To start a blog you need money. Hosting costs money, a domain costs money and you probably want to have a nice professional designed theme.
That is the basic things needed to start a blog:
A domain
A domain name (obviously a domain is the domain name but I want to seperate looking for the domain name and [...]
I just thought of a few things needed to make money online and would like to share it.
Patience
Working on the internet takes time, you have to wait for affiliates to come back to you, you have to wait once you’ve signed up at a place for them to approve you, you have to wait for [...]
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There are certain things to consider when selling domains on ebay. Sometimes its not worth selling domains on ebay and you just wont get the amount of money that you want for the domain. But there are certain tips when selling domains on ebay.
For instance:
When selling a domain on ebay dont tell people its a [...]
With recent complaints about domain names being stolen from domain search sites it has become of most importance to find the right site to search for your domain. www.checkdomain.com is one I have been using for years, it’s got no fancy functions but at least you will know if you find a great domain name [...]
While you may think that your niche domain will work for you, it might just not. Sometimes we look at other bloggers and think they have a niche domain and if it works for them it will work for me. But getting a niche targeted domain can also limit you blogging.
You might realize one year [...]
It takes time to grow a blog. Blogging is not easy if you plan to make money from blogging or if you plan to make a living from blogging. One of the most important parts of blogging and letting a blog grow is search engines. Without search engines you’d have to depend only on social [...]
In South Africa if you embed certain South African ads on your site you can earn up to R2 per click. But if you plan your blog correctly you really dont need South African readers neither a South African blog to make money. That is because things like Adbrite and some others pay way more [...]
Most affiliates give you a link you can use to make money online. Meaning if you use that link and refer people to them through that link which is the whole process called affiliate marketing. Now Google Adwords lest you use a domain that you dont own when you want to advertise with them. So [...]
So you dont want to have a niche blog where you focus on one topic. You have so many things to say but you really dont want to have a mixed up blog because you know niche blogging makes more money online?
Here is what you can do:
Take all the categories of your blog and make [...]
Making money on ebay is easy if you already have money. What you do is get domains for cheap, build them up get the alexa rating and google pagerank and sell them for double the price they were.
You can also buy a domain on ebay, one of those 4 letter domains. They usually dont go [...]
Every week I read about some useless competition.
A lot of factors depend the success of your blog. Treat your blog like a business to get going.
This is not aimed at anyone specific, I am just talking about blogs in general. Just for fun
This is all the types of bloggers I can think of. There might be more, if you can think of more types of bloggers please add them in the comments.
I guess I can fit myself in each of these categories sometimes
You will be amazed at what you can learn from a restaurant about blogging.
Having a blogspot might work for personal blogs or even any kind of non professional blog. But lately almost every second blogspot blog is a make money blog.
Here is what I see wrong with that.
1. Branding
If you plan to make money online one of the first things you need is your own brand in the [...]
Finding a great domain name does not mean you have to go and get it. There will always be great domain names available. The ones you really should be going after is the dictionary domain names. I see great domains names everyday. And they are all available but in South Africa and South African domains [...]
The other day I was about to sign up for the domain name after market. But then I realized I can get better domains than this on ebay. They are irrelevant and hard to spell. So instead of going for the over priced domains on TDNAM, its way better if you are real desperate to [...]
My point is what would you remember the easiest? Domainbase or dmbs? I think the easier one would be domainbase. Even though the 4 letter LLLL domain is shorter it takes longer to say. And it makes you think what those letter really are. The thing with most 4 letter domains on ebay is exactly [...]
When choosing your domain the important thing to decide is what you want your domain for. Domains for businesses should always be brandable. Brandable domain names does not mean something generally. Maybe it means something to the owners of the business but not the general public.
The best domain obviously is one that people can remember [...]
