A few quick ideas for you to promote your blog, and some quick ideas to make money

This is not my blog entry about new companies advertising at BWE, at least, not really.  Some of these companies were there, but others just go along with my current theme of how to promote your blog and bring in more readers, and, how to make a bit of extra income online.  I hope you’ll find some of these suggestions helpful:

-- Submit your blog to Blog Catalog.  It’s a directory of quality blogs which has been around for a few years, but is having a new surge of popularity.  All blogs are approved by an editorial staff before they’re included in the directory, so there’s a nice shortage of crap and splog.  I was browsing the “pet” section and found a lot of blogs I’d never seen before, so I think it will be a valuable resource.  There’s also a “community” element to it, as blogs can be rated, comments can be left, etc.  It will take just a few minutes of your time, but it is a good way to find new readers.  You can view my specific entry by going to The Blog Pound at Blog Catalog.  The kind of odd thing is that it says my blog was added in February 2005, but I didn’t add it myself until a few days ago.  I don’t know if it’s been there all this time without my knowledge.

-- Sign up for MyBlogLog.  If you have a Yahoo account, it just ties in with that, so signup is pretty quick.  You can attach a number of blogs to one profile.  After you sign up, you have to add a snippet of code to your blog so it can track stats, but it’s small and simple.  This is just another avenue for you to list your blog by category and keywords, so that people looking for your type of blog can find you.  Here’s an example of what my page looks like (I just signed up, so I don’t have much info there, but tomorrow I’ll add Tired Girls, the Vertexhost blog, etc.).

-- I’ve plugged them before, but sign up for Lijit.com.  They give you code for a search box that you can put on your website, so users can search your site.  Even better, surfers who go to Lijit.com can search all blogs signed up from there, and I do get a pretty nice amount of traffic from them.  If you look at the Lijit box in my sidebar, you’ll see that it lists recent searches that people have made on my blog.  Maybe the coolest part of all is that if you click that little “Explore” link the very bottom of my Lijit Widjit, you’ll get a fabulous popup map of all the sites that link here.  In turn, you can click on each of them and see who links, and so on, and so on.  It’s a fascinating toy that I can play with for hours, and it’s got tons of nifty little features for you to have fun with.  If you haven’t signed up for it yet, I’d recommend it as definitely the most informative of the blog “widjits/wijits” available.  Oh, it will also integrate with your Facebook account, if you have one.

-- You might be able to make a little extra cash if you sign up for Yovia.com.  The concept is still in the beginning stages, but you can see the blog they’re working on here.  It looks sort of amateurish now, but there are good minds and lots of money behind this, so I think it might be wise to get in on the ground floor.

-- Another place to dabble in extra income is Mochila.com.  You can buy original articles, photos, and videos for use on your blog or website.  Plus, you can upload those same things and sell them to interested buyers.  In all cases, Mochila handles the copyright issues, so you don’t have to worry about being ripped off. 

-- I have mixed feelings about Pay-Per-Post, but there are certainly lots of people making lots of money with them!  Flippy I talked to one of their management dudes at BWE (I wish I could remember his name!), and he assured us that he doesn’t know of anyone who’s been punished by Google for writing PPP entries.  I’ve been so tempted to do them, because just a couple hundred bucks a month would make a huge difference to us.  Still, I feel like it wouldn’t be right for this blog.  It’s something I’m considering for the rarely-used Wee Paws blog, however.  It would be a good fund-raiser, and I can’t imagine anyone could object.  If you have a blog with a mishmash of topics, and perhaps it’s your secondary blog or just something you occasionally dabble in, you might want to look at PPP as well.

Finally, here’s a new blog ad company if you’ve considering earning some ad revenue.  They’re called Ads-Click.com, and they have some really interesting ways to integrate advertising.  They offer a tag cloud of ad links, and the tags are relevant to your blog, they offer ads for your RSS feed, they’ve got inline text links, and the conventional ad boxes like you’d find with Google AdSense.  If you’d like to check them out, their publisher signup page is at Ads-Click.com.

I may add to this entry as I work on my post about exhibitors at Blog World.  I hope it doesn’t bore anyone.  I just know that most of us could use a little extra cash, and some of us would love to make money online (or from our blogs), and I hope this once-a-year info might help.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 11/14 at 01:55 AM

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