Six Figure Blogging Secrets (How the Pros Make Money Blogging) by Dave Drew - HTML preview

of your life. Either way, you will be learning new stuff all

the time.

The bottom line here is, if I can learn and do this entire

process, you can too. Anyone can!

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How Do Your Links and Banner Ads Make Money?

Let’s go over a few important things before we get into

how the links on your blog and banner ads make money.

The reason people make money from blogs, without

having massive traffic like Perez Hilton’s blog, is because

they offer products and services that interest people,

either in the niche on the blog, or in the niche that

teaches people how to make money blogging, or both.

Because you may be just starting out in the blogging

business, you won’t have a lot of traffic to your blog right

way. This is the main reason you will want to offer

people a way to make money blogging, along with your

specialty niche, so you can make money by offering those

products and services. That’s where the Blogchise

program, The Ultimate blog Theme and other products will make your life easy and help you to start earning

money sooner. All the way around, these blogging

products and services work to make your blogging life

easier and also to help you make money.

If you have a great niche, like weight loss, self help or

exercise, there are plenty of additional products and

services you can offer through affiliate banner ads and

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links in order to make more money, along with offering

blogging products and services. That’s what you call a

sweet, double winner.

One of the best niches for making money is actually

teaching people how to make money, because there are

a gazillion people always looking for ways to make more

money. That’s why so many blogs do well by offering

affiliate banner ads teaching people how to make money

blogging.

The links and banner ads on your blog pages will all have

your own affiliate tracking code embedded in them.

That’s how you will make money from your links and

banner ads.

Without going deep into this subject of affiliate links, I’m

going to explain the affiliate marketing process the best I

can in a few short paragraphs. You can learn the details

of affiliate links in the blogchise.com coaching program if you decide to get into blogging.

You will need to first get affiliate links to embed in your

text links and banner ads on your blog. Don’t worry! This

is much easier than you might think. Any Internet dummy

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can handle this process. Just keep in mind, you will need

to learn new things, but this is all simple.

To get your own affiliate links, you will need to register

as an affiliate of many different, popular companies all

found on the Internet. Don’t worry. This is an easy

process and I’ve also made it all easier on you with step-

by-step directions on Blogchise.com, along with a master list of all the best affiliate programs to offer. Keep in

mind, you will be making money from Blogchise and this

same process after you learn it all.

To become an affiliate for other companies, you will

register as an affiliate on each company website, and you

will offer their helpful products and services from affiliate

links and affiliate banner ads on your blog. It’s actually

quite a simple process. Registering as an affiliate for

other companies is also always free and safe

How do those affiliate links make you money? The

affiliate links, that you embed in text links and banner

ads on your blog pages are your own affiliate links with

your unique affiliate tracking code embedded in the link

or banner ad. These links can be made to look like any

normal text link, or are embedded into any banner ad on

your site.

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Many of the companies selling products and services on

the Internet offer nicely designed banner ads for you to

post on your blog pages, and to make your life simple,

many of those banner ads already have your own unique

affiliate tracking code embedded in the banner.

When someone clicks on your affiliate links or banner

ads, on your blog pages, and buys a product or service,

you earn a commission. This is how bloggers earn six

figure incomes.

Let’s say for instance that you register as an affiliate of

blogchise.com, and you get an affiliate link or banner ad

from blogchise.com. Then, you place your affiliate link or

banner ad on your blog pages and someone clicks on that

affiliate link or banner ad and buys the coaching program

... you will earn a commission, because the affiliate

program tracks your affiliate traffic and processes your

commissions earned. The same goes with The Ultimate

Blog Theme or any other product you will offer for sale

from your blog.

Now here is the cool part ... when you offer this free

eBook from your blog sidebar, through the free plugins

you can get with The Ultimate Blog Theme, the exact

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same way I offered this free eBook to you, this eBook will

have your own unique affiliate links embedded into all of the areas that offer links for people to click on.

You will receive an editable copy of this eBook with those

free plugins, and you will change out all of the links in

this eBook to reflect your own unique affiliate links.

Then, you will offer this eBook as a FREE download to all

of your visitors who opt in to your email list from the

sidebar or post bottom pages on your blog.

This free email optin plugin is just another process that

makes your blogging life so much easier and helps you to

make money faster.

Just think, if you had to write your own free eBook to

give away in order to build your own email list, that

process could take you months of hard work. By giving

you this eBook to give away, as a benefit of The Ultimate

Blog Theme, it just makes your life so much easier and

offers you the chance to make money quicker too. So

there again, all of these blogging products and services I

am offering will make your blogging life much easier, and

make you money at the same time.

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You are probably starting to see why this free eBook is a

good thing, and how it will benefit you when you start

blogging.

Since you might not have your own product or service

when you are just starting out in this blogging business,

you will want to offer other affiliate products and

services in your niche, along with products and services

that teach people how to make money blogging.

You will learn, in Blogchise.com, how to find more than 30,000 affiliate products and services for practically any

niche. There is no reason to go over all of that here now.

Let’s make sure you want to get into blogging first.

You are probably starting to see why bloggers make so

much money when they start building their email list.

Having ready made products and services to offer

instantly, also means that you don’t have to create your

own coaching program, theme or plugins to sell. You

could create you own program to sell, but that could take

months, or even years of your valuable time. Blogchise

has already saved you all of that work and money. You

could be making money from your blog in a matter of

days, instead of weeks or months.

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If you decide to get into blogging you will have life so

easy compared to most anyone else that’s ever

attempted to make money blogging. If you are already a

blogger, you will know exactly how much effort and

struggle the theme, plugins and coaching will save you,

and how much money they will save you too. You won’t

need to struggle or waste time and money trying to

figure it all out. I’ve already been down the road for you.

Since I’ve already been through this blog set up process

many times, I know those three items will save you

months of hard work and thousands of dollars. The faster

you can get your blog up and making money, obviously,

the better off you will be.

Since this short eBook is only here to teach you the

basics of making money with your own blog, I’m not

going into heavy detail about this affiliate process. The

Blogchise.com coaching program will take care of that for you.

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Driving Traffic To Your Blog

There are a number of really cool and exciting ways you

will drive free traffic to your blog every day to build your

email list.

Posting Written Or Video Content

The most important is of course, posting valuable and

informative content on your blog three to five times each

week. Some bloggers post two and three times a day.

You don’t have to post that many times, but you will

need to keep posting great content about your niche on

a continuous basis for the sake of having Google rank

your site better. One to two posts per day is the best

option.

If your blog is incredibly helpful in your niche and offers

great information all the time, people will keep coming

back to see what you have to say. It also helps if you can

build your email list to help remind people to visit your

blog on a regular basis.

If you have a video camera, you will want to create short

educational videos on your niche and about you, and

post those videos on several of the video sites like

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Google Video and YouTube for starters. You will then

place the URL links of those videos on your blog posts.

Forum Posting

Another great marketing avenue for driving free traffic is

finding three to five of the top forums in your niche,

become a member of those forums and start posting

helpful information on those forums every day.

Don’t spam the forums. Just post helpful information

and never try to promote your blog or sell anything on

those forums, unless they allow it in the rules of the

forum.

If you attempt to promote anything on the forums that

don’t allow that option, you will make yourself look bad,

you will probably get banned from the forum, and you

will hurt your blog business tremendously. Be sure to

always read the forum rules before posting.

Forums are one of the best ways to get free marketing

for your blog, but you have to be patient with this

particular marketing process.

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After you post about 15 to 20 times on a forum, you will

add a signature to your profile that anyone can see.

Sometimes forums let you post your signature right

away. If that’s the case, take advantage right way.

When you post incredibly helpful information on those

forums, people will eventually want to see who you are

and what you’re about. Again, never try to promote your

blog or anything on the forums, unless you want to kill

your business quickly and get banned from the forum.

Let your signature and your great free advice in forum

posts do all of the work for you.

People will eventually find you if you offer great value

and no spam. The more intelligent your forum posts are,

the more people will want to see who you are, especially the forum regulars.

People will buy from you, when they get to know you.

They won’t buy from you if you try to sell them

something. You always have to keep that in mind when

you are marketing your blog.

Posting on forums is a great way to drive traffic as long as

you follow the marketing rules to keep from hurting your

reputation.

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The longer you follow this marketing process, the more

traffic you will gain.

Article Writing

Another great marketing avenue is to write articles in

your niche and load those articles on the top article

directories, like ezine.com. This is all free.

You can also write articles in your niche and offer those

articles to other websites and blogs that offer the same

niche. You will get backlinks from those articles leading

into your blog. If you don’t understand about backlinks,

don’t worry, you will soon learn all about the importance

of building backlinks in blogchise.com.

Blogchise.com will teach you how to write great articles and how to promote those articles to drive a lot of free

traffic to your blog.

Posting Comments On Relevant Blogs

Visit all of the top, high ranking blogs in your niche and

start posting intelligent comments on blog posts where

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you know what you’re talking about. Blogchise.com will teach you how to find the top ranking blogs in your

niche.

Be sure to read the blog post and post an intelligent comment that adds to the conversation.

The mistake too many people make when posting

comments is when they jump into another blog, in their

niche, and write stupid, short comments that don’t make

any sense, and don’t add to the conversation of the blog

post.

People do those hit and run comments to try and build

back links, but they don’t understand the negative

impact it has on them. I get those hit and run comments

all the time on my blogs and I delete them quickly.

If you post an intelligent comment, that really adds to

the blog post, the owner of that blog will more than likely

keep your comment; and your link, directing traffic to

YOUR blog, will stick. That means other people will see your great comments and click on your blog link. That

means more free traffic to your blog, and you know what

more traffic means. More money!

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If you add intelligent comments, other people will also

see you as someone to respect, and you will gain more

traffic to your blog.

The blog owner will also see you as someone to respect

and you will increase your chances of creating a JV (joint

venture) partnership. A Joint Venture partnership could

be one of the best things that will ever happen to your

blogging business. More about JV partnerships coming

up.

People don’t understand how much they hurt

themselves when they make a quick comment that

doesn’t make any sense. They waste their time and the

comment usually doesn’t stick. If the comment does

stick, chances are good that someone else will see it and

skip right over anything written.

If you write something stupid in a comment, people will

think you are stupid and they won’t care about your blog

or anything you have to offer.

Take a few extra minutes to read the blog post and to

post an intelligent comment. The extra few minutes

could lead to thousands of dollars in revenue, not only

from the blogs visitors, but also from a JV partnership.

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I get many visitors on my blog who come along and post

what they think is an intelligent sounding comment, but

you can read right through it and know they pasted the

same comment on every blog they visit. Again, you are

only hurting yourself if you do this type of comment

posting just to build back links to your own blog. Don’t

even thing about doing this type of comment posting

unless you want to hurt your reputation.

JV Partnerships

Joint Venture partnerships, or JV partnerships as they are

referred to, are one of the fastest ways to build your

email list and market your blog. They are also the fastest

way to make a lot of money. This is the part about the

importance of your allies that I mentioned earlier in this

eBook.

If you have a free, valuable product or service you can

offer to build your email list, like this free bloggers eBook

you are reading right now, you can contact other

bloggers in your niche, who already have a large email

list, and see if there is any way you can create a

beneficial JV partnership where they offer your free

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eBook, eCourse or video series, and you will return the

favor by writing a guest post or doing an interview, or

even email to your list about any of their free offers.

If you offer an amazing free product or service from your

niche, and other bloggers in your niche can offer that to

the people on their list as a beneficial bonus, you could get your product or service to thousands of people

instantly. It’s all basically free traffic, and potentially a lot of revenue.

Bloggers are always looking for great value and

information to give to their visitors. When you have that

great content to offer, you increase your chances of

having other blog owners deliver your content to their

email list, or even writing a post about your valuable

information. If those other bloggers can somehow make

money from your offers, you will be successful beyond

your imagination.

Seeking JV partnerships is one of the best marketing tips

for bloggers to follow. Many great Internet marketers

have earned a lot of money very quickly from this

method.

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I could go on and on about marketing and teach you

many incredible ways to promote your blog for free, but

as I mentioned in the beginning, you won’t make money

giving all of your secrets away, and I won’t either.

I know by now that you understand how this money

making and marketing process works. So basically,

receiving this free eBook should be pretty exciting for

you right about now. Especially if you’ve read this far.

If you plan on getting into this Internet marketing

business, you will need to understand and respect this

marketing tip of not giving everything away, because you

will be following the exact same marketing strategy when

you start blogging for money.

It doesn’t matter where you go to get information about

making money in this business, no Internet marketer

ever made money giving everything away, and you will

have to pay for the valuable information from any of the

other top Internet marketers. The best news of all for

you is that you won’t have to spend thousands of dollars

paying for expensive coaching programs, because you’ll

get all of the best coaching information from the

Blogchise coaching program as you would get from any

of those expensive coaching programs. Why pay $2,000

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or more for those expensive coaching programs when

you can get a better coaching for pennies practically from

Blogchise? Plus, you will make money from the

blogchise.com coaching program as an affiliate of

blogchise.com.

Anyway, if this eBook were a complete program and free

to everyone, there would be a major problem. I would

not make any money to speak of, and you would not

have a way to make a lot more money either. This would

all be a waste of time.

This basic free blogging eBook is going to be your best

friend and it will make you money if you decide to get

into blogging to make money. This eBook will help you

until you get your own eBook written.

Knowing what I know about this Internet marketing

business, I would be pretty excited if I were in your shoes

right now. Especially if you are just starting out. You will

have life so much easier by choosing Blogchise and The Ultimate WordPress Theme.

People make a lot of money in this business when they

know the secrets. You can too. You just have to follow

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the exact same steps and stick to the rules if you want to

make money blogging.

Building Backlinks

As I mentioned in the beginning of this chapter, building

backlinks is by far the most important part of marketing

and making money from your blog.

When you know how to properly build backlinks to your

blog, you just stepped into the elite club of Internet

marketers. Notice I bolded the word “properly.” There

are tips and rules to building backlinks properly and if

you don’t follow those tips and rules, you can cause

ranking problems to your site. You don’t want to waste

your time building a site only to lose ranking with the

search engines, so you’ll need to learn and follow the

rules for building backlinks properly.

I’m not going into this subject of backlinks heavily here ...