Earning Money

I have probably said it a dozen times and let me say it again: without traffic, you won’t make money. It’s the truth. You can’t just throw a site up and say “yes, I’m making money.” Nope. You have to get traffic to that site and you have to constantly get more. That can be difficult; trust me, I know. I have a hard time getting traffic too, but I think I may have found an idea that really could work. It’s called rssHugger. rssHugger is a new way to get people to see your blog posts, click on a link and appear at your blog.

The way it works is that you sign up and pay one of two costs. The first is $10.00, but you have to write a blog post about the site. But really, it’s not all that hard. Look at what I’m writing about: the site. It gives me a blog post and it gives the site more advertising. So, anyways. You pay $10.00, write a blog post and then your site is up. Or you can pay $20.00 and then have your site up. If you want to see an example of what you get for paying the money, whether the first plan or the second plan, click here.

There is a top 100 section that shows the 100 most active blogs. It’s cool, but the big fear is that those massive blogs will be at the top and the big guy will win again. But, here’s the trick. Those that promote it the most get the most. You see, the way to increase your ranking on the top one hundred section is to get people to look at your rssHugger page. By showing people that, your rank goes up and then more people may click on it. And, at the first of the month, it restarts and goes back to zero. So, if you don’t get new people to click on it, you won’t get the maximum traffic.

Alright…That’s a very rough understanding of what it is. I recommend you try it out. It’s new right now, so the ten bucks may seem expensive, but it’s for ten years, so that’s a dollar a year. That’s pretty good advertising. Even if you only get ten readers a month, that’s one hundred and twenty readers a year and that’s an incredible CPC. So, I recommend trying it out. It’s definitely a site that I recommend and I really think it’s well worth the money for the future. Good luck with it and I hope you can get a ton of traffic from it.

Update:

It appears that the community has spoken and now rssHugger does not cost a thing if you write a blog post about it.  If you still don’t want to write about it (which I may have to do for some of my own blogs) then just pay the $20.00 and you’ll get your blog listed.  But, I think this will definitely help the site get bigger, get more traffic to it and benefit the rest of us all tremendously.  Nicely done!

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If you remember back to July, I talked about how I had gotten one RSS subscriber and I was ecstatic. It had made my day and it had given me a lot of motivation to really try and increase my productiveness because I wanted to so desperately get that to two and then four and then eight and then sixteen and…Well, do I really need to keep going? Unfortunately, that did not happen. It did go to two and then one, but nothing extravagant. Fortunately, that has changed and I am seeing wonderful progress. However, that is not what this is about today…What this is about is FeedBurner.

FeedBurner was purchased by Google a few months ago and what it provides is an exceptional way to determine JUST how many RSS subscribers you have. With a numerous number of different tools, you can put a number up there that shows how many you have, put a link, put a button (like the one I have) up there. The truth is, the options are endless. What you are trying to do is get more and more people to CLICK that so that they subscribe. And then the site keeps track of how many readers you had to your site via the RSS feed. It really can be somewhat exciting when you see that number grow so exceptionally large.

Now, there are other things, though, that they offer. Although I have yet to try it, there is a degree of monetization possible. It is based off of an invite only system which means that you need to be appealing to them before you’re invited. While I have not been invited, I know that others have and there is some money to be made. However, with the purchase by Google, we can all assume that Google Adsense will begin to appear in the RSS feed, thus making it even more profitable to have a nicely sized RSS feed. The more people you have, the better it looks and the more likely you’ll make money. That’s the key, huh?

FeedBurner tracks the number of subscribers for you, it provides you with buttons to try and provoke people to join, and it gives you the chance to monetize it, among so many other things. I like to work hard on getting my RSS feed up because I understand the importance of such feeds. With Google holding it, FeedBurner is only going to get bigger and stronger and I recommend you join and begin to build your RSS feed as well. It’s really quite easy to build it: just offer unique content and make sure that they know it exists. Them knowing it exists is the key point. Here’s an example how:

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