Sambil Blogging Minum Dollar

Sambil blogging minum dolar? Tidak ada yang salah dengan judul di atas. Sebagian dari kita sudah banyak yang tahu tentang make money by blogging, menghasilkan uang dari sekedar hobi ngeblog atau bahkan menjadikan ngeblog sebagai sumber penghasilan utama. Bagaimana tidak mungkin, sudah banyak para bloggers Indonesia yang sudah menghasilkan ratusan bahkan ribuan dolar per bulan berkat hobinya tersebut.

Bagaimana sebuah blog dapat menghasilkan uang?
Sebuah blog yang sukses adalah blog yang mempunyai pembaca setia dan informasi yang diberikan menarik dan bermanfaat bagi pengunjungnya. Semakin banyak pengunjung mengindikasikan semakin sukses blog tersebut. Mengapa harus demikian? Sebuah informasi tanpa pengunjung bisa dikatakan sia-sia dan tanpa pengunjung tidaklah berjalan tujuan mengkomersilkan sebuah blog. Biasanya sumber pendapatan utama sebuah blog adalah dari iklan atau menjual barang, karena itulah traffic blog yang tinggi sangat menunjang untuk mendapatkan penghasilan tersebut.

Sebuah blog yang sudah terkenal dan memiliki nama besar cenderung lebih mudah mendapatkan customer pemasang iklan. Hal ini wajar saja, mengingat setiap pemasang iklan tidak mau membuang uang dengan percuma untuk memasang iklan pada blog yang tidak populer. Namun, dengan semakin banyaknya pihak ketiga yang menjembatani antara pemasang iklan dan sebuah website atau sering disebut dengan ad networks seperti Google AdSense, kita semakin dimudahkan untuk mengkomersilkan blog kita dengan menjadi publisher dari layanan tersebut. Bahkan ini bisa dilakukan oleh sebuah blog yang belum mempunyai trafik yang tinggi. Tetapi tentu saja selama trafik kita masih rendah, penghasilan dari blog kita juga belum maksimal. Tidak hanya menjadi publisher, blog kita juga dapat menghasilkan uang dengan menjadi afiliasi dari sebuah situs e-commerce dengan menawarkan produk atau dagangan mereka melalui blog kita.

Bagaimana memulai mengkomersilkan sebuah blog?
Tentu saja kita harus mempunyai blog terlebih dahulu :). Blog ini bisa memakai nama domain sendiri dan hosting berbayar atau yang paling mudah menggunakan layanan gratisan seperti Blogger. Mulailah dengam sebuah blog dengan topik yang kita minati dan bersifat niche (bertema khusus) karena blog seperti itu biasanya akan mempunyai pembaca yang setia dan kita lebih terfokus dan enjoy dalam mengupdatenya. Setelah itu kita melakukan optimalisasi pada search engine atau lebih dikenal dengan Search Engine Optimization (SEO) dan mempromosikan blog kita. Seiring dengan itu, kita dapat mengajukan diri sebagai publisher pada salah satu ad networks seperti Google AdSense atau menjadi afiliasi dari situs e-commerce tertentu.

source : entrepreneurik.blogspot.com

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Money Making Blogging Tips you Must Have

If you are new to writing a blog, let me first explain the types of blogs available on the Internet. In general there are only two types of blogs, commercial and non commercial blogs.

Commercials blogs are like Trump University blog where it professional writers post regularly with tons of advertisements or products and services of their own, mostly created by companies not individuals. The most common type of blogs are the non commercial blogs, where people like me and you normally write on.

In non commercial blogs it can further break down into 2 different types of blogs. The first one is blogging for leisure, which means you only blog for the purpose like a personnel online diary. The second type of blog would be business blogs. Business blogs are like blogs like mine where I write this blog and update it regularly to make a living out of it.

If you are wondering can people take blogging as a profession, yes you can. And I have search on the internet there are many others just like us making money from blogging. The reason before I go into some tips to blog right, you need to understand the main role of your blog and what type of blog do you have. Different blogs have different functions to them.

Some people use blogs as a tool to get attention to their main page, some people use blogs just to talk about their personnel lifestyle and there will be some who are serious, lan and structure their post when they write in their blogs which create dollars.

Like in any business, you need to first map out what you want out of your blog before you even start posting your first post. This is very important especially at the start point of your blog when it is very new. You need to give the best impression as you can within the 1st 10 seconds of your visitors to allow them to stay longer.

A great tool that I use that is in build in almost all web hosting package is the Awstats in your cpanel.

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The longer you can keep a reader on your site, you know that your site is of some use for them. During your process when you blog, it is always good to search around for ways to get traffic and publish your blog URL.

Ways get traffic to your blog:

- Offline Marketing (Give out namecards at events)

- Forum Marketing

- PPC Marketing

- Article Marketing

- SEO Marketing

and so much more

From my experience, the best types of traffic you want to get is exchange links from other people who are in the same trade of business as you. Example, my niche is about blogging so what I would do is a Google search blogging and search for the top blogs on the Internet.

When searching a potential link exchange or Joint venture with the bloggers you would want to find two types of blogger. Let say your blog has about 500 hits a day, you can find a blog whose traffic is about the same as yours and you write an email to him to ask for a link exchange. Most likely he will be happy to help as all you need to do is post an article about his website.

The other method would be you can find those popular bloggers who know nuts about traffic and you know they have a lot so what you do you ask them for an exclusive interview with them. Remember this rule in Joint Venture, always think in the way "What is it in for him, not for you". When you write your email make sure when the person reads it, it has to benefit him all the time! The reason why, because people don't care how much you care unless you show them how much you care for them trust me this works.

Once you have managed to build a relationship via email, you would want to try to get other ways to communicate like Skype, MSN or Yahoo. To tell you the truth, many websites in fact get tons and tons of traffic FAST not from using Internet Marketing methods but from Viral Marketing or Joint Ventures!

Some great examples would be

- Do a press release (cost US$80 one time) and get published on newspaper to and create a story that is so unique it will viral itself. Have you wonder how those Gurus always get interview out of no where, it because of press release.

- Joint venture with someone very famous or has tons of traffic, if he or she likes you and your website is on the main page of his site. Expect to see a growth of traffic to your website the next day!

- Another great tip would be, buy your way to get traffic. You can go to my review me site here and what ReviewMe does is you can pay me a fix amount and I will do a review about your blog. If you really understood what I am trying to say, this is the cheapest and most effective way of getting traffic if you want to pay for it.

Why I say this is because, imagine the owner of the website itself has already build so much creditability for his own readers on this website. Would an article post review drive more traffic to your website or a banner advertisement? Think about that for a moment. I personally have tried it and on top of the traffic I get I also get tons of emails for joint ventures because the blog I advertise in was about Internet Marketing too. Even until today although it cost US$250 , there is still traffic coming in until today because the website has a PR 5 which people searching for some phrases actually still goes to that review page.

source : www.articlesbase.com

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Global Warming : Early Warning Signs

Fingerprints

Some of the events shown as icons on the map are direct manifestations of a widespread and long-term trend toward warmer global temperatures as projected by models of a changing climate.

On the map, these "fingerprints" of climate change are indicated with yellow icons.

The following events are identified as global warming fingerprints:

Heat waves and periods of unusually warm weather

The map highlights places that have recently experienced record warmth in regions with a century-long warming trend (1901-1996). Frequent and severe heat waves lead to increases in heat-related illness and death, especially in urban areas and among the elderly, the young, the ill, and the poor.

Hotspot Selection Criteria:Hotspots in this category illustrate notably warm periods or heat waves within the last few years. Candidate events were initially gathered from news reports and climate bulletins. We then looked at National Climatic Data Center (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/onlineprod/gsod/climvis/gsod.html) and NASA/GISS (http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data/update/csci/) websites to obtain the actual temperature records for the city or region to: a) verify the occurrence of the heat wave or warm period; and b) place it in the context of the longer-term temperature record. We avoided using one-day records because of the inherent probability that a maximum temperature record could be broken on any given day due to internal climate variability. Only those events that were notable either in duration or geographic extent were included. Whenever possible, periods at least as long as a month (e.g., hottest March ever on record) were chosen. We also included only those locations that fall within a region that showed a warming trend over the last century, as reported in Annex A of the IPCC�s Regional Impacts of Climate Change (1998).

Ocean warming, sea-level rise and coastal flooding

Warmer temperatures increase melting of mountain glaciers, increase ocean heat content, and cause ocean water to expand. Largely as a result of these effects, global sea level has risen 4 to 10 inches (10-25 cm) over the past 100 years. With additional warming, sea level is projected to rise from half a foot to 3 feet (15-92 cm) more during the next 100 years. On average, 50 to 100 feet (15-30 meters) of beach are lost for every foot (0.3 meters) of sea-level rise. Local land subsidence (sinking) and/or uplift due to geologic forces and coastal development will also affect the rate of coastal land loss.

Hotspot Selection Criteria: The sea-level rise (SLR) data were confirmed by published journal articles. We did not include places where there were tide gauge records of a rising sea level but no information about land inundation consequences (e.g., Buenos Aires, where the shoreline is raised/hardened and thus protected from inundation); places where there was evidence of land erosion but no SLR records (e.g., the island of Geneva and other Caribbean islands); and places where subsidence or other factors (e.g., changes in river sediment deposition) were clearly the dominating influence on land erosion (e.g., New Orleans and Victoria, Egypt). Although the inundation records for the South Pacific islands are based on anecdotal evidence from local residents, we included them because these accounts are often the best and only evidence available in these very vulnerable small island nations.

Glaciers melting

Over the past 150 years, the majority of mountain glaciers monitored have been shrinking. Many glaciers at lower latitudes are now disappearing, and scientists predict that, under some plausible warming scenarios, the majority of glaciers will be gone by the year 2100. As glaciers continue to shrink, summer water flows will drop sharply, disrupting an important source of water for irrigation and power in many areas that rely on mountain watersheds.

Hotspot Selection Criteria: The data come from published scientific articles or personal communication with researchers. In cases where individual glaciers are cited, we confirmed, based on available data, that the majority of glaciers in that region are in retreat. Many of the events were outlined in an unpublished transcript of the 1998 Walter B. Langbein Memorial Lecture at the 1998 spring meeting of the American Geophysical Union, generously provided by Dr. Mark Meier, University of Colorado.

Arctic and Antarctic warming

Parts of Canada, Alaska, Siberia, and the Antarctic have been experiencing warming well above the global average for the past few decades. This trend fits climate model predictions for a world with increasing levels of greenhouse gases. Melting permafrost is forcing the reconstruction of roads, airports, and buildings and is increasing erosion and the frequency of landslides. Reduced sea ice and ice shelves, changes in snowfall, and pest infestations have affected native plants and animals that provide food and resources to many people.

Hotspot Selection Criteria: This category includes events linked to the warming temperatures observed in parts of Alaska, Canada, Siberia, and Antarctica, as published in journal articles and technical reports. Information on the break-up of the Antarctica Peninsula ice shelves also comes from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) website. Dr. Ted Scambos at NSIDC confirmed that the disintegration events listed on the map were unusual given our current understanding of the mechanics of ice shelves. Very large icebergs calving off other Antarctic ice shelves (e.g., Ross) were not included because they are considered to be part of the �normal� calving process.

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