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What Are My Qualifications
To Write This Book

I have written almost 60 hard-bound and paperback books. My books have been translated into eight languages, won awards and one was offered on national television. My solid writing background assures you I know how to put together well-written materials.

But more importantly, I haven't worked a day job in over 15 years. And in the last eight years I've made my living exclusively from my Internet businesses. We've grossed well over $2,000,000.00. I had to learn the hard way how to make a living Online. But Blog Money Secrets is far more than one man's success story. I can help you achieve results similar, with  money spent on your part — and absolutely no risk for you.

1. Finding New Ideas For Blog Articles. Coming up with good ideas to blog about can be a difficult job. Staring at a blank screen can sometimes be daunting. You will find it difficult to write from a vacuum. Even as a professional writer, I've found that it is always easier to write with other people's ideas sitting on my page.

You need data and information and other people's work to stimulate your creativity. You need regular input if you want to write well. There is no such thing as a totally original idea. All ideas are variations of something that someone else has thought out or written about before you. So don't feel timid when you do your research. You can easily highlight something you find and copy it into your blog post page or into your word processor so that you'll have a place to start with your ideas.

Fortunately, most all of the data that you could ever use is right at your fingertips within the vast Internet. Spend time researching online. You will want to use more than one search engine because they will all bring up different results.

2. Develop An Online Research Filing System. As we talk about doing research, let me ask you where you will be putting the information you find? You can certainly print pages from different websites, or you can put different web pages up on your list of favorites, but that will be inefficient for collecting larger amounts of data.

Let me suggest that you create files in BlogJet or your favorite word processor for each of your blogs. In those files, which can be organized in any way that will suit your blog subject matter, you will have a place to put your research data. You can organize by keywords (although they will certainly overlap) or by basic sub topics that are related to your over all niche.

Within this system you should be able to keep track of different threads of information that you will want to track and build upon. As you find data that appeals to you, open a new file under the basic hierarchy of your outline so that you can find what you're looking for and save it there.

If you're on a windows computer, all you have to do is highlight the copy within a page and copy and paste it into the correct word processor file. Be sure to copy also the location of your source, especially the page where you found the information, so that you don't have to go searching for it later.

3. Using the Search Engines. For your niche blogs, familiarize yourself with what's already available online. When you use Google, click on the preferences link and set the number of listings that are reported back to you from the default of 10 to a maximum of 100 listings per search. This will save you a lot of time and allow you to look down deeper into the search results for the sites few people are seeing. You can do the same with MSN, although they will return only 50 listings on the maximum setting. If your niche subject tends to be a little deep, you can also try Google Scholar where you'll find articles written by library and academic sources.

4. Using Other Websites For Content. One of the things every human writer/editor can and should do, is to use other websites to help them build their content. If you look at what other professional bloggers are doing (and by "professional" I mean people who are making a living at blogging), you'll discover they often put up a post on new products they have found on someone else's website. They might even put a picture of that product and quote the source site.

This is a great way to expand your site's content. Quoting other people is a lot less work than coming up with totally original material. And if you make some comments about the site or product or whatever it is that you are referring to, then you are adding value to the original material. And if you learn to use the trackback function that is built into so many blog software platforms, you can actually get a link back to your site in the process. (See the chapter on trackbacks, etc.).

This type of syndicated writing is very common and totally acceptable, especially if you are giving credit back to your source. You'll find that when a news article breaks that the same basic story will be told in just about everyone's article, unless they had a different source on the same story. This is usually acceptable as long as you are quoting the source and giving credit where credit is due.

Years ago I learned that if you lift the words from only one source it is considered plagiary; but if you "borrow" from many sources it is seen as "masterful research". Remember, Solomon was the one who first wrote that there is nothing new under the sun. Almost everything we read or see is a variation upon something else that someone has written or said. We are all stimulated by many different sources, so don't be afraid to take someone else's work and run it through your own mind and your own word processor. That's usually the difference between breaking the copyright law and being seen as a free thinker.

5. Using Ezines. There are many online magazines (or ezines) that will email to you content information on various niche topics. You can do a search for "ezine + (your keywords)" and you will no doubt discover a number of ezine directories which have online magazines on your topics. Ezines often offer directories filled with thousands of old free articles which are available to be republished for free. Probably the best part of an ezine is that it is serving up what it feels is new and popular right to your front door via your email address.

By the way, I would suggest that you set up several different email addresses for these subscriptions, perhaps at hotmail.com or some other free service, where you won't have to worry about clogging your personal email address.

6. How to Do Blog Research. You will definitely want to do some research into what other blogs are available on the Net on your topic subjects. If you don't know by now, blogs are a great source for what is new and "happening" within many different niche communities. The first place you should go is Technorati.

Subscribe to any RSS feed that Technorati or Bloglines has on your subject. This will speed up your writing and posting by giving you ideas about what your competitors are doing. Look for authoritative blogs in your niche and study them to see where they're getting their material from. If you can, find at least five other top blogs that are writing on the same subject as your blog.

I give some information about how to use Technorati in an earlier article, so you can go back to it to figure out just how it works. My Blog Money Secrets Toolkit, which is coming soon, will provide a big list all sorts of blog resources that you'll find extremely helpful.

You might want to check out and find a favorite RSS reader like FeedDemon or Newsgator. Or you might want to visit pages like PageFlakes, NetVibes, Yahoo or Google Reader.

7. Using News Sites. What is new in the news is always of interest to people. As long as you don't copy the whole article, and as long as you give credit to your source and even provide links to it, you should be good on copyright issues. Try searching on a regular basis of the popular news sites like msnbc.com and CNN and Yahoo. Keep track of Google News Alerts. That's a great source for content.

8. Manufacturer Sites. This is an area it would be easy to forget, but if you are seeking to write about golf, by all means you will want to subscribe to the feeds of companies who create golf equipment. Keep in touch with the people who feed your market with products. They'll obviously be overjoyed to have you talk about their new products.

9. Use Press Releases. Manufacturers aren't the only ones issuing press releases on a wide variety of subjects. Search the press release sites on a regular basis using your keywords, or sign up for their RSS feeds. Try checking out sites like prweb.com for their daily releases.

These short product related articles are designed to be copied by the companies that issue them. The easiest way to find press releases is to go to sites that are dedicated to many different companies. Here are three of the best sites:

http://www.prweb.com
http://www.webwire.com
http://www.afreepress.com/afreepress/index.cfm

These companies get their press releases from a wide variety of companies. If you have a blog that is specific to a particular product or manufacturer, you would probably want to go directly to them and sign up for their RSS feed for their latest releases. This is a valuable service for your readers, because they don't have the time or inclination to search out all of these new releases. They may become strong fans of your blog if you provide this for them.

10. Sign Up For Aggregator Inputs. For research purposes look over the subjects of your interest to find other sources of information to feed your blogs. Once you have found blogs or websites that you like and which you can quote, be sure and put their RSS feeds into an aggregator so that you can have content delivered to you in a timely fashion.

A Feed Reader or Aggregator is what blog readers use to get feeds to which they are interested from blog sites they like. If you don't know how to do this, I will discuss this more later in dealing with RSS and how to use it. You will want to find and subscribe to RSS news feeds and press release feeds in the areas of your niche. This will give you an ongoing source of brand new material to upon which to build your blog content. You might even want to automatically publish some of these feeds in your blog if they are pertinent to your subject.

11. Search The Forums. You can search for "forum + your keywords" in Google and Yahoo and find different places where people are talking about your subject. Browse around and see what things people are commenting upon and follow links on those comments.

NEXT: Should You Create Syndicated Content

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Throwing Enough Mud On the Wall...
One of the big secrets that you should understand, is that you will probably not make much money if you have just one blog. The real power in building AdSense and affiliate income is having a lot of websites and blogs. This dramatically increases your ability to get traffic and also to get "clicks."