Types of Blog that earn Money

Do you quit your job and wan't to make a living blogging? but, you are still trying to figure out what kind of niche to blog that can give you big bucks. And you want know what type of blog can earn money faster.

Blog is now a big trend on the Internet because many people has found a way to make a fortune out of it, with almost no investment and can give passive income.

To ensure success and money, you have to make sure you are in the right niche to begin with, so that failure won't be a problem, and all you need is a huge amount of hard work for your blog to be successful.

There are a lot of niche topics you can choose to start a blog with, but not all can generate any money because they are too specific. For example, a site that focuses on nail polish did not get much traffic, therefore limiting its income potential. But if that site becomes, not just a nail polish, but also a nail art, a nail accessories etc, it will be much more popular.

Just remember, when picking a niche, you must be interested in it. If you are not, then you won't put enough effort needed to make it successful.

And if you happen to be interested on one of these blog niche then I suggest start blogging. Because this type of niche will always be in demand forever.

Money and Finance

Money and Finance is of course the most profitable blog niche out there. Because everyone is looking to improve their finances, earn more money, start a business, job, or anything that involves money.

This will not only help your readers but also help yourself. And because you are teaching your readers how to handle their finances, you will know if it works because you need to try it for yourself first, before teaching it to others.

Health and Fitness

Based on the economic trend, the wellness industry will be the next trillion dollar industry. And entrepreneurs are looking for a way to get a piece of that trillion dollar (including me).

This kind of blog niche will be profitable no matter what year it is, even if the society or economic situation change.

There are a lot of targeted niche you can choose on this industry like, weight loss, exercise equipment, nutrition, diet, food supplements, skin care, and many more. It is very profitable because people will always be willing to pay in order to look and feel better and younger. A blog with this niche is a sure way to earn money.

Dating/ Relationships


As long as there are people in the world, there will always be a need for dating service. If you look in the net, there are thousands of these dating sites, and there is no stopping them.

Online relationship has been very popular these days, because of a growing number of people wanted to have a partner on another country.

Under this niche is relationship advice blog site, it is also profitable because our lives and happiness is so dependent on the relationships that we have with one another, there will always be money in helping people to connect with others and lead a more fulfilling live.

Ping your blog posts

Search engine spiders usually crawl into your blog posts, but there is a faster way. Sharing to social networking sites like facebook, and twitter can do the thing, and another way is pinging them.

What is pinging

Pinging is telling search engines directly that you have a new content on your site. And most  of these pinging websites will update others like Google blog search, feedburner My yahoo, Weblogalot and many more.

Where to ping

These sites are famous for their pinging services

- http://feedshark.brainbliss.com/
- http://pingomatic.com/
- http://www.pingfarm.com/
- http://www.mypagerank.net/service_pingservice_index

- http://blogsearch.google.com/ping?hl=en

How to Ping

When visiting these ping service sites, all you have to do is put the URL of your blog, sometimes they require you to put post title and some allows to submit multiple URL'. Remember to ping only when you have a new content, if you ping and nothing new was in there, it will be seen as a spam.

Pinging alone can't increase search engine ranks, however it will help for your content to get found by big search engines faster.

Amazing social sharing widget with effect

This widget is from Shareaholic, one of the leader in sharing scripts. They become famous for the success of the Sexy bookmarks. Now, I will share one of their creation, you can put them on blogger in these very easy steps.

This is the sample picture, they usually stay on the lower left side of your blog, when someone highlights the green circle, a lists of social sharing sites will appear.

How to add this social sharing widgets to your blog?

1. Go to blogger>> dashboard>>

2. Back up your file in case you get an error.

3. Find these code </body> (use ctrl+F )

4. Copy the below codes and paste above the </body> code.

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<!-- Start Social Sharing Widget Sassy Bookmarks HTML (howcarabao.blogspot.com)--> <div class="shr_ss shr_publisher"> </div> <!-- End Shareaholic Sassy Bookmarks HTML --> <!-- Start Shareaholic Sassy Bookmarks settings --> <script type="text/javascript"> var SHRSS_Settings = {"shr_ss":{"src":"//dtym7iokkjlif.cloudfront.net/media/downloads/sassybookmark","link":"","service":"5,7,2,313,38,201,88,74","apikey":"b87f5899d80a5edce8b5e55f58542ef0f","localize":true,"shortener":"bitly","shortener_key":"","designer_toolTips":true,"tip_bg_color":"black","tip_text_color":"white","viewport":true,"twitter_template":"${title} - ${short_link} via @Shareaholic"}}; </script> <!-- End Shareaholic Sassy Bookmarks settings --> <!-- Start Shareaholic Sassy Bookmarks script --> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var sb = document.createElement("script"); sb.type = "text/javascript";sb.async = true; sb.src = ("https:" == document.location.protocol ? "https://dtym7iokkjlif.cloudfront.net" : "http://cdn.shareaholic.com") + "/media/js/jquery.shareaholic-publishers-ss.min.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(sb, s); })(); </script> <!-- End Shareaholic Sassy Bookmarks script -->

Enjoy!

Make a professional looking Blog site

In this topic I will teach what you need to know for you to have a professional looking website or blog site. We all know from my past articles that content is the key for success in blogging. But, your blogs' design also plays a major part on having a successful blog.

The design of a blog often affects how a blog site can attract visitors and readers. It also has the power to repel or make them stay, thus how you customize your blog design can directly affect the success of your blogging career.

When we see a blogs design we can easily distinguish the beginner and the professional. But even for a beginner, you can make a professional looking blog.

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1. Make your site look and feel very important.

The look of your site makes the first impression on the readers and visitors. Make it nice, simple and clean. Use templates that has the right color combination or blends with its widgets and not something that hurts the eye. 

Most of us blog for money, right? I suggest wait for the right time putting advertisements, do not put any ads on your blog site. Let the readers read your articles without ads, sometimes, when a reader sees too much ads they instantly leave your blog site.

2. Put social Media Buttons.

Social media buttons are those icons of famous social networking sites. They are very useful in promoting your blog site. Users can easily Like or share your blogs content using those widgets. But, do not put all of those media buttons, I suggest you put only those famous social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkIn, Google+ so it won't take so much space.

3. About and Contact page
Have a proper About page – write about the site, yourself, the team, etc. Having a good About page lets you connect with your users and blogging is all about creating relationships. It also shows how serious you are about the site/blog you are running.

Instead of mentioning mailto links, have a contact page where users can fill a form and submit to send an e-mail. Doesn’t it sound nice and easy.

4. Edit your template
For beginners, customizing your template is a headache. But, based in my experience when I was a newbie, Blogger was the best for first timers because you can learn all by yourself. In blogger you can add and move widgets easily, and chose templates that will fit your style.

You can also customize a bloggers template by editing its html codes. But only for those who knows html. Make sure you backup or save your template regularly. If you really suck at designing you could always seek professional help. These are the pros, and they can give you a really good blog design just the way you want them.

5. Update Regularly
If you want your blog to grow and make money from it, you need to develop a consistent publishing schedule. Readers will visit your blog on a daily basis, looking for fresh and interesting content. If you don't publish regularly, visitors will take your blog lightly, and you must make them feel that this blog is really important. Consistent publishing is one way for readers to know that you are serious about your blog

6. Easy to navigate
Design your blog to have proper widgets, and make sure they are working properly. Put your popular posts and any other widgets that might help for easy navigation. Most readers are lazy, they wan't shortcuts. so give them shortcuts, put a sitemap or table of contents on your blog site, so that they can see all of your articles.

Make sure you use a font style that is easy to read and a font color easy to the eyes. We use our eyes for reading, so we must make our blog appealing to our eyes.

7. Annoying Pop-ups
This is one I hate the most, Pop-ups! they just appear out of nowhere, whenever you refresh your page, they appear again. Pop-ups ruin the professional image of your blog. Readers are there for your content and not for those pop-ups. Let the readers enjoy reading without distractions

What you need to know first before you start blogging

Blogging is the new trend in recent years, and people are so into it, using blogs for personal and business use. Through blogging we can do just about anything, from creating a company blog site to just a simple blog diary for ourselves. Millions of people has been blogging this past decade.

While it is fun to blog, there are some people who wan't to make a living for it. In blogging you can actually earn money, and I know some people who actually become rich for doing it. 

But, before you wan't to make this a career or you simply just want to become famous in the blogosphere, I have here tips on What you need to know first before you start blogging. And I want you to keep these tips in mind if you want to be a successful blogger.

1. Blogging is not a get rich scheme! You probably heard from other people, especially those successful bloggers that they make a fortune blogging. But unfortunately blogging is not a get rich scheme, you won't become rich after blogging for one week.

To become successful you need to be persistent, and you must prepare more than 1 year of hard work and learning without pay. That's right, no income for your first year or maybe more. Some new bloggers won't earn a cent during their first year as blogger. In my situation I only earn about $20 dollars in 1 year, and its kinda frustrating, but it didn't stop me from doing this.

If you want to have a reasonable income,you got to work hard, and it is the same as any profession. To be on top, you need a lot of hard working to do. 

2. Lazy people are not allowed. Successful bloggers are enjoying the benefits of passive income. They own their time and will only work if they want to. Sounds lazy right, but these people who are successful blogging has experienced sleepless nights working.

They made blogging a priority and even set a time when to post an article. If you are lazy and don't have the time to go to your computer and start writing killer articles, then blogging is not for you. You are better off with your day job.

3. Content, content, content! Blogging is about content, and content means writing, writing means hard work, hard work means success! For me, writing is hard, since I was in grade school to college I am one of those students who are lazy picking up the pen and write something in your notebook. And since I am a Filipino, I will have a hard time expressing my writing skills in English, that is why sometimes, I am having a hard time writing.

Content is your blogs life, if your content sucks, your blog sucks too, even if you have the best designed blog in the world but, with crappy articles, you won't become successful.

Just remember "content is the life of blog" and if you are having a hard time writing, there is always a way to learn, there are websites that teaches proffesional writing

4. It is not about you.Blogging is not about you, except if you own a personal blog where you just talk about yourself and your favorite things. If you are not running a personal blog, you need to put a certain limit to your personal stories that you share on your blog.

I am not saying you should not share your personal experience with your readers, but make sure you share only that personal experience that adds value, inspiration and enthusiasm to your blog readers. No one wants to be reading a post on your favorite nail color or what food you like to eat when it is raining, those are non sense article and will have no significance to your reader.

What readers want from you is to learn and entertain. So focus on those articles that readers really want and stop posting unnecessary articles.

Treat your readers like a customer, and you are the owner of a restaurant. You listen to your customers opinion and will do anything to give them contentment and satisfaction. 

And if a customer is satisfied they will come back for more and become loyal readers and followers. And these loyal followers will refer you to some of their friends and family, then, the rest are history...