Free Blog Layouts

Free blog layouts are not hard to find at all. In order to be available for free, blog layouts are released under the Creative Commons License which grants you the right to use and modify the layout, provided that you keep the links included by the author in the footer intact. In case you think that you can delete the links and get away with that, then you should know that most of the times, at least for Wordpress blog layouts, the author receives an email each time somebody installs his theme for the first time. If he checks on your blog to see how you implemented that free layout and the links are not there, you got caught. So you’d better think twice in case you usually get rid of those links in the footer. Besides, leaving them there shows respect and appreciation for the author’s work: after all, you are allowed to use his work for free, so he deserves this small sign of recognition from your side.
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Buy My Blog For Fame Or Money

How many times have you heard that if you’re serious about blogging, you should treat your blog like a business? More than a couple of times, perhaps.

Sometimes, a business can start by buying an already existent business and make it grow further. If you have the money, why not skip those first years when you have to struggle for each client, for each contract, for making your way to the top? That’s the same with blogs.

That’s nothing wrong with buying an already established blog, which already has an audience and which already makes some money. But how do you evaluate a blog before buying it?
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AdGridWork: free advertising

While I was writing Free traffic for your blog I discovered another source of free traffic through free advertising, AdGridWork. Since they promise a lot of traffic, I wanted to give it a shot. Let’s see what it’s all about.

How it works?

The registration is free. You will configure a text banner (which is very easy) and it will be displayed on other sites/blogs from AdGridWork network. All you have to do to configure your ad is to complete a form with your site/blog/product details.
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Private Ads Selling: Myth Or Reality?

We’ve got a couple of questions from people wanting to know how to draw advertisers to their blogs. I suppose this question was born from reading some “advice” on high traffic blogs, that the best revenue stream for a blog is private ads selling.

Let’s put it the other way around: let’s suppose you are an advertiser: you run your own business and you want to advertise it. You agree to reinvest part of your profits back into advertising every month. This could mean that you eat less, you drink less, you don’t go to Maldives on vacation, with the sole purpose of putting that money in advertising your business.

Now think: given what I’ve just told you, would you agree to buy an ad box in my sidebar? Would you pay me $30 a month for it?

Your next question: “what are my benefits of advertising in your sidebar?” (please argue this if you think it’s wrong)

Me: well, you get all my 10000 readers per month looking at your ad, clicking on your ad and buying your product.
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Your March Earnings From Our Blogging

What does a blogger who writes about making money online do in the first day of every month?

Of course, he publishes his earnings from the previous month, so the readers see how much money he made. And most of the time, these are really hilarious. To be proud that you made $20 from AdSense last month, and in the same time to teach people how to make money from AdSense is something beyond common sense and understanding. Being remarkable and being remembered is not about trying to be what you are not, but rather about being yourself and stepping out of the crowd through the things you are and you do.
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