10 Blog Routines that Make you Money
10 Blog Routines that Make you Money
Guest post by: Damien Riley
I’m a big fan of Dragon Blogger. It’s a site that provides, among other things, solid tips and tools to make money online. That’s why I am humbled and honored to be writing a guest post here. I chose to discuss blog routines that make me money. Not all the ones I share today directly make money. Just like there is much more to see under the tip of the iceberg, making money blogging involves a lot of “foundational” work underneath the iceberg of money. Below are 10 routines I have developed that help me a lot in my part-time blogging for dollars:
- Remember the Milk shortcuts and reminders. My account at RTM is hands down my top tool in making money on my blog. It doesn’t wire dollars through PayPal but it enables me to quickly and easily record tasks that come into my mind throughout the day. There is a toolbar shortcut for Firefox that I use constantly. I enter tasks while reading my email, my feeds, working on my blog, everything. The part-time blogger must always be creating tasks and completing them. My dad always told me to do the small stuff first and this is one of those small things that yields big results.
- Validate and check your Blog indexes. Dragon Blogger has a great post about validating in all three browsers. This is not a fun thing to do so we often neglect to do it. Once I noticed my monthly traffic was plummeting. I just happened to go to my front page and found the sidebar was the only thing showing. Yikes! I had no idea how long it had been like that but my slump in readers was a pretty good indicator. Make a reminder somewhere to remind yourself to do this. It is preventative maintenance.
- Create and maintain a spreadsheet for your earnings. I didn’t keep track of my earnings for almost a whole year before I realized the importance of doing it. Since I started logging every paid post or ad earning my monthly income has been much more reliable. Dragon Blogger has a pretty good one, as do I. It is pretty simple. You can make your own if you have simple knowledge of spreadsheets.
- Update your “About” page. There is nothing cooler to me than seeing an about page that is current and easy to read. So many bloggers put up a generic piece of garbage for their about page. I guess they failed to realize that advertisers read these as do the most important readers you’ll ever have. As life changes, your vision changes. I’m not saying change photos every week (Chris Brogan does a webcam capture every post it seems) but keep it consistent with what you are doing on the blog.
- Create and visit regularly a set of shortcuts to your revenue jobs: ie; PayU2Blog is one of my biggest bosses and I visit the opps section several times/day. You should visit al the companies you work for often and make sure your info with them is always updated. I have picked up first-come-first-serve jobs that I would have missed had I waited for the notification emails.
- Deeply analyze your analytics. Seeing how many visits you have every day is not goin to make you money. Analyzing what pages got the most visits from what uri sources will be like money in the bank. Actually, you have to make decisions and act on them based on the analytics but it is the best information you can have when fiuring new ways to move forward and create new income streams. The blogging for money game is changing all the time. You need to know where the hot spots are on your blog. No one else will tell you.
- Clean things up. I’ll leave that to be interpreted however. Highly personal subjective thing.
- Develop and keep regular routines for posting on all your blogs. This doesn’t apply if you only have one blog. I have days of the week set aside for posts from all 4 of my blogs. Sometimes I deviate but it is really helpful when I get the Google calendar reminders. Have you ever spaced out? I have. This system of automated reminders keeps me faithfully posting no matter how confusing and hectic life can become.
- Once a month or more, search the web for “making money blogging” or derivatives. Smart people are writing stuff all the time. This is how you maximize your blog’s potential. Don’t think that just because these articles are at the top of Google that they are saturated with readers doing these things. Few people seize the oppourtunity. This is how you stay ahead of the curve in blogging.
- And finally, develop friends. Mentor people for free. Mentor people for hire. Befriend bloggers you respect. In the swirling conundrum of the internet, friends are like life preservers. A friend can DIGG posts for you or define a DIV term you just can’t figure out. The more friends you have the more well-rounded of a publisher you’ll become. This one is almost as important as the task management in #1. Tend to your friends and they will tend to you. This, in so many ways, like the other 9 things above will help you make more money bloging.
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