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How to Make Money Blogging
Advertising Programs - Perhaps the most obvious changes in the past few months have been with the addition of a variety of viable advertising options for bloggers looking to make money from their blogs. The most common way bloggers seem to earn money online is via the contextual ad program from Google - Adsense. A more recent addition that many are using successfully are Chitika’s eMiniMalls and WidgetBucks, Text Link Ads.
Azoogle Ads, Intelli Txt, DoubleClick, Tribal Fusion, Adbrite, Clicksor, AdHearUs, Kanoodle, Pheedo, TextAds, Bidvertiser, Fastclick and Value Click (to name just some of the options) and there is a smorgasbord of options. Of course there is more to come with MSN Adcenter and YPN both in beta testing and with a variety of other advertising system currently in development (YPN is only available to US publishers).
Lastly there’s BlogAds - one of the first blog specific ad networks।

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Massive Traffic Using Simple RSS
If you've seen these icons, you already know about RSS:"RSS"stands for Really Simple Syndication.Here's something you can do. You subscribe to a site that has an RSS feed and you can keep up-to-date without having to check the site every day or week. All you need is a feed reader.But honestly, don't worry about that yet. Don't allow yourself to be confused. Just think about this for a moment, from a marketing perspective...RSS drives frequent search engine (spider) visits and that translates to higher search engine rankings. But, forget about that for a moment too. If you're like us, you don't care about what RSS is, you care about what it can do. And, you want it to be really easy and effective...This report is NOT about RSS as a technology.Instead, it's an analysis of what RSS can do to drive massive traffic to your marketing empire. We show you exactly how to do it.
BLOG AND PING
If you're like most marketers, you probably write articles and distribute them to major articledirectories, such as EzineArticles.Did you know, though, that as an EzineArticles Author you have access to your very own RSS feed? This is a powerful fact many people completely overlook.Now, don't raise an eyebrow yet – we'll get to how this can drive you massive traffic in just a few moments.First, allow us to explain how to access your RSS feed...Do a search on EzineArticles.com in the box in the upper right hand corner of your browser and findyourself.Next, click on the Expert Author link .You'll also be able to find the RSS link.Rightclick on that and grab the URL, which is a .xml link.So, now that you've gotten your RSS feed, it's time to continue with the big secret...If you've blogged before or done any research onblogging, you've probably heard that you should ping your blog. In short, pinging sends a notification to several news syndication services that you've updated content in your blog or your website.The “blog and ping” strategy increases your Google Page Rank (which correlates to a higher search engine ranking), increased traffic and more exposure to yourcontent.The problem is that people have become shortsighted.They believe “blog and ping” go hand in hand.No! This is totally false. Any source that provides an RSS feed can be “pinged.”This is a really powerful technique. Spend the extra 30 seconds every time a new article is posted toEzineArticles and take advantage of the free, massive traffic.But don't limit yourself there. Anytime you see an RSS feed, think – can I utilize this to drive more traffic tomy website? RSS feeds are produced virtually everywhere now, so the next time you see an RSS button near some of your content, ping it!