How I Made Extra $203 in One Month Using My Blog

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.

I Used SEO on My ‘Services Offered Page’

I also edited out some portions of the page where I mention what services I offer. My bread and butter is helping both readers and the search engines understand whatever content a website has and I failed to implement this on my own service page! However, I updated this page with more in-fashion keywords using SEO tools and voila! in just a few days, two new clients gave me some contract work to get busy with until the end of May. It was because of the simple refining of the keywords that I included in my services page that triggered more traffic which most probably include my potential clients.

I Edited My Text Link Ad Listing

The third tweak was not actually on site per se because it was my Text Link Ads account that I modified.

I earned an extra $203 because of those simple changes I did with my blog.