Making Money Blogging for Teens

Like many teens out there, I am one of them who (thinks at least that he) needs more money. Everyone wants money for their own reasons (I want to buy a new car) and goes about earning it different ways.

Unfortunately in this day and age, especially with the economy the way that it is, getting a job is extremely difficult. And face it, what teen actually wants to work?? After much research and trials of multiple ways to make money, I found Blogging.

My actual blog http://teencollegeeducation.blogspot.com/ deals with high school life/stress (no not mine personally) and, as the name implies, teen college education. I got a great template somewhere and come up with the articles myself based on experience, news, surveys, and a few other factors.

I have not been working on my blog for too long, but I am already seeing some money coming in from advertising. Some being the key word. Unfortunately, money does not just flood in as some people claim that it does, but you need to work for it.

The great thing about my blog, or any blog in fact, is that you can work on it when you have the time and do other things when you don’t. Blogging is not that time demanding, which is one of the things that makes it a great way for teens to earn a little extra money. Just as an example, I had finals all of this week, so I was not able to post anything on my blog for a while, but when I am on vacation I can post something almost every day.

Another great thing about blogging for teens is that writing an actual article does not take much time. I wrote this article in about an hour, which is simply one hour less that I would have spent on Facebook. A new study just came out a few days ago that said that teens spend more than 7 hours online every single day.

In order to blog, all a teen needs to do is spend one of those hours, at least once a week, writing articles or improving the blog itself.

My posts stay online and receive visitors every day, even when I do not have the time to write new ones.

So how does a teen make money from blogging? – Advertising. I currently have a few PPC (pay per click) ads and one referral ad. PPC, or pay per click ads, basically pay you every time that someone clicks on it. The more people that click on the ad, the more money that you get. It is that simple.

You do not need to sell anything or market anything, just put an advertisement somewhere on your web page where people can see and click it. Referals are a bit more complicated and pay you whenever someone uses your referral link to sign up for something.

I am not too sure yet of how I like referrals, but I will make sure to write about it once I have more experience with it.

Does advertising work for your web page? Well, I have a blog about education, and somehow, Google Adsense gets ads that are relevant to my articles. Some of the ads are repeats, but for the most part they advertise books, classes, or colleges. Adsense really is an amazing thing and can make the ads look like part of your blog.

So if you are a teen, or anyone for that matter who wants to make some extra money, create a blog and put ads on it.

Just write about something that people will like to read and they will come, eventually.

Good Luck!

-Andy

Please check out my blog at http://teencollegeeducation.blogspot.com/. You might get some ideas!

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3 Advantages Of WordPress For Your Business

WordPress is a free and easy to use blog publishing application.

With his many features which include a user-friendly workflow, a rich Plugin architecture, and an advanced templating system it is the best choice for bloggers and companies who want to build a ‘Blog as a Website’ with a included content management system.

1. Your Own Domain Name
When you self host your blog you are able to register your own domain name and promote it instead of a third party sub URL which not helps your brand. Build your own brand with your own domain name, not others!

Here at Godaddy you can find a cheap WordPress hosting.

2. Free Plugin To Manage And To Promote Your Blog
WordPress has many Plugin which you can use to enrich, to manage and to promote your blog. Plugin like FeedBurner FeedSmith for an easy FeedBurner integration or Google XML Sitemaps to build an easy sitemap to get your content spread to the major search engines or OnlyWire for WordPress to get your content spread to the social community and the list goes on and on.

You decide what you need to achieve your blogging goals.

Here at WordPress you can find the Plugin.

3. Thousands of FREE Themes
Get the theme- template for your personal blog you like. Within the WordPress directory you can choose of many topics, thousands of different themes and I am sure you will find one which you like.

Here at WordPresss you can find the themes.

Because WordPress is easy to use and also most important has a SEO friendly structure the search engines love it. That’s the reason why content published through WordPress is much quicker indexed through search engines than from ordinary websites.

If you have thought to setup a blog or a ‘Blog as a Website’ than WordPress should be your first choice. Start today!

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The Business Value of Twitter Lists

Twitter lists is the latest feature of Twitter which allows organizing groups or lists of followers. Twitter allows lists of following groups and not following groups and this helps in identifying people whom you are following and who are not following you.

As Twitter is a social media networking site, it can be used as a platform for online business by introducing products.

This helps in attracting new customers for online business and increasing leads. But before doing this we have to get many followers to our page so that we can turn them to customers for our products.

This can be possible only through good content, honest reviews and opinions then only we get tweets as well as followers.

Benefits for preparing Twitter Lists

You can follow the list without actually following them: Twitter lists are available in the form of group streams and hence we can follow complete list but not individually and also we can also make a list of people for whom we don’t like to follow. Tweets can be added to the main stream by checking and listing them with out the format of repetition of tweets by same person.

Making lists public or private: We can make the lists private if we want that the other competitors of our business should not make them to know our followers and also even the members who follow the page cannot see the remaining followers. Only the owner of the page can see and if we like that the other twitter users can be benefited by our followers we can recommend other sites to visit. We can create lists of about 20 in the specific name of school or college list or family members list or company list etc each can consist of 500 members.

Adding or deleting followers on the list: Another feature is that we can add to the lists or remove from the groups of lists we are following and also we can add or delete the followers of our list. “Listed link” helps to know the groups we are following and also shows the people who are following our group.

Making a company list will make the business improved and also can provide customer service: By making a company list, the information shared by you will reach all the team leaders in your company who uses twitter and they also help in achieving targets for the organization. By providing this information on the website of the company helps customer to find the right person on time and can be benefited by the service. This helps in providing customer service for people in right time thus resulting in good customer feedback.

Prepare Industry list: By sharing information and resources regarding particular products of your industry makes one organization popular and can turn into the standard review brand which will make other twitter users within the same industry refer and improve the brand image of the company within the particular industry.

Likely, you can prepare lists of different specific names like list of experts of particular industry by referring them this will be an added attribute to boost up the business online and making a list of popular websites etc will also be beneficial.

Where does your twitter lists stand
How to use twitter follower lists
How to use twitter lists to monitor topics of interest

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The Social Web Has Exploded Last Year

Many people who have been following the social media since the 90s have become very sensitive to the exponential growth in usage of the sharing web.

The data within this app is based on a wide range of social media sources and sites. The social web has exploded in the last year and here are some of the key data points.

This brings a bride range of opportunities as well.

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How To Encourage Comments On Your Blog?

As a Blogger I always love to receive  comments on my blog. Comments likes gift for me, gifts from my readers. Comments made my blog more interactive and colorful.  Great and useful contents not enough to encourage your readers to leave comments on your blog.

Here some tips to encourage your readers to leave comments on your blog. The tips are very easy and I think you all already know about this. This article is just a reminder for you guys.

Here the tips to encourage your readers  to leave comments on your blog:

1. A question. Start your article with a question. This will lead your readers think hard to find the answer.
2. Act like a newbie. Event you are an expert, try to write articles like you are a newbie that need help from every body. There’s a lots of people who love to help you out there.
3. Don’t Finish Your Article. I’m sure you know what you write on your blog, but some time left the article not finished will encourage people to ask you something.
4. Leave Comments On Others blog. This is very simple tip, just visit others blog and leave comments and the blog’s owner will comment back on your blog.
5. Top Commentator Widget. Put Top Commentators widget on your side bar or footer. This will a free promotion for your commentators and it’ll be encourage your visitors to leave comments.
6. Do Follow Blog. Bloggers believe do follow blog will give a back link if you leave comment on do follow blog. So make your blog do follow.
7. Answer The Comments. Try to answer the comments immediately, your commentator will appreciate this and he/she will be back to your blog.
8. Controversial Article. You can create a controversial article that will make people angry with you, lol! Sure this will give you hundreds comments.
9. Share your tips. This is very usual article, write tips about any thing and on the last paragraph, ask your readers to share their own tips.
10. Leave Comment Please. I’m sure you seen a lots of article that asking you to leave comment at the end of the article, may be something like this “If you like this article please leave comment, bookmark and share“.

I’m sure you love to create conversation with your readers and comments is the way to create two way communications. This commenting activities will give the authors and commenter  lots of benefits.

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Hello, my name is Latief from Another Blogger, I’m a full time blogger former Teacher and Community Development Consultant for SME and Renewable Energy. You can visit me on Facebook and Twitter.

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