 Image credit: Andrew Neel from Unsplash It is no secret that blogging is fun and can be a great source of income. The question many people have is how to blog in order to make money. I have listed my tips to making money blogging below.
1) You should think about yourself and your family. You should make sure you understand the potential dangers of blogging. I have seen some blogs that are absolutely horrid and are not worth reading. I know a great blog was shutdown because of copyright infringements and other such things. It is your blog, so think about what is important to you. Is there something you wish to achieve? How about money? Perhaps you wish to make money blogging. The potential is there and you should weigh the pros and cons. 2) I am not a blogger that enjoys seeing blogs and pages in the search engines. I like sites that provide information on a particular topic. I think it is important for a person to be informed. You should not post anything just for the sake of making money. 3) You should consider adding a "donation box". If you have readers that are interested in buying products or services, why not provide a way for them to contribute. I am of the opinion that people are decent and they are good people. It is just that they are unaware of what you blog is about, or you might want to sell your products and services. By adding a donation box, you may make a great start to making money blogging. 4) You should think about your readers. You have a lot of people coming to your blog. How do you keep track of them all. Consider the question of how can you increase the blog readership? There are so many things to learn from bloggers. You can easily add a "tag" to your blog that will allow readers to a tag the content. You have a lot of options to add a "donation box" to your blog. 5) You should think about your niche. It is important for you to know your audience so you can easily cater to them. You should be able to cater to your readers needs and wants because that is what is best for them. 6) You should think about the search engines. You have to be indexed in the search engines because this is the key to succeeding in this business. 7) It is important for you to be consistent. There are many alternatives to making money blogging. Many alternative means to make money can be found on line. Some ways to generate an income are through pay per click ads, affiliate links, selling your own products and services etc.
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 Image credit: Ben Robbins from Unsplash Sometimes you get in a slump. You feel like the same ol' same ol' just isn't going to cut it. You start questioning yourself. What is going on? What am I doing? You try new things. You make changes. You try to motivate yourself. You ask for advice. But nothing seems to work. You are stuck in a rut. Can you get out of it?
When you feel like you are in a rut you need to find out why. If you don't know why you will keep repeating the same ol' same ol' and that is not acceptable to you. Sometimes you might even start questioning your parents. Your parents are there to help you and guide you. If they are not helping you is it so wrong for them to be guiding you in different directions? Maybe your parents have different ideas on how to make things better. Do you want to follow their different ideas or do you want to go your own way. Maybe you want to try something new. Be prepared for the unexpected. I'm not sure how to get out of my slump. But here are a few pointers which might help you out. If you follow these pointers you will start to see a different light. And this light will lead you to get out of your rut. 1. Understand and accept that what you are doing (or not doing) is your business This is the first thing you need to do is to accept and understand that what you are doing is your business. It is not anybody else's business to tell you what to do. Everybody is entitled to their own business. You are entitled to yours. If somebody else is running your business they are just running it in order to make you feel guilty. If they don't make you feel guilty they make you feel like you are useless and unimportant. When you accept that what you are doing or not doing is your business it is a lot easier to stop noticing it and the more you notice it the easier it will be to change it. When you can accept that what you are doing is not anybody else's business to do then you are ready to accept the guidance and help from the people who really do know what they are doing. 2. Take responsibility for your own business It is your own business. Whether you are doing well or poorly your business is up to you. If you need some help you can seek it from your family, friends or work colleagues. But do not ask your boss or your boss's boss to take responsibility for your performance or losses. It would just make you feel guilty. It is great when people recognize that their business is their own responsibility. They will give you proper direction and help to improve you performance and results. It is a great feeling when people take responsibility for their own business. When you take responsibility for your own business you will feel accomplished. Not only that but it will lead you to feel fulfilled and at peace with yourself. Feeling fulfilled and peaceful will help you maintain a healthy amount of behaviours. This will surely help you to stop thinking negatively about yourself. This will surely help you to start seeing the sun again and not just the dashboard of your car which is a very unhealthy place to live in. 
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Just like Transformers, there’s more to video games than meets the eye. They’re mainly used for entertainment, but many titles also have lessons to teach through their storylines and gameplay. An invested player can walk away with more than they realize.
You can learn a lot from video games that can apply to your lived experiences; surviving a zombie attack with Resident Evil, ride a flying bike in Grand Theft Auto and scale a building in Assassin's Creed... all essential skills! 'Make Use Of' give you the rundown of some of the skills you can gain out there!  Image credit: Ivan Samkov from Pexels When you are trying to get more people to see your blog, the problems don't always present themselves. When you are blogging, the goal is simple, to get as many people to see your content and engage them. And for every successful blogger that is utilising it to their abilities, there are many people who just cannot get it to fly. What does it take to improve a blog, and what can we learn from those who have not been able to try and ascend to the next level?
The Lack of Quality Content We have to start with the content. After all, content is king. If you are blogging on the side, and you're doing it for fun, if you really want to make a success of it, you've got to keep pushing the envelope and make sure that you exude quality in every single way. Content, naturally, lends itself well to being shareable, but it's also about making sure that you are providing that engaging experience through your blog. When you address the variety of digital transformation solutions out there that completely reinvigorate blogs and businesses, they are more than aware of the importance of engaging content. This boils down to one simple thing: having an understanding of your industry. And if you are running a blog that provides a wide variety of subject matter, this is where you have to bring the experts in, and get people to guest post. But the best approach is to streamline your efforts because this means you can focus on one type of industry and one type of content. You Are Not Playing the Game If you think that all you need to be successful is to create a blog and make sure you get people to read it, there's more than meets the eye. You've got to play the game of networking. And this is where you have to adopt a more business-oriented mindset. Your blog is your product, but also, you are your product. This means you have to start thinking about how you promote yourself. Every little thing about your online personality will have significant repercussions. When you start to guest post on other people's sites, this is a fantastic way for you to promote your blog. If you start to guest post, you naturally begin to network with others, and you expand your pool of contacts. You Are Not Working to Monetize Your Blog If you do not have a successful blog, you may have to invest more into it, financially speaking. Enhancing awareness of your brand is about making sure that you strengthen your social media presence, but also, if you are not treating your blog seriously, investing in practices like affiliate marketing could be an ideal way for you to finally focus your attention on the blog. It's time to stop treating it like a side project. In order to make your blog successful, you have to be consistent and be dedicated. If you want to have a successful blog, you will have to understand why you are failing.
Food blogs are an amazing way to make your mark online with a pretty much guaranteed audience. After all, everyone’s gotta eat, and more of us than ever now turn to trusted online resources over traditional cookbooks. Get this right, and you could even be rubbing shoulders with top dogs like Gordon Ramsey in no time.
The trouble is that according to the latest exhaustive survey, there are as many as 16,588 food blogs online. In other words, anyone starting out here is certain to come up against a fair amount of competition and, sometimes, that alone means you struggle to truly get cooking (excuse the pun.) This can be disheartening, especially given the runaway food blogger success stories that often come to the fore. Luckily, it is possible to overcome even a lukewarm response for success later on, and doing so simply relies on considering whether your slow start is due to the following common mistakes. Failing to write your own recipes 
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Food blogs come in all forms, with some reviewing food, while others trace the process of cooking every recipe in existing cookbooks. The trouble is that blogs like these will always have a shelf-life. By comparison, the food bloggers who are really making their mark are doing so by putting their own recipes at the forefront. Following in their footsteps is, by far, your best chance at broadening your blog for ongoing appeal, and ensuring that readers return time and again, even if just to revisit that much-loved recipe.
No room for growth Ultimately, readers love a blog that they can grow with. As such, you should always be moving forward in some. There are an array of options here, with many food bloggers starting subscription boxes, launching cookbooks, or even selling to stores. Or, you may want to reach for the top with a restaurant business that sees you hiring a hospitality unit, employing an entire team, and even designing your own equipment using photo etching and expert advice. Either way, readers will want to know that your foody efforts are likely to come to something they can enjoy. Otherwise, it’s unlikely that you’ll gain the loyal following you need to find real success. Failing to leave your readers hungry Food blogs that are intermittent and afraid of the notorious ‘CTA’ (call to action) are never going to drive any urgency or passion. This will see people failing to engage, or even return. To avoid that, work at leaving your readers hungry. In some ways, a drive towards one of the business ideas mentioned can help, but you should take things even further, with regular recipe upload days, and a call for readers to take some action, be that social media shares, comments, or cooking challenges. Like cliffhangers at the end of a book, these efforts can make a huge difference to adding peril, excitement, and a general drive to return to your page. 
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So, what are you waiting for? It’s time to turn up the heat and get cooking at last.
 Image credit: Estee Janssens from Unsplash What's important is how you accomplish it. You will be able to change your behavior if you can change your goals.
When you take the time to write out your goals in the first instance you're going to have a better chance of achieving them. Here's what I do to help me accomplish my goals. 1 - I always begin by writing down why the goal is important to me. If I really don't have a good reason why, my goals will most likely not get accomplished. In that case I'll try to come up with some kind of solution that will keep me motivated to keep working toward achieving my goal. 2 - I always look at all the reasons why the goals aren't being accomplished. There is usually going to be many reasons why one goal will be done quicker than another. 3 - I don't accept that I am the only one who doesn't know how to work toward achieving their goals. There are going to be many people in many parts of the world who don't know how to achieve their goals. In that case they need to learn how to work toward achieving their goals. 4 - I look at what I've accomplished thus far in my life and see what I've needed to learn how to work toward achieving my goals. I always try to take a look at what I've accomplished thus far in my life and think about what I've done so far and see what I need to learn how to work toward achieving my goals. By looking at what you've accomplished thus far in your life, you'll be able to see what you need to learn how to work toward achieving your goals. As you accomplish each goal you set for yourself, you'll be going on to the next goal. That's what has the MO MO - more is more. It's best to set big goals for yourself. It's also important to make sure you are realistic with your goals. Realistic means something that is easy to achieve. That doesn't mean easy to obtain either. You have to work hard to get the goals accomplished. You're going to have to be patient. As you start working toward achieving the next goal you'll also need to manage your expectations. Your goals should be realistic enough that you'll have no problem getting the achievement of the goal. Then they should be big enough so that they are attainable with some effort. That they are big enough so that you're going to be proud of your accomplishments once you get them. The biggest mistake people make is setting unrealistic goals. It's important to break your goals down into smaller goals so you'll be able to get to the next goal and get to the next goal and so on. That way you'll be able to build up your confidence each time you accomplish a smaller goal so that you can take on bigger goals.  Image credit: NeONBRANDS from Unsplash As a blogger, you are going to have to find ways to get people to come to your blog. This is an area where all bloggers differ. There is a range of approaches to get people to your site, some involve direct marketing, while others focus more on building traffic. You will find that the two approaches differ greatly when it comes to how you get people to come to your blog. You will find that some bloggers tend to have a very active commenting community, whereas others find that a large amount of visitors will have to be nudged.
The two ways you can get people to come to your blog are: 1. Get them to see your blog as another media outlet with articles, videos, images etc. - This means you can make changes or improvements at anytime by making a post. This is one of the key points here. 2. Get them to come to your blog by nuzzling them - If you keep talking to people as an intermediary step, they will be prompted to visit. This blog is about getting people to visit your blog, and nuzzling them is one method that all bloggers find effective. A blog can be one of several blogs that is getting a lot of traffic, but these two approaches can help you get traffic to your blog. If you have to get them then you have to start by teaching them how to get to your blog. This means if you want people to get to your blog then teach them how to get there. This is a key point. If you want your blog to get a lot of traffic then you have to get them there. The best way to get people to get to your blog is by giving the best content he can find. This means you have to focus on the right things that will drive your readers there. Once this is done, you can direct them to the pages on your blog that will get them to enjoy the things you have to offer. Another way that you can get people to get to your blog is by building a reputation of good writing. You can do this by sharing good writing with readers on your own blog, or you can share it with other media outlets (like social media), and they will tag you or mention your blog. This means as you write you can leverage all the traffic you are getting. |
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