How to Earn Money Blogging?

While starting a blog can be fun and help others, it can also offer you an income. But by no means is this a get-rich-quick business. If you want to create a site that makes real money, be prepared to put in countless hours of work.

As your blog gains popularity and credibility with readers, your articles will start to rank higher on search engines, which would likely result in higher site traffic. And more visits could mean more money if your blog is properly monetized.

Here are some common ways to monetize your blog.

Affiliate marketing

With this type of marketing, you can earn a commission for every product you refer a reader to. It basically works like this: let’s say you apply to an affiliate program and get approved. You’d then mention a product in a post and link to the online store featuring the product. If a reader clicks on the link and buys the item, the program will give you a piece of the sale.

One popular example is the Amazon Associates program. Once you’re accepted into the program, your commission could range from 4 to 8.5%, depending on how many products are bought in a given month (the more sold, the higher your rate). So helping to sell $4,000 worth of women’s shoes, for example, could mean $160 to $340 in revenue.

Direct advertising

If your site is getting lots of traffic, it’s prime real estate for advertisers. You can generate income by putting direct advertisements, such as banner ads, on your blog.

One way to do this is by signing up with an advertising service, such as BuySellAds, where you can sell space on your blog. How much you earn from direct ads ultimately depends on the average number of views per month that your site pulls in.

Display advertising

Or you may choose to use display advertising, which follows a different revenue model. The most popular option for bloggers is Google AdSense, as it’s relatively easy to implement and free to use.

It works like this: advertisers choose which keywords they’d like to advertise on. For example, an online florist would likely choose to buy an ad that contains the keywords “flower pots” or “gardening tools.”

After you install AdSense on your site, it automatically displays relevant text and image ads based on the topics of your blog posts. So if your blog happens to be about planting roses, the site will likely display the advertiser’s gardening tool ad, instead of something unrelated.

When a visitor clicks on the ad, the advertiser will pay you a fee; this is known as the “pay-per-click” system. The average cost-per-click (CPC) is how much an advertiser is willing to pay for a click on the ad. This depends on how valuable the keyword is to advertisers, who bid on keywords to determine the price.

Your AdSense earnings depend on how many page views your site gets, plus the ad click-through-rate (CTR), which is how often readers click on the ad. For example, if your site gets 1,000 views month and your CTR is 2%, with an average CPC of $2, you’ll make $40 in Adsense revenue a month.

Video blogs

Video blogs (or vlogs) are not only fun to make, but also potentially profitable if you get a strong following. Building a loyal viewership by consistently uploading engaging clips is vital to your success.

Joining YouTube’s partner program is a popular monetizing strategy among vloggers. Once you produce and submit a video, Youtube places ads inside or near the video, and you’ll earn revenue every time someone click or views the ad. Payments are then made through a Google AdSense account.

Electronic books

An electronic book, or e-book, displays your expertise on a topic, increasing your credibility with readers and potentially increasing your income.

With smartphones and iPads exploding in popularity, more and more people are reading content online. In fact, the percentage of adults reading e-books increased to 28% in 2013 from 23% at the end of 2012, according to Pew Research.

There are a few places you can sell your e-book. One is through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform, where your e-book will be available to buy via Kindle devices. Other options include PayLoadz, Lulu, Smashwords and BookBaby.

So how much money can you really make blogging?

Well, in a recent survey of 1,500 readers, ProBlogger.net found that roughly half made less than $99 a month from blogging, while about one in five made between $100 and $499. Less than 10% made between $1,000 and $9,999. And those in the top income brackets have been blogging for at least four years, according to the site.

Remember, blogging isn’t a get-rich-quick business; it’s more like starting a company from the ground up. While a few people make enough money doing it to quit their full-time jobs, the majority of bloggers only earn enough for the occasional fancy dinner.

How to apply for Fun Google Adsense Raiders?

Google Adsense is the most important survival tool for Google, is the world's choice for webmasters to make money, I believe we are not unfamiliar to this.
Before very long years, many webmasters are using Google Adsense to make money, but this year, due to reasons known to all, Google's full line of products in the domestic one banned.
For ordinary people, this means that no circumvention can not use Google, and for the owners, the consequences are serious for the registration and use of multi --Google Adsense have been severely affected.
By this time, the domestic Baidu Union, Sogou Union also strong attack, the major giants have hope in this post-Google era in this industry which ad network share. For ordinary owners, we only need to see the two issues is enough: Do not use Google Adsense? If you do, how should I use?
Not to use Google Adsense?
Answer this question can not be generalized for small sections of the site - such as Lu Songsong blog, because readers are very vertical, so there will certainly be many advertisers are willing to direct advertising, under such circumstances, of course, without any ad network. The more sites - those visitors randomness larger sites, those sites traffic uncertainty, I think it should still use Google Adsense. The following reasons:

1. Price High: Google Adsense unit price is definitely regarded as one of the best in recent years, although the decline, but also the absolute rejection of the domestic league a few blocks, especially doing overseas traffic sites.

2. Do not tax deductible: Google's commission is paid by the US company, paid to you is not tax deductible, of course, give the Bank of China received some of the costs that you go to the bank, but compared to other alliances frequently ten percent tax fee, Google still kind too much.

3. Simple: Google Adsense is very simple to use, if you tried other ad networks, Google Adsense you will marvel at the ease of use and simple, such as Google Adsense does not require registration, but all domestic ad networks are a mandatory requirement record.

4. Restrict less: Many ads Alliance has certain requirements for the type of site traffic, etc., and use Google Adsense, you then do not worry as these, because it's very few restrictions. Various websites can use Google Adsense.
5. Custom: You can display ads do custom processing, in order to fully fit your website style. Many other ad networks or no custom style options.

6. Powerful Reporting: Data Report Google Adsense's best in the world, which allows you to have a sufficient basis to optimize advertising and website content.

7. Optimizer: If only the data reports, that's not much use, but Google Adsense provides some columns tools allow you to make to maximize their own interests.

8. plenty of advertisers: Google Adsense advertisers around the world with the best, which makes you able to find adequate adaptation to your website content ads. This can improve the click-through rate, even for the user experience is also beneficial.

9. Smart Adapter Advertising: Google Adsense algorithms and powerful enough advertisers to ensure that the contents of intelligent adaptation advertising. This means that regardless of the user from any countries and regions, from any industry, Google Adsense can show ads against him, which also means a higher CTR and more user-friendly experience.

10. Payment Credit: Small ad networks are often not reliable, but Google Adsense you can be absolutely assured. For home owners can take advantage of Bank of China to extract dollars.
Besides Google Adsense There commission, high speed and so on. Since there are so many advantages of Google Adsense, then, how can we use it?
The first skill is the wall.
Over the wall is a new generation of Internet users must master the skills, you can use a proxy, Goagnent, VPN, or the like shadowsocks way over the wall, specifically Baidu, anyway, many ways to pay there, there are also free.

Method
First: Apricot (surcharge)

Second: xskywalker browser

Third: http://www.freevpnsakura.com/ set VPN, more trouble. Each time will change the password
After climbing over the wall, we came to Google, sign up for a Google account, such as Gmail account, which is a pass Google services.
Once you have an account, we entered I found Union Google Adsense account registration, fill in the information.

I was previously applied, so there will be those, if you are a first application, and honestly fill out the contents on the line. Finally, click on submit an application.
Google will complete your application within one week, if the application is successful, you will own a Google Adsense account.
You might call me, this is where the new play Well, we are doing so ah. I'm talking about new ways is Google Adsense cooperation in China only authorized service providers - I found alliance.
If you're like me on Google Adsense illiterate, do not know how to use, do not know optimization. But still want to use Google Adsense, then I found the league might be helpful to you.
In an official partner of Google Adsense page (http://www.google.com/adsense/start/partners/partners.html), we search in China, to find such a site.
After understanding the trial found that this site may make Google Adsense glow of life is not the same, especially in the context of the domestic network.
I am not familiar with the search alliance could help Google Adsense Webmaster deploy and optimize Google Adsense ads, Google Adsense although very simple, but after all foreign products, localization doing enough, I found it a very good league made ​​up for it provides grassroots webmaster can understand, analyze data to use.
Moreover, under the authorization of Google, I found a website advertising in the league can also analyze various issues, complete the targeted optimization. Also said to help websites achieve free mobile browser adaptation, in the mobile phone style added advertising, but I have not tried.
The key, I found through alliances (adsense.woso.cn) platform, Google AdSense is no longer required to apply for registration over the wall, they have a professional team responsible for one of the guide, and one day be able to down the account (this is really efficient).
Use the site to make money, become more and more difficult, more and more simple, on the one hand, because of the Internet bubble, the flow more and more worthless, on the other hand, a variety of excellent products from all aspects to increase individual value traffic. This increases the traffic really want all sites, but so that each flow have played the greatest value - the user experience and select ad networks, optimizing the use of tools, but more critical.

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關閉 Facebook 影片自動播放

近期 Facebook 更新後，不管是在手機或電腦端開啟 Facebook 頁面瀏覽時，都會自動播放塗鴉牆上的影片，好處是不用按播放鍵，塗鴉牆看到哪，影片放到哪，看起來是個很方便的服務，但萬一手機上網沒有 3G 吃到飽，這些自動播放的影片，吃得都是流量啊！如果你不是吃到飽一族，趕緊將 Facebook 這個功能關掉，看管好手機的流量。

Windows 7 忘記登入密碼 - 解決方法

將Windows 7的安裝光碟、修復光碟或WinPE開機光碟放進光碟機，設定BIOS為光碟開機，詳見：設定BIOS的開機順序為光碟優先。當出現下圖所示的畫面，按鍵盤的「Enter」，使用光碟開機。使用光碟開機也可以按鍵盤的快速鍵〈宏碁的電腦按「F12」，華碩的電腦按「ESC」，其他品牌詳見：常用的筆記型電腦開機快速鍵〉，顯示開機選單，再選擇要開啟的裝置。

 在開啟的命令提示字元視窗輸入以下指令, 之後關閉退出。

點選「重新啟動」，重新開啟電腦〈記得要由硬碟開機〉。

開機以後點選「輕鬆存取」，勾選「讓螢幕上的項目放大一些(放大鏡)」，點選「確定」，開啟「命令提示字元」的視窗。

在「命令提示字元」的視窗，輸入「net user hung 654321」，按鍵盤的「Enter」鍵，將使用者「hung」的密碼更改為「654321」。

輸入更改以後的密碼，按鍵盤的「Enter」鍵，登入Windows 7。

Windows 7成功開啟以後，記得依照上述的步驟，將「命令提示字元」和「放大鏡」更改為原來的名稱，如下圖所示，輸入「ren Magnify.exe cmd.exe」和「ren Magnify1.exe Magnify.exe」

前港督稱中國沒違反中英聯合聲明

前港督衛奕信在週四出席英國上議院辯論香港問題時，認為香港警方處理佔中措施適當，
讚揚警方維護法治，又認為沒有明顯證據證明中國違反《中英聯合聲明》。 
他又說被示威學生的熱情感動，除了個別事件，示威大部分是和平進行，認為部分要歸功於香港警方。 
代表英國政府發言的英國上議院發言人華萊士，也為香港特區政府維護社會法治辯護，形容香港警方的做法大部分適當，沒有直接提及所謂的香港警方施暴事件。華萊士還說，在政改問題上，英國認為不應訴諸於類似阿拉伯之春的街頭政治，而漸進的改革、磋商以及緩慢的進步才是較佳選擇。 (林智文 黃彩嬋)

給占中三子和泛民議員的一封公開信 （美國）尹浩鏐

我是一個旅居美國快50年的老華僑，原本不必爲香港的前途擔憂，但我又不能不擔憂，因爲那裡住著700萬我的親人同胞，不能眼看著他們被少數有心人帶入死胡同而不發一聲，我人微言輕，我的話你們不一定會聴得入耳，但我若不把心裏話吐出來，我的心會很痛很痛。

你們所謂的佔中三子，兩個是大學敎授，一個是資深牧師，原應是受人敬重的飽學之士，卻好像是不諳時勢，不懂歷史，自以爲代表民意，鼓動一群熱血幼稚的靑年，硬闖禁區，如果不是別有用心，那你們的無知，不禁令人嘆息。請問：

1 在港英時代，港督是你們選出來的麽？

2 這次人大通過的普選方案，違背了基本法了嗎？你們說不合乎《國際標準》，請問你們的《國際標準》定義是什麽？誰定的?
請告訴我，古今中外，有哪個國家的選舉，是由別人定的所謂《國際標準》進行的？

3陳健民敎授，你在電視上三番四次說中共人大不接受你的政攺方䅁，是羞辱你的人格，你的民主素養跑到那裡去了，如果中共說你羞辱了他們，你同意嗎？

4.民主是一個循序漸進的過程，急不得，急了會出事。中共說他們希望篩選一個愛國愛港的人當特首，錯了嗎？難道選出一個賣港賣國的人，才合你們心意? 

篩選過程難道你們不能參與嗎？當然這還不夠完善，但這是一個好的開始。明天會更好。你們操之過急，只會把香港搞亂，把中國搞亂，苦了老百姓，這個責任，你們擔當得起嗎？

5.你們佔中三子是教授，是牧師，你們的責任是教育英才，不是帶他們游街犯法，誤了前程。許多事情，你們自以爲對的，其實不一定對，你們應當知道，你們的對面，是沉默的大多數。你們應該多讀點書，尤其是歷史書，吸取歷史教訓，才不會不諳時勢，主觀武斷，硬闖硬撞。要多瞭解全盤西化的利與弊，凡事三思而後行。請問，如果中共答應你們的要求，中國大陸人民也有樣學樣，要求一人一票選自己的國家主席，照目前的形勢，中共能答應嗎？假如習近平説他把位置讓給你，你做得了嗎？香港、中國大亂，你們或者可以跑到國外做洋奴，香港老百姓怎麽辦？中國老百姓怎麼辦？當年美國出兵救伊朗、利比亞、叙利亞、伊拉克、阿富汗，因爲那裏的統治者不好，人民沒自由，結果怎樣？那裡的統治者被打死了，或者關起來了、跑了，人民自由了沒有？生活好了沒有？

6 陳方安生、李柱銘跑到英國討救兵，你們認爲是對的嗎？彭定康說人大通過的是假普選，請你們代我問問他，以前他的港督寶座，是由香港人選出來的嗎？

7 當年鄧小平承諾香港特區行政50年不變，變了沒有？後來有了基本法，又得到大陸全力支持，香港才得以度過多少難關，成就了今天的繁榮安定，你們應該好好珍惜目前的一切。世間哪有完美的宇宙？也沒有完美的制度。毋需事事強求,
把眼光放遠，寄望祖國繁榮昌盛，人民素質提高，到時和平民主自然會開花結果，香港、大陸人民都能安居樂業，豈不更好！

筆者來美加讀書工作快50年了。知道西方民主不是萬靈丹，它需要人民素質相配合。照目前看，它放在歐美是好的（雖然不盡完善），放在台灣是毒藥，放在阿拉伯是灾難，放在中國會大亂，亂了人民就遭殃。這個最簡單的道理，難道你們都不懂?

李嘉誠先生說得好。共産黨無疑犯過許多錯誤，而且錯得不輕，但只要知錯能改，再帶領中國向前走，難道你們不贊成？改革開放以來,它將一個落後的中國，一躍而成爲世界第二强國，難道你們看不見？難道你們不髙興？當然其中也付出了沉重的代價，早期濫殺無辜，扭曲人性，後期貪污腐敗，官商勾結，弄得貧富不均，法治不彰，人民素質之差，堪稱世界倒數第一，凡此種種，到了令人欲哭無泪的地步，幸好自從習近平上任後，已認識到中共巳走到亡黨亡國的關口。他的團隊，正不惜一切代價去改正錯誤，大力全面反貪，與既得利益者博鬥，其阻力之大，其環境之凶險，難道你們不知道？在這關頭，你們要是爲香港好，爲中國好，就應該鼓勵他們，支持他們，就算不支持他們，也不應該給他們添亂。李先生說得好，對香港不利的事情不去做，對香港不利的話不去講。才是一個有良知的香港人應有的態度。我也同意董建華先生的話，勸你們不要盲動，見好就收，不要開倒車，給香港一個機會，給民主一個機會，好嗎？

（作者是美國退休醫生、敎授、自由撰稿人）