Blogging for a second income - does anyone else here do this?

Lienshare_2

Emuchops wrote: »

Thankyou Lienshare.

You're welcome.

Angel_Jenny

Lienshare wrote: »

You could change the Theme to a paid Theme if you are using free ones.
As to which ones that isn't so easy because it depends on the topic of your site because you can get specific themes for specific blogs.
I have used these;

diythemes.com/

elegantthemes.com/

headwaythemes.com/

flexibilitytheme.com/

Flexibility 3 is Free but the the Flexsqueeze side of it isn't.
There are many more excellent Themes available far more than I can list here, but a lot of marketers consider these the better ones to use.

There is only one Forum worth joining and that is the Warrior Forum which is free apart from the War Room.

warriorforum.com/

I have changed the header, background, font and increased the photograph size so far!

I was going to post a thread here with a link to my blog but wasn't sure if that was allowed. It isn't a blog that makes any money!

I just want to know what sort of impression it makes to others!

Emuchops

Angel_Jenny wrote: »

I have changed the header, background, font and increased the photograph size so far!

I was going to post a thread here with a link to my blog but wasn't sure if that was allowed. It isn't a blog that makes any money!

I just want to know what sort of impression it makes to others!

I don't think that you can post a link directly (happy to be proved wrong though), but you can put one on your 'about me/contact info'. Click 'user CP ' at the top of the page.

Angel_Jenny

Emuchops wrote: »

I don't think that you can post a link directly (happy to be proved wrong though), but you can put one on your 'about me/contact info'. Click 'user CP ' at the top of the page.

I have added my blog link!

I wasn't sure about the rules on here - don't want to break any!

xrobrob

I set up a new blog this month and so far.. I've earned £5. It is a music blog, quite underground so maybe not getting the best traffic. But I've tried showing it to my friends, facebook pages, getting links on other blogs etc. While I get some traffic now, none of guys seem to be clicking banners or buying music (I'm an affiliate for Adsense and Juno). I post a couple of posts every second day, do you think I will get something out of it soon?

Emuchops

xrobrob wrote: »

I set up a new blog this month and so far.. I've earned £5. It is a music blog, quite underground so maybe not getting the best traffic. But I've tried showing it to my friends, facebook pages, getting links on other blogs etc. While I get some traffic now, none of guys seem to be clicking banners or buying music (I'm an affiliate for Adsense and Juno). I post a couple of posts every second day, do you think I will get something out of it soon?

Hello xrobrob- I'm impressed with your earnings-I've earned nowt!! How did you get your fiver? I don't really know what you mean by being an affiliate for Adsense/Juno-does that mean that you have the got the Adsense ads on your site and that's how you made the money? How many views are you getting?

xrobrob

Yes, I've got a couple of banners on every site from Adsense.

Juno is a music website where you can download music (like Amazon or iTunes) and I get commission for everything someone buys through my recommendation (again, links on website). I get about 200 views a week so far.

Emuchops

xrobrob, thanks for the info, it's very helpful.
I have thought about Adsense, but have read that you need around 250 views a day before Google will accept you-it looks like this perhaps isn't the case. Perhaps I'll have a go as I get around 300 views a week at the mo.

What blogging platform do you use? I'm on Blogger.

Lienshare_2

Angel_Jenny wrote: »

I have changed the header, background, font and increased the photograph size so far!

I was going to post a thread here with a link to my blog but wasn't sure if that was allowed. It isn't a blog that makes any money!

I just want to know what sort of impression it makes to others!

I looked at your blog, very nice too.
What do you want from it?
Is it just a blog about your interests?
There is quite a big call for all things 50's related from furniture, to clothes, music and so on.
Maybe you could direct it more to that.

I did a quick search for 50's and the first site up was this one;

vivienofholloway.com/

This one has an Affiliates Program;

katesclothing.co.uk/

katesclothing.co.uk/affiliate_info.asp

But there doesn't seem to be a sign-up page as such, it wouldn't hurt to send them an email.
I'm assuming you are in the UK.

j.smith1981

Ewaf wrote: »

Nice post, but the above highlighted is very wrong. Where on earth did you get that idea from? Almost all hosts have one click install for most blogging platforms including wordpress. Log into hosting, click the big button called "Install Wordpress", done in less than 2 seconds.

There's some web dev's out there that say this, actually I would like to add something to what I said about that now that's come to light kind of a yes addition to what I meant. Uusally the ones paying quite allot of money (I have seen postings on things like vworker for up to $200 sometimes) are the ones that want changes to WP's logic or additions even theme customisations or complete rewrites of their themes.

The WP install (as I felt it) when I installed it myself on my own hosted server I found it infuriating myself the web install didn't work, I set the Linux folder permissions the way the installer told me to precisely as it told me to, even going back to what I used to do when phpMyAdmin would complain about config problems with its auto setup script well kind of anyways.

There are some hosts (quite allot of the bigger ones anyway) that offer this as a point and click free service as part of their monthly or yearly fee whatever but doesn't mean their free entirely.

There are some people who are willing to pay allot just for an install but there's few and far between, I have seen 1 or 2, but some tend to go on very low bids and there's not much point in bidding for them I think personally.

The bit about installing WP yourself is just of course my opinion but I still use it, find it great for my purposes and get a reasonable amount of traffic, have been going for about 3 months coming up to 4 months at the end of this month and I have about 64 posts available in public view 2 private ones which are for me only since their some really good ideas for what I want to do which someone could capitalise off and a few more (like 10 in draft mode) I need to revise some of it though since allot of mine is just yes I think as I said before me remembering what I tried and what I havent then some guides as to why they work or don't.

I am learning Perl and I tried finding a function like print_r in PHP (since PHP used to be a lib within Perl) and have those bits of logic still in there but commented out so I can search for them on my own blog and use them at a later date if necessary. I just love what I blog about really.

In response to this (apologies this was just crying out for a response):

Lienshare wrote: »

This is a fairly comprehensive tutorial on how to transfer a Blogger blog to Wordpress;

mypregnancybaby.com/moving-blogger-wordpress/

You do need hosting, I always recommend Hostgator because I know they are reasonably priced and reliable.

I have setup a domain name for someone who was their own domain registrar, that's when you have control over your own domain and nobody else does, sometimes when you register a domain yes you pay the fee but someone else has control over it or can have control over it, that's when someone else is what's called the registrar.

hostgator said to a client of mine when we where trying to set him up as the domain name query server, he wanted his own dns server, something you query unknowingly to allot of people it's where your ISP's (what you use to go on the Internet) queries another server if it doesn't have the IP address of that site.

It then feeds you back the address like looking in a telephone directory, then goes to the site to pick up the content (usually works this way), he wanted his own domain name server to act like a directory for his own sites.

Now my problem with them (fine if you just want to keep to their servers but transferring anything is a pain in the backside believe me, why they are so cheap I think, don't get me wrong I use them or have done in the past) is that when I was working for a client wanting their own public querying dns server, what you are if you are your own domain registrar you get (the easiest way of explaining this) is you have your connection to the Internet, you ask for www.mydomain.co.uk their domain name servers then go off and query for that domain mydomain.co.uk ignoring your wanting of www sub domain of mydomain.co.uk (.uk is our countries domain name, .co is a subdomain of .uk and so on you see), so making www a subdomain of your FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name, meaning it refers to a real site or server for resources/data)

Hostgator kept saying they'd changed the registrar domain services to him, his IP address on his own newly setup by me domain server called Bind from a Linux distribution, waited 2 weeks of him saying he had kept on at them to do this they kept saying they had when they obviously had not done what they said they would, my client being the registrar for the domain (meaning he keeps regulation over it) sometimes when you buy a domain name a company poses as the registrar so they can reject any requests to close it or maintain it, hostgator have a habit of closing allot of their hosted stuff off if it breaches regulations fair enough it's what they have to do legally (even without checking if the request is from a legal source)

Anyways sorry going off on a tangent there, he then said enough was enough went to another hosting company got them to transfer his domain, he then got them to register it as his own domain name server and we where away, had hostgator done what they where asked to do then non of my late income would have happened, would have got my income payment from this work allot quicker if they had been more honest that's why their so cheap they don't do as their obliged to do by the laws of how the internet is governed.

My client even had to mention the laws of what being your own registrar meant, they kept saying like as if he wasn't the registrar. hostgator aren't terribly competent to be honest.

I have had to tell them 5 times to close an account before because I wasn't using it 5 times when all it should take is one message, going to be fun telling them I am not using a domain I thought I was going to end up using but haven't really bothered with yet so might as well just leave it until it expires and then say I am not paying a bill for a service I have never used. I suppose it's what you use them for though as always but for me hostgator is a big no no at the moment bluehost are quite good though and their cheaper for what they offer especially with their comparative VPS services (no processor limit with their VPS like hostgator have as soon as you cross over a percentage of processor power on your site which is very hard to keep control of bandwidth is easier in a manner of speaking if you are a VPS) and bluehost I think their called are allot more decent about what they quota on their reduced VPS services.

It's also going back to blogging though seeing where your traffic's coming from using google analytics, I might just deliberately setup some random public page and see what I can setup so I can really become good at setting up Google's services without all these blog software(s).