My Third Step Way To Make Money Online

Actually, I'm trying not to include this post on my Make Money Online With Donny. Why? Because I'm assuming that some intelligent readers would think that I'm insulting their intelligence. I just want to say this in reality that some people or bloggers do not know the parts of their blog. They just go on blogging to make money online alone.

Why is it important to know the parts of your blog?

The parts of your blog is the one that speaks to your site. There are some visitors which are not familiar to your site and just go to the parts of your blog just for instance your "LABELS" or "CATEGORIES" where they will able to look for the topic of their interest. If you do not have these parts, the visitors will just leave your site and look for another one where they will satisfied their needs. This is what I would like to tell you guys. Visitors of your site are our customers. If you really want to make money online, improve your service first. You will think that this is a little old fashion rule but it really works as an experienced blogger. I know that this blog is an ugly one, but if you take a look with its content, it serves full of important informations in which my readers would satisfy.

Lets begin with our next step....

Understanding the Parts of Your Blog


There are several parts of your blog. Each parts are important to make your readers would see what they want to see on your blog.

• Homepage - this is the landing page of your readers or visitors. It is important that you must create a Homepage where your readers are comfortable to stay with. You have many options on how to create your homepage. You can create your homepage with stunning or eye catching logo and background to drive more visitors. In my case, I just choose the plain color light yellow background with the attracting short message on top of it as " This ugly blog will teach you the step by step ways to Make Money Online". It sounds different but it makes sense. This is the way I made my homepage to attract my visitors.

Homepage must include the following important parts or elements:

• About Me Page - This page will contain an information about yourself. Important things that must see on this page are : your short background which tells about your short family background, picture (optional), present work, description of your interest, which relates the reason why you are the best blogger on the subject matter, your contact would also love to see by your readers ( others prefer their contact separated with other page) so that they can get in touch with you whenever they need your assistance related to your blog.
  

• Contact Page Information - A what I've said above, this can be done on a separate page. What informations that you need to be included here? For me, I prefer only my email address. You can also add your other contact information like friendster account, facebook, multiply or twitter. Some other include their cellphone numbers but only I prefer not to include. Why? If ever your readers call you while you are on your other important task to be prioritize first, you cannot entertain him immediately by anwering his call. If that happened, your readers would take it negative and make them drive away from your site. That really happens.
  

• Categories - to help your readers find what they are looking for, it is important to create your blog categories. This should be updated so that the readers can easily track in to the topic they want to see especially for those broad topics. Make it specific. You can also use of your keywords but overusing it may get you into trouble of spam.

• Archive by dates can also be useful for the readers especially those who are willing to see update on your blog by dates.

• Blog rolls - this is a list of links to a blog which other blogger really likes it. Others do it by exchange of links. I really don't advise you to do exchange of links. at this time. But I would like to say, trust me for this for the meantime for I will explain it to you on my other post. Doing it by categories is a very good approach. This blogroll will also helps to drive visitors especially those relates to their topic of interest.

• Subscription Options - This has something to do with the RSS. So, what is RSS? RSS means Really Simple Syndication. Do you see the orange color small button at the bottom of this blog? That is RSS. It gathers all information in a single location in the form of feed and can be read through feed reader. Popular feed reader are Google reader and Bloglines. You can create your account there for you to received updated contents of the blog.
  

How will you create an RSS feed to your blog?

• Blogging software like Blogger.com or wordpress have RSS feed built-in. You can just add it your blog. For Blogger.com, just ADD GADGET and look for Subscription link. For Wordpress, it is available in their widgets.

• Other ways of creating an RSS to your blog is through feedburner . Remember, when I mentioned in My First Step Way To Make Money Online to tackle lately about setting up your site feed? I will show you how.
  

At Blogger.com, you need to set up your site feed when you used feedburner unlike wordpress, you only need to create your account and make your feed set-up at feedburner. For both blogging software this is how you will do it:

• Create a google account, you can use it to log in to your feedburner account.
  
• Then its time for you to type your own URL or blog address. In my case, http://makemoneyonline-donny.blogspot.com, then click next. If you are a podcaster, don't forget to check "I'm a podcaster". If not, you may not need it.
• Next, your own feed address will be created in the form as shown below. Click image to enlarge. (This is only an example). Click next.
  

• Take note of your feed address in this format: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/wordpress/Nncb. This is the one that you will put in the POST FEED REDIRECT URL on SITE FEED column under SETTINGS of blogger.com ( this will be done later after feedburner activation. Then, click next.

• Then, just check "Clickthroughs "which tracks how people click items back to your site. Then also check, "I want more! Have Feedburner Stats also track". Click next.
  

• The message show that your feedburner is now activated.
• After activation, put the feed address in the POST FEED REDIRECT URL on SITE FEED column under SETTINGS of blogger.com. Then, hit save.
  

You may also set-up your email subscription of your feedburner under PUBLICIZE column. Update will be send automatically to your subscriber once you made a new post in your blog. The code will be provided to be put on your site. If you like the RSS feed sign, just go to Chicklet Chooser of feedburner under PUBLICIZE. The code will be also provided to put on your site. Then, you may complete the settings of your feedburner. I will leave it to you. It's just easy. If you have any questions about this just leave a comment after this post.

• Blogpost - experts says that 75% of your screen page is your blogpost or simply you may apply the rules in blog content that I had mentioned in My Second Step Way To Make Money Online . I recommend 1 post which is the latest one display in your frontpage. The visitors or readers will be able to track immediately for any update you made in your blog. In setting up your blog post. I recommend you to include the following important elements: Date, Title of your post ( must be specific and use your keywords as necessary), author or the writer because some other blogger have multiple authors in their blog, images on your post to show some useful demonstrations like the one I did here in this post as well as my previous post because it also drive traffic especially if your topic is seems to be interesting to the readers, Blog comments, and trackbacks.

I just want to clear something on Blog Comments and Track backs....

Blog Comments is optional to the blogger. Some blogger doesn't like blog comments because of spam issue and they don't like being criticize in the form of comments by their readers. You may close your blog comment if you choose too. The option is they prefer email message as a formal conversation of question and answer. In the other way, I recommend your blog comments open to the readers because it shows a two way communication and other can have an opportunity to join or share their ideas.

Track backs or the links in your blog contents are used to show the original source of information of your blog and the other purpose is to know where your post is linking to in the form of trackbacks.

• Blog footer- is located at the bottom of the homepage. Important elements that may see here are: copyright statement, owner or company name, blogs designer email or webmaster link. You can used this in variety of purposes. You may use this to put your About me page and whatever you think valuable to put here.

These are the basic parts of your blogs. As much as possible, it should be appear in your blog parts. Note: I'm still ongoing for completion of my blog parts. Pardon me, for I'm still busy these past few days....

Make Money Online is the step by step ways. It's not just a candy that you will grab if you like...

That's all my fingers are tired.

Have a nice reading!

-Donny