I am hoping you can all help me out with this in the comment section because I really have no answer to this and would love to hear your thoughts. I have been thinking about this all night and it is based on this “snarky” comment I received on my last post which was about making money blogging . Here is the comment: Dan, I’m pretty sure this is going to sound snarky, but I sincerely don’t...

There are thousands of blogs that focus on blogging tips and how to make money blogging .  I am sure you have heard that content is king and social media is the wave of the future and hundreds of other blog tips along those lines.  I was thinking about what separates bloggers and why some bloggers fail and others succeed.  I have come to the following formula : Time + Effort = Blogging Success If you want...

Most bloggers are familiar with Sponsored Tweets and Ad.ly as they are the top two advertising companies that have sprung up to take advantage of the rise in the popularity of Twitter.  In my quest to make money through blogging and social media, I have tried out both services and have come to the conclusion that Sponsored Tweets is WAY better than Ad.ly.  With that being said, I have still not been able to...

Many of you noticed that I threw in a paid post a couple of days back.  I have done this a couple of times over the last month or so as I have been stepping up my blog monetization strategy.  When I first started this blog 7 months ago I told myself that the first full year I would focus on promoting my blog and would then focus on making money with my blog.  Due to my blog rank of pr 3 and my latest month...

I was recently thinking about the importance of a blogroll.  When I first started blogging 2 years ago, bloggrolls were a big deal.  It seems that some bloggers are not really utilizing their blogroll.  I am about 6 months into this blog and I have really neglected my blogroll section.  I have a total of 4 sites listed in my blogroll and they are all mine, 2 are other blogs that I own and 2 are blog directories...

Did I grab your attention with that heading? A month ago I signed up with Social Spark as a way to gain an additional source of revenue for this blog.  I am going to post my evaluation after spending 30 days with the company.  For those of you that are unfamiliar with social spark, they are a website that acts as the “middle man” between advertisers and bloggers.  They offer several services, including...

Should you monetize your blog or not? Every blogger has an opinion on this issue.  Some people are fanatical about the latest trends and are quick to try the latest techniques, others implement a more basic strategy, some decide not to monetize their blogs at all.  Then you have the bloggers who are never happy with their monetization strategies and are on a constant quest for new ways to earn their cash....

Some of you may have noticed that I have written some sponsored posts lately. I just joined the social spark site and there have been some really good opportunities. There are a lot of $5 opportunities that are

What is your favorite url shortener?  I used to use tinyurl and then switched to bit.ly because it offered better tracking capabilities.  Over the last couple of months there have literally been hundreds of new url shorteners that have been launched.  I wanted to share with you a url shortening service that you can actually use to make money with.  The service is called ADf.ly and it works just like all...

A lot of bloggers would tell you that you should compete in the search engine with keywords that do not get searched much. They tell you to avoid key phrases such as Make Money Online because they say that you will never make it to the first page of the search engine. Think of it this way – if you compete for keywords that have little to no search volume, you get little results. If you take the time and effort...