Bake Radio Blogs
Bake Radio is a small community provider of weblogs hosted on the popular Wordpress platform to any member of the community it serves who wants to blog about just about whatever they like from a wide range of topics.
PLEASE NOTE: New user registrations are currently closed at least for the time being while hosting constraints are dealth with. All existing blogs are unaffected by this and can be updated as normal.
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Moderating Blogs
Posted on July 3, 2009
Category: blogs | Leave a Comment
A worrying piece of information has come to our attention here at Bake Radio and I want to assure everyone that steps are being taken to stamp it out. We’ve been fairly relaxed about allowing you to blog whatever you want to blog about as long as it doesn’t overstep the mark into territories of unsavoury topics.
However, we weren’t exactly prepared for a selection of our hosted blogs being used to link out to sites that are members of what we believe might be a paid link farm. This is an incredibly stupid thing to do as it puts the whole domain at risk. To counter this risk, admin has had to take drastic action and moderate blogs severely.
We have deactivated all blogs that we have found linking out to sites that we are unsure of.
If the blog owners want their blogs back, they are going to have to come and show us they are legitimate.
As of right now, we will not tolerate any blogs linking out to bad neighbourhood sites and that includes any sites that may be or are suspected of being used as a paid link farm. This flies in the face of trying to run a host of decent, legitimate and useful blogs. So the practice stops here and it stops now.
Admin
Bake Radio
How to Promote Your Blog
Posted on June 23, 2009
Category: blogs | Leave a Comment
The last post looked at the basic principles of making money with your blog, so this post will carry that theme on in some way by looking at how to promote your blog in order to get that traffic turning up on your doorstep that will make you the money you want.
One of the most important ways of getting your blog noticed by the blogging community is to make use of social networking sites such as blogcatalog, mybloglog etc. This is fine of you genuinely want people top come and read your blog and you can make a lot of friends in these places. Social blogging is perfect for social bloggers to get themselves and their blogs out there in the blogosphere and get noticed. It won’t make you any money however!
But if your goal is only to get yourself notices, then using the social scene online is the perfect way to do this.
If you want money, you’re going to need to use different tactics to attract the organic search traffic that you’ll need to your blog for you to make money. There are several ways of doing this, and most Internet marketers already know them. They all consist of generating links back to your blog and the main ones are:
- Article Marketing
- Commenting on other blogs
- Posting in forums
- Guest posting on other blogs
There are some other methods of obtaining backlinks to your blog that will help to get it ranked in the search engines, although these methods are frowned upon. They are sometimes called black hat methods of SEO and are underhand and cheating ways of getting to the top. They consist of buying links outright from site owners who have authority sites and using link farms. If you get caught using either of these methods, you will probably get your site into all sorts of trouble, although that doesn’t seem to stop the big fish in this pond.
If you look at the top sites in Google’s index for terms such as credit cards, finance, loans, make money, weight loss etc, they all have one thing in common. They bought their way to the top. The top credit card sites have very little in the way of relevant content, so you can safely assume that Google does not place the amount of relevance on that medium as all the so-called content gurus would have you believe. So if the top sites in that niche have hardly any content, how did they get to the top?
They bought a ton of links and continue to buy them in order to stay there.
The true Internet entrepreneurs that make the most money do not slave away writing in blogs or doing article marketing. They sit on a beach someplace buying links. So do you feel deflated? Well you should because they are not playing by the rules yet they are making all the money and no one, not Google, not other site owners, no one is stopping them.
So read into that what you will. The lesson in this post I guess is don’t bother going after the really big niches like those I just listed above. Instead, there are thousands of easier niches to target where you do not have to take such drastic action in order to dominate them. You can write good content, do article marketing and get links naturally and using methods that do not upset the search engines’ quality guidelines, but instead work with them and get your site ranked legitimately.
Admin
Bake Radio
The Basic Principles of Making Money with Your Blog
Posted on May 26, 2009
Category: make money | 1 Comment
There are plenty of ways in which to make money from your blog that you have hosted here at Bake Radio, so we’ve decided to put up a few posts that outline the basic ways of doing this in terms that are easy to understand.
Attracting traffic is the be all and end all of making money with a blog, but as we have already pointed out in earlier posts, its not just any old traffic that will do for the task. Social traffic is fine if you want people to read your blog, but if you want money, you need search engine traffic. To get this you’ll need to know how to get ranked in the index and ranked well. This all boils down to SEO, as we’ve talked about already, so no need to go there again.
Now, if your goal is to actually make money online with your blog, you will need a different strategy, as we have already explained in earlier posts. To put it simply to save you backtracking, you need targeted, organic search traffic turning up to your blog. This is the kind of traffic that are searching for something and if they can find your blog in the search engine they’re looking in, then as long as you have what they want, they will have had a good experience in visiting your blog.
This is what the search engines want and by providing this, you and your blog will remain in their good books.
Of course, those very same visitors may be looking for more information than you can provide them with, in which case they are very likely to click out of your blog and go elsewhere to find that additional information. Now you can either allow them to hit the back button and leave your blog and not make you a dime, or you can place some ads in their line of sight, so that they may see something more interesting than the back button and click on the ad. Which makes you some money.
That’s the basic principle of making money with PPC ads or even some affiliate ads that provide the visitor with the answers they are looking for.
Admin
Bake Radio
How to Make Money Online with eBay
Posted on April 29, 2009
Category: make money | Leave a Comment
Well, now we’ve looked at how to make money online using SEO to boost your blog’s presence in the search engines, which is paramount for succeeding with Adsense. So let’s look at another way of generating a passive income from your blog hosted here at Bake Radio - eBay.
Your blog comes with a built-in program that enables you to use your eBay EPN account to display relevant items from their auction right here on your Bake Radio blog! Its simplicity itself to set up and once your blog is attracting visitors from the search engines, will earn you commissions on every item that is bough through your blog.
The best way to do this is to create a separate page (rather than a post) that you can give the title “Online Store” or something similar. There you add some relevant content to explain what it is you are selling, maybe a short review of the products etc, then add a simple piece of code like this:
[ebay]Your Keyword[/(ebay]
This will trigger ads (replace “your Keyword” with the search keyword) for your product to be displayed in neat boxes on the page. You can set up how many boxes you want displayed as well as other parameters by going to the “Ebay Listings” tab in your WP control panel.
By attracting targeted search traffic by promoting those keywords using SEO as described in an earlier post here, you will, as your blog gains popularity and search engine results page (SERPs) position, attract more traffic looking for exactly the product you are promoting on eBay, which will result in more clicks, bids and sales. Which all mean more commission for you!
Admin
Bake Radio
