photo credit: nDevilTV I’m back from a short, unplanned, break from blogging. I won’t go into details, but let’s just say I might have been another victim of the Swine Flu. I suppose that will teach me not to joke about it ever again. While I was gone, however, the blog had a nice little spike in traffic. Most of it coming from a single post, my review of FirePow, that was loved on StumbleUpon. That simple review managed to get almost 1000 hits in a single day, which is fairly impressive for this small blog....

photo credit: trumanlo Viral Marketing is a powerful way to generate traffic to your blog, and in turn generate additional money for you. Think about how a virus spreads from on person to another. One person gets sick and just by sneezing they can give the virus to many more people. Those people get sick and share their germs with everyone they know and the next thing you know everyone is out with the flu. That is the very concept behind viral marketing. The idea is to get everyone to spread your marketing message to everyone...

I spent much of the weekend hanging out over at the new ProBlogger community forum. And I still can’t get over what a great idea it is. Like I said before, creating a paid forum was simple perfection as far as making money online goes. OK, so you’re probably thinking that’s great for Darren, but the average person just couldn’t do that. And that’s where I tell you that you’re wrong. Want to make a couple hundred extra month? Follow Darren’s lead, give people something they want but charge...

photo credit: eflon The promise of earning profits without really doing much of anything pulls a lot of people into affiliate marketing.  But affiliate marketing don’t really work this way, at least not if you expect to make any money. That is why the majority quit soon after they step foot into affiliate marketing. They don’t want to do the work. As an affiliate, all that is basically required of you is to simply place the merchant’s ad on your website.  Then after that, you virtually do nothing but wait...

photo credit: Foxtongue Welcome back to my list of writing helpers. If you haven’t yet, check out the first four sources of blog content in part 1. Now I’m going to take you through the last four ways that you can feed great content into your blog without spending hours writing it. 5. Add RSS News Feeds As you probably already know, most blogs have what is known as an RSS feed. This is where, when set up by the blog owner, readers can subscribe to the feed and be notified of new posts to the blog via email or feed...

photo credit: striatic You know your blog needs content to stay alive. Your readers demand it, most search engines demand it, and frankly it’s not really a blog if you never add anything to it.  But what if you’re just not a writer? Maybe you know how to pick the best food for show dogs, but just lack the ability to write it all out. Or maybe you just don’t have the time or energy to post more than once a week, but you know your blog needs to be updated more often than that. Don’t worry! You can still...

photo credit: Jeff Belmonte Every affiliate marketer is looking for the perfect market that gives the big paychecks. Some think if they have the magic formula of content and affiliate links that they can begin rolling in the money with little to no effort on their end. Actually, its a lot more complicated than than just If you want to even begin to see profits from affiliate marketing online there are a few things you need to know first. Successful marketing strategies that have proven to work over and over again. Here are...