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accessories blog
If you are a professional blogger, say you’re a corporate blogger or you’re blogging for a blog network and you’re one of those who can’t get past the stage of using some blog accessories you’ve always enjoyed during your younger personal blogging days, you can still have some fun and ”earn some money” if you do it with moderation.Â
Here are some blog accessories bloggers who are making money online with their blogs can make use of without turning off their readers:Â Â
Clean and Easy to Navigate Blog Layout
There are thousands of free Wordpress themes and Blogger templates out there that you can choose from. But how do you know which assist you in your endeavor to increase your blog profits? Select a blog template that is cool - to the eye that is. White background and lots of space is still the fad if you want your visitors to enjoy reading your blog. Make sure that your sidebar and blog’s body is not cluttered with too many buttons and other unnecessary blog accessories. A modern Web 2.0 touch won’t hurt either if you want your blog to look trendy.
Google Custom Search Engine
Google developed this application to make publishers/bloggers create their own DIY search engines. With it, you can either include sites that you trust or just only your site to show when your site visitors search using your custom search engine. Why would you want to use Google’s CSE in stead of the default search form that blogs’ come with? It can make you earn you some extra moolah since it has some AdSense ads. Although some bloggers have reservations on how Google CSE indexes content, it can be a nice addition to your blog especially if you collect very helpful and relevant websites to populate your CSE’s search results pages. It’s so easy to customize, too, if you have some blog layout matching requirements.
Wordpress Plugins for Mo’ Traffic Mo’ Money
Related Entries Plugin
Expert bloggers can’t emphasize more the value of making your readers enjoy your blog page after page after page. And what better Wordpress plugin can deliver that than the Related Posts plugin?
Angsuman Translator Plugin
You can’t choose what country your blog readers will come from. And that’s a good thing because the Internet’s global acceptance has made your market just so wider. However, you just have to know how to cater to all the different people with different lingos who land on your blog through any means. A translator plugin can help bridge the language barrier.
PayPal Donate Widget Plugin
If you’re tired of AdSense or AdSense got tired of you (you got banned), you can always try other monetization methods such as using Wordpress plugins that help your blog make money from PayPal donations. Patrick Chia’s PayPal Donate plugin just does that.
Buy Me a Beer Wordpress Plugin
Kotari’s Buy Me a Beer WordPress plugin is a relatively new Wordpress plugin that can make it tad easier for your readers to reward your work with some few bucks also through PayPal.
For more blog monetization plugins for your Wordpress blog, Lorelle on WordPress, the blog of the author of the Blogging Tips book, has a comprehensive list of them.
Blog Statistics Tools
No they’re not simply blog accessories. Site statistics analysis tools are more of a necessity than plain accessory. What serious blogger who wishes to make both ends meet from his blog earnings will tell you that you don’t need a stats tool at all?! No one, unless that blogger is too greedy. Sitemeter is one of the simplest and yet effective stats reporting tools around. Other traffic analysis toys for demographics checking are Google Analytics, MyBlogLog, and StatCounter. If you’d like to check out more of these addictive web apps, Hongkiat has a list of ‘em free web statistics tools.
Most Important Blog Buttons and GraphsÂ
If you are trying to make money from getting direct sponsors for your blog, placing a pagerank button and an Alexa Traffic Graph may prove to be viable steps to improve your chances as a publisher. However, you have to make sure they’re already showing something to be proud of before using them on your blog. There’s not much practicality in displaying a blank Alexa graph or a pagerank button that’s showing a PR 0, right? What do you think is one button that your blog should never go without? It’s that orange chicklet… with white graphics inside… You guessed it right! The RSS button or RSS chicklet button. It makes it way easier for your new readers to subscribe to your blog if you have it somewhere really visible such as the upper fold. Now if you’re just starting with your blog, that orange chicklet will do. But if you already have hundreds or even thousands of blog readers like CoppyBlogger’s Brian Clarke (here’s how he makes that happen), you can use FeedBurner’s RSS feedcounter graphic in stead to show that you’re doing something good that’s keeping those readers subscribed. 
Images for Making Your Blog Content Pop Out
It’s not only fun to use images, they help in making readers fall in love with your blog, too. If you don’t have Photoshop, there are online image editing tools such as Fauxto that let you customize images online.
Now if you don’t have much Photoshop skills, Image Chef Custom Images allows you to choose from a wide variety of image categories including animated, fun, friendship, license plates, signs and work. How exactly can this blog bling help you make money online? Remember that a picture paints a thousand words and if you have a cool-looking picture that you, yourself have customized, then, it may bring some more readers’ attention to your blog, right? I know how much an image can pull eyeballs to content because I, myself, has a thing for cool images. They simply bring more fun if you have extra lengthy blog posts. Just don’t forget to use a little bit of SEO on your customized images, too. Â
Personal blogs are notorious for having too much bells and whistles of blog accessories that are bordering the annoying point. But the goodness of blogging, although you’re doing paid blogging, is about the blogger’s personality shining through and if you are a blog-accessories person, then be it. It often helps in making your blog more sticky to those who can relate or get attracted to your blogging voice. Again, just don’t overdo it.
If you know any other blog accessories that gets the money a-flowing in any way, kindly spill the beans about them here. C’mon..
(http://www.floodofdollars.com)
Here are some blog accessories bloggers who are making money online with their blogs can make use of without turning off their readers:Â Â
Clean and Easy to Navigate Blog Layout
There are thousands of free Wordpress themes and Blogger templates out there that you can choose from. But how do you know which assist you in your endeavor to increase your blog profits? Select a blog template that is cool - to the eye that is. White background and lots of space is still the fad if you want your visitors to enjoy reading your blog. Make sure that your sidebar and blog’s body is not cluttered with too many buttons and other unnecessary blog accessories. A modern Web 2.0 touch won’t hurt either if you want your blog to look trendy.
Google Custom Search Engine
Google developed this application to make publishers/bloggers create their own DIY search engines. With it, you can either include sites that you trust or just only your site to show when your site visitors search using your custom search engine. Why would you want to use Google’s CSE in stead of the default search form that blogs’ come with? It can make you earn you some extra moolah since it has some AdSense ads. Although some bloggers have reservations on how Google CSE indexes content, it can be a nice addition to your blog especially if you collect very helpful and relevant websites to populate your CSE’s search results pages. It’s so easy to customize, too, if you have some blog layout matching requirements.
Wordpress Plugins for Mo’ Traffic Mo’ Money
Related Entries PluginExpert bloggers can’t emphasize more the value of making your readers enjoy your blog page after page after page. And what better Wordpress plugin can deliver that than the Related Posts plugin?
Angsuman Translator Plugin
You can’t choose what country your blog readers will come from. And that’s a good thing because the Internet’s global acceptance has made your market just so wider. However, you just have to know how to cater to all the different people with different lingos who land on your blog through any means. A translator plugin can help bridge the language barrier.
PayPal Donate Widget Plugin
If you’re tired of AdSense or AdSense got tired of you (you got banned), you can always try other monetization methods such as using Wordpress plugins that help your blog make money from PayPal donations. Patrick Chia’s PayPal Donate plugin just does that.
Buy Me a Beer Wordpress Plugin
Kotari’s Buy Me a Beer WordPress plugin is a relatively new Wordpress plugin that can make it tad easier for your readers to reward your work with some few bucks also through PayPal.
For more blog monetization plugins for your Wordpress blog, Lorelle on WordPress, the blog of the author of the Blogging Tips book, has a comprehensive list of them.
Blog Statistics Tools
No they’re not simply blog accessories. Site statistics analysis tools are more of a necessity than plain accessory. What serious blogger who wishes to make both ends meet from his blog earnings will tell you that you don’t need a stats tool at all?! No one, unless that blogger is too greedy. Sitemeter is one of the simplest and yet effective stats reporting tools around. Other traffic analysis toys for demographics checking are Google Analytics, MyBlogLog, and StatCounter. If you’d like to check out more of these addictive web apps, Hongkiat has a list of ‘em free web statistics tools.
Most Important Blog Buttons and GraphsÂ
If you are trying to make money from getting direct sponsors for your blog, placing a pagerank button and an Alexa Traffic Graph may prove to be viable steps to improve your chances as a publisher. However, you have to make sure they’re already showing something to be proud of before using them on your blog. There’s not much practicality in displaying a blank Alexa graph or a pagerank button that’s showing a PR 0, right? What do you think is one button that your blog should never go without? It’s that orange chicklet… with white graphics inside… You guessed it right! The RSS button or RSS chicklet button. It makes it way easier for your new readers to subscribe to your blog if you have it somewhere really visible such as the upper fold. Now if you’re just starting with your blog, that orange chicklet will do. But if you already have hundreds or even thousands of blog readers like CoppyBlogger’s Brian Clarke (here’s how he makes that happen), you can use FeedBurner’s RSS feedcounter graphic in stead to show that you’re doing something good that’s keeping those readers subscribed. Images for Making Your Blog Content Pop Out
It’s not only fun to use images, they help in making readers fall in love with your blog, too. If you don’t have Photoshop, there are online image editing tools such as Fauxto that let you customize images online.
Now if you don’t have much Photoshop skills, Image Chef Custom Images allows you to choose from a wide variety of image categories including animated, fun, friendship, license plates, signs and work. How exactly can this blog bling help you make money online? Remember that a picture paints a thousand words and if you have a cool-looking picture that you, yourself have customized, then, it may bring some more readers’ attention to your blog, right? I know how much an image can pull eyeballs to content because I, myself, has a thing for cool images. They simply bring more fun if you have extra lengthy blog posts. Just don’t forget to use a little bit of SEO on your customized images, too. ÂPersonal blogs are notorious for having too much bells and whistles of blog accessories that are bordering the annoying point. But the goodness of blogging, although you’re doing paid blogging, is about the blogger’s personality shining through and if you are a blog-accessories person, then be it. It often helps in making your blog more sticky to those who can relate or get attracted to your blogging voice. Again, just don’t overdo it.
If you know any other blog accessories that gets the money a-flowing in any way, kindly spill the beans about them here. C’mon..
(http://www.floodofdollars.com)
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