ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income

Product Description

A complete how-to from two of the world’s top bloggersThousands of aspiring bloggers launch new blogs every day, hoping to boost their income. Without solid advice from experts, most will fail. This bestselling guide, now fully revised with new and updated tips and tricks from two of the world’s most successful bloggers, provides the step-by-step information bloggers need to turn their hobby into an income source or a fulltime career.

• Earning a solid income from blogging is possible, but tricky; this book details proven techniques and gives aspiring bloggers the tools to succeed
• Even novices will learn to choose a blog topic, analyze the market, set up a blog, promote it, and earn revenue
• Offers solid, step-by-step instruction on how bloggers make money, why niches matter, how to use essential blogging tools and take advantage of social media and content aggregators, what a successful blog post should include, how to optimize advertising, and much more

Written by two fulltime professional bloggers, the updated edition of ProBlogger tells you exactly how to launch and maintain a blog that makes money.

From the Back Cover

Turn your passion for blogging into extra revenueThere are no magic wands, hidden tricks, or secret handshakes that can bring you immediate success in the blogging world, but with the help of this book, you can get there. Written by two leading authorities on creating and monetizing blogs, ProBlogger carefully lays out the steps you need to follow to create a revenue-generating blog. From choosing a topic and publishing your first post to promoting your site using social media and receiving your first check, you'll find out what really works.
Packed with practical, tried and tested advice, this guide shows you how to:

• Choose the right blog tools and platforms
• Find your niche so you can excel
• Start writing in a way that attracts visitors
• Follow winning strategies on how to earn income with your blog
• Drive readers to your blog through Twitter®, Facebook®, and Digg
• Select the best advertising services
• Uncover the secrets of successful blogs

 

About the Author

Darren Rowse launched ProBlogger.net in 2004, where he advises fellow bloggers on every aspect of blogging. He's also the blogger behind the successful Digital-Photography-School.com. His blogs are read by over 3 million people per month and he has been making a fulltime living from blogging since 2005.Chris Garrett is a fulltime blogger and new media consultant who has been involved commercially with the Internet since 1994. ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income

Editorial Reviews

Review

‘…structured in easy, well written stages...this book is essential if you are going to achieve your blogging objectives.' (Bookworm73.wordpress.com, March 2011).

How to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

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What lots of people face is they have a great new blog, want to share ideas, passions to interest readers, but have difficulty increasing traffic to their blogs. You have to take the right steps to ensure that more people and the right targeted people start visiting your blog. Here are five easy ways to start seeing increased results, right away.

Steps

1. Submit your blog to popular blog communities and directories such as mybloglog, BlogCatolog, Technorati, which is a great way to showcase your blog, featured blog posts and your rss feeds. If you post a lot of content, you could end up with many featured posts, which can really help you drive traffic to your blog.
   
2. Submit your blog Rss Feeds to drive traffic to your blog. Go to FeedBurner and create an account this allows blog owners the ability to manage their RSS feeds and track usage of their subscribers. Once you have your feed you can submit your RSS feed to directories. If you don’t have the time to submit more than one feed at a time. RSS Submit is a automated rss submitter software which is quite the time saver.
   
3. Use article directories to get immediate increased traffic to your blog. Submit original articles to the large article databases. The most popular of these include EzineArticles, GoArticles and Amazines. If you can comply with their commercial guidelines, wikipedia and wikiHow are also great places. This has a two pronged effect, just like was mentioned above. You’ll have more incoming links to your blog, which directly increases traffic and indirectly increases traffic through improving your ranking in search engines. And you’ll establish yourself as an industry expert on whatever niche or topic your blog is about.
   
4. Comment on blogs and forums related to your niche, to establish yourself as a knowledgeable member of a community. If done properly, an expert with valuable information to share can help you tremendously. Try to submit some of your comments to blogs or forums that is rank 4 or more, this does two things for you. For starters, it gets your link in more places, which can directly lead to more traffic and can also give backlinks to your blog this will improve your standings in the search engines.
   
5. Use social bookmarking sites. Spend a few minutes posting your blog, and blog posts and articles to high traffic sites like digg, delicious, mixx. These sites are just a small amount of the many bookmarking sites on the Internet. It's best to try to submit to as many as you can. While you should not post all of your articles to these sites, you want to post the ones you consider the best. A useful tool to social bookmark sites automatically is Onlywire.

Sources and Citations

• http://www.searchenginejournal.com/20-essential-blog-directories-to-submit-your-blog-to/5998/
  
• http://jtmartin.net/rss-feed-directories/
  
• http://www.masonworld.com/masonworld-article-directory-rank/
  
• http://www.nuwavpublishing.com/social-media/get-more-traffic-to-your-website-with-a-free-social-bookmark-submitter.html
  
• http://www.nuwavpublishing.com/recommends/googletrafficsystem
  

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