I don't know a ton about it but I am doing it. I started writing my first blog to be kind of a mass E-mail. I was doing a bit of traveling and had several people to update on my progress. (mostly to let them know the bears had failed to eat us yet) My traveling companion and I would update it when we happened upon a coffee shop using our laptop or a local library computer. We were backpacking and camping so the laptop didn't last to long. After one cold morning in a coffee shop waiting for our computer to thaw enough to boot up, we decided it would be best to go ahead and sell it while it was in any way desirable still, to a prospective buyer. That blog pretty much died then and there. It was only ever intended for family and friends anyway.(we couldn't even tell them about all the best stuff that was going on with us considering the audience) I had never even considered trying to generate enough volume to think of using a program like adsense. Nor did I have any notion what it even was. I had in the past toyed with the idea of doing some affiliate stuff, but after I found myself getting spammed off Craigslist I felt a little, I don't know, dirty. Like I was trying to trick someone into doing stuff they didn't want to. After I got spammed once I discovered I had to change the wording of my posts to something that everyone hadn't already seen,( go figure, someone else had already done this copy/paste thing) I got my links to stick, but had little in the way of volume. I figured I should give it up before the Craigslist police blacklisted me,or worse yet, came to kick in my door. (I really didn't know much about how all that stuff works and I don't know much more now) Depending on where you put a posting with a link like that on the Craigslist site people seem to get aggressively angry though.
For all of you newer to this than I am an affiliate link is a little line of code that when clicked , drags people by the browser to a site where they can subscribe to something, make a purchase, or give up their E-mail address “to receive other valuable offers”, or what have you. Of course in the code is an identifying “signature” so you can receive your partial credit for the action of getting the potential customer there to view the fine services or wares your sponsor supplies. You can get as many link codes as you like if you just type “Affiliate program” into Google, you will be bombarded with results that all offer, the “Best”, programs around. Some of them even have the ads to entice potential clients all typed up, so all you have to do is copy it and paste it to the forum you want it in. This however has been done, and with great success according to some. Google must have a few listed on this very posting, if you look. I think there are ways to do affiliate marketing that are a little more noble than this method and I will pursue them more in the future, but right now we are talking beginner's blogging.
In this blog I intend to go over some of the stuff that I had trouble with, to hopefully become a valuable resource to some other bumbling blogger out there, just trying to get started. I am going to include links to things I found useful as well as tips on new things as I learn more. I am at this point far from the realm of trying to offer intelligent advice to increase traffic to your site.(other than harassing your friends to “check out my blog dude”) What I can do though is give a hand in getting a site functioning to send traffic to. You can feel free to ask questions in the comment area and if I don't know the answer then, I will do my best to find it, and we will have the opportunity to learn together. I hope this can be of some use to someone. Perhaps even profitable.
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