of my bed. I could not believe my eyes after seeing the total money earned under “Today’s Earnings” was $210.

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I started investigating what happened on that day. I wrote a review of ‘The Millionaire’s Mind’ book in the blog post 8 Most Common

Habits of Millionaires on Jan 16th. But on 29th, I submitted my RSS feed to few RSS directories, so, it could have appeared in the last 5 or 10 syndicated posts.

I did solve the mystery when I checked my Analytics Stats. Over 10,000 unique visits and 537 clicks originated because of the traffic from a single website. I waited if Adsense will discount the stats as wrong, but it didn’t happen. The “one day earning” was added to my latest payment history. So, I thought I would share this with you.

It is a neat trick but, however I am not able to replicate it – so, it works good for the first time. It’s free, so why not give it a go.

Anyone wants to know how I did it? Read on.

I could solve the mystery when I checked my Analytics Stats. Over 18,000 unique visits and 537 clicks originated because of the traffic from a single website to that single blog post. That’s “My Yahoo” main page.

Yes, I added my RSS feed over 25 feed directories but, the one which did work like a magic is My Yahoo and here’s what I did.

http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=YOUR RSS FEED

replace YOUR RSS FEED with your RSS feed url.

or alternatively you can visit http://my.yahoo.com and click ‘Personalize page’ and ‘Add RSS feed’.

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Now, what happens? The newly added content from your RSS will show up to 5 headlines from your blog. This will appear in the main page of general My Yahoo’s ‘Recently Added’ page for ’sometime’. My Yahoo users will click on your eye-catchy title and come to your blog post.

If you happen to have your adsense ads above the fold and merged with your website color scheme, they would click on them.

So, write few click-bait posts (titles especially) first and then submit your RSS feeds.

Here’s your chance to make $40,000 per month with AdSense by being lazy.

That’s all folks. If you have any questions, Email me. Thanks.

Share your experience here and you can email me. I am eager to know if it works for you.

Happy Blogging (Earning!).

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1) Pay yourself first
When the pay check comes, who comes to our mind first? Right, the bills. But, if you choose to set aside a specified sum for savings, you have done the first step in creating a secure future. The savings account you transfer should be without an ATM card access and the savings are for your major pleasure – for the year-end vacation, or for your dream car.

Additional tip: Ask your bank if they provide an additional low-fee account that provides high-interest-rate (up to 8% returns) for the savings. They are termed as investment accounts or award-saver accounts. I have a Commonwealth bank’s award saver account which penalises me (with a fee of $5) if I don’t deposit anything in it for a month. So, I make it a point to transfer at least $50 a month to avoid penalty fee.

2) Save before you spend
If you set aside a minimum amount out of every week’s pay regularly for a year, you would be surprised by the amount of money you had saved by the end of two year period. I am not saying that you should starve to save money. But, whatever little you can set aside, just do it. It could be as little as $50 a week or even $25 a week. Just transfer it and then you start spending the remaining money.

3) Don’t save cash
Saving in the form of cash (notes and coins) in a piggybank does not work (at least for me). When I have got some cash in hands, I would always find a way to spend it. I always pay from my card. At many a times, I have avoided unnecessary expenses, just because, the shopped did not have a debt card transaction or EFTPOS facility (thanks heaven!).

4) Carry a shopping list and stick to it
Prepare a shopping list before you go for shopping. This not only avoids the impulsive buying and you may tend to buy some unnecessary things that you may not require. Look for an item you would like to purchase and watch out for specials and choose that is of low price and good quality. Don’t buy a combo offer (‘Buy 3 to save $1’ kind) unless you need them. Most often we tend to buy 3 packs to save few extra cents only to dump one of them in the dust bin (after expiry).

Additional tip: Do not shop when you are hungry.

5) Budgeting every day’s expenses
I hate to sit down and write every day’s expenses – just like you. When I did it for one month and saw the benefits, I have found a new financial wisdom. I knew where my every dollar went. It is easy to remember your daily expenses and not down them in a small pocket diary. At the end of the month, just add them in categories, such as Groceries, Clothes, Food, Movie and other things. You would be surprised by the financial awareness it creates for you.

Contemplate on these five tips and say if they are worth.

The second part of the post is to be continued tomorrow.

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I am not a qualified financial advisor, but over these years, I have learnt few things that worked for me in saving money. Continuing from the yesterday’s post, here are the remaining five money saving tips that have worked for me. You would’ve heard many of them and they are nothing but common-sense, if you actually look at them. They will work for you as well, I bet.

6) When you go in a group, Spend for yourself only
When going in a group, try to spend for yourself only. Don’t get me wrong. You can spend for your friends once in a while, but do not make it as a habit and becoming a sponsor of everyone. Have a check on the amount you spend. If someone is paying for you, give back your money to them or spend for them another time. Keep track of the records on things such as these – who spent for you and for whom you have spent. I don’t keep track of every cent with my close friends (‘You pay a movie for me, I will pay you the next movie’ kind).

7) Write some financial goals, now
Two years ago, without any serious intention, I jotted down in my personal journal that I would get a job in a year that would pay me Rs. 50, 000 a month (that was my financial dream, when I was working in a job with a paycheck of Rs. 16,000). A written goal clearly sets you in a positive direction; I had read that somewhere and thankfully it worked for me. A few months later, I was at the University of Adelaide doing a Master’s Degree with a scholarship. Do you know how much money I was receiving a month in Indian Rupees? A little over 50,000 rupees (tax-free). Fancy that?

How did it happen? With few written words and some extra work from me. So, do a favour for your financial future. Write down a reasonable goal that you would like to achieve and set a time stamp on it (Say, for instance, a saving of $2000 by December 31st, 2007)

Carry your lunch box
Oh yes, it works. The first thing I purchased when I came to Australia is a Tupperware lunchbox set to carry my daily lunch with juice. The lunch is often very modest – four slices of bread with peanut butter spread and chocolate spread or veggie burger – with squeezed orange juice. The lunchbox not only saved money for me, but it contributed my health as I stayed away from fast food. Occasionally (once in few weeks), I went out for lunch with my colleagues to have a cool ‘lunch chat’. When I had stopped carrying lunchbox while I was writing my thesis, lot of money went on the nasty fast food lunches.

9) Say ‘No’ to credit cards
I don’t have a credit card. Not even one. Some of my friends said, ‘credit cards are for emergency situations’ and gladly accepted them. Now, they are in trouble for their “emergency spending” on clothes, food and movies. When you have a credit card, it is easy to get tempted by the “0%, interest free loans”. I admit that I can not handle my temptations and I am weak on them. So, I have not even a single credit card. I spend it only from my debt card. And, anyway, my other account has my savings which I always can use if an emergency situation arises (it has no ATM card access but, I can transfer them online when I need in an emergency).

10) Have a financial advisor or refer some books
You can not be a financial guru and I am not one either. We need to know only necessary things that are enough to make our life comfortable. That’s my style. And, if you open your eyes and ears, you will receive good financial advice – I meant “good”, not some gossips or ‘quick-rich schemes’ (actually, they are quickly-broken) from half-cooked-experts (sadly, they happen to be your friends or relatives). If you are working, you will have an accountant working with you – so, ask them (My friend says so. ‘Is it so?’) over a cuppa. Or if you are like me, just keep tab on a newspaper’s financial columns or trusted books. If you think it is all over your head, then keep a professional financial advisor -

These tips are effective only when you act on them (doing is way better than just knowing). Start with a one or two. I would recommend you to start with budgeting (you just need to use your diary, that’s all). Without knowing where your money goes, it is difficult to save or cut-down your expenses. Just do it. As always, share your opinions on this post.

Read the part 1 of “Money Saving Tips”

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Here are the 10 money saving tips that have worked for me which would very well work for you too. I have acquired them by own experience of money (mis)management and from my friends, books and some old financial advisors. I am going to publish it as a two-part post because, it is fairly long and I think it is worth contemplating on each of these five aspect for a while. I am eagerly waiting for your comment as usual.

1) Pay yourself first
When the pay check comes, who comes to our mind first? Right, the bills. But, if you choose to set aside a specified sum for savings, you have done the first step in creating a secure future. The savings account you transfer should be without an ATM card access and the savings are for your major pleasure – for the year-end vacation, or for your dream car.

Additional tip: Ask your bank if they provide an additional low-fee account that provides high-interest-rate (up to 8% returns) for the savings. They are termed as investment accounts or award-saver accounts. I have a Commonwealth bank’s award saver account which penalises me (with a fee of $5) if I don’t deposit anything in it for a month. So, I make it a point to transfer at least $50 a month to avoid penalty fee.

2) Save before you spend
If you set aside a minimum amount out of every week’s pay regularly for a year, you would be surprised by the amount of money you had saved by the end of two year period. I am not saying that you should starve to save money. But, whatever little you can set aside, just do it. It could be as little as $50 a week or even $25 a week. Just transfer it and then you start spending the remaining money.

3) Don’t save cash
Saving in the form of cash (notes and coins) in a piggybank does not work (at least for me). When I have got some cash in hands, I would always find a way to spend it. I always pay from my card. At many a times, I have avoided unnecessary expenses, just because, the shopped did not have a debt card transaction or EFTPOS facility (thanks heaven!).

4) Carry a shopping list and stick to it
Prepare a shopping list before you go for shopping. This not only avoids the impulsive buying and you may tend to buy some unnecessary things that you may not require. Look for an item you would like to purchase and watch out for specials and choose that is of low price and good quality. Don’t buy a combo offer (‘Buy 3 to save $1’ kind) unless you need them. Most often we tend to buy 3 packs to save few extra cents only to dump one of them in the dust bin (after expiry).

Additional tip: Do not shop when you are hungry.

5) Budgeting every day’s expenses
I hate to sit down and write every day’s expenses – just like you. When I did it for one month and saw the benefits, I have found a new financial wisdom. I knew where my every dollar went. It is easy to remember your daily expenses and not down them in a small pocket diary. At the end of the month, just add them in categories, such as Groceries, Clothes, Food, Movie and other things. You would be surprised by the financial awareness it creates for you.

Contemplate on these five tips and say if they are worth. This second part of the post is to be continued tomorrow.

Continue to the Second part of “Money Saving Tips”

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Yes, every blogger aims to achieve all of these and more (money and fame) from blogging. We want the benefits of being a professional blogger – but, do we do exactly what probloggers do?

Here is the habits of highly effective bloggers who earn the money and fame in the blogosphere.

1. Professional bloggers are honest in their dealings: Yes, they understand that you can not mock around if they aim to earn money and fame from blogging. They are very serious about their blogging and they work hard something unique for their readers. Be it the blog’s design, content, search engine optimisation or marketing – they give their heart into everything. No pain, no gain.
2. They give before they get: Every successful blogger would agree that there is a certain period of time – where you are expected to give all your energy into your blog. You can not expect your blog to earn bucks in the early days. Those who wait, shall reap big rewards.

3. Probloggers are not afraid of mistakes: Everyone makes mistakes (or shall we call them as experiments or trials?) when we venture into an unknown territory. The mother of all mistakes is ‘not learning from your mistakes’. They experiment boldly – try new methods and techniques to improve their blog, different sources to build traffic, readership. They constantly get feedback and quickly learn and adjust their strategies.

4. They have set clear goals: What you want to achieve through blogging? How much readership do you want to build? How much you want to earn? What is the time frame to achieve? Do you have a blogging schedule? Very few bloggers are very clear about what they want to achieve with their blogs. Set realistic goals for your blog – think on them.

5. Money comes last: You get paid for the work you already did. This truth applies to blogging as well. It is very common that blogs do not earn much money in the initial months – but once you have the content, readership and traffic, you will get plenty of money. Probloggers understand this. Do not stop if your blog does not earn quick dollars.

6. Probloggers read a lot: Books. Blogs. RSS feeds. They follow, skim through every possible reading material in their specialty (niche) area. They meet fellow bloggers, attend conferences and learn outside the online sources to inform their blog readers. Unless you read, you will not have authority in your writing. Read more.

7. They understand users: They follow what users like. They track user behaviors on how they respond to a new design, a blog post and quickly adapt to the readers. If you are not in touch with your readers, then you are already lost. They send out newsletters, freebies to reward the users. With readers, you grow.

More importantly, they are passionate about blogging. They strive hard to reach new heights. They would sacrifice anything for the sake of blogging (at least till they retire).

What do you think the essential quality of a professional blogger? Have I missed anything? Comment on.

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I was amazed to see such offers and discounts at Coupon Chief, that we can use online to save money while we make purchases. I have always wondered – what this special promotion code form is for – while filling up an online order, now I understand that the online companies such as Coupon Chief, negotiate deal with other companies to offer such offers for their customers.

Coupon chief maintains an exhaustive list of discount codes and coupons for many of the online stores such as Target, Office Depot, BestBuy, Zappos and many more merchants under 22 categories. They include Apparel for Men, Apparel for Women, Art, Automotive & Tools, Credit Card & Banking, Books & Magazines, Computers & Software, Electronics, Food & Wine, Flowers & Gifts, Health & Beauty, Home & Garden, Wireless & Internet, Jewelry & Watches, Baby, Kids & Toys, Kitchen, Music & DVD’s, Office Supply, Pet Supply, Shoes & Accessories, Sports & Recreation and Travel & Luggage. As you can see it covers every possible item that you can think of.

There are more than 600 companies that offer thousands of such discount coupons at any given time of the year, be it winter or spring. For example, if you are looking for gardening tools and resources, you can look for offers provided by gardening merchants such as GardensAlive Coupons. This concept creates a win-win situation for both the company that offers the discount and the customer – what an incredible to boost up the sales. So next time, when you are going to make an online purchase, quickly run a search at Coupon Chief, if you can get any discount code – if you are lucky, you will save heaps of money.

A penny saved is two penny earned, is it not?

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There are few tools that allow you to build such “personal search engines”. The pioneer is of course, Rollyo. Rollyo is built on the Yahoo web search and using it you can build a custom search engine or the expert search engine.

Rollyo came topped the search engines category at the SEOmoz’s Web 2.0 awards 2007. With Rollyo, you can create your own custom search engine. You can select up to 25 weblinks and submit them to tell Rollyo to return results from them.

For example, I have created a “Blogging Tips” search engine that will allow you to find tips and tricks from professional bloggers who are very authoritative in their voice. The topic covers how to manage your blog, how to make money with it, how to market and build traffic for your blog.

You can directly export your IE / Firefox or del.icio.us bookmarks to a .csv file and then you can use it to create your Rollyo search engine.

You can add Rollyo to your Firefox Toolbar

You can also use Rollyo RollBar Bookmarklet to search from any browser.

You can share your Rollyo search engine

• by providing a direct web link http://rollyo.com/thiru/blogging_tips/
• or embedding a search box on your web page

How do you make money with Rollyo?

To make money with Rollyo, you need to apply first to teamrollyo [at] gmail [dot] com. Their FAQ says,

“If you have a well-trafficked site or blog that features advertising or
affiliate deals, you could be a perfect fit for the Rollyo Partner Program.”

Google Custom Search : Google Co-op
That’s why Google also followed the Rollyo model and built the Google Custom Search Engine or simply Google Co-op.

The concept and setting up procedure is similar to Rollyo. But, there is no limit to the number of weblinks (Rollyo has 25).

Google Co-op is potentially far more superior that Rollyo as it gives “labels” feature to classify and categorise your weblinks – something similar to “tags”. With search refinements, you can build a powerful search engine that will provide results suiting to the audience (kids, adults, professionals or dummies), subject type (scientific, entertainment, information), document type (word, excel or pdf) and where does it come from (blog, portal, private or government based web pages).

People can contribute to your search engine (you have the control). Using Google Marker, you can improve your search engine as you browse, search the web.

With Adsense, you can make money:Oh yes, when it comes to monetization, it is simple and easy. All you need to do is integrate your Adsense account with it.

“To make money from your Custom Search Engine you can join Google’s AdSense for Search program, which places contextually relevant ads on your Custom Search Engine’s search results pages – and pays you a share of all the revenue that’s generated from those ads. For more information about how the AdSense for Search program and Custom Search Engine work together, visit the Make Money page in your search engine’s Control Panel.” – Google Co-op FAQs

Invariably, you need to popularise your search engine, to tell the world. Learn few tips from the experts on how to do it.

Despite of such tools, the personal search engine is still to hit the mainstream. Why not you pioneer the field and make some bucks. Start today. All you need is a list of your web links or bookmarks specific to a category (such as Aussie Blogs).

Now, you have two search tools with which you can build personal search engines and benefit from them too.

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Earlier I wrote a post – ‘How did I earn $100 in 25 months with Adsense’ – to list the mistakes I made as an Adsense Publisher and the lessons for a new blogger who starts with it as a primary income source. Today, I will show you how, with a clever strategy and a little time (as little as 30 minutes) spent every day, you can $150 a month from pay-per-review writing.

For the new bloggers, the option of writing pay-per-review blog posts will guarantee a quick income and when you do that regularly you can have a steady flow of money. Now, we will discuss one such service, Blogitive, extensively here and I will tell you some exclusive tips and tricks to earn a minimum assured income of US $150 a month, if you are ready to spend 30 minutes (or less) every day. Blogitive offers a minimum pay-out of $5 when you write a 100 words review on a website or service – so, if you write a review per day, for 30 days, you will easily accumulate $150.

What do you need to start?
Blog: A blog that is 2 months old which contains at least 60 blog posts written at regular intervals.
Time: You also have to allocate an hour every day (for earning $150 per month, you can do that, right?).

Why am I suggesting Blogitive?
Even though there are a good number of sites that pay you to write reviews, I like Blogitive because of the following reasons.

1) Easy approval rate:
Blogitive accepts new blogs (a month old at least) – you don’t have to have a minimum traffic or pagerank to join Blogitive. You can submit more than one blog, which means with even 2 blogs, you can earn heaps of money

2) Weekly-pay:
When you write for Blogitive, once your post is approved, you will receive the payment (money) in 7 days. With other services, you have to wait 30 days. Guess what? There is no minimum pay limit (In case of Adsense, your earnings has to reach $100 , right?). Even if you earn just $4, you will get paid by PayPal.

3) Standard procedure:
They have a general rules for writing a review. The number of minimum words is 150 (in other services, the rules will vary widely). If you write good English then you will get an approval quickly (Believe me, if I can earn with paid-reviews, you can too!).

4) You don’t have to own a domain name:
They don’t worry if you host your blog on a free platform such as Blogger,

Which blog should you use for Blogitive?
It is not a good idea to use your main blog (the one which is primary for you that has a good readership) for writing reviews, I will tell you why. Your readers will not digest your paid-reviews – and may find it annoying. So, here’s my first tip.

Register and get two blogs with a free blogging platform such as Blogger today (yes, now itself). One exclusively for writing paid reviews – you can even name that blog as “Reviews by Smith” if you like. The other blog is just a backup, in case if, Blogitive doesn’t approve the first blog. You need not publicize these two blogs (yes, don’t worry about visitors, traffic, directory listing, pagerank and such BS) because; with minimum efforts, you are going to use these blogs to earn the $150 money, OK? Believe me, I have done this – you can count on my words. You will not loose anything by trying and this is not a MLM or quick-rich scam. Only when you work, you earn with paid-reviews.

In case, if Blogitive approves both these blogs, then you will earn additional $150 for each blog (only when you write a different review in each blog – you can not simply copy and paste a post on to multiple blogs).

How can you apply for Blogitive?
Read the terms and conditions of Blogitive – before you start. As of now, they would approve a blog if it is 30 days old that has regularly posted content, with 60 posts and listed by a search engine. This is easy, if you start a blog in Blogger, Google automatically indexes you and when it is a month’s old – it will be definitely listed in search index.

How can you grab offers?

Blogitive do not email you the offers. So, you need to check regularly by logging into your account to see if you have any open offer. However, I have found that if you login at 12.01 am, Pacific Standard Time, you will see new offers for you to pick up. Just experiment around by varying your login times, and stick to the right time. You need to login at the right time as the review offers released at a specific time. When you reserve an offer, you need to write your blog post within 48 hours.

Do not delay to write the post – just write it and submit it. If you reserve, set aside time to finish it.

How can you find content for the in-between, “filler posts”?

Blogitive asks you to write two-non-paid posts for every paid-review. Each of these non-paid blog posts should contain at least 50 words. Though you can write these posts by yourself, you need not spend time in searching for ideas.

Using Creative Commons search, you can find text or media that you can legally share and reuse for free. So, search for suitable keywords relating your blog niche and post these “filler posts”. It is even good, if you search and keep this posts as drafts and later you can publish as blog posts.

Alternatively, you can use another technique to Schedule & Publish Blog Posts for a Future Date in New Blogger . Using this technique you can search and save 50 word posts, and set them for auto-publish at your blog on a daily basis.

Blogitive do not have an affiliate system yet. But, you can earn enough by writing paid reviews.

If you need any further assistance, you may contact me.

Now the blogging site trend is increasing day by day. One can earn a lot with the help of blogging site by only giving 1 hr per day. For these blogging sites you need a good quality web hosting & services. But it is very difficult yet very important to select the best web hosting services provider. Best providers mean those providers which are giving quality but cheap web hosting service. There are many companies which are providing the cheapest domain name for the webhosting but it may be possible that their quality is not up to the mark. They also make website design according to their customer’s requirements. These web host providers have a great competition in the market and every one is trying to capture each other market share by giving quality products like website design and quality services like complete SEO solutions.

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I earned my first $4 paycheck from PayPerPost – that is the moment when I decided to make money online. I enrolled with blogitive and blogsvertise soon and started posting paid reviews on this blog and another blog – which I created exclusively for writing paid reviews.

I do not think your readers wont mind paid reviews (once in a few days) if you write five other quality blog posts a week. But, I have stopped writing any sponsored reviews in this blog now (unless if someone requests a review and if I feel it is worth).

Ok, my Adsense earning have picked up really well – in this month alone, I have made another $100. If you want to cross the $100 barrier, try my quick tips.

Now, I will take stock of things to present to you a snapshot of my online earnings.

Earning Period: November 1, 2006 to May 31, 2007 (7 months)

Through Blogitive, by writing paid reviews US $ 175.00

With Blogsvertise, by writing sponsored posts US $ 216.00

With Payperpost, writing paid blog posts US $304.59

With Google Adsense, it comes to around US $173.25

That comes to a total of US $864.84 which is an equivalent of AU $ 1031.75.

I am happy that my online earnings have crossed the 1000$ mark (in AUD), the earnings are just beginning to sore high as I have seen my first Adsense cheque lately. I hope to continue aggressive blogging to grow up from here.

How will this help you? Well, I have worked around every model of online money making ideas, tried and tested so, I can help you with tips and tricks from my own experience on making a living online. I am planning to write a series of blog posts to teach you how you can earn and surpass my earnings as well.

I am going to write a post to teach you How to Earn $1500 per month with a blog that is as new as 3 months old. Stay tuned to this blog.

After all, I believe that only by sharing, we grow.

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Phew… I made $100 in 25 months (2 years!). Now, I reflect upon the horrible mistakes I made here. I hope it will help you to become a better Adsense publisher. Read on..

my familiar report in Adsense (pic)

1) Not posting frequent enough
I started a personal blog in December 2004 – I posted nothing but personal rants. Only my friends would read them, but I was posting once in a blue moon. You will not make any money online if you are posting once in a month and nothing for a wider audience (how many people want to know what I did yesterday, huh?). A blog post should contain at least 300 words of text. And you must post 2 such 300 word posts a day, on a regular basis every day (no kidding!). Develop lot of quality content so the search engines will index you and so visitors will come regularly.

2) Not knowing who my readers are
Have you ever thought about the people who are online all the time? who are they? what do they like? what do they want?.

In my opinion, the web designers are the majority of those online community who are online at least 70% of their day, so, if you address their needs – you can reach a wider audience. Also, the other major junk of web community are people those who want to make money on the internet (like you and me).

Regardless of the topic you choose to address, – believe it or not – if you start a genuine blog that either informs or entertains or do both, post continuously enough, you will make money out of it .

3) Not knowing what to blog (niche area)
What is unique and special about your blog? Do you have a one-line mission statement? for e.g. my blog should be known as the best place to know anything about photography. Choose your niche area and address them with blog posts – also try to select a blog niche that you are comfortable with too, otherwise you will NOT sustain the initial tough phase.

4) I didn’t follow readers
I didn’t track my blog. I didn’t know what reader liked or disliked. I didn’t use a web statistics programs like Google Analytics to track the preferences of visitors. If you like to read my tips, read 23 Essential Google Analytics Tips

Look, what your readers were reading from your blog – if you can make a top 10 list of popular posts, then you know what to write for future.

5) I didn’t stop and review
Not having a plan of action is another mistake I made. You need to try different ways of monetization, Contextual advertising is just one way, writing reviews, affiliate marketing, selling ad space at your blog and plenty more ways you can monetize your blog. Keep exploring and experimenting. Find what works best for you and your blog. If you have a book review or product review blog, then you must be an Amazon associate publisher.

6) I didn’t know much about the working of Adsense
Do you know which ad formats and placements work in the best manner? I recently find out the Medium Rectangle (330 by 250) embedded in the main content (blog post) earns good number of clicks rather in the sidebar, skyscraper ads. Also, link ads just below your header image work better. Image ads just below the post- try it for very good returns.

Do you know about blacklisting low-paying ads using service such as Adsblacklist – try them sensibly.

7) If you depend only on Adsense, you are doomed.
Even though I did make $100 from Google Adsense in the last 2 years, I have made more than $600 USD from payperpost, blogitive and blogsvertise writings. I am planning to write some successful strategies for making money with each of them in the upcoming posts here. So, employ Adsense to work in your blog, do consider pay-per-review programs for making some extra money for survival.

Not making use of social network sites
Sites like StumbleUpon, Reddit, Netscape, Blogg-buzz, Digg and user forums – they are the biggest sources of your traffic. One post making it to a popular page will help you to discover new readers. If you have a quality blog, with lot of periodically updated content, readers will become loyal to your blog.

What I expect from you (comment on).
What is your experience with Adsense? How long did you take to make the first $100. And what tips you have got for the starters? (Also, please mention the URL of your blog / site – so that I can payback a visit to your blog and bookmark it for future references).

What I can offer you.
If you write to me (specific to your problem), I can offer more suggestions and tips for you to earn more from Adsense and other pay-per-review blogs. I do not expect any money for doing this – I want to help you honestly.

So, this is my take-home message – say these words with me – aloud and clear..
Content, First, Reader, Second, You-making-money – Third and Final (you don’t need to do anything about the third part other than installing ads on your blog).

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