Is Blog Flipping A Legitimate Way To Make Money From Your Blog?

July 21, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

 

Career bloggers will tell you that it is not an easy way to make a buck. Being a good writer involves research, time, and creativity. Even famous authors such as Ann Rice every day. Bloggers have no choice. If you have decent traffic, you may already be making money off of your blog; or perhaps not. At any rate, if you do have the drive to start making money, you can do what’s known as “flipping” your blog – and let someone else (who is probably better at it) worry about all the tasks that you DON’T like, so that you concentrate on writing.

Blogs can often be sold for in the ballpark of 1-2 years of residual income. In other words, you can make money from your blog during this time without actually blogging – or scrapping all of your hard work. Normally, the new blog owner will not want to substantially change your core message – although due to different interpretations they may ask for some minor [changes. However, the heart of your blog will {likely|normally|usually|almost always} remain as you intended. But what if you actually ENJOY the creative release? Well, investors will often jump at the chance to have you continue (while sharing the increased revenues!) In fact, they are quite often inclined to ask you to stay on, simply because they don’t want to screen new writers, be faced with buying articles (which lowers their bottom line, or worst of all, write it themselves.

And think about this: even if you are writing for a blog network, you still have to promote your blog. If you don’t actually like the business side of things, it may be in your best interests to seek out a buyer/investor who is willing to ”play ball” monetarily and take over these responsibilities.

To bring the highest possible price, you may want to consider preparing your blog for sale . Potential buyers often scout for blogs that consist of long posts with lots of keywords, and still provide value to a niche. If your blog caters to a popular niche, even better. Knowledge of your market can ramp up the value to the investor dramatically, increasing the price that the blog commands – as well as any product-driven monetizing. If you are currently bringing in income from selling ebooks, sales negotiation is clearly in your court.

If you want to make a sale, like yesterday, don’t stress yourself out about the remodeling. There are plenty of buyers in the game willing to look at a fixer-upper if the price is right. The most important thing is to do your research. Look into the going rate for blogs in your niche. Be quick to reply to inquiries from potential investors and make your self highly available via email or social network sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Ask questions and give lots of statistics. Outline to your potential buyer what you wanted to do but didn’t have time for – ideas to improve the site and drive traffic will help them to make a decision.

In summary, the easiest way to cash out your blog is to let an investor(who has the financial means and expertise) take over any tasks you’d rather not waste your time on - such as promoting, designing, and marketing.

 

What is Google Adsense?

May 4, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Adsense is considered as one of the most powerful tool in a website publisher’s arsenal. It enables a person to monetize their sites easily. If used properly, it can generate a very large and healthy income for them. However if you are not using them rightly and just maximizing the income you squeeze from it, you are actually leaving a lot of money on the table. This is what all people hate doing. 

How you can start earning money with Adsense can be done easily and quickly. You will be amazed at the results you will be getting in such a short period of time.

Start by writing some quality content articles which are also keyword incorporated. There are a lot of people given the gift of being good with words. Writing comes easy for them. Why not optimize it in such a way that you earn some extra cash in the process.

There are actually three steps to put into mind before you begin writing your ads and having an effective Adsense.

Keyword search. Find some popular subjects, keywords or phrase. Select the ones of which you think more people will click through. This is actually a keyword selector and suggestion tool that some sites are offering to those who are just their Adsense business.

Writing articles. Start writing original content with keywords from the topics that you have achieved in your search. Take note that search engines are taking pride in the quality of their articles and what you will be writing should keep up with their demands.

Quality content site.  Build a quality content site incorporated with Adsense ads that is targeting the subject and keywords of your articles and websites. This is where all that you’ve done initially will go to and this is also where they will prove their worth to you. 

The proper positioning of your ads should be done with care. Try to position your adsense ads where the visitors to your blog are most likely to click on them. According to research, the one place that surfers look first when they visit a certain site is the top left. The reason behind this is not known. Maybe it is because some of the most useful search engine results are at the top of all other rankings. So visitors tend to look in that same place when browsing through other sites.

Some of those who are just starting at this business may think they are doing pretty well already and thinking that their clickthrough rates and CPM figures are quite healthy. However, there are more techniques and styles to generate more clicks to double your earnings. By knowing these techniques and working them to your advantage, you will realize that you will be getting three times more than other people who have been previously doing what they are doing.

Finally, Adsense has some excellent tracking statistics that allows webmasters and publishers to track their results across a number of site on a site by site, page by page, or any other basis you wanted. You should be aware oft his capability and make the most of it because it is one powerful tool that will help you find out which ads are performing best. This way, you can fine tune your Adsense ads and focus more on the ones being visited the most rather than those who are being ignored.

Something else you should know. Banners and skyscrapers are RIP. Ask the experts. So you should better forget about banners and skyscrapers. Surfers universally ignore these kinds of ad formats. The reason behind this is that they are recognized as an advert and advert are rarely of any interest that’s why people ignore them. 

To really start making money with Adsense, you should have a definite focus on what you wanted to achieve and how you will go about achieving them. As with any other kind of business ventures, time is needed coupled with patience. 

Do not just ignore your site and your Adsense once you have finished accomplishing them. Spare some time, even an hour, making adjustments to the Adsense ads on your sites to quickly trigger your Adsense income. 

Give it a try and you would not regret having gotten into Adsense in the first place.