Shoemoney - Skills To Pay The Bills

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Free Shirt Friday- Above All @AboveAllOffers Posted: 31 Jan 2014 07:23 AM PST This week’s free shirt Friday comes from Above All Offers. On top of a shirt they sent me a customized ShoeMoney skateboard! Above All Offers established in January 2011, has quickly become the largest and fastest growing affiliate network in the industry. Based out of beautiful Eugene Oregon Above All Offers serves clients from around the world and is well known for having the most experienced and dedicated staff of any affiliate network. They pride themselves on standing out and making sure our Affiliates and Advertisers succeed. They do this by being the first affiliate network with an entire staff that is available 24/7, even their accounting department is open and available for instant payment support. If you would like to see your website or company featured on Free Shirt Friday click here.     Looking for an SEO service that won’t get you banned?

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Get Great Blog Post Ideas by Using the Google Keyword Planner - DailyBlogTips

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Get Great Blog Post Ideas by Using the Google Keyword Planner Posted: 30 Jan 2014 10:59 AM PST Do you wish you had the knack of picking popular topics that will bring you lots of search engine traffic? You don’t need to be a marketing guru or great at following a trend. Instead, you can find out what readers are searching for … and tailor your posts to fit them. If you’ve been blogging (or thinking about blogging!) for a while, you’ll have come across the concept of keywords. These are simply search terms that people use in Google and other search engines. By writing a post inspired by a popular keyword term, you increase your chances of getting organic search engine traffic. (Organic traffic is the kind that comes naturally, as opposed to paid traffic, which is from people clicking on ads.) When Google’s Keyword Tool was replaced by the Keyword Planner, I found it a little hard to get to grips with, especially as it’s designed for advertisers rather than bloggers to use. It’s thanks to my friend Joe Williams that I’m getting the hang of using it now. Joe made a great video demonstrating exactly how to use the Keyword Planner for SEO (search engine optimisation) purposes. He writes: Would you like to research keywords and prioritise the best ones for SEO? If you give me 17 minutes I'll show you how to do just that one page at a time, and we'll cover best practices for using the Google Keyword Planner. You can watch his Keyword Planner video here. And if you’re using keyword research to help you build your blog, tell us about your experiences (and share your best tips) in the comments below.   Wanna learn how to make more money with your website? Check the Online Profits training program!

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New Year, New Start – What Have We Done? Posted: 30 Jan 2014 08:13 AM PST It’s January 31 – the end of the month where we make and break New Year’s resolutions and swear to do better next time. If you’re anything like me, you may have thought about what you want to do with your blog this year, and where you want to go. Maybe wrote down a couple of changes, or a few ideas to try. Unlike me, you’ve probably also made a start on a few of these, and started 2014 blogging with a bang. What we’d like to know is: what have you done differently this month? What kinds of things have you thought you might like to do with blogging this year? What new changes have you made, and do you think they will work for you? Feel free to have a chat in the comments, or link to a post you’ve written about your blogging goals for this year. We’d love to hear an update on how we’re all travelling one month in. Here’s to 11 more of success! Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger New Year, New Start – What Have We Done?

The Unexpected Way to Write Killer Content: Blog from Your Heart and Break All the Rules Posted: 29 Jan 2014 06:33 AM PST This is a guest contribution from Tova Payne of TovaPayne.com If you asked me two years ago about blogging, well let's just say I must have been living in a cave, because I didn't quite understand what blogging was all about or why people did it. I've loved writing my whole life, but never realized how blogging was associated with business, or getting your message out to the world. So I started off with writing a newsletter to an e-mail list I had, and slowly, as I was studying more about business, I recognized that my natural passion for writing could reach a wider audience through blogging. This gave my writing a greater purpose—the ability to spread my message to a wider reach, to share what I love and hopefully help inspire others too. Simple enough…Or so I thought. The more I learned about business (and I bet you can relate), the more you start hearing about the "shoulds," the rules, and the "right way" to blog and write in general. You learn about techniques such as SEO (Search Engine Optimization), and how to craft the PERFECT headline so people will read the damn message. Let me be fair—these things contribute to the success of your blog. BUT, what I see and hear people tell me all the time is how they can't write their blog because they are not sure if they are doing it the right way, or they can't hit publish until they find that perfect headline. What's the problem with that? Well, it's an easy way to stay in fear-mode. Too scared you're doing things wrong that you don't send your message out to the world. Too scared you didn't get the right SEO key terms that you never press "publish". You keep waiting to have everything right until you hit that magic button. Well, I'll tell you—the fastest way to sabotage your blogging efforts is waiting to get things right. Blogging, like anything in life, is a muscle. You need to work it to strengthen it. Through your dedication to blogging and through your consistent posting you will inevitably start crafting better headlines. You will receive feedback on what creates a more popular post and what works best. And it's not by spending 80% of your time reading about blogging and 20% of your time starting that blog you never post. The only way to really learn and get better is to get started: Write. And publish. You need to publish to learn. Secondly, when you try so hard to fit into every blogging rule—you run the risk of seriously dulling down your message to fit the rules, which takes away from the feeling, the inspiration, and the heart of your message. What posts go viral? It's the messages that inspire people to share it with their friends. Not the ones that fit the perfect SEO-box. And I know this from my own experience. Sometimes when I write for other publications I have to write SEO-driven content, and I'll tell you it just doesn't feel the same and it never brings me as many likes or new fans as the ones that come from pure heart and passion. Now, like anything in life it's a fine balance. I mean if the essence of your writing is to reach people, and if tweaking a few words here and there will help reach more people—then take a few minutes to tweak a few words. Certainly, take advantage of the tag words and writing a good excerpt if you can—but do NOT stress over it, and don't waste more than a few minutes on this. Like all rules, they are there as a framework to guide you. But the magic happens when you can chuck the framework and make up your own rules. To allow your intuitive guidance to help you in the decision processing that you make. And yes, this pertains to blogging and all areas of your work. Certainly, SEO matters to some degree, but when you write from your heart and share your message from that place of passion, the right people will find you. My vote is to spend more time creating from the heart and press "publish" more often (as you sweep the rules under the rug). So what are waiting for? People are waiting to hear your message. Get to work—Write. Publish. Repeat. Tova Payne is a Published Author, Writer, Blogger, and Entrepreneur. She helps creative entrepreneurs take action on their dreams. Visit her online home to grab a free copy of 5 Keys to Starting + Finishing your Dream Project. www.tovapayne.com Connect with Tova on Facebook here. Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger The Unexpected Way to Write Killer Content: Blog from Your Heart and Break All the Rules

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Shoemoney - Skills To Pay The Bills

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Talking with @waterschool while @Namescon Posted: 30 Jan 2014 08:46 AM PST While in Las Vegas earlier this month I got the chance to meet some really awesome people at the NamesCon conference. I got a chance to speak with Leah from Water School, a charity focused on educating people about the process of obtaining safe drinking water. If you’d like to learn more or donate, check them out at www.waterschool.com  Looking for an SEO service that won’t get you banned?

Did You Hear About The New Internet? Here’s How To Reach and Influence Them. Posted: 29 Jan 2014 08:16 AM PST No, I am not talking about the Internet of Things. I am not talking about Mobile Apps. I am not even talking about websites becoming platforms.  I am talking about the only constant in our rapidly changing tech and internet landscape. One of the biggest problems facing brands and marketers today is how rapidly technology evolves, and how dynamic the Internet has become. Every day I read another story about an SEO who gave up hope because of how confusing ranking in Google has become. You could be the biggest SEO expert today, and tomorrows algorithm change can crush you in your sleep. I am not just talking about SEO, I am talking about two big facts that influence most tech innovations. 1. Technology builds on itself, and every new innovation brings exponential use cases, integrations and possibilities that were never possible. This leads to an environment where innovation moves exponentially quicker, and changes happen at a more rapid pace as time progresses. 2. Technology innovation costs money, and therefore usually needs a monetization strategy. This leads to an even more progressive innovation environment in industries that create the most value, for example…in the advertising and marketing technology space. This leaves us with a world where marketing strategies become obsolete before most people adopt them.  There is always a curve of early adapters and the mainstream business world. Still, even the most progressive advertisers and marketers out there are still struggling to keep up with the promise of tomorrows tech. Big Data, Programmatic advertising, and Marketing Automation are hot buzzwords that are the flavor of the week for marketing professionals today, but using DMP’s and third party data to map offline credit card purchases back to un-clicked banner ad impressions hasn’t even been discovered by the majority of advertisers. All these innovations are meant to leverage information to bring a more personalized message in real time so brands can be more relevant to consumers in a scalable way. Yet, that tech is so yesterdays news… Tomorrows tech is first party cookies, multi-device attribution, publishers becoming ad exchanges, and who knows what else. The problem you have is that tomorrows tech will likely leave these solutions in the dust. Probably the biggest problem facing marketers today is finding sustainable strategies that will continue to work despite technology evolving rapidly. One of the areas that I see this being especially true is with Search Engine Optimization. Google makes 30-40 algorithm tweaks a month. Major updates are rolled out every month or so and their webmaster guidelines are constantly changing. Especially with link acquisition strategies. Pretty much everything has been banned by Google and websites are getting penalized today for what was once considered white hat strategies they employed several years ago. So, what can you do that will still work tomorrow? The good news is…within this chaos is actually certain stability. Stability we can count on. Stability we can latch onto and leverage for long term success. What is stable about an ever changing world? CHANGE is the only thing you can count on. Old News is boring. Change is exciting. Yesterdays story is over. Tomorrows Story is exciting. This is the secret to sustainable success on the internet. Always be New. Always Be Fresh. Always be different. Break the News, Spin The News, Jack the News, but be part of the NEW INTERNET if you want to stick around for good! If you want to succeed in search engines or engage on social media sites or just be relevant…. You Have To GIVE PEOPLE What They Want! What do people want? They want stories. They want to be amused. To be entertained. To be informed. They want to be engaged. They want to be the opposite of bored! Be INTERESTING. Old is Boring. New is Interesting! I am a big believer in earning organic links. Writing content so compelling others choose to link to it. I have written 148 blog posts on my personal blog, and the ones that attract links from quality sources are far and few between. I think all my posts are great… That doesn’t make them all linkable. Perhaps my most successful blog post that attracted links is my recent one about Super Bowl advertisers running PPC ads in Google before the big game. Not only did that post earn a link from Mashable, but the brilliant Mashable author managed to turn my plain old content into a fresh story. He focused on an interesting detail in my broader post, and not only did he create a great story, I earned a high value link and public shout-out. Same Facts, Same Details… Completely Unique, Different, and Value Added Stories. Here’s mine: #SuperBowl Advertisers Turn To PPC Advertising To Capture Big Game Searchers Here’s Mashables: Bud Light Buys Up Most of the Super Bowl Ad Searches Looks like completely different stories to me… What’s amazing is that two other popular websites wrote similar posts, all with completely different spins, and neither of them ever saw mine or Mashable’s post. Completely fresh perspectives. This is key to realize: You are likely blinded by the original story, and sometimes it takes a blank slate to find the unique angles… Just four unique perspectives and stories built on the very same facts and data. Let’s compare the other headlines…..  How Google Gets Its Piece of the Super Bowl Ad Blitz 5 Tactics Super Bowl Advertisers Are Using To Boost Their Paid Search Campaigns This is the secret to staying fresh. When you find a story that is interesting enough to share. Find a unique angle and hone in on it and now you have a fresh new story. More importantly, now you have a story others may choose to reference in their own personal take. When you manage to “See the Story Within the Story” Like Todd Wasserman did on Mashable, and make it seem so natural that you could just as easily have developed the story from scratch like the SEL, and BusinessWeek versions, you will have mastered the most valuable content skill possible. Pretty much every major story that breaks will have dozens of completely different takes and perspectives of the very same facts and details. More importantly, all add value in their own unique way. So, if you want to win on the New Internet… Find a way…any way… to be different. be fresh. be unique. Want a Shortcut? Just Be Yourself. Share your take. your view. your vision,  be yourself, because that’s the easiest way to be unique. I’ve written in the past about Sustainable SEO strategies that never fail. In that post I concluded that the single most effective brand building, link acquiring, traffic generating, readership engaging strategy is… Give Your Readers Something They Can’t Find Anywhere Else In The World! Journalists will cite you, bloggers will quote you, followers will tweet you, circlers will plus one you, and friends will like you. Looking for an SEO service that won’t get you banned?

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Always Prefer Written Communications - DailyBlogTips

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Always Prefer Written Communications Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:28 PM PST When conducting business deals there’s always the possibility to grab the phone and call the other entity directly. It doesn’t involve the trouble of composing an email or a letter, and it will give you the answer or information you are looking for immediately. So is communicating over the phone a good think? In my opinion, rarely. Sure, the phone is useful when you just need to discuss details or get a quick piece of information. But when you are dealing with central aspects of the deal (i.e., specifications of the project, discussion about prices and costs, deadlines and so on), it is always a good idea to use written communications, be it email, fax or letters. Why? Because the exchanged messages will be permanently stored, and this might be your salvation if down the road there is some disagreement regarding any aspect of the deal. I forgot this basic rule twice over the past couple of years. Basically I discussed some important project aspects over the phone, and months later when we disagreed I didn’t have anything to prove that conversation had taken place. This Latin proverb sums it up: Verba volant, scripta manent (Spoken words fly, written words remain). Wanna learn how to make more money with your website? Check the Online Profits training program!

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ProBlogger: 14 Ways To Earn $14 Blogging in 2014

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14 Ways To Earn $14 Blogging in 2014 Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:26 AM PST This is a guest contribution from Greg Narayan of Dear Blogger. Reading back through an intelligent survey Darren issued recently, I noticed a tiny problem that maybe you’ve seen too: 63% of ProBlogger readers earn less that $100 per month from blogging. “What?” I thought. ProBlogger audience are some of the net’s most savvy entrepreneurs, businessmen/women and bloggers. So I got to thinking… Maybe these 63% have full-time jobs and are thrilled to earn anything on a blog…or maybe they’re just starting out…maybe they’re on the margins, about to break through. Either way I cut it, this just did not seem right. In fact, I reckon there’s a major imbalance in effort put in (you’re reading ProBlogger after all, instead of tooling away at your blog) and returns pulled out. *Queasy feeling in stomach* I mean, every time I hear some outdated comment like “the economy is in shambles” I can’t help but think, “Ah, thank God for blogging.” But not for under $100 per month. Now I’m no Jeremy Shoemaker – I regularly monitor several income streams to make sure I make enough to make ends meet each month. But I figured we could use a refresher on ways to make money blogging. $14? Yeah, You Heard Right Your Benz awaits you, Mr. Blogger. Sure, it’s not much. $14 can hardly buy you a drink at Starbucks anymore. It’s less than the going rate to walk outside your apartment in New York. But factor in the warped importance online earnings have over normal hourly wages, and $14 looks a bit better. Multiply it by 12 and you have $168 – more than enough to run a self-hosted blog on pretty much any trusted blog hosting, inexpensive or jacked up. And if you’re earning about $86 dollars each month, it could push you into a whole new ballpark :) Hey, you’ve gotta start somewhere. So, in this post, I’ll explain 14 ways to use blogging to make yourself $14 dollars richer every single month. I hope at least some of you will listen. Fame, Fortune and Helping People in 2014 Thank you Adsense clicks (my personal favorite + quickest) Ever think readers would say thanks AND pay you in doing so? A few weeks back I launched an Adsense Ante-Up back on home base. In round one, we heard some powerful strategies from both beginners and major earners. I know I know, it’s Adsense. But people still do click. Google pays out millions each month, so here’s a trick you can use to get $14 of those millions in your Adsense bank: ask politely for clicks. Just place one ad above the fold and one in your post footer then write, “This blog is free for my readers and always will be, but I need to eat too [INSERT HUMOR HERE]. If you learned something here, please click on this ad. It’s a free way to say thanks and won’t make your computer blow up.” Join Amazon Associates, the oldest network in the books Know how much people make each month on AA? Hundreds of thousands. You may have tried Amazon Associates. If you’re anything like the average blogger, you slap an ad in your header and hope for the best. However, if you do have an audience seriously interested in a big time category of purchases (see Darren’s Digital-Photography-School.com for a ridiculously awesome example) then over time, you stand to make some good payouts. That $14 could land in your account as 4% of a big associate sale. Here’s a chart of the payouts: On your 7th product shipped, AA pays out %6.00 of retail. Just think, for a product sold over $1000… The Amazon advertising cookie lasts for 24 hrs too, so the purchaser could end up buying several items on your referral. Recommend your bread and butter goods What blogging tools are you using at the moment? A premium theme or premium plugin? Recommending the very products you use is a smart way to make a few bucks because a. People can actually see your loyalty which increase trust and b. You’ll find better examples to use in your reviews which will make them more sincere. In my case, my theme provider (spoiler it’s Theme-Junkie) offers up to 50% commission rates not to mention a darn good product. It’s not lucrative money, but it will surprise me with a commission every now and then. On Thanksgiving morning, I made enough to cover last minute runs to the grocery: Grocery money! Solicit premium services like my grandpa did You know, like actually doing a real-life service? Back when my grandpa blogged, it wasn’t all just online earnings – he’d use his blog to solicit leather mending and golf lessons! (jokes, of course). Whether you blog about gardening, homemade gravy-making or gnome-carving, your blog should be able to launch you into a Candy Land of clients. You need a hint of SEO both onsite and off and some persuasive copy. But hey, I’d pay $14 for a nice miniature garden gnome. Review your favorite products (which you already consume) What’s your favorite energy drink? One of the most pro-active and no-brainer ways to earn money blogging is to review the products you’re already purchasing and consuming on a regular basis. Take an energy drink for example. In premium beverage land, it’s ALL about the marketing and PR game. Someone is probably paid to find a blogger like you, so impress them! Buy a whole crate of Bawls Guarana and become the finest expert that drink has ever known. Shoot the published link around, and I’d be surprised if they don’t send you $14 worth of product to review. On one of my first blogs, I asked a new tea company over Facebook to send me samples for review. Be a blog consultant for a friend Got friends who admire your work? Offer your knowledge of Blogger, Tumblr or WordPress to an up and coming blogger, then charge a fair consultancy fee. Let them know up front. Personally, I’ve been offered healthy sums of money for blog setup and it makes sense. Think of the doors you just opened for that person. Could take them from average Joe to online pro. However, my blogging guides will always be free (which to me makes even more sense, as blogging should be free wherever humanly possible). Design the sexy logo everyone needs Know a little about Create Suite 4, 5, or 6? Hop on over to Photoshop, watch a few YouTube tutorials, then start making logos. The details count; it’ll make them sexy. Everyone and their mother needs a logo. Advertise your services at your local ball club, the local coffee stand or even your mothers knitting and scrabble club. $14 for a logo is a steal. Sell ad space and PageRank link juice Got a blog already? More importantly, have some PageRank built up around it? Note: if you’re not sure what PageRank is, here’s a URL checker, and here’s a Chrome extension to check ANY websites PageRank. I recommend you take 15 minutes and try all of them out today. The point is pretty simple – linking to an advertiser sends them a bit of PageRank juice from your own blog, and if you’re linking to a relevant source, it should be white hat enough in Google’s eyes. I personally know advertisers who’d do backflips at a $14 PR1 link :) Just FYI. Join the lucrative eBook industry Still waiting endlessly for some motivation to publish your viral eBook idea? Please do me a favor and wait no longer, because each day you wait other people are covering that very topic. You need an eBook to position yourself as an expert, simple as that. Fourteen greenbacks seems fair for something you pour nights upon nights of your soul over, right? Or, how about writing a $30,000 eBook like ViperChill did? Haul fashion products with multimedia videos Obsessed with facial products? Hauling is a form of YouTube or Vimeo (still mainly YouTube-based) marketing where one basically goes on a shopping spree for new products, then applies them while filming the whole process, then posts the video on YouTube. Earnings come through YouTube ads and private deals with the brands you’re showcasing. If you want to get started, do some Googling around at the current competition to see if hauling might be for you. Simply stay indoors this weekend Spending too much on the whole wine and dine scene? Money saved is money earned in this little trick I learned when I started blogging. I bet you’ll save way more than $14. Enough said, I suppose. Flip blogs that cover upcoming events Interested in a fixer-upper or two? A while back, a reader over at the answers community mentioned how big Flippa would be in 2014, so I went ahead and did some basic research. What I found was that you’re in a good shape with the following types of domain names under your belt, as they’ve become quite valuable. The idea is to get yourself an exactly match domain name (EMD) for these topics: Major upcoming events (The Olympics, The US Open, The FIFA World Cup etc.) New products yet to be released Guides on using new products yet to be released Major changes in political climates (harder to predict and earn from) Become a beta tester known for trustworthy reviews Think your opinion needs to be heard? One reason the biggest bloggers are able to launch products that seem popular right away is because they hire swarms of people to review the product in pre-release, or beta stage. These individuals aren’t paid for their loyalty or their commissions, they’re paid on honestly. If you’re a good writer and know a friend who’s got a product in mind, offer to write a beta review for $14 and post it to Twitter, the blogs, and more. Heck, you could even recruit more beta readers for some cash. Ghost-write for someone who knows nothing about blogging Prefer faceless blogging? Last but not least, you can always write on behalf of another individual. Ghost-writing is your tool to show folks you can craft messages beautifully and people will be pay handsomely for the time you save them. The only trick is to find clients, but if you have a blog with some decent traction, that should be more than enough proof that you can handle a ghost-writing assignment. Remember, most of your potential clients will have no clue what blogging means, even today, so really sell your abilities in every area you can. Conclusion: Why Stop at $14? Think $14 is chump change? Me too. But as someone who understands you’ve got to earn on the margins at least when starting out, I’ll take it. The start of the year is a tremendous time to flex your marketing skills. People are eager to buy, try new ideas and invest to improve their own lives. So get out and network, sell your services, and make this the year you become a professional blogger. For the comments, how did you earn this past month? Unlike 63% of readers here (and perhaps everywhere, just think of that number!) did you break the $100 barrier? Whether you did or not, please share some insight for the community! p.s. Show-offs more than welcome Greg Narayan talks about style, SEO, earnings and other musings here at ProBlogger. Read his column at HuffPost, check out his article on HostGator coupons, and join his email club to find out about pro tennis, Ed Helms and Greg’s other adventures. Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger 14 Ways To Earn $14 Blogging in 2014

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