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| How I Use Email Newsletters to Drive Traffic and Make Money Posted: 23 Jan 2014 08:36 PM PST Today I want to show you exactly how I do it. Firstly a word about technology – I use Aweber to deliver my emails (I talk about why here). However you can use pretty much any email newsletter service (many also choose and highly recommendMailChimp) for the process I outline below as long as it allows you to set up an auto-responder or sequence of emails. I should also say that the process I'm about to share has evolved over time. It started out very very simple and has slowly developed with time – in fact it continues to develop as I learn more and by no means is where I want to take it…. yet. Lets start with a visual on how my process looks (click to enlarge) before I explain the elements:  Reader Subscribes Because email newsletters are such an important part of my site I put a lot of emphasis upon getting this conversion moment with those who come to my site. There are a variety of places around the blog where I attempt to get readers to sign up – some are more subtle than others. Some are anything but subtle including a popup signup box that readers see 20-30 seconds after they arrive on the blog. The pop-up is set to only show once per visitor (unless they're blocking cookies) and while it is intrusive and I was very hesitant about adding it – it's incredibly effective at getting readers to signup. I switched to using this Pop-Up signup technique just on a year ago and at the time wrote up how it took me from getting 40 confirmed signups a day to 350 over night here. Since that time subscriber numbers have continued to climb – I now get around 500 new confirmed subscribers a day. This adds up to around 180,000 a year which is exciting growth. It does annoy a handful of readers (I get an email or two per month) but for the payoff it's something I've decided to continue with. Welcome Email  When someone signs up and then confirms their subscription by clicking a link in an email they're then sent (double opt in is required by law) the new subscriber is immediately sent a welcome email. This email is all about making them feel good about subscribing and giving them a quick introduction to the site. I'm presuming that most people who sign up for the newsletter are new to the site so it's a great opportunity to introduce myself, show them around and help get their expectations right about the site. This welcome email has a site logo, my picture, some links to key parts of the site like the forum, some suggested reading for catching up on key posts in our archives (I send them to a few 'sneeze pages' that send them deep within the archives and get them viewing multiple pages) and shares what the subscriber will receive in the coming weeks in terms of future emails. The email also asks people to add the email address that emails are sent from to their white list/contact list to help ensure emails are delivered. It's written in a personal and friendly style and seems to connect as I get a lot of replies to this email from new subscribers thanking me for the personal welcome. Weekly Updates  As you'll see from the chart above – weekly updates are what readers get the most. They're largely updates on what has happened on the blog/forums in the past week. You can see one of my more recent ones here (although it loses some of the formatting in the web version) where you can see that these emails have a bit of a structure. I usually have the following sections in these weekly updates:
I do mix things up a bit. Some weeks I'll run a little promotion of our Twitter of Facebook accounts, other weeks I might throw in some older posts form the archives that people may not have seen and sometimes I'll run a promotion encouraging readers to forward the email onto a friend. Really anything can go in these emails as long as they're on topic and useful The main goals of these weekly updates are to:
Readers love these newsletters because while they're largely links to the site the links are all content rich and useful resources. I title these emails 'Photography Tips for Your Weekend' and that's how many of our readers use them – as a spring board into their weekend with their cameras. Note: these emails are manually put together. They take me an hour or two a week to do. There are tools that will send out automated update emails (Aweber has one) but I prefer to do it manually to ensure that the emails are tailored for maximum impact and usefulness. Themed Updates  I've written about this concept once before here on ProBlogger in a post titled How 24 Hours of Work Will Send Millions of Readers to My Blog. The idea really came about when I realised that the majority of my blogs thousands of pages of content was going largely unseen by new readers to my blog. While I would occasionally link back to key posts most of my archives don't get a lot of traffic. These 'themed updates' are all about sending readers back to old but useful content around a single theme. Here's how they work. I use the 'auto responder' or 'followup' feature of Aweber to set up these emails (Mailchimp also has an auto responder service). This means that they go out at pre-determined intervals to readers a certain number of days after their last scheduled email. The first email in the sequence is the 'welcome email' that I mentioned above. 8 Days after that email goes out the subscriber receives the first 'themed' email. The topic is 'portraits' and is a newsletter that contains a short intro to the topic and then some links back to some of our most useful portrait photography tips. It also has a few recommendations of good books on portraiture (with affiliate links). 30 days after this portraits email they get another themed email (remember they're getting weekly updates in between). This email is about 'exposure' (pictured right – click to enlarge) and contains links to some of our best posts on subjects like Aperture, Shutter Speed etc. It also contains a couple of recommendations to good books on the topic (with affiliate links to Amazon). 30 days later they get an email on composition (same format as above with links to archive posts and books). 30 days later they get another themed email. The main goals of these themed updates are to:
These emails do take some time to set up but once they're set up they become automated and go out every day without me ever having to think about them. With 500 people signing up for my newsletter every day I know that 500 people are getting each of these emails on a daily basis. I have 6 of these emails set up in a sequence at present and add more to the list every now and again so I know 3000 people in total get them each day of the week – forever. Promotions  This is the most recent addition to my sequence of emails and I'm still perfecting their use but the signs are very promising already.I use the auto-responder sequence mentioned above to deliver these (they're going to go out every month or two) and the content of these emails is to highlight a resource or product that I recommend to readers. The products are affiliate products that I take a commission from any sale of. We disclose that relationship in the email and get a lot of positive feedback on the disclosure from readers. The key with these promotional emails is to choose products that you genuinely recommend. The reason for this is that at any point subscribers can leave your list – if you push too hard or recommend dodgy products they can leave (with a bade taste in their mouth). It can be hard to find quality products – I've found there to be a lot of junky products in my niche for example – but when I recently found a product that I believed in (123 digital imaging) I knew I had my first product to add to the sequence. I only sent this first promotion email 17 days ago so it's yet to go out to everyone on the list but it's generated 500 or so sales and will continue to sell as long as the product is on the market as it goes to another 500 people every day. In many ways it's become a nice little passive income with a few sales every day being generated. When we release our first ebook in the coming weeks it will also be added to the sequence of emails in a similar way. The main goals of these promotional updates are to:
Summing UpAll in all I find that the above mix of emails that we send out to our list gets very positive results. I work hard to keep them a 'win/win' for both our readers to get useful and relevant information but for me/the site to generate income. So far I think I've got the balance right – I regularly get emails from readers saying thanks for the newsletter and if I'm even an hour or two late sending it get people emailing to ask where it is. On a revenue front it's increasingly profitable – between the sales of products and the ad revenue increases from the increased traffic it certainly has become a central part of my income stream to have this email list. With the cycle as it is readers do occasionally get 2 emails in a week – however it's never more than that and on most weeks it is just the one weekly email. I make it clear when they signup that it's at least weekly to get this expectation right as I don't want them feeling duped into signing up. I also use Aweber's scheduling feature for the auto responder emails which allows you to specify what days of the week they can go out. I schedule the sequenced emails (the themed and promotional ones) so that they never go out on a Thursday or Friday (the same day as the weekly ones). Lastly I generally focus my efforts with this list on HTML emails. Aweber does give you the ability to send out a text email as well for those subscribers whose email system doesn't allow HTML. For the text version I usually just send out a short email that links to a HTML version of the email. I did use to send out a full plain text email for these people but found that when I switched to a shorter email linking to the HTML version that most readers clicked through and appreciated seeing the images (this might be particular to my niche). So that's how I've set up my email newsletters on DPS. It takes a fair bit of work to get some of it set up but as I mentioned in yesterdays post – the pay off has been great and continues to grow as we recruit new subscribers to the list. |
| Can You REALLY Make Money Blogging? [7 Things I Know About Making Money from Blogging] Posted: 23 Jan 2014 08:34 PM PST Every now and again I am pulled aside at a conference or am emailed and/or tweeted by someone wanting to get the "real" scoop on whether it is possible to make money blogging.
I completely understand the questions and would probably want to add one more:
I've written many times here on ProBlogger about this in the hope of giving a realistic picture of the topic, but I think it is worth touching on again because there is a lot of misinformation out there right now. On one hand, we see hype on the topic. Periodically someone will claim to be able to make millions from blogging quickly. These claims are usually accompanied with the release of a product or service (i.e. they are marketing spin). On the other hand, I periodically see people writing about how it is impossible to make money blogging (or that anyone claiming to be full time is either a scammer, a liar, or is selling something on the topic of making money online). The reality is somewhere between these two extremes. 7 Things I know about making money from blogging1. It is possibleI've been blogging for just under ten years and for nine of those I've been making money blogging. It started out as just a few dollars a day but in time it gradually grew to becoming the equivalent of a part-time job, then a full-time job, and more recently into a business that employs others. I used to talk about the specific levels of my earnings when I started ProBlogger but felt increasingly uncomfortable about doing so (it felt a little voyeuristic and a little like a big-headed boasting exercise and I didn't really see the point in continuing to do it)— but my income has continued to grow each year since I began. On some levels I was at the right place at the right time—I got into blogging early (in 2002 … although I felt I was late to it at the time) and have been fortunate enough to have started blogs at opportune times on the topics I write about. However I know of quite a few other bloggers who make a living from blogging, many of whom have not been blogging anywhere near as long as I have. For some it is a hobby that keeps them in coffee; for others it is the equivalent of a part time job/supplementing other income from "real jobs" or helping their family out as they attend to other commitments (raising a family). For others it is a full-time thing. I'll give you some examples below. 2. There is no single way to monetize blogsRecently at our Melbourne ProBlogger event I featured numerous Australian bloggers in our speaker lineup who fit somewhere in the part-time to full-time spectrum. They included:
The year before, we had others, including:
Most of these bloggers are full-time (or well on the way to being full-time bloggers). They come from a wide array of niches and all monetize quite differently—doing everything from selling advertising, to having membership areas, to selling ebooks, to running affiliate promotions, to promoting their offline businesses, to selling themselves as speakers, to having book deals, and so on. Many have a combination of different income streams. They are all also Australian, and are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what is happening here in Australia—the same thing is being replicated around the globe. There are many ways to monetize a blog. To give you a quick sense of the many methods check out this "money map" I created a year or so back, which outlines just some that I brainstormed (click to enlarge).  I also recorded this free hour-and-twenty-minute webinar giving an introduction to the topic. 3. There are no formulasFrom time to time, people have released products that claim to be formulas for success when it comes to making money online. They outline steps to follow to "guarantee" you'll make money. In my experience there is no formula. Each full-time blogger I've met in the last ten years has forged their own path and has a unique story to tell. They have often acted on hunches and made surprising discoveries along the way. There are certainly similarities in many of the stories but each blogger has their own personality and style, each one is reaching a different audience, and each niche tends to monetize differently. The key lesson is to be aware of what others are doing and to learn what you can from each other, but to also be willing to forge your own path as well! 4. Many niches monetizeOne common critique of the topic of monetizing of blogs is that the only people making money from blogging are the ones writing about how to make money blogging. This is simply not true. In the above list of speakers from our Melbourne event you'll notice I included topic/niche of each blogger. None sell products teaching others to make money blogging—all are on blogging on "normal," every-day topics. My own experience of having a blog about blogging (ProBlogger) and a blog about Photography is that it is my photography blog that is by far the most profitable blog (I'd estimate it's ten times more profitable). I've interviewed numerous full-time bloggers of late in a webinar series including: Interestingly, none of them make money by teaching others to make money online. Sarah largely blogs about health and wellbeing, Tsh blogs about simple living, and Ana blogs about woodwork. 5. Most bloggers don't make a full-time living from bloggingEvery time I've surveyed readers of ProBlogger about their earnings, we've seen that those making money from blogging are in the minority. In a recent survey of 1500 ProBlogger readers we asked about their monthly earnings. What you're seeing below is the spread of earnings from readers who are attempting to make money blogging (note: not all ProBlogger readers attempt to make money, so not all are included in these results).  Keep in mind that ProBlogger readers are generally newish bloggers—about half of those who took this survey had been blogging for less than two years. So of those trying to make money blogging, 10% don't make anything and 28% are making less than 30 cents per day. A total of 63% make less than $3.50 per day. Let's be clear—most bloggers who are attempting to make money are not making a living from blogging. Having said that, of the 1508 bloggers surveyed 65 (4%) are making over $10,000 per month (over six figures per year) and a further 9% were doing over $1000 per month (which is at least a part-time level of income). My feeling, having been attending blogging conferences for six or so years now, is that the number of full-time bloggers is on the rise, and there are actually quite a few more people now at least making the equivalent of a couple of days' work a week in income from their blogs. However, most bloggers don't make much. 6. It takes time to buildWhen I dig down into the stats from the survey on income levels above, and do some analysis of those who are in the top income bracket, it is fascinating to look at how long they've been blogging. 85% of those in that top income bracket have been blogging for four years or more. Almost all of the others had been blogging for three or four years. This certainly was my own experience. I blogged for a year without making money and once I started monetizing it was around two years of gradual increases before I approached a full-time income level. It would have been four years before I joined that top bracket of income (over $10,000 per month). Blogging for money is not a get-rich-quick thing. It takes time to build an audience, to build a brand, and to build trust and a good reputation. And of course even with four or five years of blogging behind you, there's no guarantee of a decent income. 7. It takes a lot of workLongevity is not the only key to a profitable blog. The other common factor that I've noticed in most full-time bloggers is that they are people of action. Passivity and blogging don't tend to go hand in hand. Blogging as "passive income stream" is another theme that we hear in many make-money-blogging products, however it is far from my own experience. I've worked harder on my business over the last ten years than I've worked on anything in my life before this. It is often fun and gives me energy, but it takes considerable work to create content on a daily basis, to keep abreast of what's going on in the community, to monitor the business side of things, to create products to sell, to build an audience, and so on. The key is to build blogs that matter to people, that are original, interesting, and helpful. But this doesn't just happen—it takes a lot of work. ConclusionsYes, it is possible to make money blogging. There is an ever-increasing number of people making money from blogging at a part-time to full-time level —however they are still in the minority. Those who do make a living from blogging come from a wide range of niches, however one of the most common factors between them is that they've been at it for a long while. How long have you been blogging? Are you looking to make money from it—and have you already? Share your experiences with us in the comments. |
| Add Featured Posts Slider Sidebar Widget In Blogger Blog Posted: 23 Jan 2014 08:23 PM PST  All we know that getting more traffic on our blogs using another popular blog is very easy. All of us would have more than one blog. We have to get more traffic on each of them. This widget will help you to get good traffic on your all the blogs. This widget shows the recently added posts automatically. It showing the posts in slider form. If you don't have more than one blog, you can use this widget for your own blog. It may help you to have less bounce rate with more pageviews. Blogging is the technical way of making money with our blogs through monetization. It needs more pageviews. This automated recent post slider widget updated automatically when you posted on your blogs. You can use it for only one blog. You have to place your blog url from which blog, the posts will be shown. You have to choose sidebar portion to place this widget. It is the right place to use it effectively. It is amazing, it updated automatically the featured posts of your blog. Let me explain how to add this featured posts slider sidebar widget to blogger blog. Steps To Add This Widget To Blogger
<style scoped="" type="text/css"> Important Note:Before saving this widget, you have to make some changes as following.
That's all. You are done! Finally, Click on the Save the button. If you encounter any problem, feel free and comment below to get a solution. Share your Experience with us by commenting below. |
| Get Google Adsense Approved Fast - Maximum 2 Hours | 100% Working Tricks Posted: 23 Jan 2014 08:05 PM PST  Once Google adsense disapproved your application for your blog, very difficult to get adsense approval for that disapproved blog. Think of hacking google adsense is not possible. But we have the easy way of getting adsense approval using youtube. This trick is working 100 percentage. Getting adsense is easy by uploading videos on youtube and by monetizing them. Google adsense will give more money than other advertising sites. Let me introduce how to get adsense approval within 2 hours. Follow these 7 simple steps to get google adsense approval fast. Step 1: Create a new Gmail account and sign in to Youtube Step 2: Upload two or three Quality videos of your own creation. Step 3: Video manager ---> Channel settings ---> Monetization Step 4: Click on How will I be Paid? --- > accosiate an adsense account Select your adsense account and send application  Step 5: Adsense team will send confirmation email to your gmail inbox. It will take upto 2 hours. After that sign in to your adsense account --- > Account settiings Step 6: Access and Authorization --- > Sites authorized to show ads ---> edit Enter your blog url (eg: www.trickstoo.com) then submit. Step 7: After successfully creating adsense account that link your blog, You will receive email to place ads on your site. My ads (tab) --- > Create ads then place ads on your blogs. Enjoy! This trick is 100% working.. Share this if you like this trick.. Comment here to Share Your Experience with us.. If you encounter any problem, feel free and comment below to get solution. |
| Replace Add Comment Text With Cool Image In Blogger Comment Posted: 23 Jan 2014 08:03 PM PST  Maximum number of Comments help to get more traffic for the post. Comments are indicating the post how much popular it is. Add a comment, post a comment are usual words in blogger comment box. It is some what boring. Make your blog very interesting by using different words in your blog. Here I have introduced attractive images that can be replaced in your blogger comment box with boring words. It is very simple and effective. Decorate your blog comment box using different images. It is just replacement of image with a piece a Java script code. Let me explain how to add it to your blogger comment box.Installation GuideStep 1: Go to Blogger Dashboard in your blogger account. Step 2: Click on the Edit HTML button to extract your blog template. Step 3: Search for following code <data:postCommentMsg/> You will find above code more than once. So You need to find below code also. <h4 id='comment-post-message'><data:postCommentMsg/></h4> Now replace the above code with one of the below code as your wish. Here I had added code for some attractive images.  <img src='http://bit.ly/Wnu4kw' />  <img src='http://bit.ly/WnxdAH'/>  <img src='http://bit.ly/10GiPYw'/>  <img src='http://bit.ly/SiDptU'/>  <img src='http://bit.ly/T9YxBw'/>  <img src='http://bit.ly/V1PRmj'/>  <img src='http://bit.ly/UiR0Uh'/>  <img src='http://bit.ly/SiC32g' /> Finally, Save template. I hope you understand. If you like this post please share it. Share your experience with us by leaving a comment below. |
| List of High PageRank Dofollow Blogs with CommentLuv Enabled Posted: 23 Jan 2014 08:00 PM PST Here I'm going to show you how to build a quality and dofollow backlinks easily, as you know there are many ways to build backlinks, such as Forum discussion, article submission, directory submission, guest post, but today I am going to show you very unique way to build backlinks that is commenting on Commentluv enabled blogs. What is Commentluv actually?According to Commentluv own description "Commentluv Reward your readers by automatically placing a link to their most recent blog post at the end of their comment. Encourage a community and discover new posts. This is beneficial to the commenter because other visitors are more likely to click on the commenter recent post, this can help you to increase traffic on your blog as well. Many people are unfamiliar with it, but it is important to know about because it can help you a lot in SEO.  Commentluv is actually a wordpress plugin for websites that allows visitor to leave comments and it will show the last blog post of your blog on commented website. List of High PageRank Dofollow Blogs with CommentLuv EnabledPage Rank 2http://www.crunchyhub.com Page Rank 3Page Rank 4Page Rank 5Page Rank 6When you comment on any blog, please first read the article and then comment, if you have something to share then comment, Don't comment such as Hi, thanks, nice blog!, check out mine, avoid such language while you are commenting, Everybody hates spam and serious blogger never will allows spam comment so be genuine. It was a list that I have developed after much research, I am Surprised that many people consider it SEO killer which is totally wrong concept, 'I have study this well, this SEO is useful for and I hope you do not fall for those who consider it wrong. I hope you will get benefit from this article, if you have any suggestion comment and share it also. |
| Google Adsense Approval Trick 2014 Minimum Requirement That Should Have Posted: 23 Jan 2014 07:54 PM PST As you know that Google Adsense is a source of revenue for every blogger and webmaster, Google Adsense is a highest CPC (cost per click) network, there are so many alternate of Google Adsense are available but no one such as, but one thing which we also know that now Google Adsense approval is so hard, even when I was started my blogging career back in 2008, I had only one or two articles and I get approved by them, but now I have more than sixty articles I can't get Adsense.  Lot of bloggers complains me that they can get Adsense, so guys first of all learn what Google Adsense is? Then apply for it, if you will apply without reading term and conditions of it you will never get Adsense, so I decide to give you tutorial about approval tricks and what you should have on your blog or website if you want to get Adsense. Google Adsense Approval Trick:Website Age:Your website should 6 months old, I think if you have 4 months old website then you can get Adsense very easily, lot of bloggers can not wait of this duration and due to lack of knowledge they can get and google rejects them, So, if you want to get Adsense in really words then your website should 4 or 5 months old. Website Traffic:Traffic is blood of your website, if you have bundles of traffic then you are illegible for it other then no, you must have approximately 300 to 400 visitors per day and more than 60% should come from search engines, first of all optimize your website well and get more visitors, when you have this then go and apply for it. Unique Articles:You should have self written articles, if you have copyright material on you website or blog, they will reject you by giving copyright notice, so you have to do some real work if you desire to get it, never copy and type of data from any website, if you have unique and original contents on your blog then you are strong user to get Adsense. Textual Articles:You can not get Adsense on Wallpapers, Songs, Movies etc. website, Textual Articles is must for you, if you don't have textual articles on your website then they will reject your application by give "Insufficient Contents" message. Policy, About us and contact Pages:You must have these pages on your website, lot of webmaster tells me that lot of peoples doing this silly mistake due to which they can't get, so if you are rejecting after and after by Adsense then apply this tip and see what happen, hope you will get it after doing this. Website Design:Your website should easy to navigate, don't use to complicated theme or template, always keep your website user friendly and easy to read, if you don't have Adsense will never accept your application because it personal experience, don't use too many colored theme or template keep it simple and clean. Conclusion:So guys Google Adsense approval process it not complicated as bloggers or webmasters thinks, if you have above requirements I assure you that you can get it easily, but you have to maintain all above requirements. So let me tell that how you got Adsense, must share you ideas with us, if you are still struggling to get then must drop your problem in comment, I will give you better suggestion for next step, hope you will enjoy this article, please take 5 seconds and share with others. Enjoy Earning With Adsense  |
| BlogShadow – Adsense Friendly Premium Blogger Template Posted: 23 Jan 2014 07:41 PM PST Today, I'm happy to release, another premium quality Blogger Template "BlogShadow " for free to all. This Premium Blogger Template can be used for the Blogs like Tech Blog,News Blog,Magazine blog. This template have the shadow transition feature like our previous Template "ShadowMag". This template comes with the Automatic Featured content slide-shows at the top of the homepage and More cool feature.  Template Features:
Installation Instructions :How To Install This Template?1.Download the Template and open XML file. 2.Navigation barThe template has two column navigation system.
3.Advertisements:The Template has banner at the header with size 468×60.To add the banner ad Just Click "Add the Page Element" and go to "HTML/Javascript" and Add your ad code there.Also do the same for the sidebar ads. 4.Featured Post slideshowFor Featured Slideshow you need to edit the page element of "Feature auto slideshow" in the Page elements section of blogger. Then add your desired label name there.It will be displayed automatically in Featured Articles section.See the screenshot Below  5.Category Footer sectionI include four category sections in footer to show the recent posts of the each labels.To Assign your desired label for those sections, just edit the page elements in the Page elements section of blogger and assign your desired category title and label. |
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