I must say that phrase earn money blogging or blogging for profit is the attraction for people to start their blog. They are eager to find out if pro blogging can make real money.  I can say that superstar bloggers can earn money blogging. If you don’t want to be just another amateur blogger, you need to build yourself to be a rising star blogger first before you can reach the level of a superstar blogger.  What does it take to be a superstar blogger? I would share some advices that I  put them into practice.

Technical Aspects

1. Learn blogging via blog tutorials.

Well, if you are serious to make pro blogging as your career or your business, you need to understand the techniques and the complexity. You have to learn from blog tutorials.

2. Use paid hosting blog

If you are using a free hosting blog, the blog is not yours. You don’t want to put your blog on the risk of being closed right? You need to take a good paid webhosting to host your blog. Don’t use redirect in order to continue your blog in blogspot. You can export the blog content from blogspot to worpress blog. I have a friend who kept his blogspot blog and use redirect when he used paid hosting blog. When google closed his blogspot blog that he had built for months, he had no longer blog in his domain name. There is cheap personal webhosting which costs $3 monthly but my advice is to choose a good reliable webhosting which starts from $ 5 onward monthly.

3. Invest in software

Don’t be frugal if you need to spend for softwares. You need softwares to increase your blog rank and popularity in search engine. Magic Article Software will help you to spin your article into different versions to be submitted to articles directory. Someone asked me if there was an automation software to produce articles. There is no such software. I would say that your articles reflect your expertise, you need to write them by yourself. If you want to spin them into different versions of articles, I would say yes. You also need  Email Marketing to retain your readers  or build your list. I installed Email Marketing for my other blogs, Resources for Moms and Kids and my training centre, Internet Business Strategy.

Non Technical Aspects

1. You must have a passion to write

I guess not everyone is a writer when they start blogging and they still search for the right profitable keywords. You need to exercise using keywords for writing your blog content. Practice will make perfect.  Ideas are around you, you need to dig around.  You can do research from yahoo or google search and articles directory  to get ideas what other people write in your niche.

2. Discipline and Persistence

You are enthusiastic to create a blog  for the first time. Do you still have the same level of enthusiasm over months or years to maintain your blog? I have seen people abandon their blog because of boredom and lack of enthusiasm. Blogging is a lonely world, you need to exercise self-discipline to update your blog and have a persistence to go for your goal.

I believe that the money reward will come eventually if your blog have traffic.  You can sell blogging products because you know them well.  It is impossible for a person to promote a webhosting package and other softwares if he himself is using free hosting blog.  When you aim for pro blogging or blogging for profit, you will sell products and show your  expertise through your blog.  People will buy from you because of your expertise and you know the products well.

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I believe that every pro blogger is working on links building for their professional blog.  Links building is part of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to bring a higher page rank for your professional blog. If you have many sites link to your blog, your blog crawls to higher rank in the search engine and your blog will receive more traffic.

Conventional Ways of Links Building

The conventional ways of links building that most bloggers do are:

Exchange Links. Exchange links with other blogs to generate two ways links. Of course, you favor popular blogs to exchange links with your blog but the owner of popular blog is often reluctant to exchange links with new bloggers. So, this is an obstacle for a newbie.

Submit Your Blog to Blog Directories. A good blog directory such as Technorati may take months to review your blog especially if your blog is new.  Other blog directories require you to put banners on your blog as an exchange link.

Leave Comments at Other Blogs. Choose popular blogs in your niche to leave comments. Be the first to leave a comment so others will see your comment. Give a constructive comment so others will appreciate your comment and they will be attracted to find your blog. You can leave your blog signature or hyperlink text inside the comment box as long as the hyperlink text is relevant and not spamming.

Using conventional ways of links building will make your professional blog is crowded with a long list of blogroll and plenty of banners. It also takes time to look for popular blogs and leave comments.

Smart Article Marketing Strategies for Links Building

Although you can continue to practice the conventional ways of links building above, pro blogger has another way of links building by using article marketing strategies.  When you write articles for articles directory, you build one way links for your professional blog and you have no obligation to link their sites in your blog.

Article Marketing Strategies

1. Use keywords in your article.
2. Submit your best article to Ezine Articles,  the number 1 rank in article directories.  If they find your articles are good, they will feature your articles in their directory and you will earn an Expert Author Title.  Your articles will be viewed by more people and you can leave your blog URL inside the resources box and within the text.  Please read the Ezine Article Editorial Guidelines before you submit the article, your keywords must be less than 2%. Do not be disappointed when the first article submission fails, you can revise and resubmit again.  When you write more articles to Ezine Article directory, you will be rewarded with higher Author title.
3. Produce more articles by using synonyms and a tactic of changing active sentences to passive sentences.   I would recommend Magic Article Software for Magic Article Rewriter and Magic Article Submitter Software. You can produce hundreds of unique spin articles by writing one article and submit your spin articles to a thousand of article directories by using this software. Please view the demo.  You save your time for writing multiple articles and you can automate your spin articles submission to their recommended article directories. You do not even have to visit the article directories one by one and all is done automatically by the software.

Use Article Marketing Strategies above for links building to your professional blog. Your professional blog will crawl higher rank in search engine with links building.  You will find your page rank improve after using article marketing strategies.  I am using  Check page Rank. My  Resources for Moms and Kids blog is ranked no. 3 and my guide to pro blogging blog is ranked no. 2. As your page rank goes higher, your professional blog will receive more pingbacks from other sites who pick up your blog posts.  Of course, you must write good content in your professional blog.

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Most of bloggers who are doing pro blogging know how WordPress plugins can benefit their professional blog. Tips on how to install wordpress plugins are simple with the advance of WordPress version. There are 2 ways to install WordPress plugins:

• Search all kinds of plugins from your WordPress blog, install and activate immediately from your blog.
• Download the plugins and save them to your PC.  The WordPress Plugins come from other sources outside your WordPress blog. Then, you can upload them back to your blog.

You can  get more WordPress plugins from WordPress Org or  other sites such as Maxblogpress Plugins. Maxblogpress offers free plugins but with the preconditions that you subscribe to their newsletters and write a blog post about their plugins.

The key points that you shall consider when you choose WordPress plugins :

• Popularity and Rating. High rating or popular plugins means more bloggers use the plugins and they are likely reliable.
• The latest date of the plugins update. The plugins which have the date of latest update one or two years ago may no longer be supported by the author. So, don’t use these old plugins.

I did add old WordPress plugins once and they didn’t function properly because the author already abandoned the plugins.  Finally, I found that Google Feedburner can act as a twitter updater and it is working well for my professional blog. I also use Link Within instead of WordPress related posts plugin. You can use these 2 plugins for your free hosting blogs such as blogspot. Keep in mind that it is not compulsory you choose WordPress plugins for your pro blogging. You can choose other plugins as long as they work well with your WordPress blog. To all pro bloggers: explore and find more plugins to add them to your professional blog. More plugins will benefit your pro blogging.  If you want to learn tips and trick of all WordPress plugins and  pro blogging,  please join Blog Cash Coaching

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Frankly speaking, writing ideas for professional blogging come from your knowledge. As I learn and read more, I have more ideas to write my blog posts or even articles. The prerequisite for writing your good blog post or articles:

• You must have rough ideas what keywords you will use and research them well through  Google Keywords Tool.
• Create a captivating title using your keywords. Title about values, tips, benefits will attract readers.

The next step is to brainstorm ideas for writing your professional blogging. You can get writing ideas from the following sources:

1. PLR Articles.  You can read and get ideas from PLR articles. The good and fresh sources of PLR articles is All Private Label Content
2. Articles Directory. Articles Directory is a very good source of good articles because all articles listed in the directory are screened and approved. The number one articles directory is Ezine Articles.
3. Google search or Yahoo Search. Type in your keywords or your short title in Yahoo or Google search box and you can browse through the list to get ideas.
4. Google Alerts. Subscribe to Google Alerts based on your keywords. If you plan to use the keywords over and over again, it’s a better idea to subscribe to Google alerts.
5. Discussion Forum. Go to discussion forum and look for topics that have your keywords or you can start your own discussion using your keywords and get ideas from real people.

I use sources 1 to 4 to get ideas for writing my professional blogging. Occasionally, I use discussion forum to get ideas from real people who response to my question.  Discussion Forum is a good place to find the hot or trend topic that people are discussing about.

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Do you want to monetize your blog? Most of bloggers would say “YES”. But, there is prerequisite that you have to do before you think of profitable blogging. First, you need to have good blog content with profitable keywords. Secondly, you need to have traffic first before you can monetize your blog. I would say that joining professional blog coaching is the short cut towards profitable blogging. Through professional blog coaching, you save your time and you learn professional blogging effectively and continuously. Time is crucial as your blog competes with other blogs.

It is known that WordPress is the best blogging platform. You can learn how to set up a WordPress blog through documentation provided by wordpress.org or you can learn it fast through professional blog coaching. I find that watching video tutorials is the easiest way to understand on how to set up a WordPress blog.

I share 3 tips on how to choose blog coaching:

1. Look for quality not pricing. You can get affordable professional blog coaching at affordable cost nowadays. Thanks to emerging professional blogger in Asia who offers professional blog coaching.
2. Do they provide technical support?
3. Do they provide value added services such as traffic generation, auto bookmarking or other bonuses apart from tutorials?

Please visit Blog Cash Coaching which is value for money as they provide video tutorials, excellent technical support and value added services such as traffic generation or link building, monthly surprise bonus and many more.  Learning through blog coaching is far superior than buying an e-book guide. You will know how to set up a WordPress blog within a week if you take blog coaching.  Consider blog coaching as your learning investment.  It is for long-term learning as you learn new techniques every month to develop and monetize your blog.

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If you decide to be a professional blogger, you must do research and planning before you write your blog post.  Good and interesting blog posts will draw people attention. Basically, you need to put values in your blog content to benefit your readers.

Some key points to write a good blog post are:

1. Use number and interesting phrases in your title. For example: 7 tips or how to.
2. Break your blog post into small paragraphs such as introduction, body and conclusion.
3. Use relevant images to add color for your blog if it is necessary.
4. Use keywords in the title and content. You can use 1 to 3 keywords for every 100 words.
5. Include other variety such as headings, sub headings, bold, italics, color fonts, bullets or list points if you need to.
6. Write 200 words or more per post. If you can write more, please do so. Search engine don’t like either a very short blog post or a very long blog post.

Practice will make perfect. I experienced this myself.  Inculcate habit of writing good blog posts will benefit you because you will emulate the traits of professional blogger. You will get used to do research on keywords prior to writing your blog post. Your writing skill will improve and your writing style reflects your personality eventually.

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