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5 steps to monetize your blog

By Mohnish On May 26, 2009 7 Comments

Having a blog doesn’t mean you can make money out of  it. There are several steps that need to be followed to convert your blog from a source of information to a source of income. If you already have a blog,  read through the following steps below top learn how to make money out of it.

1) Posting regular updates
Your blog must have at least one blog post every week. Whether you get feedback or you don’t, it is the best to write a blog post on weekly or even daily basis. Your readers would lose interest in your blog if they do not see any updates.

2) Pinging your blog
Pinging your blog is important because it ensures that blog directories as well as search engines will be alerted each time you update your blog. This will help you get the attention of more blog readers. Pingomatic and Pingoat are some of the available sites that supply this kind of service at no cost.

3) Promoting your blog
Apart from pinging your blog, you should let your target audience know that you exist on the internet and are a valuable source of information. As you get a steady growth and targeted traffic to your blog, you have the potential to make money out of it.

4) Space for Advertisements
As your blog grows you will need space for advertisements to make money out of it. As long as you have a good number of loyal followers and you maintain a steady flow of traffic, you have much to gain from publishing pay-per-click advertisements or even directly selling some space to advertisers.

5) Promote Affiliate Marketing Programs
This can be a very valuable means to leverage on your readership. Join affiliate marketing programs with products that your target market may be interested in. You can then use your blog to promote those products and earn commissions.

By following the steps listed above, you can be more effective making money online out of your blog.



Dont be an appam *******

By Annkur On May 20, 2009 No Comments

This is a Guest Post blogged by Annkur P Agrawal from OnlyGizmos. Views and opinions are entirely as expressed by  him.

If you are one of those who visits FIP to notice the blazing traffic and thousands of comments and still don’t read the blog posts? you had a thought of cashing in the next time there is a fakeXYZ blog possible? the moment you hear of a new online service/blog/website, do you start to think –  “why didn’t I make this?” If yes!! then my friend you are in good company here 😉

Money making over the internet is not easy, but if you have the right approach and the right advice – you will do just fine. Often money making on the internet is mistaken for just getting that idea and launching the product. Thinking that you have a domain name that gives you an edge over another company, doesn’t mean that you will beat it to glory. And in most (and by most I mean 99.9% cases) you would give up before you even make that first dollar out of the venture, thats if you get started at all.

As you enter the world of making money online, you realize that you have entered a cave with no sight of an exit on the other side. Its easy to stray and get lost within the darkness. There will be hundreds of ideas for you to start a reseller business, get into affiliate or monetize your ideas with killer products. But that doesn’t mean that you jump on it with the idea of making a million dollars every month and end up quitting your job! Not everything on the web is meant to be started by you, pickup your strengths and work towards it. Starting a hosting service or a link shortner might not be a great idea. Why get into the hammered competition zone? Innovate, rather than just doing something for the sake of doing it!

Making money on the web has two simple ways:

1) Without investing
2) With investment

If you are just looking to start a blog and put good content there in your free time, go ahead. Spend some time marketing it as well. But if you are looking to invest a decent sum into a website? be the next twitter? than beware – don’t get lost in the darkness. I don’t mean to discourage you but the point remains simple, start something only if you are genuinely passionate about it, only if you feel a need for it. Ask yourself  “will I be a user of this service?”, answering that honestly might automatically give you the green light to go ahead with your plans. Else quit now!

P.S : I didn’t read FIP much, I don’t know what appam ******* is but sounded good 🙂



Why Bloggers Fail To Make Money By Blogging

By Mohnish On April 15, 2009 10 Comments

Lets face it, 98% of the blogs are a failure. If your blog makes $100 per month, your doing better than 98% of 120 million blogs. Pretty sad, huh? One thing is for sure, it is not because of the lack of information on the internet. But still, a vast majority of bloggers don’t make anything. Why?

They don’t take it seriously

Most of the bloggers start their blogs for fun and not for making money online. Thats how Sensonize dot com started. I created this blog to ramble about other blogs, social media, whats going on the internet and reviews. Basically, just for fun. As a matter of fact, I did not make any money from Sensonize dot com for the first 6 months. Well, I don’t make much money out of Sensonize dot com as yet.

Many bloggers don’t take their blogs seriously and blog just for fun. Many just give it a try. If its successful, great! If its not, oh well. With that kind of attitude it is not hard to understand which 98% of the bloggers don’t make anything from their blogs.

No Investment

This is the number one reason not to take your blog seriously. With services like Blogspot, you literally start with zero dollars. If you want a professional look, a domain cost $8.95 a year and hosting can be a low few dollars a month.

The low investment also means that you don’t have much, or anything, to lose. If it doesn’t make you any money, just curse me and move on. It cost you nothing to start so you don’t take it seriously.

If blogging costs $10,000 or more to start, would you be running your blog the same way your running it now? I highly doubt that! Knowing that commitment increases with money, the solution is simple. Put some money into your blog. Buy that domain name, get that professional web hosting account, invest in a custom design, spend some money on promotion, etc. Once you have some money tied into it, you’ll take things a lot more seriously.

Why don’t you make any money out of it

Most of the bloggers treat blogging as a hobby and never get out of the hobby stage. If you really want to make money by blogging, you need to get serious about it and treat your blog like a real business. Blogging is a not a fly by night or get rich quick scheme. Like any business, it take time, money and commitment to build. For the first six months of this blogs life, it made zero and barely got more than 500 page views per day. But I kept at it. I treated the blog like I treated my other businesses. I invested in it, I spent hundreds of dollars improving it and promoting it.

Success is never by accident. All the big money making bloggers didn’t get there by luck or taking the attitude of easy in, easy out. They got there by taking their blogging seriously and treating their blogs like a business. You should too.



Make Money With Twitter

By Mohnish On April 2, 2009 14 Comments

First, Apologises for not blogging frequently and not getting back to your comments. Second, Thank you very much for leaving your comments on Sensonize.com and emailing me with your wonderful reponses.

Third and the most important, the reason I am writing this post:

How To Make Money With Twitter

Many people disagree with me when I say that it is possible to make money with twitter. They tell me that if Twitter can’t make any money, how will we make money? I was not surprised with their thinking, in fact I was amused on seeing people think that way.

How?
It is extremely simple. You cane either find advertisers via your website

OR

magpie

Magpie makes it easy
Magpie – A simple advertiser and publisher network which pays upto $100/tweet(depending on your follower count). I myself  got $4.5/tweet having 1700 followers. If you have 500 followers, you can easily make $1.5 a tweet which is not bad at all!

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At Magpie, it is talking about more than banner advertising. Magpie is about generating a conversation for your brand within a social networking context – Twitter. With Twitter having over 9 million users and growing rapidly, advertising with Magpie would be really viral and cost effective! You can control your daily budget and its really simple.

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Are you following me on Twitter?

By Mohnish On March 25, 2009 6 Comments

For those who didn’t know yet, I am on Twitter. I am so fond of Twitter that I tweet from my mobile, from my desktop, while I’m having a meal. I’m on Twitter since 3 months now and have attended about 3 tweet ups via Twitter, I mean the BIG Tweet ups. We do have small tweet ups on regular basis and they are hell lot of fun!!

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What do I tweet?

  1. Tech
  2. Top News
  3. Random Thoughts
  4. Humor
  5. Popular Stuff
  6. Retweets
  7. What am I doing

Why should you follow me?

  1. If any of my tweets interest you
  2. If you like my blog
  3. If you need 1 more follower (I follow back)
  4. If you like me

I don’t know why am I giving you guys a reason to follow me lol! I’m extremely active on Twitter, more than Gtalk or IM, we can have a TweetChat if we are online at the same time 🙂 I currently have have over 1553 followers and I am following 1591 tweeps.

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