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If You Have A Blog But Not A Lot Of Time, Here Are 5 Tips To Help
by: Lynette Chandler

1. Start a Community Blog. A community blog is just that, a community of like-minded people who contribute to a blog. One of the obvious advantages to this type of blog is that you don’t need to spend a lot of time posting yourself to be part of an active blog. If you have a community of three or more people and you each post at least twice a week then you will have a pretty active blog. Be sure to use an RSS feed and have all contributors post the feed on their sites to get the benefit of each sites visitors.

2. Hire a team of bloggers. Newspapers have contributors, blogs can too. If you’ve ever used writers to do articles and content for you , they can do the same type of thing with a blog. Many of the most successful blogs are already doing this. The combination of group promotion effort, regular updates and pinging can help bring in traffic quickly. One thing to note here is blogs are a somewhat social tool. Some very popular niche blogs are not all that visible in the search engines, yet they get a lot of traffic because people recommend them and they become a sort of buzz hub. Search engines do not always pick up on this but they do eventually. This is why group blogging can be very powerful because you’re leveraging the power of not one (your) influence group but several people’s influence group. If you do pay your bloggers, you can always offset this cost by displaying Adsense ads. Many popular blogs earn a good amount in Adsense, that they make a nice profit even after paying their bloggers team. After a while it becomes a passive income stream.

3. Recycle Content. By taking previously published articles, interviews or even audio and breaking it up into blog sized pieces you can recycle old content and make it new again! You can break up long pieces into a bunch of segments and have a series going for, say, a week or so. Then you won’t have to worry about coming up with new content for a week!

4. Include audio. For some of us, it’s much easier to speak than to write. So, mix up your blog. Carry a small portable MP3 recorder or blog by phone. What a convenient way for moms who are running around all day , busing the kids where they need to go , doing errands , and whatever else needs to be done. Maybe you’re stuck in traffic, or waiting for the kids to get out piano class or school. An idea or thought strikes and you think “Oh I need to share that on my blog” so, pick up your phone (assuming you have a cell phone - and many of us do), dial a number, say what’s on your mind, save it and you’re done. Your blog is published. If you’re using Blogger, you can do this for free through AudioBlog. It involves calling a long distance number, but most cell phone plans don’t charge extra for long distance anyway so you’re not incurring any extra cost.

If you’re using another blog publishing tool like WordPress, Movable Type or TypePad, then you’ll need a service like AudioBlogger.com. This one is a paid service but it’s only $4.95 a month and it gives you more options like a nice flash player, statistics and even video that make it worth while.

5. Automating Your Blog. One of the things I love about using Wordpress as a publishing tool is that it offers a forward blog entry option that saves me tons of time. By using this tool you can blog ahead of time and have your entries posted on the day and time you choose. So let’s say you have a week’s worth of posts ready to go. You don’t have to come back each day and post, instead you write everything up in one day and schedule a new post out 24 hrs after the next. This will save you time!

Let’s face it. There will be times we have a ton to say and times we have little or nothing to share. Instead of having multiple entries one day and nothing over the next few days, by using forward entry you can blog everyday of the week. Or rather you blog once and the blog publishing tool does the job automatically the rest of the week. You can even forward blog for weeks and months ahead of time.

Note: Blogger users unfortunately cannot do this because Blogger publishes all entries regardless what you date it immediately.

Affectionately nicknamed Tech Diva by her peers, Lynette Chandler regularly dispenses blogging and RSS help to countless business owners. Visit http://www.BloggingStarterPack.com to learn more about blogging and get a copy of her video free.

This is an interesting article I came across on the net that I think some of the newbies in the blogging world can really gain from. This is only a starting point, and not the be all solution. If you want to get into blogging but aren’t ready to spend much time on it. There is some value information herein. If you are serious, the first step is to setup your own blog, on your own site. Do not waste your time with a free blogging service unless you just want to learn and play.

If you’re a newbie with a burning desire of learning more about making money with your blog, pay close attention.
NOTE: believe it or not, making money with your blog is free. Yes, making money with your blog does not require you to buy domain names nor order web hosting to host web sites.

While making money with your blog is not easy, it’s free and requires you take into consideration some suggestions and apply a few quick tips.

This article reveals little-known secrets about making money with your blog, secrets that just a few people know.

Want to join the elite of top blog earners?

Here are the nitty-gritty tips on how to make money with blogs.

First of all, you need to visit www.blogger.com and set-up your free account. The steps are easy:

1. You create a blogger account

2. You name your blog

3. You chose a blog template

Secondly, you are going to decide on how you want to monetize your blog. If you don’t have your own product (I highly recommend you create one as soon as possible), you should go about picking one, two or three top affiliate products (or services).

These affiliate products or services need to be 100% related to your blog theme (niche audience) if you want to get maximum results from your promotions.

HINT: you get to genereate more affiliate sales if the affiliate product you recommend is highly targeted to a specific audience. In fact, the success rate of closing the sale depends on how precise you can target your market.

One of the best affiliate program directories can be found at www.associateprograms.com.

Here you get free access to thousands of pages of affiliate programs, useful tips, money-making articles, researched recommendations, and a helpful affiliate forum.

Besides affiliate programs you can also monetize your blog by applying for Google AdSense Program.

You can get full info about this service here:

https://www.google.com/adsense

The beauty of this program is that you get paid a percentage every time someone clicks on an AdSense ad from your blog.

Making money with affiliate programs require you to actively promote the affiliate product and you only get paid when you generate a real sale, and not just a click.

AdSense is the lazy way to making money with your blog.

After you decide which income stream you want to go after (I suggest you go with both affiliate products and Google AdSense) you need to take into consideration this…

Final tip - regardless your blog theme, if you want to make real money with blogs, you should copycat top blog experts into your field.

You need to spy on your competitors and find out how and why they are successful.

Try to contact them and ask them to share with you some tips about building a successful money-making blog. Most will gladly help you with some quick tips.

You’ll never know when that secret tip will make you a top blog earner and well known expert into your field.

It’s not that hard to find blog expert or spy on your competition. In fact, here’s how you can quickly and easily find blog competitors:

1. go at www.google.com

2. type into the search bar “your niche topic” + “blog”

e.g. “dog training” + “blog” or “acne treatment” + “blog”

I’m sure you get the picture. Once you find some listings go and browse the related Web Sites that fits your blog theme.

Make a list with top 10 blogs that you’d want to model.

3. Contact each owner of those 10 blogs and ask for help.

You don’t have to be shy. Ask any question that comes into your mind. Ask your most burning questions. I highly suggest that you do not ask more than 3 quick questions.

Most people don’t have time to write long e-mails. You’d want to keep your first e-mail quick and to the point.

In conclusion, if you put these quick blog money-making tips into practice, you too can become a top blog earner. That’s the only way to do it. Take action now!

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Blog submission used to be as simple as providing a URL, sometimes an email address, and being done with it.

Now, spammers are trying to take advantage of a good thing, and causing some real issues. To give you an idea, to acheive 1500 entries on our site, we’ve had to sift through 48000+ spam submissions. It doesn’t take much to realize that some entries we just delete and don’t even give a second chance to. Are we just being mean? Not if you can follow a few basic rules.

Some tips for submitting your blog (or websites) to any online directory.

• Don’t keyword stuff your description or title
• If the site is not a RSS feed directory, DON’T submit your RSS feed. You’re just wasting your time
• Keyword stuffed domains do raise a rather large flag to us
• Avoid domains with hyphens in them. Spammers seem to be the only ones that use them. Best to not get labelled by association
• Avoid numbers in your domain other than top10.com type entries. Noacne123.blogspot… just tells us what your trying to do
• Adsense? If you dont’ have quality content and we see adsense starting to load. Forget it
• Write quality content. Simple as that. If its keyword stuffed or link filled. No go!
• DO fill in all the requested fields. A site with simple a URL may not be added unless you manage to grab our attention, and build a desire within for us to take time to write up a title and description for your site, instead of moving on to one of the other 40,000 submissions that were correctly filled out.
• Learn to spel. proper gramer and speling go a long way to geting listed.

Its really as simple as 1, 2, 3

1. Quality Content
2. Follow directions
3. Save the reviewer time. Spell it right, and promote your site for what it is.

Thats all folks!

Comments? Got beef? Post them below.

- Ed

So you’ve started a blog, and now its time to get the word out there. But where? How? Does it cost?

To answer that question, you can spend many sleepless nights Googling and reading, trying to make sense of the online blogging world. What do words like RSS, Feeds, XML, pinging, wordpess and other geek-speak mean?

We hope to answer some of these questions through articles and blog entries we at The Blog Resource share with you through this blog.

Getting started promoting your blog? Start by submitting your site here first. Make sure you follow our submission and promotion tips to ensure your blog gets listed.

To your success!

- Ed Loveless
Webmaster of TheBlogResource