The Benefits of Part-Time Blogging

One of the common topic among active bloggers is that how to earn a full time income through just by blogging only, just like a ProBlogger. Though the debate is quite interesting, but to me, there is one important aspect missing, that is the benefit of part-time blogging instead of a full-time commitment. This article will shed some enlightenment of this frequently overlooked aspect of blogging.

Security & Stability

One of the advantages of this kind of approach is that you will not loose the stability that comes with a full time day job; and also you don’t have to take the risk that can arise out of the straight full time involvement in blogging.

Less Pressure

With a part-time approach, you will be free from the pressure of earning huge sum just through blogging. You will be able to keep yourself nicely afloat with the full-time income. The blogging then will just be a very useful extra. So, even if you don’t earn that much in a certain month off blogging, you will not be any sever stymie.

Passive Income

Though you will not be entailed to earn the whole month’s expenditure off blogging, but actually you do have a good chance and scope to earn quite a handsome figure, with a judicious effort in part-time basis. The dedicated ones will find the their income increasing steadily and it may come to a point where you might think of finally giving up the day job. Read up the some stories on how LiewCF convert his part time blogging to be a full time job.

Allowing Re-Investment

Blogging is also a business; and one common trait for almost every business is the factor of re-investing money to spread the activities in a more rapid manner. It effectively increasing the business deals and bringing more profit in return. However, in the case of part-time bloggers, this trend is really low, and they often is more interested to save money rather than re-investing part of their earnings to get some more opportunities. This thinking should be avoided and the bloggers must keep their heart open to some other opportunities also, even if it costs few bucks.

So, the aforementioned points really shows us that even blogging in part-time basis can open up some convenient opportunities for a blogger.

* summarized article from :
Embracing the Status of Part-Time Blogger: 5 Practical Tips.

5 Ways to Make Money from Blogging

Nowadays, people who are exploring Make Money Online (MMO) opportunities have considered blogging for profit at one time or another. This is because blogging is undeniably a very profitable venture when you get all its aspects right. However, not all blogging opportunities are for everyone; this is the reason why some people make tons of money from their blogs while some end up with negative figures. It is important to consider which blogging strategy is the best option for you to make money online. Below are some possible courses of action:

1. The Pay Per Post Strategy – this technique is rather easy once you know how to develop some blogs and effectively promote its page rank. You just need to set up a lot of blogs in different niches, preferably with their own domains, and add content to these blogs regularly. Once the site has been built-up, you can submit your blog to Review Me, Pay Per Post, and Blogitive; you will need to write sponsored reviews to make money.

2. Text Link Selling Strategy – basically, if you have a blog like this, your main source of income would be selling text links to different web owners who want to improve their Google PR. In order to succeed in this endeavor, you need to have a high Google PR and your site must be relevant to its niche.

3. The Adsense/Affiliate Marketing Strategy –you need to set up your blog around a specific topic, preferably with high priced key phrases. A lot of blogs focus on this strategy. However, while this method has a lot of potential, a lot of bloggers made less income than they expected from this route.

4. Corporate Blogging Strategy – this strategy is basically used to promote the main business. Most of the time, you will not make direct income from this blog but you will benefit from the increased marketing and exposure that the blog will generate for your business.

5. Professional Blogger Strategy – you are a “pro blogger”; that is, you are paid to create content for a specific network of blogs. Most of the time, there is a base pay plus revenue share from the blog’s advertisement.

Blogging

A blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting) are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.

Types

There are many different types of blogs, differing not only in the type of content, but also in the way that content is delivered or written.

Personal blogs

The personal blog, an on-going diary or commentary by an individual, is the traditional, most common blog. Personal bloggers usually take pride in their blog posts, even if their blog is never read by anyone but them. Blogs often become more than a way to just communicate; they become a way to reflect on life or works of art. Blogging can have a sentimental quality. Few personal blogs rise to fame and the mainstream, but some personal blogs quickly garner an extensive following.

Corporate blogs

A blog can be private, as in most cases, or it can be for business purposes. Blogs, either used internally to enhance the communication and culture in a corporation or externally for marketing, branding or PR purposes are called corporate blogs.

By media type

A blog comprising videos is called a vlog, one comprising links is called a linklog, a site containing a portfolio of sketches is called a sketchblog or one comprising photos is called a photoblog. Blogs with shorter posts and mixed media types are called tumblelogs.

An Artlog is a form of art sharing and publishing in the format of a blog, but differentiated by the predominant use of and focus on Art work rather than text.

A rare type of blog hosted on the Gopher Protocol is known as a Phlog

By device

Blogs can also be defined by which type of device is used to compose it. A blog written by a mobile device like a mobile phone or PDA could be called a moblog.^[3] One early blog was Wearable Wireless Webcam, an online shared diary of a person's personal life combining text, video, and pictures transmitted live from a wearable computer and EyeTap device to a web site. This practice of semi-automated blogging with live video together with text was referred to as sousveillance. Such journals have been used as evidence in legal matters.

By genre

Some blogs focus on a particular subject, such as political blogs, travel blogs, fashion blogs, project blogs, education blogs, niche blogs, classical music blogs, legal blogs (often referred to as a blawgs) or dreamlogs. While not a legitimate type of blog, one used for the sole purpose of spamming is known as a Splog.

Cataloging and community

Blog search engines

Several blog search engines are used to search blog contents (also known as the blogosphere), such as Bloglines, BlogScope, and Technorati. Technorati, which is among the most popular blog search engines, provides current information on both popular searches and tags used to categorize blog postings. Research community is working on going beyond simple keyword search, by inventing news ways to navigate through huge amounts of information present in the blogosphere, as demonstrated by projects like BlogScope.

Blogging Communities and Directories

Several online communities exist that connect people to blogs and bloggers to other bloggers, including BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog. A collection of local blogs is sometimes referred to as a Bloghood.

Popularity

Recently, researchers have analyzed the dynamics of how blogs become popular. There are essentially two measures of this: popularity through citations, as well as popularity through affiliation (i.e. blogroll). The basic conclusion from studies of the structure of blogs is that while it takes time for a blog to become popular through blogrolls, permalinks can boost popularity more quickly, and are perhaps more indicative of popularity and authority than blogrolls, since they denote that people are actually reading the blog's content and deem it valuable or noteworthy in specific cases.

The blogdex project was launched by researchers in the MIT Media Lab to crawl the Web and gather data from thousands of blogs in order to investigate their social properties. It gathered this information for over 4 years, and autonomously tracked the most contagious information spreading in the blog community, ranking it by recency and popularity. It can thus be considered the first instantiation of a memetracker. The project is no longer active, but a similar function is now served by tailrank.com.

Blogs are given rankings by Technorati based on the number of incoming links and Alexa Internet based on the web hits of Alexa Toolbar users. In August 2006, Technorati found that the most linked-to blog on the internet was that of Chinese actress Xu Jinglei. Chinese media Xinhua reported that this blog received more than 50 million page views, claiming it to be the most popular blog in the world. Technorati rated Boing Boing to be the most-read group-written blog.

Gartner forecasts that blogging will peak in 2007, leveling off when the number of writers who maintain a personal website reaches 100 million. Gartner analysts expect that the novelty value of the medium will wear off as most people who are interested in the phenomenon have checked it out, and new bloggers will offset the number of writers who abandon their creation out of boredom. The firm estimates that there are more than 200 million former bloggers who have ceased posting to their online diaries, creating an exponential rise in the amount of "dotsam" and "netsam" — that is to say, unwanted objects on the Web.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a web-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's marketing efforts.

Affiliate marketing is also the name of the industry where a number of different types of companies and individuals are performing this form of internet marketing, including affiliate networks, affiliate management companies and in-house affiliate managers, specialized 3rd party vendors, and various types of affiliates/publishers who promote the products and services of their partners.

Affiliate marketing overlaps with other internet marketing methods to some degree, because affiliates often use regular advertising methods. Those methods include organic search engine optimization, paid search engine marketing, email marketing and in some sense display advertising. On the other hand, affiliates sometimes use less orthodox techniques like publishing reviews of products or services offered by a partner.

Affiliate marketing — using one site to drive traffic to another — is a form of online marketing, which is frequently overlooked by advertisers. While search engines, e-mail and RSS capture much of the attention of online retailers, affiliate marketing carries a much lower profile. Still, affiliates continue to play a significant role in e-retailers' marketing strategies.

History

The beginning

The concept of revenue sharing, paying commission for referred business, predates that of affiliate marketing and the Internet. The translation of the revenue share principles to mainstream ecommerce happened almost four years after the World Wide Web was born in November 1994, when CDNow launched its BuyWeb program. With its BuyWeb program, CDNow was the first non-adult site to introduce the concept of an affiliate or associate program with its idea of click-through purchasing.

CDNow.com had the idea that music-oriented web sites could review or list albums on their pages that their visitors might be interested in purchasing and offer a link that would take the visitor directly to CDNow to purchase them. The idea for this remote purchasing originally arose because of conversations with music publisher Geffen Records in the fall of 1994. The management at Geffen wanted to sell its artists’ CDs directly from its site but did not want to do it itself. Geffen Records asked CDNow if it could design a program where CDNow would do the fulfillment. Geffen Records realized that CDNow could link directly from the artist on its Web site to Geffen’s web site, bypassing the CDNow home page and going directly to an artist’s music page.

Affiliate marketing was used on the internet by the adult industry before CDNow launched their BuyWeb program. The consensus of marketers and adult industry insiders is that Cybererotica was either the first or among the early innovators in affiliate marketing with a cost-per-click program.

Amazon.com launched its associate program in July 1996. Amazon associates would place banner or text links on their site for individual books or link directly to the Amazon’s home page.

When visitors clicked from the associate’s site through to Amazon.com and purchased a book, the associate received a commission. Amazon.com was not the first merchant to offer an affiliate program, but its program was the first to become widely known and served as a model for subsequent programs.

In February 2000, Amazon.com announced that it had been granted a patent (6,029,141) on all the essential components of an affiliate program. The patent application was submitted in June 1997, which was before most affiliate programs but not before PC Flowers & Gifts.com (October 1994), AutoWeb.com (October 1995), Kbkids.com/BrainPlay.com (January 1996), EPage(April 1996), and a handful of others.

Historic development

Affiliate marketing has grown quickly since its inception. The e-commerce website, viewed as a marketing toy in the early days of the web, became an integrated part of the overall business plan and in some cases grew to a bigger business than the existing offline business. According to one report, total sales generated through affiliate networks in 2006 were £2.16 billion in the UK alone. The estimates were £1.35 billion in sales in 2005. MarketingSherpa's research team estimated that, in 2006, affiliates worldwide earned $6.5 billion in bounty and commissions from a variety of sources in retail, personal finance, gaming and gambling, travel, telecom, education, publishing and forms of lead generation other than contextual ad networks such as Google AdSense.

Currently the most active sectors for affiliate marketing are the adult, gambling and retail sectors. The three sectors expected to experience the greatest growth are the mobile phone, finance and travel sectors. Hot on the heels of these are the entertainment (particularly gaming) and internet-related services (particularly broadband) sectors. Also several of the affiliate solution providers expect to see increased interest from B2B marketers and advertisers in using affiliate marketing as part of their mix. Of course, this is constantly subject to change.

Web 2.0

The rise of blogging, interactive online communities and other new technologies, web sites and services based on the concepts that are now called Web 2.0 have impacted the affiliate marketing world as well. The new media allowed merchants to get closer to their affiliates and improved communication between each other. New developments have made it harder for unscrupulous affiliates to make money. Emerging black sheep are detected and made known to the affiliate marketing community with much greater speed and efficiency.

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Google AdSense

Google AdSense is an ad serving program run by Google. Website owners can enroll in this program to enable text, image and, more recently, video advertisements on their sites. These ads are administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or per-thousand-impressions basis. Google is also currently beta-testing a cost-per-action based service.

Google uses its search technology to serve ads based on website content, the user's geographical location, and other factors. Those wanting to advertise with Google's targeted ad system may sign up through AdWords. AdSense has become a popular method of placing advertising on a website because the ads are less intrusive than most banners, and the content of the ads is often relevant to the website.

Currently, AdSense uses JavaScript code to incorporate the advertisements into a participating site. If it is included on a site which has not yet been crawled by the Mediabot, it will temporarily display advertisements for charitable causes known as public service announcements (PSAs). (The Mediabot is a separate crawler from the Googlebot that maintains Google's search index.)

Many sites use AdSense to monetize their content. AdSense has been particularly important for delivering advertising revenue to small sites that do not have the resources for developing advertising sales programs and salespeople. To fill a site with ads that are relevant to the topics discussed, webmasters implement a brief script on the sites' pages. Sites that are content rich have been very successful with this advertising program, as noted in a number of publisher case studies on the AdSense site.

Some webmasters work hard to maximize their own AdSense income. They do this in three ways:

1. They use a wide range of traffic generating techniques including but not limited to online advertising.
2. They build valuable content on their sites which attracts AdSense ads which pay out the most when they get clicked.
3. They use copy on their websites that encourage clicks on ads. Note that Google prohibits people from using phrases like "Click on my AdSense ads" to increase click rates. Phrases accepted are "Sponsored Links" and "Advertisements".

The source of all AdSense income is the AdWords program which in turn has a complex pricing model based on a Vickrey second price auction, in that it commands an advertiser to submit a sealed bid (not observable by competitors). Additionally, for any given click received, advertisers only pay one bid increment above the second-highest bid.

History

The underlying technology behind AdSense was derived originally from WordNet, Simpli (a company started by the founder of Wordnet, George A. Miller) and a number of professors and graduate students from Brown University, including James A. Anderson, Jeff Stibel and Steve Reiss. A variation of this technology utilizing Wordnet was developed by Oingo, a small search engine company based in Santa Monica founded in 1998.Oingo changed its name to Applied Semantics in 2001, which was then bought by Google for $102 million in April 2003.

AdSense for feeds

In May 2005, Google announced a limited-participation beta version of AdSense for feeds, a version of AdSense that runs on RSS and Atom feeds that have more than 100 active subscribers. According to the Official Google Blog, "advertisers have their ads placed in the most appropriate feed articles; publishers are paid for their original content; readers see relevant advertising — and in the long run, more quality feeds to choose from".

AdSense for feeds works by inserting images into a feed. When the image is displayed by the reader/browser, Google writes the ad content into the image that it returns. The ad content is chosen based on the content of the feed surrounding the image. When the user clicks the image, he or she is redirected to the advertiser's site in the same way as regular AdSense ads.

AdSense for feeds has remained in its beta state ever since its original announcement. Only selected AdSense users have been allowed to sign up for it, and no more users are being admitted to the program.

AdSense for search

A companion to the regular AdSense program, AdSense for search lets website owners place Google search boxes on their pages. When a user searches the web or the site with the search box, Google shares any ad revenue it makes from those searches with the site owner. However the publisher is paid only if the ads on the page are clicked: Adsense does not pay publishers for mere searches.

XHTML Compatibility

As of September 2007, the HTML code for the AdSense search box does not validate as XHTML, and does not follow modern principles of website design:

• non-standard closing tags such as and
• the boolean (minimized) attribute checked rather than checked="checked"
• presentational attributes other than id, class, or style, such as bgcolor and align
• a table structure used for purely presentational (non-tabular) purposes
• the font tag

Abuse

Some webmasters create sites tailored to lure searchers from Google and other engines onto their AdSense site to make money from clicks. These "zombie" sites often contain nothing but a large amount of interconnected, automated content (e.g.: A directory with content from the Open Directory Project, or scraper sites relying on RSS feeds for content). Possibly the most popular form of such "AdSense farms" are splogs ("spam blogs"), which are centered around known high-paying keywords. Many of these sites use content from other web sites, such as Wikipedia, to attract visitors. These and related approaches are considered to be search engine spam and can be reported to Google.

MFA (Made For AdSense) is a site or page with little or no content, but filled with advertisements so users have no choice but to click on ads. Such pages were tolerated in the past, but due to complaints Google now disables such accounts.

There have also been reports of Trojans engineered to produce fake Google ads that are formatted to look like legitimate ones. The Trojan Horse apparently downloads itself onto an unsuspecting computer through a web page and then replaces the original ads with its own set of malicious ads.

Criticism

Due to concerns about click fraud, Google AdSense has been criticized by some search engine optimization firms as a large source of what Google calls "invalid clicks" in which one company clicks on a rival's search engine ads to drive up its costs. Some publishers that have been blocked by Google complain that little justification or transparency was provided. Webmasters who publish AdSense can receive a lifelong ban without justification. Google claims they cannot "disclose any specific details" on fraudulent clicks since it may reveal the nature of their proprietary click-fraud monitoring system.

To help prevent click-fraud, AdSense publishers can choose from a number of click-tracking programs. These programs will display detailed information about the visitors who click on the AdSense advertisements. Publishers can use this to determine if they have been a victim of click-fraud or not. There are a number of commercial tracking scripts available for purchase.

The payment terms for webmasters have also been criticized. Google withholds payment until an account reaches US$100, but many small content providers require a long time – years in many cases – to build up this much AdSense revenue. These pending payments are recorded on Google's balance sheet as "accrued revenue share". At the close of its 2006 fiscal year, the sum of all these small debts amounted to a little over $370 million, cash that Google is able to invest but which effectively belongs to webmasters. However, Google will pay all earned revenue greater than $10 when the AdSense account is closed.

Google recently came under fire when the official Google AdSense Blog showcased the French video site Imineo.com. This site clearly violates Google's AdSense Program Policies by displaying AdSense alongside explicit adult content. Typically, sites displaying AdSense have been banned from showing adult content.

In addition, Google has been criticized for claiming that they created, or had a bigger part in creating, AdSense than they really did. Most recently, Gokul Rajaram claiming he was the "godfather" of AdSense caused some controversy. Another Google employee who took credit for AdSense was Susan Wojcicki.

Internet Millionaires Mastermind 02

Our first mastermind session was a moderate success, and almost every member that attended it has been looking forward to the next mastermind. That means I have to make it better than before, and that’s exactly what I plan to do.

In this event, I’m going to cover more than your normal "how to make money online" information. Our featured speakers will talk about SEO, getting traffic to your website, and even how to get financing for your small business.

Featured Speakers


























Daniel Lim @ Daniel Cerventus is part of the IdeaPreneur team that focuses on funding small / medium businesses (SMEs) in Malaysia, also known as "start-ups".

While you can always choose to finance your own Internet business, the reality is that there are so many companies, government bodies and private investors out there waiting to invest in your business if they like your ideas.

The questions is, who are these people and what are they looking for? In his presentation, Daniel will explain everything you need to know about how to use other people’s money to start your own technology / Internet company.

Topic: Getting Investors and Grants for Your Internet Business

• Cradle Investment Program
• Mdec Pre-seed funds
• Angel Investors Network

Yup, it’s me, the owner of InternetMillionaires.com.my - and in case you didn’t know I have another very popular website at EasyWordpress.com that teaches people how to make money blogging.

In the Internet Millionaires Mastermind 02 session, I’m going to focus on one of the most profitable blogging models - making money from affiliate programs.

I make more than RM3,000++ a month just by promoting other people’s products and services, using blogs, and my affiliate income keeps increasing with very little effort…

You may see my name from time to time as one of the top affiliates for other people, like the image on the left which shows me as number 4 affiliate just after big name bloggers like Darren Rowse and Brian Clark, who have ten times more blog traffic than I do.

But I know some affiliate marketing secrets they don’t know

Lim Cheng Soon (a.k.a Lim CS) - SEO Expert

Lim CS is an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) expert who provides services to clients via his Internet marketing company.

Lim is also the administrator for the popular Webmaster Malaysia web forum, and CEO of the recently launched blog advertising platform Netizens Media. This year, Lim’s focus is on building his blog advertising network to be one of the strongest in Malaysia, and in the world.

Topic: Practical SEO - SEO Guidelines and Techniques That Work!

• What’s SEO / Search Engine Optimization?
• The Correct Philosophy to SEO
• The Force is STRONG on this one: Choosing ‘Sides’
• Get real! Practical methods that WORK!
• The Kiss of Death: Things you shouldn’t do in SEO

IMC Mastermind 02 - Details, Schedule and Fees

• Date: April 26, 2008 (Saturday)
• Time: 2.00pm - 5.30pm
• Venue: Utara 2, Level 2, Crystal Crown Hotel Petaling Jaya
• Attire: Casual

As usual, all IMC Silver Members get to attend this event free of charge. Non-members can still attend this event but limited to first 10 people only.

• IMC Silver Members: FREE
• Walk-In Participants: RM65 / person

I strongly recommend that you join our IMC Silver membership to get access to all our mastermind sessions, interview with Malaysian Internet gurus, and other benefits.

All IMC Silver members also get the recorded audio / video presentations, Powerpoint slides and other materials so even if you cannot attend the event you can still experience it online.

NOTE: Walk-in attendees (regular members) will also receive one month’s subscription of IMC Silver, after which you can choose to renew your membership according to our payment types.

Event Schedule

Please be at the event latest by 2.20pm to register yourself and get your name tags. No registration allowed after 2.30pm when the event has started.

• 2.00 - 2.30pm: Event registration / Introduction
• 2.30 - 3.15pm: Special Presentation by Daniel Lim
• 3.15 - 4.00pm: Special Presentation by Gobala Krishnan
• 4.00 - 4.45pm: Special Presentation by Lim CS
• 4.45 - 5.30pm: Networking and Discussion

Please bring along your business cards for networking purposes. Anyone you meet here can become an important business partner in the near future, so don’t waste this opportunity!

Easy money, easy living, manage your own sweet time!!

Kindly email us at richierichclub@gmail.com we will reply to you as soon as possible..