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Money Making and Blogging Tips
Charles
http://www.resourcesandmoney.blogspot.com

Now I’m striking a balance between writing content and tweaking the look of my site. When I get tired of one I start focusing on the other one.

Thanks you’re really helping us out with all these tips.

Two things that i am not doing enough are:
1) Analyzing the blogdata of my websites
2) Driving enough traffic to my websites

2 websites i currently have are:
http://www.SimpleChemConcepts.com
http://www.GetStartedWithSuccess.com

Thank you once again
Sean

I have found a good amount of content that is available through this means that would definitely supplement my own writing. Is that frowned upon?”

I know from personal experience , a lot of writers are touchy about their content being snagged off their websites and slapped on to other websites. It took me a long time to convince my husband who is the technical partner in our web development business to implement some changes to our back end wordpress blog. I am happy to say that he has totally revamped the site to make it more accessible to feeds, subscribers, and getting what we see as our value added content out there. But we both are kind of territorial about the professional image we project and worry somewhat about who might be taking our articles to place on their sites/blogs that we feel aren’t projecting the same professional image. I would say use others articles sparingly, ask for permission first, and cater to the writer’s ego and they will give you access to their best stuff.
One other small point is: you might find it is less time consuming to write your own fresh content, then to scour the internet looking for other writer’s gems.

-Debasis

I think design is a more decising factor . people do go for looks..

Although I do spend a lot of time placing small ads for my blog in a free online classified community! This seems to work rather well. But to date I have yet to hit 40 visits per day mark. I think right now, my best day was a little over 30 unique hits. Not bad considering I’ve been at it since late May, but I still have a long way to go.

I really want to build my content up so when people do visit, they’ll stick around to explore what I have.

Right now, however, my blog is just a hobby. I’m doing it only because I’m passionate about the subject I write about (writing/literature). Any money I make on adsense because of it is just an added bonus!

Only time will tell though…

PS. How’s the new family, Darren? I hope all is well!!!

I’ve been writing about how to improve the way you blog recently especially during the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog project and I agree wholly…the heart and soul of what a blog is begins from the content you put in, expecially that which you write.

I come from Malaysia which makes up a pretty wide part of the blogosphere itself, alot of bloggers are interested in hits and sometimes they would do anything to get that but without building their own blogging identity and would rather imitate the writing style of those that are already famous in our part of the blogosphere.

I believe that blogging for the better part of it is all about your identity of who you are. If you write, they will come. The question I like to pose in the posts I write about blogging is…how well do you want to write?

You know it’s so creepy how you often have similar topics running to what I have just written or am about to write – and even without looking at your blog for inspiration, although I do that too.

Tomorrow I have an article coming out about blogging post styles and which have worked best for me to bring in the most traffic. While it’s not quite the same topic as this article of yours it certainly touches on similar themes, especially the idea of working on many aspects of your blog to keep the boat afloat.

I must agree that content writing should be the first port of call for blog building. Much like what I have written about regarding building successful community forums, you must have something worthwhile at your blog that will keep your readers interest (and convince them to subscribe for blogs or participate in the case of forums) or all your efforts to bring in traffic will be wasted. You must have sites for people to see before sending out the tourist maps…if that makes sense! Otherwise people will click through and then click away within seconds never to be seen again.

You also risk being penalised for duplicate content.

You could also disillusion your readers…. depending which articles you choose of course. I tend to steer clear of them these days.

I have found a good amount of content that is available through this means that would definitely supplement my own writing. Is that frowned upon?

But as you’ve highlighted Darren, and ProBlogger demonstrates, there’s nothing wrong with cross linking and giving your own slant. I do that a fair bit in my tech and cricket blogs. It can be a good source of content when your pressed for time or inspiration.