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Lets Think and Start a Niche Blog

Recently, I read some of the blogging books and internet blogging techniques sites, and a lot of professional blogger always propose us to write a niche blog and try to make it more on specific area and topic. This is good for the blog reader know your blog main target and topics that you will share and post in your blog. They will always come back to visit your blog to become your blog follower. They can interact with you in your niche blog through publish some comments, and share with you their own experiences on those specific topics, and no matter the comment is good or bad, but at least you know their feedback. Lets think and start a niche blog!

Professional bloggers said that most of the top 10 blogs in Technorati or other blog search engine are niche blogs and really write a lot of related good articles on it. They are not only earn a lot of money from their blog website, even they make a lot of friends who have the same interests and time to time they organize the gathering parties. Some of them become best friends after few years.

A lot of people start blogging on their personal blog first, and most of them just share their daily life activities, experiences, photos, fun and humor topics, etc. Their blog posts are really wide and not organize. They do have their own blog followers and keep visit to their blogs, or subscribe the blog feed to get latest update through blog reader tool or email. It means that they write blog is not for making money, is more to express themselves and share with their friends on various topics which he or she like. Exactly same as my blog now! I write any topics that I want, and is not a niche blog.

Why I start read those professional blogger books or websites, as I start see my blog can make some money, and although is very little, but it prove that blogging can make money, and at the same time I can share any information anytime that I like. May be you are not believe that a lot of professional bloggers can make more than USD 50,000 a year, and even some of the professional bloggers can earn more than USD 100,000 per year, and just blogging full time without go to get a 5 days 8 office hours work. Actually, your already know that you will not get money or salary if you are not working based on traditional working lifestyle. But, their life really flexible, and even without do anything, the money still come in everyday, and it will keep increasing on their income, if he or she put in extra effort on it later. They are really pro on blogging! They always mention niche blog can make more money!

In order to reach there, the professional blogger really told us that is not easy, and it will not just happen it within 1 day or 1 year. We need to do a lot of homework to source for a niche topic that we can write and non-stop (most of the people stop or lack of new posts or ideas after few months), and must be really attractive as they are thousand of similar blogs available in the Internet and already established.

So, I can’t show you that niche blog can get more traffics with more followers, then can make more money, as I never try it before. Even I try it, and only know the results after few months or years. But, this is true in the blogging world as professional bloggers already prove and share with us in their secrets of blogging books and niche blog sites. Lets think and start a niche blog! Blogging can make money that I wrote before, and just a very basic on it. You need to learn and read more on blogging techniques if you want to generate more income!

 

Niche Blog! More Followers! More Traffic! More Money!

Blogger Ads Code Converter

 

 

I am sure that you have the problem to paste Google Adsense, AdBrite, Amazon and other Ads HTML ode into your Blogger template directly, as it will prompt you an error message when you click the ‘SAVE TEMPLATE’ button to save the template, or without prompt any error but your ads didn’t show up on your blog post.

Blogger Ads Code Converter tool is a free tool that I get from Google Gadgets, and the purpose for this tool is for you to the convert “ & ” to “ &amp; ”, convert “ ' ” to “ &#039; ”, convert “ " “ to “ &quot; ”, convert “ < “ to “ &lt; ”, convert “ > ” to “ &gt; ”, and other more special characters to be used in XML documents, example Blogger template. So the Blogger Ads Code Converter can help you convert the Google Adsense, AbBrite, Amazon or other Ads html into embed xml format for you to add it into your blog posts or template, so that it will display it as normal HTML or Javascripts or CSS code when accessed by users. You can refer to below example for the Adsense HTML code converted to embed XML code format!

I call this tool is ‘Blogger Ads Code Converter’ as I am using the Blogger for my blog, but actually you can use it for other blog services as well (i.e. WordPress, TypePad). You can you use it now! :)

 

 

Example:

Original Adsense Code:-

<script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"; /* 468x60 Banner, created x/xx/xx */ google_ad_slot = "xxxxxxxxxx"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script>

Converted Adsense Code:-

<script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"; /* 468x60 Banner, created x/xx/xx */ google_ad_slot = "xxxxxxxxxx"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script>

 

 

Other Related Posts:

- Blogging Can Make Money!

- 10 Minutes Start Your Blog using Google Blogger

- Submit Full Blogger Atom Sitemap to Google, Yahoo, Bing Webmaster

 

 

Blogger Ads Code Converter! Your Blogging Needed Tool!

Blogging Can Make Money

All this while I know that writing the blog can earn money, and although I am not sure how much other people can earn, but I already earn some money since I start blogging from April 2009. I am late to join this program, and miss out a lot of opportunity. I want to share the blogging can make money tips here, so that you all can earn some money during your free time or part-time to write the blog. I can’t make sure how much you can earn per month or per year, and this is depend on your effort, but at least is a good start for you to make money at home.

If you are not sure how to start the blogging, then you can refer to my ‘10 Minutes Start Your Blog using Google Blogger’, as it proven that few of my friends just start their own blog without problem.

1. Advertisement (ads)
   • Once you have your own blog, then you can place the ads on your blog website, then once the people click on an ads or buy the product through ads then you make some extra money. If you are using Google Blogger for your blogging, then you can use the Google Adsense directly integrated with Blogger, or you can check the other ads programs like Amazon, Text Link Ads, AdBrite, WidgetBucks, LinkWorth and other more available in the Internet. You can earn money as part of eCPM for your blog as well if a lot of visitors access to your blog. Important: You need to have a PayPal account to receive the payment from some ads programs, as they pay to you through PayPal online business payment system.
2. Sell Your Pictures
   • You can upload your photo or pictures into the blog and share with the readers, and sometime they really like your pictures, then you can sell to them and make some extra money, and you can refer to Big Stock Photo.
     
3. Write some Reviews
   • If you blogs has certain popularity and has more than 3 or 6 months with 20 posts and above, then you can join the www.reviewme.com or www.payperpost.com program. You can earn the some income to review the products or services with 400 words (depend on the program requirement) post in your blog.

You can get your partner or relatives or close friends to join you and write on the same blog site and make your blog rich with contents, so that it able to attract more visitors to your blog and increase the popularity and chances for people to click on your ads and make some extra income. Remember to submit your blog URL to the Internet Search Engine, and I have a post on this ‘Submit Full Blogger Atom Sitemap to Google, Yahoo, Bing Webmaster’ to help you submit your blog url (full post list) to 3 major search engine with zero cost.

 

Blogging More! Content More! Money More!

10 Minutes Start Your Blog using Google Blogger

Today, you really can start your blog just less than 10 minutes using Google Blogger service and it is 100% free with zero cost. Why I choose the Google Blogger to host my blog? Because once you write your blog using Blogger, then Google search engine will crawl your website automatically, and you can use the Google Adsense in your Blogger blog to earn some money without any setup cost.

8 Steps to setup your Google Blogger Blog:-

1. Browse the http://www.blogger.com Google Blogger website.

2. Login your Google account (same as your Gmail login account).

3. Blogger will prompt you a screen for you to put your ‘Display Name’ and you can put your name ‘i.e. Jasswin’, and then you need to accept the ‘term and condition’.

4. Next, Blogger will prompt you a screen ‘Name your blog’, where you need to put in your Blog title and your unique Blog address (URL) (i.e. jasswin) and check is it available. If available mean that this is your own Blog URL in future (i.e. http://jasswin.blogspot.com), then you can click ‘Continue’.

5. Now you need to check your preferred Blog template. The Blogger Blog template has ‘Minima’, ‘Minima Black’, ‘Dots’, ‘Son of Moto’, ‘No. 897’, ‘Scribe’, ‘TicTac’, ‘Thisaway Rose’, ‘Snapshot’, ‘Rounders 3’, ‘Dots Dark’, ‘Sand Dollar’. You can preview the template first and choose the one you like it the most.

6.Since this is your first Blogger blog, and you don’t have other blog before then you not need to use the Advance Setup Options ‘Set Up a Custom Domain’ or ‘Import Blog Tool’. Unless you have your own blog or domain name, then you can make use of it. Please ignore if this is your first blog, then just click ‘Start Blogging’.

7. Blogger will start allow you to write the blog now. Title mean your posts tile, then bottom text box is your post content, then ‘labels for this post:’ is for you post category.

8. In the Blogger ‘Posting’, you can click the ‘Save Now’ button to save your blog as draft first, then next time you can continue it using ‘Edit Post’. ‘Publish Post’ button mean you have complete your blog and can publish to Internet now and share with people.

Congratulation! You have your personal Blog website now under Google Blogger services, and just less than 10 minutes setup. You always can come to Blogger http://www.blogger.com and login your Google account then write your own articles then publish to Internet and share with Internet users. Next you can configure the Google Adsense account and put the ads in your blog and earn some money with high eCPM or pay per click service using the Adsense Keyword Tool suggestion.

Other Blogging information that you needed:-

1. If you want your Blog website get more popularity and able to be get search by other famous Internet Search Engine like Google, Yahoo and Bing (MSN), then you can refer to this ‘Submit Blogger Full XML Sitemap to Internet Search Engine’ with detail step by step guideline to submit your Blogger website sitemap to Internet Search Engine.

2. You can use the Microsoft Windows Live Writer 2009 to write your blog in your own computer notebook without Internet access first. Then once you complete your blog then you can publish it into Blogger to Internet. This is a great free blog writer tool that non of Internet Browser able to provide every blogging functions on it (i.e. Internet browser not able to create table in Blog for Blogger). You can refer to this URL ‘Free Blog Writer – Windows Live Writer 2009 for Blogger’.

3. Choose the best and fastest Internet Browser for your own used. This is not only to save your time, and you can view your Blog using different Internet Browser to make sure all of them able to access your website without error. Based on my research, most of the people using Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, and Apple Safari. I have put some detail on it, and you can refer to this URL ‘Internet Browser Comparison Results’, and review it before download the fastest Internet Browsers using your high speed Internet service.

4. Download the Web CEO tool to submit your URL to multiple search engines, and it able to optimize your website.

Start Blogging! Start Sharing! Start Earning!

Submit Full Blogger Atom Sitemap to Google, Yahoo, Bing Webmaster

 

Top 10 in Google Search Engine 

Once you start your blogging using Blogspot (Blogger), and if you want attract more people to view and visit your blogs, then you need to learn how to submit your Blogger Blogs or Websites to famous Internet Search Engine (Google, Yahoo, Bing (MSN)) with your Blogspot full atom sitemap (atom.xml) with no cost.

Usually, this is the important key for Internet Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and submit your Blogspot full atom sitemap to Internet Search Engines to get your blogs been published and searched by Internet users.

There are few steps you need to configure in the Blogger setting before you submit your Blogger full atom sitemap to the Internet Search Engine.

1. Login to your Blogger account, then you click on the 'Settings'.
2. Go to 'Site Feed' and click on the 'Advanced Mode'.
3. Make sure 'Blog Posts Feed', 'Blog Comment Feed' and 'Per-Post Comment Feeds' are set to 'Full' and save the settings.

You know why we need to submit the full Blogger atom sitemap, rather than default atom.xml. As below example, Google only index less than 26 blogs (not all the posts) if using atom.xml, but if I use the full atom.xml then Google will index more than 26 blogs or posts.

NEXT, below show you the full xml sitemap (atom.xml) format that you will be used to submit into Internet Search Engine. You need to know how many articles (blog posts) that you wrote. How to check? You can check from your Blogger 'Dashboard', and it will show the number of posts.

1. Below 500 blog posts, then you need to use below full atom sitemap. It will keep track your 1st post till 500 posts.

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

2. If you have more than 500 posts and less than 1000 blog posts, then use below.

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500

You will ask why i can't put all in one atom sitemap, then it will be easier. But Blogger now allow you maximum max-results is 500 posts.

You can try to view your full atom sitemap first to make sure it work before you start submit your sitemap to Internet Search Engine.

Example below (you just need to change Jasswin's blogspot URL jasswin.blogspot.com to your blogger URL and try view it first):-

http://jasswin.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

So, you know what is the sitemap? Is kind like a index page to keep all your posts since day one and let the search engine to scan through every words in your blogs.

Lets start to submit your blogger atom sitemap (atom.xml) to the most famous Internet Search Engine (Google, Yahoo, Bing).


Submit sitemap to Google using Google Webmaster Tools:-

1. You need to signup the Google Webmaster Tool account using your existing Google Gmail account (same as your Blogger Google account).

2. Click to 'Add a site...' and type in your blogger URL (i.e. jasswin.blogspot.com), then it will provide you a Meta Tag that you need to put into blogger template for verification purpose. PLEASE TAKE NOTE, the Google Meta Tag is missing the ‘ / ' before end of ‘ > ', and you need to add it in the ‘ / ’manually.


3. You need to paste the Google 'Meta Tag' to your blogger account -> 'Layout' -> 'Edit HTML' -> 'Edit Template', after the ‘<head>’.


4. Once your site is verified, then you can go to 'Site configuration' -> 'Sitemaps', click on the 'Submit a Sitemap' button then paste the full atom sitemap ‘atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500’.

5. You can see the format is 'Atom Feed'.

Google Webmaster Tools will take sometime to process your sitemap and you can check it time to time till you can see the number of 'URLs submitted' and 'Indexed URLs'.


Submit sitemap to Bing (MSN) using Bing Webmaster Center:-

1. Go to Bing Webmaster Center and signup the account, if you have the hotmail account or Microsoft live user account, then you can use it.

2. You click on the 'Add a site' button, then it will prompt you to key in the 'Web address', 'Sitemap address'.

Example:-

Web Address: jasswin.blogspot.com

Sitemap Address: http://jasswin.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

 

3. Same as the above (Google Meta Tag), Bing Webmaster Center will provide you a Bing 'Meta Tag' that you need to put into your blogger template for the verification.

4. If your website is failed to authenticate, then Bing will prompt the error, then you need to make sure the step 3 is configured properly. If passed, then you will see your Blog URL in the 'Site List'.

Now, you need to wait for the Bing Webmaster Center to crawl your Blogger sitemap then people only able to search from the Bing (MSN) search engine and reach your blogs.

Submit sitemap to Yahoo using Yahoo Site Explorer:-

1. Browse the Yahoo Site Explorer and login using the Yahoo account (same as your Yahoo email account, called Yahoo! ID) once you click on the 'Submit Site Feed'.

Example:-

Submit Site Feed: http://jasswin.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

2. You put in the sitemap in the box and after you login the Yahoo Site Explorer, it will request you to add the 'Meta Tag' to your blogger template for verification. Same as above (Bing or Google) steps 3.

3. If your website is approved (verified) then you will be able to see your Blogger URL in 'My Sites'.


4. Click on the 'Feeds' to confirm your atom.xml sitemap is in the 'Feed URL' list and the 'Status' is 'new'.

Yahoo Site Explorer will not process your URL submission immediately, it is based on their best effort and you need to wait till Yahoo start crawl your Blogger and only able show in the Yahoo search engine.


There are a lot of Internet Search Engines in the world, and many SEO companies or tools will help you to drive your Blogger blogs or website into multiple online directory and Internet Search Engines. Even they will provide the professional services (SEO services) for you on how to improve your Blogs and website contents, keyword, color, design, pictures, etc in order to push your URL into TOP 10 (in search engine first page) to attract the Internet users to access your blogs or websites.