When you are trying to drive traffic to your blog, it is known that bloggers can do some pretty crazy things like buying people to come to your web site. However, if you do buy traffic in this manner you will want to monitor how many people click on your link to visit your site…
Author Archives: Julie Spaulding
How bloggers make money from your information
The problem with spam is that many people consent to its sending in the first place. Picture this. You are on someone’s web site or blog and are invited to enter a competition, or receive a free e-book. Not wanting to pass up a great offer, you happily enter in your email address and name…
Keep it regular: how blogging intervals can increase traffic
One question that is hotly debated amongst bloggers is whether posting every day or every two days is a good idea. I believe it is for two reasons. Firstly, posting in longer intervals will slow the feed of traffic to your blog. Users will know that you do not post in regular intervals and will…
Search engine optimisation: its problems
Search engine optimisation seems to be the phrase on everyone’s lips. Search engine optimisation (SEO) is net marketer code for ‘twisting the wording of text to make it more appealing to search engines’ and it has internet marketers in a stranglehold. However, there are many things wrong with SEO that will have your readers annoyed…
Paying for blog traffic: not a good idea
If you have ever been on to a web master’s forum you will no doubt have noticed advertisements for paid traffic services. This is where you pay a ‘get paid to click’ web site owner to pay his site’s members to click on a link to your web site in exchange for cash. While this…
Referral statistics on your blog: exploiting this for cash
If you use WordPress, Sitemeter or Google Analytics you have probably noticed a section in your statistics called ‘referrer’. This is supposed to represent the web sites that your readers were on before they came to your blog – for example, if there was a link to my blog on example.com and I clicked it,…
Freelance writing paid by performance
If you have ever been on to a freelance job board or freelance writers’ forum you would have no doubt heard about ‘revenue share’ or ‘paid on performance’ writing web sites, where your pay is equivalent to the amount of money the article brings in for the site or by how many people visit it….
Upgrading from WordPress.com to self hosting
Today, on my personal blog, I finally upgraded to WordPress.org’s self hosting blog service from WordPress.com’s ‘we host your blog for you’ blogging service. The reason was clear. WordPress.com was beginning to be a little restricting. Initially, the only problem I had with WordPress.com was the fact that no Javascript was allowed. This meant that…
Referral links: why they can be a mixed blessing
Go on to nearly any make money online blog and you will notice links to other web sites that they said made money for them. Click this link and you will most often see a string of numbers or letters after the domain name. This is called a referral link, and can be both a…
HubPages: another money making opportunity
No matter whether you have a blog or web site or not, you will probably have heard of HubPages. HubPages is a web site which allows users to create ‘hubs’, or little nuggets of information that users can put content on for visitors to peruse. Many HubPages users (Hubbers as I have heard them be…