How to Promote and make Money from your Blog



Posted: Wednesday, October 20, 2004

by Feng Shui Guy
Feng Shui Chinese

I thought these tips might be handy to new bloggers but also to well-seasoned bloggers who want to promote themselves better. The links below will not only improve your page ranking on sites such as Yahoo and Google, but offer tips from domain hosting to making money from your site.

Creating a Well Designed Site

Search Engines such as Google actively "spider" well designed sites better than non-conformant HTML sites. What I mean by "well designed" sites are sites which conform to W3C code and are rich with content. Websites which are heavy on graphics, multimedia (flash etc.,), split into frames and a long time to load will not be indexed by the spiders as well.

What is site spidering

Movable type

Type Pad

Blogspot

Hosting and Domain Names

Being hosted on geocities or blogger etc., is fun but doesn't help your promotion. If you get your own domain name (which can cost less than $8 USD) then it'll help when registering your site with others and search engines.

http://www.liquidweb.com/ (Recommended!)

http://www.dreamhost.com/

http://www.tblog.com/

http://www.nextmill.net/

http://www.freeparking.com

http://www.registerfly.com

http://www.deleteddomains.com

http://www.whois.sc/name-spinner

Using RSS to your Advantage

If you create an RSS file, I'd recommend submitting it to the following:

http://www.syndic8.com/suggest.php?Mode=data

http://www.2rss.com/ http://www.rootblog.com/Ping/

http://www.blogdigger.com/add.jsp

http://bulkfeeds.net/app/add

http://blo.gs/

Geoblogs.com

Promoting your site

 There's many ways to promote your blog - by cold calling, newsletters, adding email signatures, reciprocal linking with other bloggers but one of the most effective ways to get your site added to Search Engines and Weblog Sites. I'd recommend submitting your sites to the following -

Major Submission Sites:

http://add.yahoo.com/fast/add?17051064

http://directory.google.com/

http://dmoz.org/

Weblog Submission Sites:

http://www.technorati.com/ping.html

http://www.daypop.com/info/submit.htm

http://www.feedster.com/add.php

http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php

http://boingboing.net/suggest.html

http://www.weblogs.nu/directory/submit.php?add=top

http://www.bloguniverse.com/

http://www.bloghop.com/addblog.htm

http://www.truthlaidbear.com/addtoscan.php

http://www.blogarama.com/index.php?show=add

http://www.webworldindex.com/

http://www.blogsearchengine.com/

http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php

http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/addchannel.php

http://www.blizg.com/

http://reader.rocketinfo.com/

http://www.diarist.net/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi

http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html

http://www.blogwise.com/bycountry.php (Find your Country and Submit)

General Submission Sites:

http://www.freewebsubmission.com/

http://www.downloads.ukprofessionals.com/ (30k submission web sites!)

http://www.spheri.ca/directories.html

http://www.addurlhere.com/links/add_link.html

http://www.illumirate.com/Illumirate/add_your_site.cfm

http://www.blueuniverse.co.uk/dir/add_url.php?c=47

http://www.geniusfind.com/submit.htm

Making money from your Blog

Sharing your views with others is great, but what if you could make a bit of money from your site? The first place I'd go to is Google Adsense. Depending on the number of visitors you get to your site and level of click-thru's that you are getting, you could end up making quite a bit of money from your site.

I've also listed other recommended money making tools also:

https://www.google.com/adsense/

http://associates.amazon.com/

http://affiliates.befree.com/Affiliates/index.jsp

http://www.textads.biz

https://www.willhill.com/

http://www.paypal.com

http://www.tradedoubler.com/pan/index.jsp

http://www.fastclick.com/publish.html

Article posted by Giles Dawe, author at Feng Shui Chinese - Providing Tips and Advice on how you can use Feng Shui in your House and Office.

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