If You are Already Blogging, Money May be Just a Click Away

Rank Above Others — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:14:38 +0000

If you already spend a fair amount of time blogging, money may come to you literally as soon as you ask for it. Once you have an established blog with a regular readership, it is easy to turn a profit through advertising. By hosting sponsored links or banners, you can see income from your hobby almost overnight. Even if you did not start your blog intending to turn a profit, making supplementary income from your blog may be easier than you think.

Of course, even for people who have spent months or years blogging, money from advertising revenue may not add up to a large sum. The amount of money that you can make as a blogger depends on a lot of different factors, but perhaps the most important element of the equation is the topic of your blog.

If your blog is on a subject that appeals to a demographic that advertisers have a strong desire to reach, you will be more likely to be able to turn a large profit on your blog than if your blog is on a fairly obscure subject that does not draw the kind of audience that advertisers need to appeal to.

Of course, the only way to find out where you fall on this spectrum is to try hosting some ads. If you are already blogging, you have nothing to lose.

Setting Up Your 301 Permanent Redirect

Rank Above Others — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:11:11 +0000

By preparing your website with a 301 permanent redirect, you are not only helping the search engines keep your website organized, but you are also helping them give you more value. The thing is, if you don’t have a 301 permanent redirect setup, your domain.com could be looked at differently than your www.domain.com. This could be detrimental to your positions in the SERP or even more.

We say “even more” because there was a prospect we did a free analysis for. We discovered that when you go to their domain.com site, it was fine, but if someone typed in www.domain.com, the page was literally non-existent. This can really hurt you through the search engines and through customers who ended up on the wrong domain.

To prevent this from happening, you can use a .htaccess file that would tell the browser what to do when they land on either domain.com or www.domain.com.

We prefer to send www.domain.com to domain.com using a .htacess file. If you’re not sure how to make that file, just create a new text file and rename it to “.htaccess”. Make sure you’re also able to edit the extension. If you have trouble with it, you can usually do it through your hosting cpanel via file manager.

If you have a WP blog, these are the codes you’d use in that file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^www.domain.com [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Just replace “domain” with your domain name.

Here’s how you do it if it’s just a regular page (not a blog):

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Hope this helps.

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If You are Already Blogging, Money May be Just a Click Away

Setting Up Your 301 Permanent Redirect