Hello Bloggers!

Today I am very excited, not only do I get to do another new video for you guys with my new flip mino hd camera (which I highly recommend btw) but I also get to show you and tell you about my new earnings from blogging!

As you all know my goal is and always has been to generate a full time livable income online. I don’t want to have to work my butt off to get that though, I want it to be passive income and in that regard today’s post should excite you all!

Here is a quick video explaining what I mean. 

Alright, so as you can tell from my enthusiasm in the video I am really excited about my new passive income online!

Now comes the fun part here is a screenshot of just one venue where my passive income has gone up, this is on Text Link Ads. I run TLA on about 5 sites but only 3 of them are generating revenue which is not to bad considering the ads are back logged and never shown on my front pages unless I specify for them to be.

TLA 2009 August Earnings

You may be asking yourself  how I am doing so well with TLA, many people complain about it and don’t seem to understand how to up there earnings in TLA. Well its really quite simple, it took me awhile to figure it out but in 1 month I went from $45/mo to now $125.00/mo and I’m not done tweaking yet! I am projecting I will hit the $150 mark next month with some new tweaks I plan to make.

How To Sell More With TLA

Alright, so now that you see my earnings and your excited to get started with TLA you need to understand that these earnings will be different for anyone. My blogs / sites get lots of traffic but even more then that I have worked and re-worked to tweak my ads so they generate me as much revenue as possible. Here are some basic guidelines I use to up my earnings though!

Step 1 – Adjust your ad title, description and keywords to fit the advertisers needs. For instance I included the word “Web Hosting” into my tags section and the next day I had 3 web hosting companies buy links on my sites (big market).

Step 2 -Sell yourself with your description, don’t just fill this area with fluff about your site, tell advertisers why they should advertise on your site “We reach over 900 daily rss readers and even more by email and direct type ins, don’t miss your chance to advertise today at an affordable rate” is similar to what I have used in the past with good results!

Step 3 – Get a game plan and stick to it, once you have decided to test something stick with it for at least 1 month, you never know what could happen! If you change things up to quickly you may not have given it enough time to populate through the TLA network, be patient!

If you follow those steps I believe all of us can make more money through residual / passive income opportunities!

Hey Guys,

When it comes to blogging there are few things more important then comments, these are the little sentances that your readers write back to you about your posts.

Believe it or not some advertisers will actually look at comment counts per post before advertising on your site. Although not a perfect metric it does show how important your blog is to people and advertisers like to see active commenters!

Today we are going to reveal 6 methods to encourage your readers to start commenting. Try them out and be sure to comment below and let us know what you think and how they work for you!

1. Engage your readers – When your writing your blog posts try to engage your audience, tell them and ask them questions in the post, don’t be afraid to bluntly say “comment below”, you do not have because you do not ask as the old saying goes!

2. Pick there brains – Its time to pick your readers minds, make a post asking them what would make them comment more, once you find out DELIVER!

3. Install Top Commenters plugin – This plugin will really encourage people to post comments on your blog, everyone is more willing to contribute to your blog if they get something out of it!

4. Comment trades – One good way to get conversation going is to make trades with other bloggers, simply ask them to comment on your blog and you will do the same on there’s! But comment on there site first that way they know you mean business and aren’t just begging for comments!

5. Comment around – This one goes hand in hand with the above, read the other mid sized blogs in your niche, on all the new posts they make simply comment about it. Try being the first or second commenter to, it really helps a lot!

6. Get lucky – This one is kind of silly but you may just get lucky and get comments because your content is great, if your lucky then tell me by commenting below!

Hey Everyone,

Have your blogging juices come to a hault, are you out of post ideas? Its times like these that you need to turn to something outside of blogging, work and the normal everyday grunt work to rejuvenate your blogging senses!

Today I want to encourage you with a 4 step plan to developing new blog post ideas, these are non internet related but they do work for me and I encourage you to test them out for yourself!

- Get outside and work your butt off – I have done this one many times, it can be anything from yard work to painting your house or whatever it is that you have been putting off for months. Its time to be active outside in the sun and stimulate those happy endomorphs your body is craving for! You may just love it enough to schedule a daily activity to help you get that 3 year old spring cleaning list done!

- Pump some iron – This one is great and I workout nearly every day to stay in shape and stay on top of my game. Blogging is bad on the body because we sit in the same chair everyday and our body starts to conform to it after months of sitting the same way. By pumping iron especially doing chin ups, pull ups and general back exercises we can build our muscles to hold our back and bones straight like there suppose to be so we don’t suffer injuries and stressful pain as we get older!

- Eat a full course meal and sleep it off – Believe it or not for some people (including myself) eating and then sleeping will rejuvenate your body fully and help you get new blogging ideas flowing. Don’t over do it and eat to much, we only want to stimulate here not leave you for dead!

- Play a sport – There is nothing nicer to me then going on a Saturday or even any weeknight and heading out to play volleyball or paintball with some friends. Its exciting and excelerating to play a sport even if your not good at it, its time to dominate the play field guys! LETS DO IT!