That’s so right. Make money by blogging as often as you can - every day is best to keep the momentum going and to give your readers plenty of reasons to keep returning to your blog.

As long as your posts actually say something worthwhile and create interest, buzz or curiosity in your audience, then they’ll keep coming back.

There’s nothing quite so interest, buzz and curiosity generating as a blog that tells you how to make money online! Every snippet of information is useful, even if it simply reminds your readers that they should be doing something that they already know, but have forgotten to keep doing!

These gentle reminders are what helps to keep bloggers who make money on track.

The make money track!

Terry Didcott
Make Money

A lot of things have happened with this Make Money blog in its short lifetime.

Its first three months saw a rapid growth in content all relevant to the make money niche that it sits in. Toward the end of its first three months, Google bestowed a very welcome although surprising page rank of 3.

This was a nice piece of icing to place on top of the cake as it meant that not only would I be able to register with and take work from some of the paid review sites, I’d be able to command a higher price for those reviews and there would be more choice available to me. It was, in all honesty, exactly what this blog was brought into existence for in the first place.

It exists to make money!

So imagine how I feel upon hearing the sad news that Google is going around slapping down small blogs for taking on paid reviews!

Like everyone else, I knew they were clamping down hard on blogs that were selling text links to other sites who were collecting back-links like confetti in order to artificially climb up the search engine results pages (SERPs). That’s fair enough, but now it seems they are widening their radar to encompass blogs who are writing paid reviews as well.

It would be a little harsh to have been granted a generous page rank only to have it snatched back almost straight away for doing what the blog was designed to do – write reviews and make money from them!

Perhaps there is a way around this, but I for one can’t think of it right now. You see, the paid review companies expressly forbid the use of the rel=”nofollow” tag in any link used in a paid review. Google, on the other hand, will allow you to write paid reviews if there is a nofollow tag in the link.

Oh.

Which means that the writing of the review is really just a smokescreen for the so called advertiser buying a back-link. Which explains why they’ll pay a lot more id that back-link comes from a high PR site, say PR6 and above. It does not explain, however, why blogs over 3 months of age but with only PR0 are still able to write paid reviews, albeit with a much more limited choice and the pay is lower. I suppose those kind of reviews are real advertisements aimed at blogs with decent traffic.

In fact that’s the way advertising should be. High traffic blogs should be able to command high ad-space value simply because they get a high volume of readers, just like any offline magazine or newspaper. After all, you can’t get any link juice from an ad placed in a magazine!

We shall see how things pan out over the coming weeks or even days.

Terry Didcott
Make Money

What a nice way to follow my last post in Make Money by announcing that this blog has been awarded a PR3 from Google - thanks guys n gals at Google! This now puts this place in the position where it has waited three months to be in - ready to make money!

First step is to submit to some paid review sites, as I mentioned in earlier posts. Once approved (and I see no reason why they won’t) then you’ll start seeing the odd paid review appearing on this page. Don’t worry, they will always be followed with a normal (unpaid) post of relevance to keep up the good content quality that you have come to expect from this site.

After all, it’s no good getting the PR and the paid work if you end up filling your blog with paid reviews and no decent content and then losing all your readers because there’s nothing decent to read!

So in the process to make money, don’t lose sight of the fact that you must keep up the quality of the posts and simply intersperse the odd paid review in between for that revenue - and keep your readers happy and also keep promoting to increase your readership all the time.

Because this is still only early days in the grand scheme of things to make money in ever larger amounts from your blog!

Terry Didcott
Make Money

PS: Technorati Profile added to this blog!