We got a broad question from Gurry over at our pink "How to start a blog" site, where you can ask all your questions and we will answer them!

Since this is a question about making money, of course we tackle it here

How to make money

This is a broad question, so we will condense everything in one post, which means for deeper explanations about making money, please ask a more specific question!

1. Let money make more money

• buy wisdom and use it to your benefit!
• buy a product and resell it
• buy a few products, recombine them and sell it (buy water, sugar and fruit and sell it as marmalade)
• put your money in a savings account
• put your money in funds
• put your money in the stock market but make sure you know what you are doing, otherwise go for funds
• pay others to do the work for you and sell their product or service

2. Work hard for the money

• get a dayjob
• start blogging and make money online
• combine the above: get a dayjob and start blogging during office hours to make money online

3. Try your luck

• buy a lottery ticket
• look for a dollar bill in your socks (yes, most likely you will be as lucky here as when buying a lottery ticket )

4. Do things that are not allowed

Unfortunately there are a lot of ways to make money illegally. They look attractive but you risk your freedom. Buying a lottery ticket you only risk your money.

Once you have made your money, you need to spend it wisely. The main killer for your personal wealth are credit cards charging you a ridiculous high amount of interest.

Make sure you earn money for yourself and not for the bank!

How to make money online

In short you can go through the list of 4 money makers above and use it to make money online.

We are making money doing most of the work ourselves and sometimes we ask other people to do the work for us: they write a post for us and most likely they will add their link in their post. If you feel your website can use some extra advertisement and buzz, just write a post and leave a comment over at How to start a blog.

Then I make easy money using the following recommended money makers:

All let you add some code on your blog so you will show some kind of advertisement.

Linkworth and Smorty also let you write posts for money.

Read a few more methods about how to make money online.

Buy Wisdom to make more money fast

If you want to learn how to set up a WordPress blog that attracts lots of visitors, buy Make money fast blogging with Atomic Blogging secrets.

If you want to make money online without the hassle of maintaining a blog, buy Make money online writing only articles on Squidoo: no blog needed!

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Let’s illustrate these 3 top ways to attack lots of visitors step by step:

1. SM Sado Masochism "Used by Rihanna",
2. SEO: Search Engine Optimization "Used by Linky Love",
3. SMO: Social Media Optimization "Used by Atomic Blogging"

3. Use SMO to attract more visitors

SEO or Social Media Optimization is extremely well explained and made easy by Alvin Phang in his ebook Atomic Blogging, he just calls it Atomic Blogging :-).

Social Media are community sites focusing on :

1. news like in Digg and Slashdot
2. interesting findings like in StumbleUpon and ClipMarks
3. content like in Squidoo and Wikipedia
4. relationships like in MySpace and FaceBook

The fun of Social media is instant:

• you get noticed as soon as you join
• the more you buzz yourself, the more you get noticed

Your efforts are instantly rewarded once you sign up for Free to any of these Social Media.

To increase your rewards, you can automate some of the Social Media buzzing like in the "SHARE THIS" button at the left bottom of my site or you use other tips, tricks and automatic programs from Atomic Blogging

2. Use SEO to attract more visitors

SEO is Linky Love’s most favorite traffic generation method

I love search engines, I love to look things up and that love makes search engines my friend.

Disadvantages of using SEO to attack visitors

• if you don’t love SEO, it’s never going to work for you!
• having said so: if you try to work your way up fast "closing your eyes and using SEO programs": you are wasting your money!!!
• if you are using SEO, be prepared that for competitive keywords, you could end up waiting 1 year before you get your competitive keywords number 1.

Advantages of SEO

If you know about finding niche sites, you will rank number 1 in a couple of days for not too competitive keywords.

You can also find SEO tips and tricks and a niche keyword research tool in Atomic Blogging, but you can also find those tips and tricks scattered all over the Linky Love site

1. Use SM to attract more visitors

Rihanna is using SM to attract more visitors. I mean: she is supposed to be a singer right? But adding a bit of sexy spicy stuff in it, and you get a much bigger audience than before. Call it "the oldest trick in the book" attracting fresh visitors.

It doesn’t have to be SM, BDSM or whatever flavor, it just has to be spicy.

Have a look in our topsites, and you will notice who is attracting visitors using sexy spices.

How to attract most visitors

Use all 3 methods above and remember:

• if your website is new, you gain the most traffic with Social Media Optimization
• start using SEO at the beginning of your blog, but be patient until it slowly starts picking up momentum. Meanwhile get your visitors through Social Media Optimization
• add some sexy spice, visitors love to return to sexy spicy blogs (people are people…)

Example using the 3 methods together

After I posted on December 18:

1. SM a spicy post
2. SEO optimized for the search engines
3. SMO submitted to all the social media possible + asked my friends to buzz in their social media

My unique visitors count those days peaked well over 20.000

Oh yes, if you do everything right, make sure you have enough bandwidth ready

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Blogging ain’t easy. You might have noticed that my site was a few hours down. Luckily I found a top alternative Adsense plugin and we are up and running making money online again

Managing multiple blogs (my Learn French blog, my cute names for kittens blog…) and trying to make all blogs look different, is even harder.

There are dozens of ways to implement Adsense into your blog, but none of them are this easy or this appealing to the users. The EZ Adsense Wordpress plugin allows you to use Adsense, Yahoo, Adbrite, Amazon, you name it. No one else can claim such flexibility!

Additionally, we’ve made a layout manager that allows you to move things around a bit. If you like two columns on the left for one blog, or two columns on the right for another, no problem.

Previously, the hard part of implementing advertising into Wordpress has been editing the files for your Adsense information and configuring the header image, navigation and other elements with your WordPress powered blog.

The core feature of this add-on pack is the exclusive Easy Adsense Wordpress (EZWP) plugin that handles all this for you. You simply copy and paste your Adsense ads into the correct blocks in the Advertising Editor and let the EZWP Plugin do the rest!

Here’s what you can do:

• Easily insert your Adsense (or any other advertising system) codes into your Super Adsense themes - The EZWP Plugin lets you use any other advertising code, not just Adsense! You can now use Adbrite, Yahoo ads, or others. It’s easy and no file editing is required.
• Easily customize your header graphic - You can quickly download, modify, and upload your header graphic. We also include Gimp! The free graphics editor you can use if you don’t have Photoshop.
• Edit your navigation links - You can now edit and create your top menu navigation links from within Wordpress! We strive to make managing your blog completely intuitive without having to edit any files. We’ve made an editor for your navigation menu to make life easy!
• All 30 original Super Adsense themes customized for our plugin - I had to do a lot of work to customize the Super Adsense themes and make things easier. You’ll get the full benefits of the EZ Adsense Wordpress system by using our customized themes. The key feature to our system is the flexible column layout editor. Now you can have your navigation/advertising columns in any arrangement you desire.
  

• Add Google Analytics - It’s important to track your blogs usage, so we’ve included an edit box for you to place your tracking code. You can use Google Analytics, Sitemeter.com, or any other tracking system. Every page of your blog now will have the tracking code.
• Regular upgrades - As we improve our code, we’ll notify our paid member community so you can get the new code asap!
• Membership Forum - As a paid member, you get exclusive access to our members-only forum and newsletter. Don’t miss a single important update! We use our forums as a think-tank, where we discuss new features and get your input or to report bugs.

This post is written by: Mark Williamson
EZ Adsense Wordpress creator:

a top alternative Adsense plugin recommended by Linky Love

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