SUBJECT 1: Can you believe this blog is worth $5 million dollars?
SUBJECT 2: Interview with a million dollar blogger
SUBJECT 3: Blogging can make you a millionaire - here is proof
Whoever said blogging can't make BIG money had
not heard this story.
Yaro Starak interviewed his previous student,
Alborz Fallah, who is the owner of
caradvice.com.au - a car blog for Australians,
which was valued at $5 million dollars and
generates close to $50,000 a month.
You can listen or read the interview here -
http://www.blogmastermind.com/affiliates/index.php?af=817261&u=http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/952/alborz-interview/
Alborz started his blog like most people, sitting
at home, writing content each day outside of the
time he spent at his full time job. His blog grew,
he started making money and he just kept working.
Eventually he was approached by people who wanted
to buy his blog. He said no, until someone came
along who only wanted to buy a share in the site
and help it continue to grow. Alborz agreed and
his blog immediately went from part time hobby, to
full time business.
Today Alborz's blog has full time employees, he
travels to Europe to test some of the most
prestigious cars in the world and it's fair to
say he is living a dream - making big money
writing about a topic he loves.
In this interview you can hear Alborz talk about
how he grew his traffic, how he brought on
investors to help grow his site and what's it
like being in charge of a multi-million dollar
blog.
It's worth listening to this interview because
you can learn some key things to help with your
own quest to make a profitable blog, for example -
- How Alborz chose the topic for his blog is a
great lesson for anyone else out there struggling
to come up with a blog topic
- The search engine advice Alborz offers is
powerful yet simple and will immediately help your
own blog get more traffic, if you follow it
- The story of how investors came on board to take
Car Advice to the next level is unique, but
definitely worth hearing because it shows how you
can grow a blog from just making a few hundred
dollars, to making six or seven figures a year.
The interview is available for instant download in
MP3 or text transcript. Here's the link again -
http://www.blogmastermind.com/affiliates/index.php?af=817261&u=http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/952/alborz-interview/
Yaro released this video to inspire people to
believe what is possible with a blog.
If you want to follow in Alborz's footsteps,
consider taking on Yaro as your blog coach and
join his Blog Mastermind coaching program and you
might just become the next Alborz.
I'll speak to you soon,
Stuart
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
10 BLOG TRAFFIC TIPS
In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else''s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that''s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers.
These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.
It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called "traction", which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.Top 10 Tips
10. Write at least five major "pillar" articles. A pillar article is usually a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good "how-to" lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn''t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.
9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.
You don''t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.
8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need an easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that''s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you''ve done a good job!).
7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people''s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.
Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.
6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger''s article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry - it''s sort of like your blog telling someone else''s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.
This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.
5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.
4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival enjoy a spike in new readers.
To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at http://blogcarnival.com/.
3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it''s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it''s worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!
2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn''t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it''s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have - your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.
How you benefit is through what is called your "Resource Box". You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.
1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I''ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won''t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.
This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.To get more information about Blog Mastermind click this link:
Click here to join the Blog Mastermind Mentoring Program
These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.
It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called "traction", which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.Top 10 Tips
10. Write at least five major "pillar" articles. A pillar article is usually a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good "how-to" lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn''t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.
9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.
You don''t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.
8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need an easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that''s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you''ve done a good job!).
7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people''s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.
Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.
6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger''s article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry - it''s sort of like your blog telling someone else''s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.
This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.
5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.
4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival enjoy a spike in new readers.
To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at http://blogcarnival.com/.
3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it''s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it''s worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!
2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn''t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it''s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have - your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.
How you benefit is through what is called your "Resource Box". You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.
1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I''ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won''t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.
This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.To get more information about Blog Mastermind click this link:
Click here to join the Blog Mastermind Mentoring Program
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Content Creation
My wife is watching the all blacks playing against the wallabies, so I thought I would take the oppurtunity as I'm not that much of a rugby fan to write a bit more today.
The topic I want to talk about is content creation.
Content can be a hard thing to come up with sometimes, even if you are passionate about your subject. You might start out with a hiss and a roar, and you produce several or even a couple of months worth of articles, but sometime you might find yourself at a loss of something to put fingers to keyboard about.
I find it hard to put my thoughts down in black and white and as I am not particularly passionate about one subject, being as I term myself as a JOATMON [jack of all trades master of none].So I was pleased to be invited the other day to watch a webinar produced by the million dollar publisher Peter Martin.
In it he introduced us to the secrets of his success, He explain the processes he went through to aquire his content. But not only that,he showed us how to aquire public domain books and articles and how to make them your own to do with as you wish, wether it be to on sell them from your site or to offer them as free bonuses or gifts for signing up for a service that you offer.
I myself have used some of his tips to reasearch content for a blog soon to be produced on herbs and related topics and found it to be very useful.
He also pointed out what he terms as the hot markets for niche sites.
What he also offers is a 52 week training course at a very reasonable price of only $27/mth, in it he goes in depth step by step, including how to market your product.
So if you are interested in joining the course click on the link below.
Million Dollar Publisher
If you want to watch the webinar just to give you an idea on what he offers you copy the URL below and paste in your browser as I am currently unable to create it as a link sorry, but if you decide to take up the offer for the tutorial don't wait to long as there is limited seats available.
www.milliondollarpublisher.com/webinars/peter martin/peter martin.html
Well I,ll sign off for now as we have what is called a weather bomb happening at the moment and has interfered with the transmission of the rugby game so my wife is not happy being the avid fan that she is. If you check out the webinar can you leave a comment on what you thought of it, thanks.
stuartpaul.
The topic I want to talk about is content creation.
Content can be a hard thing to come up with sometimes, even if you are passionate about your subject. You might start out with a hiss and a roar, and you produce several or even a couple of months worth of articles, but sometime you might find yourself at a loss of something to put fingers to keyboard about.
I find it hard to put my thoughts down in black and white and as I am not particularly passionate about one subject, being as I term myself as a JOATMON [jack of all trades master of none].So I was pleased to be invited the other day to watch a webinar produced by the million dollar publisher Peter Martin.
In it he introduced us to the secrets of his success, He explain the processes he went through to aquire his content. But not only that,he showed us how to aquire public domain books and articles and how to make them your own to do with as you wish, wether it be to on sell them from your site or to offer them as free bonuses or gifts for signing up for a service that you offer.
I myself have used some of his tips to reasearch content for a blog soon to be produced on herbs and related topics and found it to be very useful.
He also pointed out what he terms as the hot markets for niche sites.
What he also offers is a 52 week training course at a very reasonable price of only $27/mth, in it he goes in depth step by step, including how to market your product.
So if you are interested in joining the course click on the link below.
Million Dollar Publisher
If you want to watch the webinar just to give you an idea on what he offers you copy the URL below and paste in your browser as I am currently unable to create it as a link sorry, but if you decide to take up the offer for the tutorial don't wait to long as there is limited seats available.
www.milliondollarpublisher.com/webinars/peter martin/peter martin.html
Well I,ll sign off for now as we have what is called a weather bomb happening at the moment and has interfered with the transmission of the rugby game so my wife is not happy being the avid fan that she is. If you check out the webinar can you leave a comment on what you thought of it, thanks.
stuartpaul.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
FIRST POST.
Just a short post to explain this blog a bit more.
In this blog I will show you some of the things that I have found as I have learn't my way through the blogosphere and netscape. I will address subjects such as content creation, traffick,and other subjects.
You may find a few ramblings of my thoughts now and then as I muse about some things, so I apologise in advance.
In this blog I will show you some of the things that I have found as I have learn't my way through the blogosphere and netscape. I will address subjects such as content creation, traffick,and other subjects.
You may find a few ramblings of my thoughts now and then as I muse about some things, so I apologise in advance.
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