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If you’d like to know about blogging for money - not just a few lousy bucks…but a useful and regular $10,000 to $35,000 per month then check out Yarak Staros Blog Mastermind training. It’s a membership based training deal where Yaros shows you step-by-step, how to build your blog into a money spinner.
Yaros draws upon his experience with his blog Entrepreneurs-Journey.com - which ranks around 64,000 with Alexa. His blog combined with his Blog Tips Email Newsletter and RSS feed fetches a readership of over 250,000 bloggers and Internet marketers each month.
Not bad when you consider that Yaros started as an absolute beginner back in November 2004. You’ll find his sales pitch at blogmastermind.com (this isn’t an affiliate link).
Alternatives
An alternative to Yaros’s $97 per month membership deal, is the personalized coaching offered by Sherman Hu at shermanlive.com under Services. Sherman also offers a blog set up service.
Top Value with Jack Humphrey Jack Humphrey (this is an affiliate link) stands out as the best value if you want to learn about blogging or anything to do with monetizing a blog site. The Authority Black Book is the best source of free information on using social networking resources to add real grunt to your blog and his membership packages deliver top value for your buck.
You find a great A great “blogging how-to” tool in the Sociable plugin.
Want to automatically tell anyone and everyone at sites like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Mixx, Email, and Facebook about your post? Then install Sociable straight away.
If you have problems installing plugins or want to know more about them please leave a comment and I’ll reply.
The Photo Dropper plugin for Wordpress lets you search Flickr for Creative Commons licensed images and then drop them into your post with just a couple of clicks. The images help you retain you readers interest and get them hooked into coming back for more.
As with all “simple” things in blogging, getting exactly what you want with Photo Dropper takes a bit of fine tuning.
Photo dropper gives you S, M & L photo sizes. And if you choose S or M, to get text wrap around photos - like in this blog, you need to tweak the HTML code. photo credit: audreyjm529
To place an S or M image on the left side (I’m using M images) you need to add the <class=”alignleft”> tag to the HTML code (if this doesn’t work you need to check the img tag in your theme style sheet) :
1. Switch from Visual to your HTML editor
2. Enter the class=”alignleft” tag in the code for the Flickr image source code. In the photo above this is:
<img src=”http://farm1.static.flickr.com/94/234554924_58b4c3bb9e_m.jpg” alt=”Hang Gliding” border=”0″ ENTER CODE HERE /> e.g.
Step 3. You can leave the rest of the code as is. Start writing the text to go beside the image above the image credit links - the image credits will line up under your image once you fill the space beside the image with text or line breaks (hit enter)
If you want to have an image aligned on the right side of your page its similar process with an extra tweak.
1. Switch from Visual to your HTML editor
2. Enter the class=”alignright” tag in the code for the Flickr image source code.
The extra step is to start the text that you want to show along side the image immediately after the HTML code for the image source - photo credit: tata_aka_T
and before the code for the photo credits.
So Step 3. Where to enter your text in the HTML code.
<a title=”Higher than Them” href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/12453467@N00/2459869991/” target=”_blank”> <img src=”http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2413/2459869991_8b54b86354_m.jpg” alt=”Higher than Them” border=”0″ align=”right”/>Start the text you want to show along side your image here e.g. in my blog “similar process with an extra tweak…”</a>
Step 4. Leave the HTML code for the image source and Creative Commons code at “absmiddle”. When your copy reaches the bottom of the image use the space bar to line up the image source link and Creative Commons logo with the image.
Step 5. Hit enter or shift/enter after the Creative Commons logo and start typing on a new line.
Step 6. (Optional) You can also add the rel=”nofollow” tag in 4 places (where ever there is an a=href tag to stop you leaking page rank e.g.:
<a title=”Higher than Them” rel=”nofollow” href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/….
Other Tips
If you run a Commercial Blog, be sure to check “Show only photos that can be used commercially” in the Photo Dropper options. Andas you’re ultimately responsible for following Creative Commons licensing terms be sure to read them.
If you have several plugins the menu box for Photo Dropper (in Wordpress 2.5) can appear further down the page than SimpleTags and All-in -One SEO options - not right under the write post header as stated in the plugin intro. Also if you activate the plugin and nothing appears then uploading and activating the Flickr Manager plugin may help.
If you want to try blogging for money then a great starting place is blog marketing and blog advertising site SocialSpark. Social Spark offers bloggers three opportunities to make money blogging.
* Sponsored Post…you can get paid $5 to $30 (usually $10 or below)to write posts for listed advertisers. Pick what you like to write about listed .
* Blog Sponsorship ..a banner advertising system, where advertisers on your blog typically pay $1 per day (ranges from 30 cents to $5.00 per day) for a pop-up text-based banner at the bottom of the web browser. This ad is displayed to every visitor to your blog over the duration of the blog sponsorship.
* Spark…essentially a Blog U Back marketplace where you can advertise for someone to boost your blog by commenting on it, while you return the favor, or you can pick up on someone’s request for a blog back.
Social Spark offers tracking of the buzz created by multiple blogging campaigns you create.
