I had planned to do 4 things to my blog from the start, but I got kind of sidetracked. What did you want to do I hear you ask? Well nothing very big, but here is the list below:
- Change the default wordpress theme to something a bit more distinctive.
- Install the “Recent Comments Wordpress Plugin”, so that I can give something back (a link) to people participating in the blog posts.
- Add feedburner to the blog so that I can track how many people are subscribing to my blog. Its always good to know about your readers.
- Put my personal earning statistics on this blog which will encourage myself and others to earn more.
Out of these 4 steps, I have just complete the first three. That is, I have added this new theme (called K2) to my blog. I hope you like it.
I have also added the feedburner on the top right corner. Feel free to subscribe to my blog as I will be adding more and more content now quite frequently.
I have added the recent commentators plugin to the blog. So if you want a backlink from this blog, keep participating in the posts.
I will start adding my monthly earnings with screenshots to this blog starting with the earnings for the month of February.
This post is about one of my friends who is studying to be an electrical engineer. He contacted me about 6 months ago asking whether he can earn money on the net without spending a single penny. I thought a lot about it and this was my reply to him:
Hi *******,
Yes you can, but it will take you awhile before you start making any money. Maybe as much as year, or two. Here are some steps you can take if you don’t want to spend much money:
Create a blog on http://www.worpress.org on the subject of your choice (make sure you choose a subject which you are interested in).
Use a simple and clean template and put your Google Adsense code on it to earn the money.
Devote one hour every day to your blog and try to write two good posts (current events, news, reviews etc) on the topic you have chosen.
Submit each of your posts to all the famous bookmarking sites like digg, stumble upon etc. (this will take an extra 10 mins).
Go everyday to http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=65 and see the NEW DIRECTORY ANNOUNCEMENTS in the section. Submit your site to two new directories every day free of cost.
Register with some forums in your niche and put your website URL in your signature. Use the forum everyday for half an hour and interact with people in the forum
When you start getting some traffic from bookmarking sites or forum threads or search engines, you will be making some money out of it in Google Adsense.
When you get your first $10, start hunting for cheap links for your blog. Remember to get ONLY related links. Please remember to put all your money back into the site (promoting it) for quite some long time. Then will only it will rise.
Get more and more links when you get more and more money. That will give you more and more traffic. Which means more and more money.
So these are the steps I think I can tell you. Do let me know if you actually plan to follow them.
So the main points here were to get some free traffic first, which will make you some money, use that money to get some paid links, which will increase your traffic further.
Yesterday I was discussing with him like how is his project going. So he showed me his Google Adsense for the last month (5th month). In his 5th month he made around $602. But he has put in all the money he has earned back into his blogs promotion.
Today his 300+ post strong blog (niche: renewable energy news) gets around 1200 uniques per day and make him around $600/month. He says, he still does not need any money right now, so he will be using all his money back into his blog for next 6 months 
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