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12 WordPress Portfolio Themes by Elegant Themes:

1. Nimble:

Nimble is a big, bold, and beautiful theme that doesn’t let its own style get in the way. With each design I struggle to strike a balance between style and function. Nimble’s colors are toned down but still delicious and its style is bold but still leaves room to breath. Browsing Nimble on a 27″ Cinema Display is quite a treat, but so is browsing the theme on a small screen as well due to Nimble’s fully responsive design.

2.Flexible:

Flexible is a sleek and minimal portfolio theme packed full of some awesome features. The theme puts your work first, keeping the design elements to a minimum while still maintaining a definitive modern style. With its filterable, ajax-powered multi-media gallery, Flexible is perhaps our most feature-rich gallery theme yet.

3. Origin:

Origin is a stunning grid-based theme that tells a story through imagery. The theme creates a truly engaging experience by saturating the screen with your beautiful photos. The theme is also responsive, meaning it will look and work great on mobile devices as well. If you are an artist looking to showcase your latest work, or if you are a blogger looking to give your visitors a fun new way to browse your latest posts, then Origin is great choice for you!

4. Deepfocus:

Now you can turn your WordPress blog into a fully functional online photo gallery while still maintaining all of the features of a normal blog. Along with the gallery layout, DeepFocus comes with a robust blog and CMS-style homepage as well, making it an amazing solution for artists/photographers looking to  build an online presence.

5. Gleam:

Gleam was built to dazzle. With its flashy effects and smooth ajax loading techniques, this theme creates a truly unique experience that is sure to grab your visitor’s attention. Allowing for custom full BG photos for each page, Gleam makes it easy to create a custom stunning appearance for each section of your website. The theme also comes with a full-screen portfolio section, giving you a new way to display your work.

6. Feather:

Feather has a light and airy quality that gives your website a fun and care-free vibe. The theme is simple, but its subtle details and textures have been designed with care. If you are looking for a subdued design that is still stylistic and impressive, then Feather just might be the theme for you.

7. Envisioned:

Envisioned is a beautiful and powerful portfolio theme that enables you to easily create professional, multi-media galleries. Envisioned has the most powerful gallery features of any of our themes, allowing you to produce versatile layouts of various sizes and aspect ratios.

8. Sky:

Sky floats above the pack in style and its sense of whimsy is sure to leave your visitors surprised and refreshed. Sky is unique in the way it’s homepage operates, loading all of your content seamlessly using ajax. This means that no matter how many pages you have in the “slider,” your initial page load speed will be lightning fast as each page is only loaded when it is displayed.

9. Modest:

Modest is a truly elegant and simple design that doesn’t sacrifice character or style. With this theme I really wanted to strip down all extraneous detail and give people some lightweight and pure. It was hard to resist my natural instinct to add additional design elements, but I think this exercise in restraint has yielded a theme that will serve many people well.

10. Glider:

If you are looking to re-invent your personal website, then Glider just might be the theme for you. Featuring a contemporary style and a unique javascript layout, this theme is sure to leave your visitors impressed. Along with looking cool, Glider is also versatile, and includes a fully featured blog and portfolio section in addition to the basic page-based homepage.

11. ePhoto:

ePhoto was created for those looking to turn their blog into a photo gallery. While the theme was created with photographers in mind, it can certainly be used to display any type of digital imagery. While the main content of the theme is image based, I have also added the ability to create a separate blog page where normal blog posts can be integrated alongside your photos.

12. eGallery:

eGallery is a theme made to transform your blog into a fully functional online gallery. This theme has been created with simplicity in mind, and is designed to emphasize the artwork you choose to showcase. The design has been greatly enhanced using javascript, and is easy to implement.

Please do tell us which one of these is your favorite WordPress portfolio theme and why to participate in the contest. Looking forward to your comments.

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Improvisation of web technologies and the fast spreading mobile web has presented many more options of showing content in an informative way than the regular plain old articles. These promising new ways of showing content to users have their own benefits and in this post we analyze some of these new content presentation techniques and how they can help the users:

Why do we use content?

As initial web was mostly made of text and some graphical elements people had to adapt to the limitations of the web technologies of the twentieth century to express themselves. Conveying messages with text and Ascii images ( yes ascii images were very popular in initial days of web). As the web evolved HTML, CSS, Javascript and other technologies helped the web to present web content in more visually appealing, interesting and easy to understand formats.  These formats increased how we interact, understand and share the content on vast array of devices. Here are five such content ideas which can help you succeed in your blogging efforts.

1. Screencasts:

Used mostly to represent educational content and demonstrations of how to use a software product and its features, screencasts are a capture of the activities on a user’s computer screen, which is usuall accompanied with audio instructions or background music and together they are clubbed to form a video which creates a very powerful content type to showcase some kind of functionality or teach how to use a software etc.

Screencasts have become popular amongst the users as many free tools both standalone and web based are available to create screencasts and the information on how to create great looking screencasts have helped even newbies to create some stunning screencasts showcasing things like – navigating the home page, processs oriented demonstration, tutorials on various topics and as an tool to facilitate ease of understanding of a topic particularly in educational domain.

Some of the popular screencasting tools are:

• Screenr
• Active Presenter
• CamStudio
• Adobe Captivate
• Camtasia
• Screencast-O-Matic

Screencasting software allows class facilitators to record the mouse actions on their screens and provide step-by-step tutorial videos that can instruct students in particular tasks. It can help change a text based lesson into an interactive audio-visual experience, which enhances the engagement, understanding and allows the students to learn at their own pace.

According to studies by experts:

Students learn materials more quickly because the directions on screencasts are easily observed with no need for interpretation. Learning through screencasts has been proven to be motivational and clearer than more static forms of instruction.

The ease with which technology has provided means to create screencasts the role of students in creating tutorials and other educational materials has increased tremendously. This has helped create a paradigm shift in education where it is not just one way of teacher giving directions to student, but now students create screencasts for their class according to their understanding level and teachers facilitate them in coming out with optimal content on a particular topic.

So if you are a tutorial or educational website, the benefits of creating content in screencast formats are pretty obvious and you shouldn’t miss out on the huge benefits and sharability this content format brings to your website.

2. Cartoons:

If you have the creative ability to create effective eye-catching, humorous, sarcastic or any other type of audio-visual content like cartoons, they can bring tremendous boost to your web presence and popularity. Being highly viral cartoons and animations that depict humorous situations do spread on the web like wild-fire and bring in increased value in terms of backlinks, social mentions and shares and website popularity. In some cases it has shown to catapult to a website into stardom in with just one image or animation that caught the attention of the web.

Cartoons and animations can be used to create many types of content some of which are listed below:

• News content for political, economic and topical issues.
• Educational content to help students digest a difficult topic in an easy way.
• Commenting on an issue in a light hearted, humorous or sarcastic manner.
• Promoting a product or service in an creative manner.
• Informing users about a complex issue in easy to understand way etc.

As you can see there are many ways on how to use cartoons as an effective content type and how, when and why to use cartoons have no limitations it’s only dependent on how creative you are and how well you can stretch your imagination to justify their usage.

An effective cartoon can be created just by using simple painting tools such as MsPaint or Gimp or complex imaging applications like Photoshop etc.  So if you have, what it takes to pull out some creative stuff or get it done by some expert – Cartoons can be a very effective content to convey complex messages in a funny and interesting way.

3. Infographics:

As the name suggests Infographics is Information + graphics presented together in a visually digestible form that helps understand a complex data just at a glance. Infographics are all about data visualization and presentation. As observed by writer and designer David McCandless  in a TED talk:

Infographics provide a sense of relief in a landscape filled with a mind-numbing amount of information.

There’s something almost quite magical about visual information. It’s effortless. It literally pours in. If you’re navigating a dense information jungle, coming across a beautiful graphic or lovely data visualization is a relief. It’s like coming across a clearing in the jungle.

Besides making it physically easier for your audience to relate to your information, Infographics bring lots of other benefits to your website or blog which are listed below:

Besides making it physically easier for your audience to relate to your information, Infographics bring lots of other benefits to your website or blog which are listed below:

• Help you become a thought leader in your domain.
• Bring in more traffic and backlinks to your website.
• Help boost in rankings of your website.
• Present benefits about your products and services at a glance.
• Promote your ideas and policies to all those who are related.
• Improved comprehension of information, ideas, and concepts
• Enhanced ability to think critically and develop and organize ideas

As pointed out by the web usability expert JaKob Nielsen in his study:

The average person will read about 20% of the words on a regular web page. One of the by-products of this online reality is the “attention economy,” the idea that a  consumer’s attention to information has become a form of currency. A user becomes aware of your content, invests an amount of mental energy consuming that information, and then decides whether to engage further.

The data that can be presented via infographics can only be limited by one’s creative ability. Following types of data have been presented using infographics on the web and elsewhere:

• Statistics—metrics such as sales, revenue, market research, surveys
• Chronology—history, order of events, timelines, schedules
• Geography—locations, metrics by region
• Anatomy—ingredients, components, lists
• Hierarchy—organizational structure, needs assessment
• Process—manufacturing, customer service, sales funnel, lead generation, supply chain
• Ideas—concepts, theories, thought leadership, ideology
• Relationships—internal, external, people, products/services
• Personality—brand humanization, organizational culture

The benefits and applicability of this type of content to any domain make it an indespensable  way to succeed in online domain and that too at a very rapid rate.

4. Podcasts:

Podcast is an audio file which is uploaded on your server or made available to your website users for them to download and listen. It can be in any audio format and can be played by most of the freely available media players. The most popular format of files is .mp3 for podcasts and many online businesses have successfully used podcasts to make money and carve out a niche for themselves.

Podcasting has many benefits some of which are listed below:

• Podcasting reaches out to a completely new set of your website visitors who are interested in listening to what you say. Audio- only podcasts which are in a sense are the only qualifiers for the term podcasts allow a user to listen to your audio file without straining his eyes. This becomes a favorite means of gathering information while on the way to work or doing something else.
• Most of the podcasts allow the audio files to be downloaded only after a user has subscribed to it or paid for it so it means interacting with an audience or sending messages to visitors who are really interested in hearing your podcast.
• Creating high quality and easy to understand podcast around a specific niche allow you to help project yourself as a thought leader in that niche and successful podcasts have often involved more than one speakers.
• Help you generate a revene stream and new traffic models for your website in case you want to sell your podcasts or offer advertising slots in your podcasts.
• Unlike other types of content, sophisticated portable equipments are now available that allow the podcasts to be recorded on the move or with very little overhead. This allows for very fast content creation that is both useful and have its own specific audience.

Podcasting allows you to create niche specific content fast and if you have expertise and a pleasing voice, you can use this type of content to build a fan following for your website or blog.  The software and hardware required for creating a podcast don’t cost much and are readily available. With the rapidly expanding mobile web the web users who are interested in podcasts are increasing and so is the opportunity for you to tap into this market.

5. Use an existing content that is popular:

Web is full of content that has already gone viral and visitors reach those pages in huge volumes everyday.  As a website or blog owner you can easily find out such content and leverage it to increase the popularity and traffic to your own site.

• Doing such a thing is very easy. First you have to find a popular content, go through it thoroughly and then try to find something that adds a substantial value to that content. It could be some new addition to that topic, a critique to that content, a video related to that content, podcasts, slides, and other type of content that you think will be useful to the visitors to the existing popular content page.
• Create a post around it and publish it on your website or blog. Then go and comment on that popular post announcing your post and tell clearly about what visitors can find on your blog that extends this post. This way you can leverage the visitor base of existing popular content to create a trickle down traffic stream for your site.
• This will also present you as an expert in that domain and will help you gain recognition in the niche as you add value to the content of experts.

Conclusion:

Web is filled with content and millions of new articles are generated on a daily basis by the huge population of website and blog owners. The rate of creating websites is also increasing and with all that competition around you should really do something that stands out from the crowd in order to be successful. Creating viral content is one such thing. The above five types of content are only the tip of the iceberg that is floating around to being tapped. The only thing that limits you is your creativity and conviction to carve out a niche for yourself.

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Referral traffic, paid traffic, direct traffic all have their own significance but if your website is content heavy and you are trying to cut down the costs on bringing traffic to your site, getting organic visitors is the only way out. We all do the hard work, try every technique in the book, pay heed to every advice from the experts but what to do if we find the organic traffic still going down? Although it might look that you are doing everything right at SEO but here is a checklist which might come handy to analyze what is going wrong:

• Still with the old school tactics? Starting from the very basic as the Matt Cutts (Head of Web Spam Team at Google) has mentioned Some websites are out to make a quick buck (not thinking of their customers/visitors), or they have been misguided by an agency or by some black hat SEO magician that it’s OK to use tricks.  Are you still doing your SEO thing as:
  • Submitting to a bunch of directories like 1000 directories for 20 bucks?
  • Churning out low quality content and submitting them to a vast number of article directories?
  • Linking with sites who have nothing to do with your own niche?
  • Doing a press release and spreading it over every nook and corner of the web?

This clearly means that you are in the stone age of SEO and need to check with the latest developments in this domain and more importantly avoid the tricks mentioned above like hell.

• Are you into buying links? Many SEO firms advise you to buy links from high PageRank pages and that too from .gov, .edu domains. They have a ready inventory for that but even the experts agree that these things are getting caught by Google and severely penalized. So if someone says that he’ll be getting you 10 high PR links from top ranked .gov and .edu domains for an exorbitant price simply run away from him, don’t hire him for your SEO efforts, what eventually he’ll be getting you is a definite loss in rankings, authority and even worse getting your website recognized as a spammy one in the eyes of Google. Search engines are evolving and hitting hard at spam to get relevant results for their users. As of now Google is ahead in the race but Yahoo, Bing etc. will catch up soon and the stakes will be the same- provide good and relevant search results to the users. So don’t fall for buying links just for the sake of SEO otherwise there are plenty of advertising options. If you remember Textlinkads which was heavily into buying and selling text links which was detrimental to the Google’s PageRank algorithm – how heavily it was penalized and the sites who were making money out of it were simply thrown out of the Google’s rankings. Don’t let it happen to you.

• Is your SEO guy trying to be too smart?There is an ongoing tussle between the SEO community and the search engines. The SEO’s are trying to adopt new tactics (could be technical as well as non-technical) and the search engines are after them to crush their efforts. If your search engine specialist is telling you that he can bring in traffic by:
  • Redirecting or cloaking content
  • Hidden doorway pages
  • Showing different page for search engines and users
  • Writing white text on white background (hiding text and links)

It would be good that you show him the door as soon as possible. He’s living in a world which has been exposed thoroughly by the search engines and if you don’t believe our words go to the Google’s webmaster guidelines page and read it thoroughly.

Check your backlink profile:

• Are you regularly checking your backlink profile? Yes it has become tremendously important and that for many reasons. Checking who is linking to you can help you determine many important things:
  • The rank of pages linking to you: Is it still the same or has it been penalized by search engines? Check the page rank, sites linking to it and other parameters like Alexa Rank etc. If the signs show improvement in these stats it’s worth keeping the link else get rid of that link. Do whatever it takes, ask the webmaster, tell search engines about it but make sure that you don’t get linked to sites that are losing their page rank and authority.
  • What happened to the directories, article and PR sites: As mentioned above a recent update of Google went heavily after these sites and devalued them to a great extent. It was natural that these sites lost traffic,  PR and authority. The signals were clear – no artificial linking process, just get natural high authority editorial citations. So if you are still having links from these sites on your backlinking profile simply log into your accounts on these sites and delete. It might hurt you somewhat in the short term but the long term gains will be significant.
  • What is my anchor text diversity: A natural backlinking process will show you a complete diversity in your anchor text of the links pointing to your website. How on earth can each one of the website owner linking back to you with the same term like ‘make money online’ unless it is your name? This is a spammy practice which is very easy to catch and thoroughly determines that your backlinking strategy is an artificial one. So if the majority of links pointing to your website are having the same anchor texts it’s time to wake up and sort things out. Make sure that you have proper anchor text diversity, though it might sound the same but the fact still remains that you can’t have all the world pointing to you with the same anchor text.

Regularly checking the backlink profilie of your website and archiving it will be beneficial for you in more than one ways. It will help you track what is working, what is not and where to put in your efforts so that the rewards are maximum.

• Are your backlinks coming from the same niche? This is getting increasingly important as the search marketing is evolving and so the search engines are giving it a great value while determining the rankings of your website. Why this factor of links from the same niche? Think of it as a vote coming to your website from a website which is relevant to your theme. A dog food website getting a link from a pet shop will carry more relevance than a link from a flower selling website. The thing focuses around relevancy. If your SEO team is gathering links from all around the web without sparing a thought for the relevancy factor… there is a good chance that all that effort will go down the drain. Search engines have their own way of determining the theme of a website or even a page. The location where the backlinks come to you are very important. Make sure that you get links from the same niche, even if they are low in quantity but eventually they’ll pay off in the wrong run and will be of more value than 1000’s of unrelated links.

• Is your content being copied somewhere on the web? The web is a complex place occupied with people with various mindsets. Nothing is more easy than to copy someone else’s hard work and put it on your blog. There have been instances that people who have copied had taken greater advantage from the content that was originally written by someone else. So if you feel this is the case with you, do a phrase search and if you have the budget use CopyScape to protect your content. Same goes with the persons who are copying content. Search engines don’t tolerate copied content and they finally catch the culprits and penalize them. So its better not to copy and not allow others to steal your content. If you find someone copying your content without proper attribution there is DMCA to go to and search engines will take care of the rest.

• Are you following ethical Seo practices? Ethical or White Hat seo practices as they are called are simply doing what Search engines tell you to to while creating content for websites and adopting the search engine friendly format so that their bots can understand what your content is all about, what are the headlines, what are the images and other audio visual media telling the visitors and what is the overall quality and authority of your content. A good thing to inculcate in your seo process right from analyzing the keywords to putting the finished product on the web is to keep the visitor in mind. Give him the best experience and the best options where he can find the solution of his problem. Search engines are increasingly giving importance to such data like page load times, how many times your content was shared across social network, what was the time spent on your web page, where your page is linking to does your content has proper hierarchy, are you giving enough importance to usability and accessibility – there are lots and lots of factors that go in determining the worthiness of a web page to rank high. So make sure that your seo team has is well equipped to handle all the intricacies of getting ranked and yes as the search engines are rolling out new updates on almost daily basis the seo guys shouldn’t miss out on these or you’ll lose out to your competition who keeps track of the latest developments.

How to find out the damage done?

• Check the analytics report regularly: Find out if there is a gradual drop over a period of time – it is a matter of concern. Make sure where your traffic is coming from and if there is any holiday or calamity or any other emergency situation that is hindering people to access your website or not? Give it some time – a monthly traffic report should be good enough. Compare it with previous period and if you find a significant drop – it’s time for some action.

• Find out the keywords loosing traffic: Run a keyword report and compare them on a monthly basis find out the organic keyword, which were earlier ranking high and are now nowhere to be seen. Check their rankings on the web. There are many tools available for this. Find out what went wrong and who has taken your place. What has he done right to displace you from the top slot? Ask these questions from your seo and copyrighting team. Try altering the content, keywords, etc so as to regain the top slot.

• Check Webmaster Tools: Webmaster tools give some very useful insights, the page load times, website outage; backlinking reports etc. analyze these data sheets and try to figure out what is going wrong. A day spent on brainstorming will be well worth if you are able to iron out the issues.

Conclusion:

Search engines are regularly evolving and their updates are giving jitters to many online business. The Google Panda update sent shivers through the spine of website owners. Within a week’s time many website lost majority of their traffic, some were totally wiped out of the search rankings.  There were people who were able to salvage their positions by requesting to search engines.  This makes a valid point to practice ethical seo and white hat techniques. But there is another option which is cropping up and spreading like wildfire. The social networking phenomenon.

People are now increasingly accessing web from mobile devices like pads and phones and social recommendations are driving sales. This bring in some good news for people who just don’t want to depend on the organic search traffic for survival of their online business. Social media experts, which promote brands, products and services through Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, FourSquare  are other resources that can complement the SEO efforts.

Search engines are also acknowledging this fact and the are also giving due recognition to sites, people and brands which are more popular among the social media. So in case your website rankings are tanked by any of the search engines there is no time to loose heart, in fact it’s time to be pro-active and find out what is causing the damage. Though the rankings might take some time to bounce back, if you find out the problem and take proper action you are on the right path. Always remember that there are other options now with advertisers, online business owners and entrepreneurs to bring in traffic.

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Making money online and generating a residual income stream is what many full time bloggers strive. There are stories about bloggers making six figure incomes and it is but natural to be curious about who is making how much and what the sources of income are. In this post we will cover few such bloggers who are making a decent amount of money online and also go behind the scenes to see who is running the show and what his website parameters are. The details of latest income reports will also be listed.

• The format followed is introduction of the blogger, the vital statistics of his blog and the earnings report.
• While concluding the post we will analyze the data and present some interesting facts, which we hope will be immensely beneficial for any blogger who wants to earn his living online.

If you also want to be featured in this post please do contact us. We’ll be more than happy to share your success story with our readers. 

1. Smartpassiveincome.com

Introduction:

Smartpassiveincome.com earned a total of $54,747.28 in the month of March 2013. This blog is owned by Pat Flynn. The details of income and its breakdown will follow later but let us first find out who is Pat Flynn. Here is Pat’s version on his blog:

I’m a 30 year old dude from Southern California who makes a living on the internet. I consider myself the luckiest person on Earth.

I didn’t win the lottery, I don’t drive a fancy car, and I’m not a millionaire. What I do have is a beautiful wife, two amazing children, a loving family, awesome friends, and a line of work that allows me to spend most of my time with them.

Pat writes around 5 -10 posts per month along with podcasts, webinars, interviews of other bloggers who’ve carved their own niche in online markets and is a popular speaker in global events. Before taking on full time blogging, Pat was working as a Job Captain in an architecture firm. The first thing you notice about Pat is his open-ness, he hides nothing. You can read more about how his journey into online domain began and what did it take to earn his first dollar online on his blog – smartpassiveincome.com.

Vital Statistics:

Following are the vital parameters of Pat’s blog smartpassiveincome.com. Please note that Pat owns multiple niche websites and they all contribute to his online income.

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 6,546
• Alexa Traffic Rank in US: 3,859
• Sites Linking In (according to Alexa) : 3,176
• Google Page Rank: 5
• No of pages indexed in Google: 866
• Twitter Followers: 63405
• Facebook Likes: 32,961
• Pat Flynn in Google + Circles: 2743
• Feedburner Readers: 68548
• Email Subscribers: 25000

What does Pat offer to his email subscribers?

Pat offers an eBook guide and a weekly newsletter to his email subscribers as mentioned on his blog:

PAT’S EBOOK GUIDE

Enter your name and email below to get Free Instant Access to the most comprehensive guide available on how to Publish, Market, and automate your own killer eBook.

Over 25,000 people have enjoyed my eBook and receive a weekly newsletter with exclusive online business and blogging tips.

Earnings Report:

• Month: March 2013
• Total Income: $54,747.28

Income Breakdown:

• Affiliate Earnings: $44,829.89
• GreenExamAcademy.com Product Sales: $3,456.12
• SecurityGuardTrainingHQ.com: $2,836.57
• iPhone Applications: $2,715.09
• CreateaClickableMap.com: $489.51
• 2 Other Mini Experimental Sites and YouTube (adsense): $420.10

2. Pinchofyum.com

Introduction:

Pinchofyum.com is a food blog owned by a husband and wife team Lindsay and Bjork. This blog earned a total of $$6,914.71 in the month of March 2013. Lindsay is a teacher, pug lover, and dessert eater from Minnesota handles the writing, photography and cooking part while the technicalities and making money is handled by her husband Bjork. Why they are into blogging? Well.. here are the reasons given by Lindsay herself:

Blogging is a lot of work. So why do it?

There are so many things about this process that have been meaningful and rewarding for me.

• sharing yummy food with other food lovers
• helping others start their own blog
• sharing photography tips in a food photography eBook
• developing the blog into a source of income
• showing others how they can do the same in our monthly income reports

Plus a big benefit of the income that we earn from the blog is that it helps us make this year of living and working in the Philippines a reality.

The team at pinchofyum.com regularly posts recipes to their blog. The frequency of posting varies between 25-30 posts per month and enjoys a good readership. The blog posts are loaded with eye-catching pictures of the recipes. It is obvious from the quality of things that the team takes good care of what goes live on their blog. Pinchofyum.com is a part of Blogher blogging network.

Vital Statistics:

Listed below are some important statistics for the blog pinchofyum.com:

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 65,840
• Alexa Traffic Rank in US: 15,676
• Sites Linking In (according to Alexa) : 1,237
• Google Page Rank: 4
• No of pages indexed in Google: 670
• Twitter Followers: 1980
• Facebook Likes: 9621
• Lindsay Ostorm in Google + Circles: 196
• Feedburner Readers: NA
• Email Subscribers: NA

Though the exact number of email subscribers and feedburner stats are not available, the team at pinchofyum.com do offer blogging tips to users who subscribe.

Earnings Report:

• Month: March 2013
• Total Income: $6,914.71

Income Breakdown:

• BlogHer – $3,010.77
• Tasty Food Photography – $1,354.50
• Bluehost – $1,235
• Google AdSense – $1,012.46
• The Thesis Theme Affiliate Program– $122.43
• Elegant Themes – $78
• BuySellAds – $61.14
• Amazon Affiliate Program – $40.41

3. Leavingworkbehind.com

Introduction:

Leavingworkbehind.com is one of the successful niche blogging example which made $6883.25  in the month of February 2013. The man behind leavingworkbehind.com is Tom Ewer whose aim is to help as many people as possible realize their own dream of quitting their jobs. He himself quit his lucrative job in 2011 to pursue his dream of owning a business. To understand the sense of freedom he achieved from leavingbehindwork.com this quote from his blog should be sufficient.

I have worked from my home in Rugby, my sister’s home in Texas, a condo in Colorado, a hotel room in Serbia, a cruise ship in the Atlantic and many other places. I am completely free from the constraints of a 9-to-5 job and live life on my own terms.

Tom realized his potential and carved out a niche for himself that gave him prestigious achievements like  getting published on Lifehacker, interviewed by FreelanceSwitch and named a ProBlogger “Blogger to Watch.” In less than two years Tom has written nearly 1,000 blog posts for tens of blogs. Tom publishes 10- 15 posts on leavingworkbehind.com per month. His posts are well researched and have high authoritative value.

Vital Statistics:

Listed below are some important statistics for the blog leavingworkbehind.com:

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 62,048
• Alexa Traffic Rank in US: 32,034
• Sites Linking In (according to Alexa) : 385
• Google Page Rank: 4
• No of pages indexed in Google: 256
• Twitter Followers: 13674
• Facebook Likes: 1118
• Tom Ewer in Google + Circles: 604
• Feedburner Readers: NA
• Email Subscribers: 1000′s

Tom offers the subscribers of his blog a free ebook which gives insight on competition analysis and keyword research guide as posted on leavingworkbehind.com:

Join thousands of happy subscribers to get exclusive emails and a copy of my free keyword research and competition analysis guide!

Tom has kept the fields in  his ebook subscriber form to a minimal level he only has one field – the email one.

Earnings Report:

• Month: March 2013
• Total Income: $6883.25

Income Breakdown:

• Freelance writing:$4,722.21
• Websites:$11.21
• Affiliate Marketing (Leaving Work Behind):$963.03
• Information Products:$973.56
• eBooks:$108.23

4. Shoutmeloud.com

Introduction:

Shoutmeloud.com is a blog owned by Engineer turned professional blogger from India Harsh Agarwal. Shoutmeloud.com earned a total of $8642 in the month of March 2011. Shoutmeloud.com was started in 2008 and over these years it has grown into one of the largest and most popular internet marketing blog. Harsh loves computer and technology, he successfully converted his passion into a full time lucrative residual income stream. According to Harsh:

I’m a normal guy who lives life to the fullest, loves travelling and lives a happy-go-lucky kind of life. I like to talk stuff related to marketing, solopreneurship and art of living. I have network of Blogs under main brand “ShoutDreams” and I blog for passion. Here at ShoutMeLoud, I share tips which I learned over time about blogging and how to earn passive income online. I don’t promise to make you rich overnight, but I could promise that you will be earning handsome income, if you have what it takes to become a blogger. If you have writing skills, a passion for learning, a dream of brining a change, and most important if you want to be your own boss, ShoutMeLoud is the perfect place for you to start. 

5.  Acoupletravelers.com and Avocadopesto.com 

Introduction:

A perfect example of a traveling couple who are also into blogging and earning money as well these two blogs raked in a total of $6,109 in the month of March 2013 for Dave and Vicky the owners of these blogs. While acoupletravelers.com is more oriented towards travel avocadopesto.com has more food related content.  The reason we are looking at these two blogs as a single entity is not only the reason that these are owned by the couple but also that good food and travel complement each other.

Acoupletravelers. com started in 2012 when Dave and Vicky decided to travel the world in two years and they haven’t looked backed since then. According to acoupletravelers.com:

Dave is the tech-guy. He handles the website, so when you log on and it’s under construction or missing, you know who to blame. When he’s not doing that, he’s making the videos for our trip.

Vicky is our talented planner, she has mapped out the entire route, and does the photography. Oh, and did I mention she cooks?

Together they cover topics ranging from bloging, interviews of other travel bloggers, culture  traditions, reviews and reflections about places and smart tips on how to travel frugal.  And did I mention that Avocadopesto.com is a part of the BlogHer blog network?

Vital Statistics:

Here are some important facts about Av0cadopesto.com:

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 411,440
• Alexa Traffic Rank in US: 122,545
• Sites Linking In (according to Alexa) : 312
• Google Page Rank: 3
• No of pages indexed in Google: 838
• Twitter Followers: 738
• Facebook Likes: 1442
• Victoria Berman (Vicky) in Google + Circles: 27
• Feedburner Readers: NA
• Email Subscribers: NA

Here are some important statistics about Acoupletravelers.com

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 157,520
• Alexa Traffic Rank in US: 124,960
• Sites Linking In (according to Alexa) : 319
• Google Page Rank: 3
• No of pages indexed in Google: 2510
• Twitter Followers: 2265
• Facebook Likes: 565
• Acouple travelers  in Google + Circles: 150
• Feedburner Readers: NA
• Email Subscribers: NA

Though email subscribers and Feedburner user’s data is not available with us. But Vicky and Dave create mailing lists by offering a newsletter to those who subscribe to their blogs.

Earnings Report:

• Month: March 2013
• Total Income: $6,109

Income Breakdown:

• Direct Advertising ACoupleTravelers: $3,385
• Direct Advertising AvocadoPesto: $1,565
• Google Adsense and BlogHer AvocadoPesto: $150
• Direct Advertising Other Blogs: $1,005
• Amazon Affiliates: $3.66
• Website Purchase on Flippa: $500
• Hosting: $10
• Facebook Ad: $8
• Virtual Assistants: $433

6.  Nerdynomad.com

Introduction:

Kirsty the founder of nerdynomad.com earned a total of $6458.00 from her travel blog. Nerdynomad.com’s Kirsty is from Canada but she has left her home country since 2001 for a quest to travel around the world. Travel was always a passion for Kirsty, but it really took off when she took a one way ticket to Australia in 2001 for an adventurous, entertaining and rewarding journey.  According to Kirsty:

Since then I’ve lived in London and Beijing and have travelled a bunch. I quit my job in London in 2007 and have been roaming around since then, looking for interesting things to get up to. Fortunately I’m able to fund my life of wandering through earnings from the internet, and that’s what this blog is about (with a bit of travel thrown in, of course).

My latest and greatest passion is volunteering and I have spent time in Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Indonesia and Haiti as a volunteer. The work is hard but hugely rewarding and the people I’ve met have been amazing.

Kirsty has also made money from the ebook she has written and she recommends it to everyone who is interested in volunteering.

 I wrote an ebook called The Underground Guide to Volunteering and, if you’re remotely interested in volunteering, pick it up because it will be helpful. I promise.

Kirsty puts up somewhere between 1-5 posts per month on nerdynomad.com, which are fairly lengthy and comprise of her income reports, travel related learnings and summary of his journeys. She is more popular in Finland.

Vital Statistics:

Here are some important facts about nerdynomad.com:

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 147,457
• Alexa Traffic Rank in FI: 2,345
• Sites Linking In (according to Alexa) : 263
• Google Page Rank: 3
• No of pages indexed in Google: 923
• Twitter Followers: 3262
• Facebook Likes: 256
• Kirsty from nerdynomad.com in Google + Circles: NA
• Feedburner Readers: 1844
• Email Subscribers: NA

Looks like Kirsty is relying only on Feedburners to update her readers as we couldn’t find any subcribe or opt-in form with offers on her site. (please tell us if you know about it.)

Earnings Report:

• Month: March 2013
• Total Income: $6458.00

Income Breakdown:

• Google Adsense – $225.00
• Affiliate Sales – $105.00
• Advertising – $6058.00
• Ebook Sales – $70.00 Ro

7.  Mymultipleincomes.com

Introduction:

This blog is owned by Robert an MBA Graduate who earned a total of $4,433.35 in March 2013.  Robert was always passionate about finance and investing who is bestowed by a beautiful wife, a loving family, great friends, and a passion for helping others with their personal finance. Robert started blogging when he was still in his school. On why did he choose blogging as an income generating option in his life he writes:

I started The College Investor to showcase my common sense thoughts and ideas with younger adults. At work and school, I heard some pretty scary advice, and I hope that I don’t become anything like that. With this site, I want to be as transparent as possible with what I’m doing with my finances. That is where student loan debt came in. I have showcased my battle with my provider, and it has provided my readers with a lot of insight into the student loan market. I’ve now started this venture to really focus on what I’ve discovered about myself. I feel that finance is about your net cash flow today. This means taking in more than you spend. You should then use that excess to create more cash flow.

I’m about diversity of cash flow. This could mean: your job, your spouse’s job, investing, real estate, second business, blogging, etc. Because even if you don’t have extra income to invest, you usually have time to invest.

Robert writes about 10-15 posts per month on his blog which focus around personal finance, investing and generating multiple income streams online and how to optimize them for offline use. The first blog of Robert was The college investor which was started with keeping college related finance issues under control but it eventually grew into mymultipleincomes.com which is now proving a cash-cow for Robert.

Vital Statistics:

Listed below are some important statistics for the blog mymultipleincomes.com:

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 124,711
• Alexa Traffic Rank in US: 38,600
• Sites Linking In (according to Alexa) : 239
• Google Page Rank: 2
• No of pages indexed in Google: 660
• Twitter Followers: 484
• Facebook Likes: 424
• Robert Farrington /mymultipleincomes.com in Google + Circles: NA
• Feedburner Readers: NA
• Email Subscribers: NA

Robert Farrington does have a subscriber form on his website mymultipleincomes.com on which he promises that he’ll not send more than two emails per week to his subscribers regarding multiple income streams. This is stated on his blog as:

Welcome! I’m Robert
I’m passionate about multiple income streams, and I want to share with you what I’ve learned about diversifying my cash flow
You’ll receive no more than two emails per week, and we hate spam just as much as you do.

This essentially means that Robert is building email marketing lists but how many have subscribed to his blog -well we don’t have this number. (Please do help us with it if you have the information.)

Earnings Report:

• Month: March 2013
• Total Income: $4,433.35

Income Breakdown:

• Websites: $4106.34
• Investments: $328.26

8. Bloggerspassion.com

Introduction:

Yes that’s my blog. I also earn a decent income online. Though I am not that regular at publishing my income reports regularly but I earned a total of $2798.4 in the month of February 2013.  I am Anil Agarwal, a blogger and SEO professional from India and have been blogging for a long time here is more information on this blog:

BloggersPassion was started on Jan 01, 2010 on the world’s most awesome blogging platform- WordPress. This blog was started to share blogging tips and for helping you become a successful full time blogger. Blogging is an art and the more you do it, the more you perfect you become.

The main motive behind BloggersPassion is just one – to help upcoming bloggers to help with their blogging needs whether it’s about promoting their blogs or monetizing it through various means. Serious blogging is not very easy and you need guidance throughout so that you cruise along. I will try my best to help you with whatever I can and will share everything you want to know.

And for those who want are thinking of starting their own blog, do not wait. Act today and get a domain name and hosting now. If you want any help on selection of hosting or domain, feel free to contact me

I regularly write about 20-30 blog posts on my blog on a monthly basis. The posts revolve around, blogging tips, seo, social media marketing, make money online, web hosting, affiliate marketing, wordpress tips and tricks and I also help newbie bloggers set up their own wordpress blog. Recently the bloggerspassion.com team has started an offer of the month which provides great value to user at no cost.

Vital Statistics:

Listed below are some important statistics for bloggerspassion.com:

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 19,258
• Alexa Traffic Rank in IN: 2,580
• Sites Linking In (according to Alexa) : 575
• Google Page Rank: 3
• No of pages indexed in Google: 914
• Twitter Followers: 17311
• Facebook Likes: 1469
• Bloggerspassion.com in Google + Circles: 279
• Feedburner Readers: NA
• Email Subscribers: 572

Currently we are providing an offer of the month along with my monthly newsletter to my blog subscribers. Since we chose to give some excellent value added products and services to our blog visitors for free we have seen a jump in the subscribe rate.

Earnings Report:

• Month: February 2013
• Total Income: $2798.4

Income Report:

Hosting Affiliates: $2205
ClickBank Affiliate Sale: $52.40
Woo Themes: $70
Easy WP SEO: $53
Banner Advertisement and Paid Review: $270
Google Adsense: $103
Text Link Ads: $45

9: www.truevalhalla.com

Introduction:

Again a good niche blog producing content around the latest technology trend HTML5, truevalhalla.com earned a total of  $2223.00 in the month of March 2013.  Matthew the founder of this blog is a 20 year old self-employed indie game developer, author, and content creator. On the question of why he started to choose blogging instead of full time lucrative job he says:

Over the past few years I’ve been encouraged to get a “real job” – to tirelessly work a 9-to-5 and somehow be satisfied with that. Instead, I want to earn a living online doing what I love. I want to build a substantial passive income that can fund both my future and my passions. Plenty of people make money online after all. So as of April 2012, I registered my business and embarked on a unique journey to become successful online. This blog exists to share experiences, knowledge, advice, achievements, and failures. I’m trying to be very transparent in what I share.

Matthew sets for himself annual income goals to be achieved and publishes a graphical report on how much of it has been achieved:

My current goal is to earn $50,000 solely online this year, which would bring my total online earnings up to $80,561. I doubt I will reach this by the end of 2013, but I didn’t think I would reach my goal last year either!

HTML 5 is considered to have a big impact on how the internet will look like in future. This is a very happening domain to be in at this moment. Matthew publishes an HTML5 ebook and this Australian blogger regularly contributes around 10 posts per month to his truevalhalla.com blog.

Vital Statistics:

Listed below are some important statistics for truevalhalla.com:

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 680,698
• Alexa Traffic Rank in US: 402,048
• Sites Linking In (according to Alexa) : 62
• Google Page Rank: 2
• No of pages indexed in Google: 145
• Twitter Followers: 951
• Facebook Likes: 194
• Truevalhalla.com in Google + Circles: NA
• Feedburner Readers: NA
• Email Subscribers: NA

Truevalhalla.com has a email list building mechanism in place where he gives free articles, discounts, and giveaways to his blog subscribers.

Earnings Report:

• Month: August 2012
• Total Income: $2223.00

Income Report: 

• Affiliate referrals:$20.00
• Myriad Online:$20.00
• HTML5 mobile advertisements:$225.00
• Website advertisements:$265.00
• Licensing:$280.00
• Book sales:$400.00
• HTML5 sponsorships:$1013.00

10. Moneyhomeblog.com

Introduction:

Moneyhomeblog is another affiliate marketing blog which earned a total of  $1675.49 in the month of March 2013. This blog focuses on seo services, product reviews and affiliate marketing to generate its revenues. We were not able to find who is behind this blog but it seems like it is a part of a network of blogs owned by Freebrowsingtime Ltd which owns the domain according to the Whois records.

The people behind Moneyhomeblog.com write abot 20-30 blog post per month on the blog and the most interesting thing we find about the blog is the passion with which their team publishes about internet and online money making scams. This blog seems to be based in India or gets its most readership from India.

Vital Statistics:

Listed below are some important statistics for moneyhomeblog.com:

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 104,733
• Alexa Traffic Rank in US: 20,424
• Sites Linking In (according to Alexa) : 208
• Google Page Rank: 0
• No of pages indexed in Google: 168
• Twitter Followers: NA
• Facebook Likes: NA
• Truevalhalla.com in Google + Circles: NA
• Feedburner Readers: NA
• Email Subscribers: NA

There are negligible social footprints of this blog but it is still making money online. I guess if they focus more on promoting their blog on social channels their income will certainly rise.

Earnings Report:

• Month: March 2013
• Total Income: $1675.49

Income Breakdown:

• SEO SERVICE: $177.00
• Amazon: $328.50
• Chitika: $24.50
• Ebook: $260.00
• Adsense: $885.49

11. www.my4hrworkweek.com

Introduction:

Eric the owner of my4hrworkweek.com earned a total of $2,476.92 in the month of February 2013.  Unlike other bloggers Eric is a part time blogger and is gradually moving towards realizing his goals of living on a residual income. Eric describes himself as:

First of all, my name is Eric, I’m 25, and I currently live in Chicago (Illinois).  I’m currently a full-time CPA (Tax Consultant at a “Big 4″ public accounting firm), but I have entrepreneurial dreams and I’m slowly starting to act on them.

You can know more about Eric, his education and aspirations on his blog my4hrworkweek.com.  Eric likes to write about entrepreneurship, making money online, creating and making money from niche sites, passive income, productivity and time management and social networking. Eric writes about 5-10 posts per month on my4hrworkweek.com.

Vital Statistics:

Listed below are some important statistics for my4hrworkweek.com:

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 49,414
• Alexa Traffic Rank in IN: 19,376
• Sites Linking In (according to Alexa) : 261
• Google Page Rank: 2
• No of pages indexed in Google: 3660
• Twitter Followers: 10972
• Facebook Likes: NA
• Eric Gati in Google + Circles: 137
• Feedburner Readers: NA
• Email Subscribers: NA

Eric uses a popup to gather build his email list with some lucrative offers who subscribe. We don’t have an exact figures of his blog subscribers as well as feedburner stats.

Earnings Report:

• Month: February 2013
• Total Income: $2,476.92

Income Breakdown:

• Authority Site Earnings:$9.22
• Misc. Affiliate Earnings:$1,797.96

12. SocialVani.com

Socialvani.com a blog primarily based around helping small business succeed earned a total of $2952 in the month of February 2013.     You can find informative resources about social media, social media marketing and information about small business start-ups on SocialVani.com Chitraparna Sinha who is the owner of this blog introduces herself as:

I’m a full-time online web content developer, freelance consultant, blogger and a social media enthusiast. I work for clients from the US, UK, Australia, Middle-East, South-Asia and India. I am also an online marketer, promoter and online reputation manager.

She regularly writes about 10- 15 posts on her blog.

Vital Statistics:

Listed below are some important statistics for my4hrworkweek.com:

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 53,286
• Alexa Traffic Rank in IN: 5,957
• Sites Linking In (according to Alexa) : 200
• Google Page Rank: 4
• No of pages indexed in Google: 3,970
• Twitter Followers: 1181
• Facebook Likes: 669
• Chitraparna Sinha in Google + Circles: 541
• Feedburner Readers: NA
• Email Subscribers: NA

Analysis and Conclusion 

The above listed data can prove quite exhaustive to blog readers accustomed to read short or middle length posts. But the lack of such information which provides both the income reports along with seo and social parameters was difficult to find at least for our team so we decided to do it. This post will help bloggers understand and calibrate their seo and social parameters along with the different sources bloggers use to make money online. Listed below are few important takeaways from this post:

1. Adsense – The Google’s lucrative contextual advertising program, which used to be a big source of income for bloggers is not the major source of income as of now. Though there are some blogger whose main source of income is adsense, but most of them are looking  and focussing on other avenues. The low  ROI on adsense ads and the constant fear of getting banned might be some of the reasons.
2. Affiliate marketing is one of the biggest source of income for a majority of these bloggers. And if we dissect it a layer further, we find that web hosting, website plugins, themes and website tools form a lion’s share of this affiliate income.
3. Barring a few most of the blogger have mechanisms in place to built a double opt in email list to which they can send further promotional offers. Ebooks, newsletters, tips, how to guides, freebies etc. are the most popular methods of getting people to subscribe.
4. Social connections are becoming increasingly important in getting bigger paychecks. As you can see from the above data the bloggers with a better presence on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and other social media platforms are having better earnings.
5. The frequency of posting of successful money making blogger vary between 5 posts per month to 30 posts per month but the bloggers which post around 5-10 posts per month and make their post authoritative by researching well both about the niche and focusing on the right keywords are getting better traction.
6. Most of the bloggers above are doing it full time (well almost and they are enjoying it too) and many of them were forced to get into blogging as they landed into financial doldrums or had an intense desire to quit the office cubicle and a 9-5 regular work.
7. Many of these successful bloggers are not relying on just a single website but have multiple niche websites and some are also a part of blog network which brings in another level of security just in case one of the sites is not working.
8. These bloggers are well connected with other bloggers in their own respective niche and often collaborate and harness each other’s strengths to generate new revenue models.
9. These blogger are constantly looking for new affiliate models and products and are not reluctant to try new things even if they have to pay for it. Failing fast and a keen eye on trying new things helps them stay ahead of the crowd.
10. All of these blogger have invested in getting a professional look to their blogs and their designs, unique voice, techniques are all regularly tested and many of them do a lot of A/B and multivariate testing to improve on their existing designs and get the maximum out of their investments.

That was a really long post, but we think it is worth the effort. Again if you want to be featured in this post do contact us. Suggestions and feedbacks are welcome. Feel free to share and cite this post among your readers and friends, most importantly with those who are trying to make money online as it will help them a lot.

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No doubt BlueHost is one of the best web host’s for Hosting WordPress Blogs and they are even recommended as an ideal choice for hosting WordPress blogs by WordPress.org website. They have 15 plus years of experience in the web hosting industry and they are one of the very few early birds in this industry. Millions of websites are already hosted on BlueHost Servers and more than 20 thousands new websites are added to this list every month. They are based out in Utah.

BlueHost serves the single hosting plan to all of its customers and you can host unlimited domains using the same hosting account. BueHost looks to a true winner when it comes about comparing BlueHost with HostMonster, which is its sister web hosting company and they are jointly owned by Matt Heaton. Matt is also the CEO of www.fastdomain.com, another domain hosting company. Apart from me, some of my friends are also using BlueHost web hosting and they are all really happy for choosing BlueHost over other hosts.

BlueHost Features List

Here are some features you will enjoy after using BlueHost web hosting services:

• Unlimited Bandwidth and unlimited disk space
• You Can Host unlimited domains
• One Free Domain for One Year
• Unlimited Email accounts and Free Website builder
• Any Time Money Back Guarantee
• 24×7 US Support through Chat, Email and Phone
• 99.99% Uptime Guarantee
• $100 Google Adwords Credit
• 1 Click WordPress Installer
• Free Instant Setup

As mentioned in the Features list, you will get a free domain name for one year when you sign up for BlueHost hosting. You can use this facility at the time of sign up or even can utilize it later from your BlueHost Cpanel. You will be getting all the facilities you have ever imagined in a web host with BlueHost. You should go through the BlueHost web hosting review here to know more in detail about Bluehost as a company and its web hosting features list.

BlueHost Discount May 2013 Details

Let’s talk about the most important thing in hand and its BlueHost discounts. BlueHost does not provide any discount coupon or code that you can use while signing up to save some money. Actually there is a BlueHost $3.95 Promo Link available that will help you get BlueHost hosting for as low as $3.95/Month Only for hosting your WordPress sites. Normally we need to pay $6.95 as the monthly charges while buying web hosting services from BlueHost. To make the best use of BlueHost 3.95 dollar promo offer, you should buy BlueHost hosting for your blog for a period of 36 months in advance. And if you are interested in buying Bluehost hosting for 12 months period only, you have to pay additional two dollar i.e. $5.95 as the monthly hosting charges.

To use this special BlueHost Promo Offer, you don’t need to use any BlueHost discount Coupon. When you click on this link, you will be moved to BlueHost WordPress web hosting page and you will be similar kind of screen. All you have to do is click on the Sign Up Now >> button to start buying hosting for your WordPress blog at the most affordable prices.

Here are the discounted price details with their time interval:

• 36 Months: $3.95/Month
• 24 Months: $4.95/Month
• 12 Months: $5.95/Month

This BlueHost special discount offer of $3.95 will not last for long, so it’s the right time to purchase hosting for your first or next WordPress blog.

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By sharing this special BlueHost Discount link, I’m aiming to help you save some money on your Bluehost hosting shopping. Have you ever used or heard anything about Bluehost and its services, it would be great if you could share your views about them in the comments section. Also let me know in case you face any issues in using this special BlueHost 3.95 dollar promo offer.

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If you are serious about making money from your blog or website you’ll need some kind of form on your web presence.  For those who have experience in web technologies and are more adept in handling HTML, CSS and Scripts the term ‘Form’ might sound pretty familiar, but it will be pertinent here to introduce it to those who are finding the term strange.

What are Web Forms?

Forms are collections of web elements that can have many purposes like requesting user feedback, adding users to subscriber or mailing lists, keeping touch with users via contact forms or complex forms which allow for ordering of products, asking for user’s payment, shipping and registration information etc.

The most common usage of forms that you might encounter across the web is the opt-in form which is used to build e-mailing lists by bloggers who are into making money online.

Depending on the complexity the forms used on a site can be one step or complex enough to be multistep with each step building on the previous one to complete the desired data collection process.

Forms can collect data, store it to a text file or to a database and depending on user choices it can also retrieve data from a file or a database located on the same or a remote server. All this is done by a script which does all the data collection, storage, retrieval and data processing.

Elements of a Web Form:

Depending on the usage and complexity a web might contain one or many of the following elements:

• Text Field: A Text field provides a text box in which the user can type alphanumeric information. By setting the width of the text field we can determine the size of this element that will be visible to the user. If we choose the text field type as password then the entered information will be visible as asterisks(*) to the user.
• Checkbox: Checkboxes allow the user to choose one or many from a given set of options. Each checkbox requires a name and a value.
• Radio Buttons:   Radio buttons allow only one option to choose from a given set of choices.
• Drop-down lists: These allow users to choose from a list which drops down or expands on mouse click or hover depending on how the options are set for this form element. Users can be presented with option to select just one item or it can be a multiple select item list. Depending on the items in the list the list can have a scroll bar if the items in the list are large. The list can have a default value.
• Image Field: This field allows you to insert an image and attach a behavior to it.
• File Field: This field allows a user to upload a file to the server. When this field is clicked an option to choose a file appears and when the file is chosen it is uploaded.
• Fieldset: This is not any input or action field but it is basically a grouping of field which presents a group of fields as related to the user.
• Label: Every field has a label. A label can be compared like a name of a particular field.
• ID: Every form element has an id which is unique.
• Button: Every form has a button on clicking of which a script is called to attach a behavior to the form like resetting a form, submitting a form etc.

These are some of the basic element of a form. As web technology is progressing we are seeing improvised forms which use Ajax and other advanced use of javascripts to minimize the user interaction and improve usability.

How to create web forms that really work:

Before deciding on creating a form it’s better to spend some time on brainstorming about the data you require and what is the most easiest way to get it from the user. The second part is creating the form is presenting the required fields in a  format that is very usable and not too complex for the user even if it means breaking your form into two or three steps, rather than presenting a very long form.

Besides these basic steps there are other tips and techniques that have been tested over times by various web developers, usability experts and designers to improve the user interaction with the form and thereby act like a general checklist. Listed below are some points which every website owner should be aware so that he can get the maximum benefits out of the forms that he is using on his website for data collection or any other desired purpose:

• Validate the form elements: This is a thing that any website designer should not miss out on.  Form validation means checking a particular form element for the data being entered – whether it is in the correct formats, or validates for a particular field etc. For example if a text field is being used asking for the name of the user it checks should be placed on the data entered so that a user is not able to enter any numeric or special character into that field. Similarly if a field is present in the form asking for a user’s email address the data entered by the user should be validated to be in a correct email format. This makes things easier for both the user as well as the website owner because the data is entered and stored in the correct format. Form validation can be done while the user is entering the data in a dynamic way or at the form submission level. In most cases doing it dynamically when the user is entering the data is a preferable way because it delivers a better user experience.
• Making the form accessible to users with disabilities: Don’t expect every visitor to your website to be in a perfect state. Spare some thought for those who are physically challenged. Design your forms so that these users can access them via screen readers or designated keys on keyboard or just by clicking the tab keys and navigating your form.
• Make the button look like buttons: If you are using images as buttons ensure that they have proper call to action like submit or click here to submit or something more favorable that tells the user explicitly that this button needs to be pressed or clicked in order to complete a task on the form. The images can change colors mouse is hovered on them, and buttons can change state. The most important thing is that a visitor should be clearly able to identify the action that has to be done in order to successfully complete the form filling process.
• Clearly label the required fields: How many times have you visited a form where you have entered some fields and pressed the submit button only to find that you’ve missed some of the required fields. Wouldn’t it have been useful had it been told to you upfront that a particular field cannot be left blank and is required in order to successfully fill the form? Don’t make this mistake while designing your form. Make sure that all the required fields are labeled properly ( by mentioning –required or using * in front of the label as the general convention goes).
• Minimize the number of fields: It’s OK that every department of your organization has its own priorities and wants the maximum amount of information that you can extract from your visitor but there could be a thing like – asking for too much, which can drastically affect your form fill-up rates and consequentially sabotage all your data collection efforts. There are studies and experts opinions which say that form fill-up rates drop as we increase the fields in the form. So try to keep the fields in the form to a minimal level. The fewer burdens you put on your visitor the more willing he or she will be to provide the data you want. For example while creating newsletter subscription forms, some website owners ask for first name, last name and the email address, some ask for first name and email addresses and there are some who are satisfied with just asking for the email of the visitor. A simple step like asking for a last name could decrease your newsletter subscription rates. The whole idea is to decrease the number of fields, there is no need for last name on an email newsletter subscription form when you have his first name for the sake of personalizing the newsletters you are going to send him.
• Use radio buttons when you want only one option to be selected: There are many instances where a visitor is presented with many check-boxes while there is only one option that he has to select. This can create a confusion for the visitor and wrong data collection at your end and greater form drop-off rates. When you want visitors to explicitly choose one of the given choices use radio buttons. This also means that if you want the users to choose multiple options do-not use radio buttons, use check-boxes instead.
• Always give a default option if you have one:  This helps your visitor to fill forms faster and keeps the drop-off rates on long forms to a minimal level. For example if the majority of your visitors are from USA keep the default value of country selection drop-down list in your registration form to USA and its neighboring countries. If you are having an eCommerce site providing a product and the billing and shipping address are the same for the visitor allow him to fill the shipping form by just one click when he has entered his billing details.
• Avoid the problems of double-clicking: Over the years visitor behavior has adapted to double clicking on links. This often results in double clicking on submit button on your forms and other action elements. This can create problems for you in case you have not provided for built-in checks for such visitor actions. But the problems can be grave and land you into complex issues in a scenario when you are having an e-commerce website and the user clicks twice on your checkout button and he gets billed twice. It is always a good practice and many e-commerce providers do it while their checkout process is to clearly mention that only once click is required to check out. Doing this will be helpful for both your users and your website reputation.

Top WordPress Form Creation Plugins:

Besides Contact Form 7 which is one of the most popular Form plugin for WordPress there are few others which we would like you to check out just because of the awesome features and functionality they provide to a WordPress website owner. Listed below are some of the most popular WordPress plugins used to create forms:

• Breezing Forms: If you need a form builder that is powerful and flexible Breezing Forms could be the ultimate plugin for you. It can create complex forms which are responsive. This means that they adapt to your screen’s resolution and therefore are great for desktops, laptops and mobile devices. Just design once and forget the pain of adjusting them for various screens. Breezing form does it for you. Breezing forms come both as a free version and a pro version. Needless to say that pro version gives you more tools and power.
• Formidable Pro: This drag and drop form builder plugin for WordPress makes creating very complex forms a cakewalk even for beginners. Don’t know HTML, CSS and technical stuff? No problems – Formidable Pro allows you to create forms that give you granular control over who has access to what content on your website. You can use Formidable Pro to create FAQs, Listings, Classifieds, Polls, Surveys etc and display your form using shortcode anywhere in a post or a page.
• Gravity Forms: This plugin allows you to publish great looking forms in a matter of minutes. Just select the fields you want in your forms, configure the layout option and embed it in your site. The built in tools in Gravity Forms plugin allow you to do all this very easily.
• Form Maker: This modern and advanced tool for creating WordPress forms gives you a granular control over the design of your form right from the fonts to colors to the layout of the fields. All can be designed from within the plugin itself to match the look and feel of your website. No need for expert graphic designers or any technical know-how  The Form Maker generates all the code and can generate simple to complex forms in a jiffy. The form maker plugin comes in a free and commercial version. Commercial version also allows you to add Google maps functionality to your forms and has lots of other great features.
• Fast Secure Contact Form: As the name says this plugin allows a website owner to add a secure contact form to a website in a fast way. The fast secure contact form will let the user send emails to a site’s admin, and also send a meeting request to talk over phone or video. The admin panel allows the webmaster to monitor and check the form submissions as well as create new forms.

Conclusion:

Forms are an essential part of any website and there is little you can do with your WordPress website (in online marketing) unless you provide interactivity, opt-in forms, build email lists, get user feedback and simply provide a means to contact you. All these are done easily using forms and as you have learned from above, WordPress has great plugins to help you create wonderful forms with ease. So from now on there is no shying away from creating new opportunities to interact with your users and make more money just because you do not know how to build forms. Hope this post helps you make the most of your website. Comments and suggestions on the post are welcome.

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Blogging as a source of residual income and freedom from 9-5 work schedule has been a dream for most of the bloggers out there, but only selected few have made it big. In this post we look at the product offerings of such top money making bloggers. Please do remember there might be other sources of income besides these products. But if it is something unique that they are up to we’ll cover that up as well. There is no particular order in which we will be covering the bloggers but we’ll try to cover as many successful bloggers who have a product and has made it big in the online income arena.

1. Problogger.net

Problogger.net was started back in 2002 when Darren Rowse accidentally stumbled across an article on ‘Blogging’. Life has never been the same for him after it. Within 24 hours of reading the article – he started his own blog, where he shared his experiences on blogging, life, pop-culture, spirituality and many other topics. This was just a start. The impetus provided by pleasure of blogging prompted him to venture out more in the space of blogging and he started many new blogs. The focus was now to make a full time living with blogging. And take my words for it he has done it so successfully that he’s now not online making a very good amount of money but also has earned a great reputation amongst the bloggers and is considered as a thought leader in this domain.

Products of Problogger.net

Over the period of time Darren Rowse has created many e-books and blog training programs which he sells from his website. Here are the details:

• Blogging for dollars – do you have what it takes?

According to Darren:Whether you’re just starting out or have been blogging for years, learn from two professional bloggers how to turn your passion for blogging into extra revenue or possibly a rewarding career.

This is not a get-rich-quick book, but rather a practical guide to creating and marketing a blog with the potential for generating a six-figure income.

This book is available from Amazon.com and Barnes & Nobles.com

You can also get a free sample chapter by providing your details on the books order page. Paperback edition of this book is available at Amazon.com for $14.99

Besides this book Darren Rowse and the team at Problogger.net also publishes a set of 6 resources to make your blog successful. These are basically workbooks and ebooks which are sold both individually and as a bundled package. Listed below are the details of the resources and the package as a whole:

31 Days to Build a Better Blog

It is a downloadable e-book designed to help you revitalize your blog by giving you 31 tasks that will all help to turn it into the page view powerhouse you’ve always dreamed of. Each day in the project contains: A Task – something to DO that day. Teaching – each day you’ll be given great instruction on both the WHY and HOW of the task of the day.

ProBlogger’s Guide to Your First Week of Blogging

This eBook is jam packed with practical activities and exercises to do in your first week to make sure your blog is heading in the right direction. Broken down into 7 days there are actually a total of 32 achievable tasks that will not only get your blog going but that will help you develop the skills you need to achieve your potential as a blogger.

ProBlogger’s Guide to Blogging for Your Business

Written by Mark Hayward – a successful business owner, activist, and blogging coach – the guide takes readers step by step through how to set up a blog, thinking through goals for a blog, developing a content strategy, finding readers and growing traffic, establishing and growing a social media footprint and much more. Practical tasks at the end of each of the 12 chapters let you implement Mark’s mentoring in a way that suits your business, and your customers.

Blog Wise: How to Do More with Less

If you have a blog and understand the basics but are struggling to find time, motivation or focus – Blog Wise is for you. It consists of interviews of successful bloggers like Heather Armstrong from Dooce, Brian Clark from CopyBlogger, Abby Larson from Style Me Pretty, Leo Babauta from Zen Habits, Gretchen Rubin from the Happiness Project, Darren Rowse from ProBlogger and Digital Photography School – and more. These bloggers juggle a lot – but they get things done and will give you insight into what it takes to run a successful blog but also how to use your time effectively.

Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers

This scorecard resource is designed to help you analyze the most important elements of your content to make sure they’re engaging, readable, professional and optimized for search engines. It’s the ideal resource for all bloggers who are just starting out and want to learn the basics of SEO or those who’ve been at it a while but want to grow their search engine traffic.

The Blogger’s Guide to Online Marketing

The Blogger’s Guide to Online Marketing—31 Steps to a Profitable Blog is a comprehensive, 31 chapter blueprint for your blog’s ongoing profitability – right from the ground up.This kit was developed by experienced online marketer – Shayne Tilley (the Web Marketing Ninja) – the guy who does marketing on ProBlogger products and those at Darren’s other blog – Digital Photography School.

All these resources are clubbed together at a package and it is offered at a fabulous discount of 40%. So what are you waiting for grab a copy from problogger.net now.

2. Johnchow.com

John Chow one of the biggest names in money making online shot to fame when he showed his online money making prowess by starting from scratch and reaching a whopping $40,000 per month and that too in just two years and working only two hours per day.

He also authored a book Make Money Online: Roadmap of a Dot Com Mogul, which rocketed to #1 on Amazon.com within the first week of release. He has written many other books and runs one of the biggest money making blogs in the world.  Johnchow.com has around 200k active daily readers and his blog tops the Canadian Internet Marketing Blogs.

Products of Johnchow.com

Make Money Online: Roadmap of a Dot Com Mogul
Priced at $10.68 for the paperback edition this book has a lot to offer for the blogger right from the newbie to the expert. As John Chow describes:

They may have once been the realm of personal online diaries, but blogs have quickly become just as legitimate and influential as mainstream newspapers and magazines. Did you know that you can make a very healthy income from blogging? Do you want to make five figures every month? I can show you how.

My name is John Chow and my personal blog consistently makes over $40,000 a month. In this book, I describe exactly how I went from earning $0 to over $40,000 a month from just a couple of hours each day. I’ll walk you through the process, step by step, uncovering all the secrets that other pro bloggers are too afraid to tell you.

What are you waiting for? Get out of the rat race and into the blogosphere!

Blogging With John Chow – ClickBank Product

Besides selling this printed books, numerous other books and clickbank products – one of the latest product from John Chow is a Clickbank Product which can be bought from the website http://www.bloggingwithjohnchow.com/

At the start of promotional video embedded on this page John Chow personally asks you to forget everything about the blogging business because he’s going to teach you an ultimate blueprint to succeed in this fiercely competitive blogging world where it will take more than a mere blogging expertise to survive among the millions of blogs out there all waiting to grab a pie of this online money making world.

According to him:

Because I have successfully created a blueprint which has helped me rake in a five-figure monthly income from just 2 hours of work a day

Because the most amazing part is that you can start as early as today, even if…

•                 You have no website or blog
•                 You have no technical knowledge
•                 You have no time to blog
•                 You have no expertise in your niche

Look, most people will have you fooled into thinking that making money online through blogging is difficult and complicated.

Most people also think that they do not have the knowledge to provide content and that blogging is time consuming.

But in truth, it’s not.

 He’s even going to show you a real-life example of how with zero blogging experience you too can:

• Discover how my simple blog generates over $40,000 every single month
• Create blogs earning thousands of dollars every month, thanks to the industry’s best-kept secret
• Learn the 7 biggest secrets which guarantees success in any niche you blog in
• Achieve success in blogging using a simple PROVEN step-by-step blueprint
• Building a blogging empire earning over $523,477 a year (with minimal effort)
• Get started with your very own blog in a few short clicks.
• Sell your 6 month old blogs for 5 figure paydays.

This Blogging With John Chow is available for clickbank at 37$. If you are interested click on this link and you could learn more and be on the path to your blogging success.

3. Shoemoney.com

Jeremy “ShoeMoney” Schoemaker (born May 31, 1974) started Shoemoney.com in 2003 and took his ringtone community company, Next Pimp, to the next level. With this blog  he also started making more money online in one month than I had made throughout his  ten-year career. Actually, a photo of his with a check for $130,000 (his one-month earnings from Google AdSense) is one of the most linked to pages on his blog.

The road to success in money making online niche was not a cakewalk for Jeremey as he himself describes his testing times:

Then the dotcom crash came along, I spent every last dime to pay web hosting bills, and to the real world I headed working for different banks and big corporations. It never ended well and I was fired from every job. At the age of 28, I found myself overweight (about 420 lbs.), $50k in debt, smoking two packs of cigarettes a day, and sleeping on my friend’s couch. I was in a real mess, but part of me said this was all I should expect from life. And I was okay with that!

But he kept faith and continued the struggle and the rewards were more than overwhelming.

Products of Shoemoney.com

Shoemoney does not have a product as such but makes most of his money from advertising which is adsense and affiliate marketing. Another product of Shoemoney.co is the Shoemoney Marketplace where it accepts listing from third party providers as also his own products for a fees of 75$ and add 25$ to it if you want it to be featured.

4: Dailyblogtips.com

Dailyblogtips.com was started by Daniel Scocco who has lived and studied in several places around the world, including Italy, Chile and Brazil. After receiving a degree in International Economics and working for one year in a multinational company, he decided to pursue entrepreneurial projects on the Internet. He started developing blogs and websites in 2005, and Daily Blog Tips is the place where he shares what he learned along the way.

Daniel has also provided consulting services for many companies and organizations (including the United States federal government), and he is the owner of Daily Writing Tips, a blog focused on grammar, punctuation and spelling tips.

Products of Dailyblogtips.com

Daily blog tips is mostly a service oriented blog which earns a major share of its income through advertisement money. However the interesting thing to note is how he builds his emailing list. We’ve seen many bloggers offer free daily tips, blogging based, money making based ebooks and giving freebies, discount coupons but how dailyblogtips.com stands apart from the crowd is that it gives 16 free professional wordpress themes for download to everyone who subscribes to his mailing list along with the newsletter – as stated on his website:

Sign-Up To Our Newsletter and Download All 16 Themes
If you want to download our WordPress themes, all you have to do is to sign-up to the Daily Blog Tips newsletter. It is completely free, and you will receive tips and tricks to promote your blog, the latest trends and opportunities on the Web, online tools and so on. Don’t worry, we just send emails when we have something useful to share. You can also unsubscribe anytime if you don’t like it. Simply put your name and primary email address on the form below:

The form can be accessed by clicking on this link.

If you are curious about the themes that come free, here is a short description about them the full details and images are available on the link above.

Vistalicious

Vistalicious is a clean WordPress theme with two columns and a green flavored background. It is advertising ready, comes with an “About” section on the header and with a custom made image for the RSS feed.

DeepBlue

DeepBlue is an elegant, two column WordPress theme. It is advertising ready, and it comes with several advanced featured, including Feedburner integration, author comment styling and search engine optimization.

StudioPress

StudioPress is a clean, AdSense-ready WordPress theme. It supports widgets and it comes with alternate comments styling and a customizable “Welcome” section on the sidebar.

StudioPress Green

StudioPress is a clean, AdSense-ready WordPress theme. It supports widgets and it comes with alternate comments styling and a customizable “Welcome” section on the sidebar.

StudioPress Orange

StudioPress is a clean, AdSense-ready WordPress theme. It supports widgets and it comes with alternate comments styling and a customizable “Welcome” section on the sidebar.

StudioPress Red

StudioPress is a clean, AdSense-ready WordPress theme. It supports widgets and it comes with alternate comments styling and a customizable “Welcome” section on the sidebar.

Corpvox

Among all our WordPress themes, Corpvox is one of the cleanest. It is ideal for bloggers that don’t want to clutter their site, while letting the user focus on the content. It comes with Gravatars support.

Decker

Decker is a traditional looking WordPress theme, with two columns and a 300×250 AdSense unit integrated on top of the sidebar. It comes with a sectioned footer where you can place your links, blogroll and so on.

DarkZen

DarkZen comes with a dark header and a gray background, packed on a minimalist design. It is advertising ready, and it already comes with social bookmarking icons integrated.

BlueSensation

BlueSensation is a clean and live WordPress theme. It has a large content column on the left, and a single sidebar, which already comes with 125×125 advertising spots.

Daily32

Daily32 is a sharp looking WordPress theme with three sub-headers and three sub-footer sections to accomodate all your links and special content. It is advertising ready and it comes with Feedburner integration. On the download you will also find the PSD file and necessary fonts to change the header image.

PassionDuo Red

The PassionDuo theme has a clean style, rounded corners, space for advertising and a lot of room for your content. It is advertising ready and it comes with Feedburner integration and comments styling.

PassionDuo Blue

The PassionDuo theme has a clean style, rounded corners, space for advertising and a lot of room for your content. It is advertising ready and it comes with Feedburner integration and comments styling.

PassionDuo Green

The PassionDuo theme has a clean style, rounded corners, space for advertising and a lot of room for your content. It is advertising ready and it comes with Feedburner integration and comments styling.

SubtleZen

SubtleZen is a minimalist WordPress theme with a calm background and subtle titles and headlines. It is ideal for bloggers looking for a simple layout which lets the visitors focus on the content.

GreenTech

GreenTech is a classic WordPress theme, with a cream background and details in brown and green. It is advertising ready, supports widgets and it comes with author comments and Feedburner integration.

5. Smartpassiveincome.com

Smartpassiveincome.com is one of the successful money making blogs which earns a considerable amount of money from selling products. Though most of the income this blog owned by Pat Flynn generates is via affiliate sales, but he continues to keep adding product to his income generating resources and thereby has multiple sources of income to bank upon.

On how Pat created his first product he writes:

when I wasn’t sleeping or on the train (or sleeping on the train), I was in front of my computer writing a study guide for the LEED exam in Microsoft Word. 4 to 8 hours a day (on top of work and travel) were dedicated to making this guide amazing, organized, and beautiful. I slept more on the train than I did at home, but I was excited.

My goal was to create the guide that I wish I had when I was first studying for the exam back in early 2007.

This eventually led to the creation of his first product.

Products of SmartPassiveIncome.com

Let Go – Book By Pat Flynn

The Kindle edition of this book is sells for about 2.75 $ on Amazon.com. The book was published on April 18, 2013. In this book Pat details his journey from scratch to where he is now and the obstacles faced by him along with what kept him motivated enough to reach his goals As described at Amazon:

In Let Go, Pat reveals the inside story of his transformation into one of today’s most beloved thought leaders in the areas of Internet business, online marketing, and lifestyle entrepreneurialism. He shares the challenges and feelings he faced as he pieced together what has become a thriving online enterprise.

If you share Pat’s impulse to pursue your own path, then you’ll enjoy reading Let Go. After all, we all must confront the same risky idea if we are to unlock our true potential: letting go.

Pat Flynn’s Let Go is available on other platforms as well like Snippet and Nook by Barnes & Nobles.

GreenExamAcademy.com

This is another product of Pat Flynn where he sells study guides and practice exams on LEED Exam.  The study guides are available for:

• LEED GREEN ASSOCIATE
• LEED BUILDING DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION (BD+C)
• LEED INTERIOR DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION (ID+C)
• LEED BUILDING OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE (O+M) Exams.

Products of Pinchofyum.com:

Tasty Food Photography Ebook

This $19 eBook presents a fresh outlook on how to photograph food. Since the improvements in technology and it becoming more affordable – Lindsay experimented with various techniques and shares her learning in this amazing ebook. This ebook helps in:

• Technical tips
• Composition tips
• Lighting tips
• Props and set up tips
• Editing Tips
• General Workflow

About Food Photography.

7.  CopyBlogger.com 

The undisputed leader in content authorship, examples, sample writeups, guidance, content related consultancy and much much more – Copybloggerhas been a hit with readers since its inception. After considering various business models they’ve finally come up with a product.

Since January 2006, Copyblogger has been teaching people how to create killer online content. Not bland corporate crap created to fill up a company webpage. Valuable information that attracts attention, drives traffic, and builds your business.
These days, that’s called content marketing. Copyblogger founder Brian Clark has been building businesses with online content marketing since 1998, before anyone used that term.
Copyblogger started as a simple one-man blog. Today, Copyblogger Media is a software and training organization with well more than 100,000 customers — and it was all done with useful content, smart copywriting, and solid products and services.

Product of Copyblogger.com:

Scribe:

According to Copyblogger Scribe is the Ultimate Optimization Tool come for $97 and provides :

• Empowered Online Marketing
• Smarter Content Creation
• More Social Sharing
• Higher Search Rankings

Scribe shows you the language the audience prefers when searching and discussing on social networks, before you begin to create content. Once your content is created, Scribe reveals other profitable topics and keyword phrases. It analyzes your content, and tells you exactly how to gently tweak it for better search engine rankings.  Finally  it helps crosslink your content to increase usability and time on site, identify websites for guest writing, strategic alliances, and link building, and locate social media users who’ll want to share your content.

8. Leavingworkbehind.com:

Tom Ewer is a regular guy who was desperate to get out of that 9-5 grind and get himself an online business that gives him to earn while live his life to the fullest. He is one guy that earns most of his online income from freelance writing. Over the years he has learned a lot about how to write for online media, affiliate marketing and making money online. In his words:

You see, when I started my freelance career I was a total wet in the ear newbie.

• I was not a great writer (I’m still not).
• I was concerned that people wouldn’t pay me.
• I didn’t know how to market my writing services.
• I didn’t know how to get clients (not even to mention reliable, high-paying clients).
• I didn’t know how to set and negotiate fees.
• I didn’t know how to deal with clients.

In short, I was totally clueless about all things freelance writing.

This prompted him to work tirelessly and document his experience into a product which is now one of  the bestsellers for those who want to pursue freelance writing as a career option.

Product of Leavingworkbehind.com:

Successful Freelance Writing Online : How to Generate a Full Time Income in Part Time Hours from Blogging

This 19.99$ ebook is power packed and offers much more than advice on freelance writing.

• 150 Page PDF Book. A complete guide to freelance blogging.
• Blogs That Pay. A booklet containing 45 blogs that will pay you to write for them.
• Two Checklists. Step-by-step instructions for creating your freelancing blog and for writing blog posts.

The Guide + Resources + Exclusive Interviews & Articles ($29.99)

This upgraded version offers:

• 150 Page PDF Book. A complete guide to freelance blogging.
• Blogs That Pay. A booklet containing 45 blogs that will pay you to write for them.
• Two Checklists. Step-by-step instructions for creating your freelancing blog and for writing blog posts.
• What Next? A Guide to Taking Your Freelance Career to the Next Level. Interviews with seven top freelancers.
• Five Exclusive Articles. Featuring tips on maximizing your income, increasing your rates without having to negotiate with clients and more.

Conclusion:

The top bloggers have their own ways of making money, creating a successful product and launching in on various affiliate marketing channels and online book stores is just one of them. There are lots and lots of other methods and many other blogger that we are going to cover over the next few months in this post. Do feel free to contact us if you want to get featured in this list.

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