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Your blog needs traffic. With traffic, you have readers, and if your aim is to make money, an income. Discover how to attract visitors to your blog, the easy way.

Traffic is the holy grail of bloggers. When I read online forums in which bloggers talk about traffic generation however, most bloggers make it more difficult than it really is.

So let's look at five easy ways you can get traffic.

1. Keep posting to your blog - you need good content, and a lot of it

A blog isn't a blog without lots of great content. The more posts you have, the more readers will find you. It really is that simple; you must generate content that people want to read.

2. Use social networking tools, like Twitter

Once you have good content, you need ways to turn casual readers into regular readers. Social networking tools like Twitter help. You can update Twitter when you write a new blog post, and when you have something to share with your readers.

3. Promote your RSS feed

Encourage readers to subscribe to your RSS feed. Most of your visitors are unfamiliar with RSS, so you'll need to explain what a feed is, and how to read news feeds.

4. Visit forums and promote in your signature file

Forums are fun; not only will you interact with others, learning more about blogging and your niche, you'll also win traffic.

Share your blog's URL in your signature file. Most forums allow this. Ensure you know what the forum rules are, so you don't break them.

5. Use the free classifieds sites

There are many online classifieds sites, and many are free. Why not advertise your blog?

You'll get more readers, and you'll get those readers who are unfamiliar with blogging. There's a big wide world of readers outside the blogosphere, and your challenge is to get them to your blog. Advertise, and they will come.

So there you have five easy and fun ways to get traffic to your blog. Get started putting the methods into action today.

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Many people already use blogging to supplement their income and promote their existing businesses. Blogging can also be a fun way to express yourself in a personal way, but can you really make a living solely by blogging? There are many ways to turn blogging into your primary business and "monetize" for income, so I set out to explore one of these ways in detail.

Promoting products by writing articles and ad promotions about them is the type of work I looked into to use with my blog. This work at home business model has become very popular and now there are companies selling their own methods of doing this, calling it "Global Data Entry." Article writing and ad promotion are part of the Global Data Entry work at home business and two of the most popular programs of this type are from "My Data Team" and "Web Colleagues."

I ordered both systems to be able to compare them for myself and see if they met my needs. They are priced at about fifty dollars and both offer a crash course in the basics of Internet marketing. You don't "need" a website to do either of these programs but I think you would be more successful if you had one. One of the free blogs available just might do the trick as an alternative but promotional links, without a personal, permanent web address, tend to get "looked down on" in the marketplace.

You could promote the products you are advertising on your blog to make it more personal for your readers and customers, which would increase commissions; as opposed to just advertising links without a "home" connected to a real person. But you must also advertise your blog at the same time that you promote your programs, all over the Internet.

I also found that the time frames mentioned in both programs for success was too short, both for the daily time frames and how quickly you could profit. Each step took me much longer than they suggested it would, and I'm not new to the Internet.

Here are the main points of each program:

My Data Entry -

Traditional data entry jobs like virtual secretary, etc. with training and some article marketing tips

Marketing products through ads & links on the Internet, with many posting sources for advertising in many places

Helpful link submission and ad submission software

Nice bonuses included for additional income

Web Colleagues -

If you don't like making 3 paragraph articles, this program might scare you at first, but it offers a lot creative writing instructions for anyone to be able to do this.

Helpful article creation software for research and making quick articles

Large bank of companies specifically for article marketing since this is the main focus of their program

Nice bonuses included for additional income

Both programs are detailed and required a solid week of registration and training each. They were tedious for me to set up since there are so many advertising and submission sources to register with, using every source as they outlined. There are also several areas that overlap information in each program, like submitting to this article bank. I do suspect many people don't persist and do each step in its entirety, since it becomes so tiresome to set-up. These are real online jobs and they require real preparation and work on the computer keyboard.

Overall, I personally found Web Colleagues to be more current with Internet trends, as things seem to be shifting yet again. I enjoy writing articles much more than writing short line ads, which would also explain why Web Colleagues has become much more effective for me; especially to integrate with my blog. Writing an article to post with the submission software is less work for me than posting ads individually, since there are so many places to post to.

Since I found My Data Team to be more laborious work for me, I'm going to continue to pursue the Web Colleagues program in conjunction with my blog, for making an income online. Blogging for profits fits better with this type of program and I find it easier for me.

Cj Kidd strives to help as many people as possible to succeed online and dedicates her time to researching, Internet Marketing and writing when not enjoying her family and the Mazatlan beach. Are you ready to join her in this blogging for profits quest from your own home? Visit http://abovethecurve.blogspot.com to find what you can use to become truly successful online, with affiliate programs and a small budget.

An honest review of Blogging To The Bank 2.0 ebook by Rob Benwell.

By now I think most people in the world know about blogs. What most don't know as there is a great income to be made as well for free.

Rob Benwell is only a mere 22 years old and has already made a fortune using this method. Early last year he sharing his secrets with the world in his highly successful Blogging To The Bank ebook and has made making money online a whole lot easier for everyone.

Blogging to the bank 2 has been released to keep up with the changing web, and it now at the cutting edge of blogging for website traffic and income generation.

Rob doesn't consider himself a guru, he just had time to develop these techniques and get them working. It's nice to have a book that is written in a simple style, and the bonus software is a godsend.

Some of the chapters are pure genius whilst I found some frustrating because he was covering the basics. That said, that is a personal opinion and what matters is that I learned a lot I didn't know, and more importantly made money with his techniques.

You also get his 5 blogging commandments that you must follow to give you blogs the greatest success. This should be printed out and put on the wall of every online marketer without a doubt! His book starts off with market research (so that you are making the most of your time) to building your blogging empire.

So in summary Blogging to the bank was a real winner for me. If you are online and trying to make money it is important to realise that some pages are good for selling, but not for attracting traffic. Blogs are great to get traffic to a website or affiliate product you are promoting. You can also make alot of money with Google AdSense with blogger. On the basis of I have tried Blogging to the bank and made money with it, I highly recommend it.

Why waste time and money when blogging for website traffic? - Blogging to the bank tells you all you need to know.