for the months of January to April 2009, due to the action steps involved and to allow for a general understanding by all readers and also to ensure that all readers questions and comments are treated satisfactorily.

But, as from May to August 2009, the posts would come mondays and wednesdays while September to December 2009 would experience posts on mondays, wednesdays and Fridays.

For each of these periods, Saturdays would be for discussing the week's posts and matters arising at the forum.

What do you have to say. Post a comment using the "comment" link at the top of this post.

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Make Money Blogging At No Cost


Welcome to www.makemoneybanc.blogspot.com,my internet business geared toward providing free information on the money-making opportunities that abound online,and especially through free blogging.

Here at www.cashbanc.blogspot.com,I uncover any and all legal internet businesses that I participate in with full details of:



  1. the steps I took,
  2. the requirements I had to meet and,
  3. sometimes, the challenges I had to face,

while trying these online opportunities.

I would also tell of the sweet side-which is the money I had to make as a result of all the efforts.

Contrary to what most internet entrepreneurs(netpreneurs) have done as well as believe in,I took to starting my own internetbusiness with a free website - that is what the techies would call shared hosting

I had to do this for two reasons:

  1. to remove the apathy that exists among netpreneurs about shared hosting. Many people don't like sharing part of their website address (.blogspot.com in this case) with others,but in real life ,that is exactly what they do.

    For instance,you cannot claim to have a unique first name - you share the same name with thousands other people,even outside your genealogy. Also,you share your last name with scores of family members,as well as with other families of the world. Then they come online and sharing becomes a taboo.

    I believe that sharing is a sign of love and I would rather encourage ,that discourage it.In fact,shared hosting have helped many of us who would not have had the luxury of starting our internet business with a paid hosting.
  2. to prove a point - which is that it is very possible to make money from a free blog.

    So many people don't share the belief that anything good could come out of a free blogging venture,but here I come to disprove them.

    I know of a couple of free blogs that rank higher that tens of millions of paid websites, and I know a few people who are earning thousands monthly with their free blogs,and my mission is to create many more of these wealthy free bloggers using the tutorials that I would be providing with this website on a regular basis.

    I wanted to help those who don't have much money but who want to start earning from blogging- a challenge from which I got the drive to start this business- the:

    BANC GROUP OF FREE BLOGS.

    My mission is to show them how to make money with a free website like this one, before migrating to a paid website if they so wish,and if the need be.

    My vision is to create scores of millionaire free bloggers through the tutorial on this blog.
My job of starting my own internet business got even easier and more fun when I discovered that I could redesign my website to my taste and choice using this free blogging tool- blogger.com- provided by Google Inc., and it's getting better and much more fun day after day.What more can I ask for?

Incredible enough,using the blogger.com tool to publish web pages is as simple as type and click a button- and your page would be live for the world to see. If that is so, why would a begiiner pay for expensive hosting and design service,and still struggle to publish web pages for lack of the technical know-how(HTML,CSS,etc.)

Although I would be teaching you some coding here, you would not need to become an expert in order to run your free website successfully,as is the case if you were to use a paid hosting service. In fact,you only need basic coding technique to start blogging- that is like ABCD... in schooling.

As far as this brand is concerned,I am the first to come out with a tutorial on cash blogging with free websites. A google search authoritatively tells me so.So I would be giving you the best of ideas and teaching on this niche, as I learn from professional bloggers who earn money with paid blogs.

I am not saying I am an encyclopedia in this field,because I know that I have just blazed a trail and others would follow suit sooner or later; I am only saying thatif you follow my guide on this website painstakingly,making money online with a free blog would become as simple as ABC, as this is the only comprehensive and up-to-date make-money-with-free-blogs article-loaded website online.If you doubt it,google.

As at the time of starting this blog, I only have $29 adsense earnings but I wish to make thousands of dollars with it through the concerted effort of my input in terms of value-giving posts.

As I would be writing in the future,the only formular for making money with blogs is:

Original/Quality Content = Traffic = Money.

If you have read up till this point,then your interest is my concern,and I urge you to visit regularly as I teach you step-by-step, what I have learned from umpteen experts.

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If you have any urgent requests,please feel free to text me on:
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