User Guide
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Write a Blog. Make Money
What is a blog?
What do I write about?
How much and how often should I write?
How much money can I make?
Refer Others. Make More Money
How ELSE can I promote my blog?
Google Adsense
Getting Started
Writing Tips
This seems like hard work
Is this a scam?
Write a Blog. Make Money.
There are millions of people who want to work from home but don't know how.
There are millions of people who know how to write.
There are millions of people who know how to write, but don't know how to make money with it.
We KNOW how to make money with content people write.
This site was designed to allow YOU to write content which WE will market and we will ALL make money.
We'll make the money for you!
It's FREE to join and to write.
Then, we split the money, 50/50. Not only that but we'll also place your ads on the blogs of people you refer to BlogBurner.
So here's how it works:
- You create an account with us.
- You create an account with Google Adsense.
- You login and write content to your "blog" on our site.
- You try to write as often as you can.
- We publish your content to our site.
- We serve ads on the pages that have your content.
- Half the time you make money on the ads. Half the time we do.
It's really that simple.
What is a Blog?
The word blog is short for "web log".
It's an easy and convenient way for you and I to publish content to the internet.
It's also an easy way for other people to read the content you and I write.
In fact, if you write a good blog (good, useful, interesting information), you'll get people returning often to your blog to read what you write.
The more visitors you get, the more money you'll make.
Write a good, useful, informational blog. You'll make money.
What do I write about?
That's a good question.
First, let me tell you what you may not do:
You MAY NOT copy and paste articles from other places!!! If you do, I will ban you from the site and will delete your posts. You will waste a lot of time and effort.
Second, what you should do:
You should write about what you know. Write about whatever you're an expert at.
For example, you might be an expert at:
- Horse riding
- Child care
- Roofing
- Soccer
If you can't think of anything you're an expert at, think of something you enjoy or are good at.
Maybe:
- Running
- Baseball Collecting
- Electronics
- Home Theatre systems
- Movies
- Decorating
- Accounting
- Plumbing
- Religion
- Jewelry
If you're still struggleing to find something to write about, write about something you deal with every day.
You could write about:
- Diabetes
- Kids
- Cars
- Sports
- Office life
- Computers
- Yard work
The reality is, you can write about anything.
It's your blog, write about multiple subjects! You don't have to stick to just one thing.
The main thing in deciding what to write about is to pick something you know enough about (or want to know enough about) to be able to write about it often. You also want to write things that are going to be helpful to others.
You should write facts, opinions, observations, reviews, anything you can think of. You can be controversial, you can be plain Jane.
Here are some tips for when choosing what to write about:
- Narrow it down to something specific. Don't write about Sports. Write about Baseball. Or, better yet, write about little league baseball.
- Write about something that you're going to be able to constantly find new information for. In order to make money writing, you need to write often. If you chose a subject that you can only write three times about, you're going to have a hard time making a lot of money.
- Write about something you like. Write about something you love. If you don't, you'll get tired of it and you'll stop writing.
- Everyone is an expert at something! Find it!
Also, you don't always have to stick to the same topic on the same blog. Feel free to write about whatever is important to you that day, or whatever is on your mind, or something you learned today.
Whatever it is, JUST WRITE IT.
Lastly, what you SHOULDN'T write about:
- Pornography
- Drugs
If you do, we'll just remove it.
How much & how often should I write?
As often as you can!
First, let me tell you how MUCH you should write.
The blog posts (articles) you write should be between 200-500 words on average. They don't have to be. An article could be a sentence. It could be a few pages. But on average, they should be between 200-500 words.
The key here is that the more you write, the more web visitors you will get on your site. Writing 200-500 words at a time means you write often.
Visitors = Money
I know, I know...You want to know exactly how often to write.
To that I say:
Write AT LEAST once every day.
You don't have to...but that's what we've found from our experience to generate the most revenue.
If you can't, write every other day.
If that's not possible, write once per week.
Just write as often as possible.
Remember, this is a "work" from home opportunity. It's not a "be lazy" from home and make a billion dollars thing. You actually have to write to make money.
If you write one new article/blog entry every day you won't have any trouble getting visitors to your blog or making money.
If you want to write more than once each day, go for it. I know that some of you are going to be sooooo excited about this new opportunity that you're going to want to write 10 articles the first day.
Go ahead.
Just make sure you post often. That's it.
How much money can I make?
This is a tough question.
- $350/month?
- $1,000/month?
- $3,000/month?
The answer is... It Depends!!!
I mean, really it depends on how often you write and what you write about and how well written your articles are.
The reality is that if you write every day for a year (or, almost every day), there's no reason why you shouldn't be making more than $1,000US EACH MONTH.
The best part is, this is perpetual, passive income. Once you've written the content, it's there permanently making you money. You don't have to do anything to make money after that.
If you do it for a few years, it's totally conceivable that you be making more than $10,000US each month doing it.
If you just do it for a few months, you'll certainly make extra money. It's just hard to forsee how much.
There's no way for us to guarantee how much money you'll make for writing because some people will write better, more useful stuff than others. If you write junk, you're not going to make very much. If you write good stuff, you're going to make more.
Create Your Blog
GET PAID WHEN YOUR FRIENDS BLOG!
By building your referral network you can make a substantial amount of money off other people's blogs. Be sure to login to "my account" and refer as many people as you can through our tell-a-friend service. Not only can you get paid when you refer a friend but you can also get paid when that friend refers a friend. Check out Refer Others Make More Money for more information.
READ THIS:
I have a good friend who has been writing an electronics blog for a three and a half months now. He does a little research on electronics to write about and to review for others. He'll probably make about $3,000US this month from that blog. He writes EVERY day.
If you devote 20 minutes each day to writing a well written article you should be making a few hundred extra dollars each month in no time.
If you stick with it and do it for a year or more, you should be making a few thousand extra dollars each month.
Do it for a few years...who knows, maybe tens of thousands of dollars each month.
How can we say this? How can we purport that you're going to make soooooo much money just by writing? Because we do.
Refer Others. Make More Money.
When we got to thinking about how we could help people make more money, we realized that if we gave users of BlogBurner.com a chance to make more money by referring others to the site, they'd probably make a TON more.
Why?
Because EVERYONE knows SOMEONE (ok...really...lots of people) who is struggling financially and could use more money.
Plus, for as little effort as BlogBurner.com takes to get started, and for the potential to make so much money, why not tell your friends about it so they can make money too!
So, here's what we'll do if you refer your friends:
We'll place your ads on their blog 10% of the time Not only that, but we値l place your ads on the blogs of people they refer 7% of the time and then we値l place you ads on the blogs that those people refer 3% of the time. This multi-tiered ad placement program enables you to have your ads spread out across thousands of blogs meaning you could make BIG BUCKS! All you have to do is refer, write, refer, write and refer some more!
So How Do I Get Started?
On your "my account" page there is a link to our 鍍ell-a-friend? service. All you need to do is enter a name and email and we値l do the rest. Your referral code is tracked back to BlogBurner meaning we値l begin to place your ads immediately on the blogs of people you refer.
Now, just referring people isn't enough. They actually have to write content. If you refer people and they don't write in their blogs, you're not going to make any money off their blogs because their blogs won't make any money. However, if you refer a lot of people, or good people, and they end up making a lot of money, you could make a killing.
So it's important that you take care of the people you refer. You have a financial incentive that they write often and well.
Imagine: You refer 10 people. Let's say that half of them sign up and start writing. In a year each of them is making $1,000 per month. That means you're making an extra $500 per month WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING and that痴 just the first referral tier!
If you referred 20 people who referred 20 people who referred 20 people, you would have your ads spread across over 8,000 blogs. Imagine the revenue potential! All you have to do is use the tell-a-friend service found on your 杜y account? page, write in your own blog and we値l do the rest for you.
There is only one condition we want to put on this: You have to be actively writing in your own blog at least once per week to be eligible to make money off friends you refer.
Do you like this program? Do you not?
Let us know.
How ELSE can I promote my blog?
So you want to promote your blog, huh?
I have gotten soooo many requests from people for information on how they can get more visitors to their blog that I put this page together.
I'm hoping some of you will add your own $.02 to this.
Why would you want to promote your blog?
- To get more visitors to your blog.
- To get the search engines to see your content quicker.
- To earn more money on BlogBurner.com.
- Because you write really important stuff that you want others to see.
So, here's a list of ways to promote your blog: (these REALLY work)
1. Add your blog to your email signature
Every email program has a way for you to add a signature at the bottom.
The signature I use for email I send is:
--
John
http://www.jonasblog.com
That way, every person I ever send an email to knows that I have a blog and they know where they can read it.
You should add this to your signature.
Just add your blog url which is something like this:
http://www.blogburner.com/blog/YOUR_USERNAME
to the bottom of all your emails by adding a signature.
Simple.
2. Participate in forums/newsgroups
I guarantee there is a forum/newsgroup/online community for whatever topic you're writing about.
Participate in it!
Also, add your blog url to your signature there too. If you're participating in forums, add your blog url to your signature. It's an easy, unobtrusive way to promote your blog. Trust me, it works.
Also, by participating in forums that are related to your topic, you establish your self as an expert in that area.
Make sure you don't spam the forums!
Contribute useful content and this will be immesureably helpful to your success.
Just get involved.
3. Get links to your blog
Why?
Because search engines love sites/blogs that other people are linking to.
So how do you do this?
Email other webmasters and ask them to link to your blog. Tell them you'll link to them if they do, then put a link on your blog to their website.
That's one of the easiest ways.
We're working on this for you, but there's no way we can get links to everyone's blog.
4. Make comments on other peoples blogs
This goes right along with #2, where you participate online at other sites in your topic.
Read other blogs that aren't on blogburner.com. Expand your horizons a little.
When you make a comment on someone elses blog, that comment almost always allows you to link back to your own blog.
Once again, write useful comments.
DONT do comment spam!!!
5. Read other peoples blogs and write about them
Again, back to #2.
The strategy here is that when you write on your blog about something someone else has written about, add a link in your blog post back to their blog.
Bloggers notice who is linking to them and they will often see that you linked to them, come to your blog and read it, and go back to their blog and post another entry about the topic, but this time they'll also link to you.
You can get lots of traffic this way.
6. Use your keywords when you link to your blog
If you're writing about stock trading on your blog then use keywords related to stock trading when linking to your blog.
Don't do it all the time, and don't always use the same keyword, but do it sometimes.
7. Write Good, Useful Content
When a user finds your blog, if you have written a bunch of garbage, they're not likely to come back.
Write content that people want to read. Be informative.
People talk.
People tell their friends about sites that are good.
Blogging is viral...when it's well written.
8. Write often
There is no better way to promote your blog than to write lots and lots of content.
If you write often, you'll get more visitors.
Guaranteed!
Write as often as you can and try to stay near the same topic.
Conclusion
I know there are more ways to promote a blog. I know some of you have other ways that I didn't mention here.
I want to hear about them. If you have other suggestions, make a comment. I read the comments.
The more each person promotes their own blog, the more every other person is going to make also (long, complicated, search engine story...)
Google Adsense
You need to create a Google Adsense account so we can make you money.
First, a word about Google Adsense.
Google adsense is responsible for the ads on this site. Bloggers make money when someone else clicks the ads on their blogs. Google adsense puts those ads there.
IF you click other peoples ads just to "help them out" or to try to make money for yourself or for others, you will LOSE your adsense account. Google will disable your account and it's darn near impossible to get another one.
DON'T PURPOSEFULLY CLICK THE ADS ON THIS SITE, JUST TO MAKE MONEY. That's called click fraud, and google doesn't treat click fraudders lightly.
That being said...How to sign up for adsense: They'll want to know your primary url (website). Put http://www.blogburner.com unless you have your own website somewhere else and want to put that as your primary url.
Creating an account is simple enough. Just click here:
and click the "Click here to apply" button in the middle of the page.
Google will want to know some personal information about you (so they know where to send the checks when you make money).
We only need one piece of information from your Google Adsense account. You can get this info by logging in to adsense and clicking on the "My Account" tab.
Then scroll to the bottom of the page where you'll find a section called "Property info".
Copy the "Adsense for Content" publisher Id (it looks like ca-pub-8094657240319059).
Then login to your account on this site (BlogBurner.com) and click on "my account". On that page click the "Edit" tab near the top, and then on the "Adsense Information" link near the top. Paste your publisher Id into the box and hit submit.
Once we have your publisher Id, we can start serving ads on your blog. You'll start making money.
Note: If you see both types of Google publisher Id, ignore the AdSense for Search. Use only the AdSense Code for Content.
Getting Started
This is easier and more profitable than you think!
It's FREE!
You have no obligations if you choose to use the site. No contract. No requirement. Nothing.Here's how this site works:
- You write articles/blog entries on ANY subject you want.
- Each time you write you should be writing between 100-500 words (between a paragraph and a page in length).
- It shouldn't take you very long (10-30 minutes each time).
- You can write anything you want (reviews, facts, opinion, reporting, thoughts, ...). You should try doing all of them.
- To maximize your earnings, you should write each day.
- We will get visitors reading what you write.
- We will get ads on the pages. We'll both make money off the ads.
- We don't know how much money it will be, but we can tell you it will be a significant amount. Probably much more than you're currently making from whatever job you have.
- All you have to do is write to make money. We'll do the rest.
To get started making money you need to do 3 things:
- Create a Google Adsense account and tell us your publisher ID.
- Create an account on this site.
- Write in your blog.
Writing Tips
Here's where we give you some tips to help us with our marketing.
When you write your in your blog, you should have a topic in mind each time you write. For example, if you're going to write about insurance, or, more specifically, term life insurance, you should keep those keywords (term life insurance) in mind as you write.
You should include those keywords in the title of your post.
You should include those keywords in the body of your post.
You may want to underline (done like this when you write), bold, or italicize those words in your article.
These tips will help get the search engines to send more visitors to the stuff you write.
Things you MAY not do:
- Copy other peoples articles. Everything you write and post on our site must be your own writing. Our website will include a duplicate content checker that will check for when people copy other peoples writings and post them to our site. If you do this, we'll immediatly ban you from using this site.
- Overload your articles with keywords. This is called keyword stuffing. This is when you repeat over and over and over again the same keywords unnecessarily. We won't do anything to you for doing it, but the search engines are REALLY good at figuring this out and they will actually punish you for doing it. They WON'T send visitors to your pages if you do this.
- Post non-sensical writings. Everything you write needs to make sense. While we won't review every article that is submitted, we'll review a lot of them. If we find someone doing something they shouldn't do, we'll ban them.
In other words, just be sensical. Don't do anything dumb and we we'll be very fair with you. We also won't be super strict about stuff. If you are trying to be a normal person, and you mess up once, we'll forgive you. But if we can tell you're purposely trying to abuse the system, we'll do everything we can to prevent you from using our service.
Just have fun, be honest, and make money.
This seems like hard work
Really?
Maybe you should go try an MLM or Network Marketing company. They'll promise you'll make gazillions of dollars for doing nothing.
This isn't hard work, but it is work.
You can't make money from doing nothing. Such a thing doesn't exist.
Maybe you should look at the Google ads on the right side of this page. They probably are full of ways to "make" money. Maybe they even advertise that you'll make $300/hour. Go check them out. I'm sure what they're telling you to do is amazingly easy. The problem is that they just don't work. Most of them are scams.
What we're asking you to do is take 20-30 minutes each day and write 100-500 words. That's anywhere from a paragraph to a page in length.
What we're telling you is that if you do it you're going to make a pretty descent perpetual income from it.
Is this a scam?
Maybe.
But you won't know until you try it.
This is one of the most difficult things to do on the internet.
Build Users Trust
Right now the only pieces of reassurance that I can offer you that help you know this is for real are:
- You may be on my mailing list. From that you might already trust me.
- It's free. This will never cost you anything. The only thing it will cost is a little time.
- It's free. LOL
- There are no contracts. You're not bound to us at all. You haven't given us any personal information or any money. We have nothing on you.
- You'll know pretty quickly once your blog starts getting visitors whether or not it's a scam. All you'll have to do is login to your Google Adsense account and see if you're making any money.
You can email me if you'd like. See if I respond. john AT BlogBurner DOT com (not written out so I don't start getting spam).