Detailed Income Reports on How Top Blogs Make Money Online
We all know there are bloggers who make a lot of money online. But how do they actually make their money?
What better way to find out than by reading a blog’s income report. Not only can they be inspiring but they can help give you ideas on what’s bringing in the money. You can even sometimes get detailed information on their actual stats like traffic and exact affiliate programs they promote.
Many of the blogs listed below are the most successful on the internet and are now usually pretty discreet on exactly how they make their money. But I’ve put together a nice little list and you’ll find some of my favorites below.
http://www.johnchow.com/blog-income-report-june-2008/
http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/756/make-money-blogging-september-report/
http://www.youngprepro.com/may-2011-report/
http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/my-income-reports/
http://www.viperchill.com/viperchill-13/
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2010/12/15/october-and-november-earnings-breakdown/
http://www.amitbhawani.com/blog/monthly-income-report-june-2010/
http://www.makemoneyontheinternet.com/july-2010-income-report/
http://zacjohnson.com/july-2008-blog-revenue-report/
http://machoarts.com/monthly-income-and-traffic-report-march-2011
Once you’ve broken it down there are 4 main ways bloggers are generating revenue from their sites.
- coaching- Once you’ve hit the Big Time on the internet, then people will actually pay you $100′s per hour just for your advice. Who else can charge that amount without having a Masters or even a bachelors degree? Not many.
- affiliate- This is the main way I and many others make money from blogging. Just add some affiliate links and some banners on your blog and watch the money roll in. OK, maybe it’s not quite that easy.
- ad sales – Selling ad space on your blog is a surefire way to bring in some revenue. You can charge advertisers whatever you want for them to place their link or banner on your blog for a set amount of time. The more targeted traffic your blog gets, the more you can charge.
- selling your own products/services – This is one of the best ways to significantly increase your blogs revenue and to spread your brand. Might take a little more work and money but the rewards can be even greater.
Of course, just because something works for one site might not work for yours. But why not checkout what’s working for one blog and see how they are actually making their money if they are giving up the information for all eyes to see.
Most of the super successful blogs stopped sharing detailed income reports on their blogs. While the others have learned how to make even more money from their blog just by sharing them.
Know any other blogs who post detailed income reports? Feel free to leave a comment and share it.
Efficient Writing Technique to Boost Your Productivity
Honestly, writing was one of the hardest things for me to do on a consistent basis.
When I first started internet marketing and blogging, writing came very easy for me, and I actually looked forward to write my next blog posts and content for my sites. After the fun and momentum of starting a new online venture wore off, the writing got harder, took longer, and I even started to experience writer’s block quite often.
I heard this cliche many times before from the so called experts, “if you’re writing about you’re passions, then you’ll always enjoy writing about it”. Well, it went something like that.
But later I found out they really didn’t know what they were talking about. I had done some research and learned that many, if not all the top writers in the world, experience writer’s block and need a little push now and then, too.
Got an Old Kitchen Timer?
I finally found a system, a technique, that started to work for me. Basically all you need to do is start using a timer and create a schedule for your writing. Not only will you become more efficient with your writing, but it will also help boost your productivity, greatly.
You’ll have to set your own time limits and schedule, but here’s the one I created for myself.
I write for a total of 4 hours a day, six days a week. That is the only time I can write, and that time is just for writing. I have a big timer right next to me and I set it for an hour, then I take a 15 minute break once it goes off. I do this 4 times per day.
This system helps me to not get burnt out from writing for long periods of time and helps me with my time management. Before I would force myself to write so much per day, no matter how long it would take me, even if it meant not getting to the other things I had planned for the day. With that kind of pressure, it lowered my quality and made writing a chore that I started to dread on a daily basis. Plus it was really starting to kill my productivity.
Mentally, I found having a timer in plain sight, helps me to challenge my writing skills and to become faster and better. Also, working in short bursts, helps keep me more focused and be more productive.
Does this type of writing technique work?
Well, it definitely works for me, but I actually got the idea from watching the “Top Super Geniuses” that work at places like Google and Facebook. Ever seen their software engineers (hackers) creating code? A lot of times they will have a timer right next to them and are only given a short amount of time to create something. This helps to push themselves and produces the best work possible in a set amount of time.
Here are some more variants of this same type of technique, below.
The Writer’s 3 Hour Work Day
One day I was reading this post on the Schwartz Copywriting System. It pretty much is a system that one of the top copywriters, Eugene Schwartz, created for himself to consistently produce brilliant content in only 3 hours a day. He never had writer’s block or faced self-doubt in front of his content.
His system pretty much worked the same as what I described above.
He set a kitchen timer for 33.33 minutes, and then would take a small break. He did this six times a day for five days per week. Which worked out to be a little over 3 hours of writing per day.
However, he would of course do extensive research on whatever he was writing about before actually sitting down to start writing.
And, he had setup a little list of rules that he had to follow once the timer was set and ticking.
For instance; he couldn’t get out of the chair for any reason or do anything else while in the chair.
He could however drink coffee, stare at the walls or window, or use the time for actually writing his content.
Since all the other options were pretty boring and unproductive, he usually always would use the time to write.
He eventually wrote nine books, a ton of successful ads and countless articles. He is still to this day, one of the most successful and top copy writer’s of all time.
The Pomodoro Technique
Here’s a complete site that basically has turned this into a lifestyle. The Pomodoro Technique was created by Francesco Cirillo in the 1980′s and now is practiced by many people around the world.
Basically they don’t only use a timer for writing, but use this same exact kind of system for any type of task or project at hand. Which isn’t a bad idea at all.
The Pomodoro Technique has you setting a timer for only 25 minutes and working on your task, then taking a small break once the timer rings.
As you can see, there are many different variations of this technique using a timer, out there.
Whatever you choose to do, creating a set schedule for your writing and using a timer is the best way to increase writing productivity and efficiency. It really does help you get the most out of time management and push yourself to do the best.
Have any other tips, techniques, tricks that help, when you write?
Top 10 Internet Marketing Blogs (Must Read) List
Blogs are one of the best free resources to help you grow into a stronger internet marketer. Spending a little time in the blogospere on a regular basis is an essential part of being a successful blogger or internet marketer.
–>>HEY, I’ve added some more. Come check them out!!
The top 10 internet marketing blogs that I listed below includes some of the most authoritative and successful bloggers in the industry. Not only do they provide quality content on a consistent basis, but also include insightful posts that can’t be found anywhere else.
ProBlogger – This blog is filled with tips, tutorials and insight from the pioneer of blogging. Darren Rowse, (problogger) one of the most successful bloggers out there is very helpful and genuine. You’ll find posts on everything from beginning a blog to having the most successful blog online just by digging through Problogger’s archives, which is also where you’ll find his best content. Most of his posts are very elaborate and personally written from Darren Rowse himself. Until just recently, guest bloggers write a majority of his posts.
CopyBlogger – Unless you’re already a gifted technical genius at copywriting, then this is one blog that continually produces content that can improve your writing. I learned once I got into internet marketing that being able to write great copy is practically everything. But it doesn’t come easily for everyone and takes quite a bit of skill. You’ll find some of the most brilliant writers sharing insider information and tips to help improve your copy writing on a daily basis at Copyblogger.
ShoeMoney – Now Jeremy Schoemaker isn’t the most technical writer out there and comes off as a party animal. But he is one of the most savviest internet marketers and one of the Big Guns in the industry. He’s got a ton of connections and knows if anything big is about to happen before anyone else. Keep up with the latest in the online world by checking out Shoemoney’s blog.
JohnChow – He makes money online by teaching others how to make money online. He’s relentless with his marketing tactics and is a very smart internet marketer. You can learn quite a bit from his many helpful posts on different ways to make money online found on his blog and just by observing what he does.
DailyBlogTips – A new helpful tip on blogging or internet marketing is posted daily. Some will be more beneficial than others but definitely a high quality blog worth visiting daily. Most of the posts will be short and to the point.
SethGodin – The blog looks simple and plain, but the content is ingenious. Seth is a master at writing and marketing. You’ll find some real gems throughout his blog and he continuously writes about topics in a whole new angle.
YoungPrePro – This is a young blogger who took the internet by storm. His blog seemed to appear outta nowhere and quickly became a very popular internet marketing blog filled with tips and tutorials from a highly skilled youngster.
ChrisBrogan – He’s well known for his social media skills. Anything about social media and networking can pretty much be found on his blog. His posts are insightful and written on a daily basis to help you take your social networking to the next level.
ViperChill – Glen Allsopp is one of the savviest young internet marketers out there and known for his viral marketing skills. His blog is filled with his personal experiences and his latest business ideas. You won’t be able to find more insightful and detailed posts anywhere else on the internet.
MattCutts – He’s probably the best well known Google employee. If you want to know what’s going on with Google and get insightful information about the king of the search engines, then this is the blog to read.
Newly added — I’ll keep building this list. Let me know of any others that should be added.
Entrepreneurs Journey – Yaro Starak is a really cool, laid back and down to earth guy. Who’s passionate about helping anyone succeed with blogging and internet marketing. He’s got a heap load of gems on his blog that will definitely help you out. The pod casts aren’t to shabby either.
ThinkTraffic – Corbett Barr knows how to kick you in the butt and get you motivated. If you need some inspiration or a whole heck of lot more traffic, then this blog is for you.
Of course there are many other great internet marketing blogs out there, and you can go here if you want to checkout an extensive top internet marketing blogs list.
These were just some of my favorite internet marketing blogs that I visit on the regular. So, what blogs do you read on a daily basis and why?
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31 Days to Build a Better Blog -Guaranteed to Improve Your Blogging
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Lose Search Rankings by Adding Content on Already Published Posts
Lately I’ve been noticing my rankings in the search engines dropping quite a bit. It’s not for all my blog posts, it’s just happening to the posts that I add content to after I already published them. I sometimes want to improve my posts by adding or removing things once I’ve published them, especially on my money pages. Never before have my blogs ever been penalized by Google by doing this, but ever since the latest (Major) Google Algorithm update, I’ve taken some big hits.
One of the first ways I learned to make some pretty easy money online was to be the first one to jump on board on any new affiliate offers. So a new product, service etc… is released, then just be one of the first to blog about it or even create a mini site about it. If you do this, then you”ll have a really good chance of being the first site that appears whenever someone types in the search engines for that particular new product or service.
Here’s what’s going on now. Any of my posts that I add content to or change up after the post is already published are disappearing in the Google serp’s altogether. So, any of my money posts that I made any changes to have all disappeared in the search engines. Yes, the pages were indexed and no, my blogs weren’t being sand-boxed. Also, I didn’t change the URL’s or the title tags, just some of the content.
This only happened to my posts that I was changing after they were already published, and I only noticed this ever since the latest Google Algorithm update.
-Moral of the story. If you write money posts on brand new affiliate offers, then you might want to reconsider making any changes to them once you’ve published them until after a few weeks have passed. And you’ve made some money and your rankings have fallen anyways, just to be on the safe side. Or maybe, this was just all coincidence and only happening to me. All I know I lost a lot of income because I changed up just about every money page on a couple of my blogs right before the last Google algorithm update, and I lost all traffic to those pages from the search engines. Ouch! You live and you learn.
Profits Theme
Lately I’ve been hearing all the buzz going around about the new Profits Theme for WordPress. It allows anyone even if you don’t have any design or tech skills to create professional full blown profit sites without touching a single code. With this WordPress tool, you’ll be able to quickly create professional blogs, landing pages, squeeze pages, multi-level membership sites, sales pages, product launches and more.
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Just about any type of site and page can easily be created using Profits theme in a matter of minutes. Multi-level Membership sites, blogs, product launches, squeeze pages, sales, legal, thank you pages and much more can easily be designed by you. Not only are they easy to create, but they actually look really professional and can have many different functions.
I’ve used many of the good universal WP themes out there. The point and click and drag and drop. My favorites being Thesis, UBT, and Headway but none of them can compare to the Profits WP theme. It would take you a long time to create the variety of sites and pages that Profits Theme can build using the other premium themes.
Create professional multi-level membership sites, Squeeze pages, Landing pages, Product and Offer pages like the images below. Easily add or change things up if you want to without any coding.
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I’ve never seen this on the other premium universal WP themes. Literally pick and choose what you want added and build your site or page however you want it. There are special tools added in your WP editor that allow you to add different graphics and buttons just by clicking on them. A ton of different types of graphics, skins and headers are already included for you to use. This is on top of the drag-and-drop interface and point and click features.
If you want to create a serious multi-level membership site, then the Profits Theme has many helpful features. It works for one-time and recurring membership site payments and protects your content being sold via Paypal, CB and etc… You can easily drip feed your content on a set schedule, add expiration dates for your content and setup different membership levels.
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The Profits WP theme can help seasoned internet marketers save time and money from having to always outsource or spend hours on designing. And anyone who lacks design and tech skills (like myself) this tool is a real lifesaver. It allows us to compete with the Big Boys. That is the main reason why these type of WordPress themes attract me, but I’ve never seen one that made it this easy and was so versatile. You’ll really have to give it a try for yourself to really see what the Profits theme can do.
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How to Transfer Blogger Blog to WordPress Easily
Some of the first blogs I ever created were on Blogger. This is a great place to create a blog, especially for beginners. I still like using them for certain type of sites, but not for my money makers. However, ever since I’ve had my own hosting, I wondered how to transfer my Blogger blogs to WordPress.org. I literally thought it would be to much trouble so I never even bothered before. It’s actually a really quick and simple process.
I’ll even show you how to transfer over from Blogger to WordPress, and keep your backlinks, pagerank and traffic. That’s if your Blogger blog is on it’s own domain name.
I make most of my sites now with WordPress.org. Why? It’s the best blogging platform to create highly professional sites or blogs quickly and easily. From their numerous plugins that allow you to add and change your site up without any coding. All the way to the endless choices of WP themes available. WordPress is just the way to go if you want full control over your blog and own all your content.
Just to be clear, WordPress.org is a self-hosted blogging platform. Meaning, you need to have hosting before you can install WordPress.org. I suggest you use Hostgator. They are leading provider for shared hosting and the best for WordPress blogs. Just about every tutorial I write is for Hostgator Hosting, since that’s what I use. But the steps below should be about the same even if you’re with a different hosting company.
How to Transfer from Blogger to WordPress:
1. Change the dns of your domain to your hosting
If you have your own domain name for your Blogger blog, then just follow all the steps below.
If you don’t have your Blogger blog on its own domain already, then skip these 2 steps. But you will lose pagerank, backlinks and traffic if you don’t put your Blogger blog on it’s own domain first while it’s still on Blogger. You probably want to put your Blogger blog on it’s own domain before you migrate to WordPress, give the search engines a few months to transfer everything over to your new domain, then follow the steps below. The regular Blogger domain looks like this, sitename.blogspot.com. And if you have your own domain name, then it would look like this, sitename.com.
If you purchased the domain name straight from the Blogger dashboard like the image above, then you domain registrar should be Enom. Whatever your domain registrar is log into your account like the image below and change the Name Servers of your hosting. You can usually find your namer servers for your hosting in the cpanel or in your email they sent you. Like for Hostgator, log into your cpanel and you’ll see a box on the bottom of the left sidebar with your 2 hostgator.namerservers.
2. Addon domain name
Now you need to go back into your hosting cpanel, click on the addon domains and add your domain name for your Blogger blog.
3. Install WordPress onto your domain
Install wordpress onto your domain name. Here’s a complete guide on how to install WordPress onto Hostgator.
4. Configure your permalinks
Now you need to configure your permalinks so you can keep your backlinks and your traffic. In your WP dashboard, under settings, click on permalinks and make your custom structure just like the image below.
5. Import Blogger blog to WordPress
Back in your WordPress dashboard, under tools, click on import and then select Blogger. Choose the blog you’re going to import and follow all the prompts to move your comments and posts over.
6. Correct the Permalink Structure
To make sure the permalinks (url’s) are exactly the same, since Blogger permalinks are a little different than WordPress, then you can install the blogger to wordpress redirection plugin.
Or, you can go to step 6 here, moving from blogger to wordpress and download their WP plugin instead.
7. Last steps
You are ready to work on the design and layout of your blog. You can install a new wordpress theme under appearance in your WP dashboard. And if you’re using Feedburner, make sure you update your primary feed so people from Blogger blog will be redirected properly.
Now it’s time to kick back, start writing, and enjoy WordPress to the fullest. There’s no better blogging platform out there, and you’ll probably wonder why you didn’t migrate your Blogger blogs to WordPress earlier. If you have any tips or suggestions about transferring over from Blogger to WordPress, then leave a comment.
