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How does one become a full-time blogger? Check out Leo Babauta’s strategy - Help Me Become a Full-Time Blogger.

If you are still blogging during the weekends, what is your strategy to get things going on your blog during those holy days of the week? Darren Rowse’s My Weekend Blog Strategy may give you some ideas. As to my weekend blog strategies? It depends on my mood and how my blog is faring, really. Either I’d write a useful list of how-to’s or post links.

Itching for a theme change for your Wordpress blog? You might want to use one of the SEO-friendly themes Courtney Tuttle’s re-designed. The nice thing is you don’t only get a nice new Wordpress theme, you can even earn a backlink from Courtney’s blog for using one.

One of the ways to promote a new blog is to order paid reviews from other blogs with high traffic. But how do you make sure you get the best bang out of your bucks?

Here are what I’ve observed that makes a paid review pay off:

1. Enrich your blog with content first.

Like what John Chow has advised, there’s not much sense in paying someone to review your blog if there’s nothing much to review. Maybe if you’re just in for the blog design criticisms, filling up your blog with a considerable amount of quality posts won’t be that much needed. But if your blog is more of tips and tricks on a certain niche, get yourself writing some fun to read and informative blog posts first before damaging your wallet with the help of PayPerPost or ReviewMe. Continue reading →

Success with natural link building is one big feat, especially for new blogs. Do you want to know what I’ve discovered on how to get inbound links?

Be a good blog reader.

What the hell about being a good visitor or reader that will get you links?

If you have a blog, how do you expect your visitor to behave? Maybe many would say, “Duh, I want them to click my AdSense ads, of course!” But seriously, aside from going away from your blog because they found an ad that interested them, how else would you want your readers to act when they get to your blog? Continue reading →

Making a blog more interactive (read: getting more visitors to stay), aside from requiring a big dose of creativity, can cost you some money at times. However, it if you come across a stroke of genius, it does not have to be that costly. It can be fun for your visitors, too. Such is this comment contest run by Alvin Phang of Gather Success. 

If you love answering making money online questions and won’t mind winning $10 in the process, you might like to join this comment contest.

How to participate?

To enter this contest, just answer three simple question! All you need to do just post a comment below stating the following:

1. What are your top 3 biggest problems making money online?
2. What are your top 3 biggest problems when it comes to getting traffic?
3. How much would you be willing to pay to learn how to make money online and
how much time would you spent on it each week?

Having a large number of comments on your blog signifies that your blog is very stimulating that conversation can easily flow with every post you publish. If you’d like to jumpstart this kind of blogging milestone - consider Alvin’s way of getting visitors to talk.

If you’d like to learn more ways to get comments on your blog, Make Money Online Blog of the Week - Kumiko’s Cash Quest has controversial tips on never seeing zero comments on your site again.

Tags: comment contest, Alvin Phang, blog gimmick

Aside from my freelance SEO writing gig, I also welcome any new ways that will allow me to make money with only my time and Internet connection as investments. Just this May I was blessed to get some new clients because of simple additions to my blog. Let me tell you about these three winning blog tweaks.

1. I Mentioned My Email Address A Tad More Often

I have been hesitating to mention my email address anywhere public because of my fear of getting bombarded with email spam, which I patiently check one by one because I sometimes miss client inquiries which get filtered. But when people who are not so accustomed to looking for the ‘about the author’ page inquires, I can’t help but mention it every now and then.

Obsessive compulsive spam checking has been my online vice for quite some time. But I believe what triggered it (almost losing one important client) is not so irrational so it’s justifiable, right? As I’ve mentioned this is the very reason I don’t want to keep on dropping my email address anywhere. However, I realized that it’s more rewarding when you get to be up close and personal with your blog’s visitors in any way you can, e.g., telling them to contact you via email if they need to communicate with you for any reason than having to deal with spam. Although I already have a ‘contact me’ page, there are those who fail to check it out and ask via comments how they can get in touch with you. When I started to become a bit loose on leaving my email address, I received more reader reactions together with client inquiries than when I left my contact page do all the work.

As for Flood of Dollars readers, please leave a comment if you have to ask me about anything and you’d rather that you receive my response via email. FOD’s layout is again under construction that’s why I can’t complete my ‘About Me’ just yet. Continue reading →

As I promised on my blog goals for June post, here are what readers can expect to be regularly posted on Flood of Dollars:

Make Money Online Blog of the Week (MMOBW)

This is where one fairly new blog (started not later than January 2007) which in some way or another help in informing people how to make money online are given the Flood of Dollars spotlight. 

This featured blog will have a backlink at the end of all the blog posts that Flood of Dollars will publish that whole week. This is similiar to getting free text link promotion for your blog. So if you have a blog or any blog that you know that meets the following requirements, you can either email floodofdollars (at) gmail (dot) com or leave a comment here so I can check if it’s a good candidate for this weekly feature.

- A blog started not later than January 2007

- Has posts mostly about ways to make money online

Just those two criteria.

Affiliate Program Tip of the Week

I don’t know until when I can consume all the tips out there that are available for affiliate program newbies like me. But it’s great to learn a thing or two weekly to improve your chances of earning from this one promising way of making money online, right? If I get to find people to interview about tips, you will definitely find them posted here on FOD.

I think this will be one great feature because I’m planning to make a small project out of it.

Feel free to send me some tips about the two feature projects if you have any thoughts.

Those who would like to get more traffic for their sites but are obsessed with keyword-stuffing can definitely benefit from this information I have just recently confirmed.

Link building is a better traffic booster than writing web content made for search engines.

How did I find out about this? I have been experimenting on a blog that I stuff with keyword-rich content for more than a year now and it has never reached the first spot of the only 20,000,000 search engine results although it sometimes reaches the first page.

I think that many of the sites that are consistently on the first page are not even targeting the keywords that I have been tweaking my content with, these sites are still on the first page of the search engine results for the terms that I thought my blog deserves to be found with. 

After analyzing what it is with those sites that causes them to outrank my content SEO’ed blog, I discovered they have more backlinks or inbound links compared with the number of IBL’s my blog has. 

Want more proof that link building still rules when it comes to getting that coveted SERP (search engine results pages) placement? Continue reading →

Do you blog just whenever you feel like blogging? That’s fine if you are blogging for the sole purpose of venting out or expressing thoughts. Or simply put, that’s fine if you intend to keep your personal blog just that - a personal blog.

But what if you want to augment your income with the help of your blog? Definitely, blogging just “every now and then” won’t work. You have to have a plan on how to make your blogging for money endeavor take off.

In view of this came the decision to set up my own blogging goals, which is a list of to-do’s which may not be too ambitious but will most likely help me in keeping things in perspective.

Since Flood of Dollars is about making money online, it’s only logical that I try to make money online from it, while keeping a symbiotic relationship with my current and future readers. Although even without any motivation I’ll still do my best to make FOD as resourceful as possible, it never hurts to get incentives whenever it reaches some milestones. Without further adieu, here are what I’m planning to get at with this blog for the month of June:

Here is a snapshot of the Google Analytics stats of FOD. Continue reading →

Results of SEO efforts will definitely be showing up any time soon, especially for those who have sites getting major traffic number from Yahoo! This is because an index update has just happened.

I got this inkling already because some of my never blogs that have been getting more traffic from Google are now getting more visitors that are Yahoo-referred. ‘Guess Yahoo!’s favoring my blogs more now than it did before although Tim Mayer of Yahoo! has mentioned that it will only show minor results

via Search Engine Land.

Tags: Yahoo index update, Yahoo SEO

As I’ve mentioned at the last part of my How to Make Money Online Gaming Google (SEO Business) post, I’ll be launching an SEO challenge.

What will this challenge be all about?

I’ll be aiming to get on the first page of the Google search engine for a keyphrase that I won’t mention today. It is a fairly competitive keyphrase since a lot of blogs similar to this blog’s theme are also aiming for a top position for a similar keyphrase. Why similar? You’ll find out in the long run.

If you will visit my blog regularly, you will definitely know what keyphrase I’m targeting to get a good rank on. So keep yourself posted!