Make Money From Blogging (7 Methods)

Earlier blogging was used only as a medium of expression and to voice your opinions and thoughts. Nowadays though blogging has become money making onlineactivity which can generate a reasonable amount of income. If you have the flair and passion to write, you can start doing the job you like while earning money at the same time. Once your advertising revenues start coming in you might be able toquit your day job and earn a good amount of money from blogging. Meanwhile read these new methods too.

Steps to Follow

1. Topic

For a blog to be successful you must first choose a topic that interests you or many people would want to know about. Technology related blogs are the blogs that generate a lot of revenue.

2. Traffic

In order to earn money from blogging, you have to build up traffic to your blog. This is only possible if you post quality content that is updated daily. You can also increase traffic by joining a blog network.

3. Advertisements

Advertisements are necessary to generate revenue from your blogs. You can place right from the commencement of the blog so that readers get used to seeing them. Or you can wait until you have a strong visitor following.

4. Make a Difference

There are so many blogs on the Internet that you have to find a way to stand out in the crowd. You need at least thousands of views a day with advertisers and you will get them only if your blog is on top of the popular web searches.

5. Promotion

Promote your blog by commenting on other blogs and on forums. Use your blog's web address in your signature. Do submit your blog to search engines, blog directories and web directories.

6. Additional blogs

Create blogs in other niches too. You will soon start to earn money from blogging.

7. Enjoy

When you write on your blog, remember to enjoy your writing. Only then you will be able to come up with fascinating, informative and interesting blogs and earn money from blogging.

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How To Add Adsense Ads Inside Posts or Between Posts In Blogger

Adding adsense ads inside blog posts is a very good thing to do to increase your CTR.
CTR means"(the number of times your ad clicked) divided by (number of times it is shown).So,the more CTR you have,the more $$ you get.

As we know,there are more chances for the ads to be clicked when they are in the middle(blog posts) rather than at the sidebars(especially the right sidebar),footer,etc.So,




How to place adsense ads between Blog posts:

By doing this,the adsense units will be displayed between the blog posts in the homepage,archive pages and permalink(individual post pages).
Follow the procedure to do this:

1.Sign in to your blogger dashboard>click on the layout link


2.Click on the Edit link in the "Blog Posts' column[look at the below screenshot]
..............a pop up window opens..........
3.Check the box next to 'Show ads between Posts'

next,configure the ads,choose the format,colours,etc and SAVE THE CHANGES.That's it! Now your adsense ads will show between blog posts.

If you want to know how to add the adsense ads inside the blog post rather than between the post, follow this:-
Showing adsense ads inside Blogger blog Posts:-
1.Sign in to your blogger dashboard>layout>Edit html
Check the box next to 'Expand Widget Templates'



2.Scroll down the window till you see this code 

<b:if cond='data:post.includeAd'> <data:adEnd/> <data:adCode/> <data:adStart/> </b:if>

3.Replace that code in the template with the below code

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'> <b:if cond='data:post.includeAd'> <data:adEnd/> <data:adCode/> <data:adStart/> </b:if> </b:if>

4.Again,scroll down the template and find out data-post body tag[look at the below screenshot]
and paste the below code just above that code{this will show ads above the post body}.If you want ads to show below the post,paste the code below that tag.
Here is the code to paste:-

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <b:if cond='data:post.includeAd'> <data:adEnd/> <data:adCode/> <data:adStart/> </b:if> </b:if>

That's it!
Leave you comments if you like the post or if you have any questions doubts.

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Keyboard Shortcut keys for Posting with Blogger

Keyboard shortcuts are a feature I find incredibly useful. Most of our favourite applications offers shortcuts to perform tasks, such as the generic CTRL+S to save or CTRL+B to generate bold text in word processing programs (the "Command"/CMD button for Mac users).

Blogger offers us a range of keyboard shortcuts we can use when creating and editing our blog posts to perform some most-used tasks without having to scroll around to find their appropriate buttons.

The following shortcuts have been tested to work in Internet Explorer 6+, although at present not all of these work in Firefox, Chrome and Opera*:

Shortcut	Function	browser compatibility
CTRL+B	Bold Text	Yes
CTRL+I	Italic text	Yes
CTRL+U	Underline text	Yes
CTRL+L	Blockquote (when in Edit HTML mode only)	No
CTRL+Z	Undo last operation	Yes
CTRL+Y	Redo last operation	Yes
CTRL+SHIFT+A	Insert Hyperlink	No
CTRL+SHIFT+P	Preview Post	No
CTRL+D	Save as Draft	No
CTRL+P	Publish Post	Yes
CTRL+S	Autosave	Yes
CTRL+G	Indic Transliteration	No

* Mac users substitute CTRL for CMD

I've tested the shortcuts above in Firefox 3.63, Internet Explorer7/8,Flock and Chrome, though have yet been unable to test in Opera(so if anyone is able to do this, please let us know your findings in the comments!).

The Blogger Team are aware that some keyboard shortcuts do not work across all browsers and are working through the issues.

Do you find these keyboard shortcuts useful when posting with Blogger? Please feel free to comment using the form below.

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How To Add google Adsense In Blogger Post (bellow title,above title,at end of post)

This will explain how to Embedd adsense ads in between posts body.

1.Generate Parsed code for adsense code because we cannot put adsense code directly in the xml.So parse it using adsense converter.

2.After parsing,your ad code Should look like this.

How To Place ad above or below your post header

log in to your dashboard--> layout- -> Edit HTML

Click on "Expand Widget Template" and  scroll down  to where you see this:-

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>

To place ad above your post header.Paste the code above this line.

To place ad below your post header.Paste the code below this line.

How To Place ad end of your post body

log in to your dashboard--> layout- -> Edit HTML

Click on "Expand Widget Template" and  scroll down  to where you see this:-

<p><data:post.body/></p>

Paste the code below this line, to show your ad at the end of your post.

NOTE : To Set the Align of your ad , Insert your code like this.

<p align="center">
Your Ad code
</p>

Replace "center" with "left" or "right" for desired alignment.

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How To Add A Rating Gadget Into Your Bloggers Blog

1. Log in to blogger account and go to Design >>Edit HTML


2.Mark check box "Expand Widget Templates"


3.Find this tag by  using Ctrl+F    <data:post.body/>

4.paste below  one of code after the above tag ( choose style )

 

Code 1: 

<div style="float:left; margin-right:3px;"></div>
<div class="js-kit-rating"
expr:path="data:post.url"
expr:permalink="data:post.url"
expr:title="data:post.title">
</div>
 

Code :2

expr:path="data:post.url"
expr:permalink="data:post.url"
expr:title="data:post.title" view="score">
</div>

5. Now again find this code by using Ctrl+F   </body>

6. Paste below code before </body> tag

<script src="http://js-kit.com/ratings.js"></script>

7. Now click preview and click save template. you are done.

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