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Hi there and welcome to 2010 where a new year should bring a bout of renewed energy and enthusiasm into your blogging and marketing efforts. If last year was a good year for you, that’s great, but why not intend to make this year an even better one!

Far too many people get to a certain level then think to themselves, that they have reached their goal and now its time to take their foot off the gas, sit back with hands folded behind their head and take things easy from hereon. That would be fine if you could guarantee that your business will chug along happily on autopilot and keep pace with inflation while its about it. But what business does that?

What’s more likely is that even if you have websites or blogs sitting firmly rooted to the top of the Google SERPs getting plenty of traffic and converting into some decent coin, there is no guarantee they’ll be there doing that tomorrow. In fact, while making your living online can be one of the most satisfying ways there is, it can also be the most volatile with regards to stability.

So it would be a foolish person indeed who thinks they can sit back and take things easy just because things are going so well right now. You could be looking the other way for a week or so and without any warning, someone else who might have been working their sweet behind off to take their site to the top of your keywords, will come along with their website and take all your traffic. It happens and it will continue to happen, whatever niche you’re working in. Nothing is safe and there is no niche that you can dominate that someone else with better resources might want to come along and take from you.

So prevent that from happening by keeping a wary eye on your business and its websites and blogs and if they’re ranking well, then keep working to make them rank better and make it difficult for anyone else to overtake you.

Here’s to making your own success!

Admin
Bake Radio

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

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!

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Bake Radio