4 stupid reasons your blog doesn’t make (enough) money ~ Esp #3

make enough money blogging

Blogging today has grown into a huge money making exercise. Out of every 10 blogs you read, 7 – 9 have some money making objects on it.

That doesn’t only tell you bloggers want to make money with their blogs. It also points to the fact that it’s possible to make money as a blogger.

While some bloggers are earning full time income from their blogs, others are barely struggling to earn cents. But the question is ‘Is it easy?’

Most of you reading my blog know I talk a lot on different ways to monetize your blog. Everything I write here about making money stems from personal experiences. I have tried a couple of things, some of them very stupid 😉 but where it doesn’t work, I just keep it to myself.

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Mark Newsome ~Help Your Cash-starved Small Business /Service!

Mark Newsome

Greetings fellow bloggers and serial entrepreneurs. I’m here with another featured blogging guest. If you have not checked out those who have been featured in the past, click here!

Today’s featured guest is a fellow blogger who first popped up on my radar when he showed on my blog and started leaving comments regularly a while back.

Well needless to say, that certainly got my attention! And since then I’ve returned the favor a few times and have commented on his blog as well.

As you know, that is one of my main goals of introducing you to as many and varied cool bloggers from all over the place with different specialities so you get to  knowing each other and get a taste of different approaches, proven tactics, strategies etc.

That way we can all continue to grow and learn from each other by building a powerhouse community of super passionate bloggers!

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Hostgator coupons ~ Evergreen Hostgator Vouchers!

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Hostgator coupons  – save up to 25% on hosting: Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Dedicated Servers, VPS and Windows Hosting with evergreen discount code!

Hostgator Coupon 2015: hostevergreen

There are hundreds of Hostgator coupons out there that will soon expire. Some have expired so you won’t get any discount using them.

Here of course is an evergreen Hostgator discount code you can use at any time and be sure to save up to 25% on your hosting purchases

Go straight to HostGator Now and apply this code!

I remember my first local Webhosting Business I started in 2008 with HostGator and it’s been an exciting ride till date.  I started with a reseller package and as business grew, I soon ran out of space. There was therefore the need to upgrade so I pushed it up and acquired a dedicated server for my business.

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NinjaOutreach Review ~ 22,500 Free BroadedNet Credits Gift!

In Today’s NinjaOutreach Review, we are in for another treat from NinjaOutreach. We have had gifts in the past and that’s one of the things that make BroadedNet members awesome. These gifts in the form of credits is your power to attract referral traffic from around the blogosphere.

I have written quite interesting material about broadedNet so check out this post for the details.

David Schneider of NinjaOutreach told me the other day as we were having a private chat that he was interested in buying credits for BroadedNet members. He then went ahead and bought 22,500 to be shared to active members. Here is proof of Dave’s Payment.

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HOT!!! How to increase referral traffic without Sweating!

referral traffic

There are different channels of traffic to your website. Generally, these are Organic search, Referral, Direct, Social, and email. Depending on your campaign and strategies, these generate different results on your website;

Social traffic generates more social shares, Organic search traffic converts more, etc. So while we need traffic from all of these channels, we may want to prefer some channels more. A huge targeted email list may be a good source of high traffic that converts. Why because those are your subscribers that know and trust you already.

Referral traffic (Traffic from links on other websites) can also be very targeted because visitors are attracted by the title and possibly description of your article before clicking to read more. We want to focus on this in this post and see how you can get more of this with a simple “Copy and Paste” exercise. 

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How Lesly Federici can help increase your Affiliate Marketing sales!

Lesly Federici

It’s another Thursday and I’m excited this time to introduce someone special to you. It’s fun to come up with these Thursday posts where I connect bloggers and of course promote my friends.

Last week, I deliberately did not not highlight just one blogger. What I did was I posted a list of 20 top bloggers you should follow in 2015 and beyond. It’s a tough list so I encourage you check that one out.

Today we are meeting Lesly Federici, someone I met through interacting with Monna Ellithorpe. Quickly, we became friends and I was invited on her platform where I did my first guest post of 2015. I love each minute I spend with Lesly on Facebook and today, I’m excited to let everyone know about her awesomeness.

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