How Long Should A Blog Post Be?
As a blogger, it is important to understand some of the key factors that keep readers coming back for more. Post length is a factor that you should seriously look into when writing content for your targeted audience. It is still a widely debated topic among bloggers when it comes to deciding how long should a bog post be. There a few points that you should take note when deciding the general length of blog posts on your blog.
If you intend to monetize your blog with Adsense ads, it would be advisable to keep your blog post to a minimum length of 250 words. One of the most profitable locations for Adsense ads is inside the content of a blog post. If you are going to place Adsense ads inside your blog post, 250 words is the minimum to ensure that your words can wrap around the Google ads.
What Is A Blog?
A person who is not internet savvy or new online may not understand what the fuss is all about with blogs. Some, although very few that I encountered do not even know what a blog is. Although it is quite hard to find someone who has been online for a period of time and not knowing what a blog is, I have friends who are ignorant enough to ask what a blog is and what it does.
I meant these are friends with a certain degree of knowledge in using the net for traditional surfing and looking for information and not those who have not touch a computer in their lives. Anyway, for the benefit of those who have been living under a rock for the past few years, I will try to explain in simple terms what is a blog and what it does.
Make Money With Blogs – Online Money Making Models
July 1, 2008 by Albert
Filed under Make Money Online
There are many ways in which one can monetize and profit from a blog. However, that’s not the main reason why blogs remains one of my favorite ways to make money online. A blog is very easy to set up especially if you use WordPress as your blogging platform. The best part of it is that WordPress is a free blogging software.
Even though WordPress is essentially a blogging software, it is powerful and flexible enough to be used as a content management system (CMS). Besides that, the easy availability of free plugins and themes make WordPress the most ideal software for building websites of any nature.
3 Easy Ways To Profit With A Blog
Blogs are a great platform to make money. There are many ways to make money with a blog but let’s take a look at three of the most popular ways in which internet marketers used blogs to make money.
The first way to make money with a blog is through reviews of products or services in which you are an affiliate of. Normally, when you promote other people’s products and service, you will get a commission in the region of around 50% to 70% of the selling price. What you need to do is just to write a review of the products or services offered and if your readers valued your opinion, they will be more likely to buy from you than anyone else.
The other way to make money from your blog is through paid posting opportunities. Basically, you are being paid to review other people’s products, services or websites. This is a great way to make money from your blog if your blog is in a niche whereby opinions or reviews of related products or services are highly complementary. Please take note that your reviews do not need to be positive, if you feel that the products, services or websites are crappy, just state so. It’s more important to retain the loyalty and trust of your readers than a few advertisers. It is simply not worth the while if you spent so much time and effort to build up a profitable blog only to see your efforts went down the drain.
6 Reasons To Use WordPress
You have probably read my posts before and know that I advocate using WordPress as your blogging platform. If you need any convincing on using WordPress, here’s a 6 reasons why WordPress is so great! 
1) There are millions of free cool looking themes for you to download and use. Imagine what you can do with all these free themes around, you can practically change your blog’s look every single day for the next 100 years or so! Now, if only you can live that long!
Create Your Own Unique WordPress Theme
For those of you who are keen to design your own WordPress theme, there is a way to do it fast without doing all the initial coding required. Use the WordPress Theme Generator at yvoschaap.com to create your own WordPress theme easily within minutes and from there, you can start to code and design your theme to your own liking.
Why A Blog Is A Must In Today’s World
Blogs are getting more and more popular nowadays. Given the popularity of blogs, it’s no wonder more and more people and businesses are using blogs to reach out to their customers and their friends. If you have an online business, having a blog will take your business to the next level. There are many benefits to using a blog as an extension to your online business.
Blogs are used by savvy marketers as a means to connect with their customers. A blog is great for new product or service launches without great costs to you. Reviews and feedbacks can then be gathered and these responses can be used to better your product or service before the main launch. Surveys can also be put up on your blog to judge how your business is progressing or what your customers may think of it.
One of the main reasons why people visit blogs is for information. A frequently updated blog will always have readers coming back time and time again for information. Once your blog is up and running well, it’s like a traffic generator. People can’t stop coming back for the information that you provide.
Paid Posting Opportunities
If you decide to explore blogging as a means to making money online, there are a lot of opportunities available for you to monetize your blog. One of the best ways to do so is through paid posting opportunities. You are actually being paid to write reviews of products, services or simply websites.
However, you have to take note that this source of income is not passive and consistent. One moment, you could be getting tons of paid opportunities, the next moment you may have none or very few. It depends on numerous factors such as your blog’s Page Rank, Alexa ranking, traffic, link popularity and so on.
In this post, I will list down a simple guideline to help you make money from your blog after 3 months. Although you can start monetizing your blog as soon as you set it up, most paid posting opportunities sites required your blog to be at least 3 months old before these sites accept you into their paid posting programs.
Some Nice WordPress Themes!
Here’s a list of nice and clean WordPress themes that you can download for free.
I’m currently using some of these themes on my sites. If you really need something special, maybe you can try using these themes as a platform and modify them to your taste to create something unique and personal. But remember to leave credits to the original authors.
If you notice most of them are 3 column themes. Why I always go for 3 column themes is that they allow you to monetize more of your site as compare to a 2 column theme. Depending on your own preferences, a 2 column theme may work better for you. BTW, most of them are blue in color, my favorite color!
It’s Time to Upgrade to WordPress 2.3
Two days back, WordPress officially released WordPress version 2.3. So if you are waiting to upgrade to the latest version, it’s time to do so. But please remember to do a backup of your files and database first in the event anything goes wrong with your upgrade. Don’t say I never warn you!
Read on for the official announcement from WordPress. (The original post is here)
1) I’m thrilled to announce that Version 2.3 “Dexter” of WordPress is now ready for the world. This release includes native tagging support, plugin update notification, URL handling improvements, and much more. This release is named for the great tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon.
