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Generating Blogging Income: PR 365

Today's topic du jour at PR 365 is not necessarily publicity related, but it certainly is relevant to the bottom line. At the heart of it, we are all searching for ways to make money through blogging, or through our businesses, and Sarah at Genesis Moments has this question for us:

Question: I would be interested at some point in knowing how to turn a site like DIY Frugal where I pretty much simply house my articles for my column in the local paper and turn it into a more useful site for people - like what other content, etc., would make it both more useful and possibly easier to generate income through (like adding affliate links, etc.) I don't have a lot of time to put into it but would like to make a few simple changes to make it worthwhile for people to come visit.

Answer: After doing a bit of research on my end, I found that the wonderful world of mom bloggers are an incredible resource in guiding you towards earning extra income through articles you've already written.

During an incredibly productive chat session yesterday with some of my favorite Lifetime Moms, Alyssa at Kingdom First Mom, Nicole at the Guilty Parent and Stephanie at Bizzie Mommy, they turned me onto several affiliate sites that are great places to start with regard to finding additional revenue streams. Some of those sites include:
My Savings Media

Commision Junction

Logical Media

Panthera Network

Our conversation then migrated into the important category of optimizing SEO on your site in order to raise traffic on your site - thereby increasing revenue streams for you! Right off the bat, Nicole pointed me in the direction of Angela England. She's @angengland on Twitter and according to Nicole, she's the keyword goddess. Angela has also written an ebook that will give you tons of great tips on how to turn existing articles into more cash by contributing to other sites or reworking the content so that you can turn it into several articles that can generate cash on a regular basis.

To order Angela's ebook, click here - I did and am finding it incredibly helpful. Plus, a portion of the order will be applied to a one on one phone consultation with Angela. No more ridiculously expensive SEO guys speaking algorithms and language we don't understand!!! Angela's tips are easy to understand and most importantly, you can apply them to your blog and your freelance writing career so that you can start making more money from numerous revenue streams!

Another great tip that Alyssa gave me was that when you write a title for your blog post, you should make sure your keywords are closer to the left hand side of your title. That means that instead of starting my title with PR 365, I changed it to Generating Blogging Income. Will let you know if that helps with my traffic.

Plus, I'm also told that if you have your blog hosted on Wordpress then that's a great way for you to instantly garner more traffic. I don't know why, but Google seems to pick up wordpress posts quicker, plus it's easier for people to comment on Wordpress. I haven't yet switched over to that system but if and when I do, I'll let you know if that helps with my monthly traffic.

Finally, another great tip was to follow #savvyblogging on Twitter. There are tons of great tips being offered every other second in that twitter stream. Savvy Blogging is currently asking people to provide links to posts on their own sites outlining their blogging goals for 2010.

At the end of the day, the best place to find ways to make money for your blog is to listen to the incredible members of the mommy blogging community who are doing it and are available to offer their expertise so that all of us can achieve prosperity in the coming year and decade ahead!

Meanwhile, here's another way to earn money with free swag compliments of Lifetime Moms.

Posted in: Blog, PR 101 for Moms, PR 365 on 01/06/2010