Tactics to increase your AdSense Earnings Overnight.

Problogger.net which is the blog done by Aussie six figure blogger Darren Rowse has started a blog series on how to increase AdSense earnings. Read more

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Calling Jamaican Bloggers- A Blogging 101 Workshop

I’ve been asked to produce a small workshop that teaches the fundamentals of blogging. Theme: How to Blog for Fun & Profit. Covering The Technical, Design, Editorial, Monetisation and Marketing aspects. Read more

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ProBlogger Book — Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income

The Problogger.net is one of the top money making blogs online bar non. It’s a six figure money spinner for its writer Darren Rowse. He’s been a full-time blogger since 2005 and now has a book to guide and teach you how to emulate and surpass his blogging success. Read more

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Deshoda,Jamaican CashPlus Blogger

Deshoda, give name Shonari Gow is the Jamaica blogger behind cashplusinvestment.com, which aggregates, news, opinion and information on the hot topic of forex trading,alternative investments schemes in Jamaica.The blog has a daily readership of 4,000 people who read upon and leave their comments on Cashplus, Olint, Worldwise and others. And oh yeah he’s making a couple hundred US dollars in the process. I asked him a few questions about blogging and how and why he got into it and what’s next for him.

 

SC: What got you into blogging and was cashplusinvestments.com your first blog?

DESHODA: I needed a place to gather my thoughts and put it on ‘paper’ so to speak, share my views with the world. My first blog was on the blogging platform blogger then i moved to the superior more professional platform…wordpress. After a few weeks i moved to a self hosted wordpress blog (wordpress.org) there i called my blog nuff CRAp (nuff Conscious Ramblings and Perspectives). Basically that was my eDiary reflecting all my crazy thoughts and views.

 

SC:The blog is successful when you look at the following parameters - great timing, in demand content generated by you and the site visitor, word of mouth plus search engine optimisation…would say this is somewhat of a blueprint other bloggers Caribbean and global can duplicate?

DESHODA:Yes it is but all of that will not mean anything unless the blogger adds new and fresh content to his/her blog. Something I have neglected to do sadly. Find a niche that you love (it woudn’t hurt if it was not a saturated niche) and add original and spicy content. Learn the tricks of the trade from blogs such as problogger and johnchow and you should do well. All this is not set in stone though mix and match, do a little trial and error and find your own style

 

SC: So you were making some nice US dollars, how did you do this?

DESHODA: Seeing that this was my first try at making money online i tried what was made readily available to me…google adsense. And in the words of John Chow I became a google whore.Ad placement generated alot of click throughs and significantly increased revenue. after a while i tried other ad networks and ad mediums such as in-text ads.

 

SC: What are you going to do to further develop cashplusinvestments.com?

DESHODA: Right now I have not added much content but I will be concentrating on established investment methods, ecommerce and simple financing. This will be done on a phase basis. Also a complete overall of the theme(site design) will be done to give the site a fresh new look.

 

SC: Do you expect Caribbean blogging to grow bigger than it already has and if yes what do you expect will fuel it?DESHODA: Caribbean blogging will definately grow bigger than it is now. People like me with a thirst for new technology and a drive to share what we know with the world will drive the movement. Once the masses understand that internet is the window to the world, not constrained by geographical boundaries and that everyone can start at the same level, Caribbean people will become a part of the general blogosphere adding their valuable piece to the pot.

 

SC: Who are your top 3 blogging mentors and name the one thing you’ve taken from each of them ?

DESHODA: Problogger.com—I love the layout of the blog, the diversity of topics and the simplicity of it allJohnchow.com—The monetizing of a blog and how to maximize profits.Siliconcaribe.com—One of the very first blogs that inspired me to start blogging.

 

SC: What’s your day job and what blogs if any do you have next?

DESHODA: I am a web administrator for redpeppermall.com I have placed the finishing touches on deshoda.com take a look, this will be my eye on the world, web and everything in between.

 

SC: What is the ultimate goal for your online pursuits ?

DESHODA: Simple. To achieve financial freedom. Note I did not say make money… I want to work on my own time, anywhere. I think the internet (blogging) can allow me. 

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Caribbean Blog Revolution Brewing

 

 

 

The Caribbean is not untouched by the global phenomenon of blogs and blogging. A Google check online show there are hundreds if not thousands of Caribbean blogs. There is now a facebook group called Caribbean Bloggers Massive that’s growing at a merry clip. Read more

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How I make money blogging

The following is a list of all the ad networks, affiliate programs and revenue streams I am using to make money on this blog and others. It’s six major things.

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Cashingcoconuts.com - How to make money from the Caribbean and the USA

Salivating over the information on sites like johnchow.com, led to another, then another. So they started CASHing COCOnuts as the premier aggregator of information on how to make money online and from home. They pull together the best practical tips, ideas, inspiration from all over the web and add them to our own original posts to help readers to make money online, whether they’re from Canada, the Caribbean or elsewhere in the world.The chief bloggers are TechGirl a.k.a Coco hails from Kingston,Jamaica in the Caribbean. Lives and works between Kingston and Atlanta. She’s an internet marketing consultant who prefers to spend 90% of her waking hours making things happen online than deal with the same ole corporate bullshit. My goal is to continue making pretty decent money online, enjoy a high quality and flexible lifestyle while helping others to do the same.Along with her is TechGuy a.k.a Cash is living in the New York, USA and has been making money online for two years primarily to online dating sites, niche search powered directories and longtail content sites loaded with adsense and affiliate marketing. Join us in our journey, read, get inspired,network and then go do your own thing.Are you making money online? Tell us your story. Want to learn along with us. Check us out.

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Blogoria.com - The facebook for bloggers launches tonight

by Casey McDonaldNew York- Blogoria.com, which can be easily labelled the facebook for bloggers, a free networking tool that connects Bloggers with other Bloggers, Blog Lovers and Advertisers, launches at midnight tonight. It has some of the most popular social networking features –add to friends list, add to favourites, send a message, chat now, make request to blog on specific blog. Each blogger also has a feed of their blog posts as part of their blogoria.com profile and can use blogoria.com as tool to build traffic to their blogs and get more advertising. The site is social networking savvy and is keeping with the solid growth trends of blogging and behavioural targeted online advertising.

The company which is based in New York has a Jamaican guy on the development team, hence we got the scoop.

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Cashing in or Crashing- Cashplusinvestment.com is forex trading n investment club central

We’ve been reporting on the Forex trading and investment fever in Jamaica since our site went live two months ago and to date, they remain our most read blog posts. Then we happened on a site and its publisher- cashplusinvestment.com a site that chronicles and gives indepth information on investment clubs of all kinds, updating regularly. It’s a pretty good online resource. There is where you can see who will be the winners and losers I think. A site to bookmark.

SC: What’s your mission/intention for this site?C+: I am based in Kingston actually. My mission is to inform the Jamaican people as well as the Diaspora about these investment clubs/schemes. To some it’s a good way to make money in a country starved for investment. To others it’s a system that is built on clever loopholes around the law and is bound to crash, bringing many people and their interest to their knees. To me it’s both, used wisely, people can make huge sums of money and get out if and when the collapse occurs.Previous Related StoriesForex Fever growing and growing in JamaicaJamaican onlinefx trader blogs his journey to fx riches Is the online forex trading fever the 90s day trading disaster in waiting Capitalor, Swedish forex company targets Jamaica- the CEO interview Read more

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Important and Interesting Blog statistics

I kinda ran into this online while reading and had to share. Blogging is here for the long haul.

• Over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog.
• More than 147 million Americans use the Internet.
• Over 57 million Americns read blogs.
• 1.7 million American adults list making money as one of the reasons they blog.
• 89% of companies surveyed say they think blogs will be more important in the next five years.
• 9% of internet users say they have created blogs .
• 6% of the entire US adult population has created a blog .
• Technorati is currently tracking over 70 million blogs .
• over 120 thousand blogs are created every day .
• There are over 1.4 million new blog posts every day .
• 22 of the 100 most popular websites in the world are blogs .
• 120,000 new blogs are created every day .
• 37% of blog readers began reading blogs in 2005 or 2006 .
• 51% of blog readers shop online .
• Blog readers average 23 hours online each week .

NB: Heads up, watch for the facebook for bloggers site coming up.

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