Successfull Blogging
 

I'm curious if there is anybody who successfuly has been blogging say around a year now and made some real $ ($500 / mo +) with only hard links avoiding buying traffic?:helpme

Im curious too....never understand this blogging....

me threeee

I made my first blog and just with basic free trades and hahahahahahahahahaha tags was making around 250 a month for 10 minutes a day

Not too bad really

I made my first blog and just with basic free trades and hahahahahahahahahaha tags was making around 250 a month for 10 minutes a day

Not too bad really

You figure you would be able to afford a decent ISP (non 56k) so you wouldn't double post!

why would you buy traffic for a blog? Self defeating.

blogging used to be easy traffic

not so much now

I have forgotten HOW to buy traffic -- though I was once very good -- :)

I am also having the same question about blogging

I made my first blog and just with basic free trades and hahahahahahahahahaha tags was making around 250 a month for 10 minutes a day

Not too bad really

I made my first blog in Oct. 2005 It gets around 1,000 UV a day all from topsites and hard links (there is no way to really force traffic so I stay away from trades). It makes about $150-250 per month.

I use to update it everyday but you run out of content quickly that way. So I update about twice a week now. Currently working on more blogs so we'll see if I can duplicate the success of the first blog.

I'd shoot myself.

A year and only 500$/month? That shood be very doable. People are making hundreds of thousands doing blogs.

Making blog is time consuming, We need to update blogs often

well, my idea is to build a blog about dating and solo girls. Like I signup with sponsors and use their Free content to make my blog entries with my linking codes. Is that ok?

I've had my blog since last September or so. I have no idea how much money I make off of my blog, but every month I get checks in from a dozen different companies. Since I do this on my free time, and I have affiliate links all over the place, I have no idea what comes from my blog and what doesn't. I love working on my blog and never consider it "work"; I write mostly about women in the industry I am friends with and enjoy spending my time surfing their sites and finding pix to post. I make more than $500 a month off of it.

My blog is located at:
http://www.rochardsbunnyranch.com/blog/

My network of 3 active blogs has been up for less than a year and makes roughly $12k a month in profits. Of course, it's work... but tons of SE traffic and a stable income source. And I don't mind updating the content, either.

I'm partial to your blog.....partial to YOU, in fact.:upsidedow

Definetly one of the better blogs out there, it actually has something of interest (and exclusive) in it.

Far too many (mine included!) are cookie-cutter that are obviously just ads for pay sites - or as someone pointed out in another thread, basically just TGPs in a different format.

A good blog should get search engine love, but I can't think why you would avoid buying additional traffic for a successful venture.

Its something people usually do in their spare time is all, nothing more :)

Oh, yes.
That's what we're talking about when we talk about blogs. The folks who are messing about with crapblogs to make a hundred bucks here and there haven't really gotten plugged in to what's going on.

I started doing blogs back in 2004. But then I didn't even know what is the advantage of blogging. My first blog was like my online diary. No sponsors links, no marketing, just plain and clean blog with pics, stuff about me, and so on.

Last month I decided to start doing blogs more seriously and to try some money off them, coz I know Search Engines love fresh and frequentely updated content. And here we go, www.fleshlightlive.com has been born. Now with only about 30ish days of its existence, I am getting very quality se traffic there which makes me money ;)
I am planning to start few more blogs which will generate more revenue, I bet.

Blogs are very popular these days, and with .5K uniques daily (SE), I am pretty sure $500 per month is nothing ;)

$500 A MONTH? That is not real money. I wouldn't bother doing anything for $500 a month.

My question is can blogs make $500 a day? I am not talking about 90% of the crappy blogs that I have seen here. But, a GOOD blog, with original content.

Umm...$500 a month from ONE site that only takes minimal effort is good. The trick is, setup 100 of those blogs making $500 a month.

My blog is about 5 months old. Last month it almost made my car payment - $400. This month I think it might go over $500. Let's hope.

I really think you don't have to have any inside scoop to make a good blog. That's what people tell me - mine's good, but they "can't do it" - for whatever reason.

Cookie cutter blogs are dumb, and once a surfer sees it's just that, they leave.

If you personalize your blog in ANY way, have some insight/comments on the stuff you're promoting, and update it daily, I think you can make $500 a month, sure.

How would that be possible? I mean if you have been updating 2 to 7 times a week for almost 5 months you should have a plethora of content that you could syndicate to other blogs and create an almost infinate number of new pages with original content.

Syndicate, plethora of content, infinate number, new pages, original content.

Excactly how the fuck does that add up?

My understanding of how Google views pages is that it looks for content that appears in unique forms so if you have been updating an average of 4 times a week for 4 months you should have about 64 articles in your archive. If you replicate your original blog x5 and setup a random RSS include on each of the replicated blogs you will have created 5 new blogs that have content that does not exist anywhere else in that form. Each blog will have a unique assembly of the original original content and therefore you have effectively create 5 new blogs with that is unique to that blog.

Now, you replicate the same set of blogs another 5 time on a different domain and you have created another 5 instances of original contant comprised of the archive from the first blog. Then you issue regular updates to the first blog and you will effect changes across the matrix.

Imagine that if you spent one day a week replicating your blog 5x on a new domain and server then spent the other 4 or 5 days a week adding something new to your "home blog" after two months you would have a self supporting network of blog pages that are attracting to Google and feed traffic to each of the other blog pages.

When you have a large archive of content on the home blog you should be able to present pages to surfers that are unique in content, meaning that even if a surfer hit 3 or 5 or 10 of your replicated pages he should be presented with an unique assembly of your content and therefore will see an original page each time he loads one of your pages.

what's the best program type for a blog? PPC or Pay Per Sale? Combined may be?

this is a good thread

not really. it's all fluff with no substance

I deal mainly in poker, but i have to say, i have been roughly 500 + a month off of my blogs, especially after i made about 7 of them, and networked them together, all via hardlinks, etc. Engine spiders did the rest

The substance goes into my savings, not onto my board of choice. Fluff is all you get..lol

KievDesign, if you can blog and dedicate time and effort to it, it can bring in thousands a week, let alone 500 a month.

How much more will you make when you multiply those seven by 5?

Look around the web people. There are tons of programs that will aloow you to plug in random content from RSS feeds to create a huge network of ever-changing blog pages. Spider Ninja (www.spiderninja.com) has some really good scripts that will help you and I suggest that every one download RSSRandomizer (http://www.rssrandomizer.com/).

Combine Spider NInja's text randominzer with a good image script and the RSSRandomizer tools into a good template and then replicate it with a Doorway page generator and you will be fast on your way to multiplying your success by a factor of "X".

A very rough example of this can be found at http://www.lakotaherbal.com/blog_test1.php

hey mate, mind telling an advise whats best PPC programs or PayPerSignup to use in blog?

fr0gman, your posts are very interresting. can we do it all that with wordpress?

Not with WP, no -- something proprietary -- :)

That question isnt easily answered because there really isnt an answer.

You cant just peg a type of pay structure based off just the source of traffic, ie if its blogs send to here and tgps to here, but you can with some niches and also with some sites. Some sites pay more to send revshare.

But as a rule, send your traffic to PPS, but if its highly targeted and the paysite is actually a good site, you can alot of times turn a sale more, but it takes more then just where you sold them from, its on the paysites head to convert and keep the customer, but up to you to target and send the right clicks to the right place.

Pick a good niche and be into the updates, and keep it original, just give them what they want, but make them pay for it.

This thread should be pinned

WordPress is the core simply because it is very easy to setup. We are currently working on the complete solution, but until then I will be happy to steer you in the right direction for the required tools.

BTY and just for the record. 2houseplague is a wealth of info on this topic and most all of my theories have come from dialog with him.

Of course you can, just takes some planning and tweaking, and an addon for some parsing the feeds, like magpierss.

I like to run the feeds threw MagpieRSS onto my pages and delete the linking ability in the source,so its pulling my feeds but not linking into them, except where i want them to (with terms i want them to), so its just pulling rich text and not wasting any links (even though its my feeds).

To mix it up and get all slutty with it you can install phpGiggle (auto generates text links with keyterms you chose in the heirarchy you chose) and let it run wild. Fresh new content comes in from the several feeds you run from a few sources, without a traffic leak or link power leak, and you set a list of terms that you want the fresh content (anchor texts) linking up to your shit as it parses the page, a standard .php page, or added anywhere on your blog, wordpress or not.

So is trading links yet everyone still does it. A blog to the people on GFY is just an easy ftp program. :1orglaugh

I set up a highly targeted blog a few months ago as a joke, but decided to keep updating it a few times a month when new news related to my target comes out. At this point it's making about $100 a month with only a few minutes every week when a new story comes out. Not a ton of cash, but a decent return on the time I spend on it.

Are your updates done manually or automated?

I make a lot more than $500/month from my blogs :)

Well I only go after lesser known niches. Therefore I only have 2-3 sponsors with content (usally one with out) so I have to make do with what I have.

hows shit in Michigan? I see it's pretty cool, care to chat detail$?

I would amost guarantee manually. No auto updated crap is worth 12k a month without more setup work than 5 years of manual posting.