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MAKING MONEY FROM BLOGS

admin — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:02:36 +0000

A weblog (or simply blog) is a website that ‘publishes’ or features articles (which are called ‘blog posts’, ‘posts’, or ‘entries’), written by an individual or a group that make use of any or a combination of the following:

·   Straight texts

·   Photographs or images (photoblog)

·   Video (videoblog)

·   Audio files (audioblog)

·   Hyperlinks

Usually presented and arranged in reverse chronological order, blogs are essentially used for the following purposes:

·   Online journal or a web diary

·   Content managament system

·   Online publishing platform

A typical blog has the following components:

·   Post date -the date and time of the blog entry

·   Category – the category that the blog belongs to

·   Title – the title of the blog

·   Main body – the main content of the blog

·   RSS and trackback – links the blog back from other sites

·   Comments – commentaries that are added by readers

·   Permalinks – the URL of the full article

·   Other optional items – calendar, archives, blogrolls, and add-ons or plug-ins

A blog can also have a footer, usually found at the bottom of the blog, that shows the post date, the author, the category, and the ’stats’ (the nubmer of comments or trackbacks).

There are numerous types of blogs. Some of them are the following:

1. Political blog – on news, politics, activism, and other issue based blogs (such as campaigning).

2. Personal blog – also known as online diary that may include an individual’s day-to-day experience, complaints, poems, and illicit thoughts, and communications between friends.

3. Topical blog – with focus either on a particular niche (function or position) that is usually technical in nature or a local information.

4. Health blog – on specific health issues. Medical blog is a major category of health blog that features medical news from health care professionals and/or actual patient cases.

5. Literary blog – also known as litblog.

6. Travel blog – with focus on a traveler’s stories on a particular journey.

7. Research blog – on academic issues such as research notes.

8. Legal blog – on law (technical areas) and legal affairs; also known as ‘blawgs’.

9. Media blog – focus on falsehoods or inconsistencies in mass media; usually exclusive for a newspaper or a television network.

10. Religious blog – on religious topics

11. Educational blog – on educational applications, usually written by students and teachers.

12. Collaborative or collective blog – a specific topic written by a group of people.

13. Directory blog – contains a collection of numerous web sites.

14. Business blog – used by entrepreneurs and corporate employees to promote their businesses or talk about their work.

15. Personification blog – focus on non-human being or objects (such as dogs).

16. Spam blogs – used for promoting affiliated websites; also known as ’splogs’.

Blogging is typically done on a regular (almost daily) basis. The term “blogging” refers to the act of authoring, maintaining, or adding an article to an existing blog, while the term “blogger” refers to a person or a group who keeps a blog.

Today, more than 3 million blogs can be found in the Internet. This figure is continuously growing, as the availability of various blog software, tools, and other applications make it easier for just about anyone to update or maintain the blog (even those with little or no technical background). Because of this trend, bloggers can now be categorized into 4 main types:

·   Personal bloggers – people who focus on a diary or on any topic that an individual feels strongly about.

·   Business bloggers – people who focus on promoting products and services.

·   Organizational bloggers – people who focus on internal or external communication in an organization or a community.

·   Professional bloggers – people who are hired or paid to do blogging.

Problogging (professional blogging) refers to blogging for a profit. Probloggers (professional bloggers) are people who make money from blogging (as an individual blog publisher or a hired blogger).

Below are just some of the many money-making opportunities for probloggers:

·   Advertising programs

·   RSS advertising

·   Sponsorship

·   Affiliate Programs

·   Digital assets

·   Blog network writing gigs

·   Business blog writing gigs

·   Non blogging writing gigs

·   Donations

·   Flipping blogs

·   Merchandising

·   Consulting and speaking

The following are a few things that you need to consider if you want to be successful in problogging:

1. Be patient. Problogging requires a lot of time and effort, not to mention a long-term vision.

2. Know your audience. Targeting a specific audience or group is a key to building a readership.

3. Be an ‘expert’. Focus on a specific niche topic and strive to be the “go-to” blogger on that topic.

4. Diversify. Experiment with various add and affiliate programs that enable you to make money online (aside from blogging).

5. Do not bore your readers. Focus on the layout. White spaces, line spacings, and bigger fonts make a blog welcoming to read.

Certainly, it is possible to earn money from blogs. One just needs to take risks, the passion, and the right attitude in order to be a successful problogger.

Travel News and Tips from Johnny Jet

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:47:42 +0000

John DiScala, popularly known as Johnny Jet, is an expert travel blogger. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Johnny Jet. He has published an Internet travel guidebook You Are Here Traveling With Johnny Jet in 2003. Besides making numerous television appearances on channels like CNN and ABC News, he has also appeared in many newspapers and magazines, such as LA Times, Outside Magazine, Frommer’s, and Travel + Leisure.

Adventure travel fans will find JohnnyJet.com is a great place to get any information related to travel. A detailed newsletter on his travel adventures is published every week on the website. They can also find blogs and videos on his travels. In addition, links to several websites, such as travel guides, car rental companies, companies selling airline tickets, travel deals, and more. His travel blog also features travel pictures, webcams, and daily stories with up-to-date travel information.

Travelers who want to travel economically, comfortably, and efficiently will definitely find this website useful. Though it was initially started for fun for his friends, this website is now among the top 100,000 sites on the web.

Johnny Jet was the first guest to appear on the Steve Perillo Travel Show. Steve Perillo is the CEO of Perillo Tours, which has been offering travel tours to Italy since 1945. Today Perillo Tours also arranges quality travel tours to Hawaii and Israel. In a candid interview Johnny Jet gives viewers inside scoop on cheap travel. According to him, traveling in style within a given budget is possible. He also talks about ways of getting cheap business class or first class seats and also about ways of getting hotel bookings. He adds that being friendly to everybody is the key to a pleasant journey.

To know more about traveling in style even while saving a few bucks, check out Blog

Vacation or Holidays = Days of Traveling + Days of Sharing Experience

admin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:06:34 +0000

“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” Who doesnt want to remember experience of traveling forever? Everyone does. Sharing traveling experience also help new travelers. Thats what travel literature or Travelogue need from you. Travelogue: a film, videotape, or piece of writing& about travel, especially to interesting or remote places, or about somebodys travels in particular. Travel literature is a record of the events, sights and personal feelings which a traveller experiences as they go from place to place. In some cases, it is the result of a prolonged stay in one city or area. An individual work is sometimes called a travelogue or itinerary. “Travelogue is a website aimed at providing information for helping people to learn various foreign languages, particularly in preparation for travel abroad. ” ? Brain Bubbles recently listed out such best travelogues portals.Here you can find more than 100 such travelogues portals & websites. Best includes Virtual Tourist, Travel Library, Carmen & Jim’s Virtual Tours, Travel Blog, Travel Pod, I go U go, BootsnAll, GetJealous.com, RealHolidayReports.com and Traveljournals.net Most of them are travelogues portals where you can share your experience and simultaneously read others experiences. VirtualTourist is a worldwide travel community where real travelers and locals share real travel advice and experiences. 800,000 registered members from more than 220 countries and territories and 1.4 million travel tips on more than 25,000 locations worldwide with 2.6 million photos are founded at Virtulal Tourist. Travel Library is an Internet travel information site focused on building a sustainable community of contributing users to ensure the information we provide is accurate, interesting and up to date. Travel Blog is a collection of travel journals, diaries, forums, blogs and photos from around the world. Designed for travellers, this site includes features that allow you to update friends and family on your adventure. I go U go is World’s leading online travel community, IgoUgo’s 350,000 members offer what guidebooks can’t: hundreds of thousands of opinions on destinations across the globe, plus suggestions and photos for everything from cheap eats and luxury accommodations to must-see attractions and worthwhile day trips. Real Holiday Reports.com is an Independent Holiday Review Guide to Your Hotel and Apartment Accommodation in Majorca, Bulgaria, Corfu, Costa Dorada, Crete, Cyprus, Turkey, Lanzarote, Halkidiki, Kos, Menorca, Ibiza, Costa Blanca, Costa Brava, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Portugal, Costa Del Sol, Rhodes, Samos, Skiathos, Tenerife, Zante, and many other worldwide destinations. You can view thousands of pictures and stories, uploaded by your friends on the road at Traveljournals.net. So start exploring countries and locations here & everywhere. Few tips on Travelogues 1. A travelogue is a great start towards a published travel article. First of all raise traveler in your soul. Get habit of writing and jotting down every single word or thought of travel. 2. Now use headings to organize your thoughts and your travelogue. 3. List the subjects you want to cover then write descriptive paragraphs about each topic.4. Use bulleted lists – Especially in listing out your ideas. 5. Drive your words and ideas to create drama, action, and excitement about your travels. 6. There is only one key to excellent writing – Proofread, proofread and proofread! Spelling and grammatical errors are unacceptable in any piece of published writing. Kindly participate in listed survey and lets find which portals do we all like most!!