$3,329 IN SEPTEMBER 2019 BUSINESS INCOME
How I made $3,329 in September from blogging How-I-made-3329-in-September-2019-from-blogging-My-blogging-business-income-report Facebook Pinterest September was a good month. I finally see my blogging efforts turning to be a real income. It makes me really excited and I feel more optimistic about my blogging future. It was not always like this, especially during my first year of blogging. Not that I wasn’t optimistic, you must be if you want to be a business owner, it is just that before I started using Pinterest to drive traffic to my blog, I was very frustrated about my monthly traffic level results. Fortunately, I have found out about Pinterest’s ability to drive high traffic before I “officially” shut down my first blog. Five months after I started pinning on Pinterest, my blog traffic went up to 64,000 page views a month and I finally started earning money from blogging. That month I joined Mediavine, and my ad revenue increased by 10 times. 4 months after I joined Mediavine, my blog traffic reached almost 200,000 monthly page views. I was really amazed by Pinterest so I decided to write a guide about my experience on Pinterest and my best Pinterest tips. I published the guide a few months later, in which I share the exact Pinterest strategy I use to increase my blog traffic. Click here to reach my Pinterest Guide. When finally, I had traffic, I could start monetizing it. Monthly traffic in September 2019 This month I had only 75,444 page views, it is almost 60,000 fewer page views than the previous month traffic. My monthly traffic decreased because I didn’t work as usual during July and August. It was the summer break, we were on a vacation in Germany and I had to spend more time with my kids. What is next? Now that I feel more relaxed about my Pinterest strategy, I can put more time into content optimization and website monetization. Another thing that I find very interesting lately is selling digital products. Are they the perfect products to sell online? This is definitely something that I will write about in my next posts. And the great news is that I have started a graphic design course to improve my graphic skills! My goals for the next months Create new digital products – design printables, write another eBook, create e-courses. Increase my affiliate income Optimize my websites for SEO Increase monthly traffic Well, let’s get to the most exciting part of this report – the revenue this month. So here I’m sharing my September blogging business income report. September 2019 Blogging Income Report Revenue: Mediavine – $1,630.32 Skimlinks Affiliate – $192.07 Amazon Associates – $159.34 eBay Partner Network – $9.08 Content writing service – $ 785 Facebook Marketing Consultant – $554 Expenses: Depositephotos Flexible Plan – $29 Net profit: $3,300 Thinking about starting your own blog? Don’t think twice and start it now! Blogging is the best thing that happened to me – read my story here. You can create a WordPress blog on Bluehost just in a few simple steps (you don’t need to know to code) and start your blogging business today.
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How I Got 10,000 Pageviews in 24 Hours From Viral Pins With My New Blog!
How I managed to generate 10K pageviews in 24 hours to my new 4 months old blog how-to-make-pinterest-pins-go-viral Facebook Pinterest It happened during the fourth month after I started my new blog. It was another typical day, I had my coffee, organized my older son and took him to the kindergarten. By the time I came back, my husband was awake too, drinking his morning coffee in the living room. After I went through my morning routine, I got to my working desk, ready to start my daily tasks. During that time I worked from home as a social media freelance marketer, and I was in the eighth month of pregnancy. The first thing I do every day before I start working is to check my blog traffic in Google Analytics and the Google AdSense earnings balance 😊 That morning something was different. I opened Google AdSense App and I was a surprise to see that I already earned $4 that morning, which was extremely high compared to my previous earnings. I got into my Google Analytics account… and WOOOWWW! I couldn’t believe what I saw!!! It was 9 am and I already had 800 pageviews and more than 30 real-time visitors on my site at that moment!!! I immediately understood that there is something going on – maybe a viral pin?! I tracked the most popular landing page in Google Analytics and I checked its referral source. And GUESS WHAT!?!? It was Pinterest! Yeap! My Pinterest pins went viral! Two different viral pins that lead to the same article on my blog went viral together at the same time! A M A Z I N G ! My Pinterest Strategy is working! That day I checked Google analytics every 30 minutes! And I’m not exaggerating! Hahaha… The peak was in the evening when I saw 60+ real-time visitors in my blog at the same time! I thought my blog is about to explode! At the end of that day, I went to sleep with a big smile on my face, praying that maybe this Pinterest magic will continue also the next day! I’m sure you know what was the first thing I checked as I opened my eyes the next day! Yeah, I checked my blog’s traffic in Google analytics! And it was insane! I hit 10K pageviews in the last 24 hours on my blog! Unbelievable! What have I learned from this exciting experience? Pinterest has a huge potential to drive traffic! And I’m sure that what I had is just a small taste compared to the traffic that big bloggers get on Pinterest. You can get two viral pins at the same time to the same post (URL). The pins went viral 2 weeks after I have published them on Pinterest and repined them in 7 boards (regular and group boards). Click here to find out what you should focus on to get viral Pinterest Pins. How much I earned that day? The only sad thing about this experience is that I reached 10k pageviews in only 24 hours and I earned only $28 from Google AdSense! I wasn’t prepared to monetize that traffic and this was my huge mistake! The bottom line is that the RPM (revenue per thousand mills) was only 0.001 – extremely low! But still, I am glad that it happened to me since it proves that Pinterest is truly a worthy platform to invest my time in. These two viral Pins have a super motivating impact and the main thing I learned is that I must monetize my blog and get ready for the next time. How will I monetize my blog? Get ready with affiliate links to related products that I love and recommend. Work with an alternative advertising company that pays more for every thousand pageviews, such as Mediavine (Require minimum 25K sessions to apply) or Adthrive (Require minimum 100K pageviews). Maybe even selling my own related products in the future! Finally, I hope my Pinterest experience inspires you 😊
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How to Create a Pinterest Pin That Will Go Viral?
How to Create a Pinterest Pin That Will Drive Tons of Traffic to Your Blog Viral Pinterest pins will skyrocket your blog traffic! I can promise you that! From my experience, getting a viral pin was the best thing that happened to my blog traffic. This is my fourth month of promoting my new blog on Pinterest, and I already managed to create a few pins that went viral! This month I had the best performing viral pins that got me 10K page views in 24 hours! That is pretty awesome because this is only my fourth month of pinning on Pinterest. If you want to know the Pinterest strategy I used to get this insane traffic – Read here. We all know that the next step after getting high blog traffic is to monetize it and earn some cash, but I’ll keep this topic to my next posts…? Here I want to discuss the important question: How to Create Pinterest Pins That Will Go Viral and Skyrocket Your Blog Traffic? I guess you already read different posts that explain that the pins you design must be vertical, have clean and simple font design, good attractive title, design it in Canva (the free app that everybody uses), then post it during the most active hours and bla bla…. But let’s be honest, it is not always working. When I first started pinning on Pinterest, I read TONS of posts about how to succeed on Pinterest. There were a few good articles from bloggers who shared their greatest tips, but most of them weren’t that good. I soon found myself overwhelmed with all the generic posts. Most of the articles just listed the basic steps of making a viral pin that don’t really help anyone. So, why is my post different? Because today I’m going to share with you what works for me exactly, the strategies and the tools I use, and I hope this will give you a better understanding of how to create a pin that will go viral. Choose Your Niche Wisely First, let’s be straight forward, if your blog niche is not popular, which means that it doesn’t interest anybody, no matter what you do, it will be hard to make its pins go viral. It doesn’t mean that you have to focus only on one niche in your blog, you can write about multiple topics. Make sure to write about popular topics and use keywords that have a high search volume. CONTENT IS KING – REMEMBER IT! Use Attractive Titles You need to use accurate titles, to make the value clear and to use a strong language, so people will understand what the post is about. When writing a post, you need to try to solve people’s problems. People love saving Pinterest pins that can help them later. In order to let them know what your post is about and make them click on your pin, you must use an attractive and catchy title. People are always looking for answers, guides, hacks, and tips that will make their lives easier. Use the words: “How to do…”, “Where to get…”, “The ultimate guide to…”, “Why is…”, etc. What About Pin Design? There is something very important that you need to understand … When your potential reader is getting into Pinterest, he sees tons of pins. To filter and refine some of these pins he might search for a certain keyword. While he scrolls down the Pinterest dash, you will get less than a millisecond to attract his attention. If you manage to do so, then you will get a few more seconds to make a good first impression and to make him click on your pin. THINK! How should you design your pin? In addition to the attractive title, you need to use great photographs, clear font designs and interesting pin creative. There are many free apps you can use to design your pins. Among the popular ones, you can find PicMonkey or Canva. Canva is good, but everybody uses it! To design an extraordinary banner for free, you will have to make an effort to do it. After using this app for a while, I can easily recognize which pin was created by Canva, since most of them use the same templates and fonts. This way your pin can easily vanish among the millions of the pins on Pinterest – Not that good, right? Another option that I use is to create pins in Adobe Photoshop. In my opinion, this is the best way to design high-quality Pinterest pins and trust me, I have never taken a single lesson or a course to do it. All the Photoshop designing knowledge I have gained is from watching YouTube tutorials. Don’t worry it doesn’t have to be hard as it sounds, once you design 2-3 Pinterest pin templates, all you will have to change is the background photo and the title. By using Photoshop, you can brand your pins and blog easily. This way people will recognize your pins and click on them. Most of the people will prefer the pin with the uppercase letters. Why? Because it is easier and faster to read when scrolling the Pinterest feed. What Else Should You Avoid? I often see pins that look overloaded; the font isn’t clear, too many colors, complicated sentences, etc. You should avoid overloading your Pinterest Pins. Sometimes less is more, remember it! TOO MUCH EVERYTHING IS BAD! Use High-Quality Stock Photos To make your Pinterest pins even more interesting and attractive you must use high-quality stock photos. By using topic-oriented photos, you will manage to pass the post’s topic better to your potential readers. You can purchase high quality stock photos or even take the photos yourself! No matter where you get them from, be sure to use high quality, creative, and topic-related photos. Check out this list of the top 5 sites to buy stock photos here. Another option, which is not my favorite, but also available, is to use free stock photos. Keep in mind that since it is free, everybody uses it, it is not always high quality, and you must check the license type before you use them. Here you have a list of 20 free stock photo websites. Bottom Line, Here are the main points you should focus on when creating your Pinterest pins: Choose popular niche and topics for your blog posts. Implement Pinterest SEO. Remember – Content is king! Help your readers and try to solve their problems. Use attractive and catchy titles. Free apps to create banners – PicMonkey or Canva. Pro software to create and brand your pins – Adobe Photoshop. Use high quality stock photos. Avoid creating overloaded Pinterest pins. Use 2-3 main colors to design your pin. Use simple and clear fonts. Want to share your best tips for getting viral pins? Leave a comment below. Happy pinning!
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Exactly How I Earned $1,500/mo Blogging and How It Changed My Point of View About Blogging
Blogging Income Report monthly income report exactly how i earned 1500 blogging Facebook Pinterest Blogging Income Report How I earned $1500 Blogging by selling marketing content, what I have learned from it and why I decided to start a new blog. This is an unusual blogging income report. Wondering why? Since it is based on my first blog experience, in which I have done all the huge mistakes that a blogger can make but still managed to earn great income each month, and because of this experience I decided to start a new blog all over again! All the mistakes I did managing that blog and all the things I have learned from these mistakes had completely changed the way I think about blogging and the way I blog today! If you want to know what were these mistakes that I did during my first blogging experience, which made me start a whole new blog from scratches all over again – Click here. So, I bet you are thinking what is the significant change that I have undergone that made me change the way I’m thinking and blogging today? Well, when I first started blogging in March 2017, I was new at blogging and I barely understood how it worked. I didn’t know a damn thing about how to run a blog especially a money making one. A few of the niches my first blog covered were fashion and home design, while my plan was to sell marketing content to young designers whose purpose was to promote themselves online. I managed to earn good monthly incomes by selling marketing content, but I soon found myself feeling overwhelmed by this money-making technique, which was based on direct selling to designers and small business owners. I started to feel frustrated because I had become someone that I didn’t really want to be, kind of a telemarketing saleswoman, and it started getting on my nerves. How exactly did I earn money from selling marketing content? First, I was planning to write an article about 5 best designers/items in a certain niche. Then I was selling the participation in that article to 5 different business owners. The cost of a participation in one article was $100 to each business owner, so I managed to earn $500 for each article. I was collecting phone numbers of relevant business owners or designers, then I was personally calling each and every one of them and offering them to participate in the articles. For a few months, during 2017, I managed to earn each month more than $1500 from selling marketing content on my site. And what happened after these few months? After this experience everything started to be clearer to me, my goal was to build a passive income, and selling marketing content wasn’t the right thing to do at that time. I didn’t know how exactly I should build a passive income stream, but I knew one thing for sure, building my blog based on selling marketing content was not something that I wanted to do! Although I learned a lot about how to be a good saleswoman, I decided to start learning new techniques to earn passive income online (such as affiliate marketing and display ads). But I sure will use marketing content as one of my income streams in the future when I will have massive traffic on my blog. Wondering what is going on with my blogging today? Here are my achieved blogging milestones: On May 28, 2018, I have started building my current new blog, which mainly covers motherhood and blogging niches. Around 27th of June 2018, I first started pinning on Pinterest which included my current new blog posts. Today, 3 months after I started pinning on Pinterest, I managed to gain a total of 19,826 page views, while maintaining consistently an average of 200-400 daily page views on my blog with in only 3 months! For me that is awesome! As you can see – this month I have already 8,994 page views in my third month of blogging and pinning – and this month didn’t end yet – I have still 3 more days to go! I guess I will reach more than 10,000 page views this month! 10/1/18 update: I got 10,748 page views in September 2018! 10,000 page views in my third month of blogging is pretty cool! And the most amazing fact is that most of the traffic comes from Pinterest – More that 90%!!! Unfortunately, I didn’t use Pinterest to promote my first blog – that is because I really didn’t know the huge potential of this great platform to drive massive traffic. With my first blog I managed to gain only 10-12k monthly page views within a year of blogging, but the big difference is that more than 70% of the traffic source is organic from Google! Which is also nice but still not awesome like Pinterest. During these three months pinning on Pinterest, I managed to gain more than 5 pins that went viral! For example, this one. Moreover, I reached 705 new Pinterest followers, joined to 46 group boards and started 8 new group boards of my own, which you can join here! Since I fell in love with Pinterest, and my promotion results are pretty good – 10K+- page views my third month working on the new blog, I decided to write an eBook about how exactly I did it and what is my Pinterest strategy – promise to let you know when it will be ready! Today my monthly incomes are around 100-150$, not as much as I used to earn from selling the marketing content, but the huge benefit of it is that it is 100% passive!!! I’m so happy with this monthly passive income only because of one thing – it proves me that it is possible to earn passive income online and I’m on the right track! I’m sure going to multiply it and make my dream come true – to achieve financial freedom, be a work from home mom in order to raise my kids, be there when they need me and be a happy loving family (what I didn’t have as a child) and not working in the office from 8-5! Do you know what I love the most about blogging? There is no limit for the money that you can earn blogging. You can blog from anywhere – while traveling in the wildest places in the world, while watching TV in your condo in NYC or even during your studies in the academy! For me Blogging = Limitless! You just need to set the goals and go! If you are dreaming about starting a money-making blog and you haven’t started it yet Check out my free guide for starting a profitable blog, where I’ll teach you how to start a blog in a few simple steps, will share with you all the techniques and all the secrets you need to know in order to promote it and make it a successful blog! Click here to start your blog now> If you want to know what are my next blogging goals, what is my monetizing strategy and what is my plan to increase my monthly passive income? Stay in touch and subscribe now to read my next posts.
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How to Do Keyword Research for SEO – The Beginners Guide
Increase blog traffic and organic visibility What is “keyword research”? Keyword research is when individuals operate keywords to discover and research real search terms that persons arrive into SEs. The information about these real search terms can aid notify content tactic, or marketing tactic general. The keyword research is one of the most important things that you must do to get ranking for your website. SEO professionals spend most of their time doing keyword research in order to find the most popular keywords that people are looking for. I am going to outline a great keyword research procedure you can trail to aid you arise with and limit a list of categories you must be aiming. That method, you will be capable to found and implement a really strong keyword plan that aids you get establish for the search categories you really care around. By implementing a good keywords research you will be able to drive massive, high quality and relevant traffic to your website with low costs. How to find best Keywords for the SEO Tactic Step 1: Create a list of significant, related topics centered on what you identify about your corporate To start this method, consider around the focuses you need to get ranked for in terms of generic keyword buckets. You will come about with around 6 to 10 topic buckets you consider are significant to your corporate, and then you will practice those focus buckets to aid arise with certain definite keywords far ahead in the method. If you are an even blogger, then these are perhaps the focuses you do blog around most often. Or maybe they are the focuses that come about the greatest in trades conversations. Place yourself in the place of your purchaser, what sorts of focuses would your mark viewers search that you would need your corporate to get establish for? If you were an online business that is selling online software like SEO related software, you may have overall focus buckets for example, “inbound marketing,” “lead generation,” “email marketing,” “blogging,” ” marketing analytics,” “social media,” “SEO” and “the marketing automation.” Understand? Step 2: Fill in those topic buckets with keywords At this moment that you require a small number of focus buckets you need to center on, it is time to recognize certain keywords that drop into the buckets. Actually, these are keyword slogans you consider are significant to get ranked for in SERPs as your targeted buyer is perhaps directing searches for these exact terms. For example, if we took that previous focus bucket for an incoming promoting software business, “the email marketing,” I had turn certain keyword slogans that I consider individuals might type in connected to that focus. Those may comprise: The email marketing gears How to usage email marketing software How do we define email marketing? How to state if I need email marketing software lead development Top email marketing tools The idea of this stage is not to come about with your ultimate list of the keyword sayings, you simply need to finish with a mind dump of sayings you consider possible clients may practice to look for content connected to that specific focus bucket. We will focus the lists far ahead in the procedure so you do not have somewhat too awkward. Though further and further keywords are being encoded by Google each day, one more clever method to come about with keyword planning is to understand which keywords your site is previously getting establish for. To find this out, you will require site analytics software like Google Analytics, Moz or Semrush tool. Discipline down into your site’s stream of traffic bases, and examine over you organic search stream of traffic bucket to recognize the keywords persons are consuming to reach at your website. Repeat this method for as much focus bundles as you require. And think of, if you are having misfortune approaching up with related search categories, you can continuously move on above to your workers on the main ranks, for example Sales department or Services department, and inquire them what kinds of categories their views and clients practice, or mutual queries they have in their minds. These are frequently boundless beginning ideas for keyword research strategy. Step 3: Study linked search terms for keywords This is an artistic stage you might have previously supposed of when performing keyword research strategy. If not, it is a good method to fill in those lists. If you are stressed to consider of further keywords persons may be searching around a precise focus, go to the Google and have a stare at the connected search categories that comes up when you link up a keyword term. When you put in your saying and move to the end of Google SE’s results, you will see certain proposals for searches connected to your unique idea. These keyword researches can flash thoughts for further keywords you might need to have into concern. Need a plus? Write in certain of those linked search categories and have a look at their associated search categories. Step 4: Look for a mixture of main terms and the long tail keywords in each of the bulk If you do not distinguish the dissimilarity amongst head categories and the long tail keywords, then let me clarify. Head categories are keywords sayings that are usually smaller and much generic, they are usually simply 1 to 3 words in size, contingent on whom you dialogue to. The long tail keywords, on the other side, are lengthier keyword sayings commonly comprising 3 or more words. It is significant to notice that you have a mixture of head categories and the long tail keywords as it will offer you a keyword approach that is well stable with the long term aims and short term victories. That is for the reason that head categories are normally explored more often, creating them often much further reasonable and tougher to be ranked for than the long tail categories. Reason around it: Deprived of even viewing up search size or competition, which of the succeeding things do you consider would be difficult to get ranked for? How can you write a good post for your blog? The blogging If you replied 2nd, you are unquestionably correct. But do not get disheartened. Though head terms usually claim the maximum search bulk (that means better possibility to direct you traffic), honestly, the traffic flow you will catch from the word “how can you write a good post for your blog” is commonly more wanted. Why is it so? As somebody who is observing for somewhat that exact is possibly a much further capable explorer for your manufactured goods or package (presuming you are in the blogging area) than somebody observing for somewhat actually generic. As the long tail keywords incline to be more exact, it is commonly simpler to state what individuals who search for those specific keywords are actually observing for. Somebody searching for the main term “the blogging,” on the other side, might be searching this term for an entire mass of details disparate to your corporate. So you have to check your list of keywords to make certain you have a fit mixture of main terms and the long tail keywords. You certainly need some fast victories that the long tail keywords will give you, but you must similarly effort to mark away at further hard main terms above the lengthy heave. Step 5: Realize how opponents are getting ranking for the keywords they are using Only because your opponent is performing something does not state you have to. The similar goes for the keywords. Only since a keyword is significant to your opponent, does not mean it is significant to you. Though, realizing what keywords your opponents are attempting to get ranked for are good methods to support you offer your list of the keywords one more assessment. If your opponent is getting rank for definite keywords that are there on your list of keywords, also, it certainly makes logic to effort on increasing your rank in the SERPs for those. Though, do not overlook the keywords your opponents do not appear to caution about. This can be a good chance for you to possess marketplace share on key terms, also. Realizing the stability of categories that could be a slight more problematic in arrears to competition for keywords, against those categories that are a slight more accurate, will aid you keep a parallel stability that the mixture of the long tail and main terms lets. Think of, the aim is to finish up with a keywords list that deliver certain fast gains but likewise assistances you mark improvement to larger, more exciting Search Engine Optimization goals. How do you understand what keywords your opponents are getting rank for, you inquire? Separately from physically searching for the keywords in an incognito browser mode and looking what ranks your opponents are in, the SEMrush permits you to make a sum of free information that display you the best keywords for domain name that you enter in it. This is a fast method to catch a sense of the sorts of terms your opponents are getting ranked for. Step 6: Practice Google AdWords Keyword Planner to reduce down the keyword list that you made At this moment that you have acquired the accurate mixture of the keywords, it is phase to center on your list of keywords with certain more numerical statistics. You need lots of gears at your removal to do this, however allow me share my preferred practice. I love to practice a mixture of Google AdWords Keyword Planner (you will have to arrange an AdWords user account for this, but that does not state you need to make an advertisement), and the Google Trends. In the Keyword Planner, previously recognized by the Keyword Tool, there you can catch search bulk and traffic flow approximations for the keywords that you are bearing in mind. Unluckily, when the Google transitioned from the Keyword Tool to the Keyword Planner, they exposed out lots of the further stimulating functionality. However you can create up for it a little if you precede the info you acquire from the Keyword Planner and practice the Google Trends to answer certain blanks. Practices Keyword Planner to ensign some terms on the list of keywords that have method also slight (or way excessively) search bulk, and do not aid you uphold a well mixture like we spoke about overhead. But earlier you erase all, leave their trend past and plan in the Google Trends. Then you can notice whether, state, certain low volume terms could really be somewhat you must participate in currently, and gain the welfares for future. Or possibly you are simply observing at list of queries that is way too awkward, and you need to narrow this someway, the Google Trends can aid you decide which search terms are trending rising, and are therefore value more of your attention. Congratulations you have done the best keyword research! You have at this moment acquired a keywords list that will aid you center on the correct focuses for your corporate, and catch you certain short term and the long term advantages. Be certain to reassess the keywords list each few months, one time a quarter is a decent standard, but certain trades similar to do it every more regularly than that. By way of you increase still more expert in the Search Engine Result Pages, you will discover that you can enhance further and further keywords to the lists to challenge as you effort on upholding your present occurrence, and then rising in fresh parts on highest of that. Frequently Asked Questions related SEO What is search engine optimization? Search Engine Optimization is the procedure of enhancing your site to get organic or free site traffic flow from the search engine result pages. How can I find the perfect keywords? You can purchase Search Engine Optimization or the inbound marketing software online You can inspect keywords that your site gets ranked for You can make a purchaser identity You can notice the search bulk against keywords You can find related keywords by using Search Engine Optimization software You can observe your variation in positions and traffic flow What is the meta description in SEO? A Search Engine Optimization meta description is a short report of the content establish on a website page. Meta description is displayed to consumers of SEs to aid them choose which search result to go on. What tools can I use to find the best keywords? There are many tools that people use to find the best keywords according to their need. These tools are developed by different people around the world to make the work easier for other people. We’ll be discussing few tools below. These tools are: Google Keyword Planner Yes, Google also provide us with a keyword planner. This keyword planner is basically used to run a paid campaign for a specific keyword to get traffic to your website. You can use this to know the competition, traffic and CPC for specific keywords and look for other suggestions as well. This is a good way to know about a keyword in detail. Google Trends Most of the people don’t know but there is a tool provided by Google that is called Google Trends. You can use this tool to know about the trends of a keyword around the world. You can also look for the trends of a specific region. This will help you use the best keyword according the area or region that you are targeting. SEMrush SEMrush is also a tool that is very famous amongst the people who try to make things easier for themselves. This tool provides a few free number of runs to make a report about a specific keyword and then use this report for you own benefit. SEMrush can provide you a detailed report for the best keyword that you can use to get rankings in the search engines. SEMrush is a paid tool and if you want to make the full use of it. Then you need to buy the subscription. Webceo Webceo is an online software that helps you optimize you site by making a good SEO easily. Using this software, you can check keywords search volumes, recommended phrases, check search engines rankings, compare with competitors rankings, analyze site data, links and more useful actions. I personally use this software and many other SEO specialists use this software as well, which is highly recommended. Moz Just like the SEMrush, Moz is also a SEO tool you can use to make things easier for yourself. Moz offers inbound marketing reports related to websites. You can use this tool to know about the detailed report of a keyword, similarly. This also offers a number of free trials and then you have to buy the subscription for the tool if you want to use the tool in future.
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20 of the Best Free Stock Photo Websites for Royalty-Free Images
Photography is an important part of any design. Unfortunately, most high-quality royalty-free images are expensive. However, there is a growing number of websites that offer free royalty-free beautiful images to their users. In this article, we have curated a list of such websites that you can use: 1. Negative Space This is a great site of beautiful stock photos with more than 924 high-resolution photos including nature, landscape, black & white, and abstract. However, in the entire collection of these images on the site, you will find a golden color dominant. Out of many photos, some are curated from other websites like Pixbay. The interface is easy to use, and you don’t need to sign in to download an image. 2. Death to Stock Photos When you subscribe to the Death of Stock photos, they send you 10 photos within the category you subscribed in, directly into your inbox. The main purpose of this website is to bring high-quality images to you that you can use in your blog posts, social media, and mockups. There is a license on the website of Death of Stock. It is better to read the license before you start using their service. 3. PicJumbo It is a big collection of high-quality, royalty-free images for personal and commercial use of people. The administration of the website adds a large variety of images daily from different categories including fashion, nature, technology, abstract, and many others. The images found on this website are totally free and you don’t need to pay a single penny while downloading the images from this site. 4. Stock pic This is another totally free site of stock images with a database of high resolution and high-quality images. The categories you can find on this website include abstract, animals, lifestyle, nature, fashion, live events etc. If you subscribe on their website, you will get 10 images for free directly delivered to your inbox in every 2 weeks. It is a good source of free stock images for everyone. 5. Kaboom Pics This is another great website to download free stock images for your personal or commercial use. It is an easy-to-use website, and anyone can download images from it without much hassle. On Kaboom pics, you can find a wide range of stock photos from abstract to city, fashion to food, and from landscapes to many others. Although you can use these photos commercially, you can’t redistribute them or sell them. 6. Startup Stock Photos As the name of the website suggests, most images found on this website are related to startups. However, you can find many other professional options as well. The website is easy to use, and you don’t need to buy any subscription or membership before downloading these images. However, it is recommended to read their terms of services before using stock images from their site. 7. Freerange Photos The stock photographs on this platform come from a large number of in-house photographers and also from an extending number of outside contributors. There is a large number of photos to choose from and all these images are high quality as well. The in-house photographers use high-end equipment to take professional photos to be uploaded to the website. You can use these photographs for commercial use. 8. LibreShot The SEO consultant and photographer Martin Vorel is behind this amazing stock photos platform. You can find the stunning work of the artist on the platform. You can find photographs of vibrant flowers to architecture shots. These stock and good quality photographs are free to use and anyone can use them for personal or commercial use. 9. Fancy Crave Not only the stock photos on this website are free to use, but they are remarkably good quality as well. You can use these photos wherever you want, however, the photographer wants you to provide attributions to the photographer whenever and wherever possible. You cannot advertise these photos as your own. Each day, two new photos are uploaded to the website to make the things fresh. 10. Unsplash This is one of the most famous websites for free stock photos. The site uploads 10 new photos daily to their database. With a large database of high-quality images, you can use these photos for your personal use and commercial use. You don’t even need to sign-in to download these images. The photo on this website is under license of Creative Common Zero, and thus, you don’t need to attribute to the photographer. 11. StockSnap.io StockSnap.io has a large selection of stock high-quality photos on their site. You can find beautiful photos with high resolution. You can also use their search feature on to find photos you are interested in. It also tracks downloads and views, enabling you to find the most popular photographs. StockSnap.io adds thousands of photographs daily on their database and you don’t need to give attributions to the website or the photographer. 12. SplitShire Photos There are tons of high resolution, high-quality photos that you can use commercially without any restrictions. The website is powered by Italian artist, Daniel Nanescu, all the images on the website are made with love, and the images show it. From the photographs of sleek workstations to stunning portraits, it won’t be hard for you to find the best image for any of your projects. 13. Life of Pix Life of Pix is a hub of awesome photographs run by Leeroy Advertising Agency in Montreal and the amazing photographs associated with it. All images are free to use for commercial and personal use. The agency adds new photographs to their gallery every week to be used by people for free without any restrictions. You can contribute to the site as well. 14. HubSpot This famous inbound marketing hub also provides you high-quality photos to use for your commercial and personal purpose. The photographs you find on this platform are high-resolution and can be used according to their relevancy. Before using stock photos from HubSpot, make sure you use the terms of services and license under which these photographs are available, so you don’t have to face any difficulty later. 15. Pexels The photographs you find on this platform are hand-picked from different free stock resources to make sure that you only get what is best for you. All the photographs on this website are under Creative Common Zero license, which means that no attributions are required. Due to the search option, you can easily find the best relevant image according to your project in no time. 16. Gratisography Under the license of creative Common Zero, this amazing platform serves you the best high-resolution photographs for your use. Every week, new photographs are added to the database of Gratisography. All the images you find on this website are taken by Ryan McGuire. He is a creative visual artist who is based in NY. You can find photographs under different categories that you can use for your projects. 17. Jay Mantri This website is set up by a well-known designer Jay Mantri. His gallery is full of professionally taken photographs with high resolution to be used by an ordinary person. You can see the artistic touch in all photographs by the designer. You can use these photos without attributing the photographer for any purpose; personal use or commercial use. 18. ISO Republic The aim of ISO republic is to make high-quality photographs available for designers, bloggers, social media teams, and marketers. It will be hard for you to believe that all the images are free on the website, keeping their quality in mind. For those of you who want to receive exclusive photos, you can subscribe to the website, and they will send you photographs right in your inbox. 19. New Old Stock This is a collection of vintage photos, which usually come from the public archive. According to New Old Stock, the photographs are free to use and there are no restrictions. The website says that although it is safe to use for blog posts, you may need to read the license terms before using them for commercial purposes. 20. Pixabay All the photos found on Pixabay come under Creative Common Zero license. This site is clean, making it easy for everyone to browse through and find the best relevant photograph for your personal or business use. There are more than 780 thousand media on the website including vectors, illustrations, and photos. You can also filter your search results by factors like orientation, minimum dimensions, and color. All the websites mentioned in this article offer high-quality photographs for free. However, it is recommended to read the terms and license before using media from these sites.
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10 Tips for Promoting Your Blog for Free
How to drive more blog traffic? blog-marketing-tips Facebook Pinterest In case you are looking for promoting your blog, then don’t worry promoting your blog will not be a concern now. There are so many ways that you can use to promote your blog for free. This article will help you understand the 10 tips that will help you promote your blog for free Start commenting on a couple of other blogs It is one of the easiest ways to promote your blog that is to start commenting on other blogs. With each comment you post, feed in the same URL and name in respective sections given in comment form. This will help boost your SEO efforts after a period of time. It is always better to post relevant and interesting comments so that people follow the posted link back to the blog to know about you and find out what you want to say. Frequent posting If you engage in frequent posting it can improve the search engine traffic. Every new post will be like a source that would help the search engines come across your blog. If you write according to the SEO terms then it can enhance the value of each post and generate traffic towards your blog. Join and be active on online forums You can choose the online forums that are related to the subject you have chosen for your blog. Start interacting and be active on the forum. Along with forum signature you can also include the blog URL so that it is seen by other members on the forum. Put social media to use Unleash and avail the many benefits of social media. You can join social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and include your blog URL along with recent posts in the profile. Also, join various social bookmarking sites like Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon etc and post unique content. You can also get into micro blogging and be an active member on Twitter. These things will help your blog get recognition online and get exposure. Include the URL of other blogs Include the URL of other blogs in your blog posts and try to refer other blogs through your post that you actually loved reading about or the ones you found really interesting. When the trackback feature in those blogs will be ON via their software programs for blogging a link back to your blog will automatically be seen in the comment section. The other person who is into blogging may find incoming links via your blog within their blog stats report. This will place your blog in their zone which automatically gives your blog more exposure. Place your blog link on business cards or email signature The idea is to include the URL of your blog almost everywhere possible. The most important places where you can include the blog URL is on business cards and email signatures. It is all about promotion so do not hesitate and include your blog URL wherever you can. Run Blog contest In case you want to gain new visitors the best thing you can do is to run a blog contest. It acts as one of best promotional tools to publicise your blog. You can announce a contest on various contest websites. Be part of Blog Carnival The most effective method to attain links to the blog in a huge community of people is to join blog carnivals. You will be able to drive a huge traffic to your blog if the blog carnival is closer to the subject of your blog. Guest blogging You can offer the services you own as an experienced guest blogger for many other blogs that fall under your niche especially those that drive more traffic to their blog as compared to what your blog drives. Guest blogging is a superb and efficient way to fetch links to your blog, your articles, and your thoughts from people who are keen on finding more about your blog. Create multiple sites and interlink them It is always better to have more blogs wherein you write your thoughts as it aids interlinking. You can use the interlinking to promote the blog via a range of channels that again will attract different visitors. Make sure you build a combined plan for blog marketing by arranging your promotion tasks across different blogs you own to harvest the benefits. Apart from the tips mentioned above you can also share images while promoting your blog post. Images attract more people and posts that include images are the most searched posts. Visual content like images, videos, and info graphics can help you grab audience attention more than just plain text. You can also use different media formats and create your multimedia portfolio to support your content. The media format can be utilized for cross promotion to catch the attention of a lot of people. There are many influencers that are related to your niche, make sure you connect with them and let your content shared as well as liked. You can participate in various discussions which will help you get recognized on a bigger platform. Make sure your blog is interesting and has relevant content that attracts audience. Make sure you work towards increasing your network through your friends and ask them to refer you to others they know. This will increase your network easily. The above mentioned tips are simple yet effective promotional tips for your blog. It wouldn’t cost you anything to promote your blog using these techniques. Make sure the content you post on your blog is unique, original and interesting. When you comment on other posts, ensure your posts is impressive to help others link back to understand about your blog.
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How to Be Successful in Affiliate Marketing
10 Simple Tips for Affiliate Marketing Success affiliate-marketing-tips Facebook Pinterest Affiliate marketing can help you generate revenue, but you need to put in efforts in the right way to make it a source of income for you. The key component towards success in affiliate is by engaging the audience. In affiliates you get paid only when there is some action performed. When it comes to actions it means any actions as simple as signing up a newsletter or feed in the zip code in order to complete a sale. Well, you need to strong content to make your readers take an action. Here are 10 tips for affiliate marketing success. Understand your audience You can get successful by using the affiliate programs to promote your services, products or any offers that are exactly what your audience need. Think about the purpose for which the audience will visit your site or join the list built for email marketing or simply follow your brand on social networks. Analyze the need of your audience and asses what you are offering them. Ensure that the specific affiliate products promoted on your site is the real solution that solves the problems of your audience. If you are promoting sports, then do not display affiliate ads related to printers simply because the programs come with a high payout. The idea is to have relevant ads on your site so that readers come to your site and utilize them. Affiliate marketing should focus on presenting and interesting way to educate your audience about the products they are interested in. Just promote products that match your audience needs as relevant offers can help you generate leads. Be Loyal Readers understand affiliate links better and in case you promote any product that is not relevant to their interest and simply try to show them a lot of ads just to take advantage of their belief while they visit the site then you are actually losing their trust. The audience will never visit your site again. Well, the most important thing that builds your traffic is repeated visitors. The ones who repeatedly visit your site will give linkbacks, refer your site to others, will do mouth to mouth publicity. You need to have engagement and unique content to build trust. Be friendly Imagine affiliate ads to be like additional options that go with your content. Make sure the content you use is useful, informative and helpful. Write a perfect review that recommends say an interesting book those users should buy and why they should buy it. You need to support your product links with content so that people know why the product is better. Be clear on affiliate relationships Make sure you reveal your affiliations. This will help your readers to trust you and contribute in process of generating revenue for you. Honesty wins here in affiliate marketing too and it is one of the tried and tested techniques to boost the affiliate sales. Select the products for affiliate links smartly Make sure you spend some time to browse through the different options available for services or products on a number of affiliate marketing programs. Just think about the kind of products/services your audience would be interested in. Try to change ads frequently and try something different each time like using attractive graphics or text to test which ones will work. You may not discover the exact ads that work initially but with time you will be able to understand the concept better. Just keep rotating the ads to grab more attention from the audience. Try to get creative and try more ads and find out the ones that actually work for you. Read more about How to choose the best affiliate niche for you. Go for different programs If you think a particular program isn’t working for you, do not give up, simply try a different program. Affiliate programs differ based on the products/service and also have different payment models. Some programs offer a payout for lifetime while others have the payment module where they pay only for a month. Write enduring content You may have written content long back but may not exist on the front page of your site. The old content can be valuable if is enduring content. When visitors read the old content and find it to be written on a previous date then they show no interest in reading it. So, make sure you write an enduring content which can be done by putting in some links when you update your old articles to new ones. Patience is the key With affiliate revenue you need to be patient enough to see it grow with time. As discussed above some programs give out lifetime payouts while others just offer payment just for up to 30days. You need to be patient with affiliate programs as it is not a plan that can make you rich overnight. With time when you start promoting your products, attract traffic to your site and create email list for marketing you can see affiliate marketing growing and money coming in. Stay Pertinent Make sure you keep yourself updated on latest affiliate programs or offers. You need to know the latest ad units, tools, advertisers so that you do not left behind in using a single opportunity that can improve the appearance and usability. Even small little changes can motivate your audience to take actions. Keep discovering new things and update your post frequently. Check the upcoming products that can interest your audience. Content is the backbone of affiliate marketing Your content is backbone or base of your affiliate marketing. You cannot progress without helpful, engaging and relevant content. Make sure you give extra attention to create valuable content. Many people ignore content and do not invest in content which affects the affiliate business. The quality of the content should be high, and it helps you improve your affiliate revenue as well. The simple tips given above would help you carry out the affiliate marketing the right way. The tips can be helpful to generate revenues through your affiliate marketing.
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How to Choose the Best Affiliate Marketing Niche for You
Earn money online through Affiliate Marketing HOW-TO-CHOOSE-THE-BEST-AFFILIATE-NICHE Facebook Pinterest To find the right niche for affiliate marketing can be the first step towards the success of your affiliate marketing campaign. The problem is that there are so many of them which make it a cumbersome task to find a niche which is profitable and which niche generates good revenue. How to choose the perfect niche for you? The simple tips stated below can help you select the right niche for you. Determine your interests as well as problems This will certainly help you choose the right niche that is profitable too. Now, the first thing that comes to your mind is to choose the niche that you are proficient in. So, first note down your interests in a notepad and now come to the issues that you have in life like health issues, love life problems or any other common problems. This will help you get great ideas for niches. Spare a day to think from marketing perspective Now that you have listed a few niches, start thinking from marketing perspective. Carry your notepad and pen and note down everything that you do in a day like People you meet and conversation you engage in Issues you encounter Products you watch What programs you enjoyed on TV Almost everything you do and then consider each activity one by one. Try to point out if the things you have listed are something that other people might be interested in, do people invest money on those activities, problems that others need solution for etc. If your answers to any, some or all of those is yes, then there you found the right niche. Follow them in 3 steps and you will find the profitable niche for you. You should not just find something that interest you or something that you have knowledge about. This might result in missing some other profitable niche. Make sure you select the niche that are always in demand and never go out of the market. This will help you choose a niche that will always attract customers and convert into sales. Now, that doesn’t mean that you should not think about niches that are not usual ones. Of course, people who go ahead and think out of the box end up making more money as the dare to try something that no one else did. What are the most profitable affiliate niches? Well, if you are hunting for the profitable niches for affiliate marketing then here is the list of niches are profitable for affiliate marketing in every sense. Wealth & Money Everyone is inclined to money and every one of us want to know how to become rich and where do we hunt for those secrets, certainly online isn’t? So, the concepts like work from home, get rich faster attract a lot of people. Yes, there are many who may find these concepts as fraud or may mark as scam, but internet is also flooded with some real concepts and resources that help young entrepreneurs learn how to make money in different fields. When the tutorials or lectures are posted by people who are experts in their respective fields, several people visit the site every day to learn more. Health & Wellness Health & wellness niche is the most profitable niche among all others and undoubtedly people are concerned more about health and love to browse internet to find out more about health related articles. Among all other subjects, weight loss stands out as it drives crowds where people eagerly browse the net to know about the simple ways to lose weight. Apart from weight loss other niches under this section is diet tips, how to guides on quitting smoking, healthy eating etc. Romance Online dating makes this niche one of the most profitable niche. With a lot of problems in relationships, many people hit the internet to know about the ideas to build healthy relationships or work on the current ones and thus people spend a lot on getting dating tips or counselling on marriage online. There are other niches under this niche that is how to get back to normal life post divorce, senior dating, marriage counselling etc. Gaming Earlier only kids used to enjoy gaming but now it is not just limited to younger kids, but older people also enjoy playing online games for hours together. Many people look for the latest mobile games, online gambling, strategy guides or game lessons etc. They keep visiting back the gaming sites to have lots of fun. Gaming brings in unlimited fun and with so many online games that are released almost every day, many people are tempted to try every latest game that hits the market. Gaming is something people look up to for entertainment. People of all age groups are the real audience on the niche. Tips on how to play a particular game, video tutorials on how to master a game or progress in the game are the sections that attract many gamers. Final words You should know how to fit in affiliate marketing plans between the niches. It certainly takes some time to learn about the profitable niches in affiliate marketing, but it pays you when you become an expert. You need to learn to promote a particular niche effectively and then choose the niche and go ahead with other strategies. It is worth spending time and learning about the profitable niche as later it will pay you back. You need to do your homework properly and it will certainly help you. Do not rush into anything, instead browse the internet and learn more about affiliate marketing and profitable niches so that you know how each of them works.
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5 Wildly Successful Blogs That Earn Outstanding Incomes
The most profitable blogs The internet has given birth to a lot of opportunities to earn online. Whether it is a small business or a giant brand in the market, everything and everyone is online. The idea of blogging changed the entire concept of working and then getting paid as now you can work once only and get paid again and again through a successful blog. There are so many people out there who are making good money through their blogs. The blogging field has helped a number of people to earn more than what people actually earn through a full time job. Today, irrespective of the niche you hunt for you will get a plenty of blogs for each and every niche. It is all about presentation and how you run your blog. The niche you choose matters but if you know how to make your blog successful, you will certainly be able to create a blog for almost any niche and make it work. It may need efforts initially and things may or may not work, but with right approach you can work towards making your blog a successful blog. Your blog can earn you a decent amount of money in the long run. So, it is like you work once and keep reaping in the benefits for a long time. Before you plan to start a blog, you should identify the factors that make a blog successful and try to work on those aspects. Many successful blogs have learnt about the ingredients that results in success for their blog and they have made it happen. Yes, it may not be as easy as it sounds but many successful blogs have proved it making millions on a yearly basis. Let us have a look at 5 such most profitable blogs that generate millions of dollars annually. Smashing Magazine It is a blog started in around 2006 and completely belong to technical niche wherein useful content is provided to those who need education in web development and designing field. If you are someone who would love to learn about different elements from the technical field this blog is for you. The blog earns $215,000 per month and also started hosting services for conferences in web development which is organized in different cities internationally and the conferences are sponsored by some of the big brands from the tech industry. The blog normally earns through a membership area wherein the users register to view a series of tutorials from the array of educational content. Perez Hilton Perez Hilton is an interesting site that revolves around controversial gossip started by Lavanderia, who actually wanted to be an actor and when he started his acting career, he started this blog as well. He couldn’t do well in his acting career but his blog did exceedingly well. It earns around $575,000 per month. He basically earns through advertisements that come through a number of sponsors and Lavanderia also make television appearances as a commentator and celebrity gossip. The blog is profitable because of the attractive subjects related to the celebrity gossip that attract individuals who blog at home, small and big media companies who want some resources to support their reporting etc, This is a big market place for many people. Gizmodo The blog was started in 2002 and it includes subjects related to design & technology. It also includes topics associated with politics and science. The blog was also started in different languages like Spanish, French, German and Portuguese. The blog earns $325, 000 per month and gets most of its income via advertisements. The home page includes ads related to real estate and other pages attracts historical traffic. TechCrunch A highly successful blog that earns $2,500,000 per month covers the related news from the field of technology. It was founded in 2005 and it highlights the tech news which includes every new product launched in the field of technology. The blog is quite profitable because they have visitors who come have a common interest. This helps them make good money as people share the common interest. They have stuck to their niche that is to bring technical news and have not been switching their niche. TechCrunch as the name suggests discuss tech and keep the content simple and transparent. This attracts even not so tech savvy people to visit the site regularly to learn new things about technology. They do not believe in copying the content of their competitors or edit the content to match theirs. They publish original content that differs from the rest. This is why people visit TechCrunch before they visit any other tech news section. They believe in producing quality content keeping in mind the quantity too. You will see a number of posts every day on this blog. The fact that they have a large group of readers makes them successful and these readers not only come via Google, but also come through references from their friends. Mashable The blog started in 2005 in Scotland. The blog produces quality content on a regular basis. It earns $2,000,000 per month and emphasizes on social media to reach millions of viewers via different platforms like Twitter and Facebook. It gets its income via advertisements scheduled in different formats. They focus on the niche they started the blog for. They do not shift their niche and publish quality content on their blog. They ensure quality content in simple and understandable so that more and more visitors can learn through this site.
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