Make Money on your Blogs with Advertising Networks
Other than promoting affiliate products, advertising revenue can also bring in a substantial amount of income for bloggers. Advertisers are the people who are willing to pay to have their ads being displayed in popular places. Publishers, in contrast, are the people who are selling advertising spaces to advertisers. Advertising spaces are everywhere. You see them in subway stations, you see them on TV, you see them on the streets, on the walls of buildings...etc. This is exactly the same the Internet. you see advertisements on popular websites where thousands of visitors drop by every day, or even every minute,...read more

Affiliate Marketing on Blogs
Affiliate marketing is a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's marketing efforts. Affiliates earn commission for each lead or sale they make for the company running the affiliate program. Pay-Per-Lead (sometimes referred to as Pay-Per-Click) often refers to when someone sign up for the affiliate program, you get paid as an affiliate, as long as you are the one who made it happen. Pay-Per-Sale (sometimes referred to as Pay-Per-Performance) refers to when someone purchase a product that is part of an affiliate program, you get...read more

Connect Your Websites with PHP Widgets
In this lesson, you will learn how to create your first PHP widget. PHP widgets work very much like JavaScript widgets from visitor's perspective. Your website visitors will not be able to tell the difference between a JavaScript widget and a PHP widget both performing the same actions. In this lesson, we will use the Guest Blogger's Badge as an example. Step 1: Get your HTML code ready In this case, the HTML code for the Guest Blogger's widget is: <a href="http://www.blogging-career.com"  title="Blogging as a Career"><img src="http://www.blogging-career.com/bc-guestbloggerbadge.gif" border="0"</a> Step 2: Modify your HTML code and replace all the " with \" to...read more

Connect Your Websites With Javascript Widgets
You've already been introduced to the concepts of creating a quality blog and making niche websites as traffic nets. When you have more than 10 websites, getting a message across to all of your websites (e.g. announcements) can be very time consuming. You would have to modify all of your websites and add the message to them one by one. There is a way to update all of your websites from only updating one single file, which can be a life saver if you have more than 50 to 100 websites. What is a JavaScript Widget A JavaScript is a...read more

Capture More with Niche Websites
A niche website is a website that is very focused on specific topics. In fact, you are looking at one right now. There are many benefits of using niche websites as traffic nets. You get traffic from niche websites, possibly increasing the readership on your main website. Your main blog, may cover several topics at the same time. For example, Internet Business talks about different subjects around the generic category, Internet business. I create websites like this one to direct traffic from this website to my main blog. Niche websites almost guarantee to build up traffic over time because search...read more

Social Media Networks, Social Media Marketing
Social media is referred to as the information content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. it is the platform where people discover, read, and share news easily. Social media has become very popular because it allows people to connect, very quickly and efficiently, on the Internet and form personal or business relationships. You can pretty much think of your blog as a little social media network. Your readers / audience can communicate with each other on your blog and form relationships. Now if you scale this into something bigger, where blogs join up and form a much...read more

Article Submission
Article submission refers to the act of one submitting his own writings to article directories. Article directories get a lot of traffic from search engines due to massive amount of content. Search engines like article directories (just like how they love blogs) because they are great resources to people on the Internet. Very similar to blog and forums commenting, article submission, if done properly, can be an extremely effective way to leverage traffic to your blog and increase the readership of your blog. Because article directories are such great resources to find information, they are also favored by users online....read more

Blogs and Forums Commenting
There are many benefits to blog commenting. However, it is often misused and it's annoying for bloggers to deal with spam comments. It is an undeniable fact that most of us comment on other blogs for SEO purposes. Some of us do it for networking purposes. Most of the blogs have comment moderation enabled. This means that the bloggers behind these blogs have to manually approve the comments made on their blogs. So how do we comment on blogs properly without being considered as spammers? First let's check out the benefits of blog commenting: You get backlinks....read more

Tips to Enhance Your Blog Posts
Tip 1: Add graphics to your posts Sometimes "a picture paints a thousand words". If you look at popular blogs, almost every professional blogger inserts at least one image into each post. What you will find is that a post with an image doesn't look that boring. Tip 2: Add videos and audios (podcast) to your posts Most videos (e.g. from YouTube) and audios can be embedded into your post easily. Make the best out of them and make your posts more interesting to read. Tip 3: Add polls to your posts Polls encourage participation from your readers. Readers are often...read more

Introduction to the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web, also known as WWW, or simply the web, is a global medium that allows users to share information via computers, as long as they are connected to the Internet. World Wide Web was first introduced to the world by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. Before he came up with this name, he also considered other names such as Information Mesh,the Information Mine, which abbreviates to TIM, and Mine of Information, which abbreviates to MOI (Moe, in French). In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee introduced to the world the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the first...read more