When the blog you have created is attractive, and the content is of good quality, then the chances of people visiting your blog are more. Once you start getting emails and queries regarding the subject that you are writing about, you know for certain that the blog has gained a lot of popularity, and a large number of people are keen to visit your blog.

— One of the most lucrative ways of making money through your blog is advertisements. Many companies would be keen to post their advertisements on your blog, regarding their products and services. You can earn a fair amount of money, through advertisements posted on your blog, by the various companies.

— Another way of making money through blog is Text linking advertisement. Text link Ads or Adbrite are instruments to sell text ads to companies. These text ads are easy to get and do not take up too much space, on your blog.

— Affiliate links – This is an old method of earning money through your blog, and you just need to create a link that directly takes the reader to that company’s product or services. Amazon.com is a very reliable affiliate merchant, and is used by a lot of bloggers. You can also try out some other merchants who have smaller clients, or companies.

— You can also create ebooks, or real books, that are based on the blog content to make money. You can diversify into info products like DVDs, videos, audio CDs and printed books as per the requirement of readers.

— You can also start a consulting service, depending upon your topic and also the expertise that you possess in a particular subject, which may be useful to your readers. When you start a consulting service, you can charge the client on an hourly or weekly basis, depending on your knowledge and experience. You can also be a consultant for a corporate office, and they would be willing to pay you a fairly large amount for the knowledge that you possess.

— Donation by readers and other bloggers could also comprise a very good share to your income if the content that you write is popular.

— If you are not attached to your blog, and are willing to sell of the blog to somebody, then you may get a fairly large amount of money by doing so.

So the crux of the matter is that if you have a blog, where the theme is attractive, and appealing, and many people are visiting your blog, you can make a lot of money out of it. It doesn’t require you any money to create a blog but it takes a lot of efforts to make your blog popular. Once your blog is popular, then you can make a lot of money through the various methods that have been mentioned above.

7 Ways To Monetize Your Blog is a post from: AM Blogger

Some of you might have seen adsense ads in Google Buzz, you might be wondering how to add them. One can’t add adsense to each and every buzz and you will get to know the reason behind that. Now, let me tell you the steps to add adsense to your buzz posts.

For adding Google Adsense to your Buzz posts, follow these steps:

• Add adsense to your blog’s feedburner feed: Buzz will be grabbing posts from your feeds, so if you add adsense to your feeds it will be published in your BUZZ. If you don’t know how to add adsense to your feeds then checkout my post How To Add Adsense To Feedburner Feeds.
• Now go to Google Reader.
• Click the button add a subscription.
• Add the Feedburner Feed URL there(make sure that you don’t add http://yoursite.com/feed, add the feed url given by FeedBurner).

Now you’re done, just add Google Reader to your buzz’s connected sites and then whenever you make a new post, it will be grabbed by Buzz in a few minutes or maybe hours and it will be having Google Ads in it, but if you can’t wait, then you can go to your Google Reader and can can press the SHARE button (ads might not appear). So, this was a short and simple article about adding google adsense to your google buzz.

How To Add Google Adsense In Google Buzz? is a post from: AM Blogger

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Google Adsense in the best way to make money online. People are making good money with adsense everyday. It is the primary source of income for many bloggers and website developers.

Usually, people add google adsense in their blogs and websites, but they usually don’t care to add adsense to their feeds. Yes, one can add adsense to the feed of his/her blog. For adding adsense advertisements to your blog feeds, follow these steps:

- Go to your adsense account.

- Click on the tab adsense setup, select Adsense for Feeds.

-  If you have already added your feed to Feedburner, then select Move FeedBurner feeds to your Google Account, else select Burn new feed.

- Add your feed link to get the advertisements displayed in your feed.

So, this was a simple tutorial to add adsense to your feedburner feeds.

How To Add Google Adsense To Feedburner Feeds is a post from: AM Blogger

BioShock 2

Bioshock Game was first launched during 2007, which eventually became favorite for many hardcore gamers as well as me, and now BioShock 2 which was released worldwide just a month back by 2k games, is probably going to be the biggest hit of the year. This game is actually a Sci-fi Action Game. It has solid controls just as the previous game, but this game has a new feature with the attack and has a wide range of big daddy weapons which includes rivet gun and the drill, you need to protect little sisters along the way as well. The only drawback i could say is that the same theme is followed from the previous version of the game.

Little Changes in the weapon made the new version of the game look great, such as when you upgrade a weapon twice it adds a Special Effect to the ammo, for ex. the rivet gets a heat upgrade which sets the enemies on fire.

The new BioShock has far better characters as compared to the previous version, in other words the characters in the new version are just fantastic. The story mode is really great with loads of twists and turns which forces the gamer to think alot and have a great Gaming Experience.

On the whole, this is one of the best action game of the year so far. At the moment the price of this particular game is pretty high, a first timer can give a try, but bioshock gamers, should just wait for the prize to fall or can get it on rent. I would rate BioShock 2, 8 out of 10 for being a rocking action packed game. If you love to play games and if you are looking for a rival sci fi action game, then this is the right direction, go for this game and I am sure you are gonna love it. So this was a small review of the game BioShock 2.

I am the new author of amblogger.com and this is my first article on this blog, feel free to post your comments about my article. Looking for a warm welcome from all the loyal readers of amblogger.

BioShock 2 Game Review is a post from: AM Blogger

Blog Commenting Tips

You all must be knowing about Blog Commenting. Earlier, people used to make comments to a blog when they used to like the content posted on that particular blog, but these days, 90% of the people post a comment to other blogs just for the sake of Backlinks.

Now let me tell you about the right way to post comments on another blog. I am sure most of you must be commenting on your commentator’s blog, but before posting a comment there are a few points that you should always keep in mind.

-Follow Comment Policy: If you are looking for a backlink, then there is nothing bad in posting a comment on another blog, but one should always keep in mind that he/she should follow the comment policy of that blog.

-Do Not Spam: Always post valuable comments, saying “Thanx” isn’t a comment that is to be posted. You won’t get any benefit by spamming, usually blog editors or the blog administrators do not approve comments that looks like spam or doesn’t have any valuable thought attached.

-Use Your Name (not your keyword): I have seen a lot of people who use their keywords in the “Name” column. Usually people make their blogs to get some fame out of it, if someone uses his keyword, then people might know about his blog but they won’t really bother to know about the author.

-Do Not Compete (to be the Top Commentator): I know, Blogging is all about competition, but this doesn’t mean that one should compete everywhere. All the wordpress bloggers must be familiar about the “Top Commentator’s Widget”, I have seen people who post comments to get a Do Follow Backlink. No one cares that the other blog is getting spoiled because of the comments that are flooded. So, if you want to be a Top Commentator this doesn’t mean that you should post rubbish.

-Post At The Right Time: Time plays a very important role everywhere (in blogging too). Almost each and every Wordpress blog is using CommentLuv plugin, so, before posting a comment, always keep in mind that your last post will be attached to the comment, always be sure that your last post is something interesting so that it might get some clicks .

I guess these tips can really help to keep the blogosphere neat and clean.

Blog Commenting Tips is a post from: AM Blogger

Earth Hour

Yes, you read it right, turn off your lights and contribute towards saving of electricity and other precious resources. Today, 27th March 2010 (Saturday), many cities from more than 120 countries are going to turn off their lights because of the Earth Hour. Earth Hour is an hour which comes once in a year and motivates people to save electricity and other useful resources. Timings for 2010’s Earth Hour is 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time.

It is an initiative taken towards the Climate Crisis all around the world. I know their might be a lot of questions about Earth Hour in your mind, feel free to check this out to know more about Earth Hour.

Earth Hour.

I am sure that you all will contribute towards the climate crisis. Your contributions helps a lot, keep the timings in your mind. Thanx!

Earth Hour 2010 – Turn Off Your Lights is a post from: AM Blogger

Digg recommends users to use the new Smart Digg Buttons as the new buttons are customizable and they provide real time stats. Integration of the new digg buttons is really simple and easy.

Here is a preview of the Smart Digg Buttons:

Smart Digg This Buttons

To integrate these buttons in your blog, feel free to visit DIGG.

Now let me tell you about the Digg Widget, one can use digg widget generator for generating the digg widget. Digg widget allows one to create a widget to show specific diggs about a site/blog or to show diggs as per popularity. Digg widget can be generated to show the posts dugg by your friends etc.

Here is a preview of the Digg Widget (created for the posts of amblogger.com):

AM Blogger Digg Widget

Feel free to post your feedbacks about this post and about the blog. Hope this helps

Smart Digg This Buttons And New Digg Widgets Are Now Available is a post from: AM Blogger

5 Common Problems Faced By All Bloggers

Blogging is a great way to improve your social circle, and is also a means of making money online. When you decide to start your own blog, there are five common problems that you may face. If you are able to tackle them, then you have a great chance that your blog will be popular and successful.

• Select Your Niche: The most important factor for any blog is the subject or niche, that makes the readers visit your blog frequently. It is not very difficult to find a subject, which arouses the curiosity of the reader. The subject can have a social message, or may be some thing that is uncommon. The subject could be about body building, health, movies or a particular sport, or may be related to a political issue, or a particular country. The bottom line is that you should have a concise and thorough knowledge about that particular subject. You will need content to be created on that particular subject daily, so always go for the one in which you have your personal interest.

• Choosing The Right Blogging Platform: Another thing that is very important is to have a proper blogging platform, to start your blog. You can choose from Wordpress.com, or Wordpress.org or go for Blogger.com which is owned by Google. I would personally suggest you to start with blogger first and then move on to Wordpress.org. I have used all three of them but I personally like Wordpress.org blogs, here are 10 reasons why you should go for custom hosted wordpress blogs.

• Maintain Regularity: It is very important that you write regularly, as the reader is interested to get more and more information about a particular subject, and if you don’t write regularly then your blog gets static, and the reader may loose interest in visiting your blog. If you do not write posts daily you may notice problems like loosing page rank, dropping alexa, loosing traffic, decrease in the earnings and all these factors will ultimately make your blog dead.

• Get A Response: Another problem that the new blogger faces very often is that he keeps on writing a lot of articles, at a regular interval but is unable to get any response from viewers, or readers. The remedy to tackle such a situation is to market your blog in such a way, so that he would be able to get a response from the readers, and improve his style of writing. Usually readers connect to the writer by using the comment box, all the readers are lazy to use the contact page, so here are some tips to get connected with the readers by getting more comments on your blog.

• Post Quality Content: The quality of the content, uniqueness of the subject, quality keywords, phrases, and targeted keywords in the headlines are all solutions, which would help you to make your blog successful and popular.

A blogger starts his own blog with the ultimate goal of making money from his blog. There are many ways to make money from blogging. You can make a lot of money by selling space on your blog, by getting advertisements for the different product available in the market. This is only possible if there are a lot of people visiting your blog, and your blog is popular. You can also write reviews for different products and people if your blog is popular, and has credit worthiness. You can also choose a lot of affiliate programs, which are available on the internet, and write for them. If you have a good knowledge of HTML, and CSS, you can also help other bloggers and guide them to make their blog more readable and successful. If you are providing free service and good quality to your visitors, then the readers may also be willing to donate some amount of money, to the services that you are rendering to them.

So start blogging and enjoy all the benefits that this great service has to offer to you. You will get a satisfaction that you had never enjoyed in your life before. I hope these tips might help you in tackling the common problems faced by all the bloggers.

5 Common Problems Faced By All Bloggers is a post from: AM Blogger

Certain features of Google Buzz are as follows:

Auto following: This feature allows you to go behind all the people that you have chatted with, or have emailed continuously.

It also allows you a speedy, and sharing experience, which is rich and welcoming and as Google buzz uses gmail , it is very easy, and user friendly, for those who use gmail. Another feature of buzz is that it helps in sharing images, and videos. It can also share both private and public sharing of information, based on your preference.

It also has an inbox that helps you in keeping it as the center of communication, and also filters noise, thus allowing the user to keep being flooded from large amount of information. Basically the objectives of buzz is conversation, and has arrived in good time, and you can recommend your friends, as well as other people , and also make the person understand why they have been suggested.

Buzz is also available to mobile users and it allows them to detect locations, using GPS, and WiFi triangulation technology and voice inputs. This can also be used for mobile web applications that work on iphones and Android.

The buzz is a new way of starting conversation about things that you find interesting, and as this has been built in your gmail you don’t have to start searching friends, as you already have a network of friends on gmail, with whom you have been chatting for a long time. The buzz is an easy to use experience, of sharing videos, links, and photos which can be shared privately or publicly and enables the user to see the stuff that matters to him most.

Buzz is also faster and consistent thus satisfying a lot of needs of the user, and makes a blog to load faster, saving a lot of the users time. It has been seen, that when you try to load a page it takes a lot of time, and money, and the user has to pay unnecessary charges for the bandwidth, if he is trying to download a lot of pages on his computer. The buzz is much faster, thus allowing you to save that time and money to download.

If you are not in front of the computer, then the buzz is also available on your mobile phone, thus allowing you to share and access a lot of information from your mobile phone. You can have information about a lot of things, like a new café that may have started some where or the score of a particular game that you may be interested in. You can also have a conversation with your friends without using the actual talk time. Thus, buzz can be very useful in your day to day life, even if you are not in front your computer.

What Exactly Is Google Buzz? is a post from: AM Blogger

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If you are serious about starting your own blog, then it is necessary that you have a great idea to write about making your blog attractive and good.It is also necessary that you take the services of a self hosted blog to improve your blog quality, which would make more readers come to read your blog. Here are 10 reasons to use a self hosted Wordpress blog.

1. Blogging means freedom of expressing yourself and coming up with ideas and issues that would generate public curiosity and awareness. It is very essential to have a control over your own blog and self hosting is the best way of doing it. Hosting basically means that you own space on the server, so that you can put up your ideas and express yourself in a way that you want to.

2. Another way of extending your reach to the people is through plug-ins. With plug-in you can integrate twitter, facebook etc etc. You need to have a custom CMS unique which is different from all the other bloggers.

3. When you are using a free blog the theme support that you get is limited. But with Wordpress blog you have the ability to use many custom made and premium themes as they have a large amount of Wordpress specific designers. The possibility of themes and ideas is endless if you are using the Wordpress blog.

4. Also the possibility of sharing personal videos or photographs is endless if you are using the Wordpress blog. This helps you to decorate your blog and make it more magnificent and attractive for the readers. The storage capacity that your blog has is also enhanced if you are using the Wordpress blog.

5. Every service provider has his own set of rules and policies that may tie down your endeavor but with a self hosted blog you do not have to worry about the rules and policies as you are the one who set the terms and policies as per your requirements.

6. Free blog providers mostly force you to put their advertisements on your blog / sites so that they can generate revenue from the advertisements. With a self hosted blog you can decide which advertisement to put in your blog and which not to. You can also join publisher program, like Adsense and start generating revenue for yourself from the day you start your blog. You can also advertise for different services and products available in the market thus making you rich.

7. SEO is a very good way of reaching out to many people. When your blog is optimized by search engines, it gets ranked and indexed, and many people are able to visit your site as it becomes more accessible. Such accessible blogs get a lot of advertisement from different companies to advertise their products and services thus making your blog a revenue generating blog.

8. If you decide to sell of your blog you can do so because the site belongs to you alone and you can take a decision without being bogged down by the rules and regulations of the service provider.

9. It is also easier to switch to Wordpress from any other platform as compared to the other service providers.

10. Last but not the least, free blog service is for amateurs, but if you are a serious blogger a self hosted blog is the thing for you in the long run.

If you are looking to start a blog then this article might help you in choosing the right platform, if you run a blog already then this article will give you an idea “why a lot of bloggers use custom hosted wordpress.org blogs.

10 Reasons Why One Should Use Custom Hosted Wordpress is a post from: AM Blogger