Showing posts with label blogger tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogger tips. Show all posts

Monday, March 23, 2009

Make money online : Easy ways to earn through web

Making money online used to pretty much require you to have your own Web site, products to sell and some marketing savvy. But a new generation of dot-coms have arisen that will pay you for what you know and who you know without you having to be a web designer or a marketing genius.

But it's hard to tell hype from the real deal. I did a search on "make money online" and "making money online", and much of the information out there is just promoting various infoproducts, mostly about Internet marketing. I see why people sometimes ask, "Is anyone making money online besides Internet marketing experts?"
So I put together a list of business opportunities with legitimate companies that:
* Pay cash, not just points towards rewards or a chance to win money
* Don't require you to have your own Web domain or your own products
* Don't involve any hard-selling
* Aren't just promoting more Internet marketing
* Give a good return on your time investment

In the interest of objectivity, none of the links below are affiliate links, and none of them have paid or provided any other consideration for their presence here. These are legitimate companies with business models that allow you to get paid for a wide range of activities.

Help friends find better jobs.
Sites like ReferEarns, Zyoin, Who Do You Know For Dough?, Bohire and WiseStepp connect employers with prospective employees, many of whom are already employed and not actively job-hunting, via networking - the people who know these qualified candidates. Rewards for referring a candidate who gets hired range from $50 on up to several thousand dollars - not chump change. If you know a lot of job-seekers (and who doesn't these days?), this is a great way to break into the recruiting business with no overhead.

Connect suppliers with buyers.

Referral fees are a common practice in business, but they haven't been used much in online networking sites because there was no way to track them. Sites like Salesconx, InnerSell and uRefer now provide that. Vendors set the referral fees they're willing to pay (and for what), and when the transaction happens, you get paid. uRefer also allows merchants to set up referral programs for introductions and meetings, as well as transactions.
Write.

A growing number of sites will pay for your articles or blog posts. Associated Content and Helium will "pay for performance" based on page views for just about anything you want to write about. Articles on specific topics they're looking for can earn direct payments up to about $200. The rates are probably low for established writers, but if you're trying to break into the field and have time on your hands, they're a great way to start. Also, a lot of companies are looking for part-time bloggers. They may pay per post or on a steady contract. Our Weblogs Guide posts blogging jobs weekly in the forum.

Start your own blog.

You don't have to have your own Web site, or install blogging software, or even figure out how to set up the advertising. At Blogger you can set up a blog for free in less than five minutes without knowing a thing about web design, and Blogger even automates setting up Google AdSense so you can make money off your blog by displaying ads and getting paid when people click on the ads. To make even more money from it, set up an affiliate program (see below) for books, music, etc., and insert your affiliate links whenever you refer to those items. You'll have to get a lot of traffic to become a six-figure blogger, but pick an interesting topic, write well, tell all your friends, and you're off to a good start.

Create topical resource hubs.

Are you an expert on a particular niche topic? Can you put together an overview of the topic and assemble some of the best resources on the topic from around the web? Then you can create topical hubs and get paid through sites like Squidoo, HugPages and Google Knol. Payments are based on a combination of ad revenue and affiliate fees. You'll get higher rates doing it on your own, but these sites have a built-in supply of traffic and tools to make content creation easier.

Advertise other people's products.

If you already have a Web site or a blog, look for vendors that offer related but non-competing products and see if they have an affiliate program. Stick to familiar products and brands - they're easier to sell. To promote those products:

* Place simple text or graphical ads in appropriate places on your site
* Include links to purchase products you review or recommend in a blog, discussion forum or mailing list you control
* Create a dedicated sales page or Web site to promote a particular product

They all work - it just depends on how much time you have to spend on it and your level of expertise with Web design and marketing.

Microstock photography.

You don't have to be a professional photographer to sell your photos for money. People are constantly in need of stock photography for websites, presentations, brochures and so on, and are willing to pay for the right image. People generally search for images on stock photography sites by keywords, not by photographer, so you have the same chance as anyone else of having your image picked. Just be careful that you don't have images of trademarked brands, copyrighted art or people's faces that are readily identifiable (unless you have a model release), but just about anything else is fair game, and I promise - you'd be amazed what people need pictures of, so don't make any assumptions. If it's a decent photo, upload it. Some sites to get you started include Fotolia, ShutterStock, Dreamstime and iStockphoto. The great thing about this is that it's truly "set it and forget it".

The above list is by no means comprehensive, but it highlights some of the new and interesting ways to make money online without investing any money, without having a product of your own, and without having expert sales and marketing skills. Most of all, unlike taking surveys or getting paid to read e-mail, the potential return on your time investment is substantial.

increase traffic of your blog/website : top 50 ways

I am going to share today ;how to increase the traffic to your blog or website so fast and increasing the popularity of your website or blog. Here is the top list of the tips for blogger or designer to present their stuff better than ever.Read carefully and try to follow these tips you will get change in very short time.
# Use lists.
# Be topical... write posts that need to be read right now.
# Learn enough to become the expert in your field.
# Break news.
# Be timeless... write posts that will be readable in a year.
# Be among the first with a great blog on your topic, then encourage others to blog on the same topic.

# Share your expertise generously so people recognize it and depend on you.
# Announce news.
# Write short, pithy posts.
# Encourage your readers to help you manipulate the technorati top blog list.
# Don't write about your cat, your boyfriend or your kids.
# Write long, definitive posts.
# Write about your kids.
# Be snarky. Write nearly libelous things about fellow bloggers, daring them to respond (with links back to you) on their blog.
# Be sycophantic. Share linklove and expect some back.
# Include polls, meters and other eye candy.
# Tag your posts. Use del.ico.us.
# Coin a term or two.
# Do email interviews with the well-known.
# Answer your email.
# Use photos. Salacious ones are best.
# Be anonymous.
# Encourage your readers to digg your posts. (and to use furl and reddit). Do it with every post.
# Post your photos on flickr.
# Encourage your readers to subscribe by RSS.
# Start at the beginning and take your readers through a months-long education.
# Include comments so your blog becomes a virtual water cooler that feeds itself.
# Assume that every day is the beginning, because you always have new readers.
# Highlight your best posts on your Squidoo lens.
# Point to useful but little-known resources.
# Write about stuff that appeals to the majority of current blog readers--like gadgets and web 2.0.
# Write about Google.
# Have relevant ads that are even better than your content.
# Don't include comments, people will cross post their responses.
# Write posts that each include dozens of trackbacks to dozens of blog posts so that people will notice you.
# Run no ads.
# Keep tweaking your template to make it include every conceivable bell or whistle.
# Write about blogging.
# Digest the good ideas of other people, all day, every day.
# Invent a whole new kind of art or interaction.
# Post on weekdays, because there are more readers.
# Write about a never-ending parade of different topics so you don't bore your readers.
# Post on weekends, because there are fewer new posts.
# Don't interrupt your writing with a lot of links.
# Dress your blog (fonts and design) as well as you would dress yourself for a meeting with a stranger.
# Edit yourself. Ruthlessly.
# Don't promote yourself and your business or your books or your projects at the expense of the reader's attention.
# Be patient.
# Give credit to those that inspired, it makes your writing more useful.
# Ping technorati. Or have someone smarter than me tell you how to do it automatically.
# Write about only one thing, in ever-deepening detail, so you become definitive.
# Write in English.
# Better, write in Chinese.
# Write about obscure stuff that appeals to an obsessed minority.
# Don't be boring.
# Write stuff that people want to read and share

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

How to Hide or disable blogger navbar from your blog?

Learn how to hide,disable or remove the blogger navbar(navigation bar) from your blog.
First,let us see what blogger navbar is
Blogger navbar allows users to easily navigate to other random blogs and it also has a feauture to search the blogs ,and mark any blog as spam.
So,now you have a clear idea of what really a blogger navbar is.So, why so many people prefer to just remove the navbar inspite of the feautures it has like search,etc.Many people think that, it spoils the look of the blog,especially if your blog has differnet subtitle layout which looks too obvious to see for a visitor.Well, let me come to the actual point on how to disable or hide your blogger navbar.Click here for more post
Below is the step-by-step procedure on how to do it with photos to make it easy to understand.

1.Sign in to your blogger account and click the layout button next to your blog name

2.Next,click the edit html .

3.Add the below html code as specified in the below picture.

#navbar {
height: 0px;
visibility: hidden;
display: none;
}




4. Save the changes.

Now, you can see your blog without that navbar(this tip can only hides the navbar,it doesn't completely delete it).If you want the navbar to appear again,just remove that code and save the changes.
If you have any doubts,regarding this post,don't hesitate to ask.You can ask your doubts via comments to this post.source.bloggertricks

Saturday, March 7, 2009

How to split the post in blogger

Your blog's main page usually shows the entire content of each post. If your posts are usually more than 2 paragraphs, then your visitor will find it difficult to quickly find the topic of interest to him because he needs to scroll down a lot. This is where expandable post summaries helped in the old Blogger. This hack serves the same purpose for the new Blogger and more! That is, main page will show only post summaries and when you click "Read more", the full post appears in the main page itself (Peekaboo view)!! I got some requests to do such a hack and I managed to get it working. Later, Hans improved it by adding a "Summary only" link with which you can collapse the post back to summary. Together, we also made the "Read more" link to show up only for the posts that have a summary. This is an amazing hack but you need to be careful while changing your template. If you are not familiar with HTML, I strongly suggest you to get help from somebody who knows HTML while applying this hack. Here are the steps to follow. Click here for more


Step 0: Download and save your template so that you can go back to it if there is any problem with this hack (Important!)
Step 1: Find the tag in your template and add this line before it (if you have not already done so).



Step 2: Find the includable called 'post' and copy/paste the changes highlighted in red in this page (Be very careful and avoid mistakes. Note that the word "uncustomized-post-template" may not appear in your template but that's fine.). To find the includable, you could search for the term id='post'. If you are not able to find it, you may not have expanded the template. Select the checkbox named "Expand Widget Templates", which is right above the template code, to expand it into more code.
Step 3. Goto Settings->Formatting and at the bottom, you will find the text box provided to specify the "Post template". Copy/paste these lines into that text box and save the settings. (Please DON'T type these lines yourself because you might introduce some spaces that will break the functionality)



If you create a new post now, it shows you clearly where to type the summary and where to add the rest of the post. It is important to make sure that the /span tag above is at the end of the post. To ensure this, use Edit Html tab instead of Compose tab while typing the post. After typing, you can go to compose mode and change fonts/colors etc. Please note that you could also divide some (or all) of your old posts into summary and full post by editing them. The "Read more" link will appear only for the posts that have been divided like this.