Should Bloggers Reveal Their Income Details?

It is the latest trend that is hitting bloggers, who are blogging to make money online. They do a monthly post on the income that they earned in the past month.  And income report kind of posts are published towards the beginning of a month by most bloggers. The income report is a total declassification of all the sources of income that the blogger has used. Although there are many bloggers who do this, there are also many bloggers who are hesitant to reveal all their sources of income. Make Money Online Guru John Chow is the best example of a pro-blogger who regularly reveals his monthly income – along with all the sources. So should you really share your income details with your readers?
If your blog is in the Make Money Online niche, then sharing your income details is a good idea. The Make Money Online niche is rather polluted by a lot of negative bloggers who are simply providing no value to readers. Also some blogs are more or less trying to fraud visitors. In such situations, revealing your income details to readers might seem like a good idea. The reason is that the information will seem to be coming from someone who is actually earning from what he preaches. Most Make Money Online niche blogs hardly earn any income themselves- still they go about teaching others how to make money off the internet.
Also I have noticed that revealing income details to other bloggers helps develop a lot of trust with them through the transparency. Letting your readers and peers know your sources of income simply displays the transparency that you maintain – it reflects on your personality that all your information is clean and effective.
When I see other bloggers who reveal their income details it is a source of inspiration for me. This is why you should also reveal your income details – so that countless other bloggers are also able to gain motivation from it. For doing so, you need not be earning a six-figure income; even a decent three-figure blogger can share his income details online. Since any ways most of his readers will be earning more than him. Either ways you are accomplishing the task of inspiring your readers to a better blogging career.
Sharing your sources of income and the amount earned from each source is the best way to show that you actually apply what you write. It calls your readers into your action and your content will become “expert advice”.
What do you think about sharing the income details of your blog? Let me know below.
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How to get free money from blogging: How to Make money from blogs

When I think of a way to get free money from internet, some terms that automatically comes into my mind are blogs, freelancing, blogging, Google Adsense, Ads, Banners, Surveys, paid to surf or click websites etc. We cannot really make regular income from survey filling websites and paid to click kind of websites. But we have a very realistic and good chance of getting free and regular money from blogging which you can start instantly without making any investment. There are many blogging engines available where you can create your blogs for free. Some of famous blogging platforms where you can create your blogs for free are Blogger, WordPress, Weebly, LiveJournal, Vox, Xanga and Blog.com etc.
I would suggest you to start with Blogger where you can create blogs for free and gives lots of freedom when we compare it with other blogging engines including WordPress. Best thing about free blogger bogs is that, you can chose a template of your choice and can add lots of elements to your blog quite easily like HTML or Java Script Code (that would allow you to add Google Adsense Ads on your Blog) RSS Feeds, Polls, Videos, images, News Feeds, Subscription links etc. And best thing about blogging with blogger is that you don’t need to be an expert or need prior knowledge of HTML language.
So start a blog about the things you are most knowledgeable about or about a particular topic or niche you have expertise in. Make a list of topics that you want to cover on your blog and start writing on these topics in your word document. And once you have covered 10-15 articles, publish them on your blog one by one. To keep your blog being updated on regular basis, you can make a system of adding 2-3 posts in a week or even more depending upon how much you can write and the topics you can cover on your blog. With content publishing, don’t forget to submit your blog posts on top social media networks. Once you have some decent of content and traffic from search engines on your blog, look for ways to make money online from it.
Here are some of ways you can get free money from free blogger blogs:

Google Adsense Ads

Google Adsense is the most popular and most used monetization method adopted by website owners and the same thing applies to free blogs from blogger. We must have a Google Adsense account before start making money with it. And you should submit your quality blog with some age for qualifying for a publisher account on Google Adsense. Apart from Google Adsense which is a pay per click (PPC) Advertising program, there are some other pay per click advertising you can try are Yahoo Publisher Network (Currently available to US citizens), Adbrite, Bidvertiser, Oxado, Chitika etc

In Text Advertising

There are some in text advertising options available where you will be paid for every click made on any of ads placed around your website content. Some of popular in text advertising networks you can try are kontera, Infolinks and vibrantmedia etc.

Paid blogging networks

There are lots of paid to blog networks available on internet that you can use to earn some quick cash from your blog. Click here to check the list of popular paid blogging networks

Affiliate links

if your blog is focused around a particular niche, affiliate products can be your biggest source of income. Spend some time in finding products focused around your blog content in some of popular affiliate websites like Amazon, ClickBank, LinkShare and Commission Junction Etc

Sell Advertisements

you can get lots of money from advertisers if you are able to make your blog popular and have lots of search engine traffic. There are lots of blog that earns thousands of dollars every month just by selling advertising space on their blog only. If you have a blog that gets lots of quality traffic from search engine and has huge amount of readers, you can make money from everything like selling banners, links and even for reviewing a website.
So follow these tips to start getting free money from your blogger blog. For more such tips subscribe to my blog RSS here. Are you currently working on a blogger or wordpress blog? Are you using any of these methods as way of monetization on your blog? Are you using any other method which is not listed above?
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Freebie Sites that cater to a wide variety of Niches – Blogging Part 2

So you read yesterday’s article on Why Every Blogger Should Consider Freebie Trading. That is something I really believe. You see, it can be a difficult thing to start making money online. However, when you can show someone in their first day that it is possible to make money, it gives them the motivation to move on. If You’re a blogger, then seeing that initial spike in income can be a great motivating tool to give you that extra push you need to keep going.
I also told you yesterday that I would be showing you sites that cater to a wide variety of Niches. I have to keep my promise, so here goes
How It Works
I’m assuming that by now, you have at least glanced at my Freebies 101 course. However, I will still give you some idea here of how the system works. It’s pretty simple:

1. You register at a freebie site and complete the required amount of offers (go green).
2. I pay you for your green
3. You refer others to complete offers.
4. When they go green, you get paid and you pay them.

Lets talk about how this can work for you. Lets say your blog topic is working out and being fit. This seems to be a big topic in the blogosphere recently. You encourage people to work out on your blog and explain them the benefits of having a bowflex home gym. However, it would take a lot to convince them to go out and buy a home gym. Instead, you take the Freebie Approach.

1. You Register at Getskinny Git-r-free using my referral link and complete 2 credits worth of offers. You can actually do this by completing 1 hosting offer (as an example)
2. I pay you $40 just for going green.
3. You promote Getskinny Git-r-free on your blog and tell people they can get a Bowflex home gym by completing 2 credit worth of offers and referring 9 people to do the same.
4. When they go green, you can CHOOSE to pay them 50%, OR any other amount you choose. When they go green, you get paid $80 from the site. That’s $80 per person. Now isn’t that a SWEET deal?

Now let me tell you about the wide variety of things you can get at freebie sites by giving examples of things you can get:

• Cleaning Supplies: CleanRup Git-r-free – 1 Credit
• Video Games: VideoGames Git-r-free – 1 Credit
• Apple Products: Apple Products Git-r-free – 1 Credit
• Kitchen Supplies: GooderThanGrits Git-r-free – 1 Credit (1 offer)
  
• Lawn Mowers: CutTheGrass Git-r-free – 2 Credits
  
• Gas Grills, Hot tubs, Pools: MyBackYard Git-r-free – 2 Credits
• Computers: Computers Git-r-free – 3 Credits
• Scooters, ATVs, Go Karts: GetAround Git-r-free – 4 Credits
  
• Diamond rings: MakeRHappy Git-r-free – 5 Credits

What about me? My Niche isn’t mentioned
No, I didn’t leave you out. There are too many niches to mention. If you have a niche that isn’t listed here, leave a comment and I will try to find a freebie site for you (just subscribe to this post and you will know when I get it). HOWEVER, even if there isn’t any, there is always a “Custom Order” option. On ANY site, you can submit a Custom Order for ANY product you wish. You can do this by just sending them the name of the product you want via a support ticket. They will reply and let you know how many referrals a person would need to get in order to receive that particular product. It’s a beautiful thing.
So there you have it, everyone can do freebies in a way that it’s beneficial to them. Questions? Comments? I want to hear them

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Why EVERY blogger should consider Freebie Trading – Blogging Part 1

One of the big problems many bloggers face is the issue of how to monetize their blogs. Yes, blogging can be a great hobby, but there are many people out there, myself included, who are doing this to make some kind of income.
When I started blogging a few months ago, it was for a few reasons. Yes, I wanted to help people out with valuable information so that they could start making money online and have a trusted source that they could go to. That’s been one of the most rewarding aspects for me. When I wake up and see that there have been a few more comments added to my blog, I get excited and anxiously go to the comments to try to respond to each comment individually.
However, since I started this blog, my intention has always been to set it up in a way that I can make a decent income from blogging. This has worked so far and I really enjoy that aspect of Blogging also.
A popular way of monetizing blogs is by promoting affiliate products. This is a very attractive method because they don’t have to worry about creating the products, and there are systems in place so that the blog owner doesn’t have to worry about having an infrastructure in place to handle the orders or handling inventory, since this is usually taken care of by the creator of the product. For example, I promote hosting with Lunarpages and provide people with free mentoring websites if they sign up using my link. I don’t take care of technical support of the hosting account, I just get paid for referring them people. It’s a beautiful thing.
The problem that many bloggers have is that even though they promote affiliate products on their blog, they make only a few sales every so often. The challenge that they face is convincing their audience/readers that the product is something they should purchase.
Many bloggers are able to do this well and even make a six figure income and more just from promoting affiliate products. Howeverm, you will find that many of these bloggers have mailing lists with tens of thousands of people subscribed. Although this is the goal of many bloggers, there are still many that just barely make it with enough cash to maybe cover their hosting payment.
How Freebie Trading can help
Freebie Trading is a great industry that is a relatively new one, when it comes to making money online. There are entire communities that are centered around this topic. For those of you that do not know what freebie trading is all about, I recommend going through my free Freebies 101 course.
The great thing about freebie trading is that you have an extra tool to convince your readers to jump in. The simple fact that you will be paying that. I know what you are thinking – “where do I get the money?”. It’s pretty simple, if you make $40 on 1 referral, you pay that referral $20. If you make $100, you pay them $50. It’s a win-win situation. Not only that, you can show them how they can turn around and start making a decent income using the freebie trading model.
In addition to being a freebie trader from your blog, you can also join communities that cater to freebie traders, providing you a place to get referrals separate from your blog.
Ok Leslie, but I don’t blog about making money
I knew that’s what some of you would say, and that’s the beautiful thing about the Freebie Industry. It’s not all about money. Many freebie sites offer Free Products that range the gammot from Cash, to ipods, vacuum cleaners to scooters, Workout equipment to diamond rings. Anything you can think about, you can find on Freebie sites. Best of all, you can show people how they can get those products simply by completing a few trial offers and referring others.
In other words, instead of trying to sell someone an expensive product, you can basically show them how they can work towards getting one for next to nothing, in addition to paying them a portion of what you make each time you refer someone. I mean, I was able to get a Free ipod touch and 40 inch Flatscreen TV.
Can you see how that can be a little more convincing than trying to sell someone something? So if you haven’t gotten into Freebie Trading as yet, I would recommend doing so now.
What’s coming in this series:
Part 2 – Freebie Sites that cater to a wide variety of Niches (tomorrow)
Part 3 – International Freebie Sites (day after tomorrow)
So check back here over the next few days to receive even more info on how you can use Freebie Sites to enhance your blog.

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