Recently, there has been a whole lot of controversy regarding the subject of blog monetization. While some bloggers agree that monetizing your blog is a good thing, since you deserve some form of compensation for your labour, others vehemently oppose the idea emphasizing that blogs are for relationship building and trying to make money off your relationships is unethical! Still among those who accept... 

Driving free organic traffic is something that many online marketers desire to master any day – who wouldn’t anyway? But unfortunately, it is only a pipe dream for many! But this shouldn’t be because driving targeted organic traffic is not really as hard as some people think it is. Truth is, if you understand the basic requirements of search engine optimization (SEO) and you commit to applying... 

If you ask any blogger, content marketing professional or web entrepreneur what their #1 priority is, the answer you will get most of the time is, generating website TRAFFIC! Indeed, traffic is like the magic wand that opens the door to online riches. Unfortunately, many of us are getting it wrong every way when it comes to generating traffic. You must know this: TRAFFIC on its own does not guarantee... 

  So you have dreams of having a successful home based online business, right? And to actualize your dreams you have setup your business site and you’re passionately working on your promotional strategies while looking forward to hordes of traffic flooding your site, right? But, hold it for a moment. How about a blog, did you add a blog to your home business website? You did? Oh, that’s great! Fact... 

Sometime ago I wrote a post titled: Are You a Blogger or an Entrepreneur Who Blogs? In that post I did gave reasons why you should not consider yourself simply as a blogger but an entrepreneur. Unfortunately, it does appear that not many people are really listening to these things. Since writing that post I have seen a whole lot of new bloggers join the blogging bandwagon while many others have abandoned... 

Did that sound contradictory to you? It shouldn’t! The desire for independence is one of the greatest among men. We want to be self-reliant. We want to be free from any controls. We want to be self-made. And, truth is, many of us started our own businesses because we desire to live the free life! But as much as all of these are good, the fact still remains that no one is truly independent of others.... 

Are you using social media and blogging to build connections online? If you are not then you are definitely losing out in some good fun! It is a fact that in the early days, blogging was simply a means for people to talk about their interests and share their hobbies and ideas. Then it was all about self-expression. But those days are gone as blogging has come to serve a bigger purpose than anyone would... 

The subject of blog monetization is one that is commonly discussed on many blogs, especially those that are focused on making money blogging. Most of these blogs offer different tactics and methods that are opened to bloggers who want to make money from their blogs. Among these methods, the most commonly advocated is promoting affiliate products and selling ad spaces on your blog. Selling your own... 

“Build it and they will come.” I honestly hope you are not still swallowing that version of ‘wisdom,’ or are you? The truth is, blogging is no longer the ‘shoot and you will hit something’ stuff it used to be. There are now hundreds of millions of blogs out there, almost 80,000,000 powered by WordPress alone. That means there are probably thousands of related blogs out there,... 

Branded as the new media, blogging has taken roots quickly and at a pace unimaginable. It is reported that every minute, hundreds of blogs are started all over the world. One thing that is very noticeable also is that like most things on the net, there are really no regulations anywhere for bloggers to adhere to. However, over the years some un-written standards have come to be accepted by all and...