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“How To Make Money” is a very saturated niche in the world of blogging. Wayne Liew Dot Com is not a “How To Make Money” blog as I don’t specifically blog on things that will help you make money. Normally, a blog on “How To Make Money” will have a lot of followers. There are a few reasons on why a money making blog will have literally no visitors and followers which I will point out in this post.

Free Hosting

This is a major but logic problem. Setting up a money making blog on those free hosts like Blogger really makes the blog looks cheap. If a blogger or webmaster is really making money, why can’t he afford himself a paid host which is very cheap nowadays? Even some bloggers who are not earning money online and don’t monetize their blogs can afford a paid host, why can’t these so-called money making experts afford it?

Writer Not Earning
When you want to start an online money making blog, be sure that you are already making a fortune from the Internet. If not, don’t start the blog. No people will follow you with your first time and not guaranteed experiments. Don’t ever think of faking your earnings, people know how much substance that you have when they read your articles.

Banner Spam Sites
Newbie money making sites tend to have more banners than words. Readers will simply look at these sites as spam sites and leave immediately. There is no way you can make money by simple putting tones of affiliate banners up without any relevant contents.

Using Nicknames
Do you notice that more and more information bloggers are disclosing their names in their blog rather than using their nicknames? This is to improve our credibility. We exist and we back our contents with our names and personality. When you put your real name up, people will trust what you write more since the contents have been supported with your own name.

Shallow Coverage On Services
Shallow reviews on a money making service or just some good reviews of a money making service won’t make people sign up under you. Although pointing out a bad of a money making service might seems to you that you are driving people from signing up under you, you actually gave a clearer view of the service and I bet visitors will be more willing to sign up if they think they have seen much of the bad things and they think they can handle it.

One Way Traffic

Have you came across articles that keep pushing you to sign up for something or to buy a product? Will you really go and sign up because they tried all their best stuffing the thing into your pocket? No, right? This is another logic. People need time to think. Successful pre-sale articles can make a product sell without applying pressure on a customer. If your push your customers too hard, they will leave and without your customers, your business is as good as dead.

Conclusion
Do you own a money making blog? Maybe you can try sharing with me how hard it is to maintain your blog or some wonderful experiences you came across. Do you come across a money making blog which you really enjoy their contents and what makes you leave these money making blogs? Tell me about it.

The yell above can be heard around the blogosphere but I am not one of it, rest assured! Wayne Liew Dot Com is still doing fine and many thanks to you because you are reading. John Cow wrote “How To Measure Your Blog’s Success” which I find it interesting to blog about. After reading that post, what if you checked your stats and found that your traffic has declined? Choy!

Do you check your stats daily and yell with every rise or fall? What is the frequency of you visiting your stats counter? I don’t do it daily and you shouldn’t, unless you have invested millions into your blog. A steep drop in of the line might be due to the following reasons:

• Holidays - During holidays, your visitors normally will not have access to the Internet and thus, not visiting your blog for a particular period is a normal thing.
• Contents - This is either you are not posting for that particular day or your post for that day is not interesting. If you have been maintaining a steady amount of traffic, you should not worry and remedial action to check out what have went wrong is crucial rather than whining.
• Server Down - You might not know, during the hours that you are sleeping, that the server you host your blog with had gone down. When this happens, the traffic might drop but if your contents have the quality that it should have, people will come back. Don’t be relaxed if you host your blog with free hosts like Blogger because their server might go down just like any other site.

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There’s a huge increase in blog comments in the blogosphere and comments are getting more important in the eyes of bloggers. The rise might also be due to the fact that many blogging gurus like Darren Rowse from Problogger.net (even if he is already a pro, he still hops around and leaves comments) which recommend that commenting on other blogs, either big or small, will bring some traffic for you.

The tips that I am going to share with you is how can you comment strategically to get attention for your comments and eventually get some clicks to your site.

The Art Of Commenting:

Relevance - This is always the important as to get your comment under the post is to make it relevant to the topic. Don’t ever think of spamming by saying “Hi!” and then placing a link below your comment. You will get nothing but getting a block for spamming and even an appeal letter to Akismet will not get you out of the spammer jail.

There’s no need for you to place a link in each and every one of your comment. First, you will get tired of typing it very fast! Second, do you realized that most of the blogs enable you to input your blog or site URL when you comment?

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I am sure that most of you will use a counter or a stat system to monitor the activities of your readers and with the tools you are using, it will normally shows how long in average that your visitors stayed on your blog like the one below if you are using Google Analytics.

All of you in average stayed on my blog for about 4 minutes and I think this is quite reasonable as my blog is still new and most of my posts are not long. Some of you might have been noticing about this and chose to ignore it but I can tell you, this shows the readability and quality of your contents. Of course, all of us have come-and-go traffic which stayed for not even 5 seconds and also loyal readers who really read what you wrote, like Sean, yung ., and Monkey Wong in Wayne Liew Dot Com which they tagged me before.

I would like to share with you 5 things that will make your readers stay long and not close your page at the time they load your blog. This is important as if they are your first-time visitors, you would like them to stay a little longer and see what you offer, deciding whether to come back or not next time.

Consistency on quality of contents – Writing quality posts is always the key to bring in visitors. If you visitors and readers knew by mouth or through others’ recommendation that your contents are good, they will wait for a reasonable amount of time to look at what had attracted their friend to recommend them. This will mean that every article of yours will need to be consistent as you’ll never know when will a new visitor comes and what article is on top of you home page.

If you are using a self-hosted Wordpress blog, you can actually get to know what your best performing article is by using the Popularity Contest Plugin and try to emulate it in each of your posts as that may be what your readers love most.

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