Important Skill in Blogging - Creativity

Do you face challenges or road blocks to success? How about on turning your blog into money making machine?

Some one says, creativity is a million dollar skill and I believe on this. Without creativity you lost your greatest leverage for producing value. In turn, this will cripple your earning potential as earning in most cases is a function of your ability to product value.

Creativity transforms good ideas into great ideas. Creative thinking can give insight into overcoming challenges. Creativity enhances the ability to problem solve. And the good news is – everyone can be creative.

Tapping into self creative ability is vital to maximize results. Even if you’ve never considered yourself creative, there are proven techniques and approaches to help anyone claim their own creativity. Along with the techniques and approaches to help you become creative, Steve Pavlina defines clearly the ground rules for maximizing your creative output.

Remember, creativity is a million dollar skill and can be learn. Use and maximize your creativity to turn your blog into money making machine.

Build up a Large Readership Online

If I ask you to name a blog you consider very successful, can you name one? Most likely you can name one or maybe more. Ok, let's proceed. Imagine these successful blogs for a moment. Ask yourself what will happen if all of the sudden these blogs will never get a single traffic from search engine today and in the days to come. Will these blogs be still successful? What do you think?If you asked me the same question, I'll answer, yes; they will be still successful even without search engine traffic.

Successful bogs overtime have managed to build huge numbers of readership. Their readers are their source of sustainable traffic. Search engine algorithm can change anytime. Your blog maybe number 1 now from the search engine results but changes can happen anytime. There is no guarantee you will have search engine traffic for a lifetime. Since readers are the source of sustainable traffic and since they are the engine of blogs sustainable success, how to have a large readership is one very important question.

Is there a secret of having a large readership? I begin to make research and this is what I found so far. To build a large readership, you must understand your target audience and know what it is that they want.When you write your post, write it as if there is just one person in your mind. Think of him as a person whom you know intimately, you understand his goals, his dreams, his aspirations and things that really interests him. He is your ideal reader, he soak up every word and he clicks every link you include in each blog post.

You cannot please all the people all of the time. The best strategy is to focus on pleasing the people you can influence. You want people who will take action. You want readers who will click a link because you have recommended a new eBook or a new software product. You want readers who will click the "Buy Now" button and earn you an affiliate commission.Think about what people are usually looking for online. Your job as a blogger is to make that information available.

Your job is to make your content closely match the wants of your target audience.

Other things you can do:
- Stick to making posts regularly
- Stay within your blog's theme
- Encourage feedback
- Respond to questions from your readers
- Keep up to date with the news within the theme of your blog
- Provide your readers with your opinions on relevant and interesting items
- Reveal something yourself in your posts. Your readers are much more likely to trust you if you allow them to get to know you.

When you do all these things, you have learned the ultimate secret on how to have a large readership online.Good luck!

How to Turn Your Adsense Earning from $10 to $800 a Week

I was inspired on the disclosure made by Chris with his Adsense income. Chris is 21 years of age and a university student from Brisbane, Australia. Over the last 12 months he has taken his sites from $10 to $800 a week of Adsense income.

He disclosed how he unfold the true potential of his sites, not just in terms of AdSense but also in terms of SEO and the importance of building a good quality site.

I like to quote his answers to the following questions:

How did you get serious?

I took a bit of a risk, bought a few books about AdSense, SEO and general website development and dropped down to part time uni and started dedicating more time to my websites. I started writing articles that were on topics that people wanted to know about and topics that people were searching for, and I placed these articles into a highly optimized template that was just designed for these articles, then I went about building a few backlinks for these articles to help with the SEO. I’d have periods of maybe a week where everyday I would sit down and write an article two, often three or four, and I’d just keep writing, sharing my knowledge, sharing my expertise.

Why were articles successful?

These articles each focused on an individual search term or topic within my industry. The articles were informative and useful. They were 100% original and completely unique in the industry. They were my thoughts, opinions and beliefs on topics that I was very knowledgeable on. They were detailed and lengthy. And the search engines loved them.

Why did the search engines love them?

Because they were original and unique, and because they were getting backlinks and they were on my established sites which I believe have a fair amount of "TrustRank" because at this point my sites were well over 2 years old and had thousands of backlinks, because I had slowly but surely developed them over the previous two years. Plus the articles were all on niche topics that there wasn’t that much competition for, and I had employed very basic, but very solid SEO techniques. Things like:

- Giving each article an individual highly relevant page title.

- Using meta descriptions and keywords, but not abusing them.

- Using H1 and H2 tags.

- Using good keyword density and specific phrase targeting.

- Using good quality, unique, original and focused content.

- Building some well anchored backlinks.

- With a good navigational system between articles.

- Using an aged domain with good TrustRank.

You can read his story along with the question and answer session that transpire in the following post on Digital Point forums: My 2006 AdSense Summary - From $10/Week to $800/Week. Go, read and learn from him.

He indeed turned his sites into money making machine. You too can!