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Earning some Money ONLINE

The real online money-making eBook

Adam Malapa the Blogger

community journalist online-money-earner

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Table of contents Page

Terms of reference 4

Foreword 5

Introduction to Blogging 6

What is a blog? 6

Why people blog? 6

Why people read blogs? 7

What makes a blog interesting? 7

Where can I create a free blog 8

Blogger 8

World press 8

Yola 9

Marketing your blog 10

How will people know about my blog? 10

Maximising site traffic, Building

readerships and recurrent visitors

11

RRS feeds subscriptions 11

Email Subscription 12

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How then do I earn revenue? 12

Adsense 13

Addynamo 13

Bidvertiser 13

How do I get paid? 14

Paypal 14

Direct Transfer 14

Alertpay 15

Cheque/Check 15

Quick Links 15-16

Closing remarks 16

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Terms of reference

Blog An internet place where one post personal or

organisational updates.

Blogger A person who post personal or organizational updates on

the internet

Online Marketing This is a way of advertising one’s products or services on

the internet, it can be via Email on the website.

RRS Really Simple Syndication

Feeds These are regularly summarised version of updates on

one’s website.

Adsense Online marketing system owned by Google

Search Engine A site designed to search internet content eg Google,

Yohoo, Bing

URL Uniform Resource Location, this is simply a web address

Domain Specific name of a website, usually the first part of the

URL ending with .com, .za, .net, .info and other. Example

limpopocontacts.com is a domain name

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Foreword

Hi, Thank you for landing your hands to my eBook. My name is Adam Malapa, I am a

Blogger and a community journalist. This eBook is an introductory book foe earning

money online. For the fact that you have it on you screen right now, it means that

you are ready to go.

Now let me tell you a bit about it. You are going to learn some secrets about online

money-making, well I won’t call them secrets anymore since I will reveal them to

you and a lot other people who managed to grab this eBook. I recommend that while

reading this eBook, try to practice what you are reading at the same time so that

you will master your online cash earning skills and so that you don’t repeatedly

revisit the eBook and not getting time to implement.

I’m going to introduce you to blogging, my apology if you are already an experienced

blogger but I feel that you can add a thing or two from what you already know

about blogging. I’m also going to show you how you can monetize your blog, that is

to start earning money from you blog or website. The means of payment that you

can use to receive payment for your earnings and from there you will be ready to

go.

Now let’s go let me show you how you do these things.

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Introduction to Blogging

What is a blog?

For sure, you have been asking yourself this question, what is a blog? Well, now is

the time to get you clear about that.

A blog is usually what most people use to promote their website. Some people also

use it to promote their products and some just to earn money online by pleasing

their readers.

A blog can be anything you post on the internet without someone’s restriction. It

can be completely your feelings, your thoughts, your political views, a product

review or it can be associated with the company you are working for. Bloggers

usually post updates on the internet with the aim of informing, educating or

pursuing people to take action. A blog can contain text, photos and videos and all

those might be linked to other related sources.

In simple terms, a blog is your freedom of expression, freedom of publishing on the

net without violating someone else’s rights.

Why do people blog?

If you have read carefully the previous paragraph, I have already answered this

question. People blog to promote their website, to promote the products they are

offering, to entertain, educate and to pursue others to take action. An example of

pursuing people to take actions could be someone who writes a piece on their

website to describe the challenges they have and pursuing people who visit their

site to donate or make certain contribution.

Blog

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Why people read blogs?

Generally, blogs are short versions of what people are looking for in a website, they

are supposed to be straight to the point, easy to understand and are informative.

So people read blogs to get that instant information about service, product, news

clips they are looking for. They want to be informed, to be entertained and some

are searching for reasonable pursuing information for them to make contributions

or to assist them to take actions. So when we write our blogs we should take

consideration of the inform, entertain and pursue function/purpose so that our

readers stay hooked in reading our blog posts. An example of informing function

blogging could be a website for job posting. Here people will be interested to know

about jobs advertised, who advertised them, what is the salary scale and how to

apply. If you are this kind of blogger just like I do, make sure that your blog post

are accurately posted with common Search Engine Keywords. Let’s talk about

keywords later.

What makes a blog interesting?

Like I said in the previous paragraphs, you blog should be informative, entertaining

and persuasive if you need your readers to stay hooked. Readers like to be filled in

when reading a post, you need to show them what you want them to know and they

need as much information in a shortened way. They need to feel your post, fantasy,

total imagination and emotional feeling at some instance.

It is also advisable to mention that readers love to read “neat” stuff. Your posts

should be error free, otherwise they will say “this guy does not know what he/she

is doing”. So try to please your readers at all times.

Your post should not only reflect fantasy but also must have a feeling of reality.

Make referrals in some of the points you are trying to make. You have nothing to

lose just to mention one or two sources of the information you are referring to,

examples and links of your recommended websites.

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Speaking of referrals let me tell you about my favorite Blogger. His name is John

Chow and his website is johnchow.com. The guy is a good blogger, he knows what he

blogs about and he keeps it short and simple.

Where can I create a free blog

Blogger

Google has some fantastic but free blogging service. Blogger.com is a place to be if

you like to start a blog using Google services. Blogger will give you a free domain

name which will end with .blogspot.com, example sabestjobs.blogspot.com

Blogger is easy to use, non-complicated, and full of integrated gadgets. It can

automatically be available on the Google depending on your setting.

You can invite about 100 more people to post their entries of blogger.

If you are a first time blogger, I recommend blogger for you to start with.

World press

Worldpress can be another alternative for you to create your blog. I have not used

worldpress so much that I could say more about it but you can take a look at it

maybe you will like it. Example adammalapa.worldpress.com

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Yola

Yola.com is a web hosting site with free site building templates and free hosting

for domain names that ends with yolasite.com example malapatrading.yolasite.com.

I have used Yola on four of my websites. Yola is a bit complicated to use but if you

take time to look at the features on the site builder menu, you can master it in no

time. You just need to register yourself by going to www.yola.com the click “Get

started” and follow instructions. Then you can start creating your blog(s). You can

create up to 25 sites on Yola. You can use it as free domain or buy a domain while

on the web builder account.

Limpopocontacts.com

Local-abroadjobs.com

SA-healthylifestyle.com

Malapacommunications.com

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Marketing your blog

How will people know about my blog?

Marketing your blog is as important as updating your blog. People will never know

about your blog unless you tell them about it. You might be wondering now how you

can do it. Well, let me remove your wondering mood from you.

There are a lot of free methods you can use to market your blog or website.

Using social networks

Social networks these days are becoming more and more used even in areas where

computer access is rarely accessible. Today, millions or let me rephrase this,

billions of people use mobile phones. Modern mobile phones have wap enabling

services, allowing end-users to browse the internet using their phones. Social

networks also have taken the advantage of these services. They have hade it their

business to make sure that mobile phone users maximize the utilization of their

networks. You can take advantage of the social networks as well to market your

blog.

The most used network is Facebook, it has more than 500 million active users

of which 50% log on the site everyday. Facebook users spend about 700 billion

minutes per month and an average user has about 130 friends.

Twitter is another social network which can also be integrated with facebook

user profile and pages. You can use Twitter to update you followers on your latest

blog posts. You can also link your Tweets with your Facebook Fan Page.

Twiends helps you get more Facebook Fan Pages likes, Twitter

followers and You Tube Video views. You can log onto Twiends using you Facebook

or Twitter account.

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Using classified ads site

Some of the best classifieds site includes: Gumtree, Kalahariads, OXL and more

other sites. These sites are good for sending traffic to your site but you need to

put real content and they strictly discourage spamming.

Maximising site traffic, Building readerships and recurrent visitors

For your readership to keep on visiting your site you need to have a good

readership retaining strategy. Below are some of the common but effective

strategies for maintaining and building readerships database.

RRS feeds subscriptions

You might be asking yourself, what the hell is this? RRS stand for Really Simple

Syndication, RRS feeds are important for readers who are interested in

subscribing to your posts. They can be as a summary of each post or can be sent to

subscribers as full post. Subscribers can subscribe to these feeds, giving them

freedom to unsubscribe whenever they feel like doing so.

You can put a RRS feeds button on your site so that your readers can easily know

that they can subscribe to your feeds. If your blog does not have RRS Feeds

button option, you can burn feeds and paste a code on your website which will

display a button for your readers to subscribe. Click here to burn feeds using

Feedburner, another Google Product.

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Email Subscription

Email subscription can be another way to keep your readers who might have not

subscribed by RRS feeds to be regularly updated when you have interesting

postings you would like to share with them.

You can create a page for Subscriptions where you will encourage your subscribers

to subscribe via Email. The more regular site visitors, the more you earn revenue.

Speaking of revenue, let me now tell you how you can earn from your blog.

How then do I earn revenue?

I’m sure this is the most important part you were impatiently looking for, I’m also

sure that you have just jumped into this section, just kidding. On a more serious

note, let’s talk about making money online. There are lots of ways to do this but let

me tell you about the methods I have used which have been working for me which

is going to work for you. Note that you won’t start with enough earnings on one day

like what other affiliate marketing sites preaches. Through implementation of the

steps I mentioned above you can get there in the pace that suite you.

Now let’s start. Whether you are from Africa, Asia, America, Europe, Australia or

anywhere in the world, you might have heard of online business. Work-from- home,

Work-at-home, Online data entry jobs, these are the common messages you may

have come across as advertised on the net.

Working from home comes in different kinds, sizes and different costs. At the

moment I’m doing the blogging job as a part-time thing, maintaining my full time

job as a community journalist.

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Google Adsense

The main source for my income is Google Adsense. Google Adsense is an online

marketing system owned by Google. They offer bloggers, website owners, and

publishers to place advertisements on their website and earn revenue per visitor’s

clicks. Google Adsense advertisements come as text links, ext and images and video

ads. They are simple to place on the website and they display ads that are related

to the contents of your webpage. For example if your page is about Online Money-

Making, it is common that you will see more ads displayed as “work from home”,

“online jobs” and more similar ads.

Google Adsense has a monthly minimum payout of R1000ZA, about $100USD.

Addynamo

Addynamo is also an online marketing system that offers publishers to place ads on

their sites and earn income. The difference with Addynamo is that it targets

county specific ads not necessarily contents related.

Addynamo has a minimum monthly payout of R100ZA, about $15USD.

Bidvertiser

Another onlime marketing programme is Bidvertiser. It has a minimum monthly

payout of $10USD.

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How do I get paid?

Most of the sites online marketing systems use the following programmes to pay

publishers or blogger.

Paypal

PayPal in an online system that can accept transfer of funds using debit card,

credit card in a secured way. In this way, no one gets to know your banking details,

card number or your bank for that matter. PayPal account is created using Email

address and can be linked to most credit cards and debit cards. Once one has

verified their ownership of the Email address they can start sending or receiving

money from anyone anywhere in the world. In South Africa, one can transfer funds

from their PayPal account to the First National Banks provided that the two

accounts are linked together. The linking facilities can be found on both paypal.com

ZA and fnb.co.za websites.

Alertpay

Alertpay works more similar as PayPal

Direct Transfer

Some programmes can transfer funds directly into your bank account. An example

is the Addynamo.

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Cheque/Check

Google Adsense only uses checks/cheques to pay their publishers. Once a publisher

ahs reached a minimum threshold amount of about R700 or $100USD, they can ask

Adsense to send them a verification of physical address card which contain a

unique number to be inserted to one’s Adsense account. Then, publishers could be

sent their checks/cheques on a monthly basis provided they have reached their

minimum monthly payout amount.

Quick Links Logo

Google Adsense

PayPal

Alertpay

Bidvertiser

Addynamo

Twiends

Facebook

Twitter

Blogger

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Worldpress

Yola

Feedburner

Concluding remarks

Hoping that you have enjoyed and learned a lot from reading this eBook. From my

experience, I guarantee you success in your blogging journey also positive that you

will receive earnings that equal the level of your effort in marketing your blog.

Feel free to share this eBook with others, your friends, your blog readers and

anyone else, but it should be distributed FREE OF CHARGE. It should not be resold

or redistributed in exchange of any form of income.

Adam Malapa

The blogger

Community Journalist

No 667 Seshego Zone 5B, Polokwane

South Africa, 0742

Web www.limpopocontacts.com

Email adam@limpopocontacts.com

Skype adam.malapa1

AdamTMalapa

Thabelo Adam Malapa