Check the mobile version of my two blogs before you start rejoicing that I am about to tell you some secret. It is simple trick which I saw Amit using for Digital Inspiration. Thanks Amit.

CompuWorld goes mobile: m.nofullstop.com

theSenorita goes mobile: m.theSenorita.com

All you need to do is append your full feed URL next to the URL given below

http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/YourFeed

Got the idea? Like for this blog I will use the URL:

http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/webtechlog

And for my relationship management blog the Senorita I will use the URL:

http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/theSenorita

Now all you need to do is redirect your mobile URL to the above URL. So for this blog I redirected m.nofullstop.com to http://www.google.com/ reader/m/view/feed/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/webtechlog

Similar step applies for theSenorita.

Try it, it’s simple and helps those who read your blog in their mobiles.

I found a great article on OneMansGoal where Rosanne Lim (isn’t that a beautiful name?) points how bloggers commit the biggest mistake of assuming blogging to be their hobby and later on convert this hobby into their full time job. Avoid This!

Definition of hobby as per Google is:

avocation: an auxiliary activity

So you know what I want to point out? Hobby is something which you perform while you have some free time. You won’t ever be able to become a full time blogger IF you do not follow a time table. You will have to follow a scheduled path once you think you are ready to be a full time blogger just like you used to while you were working for some company.

You will be surprised how blogging becomes easy for you and you start saving lots of time which you can later be dedicate for publicity of your blog. All you need to do is do not make blogging as your hobby but as your profession. Be professional and you will be successful!

Otherwise all you will have in hands are promotional pens to make profits. Be a little serious.

Year 2007 was exciting with my blog CompuWorld completing 1 year. Something which I learned in the last one year was that the “Genius inside you might NOT be sleeping” (see my blogs punchline) but the knowledge thirsty Internet surfers DO NOT know your genius. Yes! You might be writing unique articles but are there people who are reading your articles? I remember the days when I used to check the MyBlogLog’s visitor stats for my blog after every hour just to see the number increase by 5 or 10. That is when I started dedicating more time in publicizing my content instead of writing the content.

Here goes the list of points which can help you explode your blog’s traffic by huge numbers. You just need to be consistent. Remember that here I am considering that you are already generating quality content.

Proof Reading Is A Must

Be it the new readers or the regular readers, no one would like to see regular grammar mistakes in your articles. The regular reader might come back to your blog (considering he knows your habit of delivering quality content) but the chances of the new reader coming back are very less (until Google search or link from some other blog sends him/her to your blog). Keep in mind: “First impression is the last impression.”

Email Other Bloggers About Your Niche, Your Articles

Once you have written a high quality article which gets some appreciation (mostly in comments) than write a decent and short email to bloggers from the same niche and inform them about your article.

Once I wrote to MakeUseOf about one of my article which was getting much appreciation from readers in comments and they were generous to link back to my article within a day. My blog earned huge traffic from there blog for few days.

Comment Regularly On Other Blogs

Some time back Caroline did the October stat analysis for her blog. One major point in that analysis was the huge amount of traffic which she earned from the comments which she left on other blogs.

When you leave an insightful comment on other blogs than the author (and few readers) of that blog will come back to your blog to know more about you. This is dedicated traffic. I say dedicated because the reader was impressed from your comment and came to your blog. There are high chances that he/she will subscribe to your feeds.

Do Some Guest Posting

If you can write quality articles than do guest posting on few of the famous and same niche blogs. Once again emailing them your post with a generous request to publish your post on there blog can very well do the job. You are bound to get huge traffic from that blog.

Review A Product And Ask The Company To Feature That Review In Press Section In Their Website

If your review is good and the company writes about that review in there press release with a link back to your blog than this will turn into regular traffic for your blog. Plus your blog will become known amongst few biggies of that company.

Write About Celebrities (relate that to your niche) And See The Jump In Traffic

Once I wrote about Jessica Alba’s gaming habit and that one article gave me around 2000+ views only from stumbleupon.

Try to relate the celebrity news to your niche and publish such articles in regular intervals. This brings in many new readers and is appreciated by almost all of them!

Many Newspapers Are Writing About Bloggers. Contact Them

Almost every newspaper keeps mentioning about the new buzz word “blogging”. Contact few in your locality and explain to them about your strength. Face to face interaction can have a great affect on the person listening. Be honest to them.

Get Some Stickers/T-Shirts

Get some fancy stickers and paste them in Internet cafes, libraries etc. These are hot spots for information hungry humans. Once people read them regularly than your brand name gets stuck-up in there minds and they will check your blog at-least once.

Get some T-Shirts with your blog URL printed along with some attractive image (may be your logo) and wear them in public occasions. People around you will be curious to know the details.

Regularly Link To Other Blogs And Relate Your Articles To Their Articles

Once you link to other bloggers they are likely to see those links in pingbacks and will come to your blog for more information.

Get A Keyword Rich Domain Name, An Effective Punch Line, A Nice Logo And A Attractive Blog Design

They all matter a lot so do NOT overlook their importance.

A keyword rich domain name (which is easy to remember too) will get listed on the top pages in SERPs and hence bring in traffic.

An effective punch line which forces the reader to read your blog might well bring in traffic once the line creates the necessary buzz.

An attractive logo (like that of ShoeMoney) is enough to create the buzz and bring in few readers.

Get a new design for your blog and email everyone about your new design. People are bound to see the new design once and leave a comment during that visit. Many will subscribe to your feeds.

Create Videos Regularly

Darren of problogger regularly creates video tutorials and this practice of his has give him dedicated readers (including me) who eagerly wait for the new videos to be released. All this helps you create the buzz for your blog.

Write Some “Top 20 Bloggers” Type Of Articles

Choose a niche, compare the various rankings (technorati, alexa etc) for those niche blogs, create a ranking system and publish those ranks in your blog with a link back to those bloggers. Email those bloggers about there rank and you are bound to get a link back from them. They will “boast” about there rank and in that process link back to you.

Talk Negative (in comments, forums, social networking sites etc.)

This is very helpful in bringing in traffic in loops. People come back again and again to your blog to clarify the negative point, inform you that you are wrong and in that process they somehow become used to coming back to your blog.

Try to leave negative comments on some famous blogs and see the retaliation.

Participate Regularly In Social Networking Sites, Forums And Yahoo Answers

Join groups related to your niche in various social networking websites and participate in the discussions. In the process leave links to few of your articles (and relate those to the ongoing discussion) and you will see people coming back to your articles and your article might well become an important part of that discussion.

Participate in various forums and include your blog link in your signature. When you are active than people will click on those links and may be subscribe to your feeds.

Yahoo answers is a great place to earn some dedicated traffic. Regularly answer the queries of people in yahoo answers and leave links to your blog. Once you start doing it regularly people might subscribe to your feeds considering that your answers help them.

Content is the king but unless people do not know about the king, how will you construct your kingdom?

Subscribe to my feeds for more such exciting articles.

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There might be many such converters available but I did not com across any online text to MP3 converter. Type in what the text and click the create mp3 button and within a flash you can hear the mp3 online and download the mp3 to your computer. The compression is fine considering a simple text line takes 20kb.

Bloggers can use this feature to convert there articles to speech format thus providing another dimension to your online blog. Just keep in mind the bandwidth problems!

Try vozMe text to MP3 converter

When your flow with blogging gets going, when you start giving “less” time to your blog because you have a time table set, when you start enjoying your writing skills and when you feel like you need a little more money to invest in your blog’s success you must start looking for some freelance writing work.

One way to earn freelancing job is to constantly read popular job boards like problogger’s job board, freelance switch job board, bloggerjobs.biz and performancing job board. The advantage here is that these job boards (specially the problogger’s job board) are very famous in the blogosphere and the jobs which are offered here are quality jobs. If you earn job from these than you might start earning good bucks very quickly. From $5 per post to $10 per post or even more. It depends on your articles which you can deliver.

The problem which these kind of jobs have is that you need to be consistent writer in these jobs. And for a blogger who wants to daily update his/her blog, it is tough to maintain the acceleration in more than one place. One more problem which I felt many times was after completing the article I used to have the feeling “why not keep the article for my own blog?” The quality used to be good many times and I never wanted to give the article away .

Keeping aside the hard feelings with your articles (when you have to give them away to other blogs) I here have a solution here for the first problem. You will never have to worry about delivering constant posts with a strict schedule and thus you might than easily concentrate on your blog, write extra articles and make some bucks!

Associated Content is the place to earn some money without following any schedule. You can choose to submit text, video else audio content for money. Make sure you read and follow their submission guidelines else there are many chances that your articles will be rejected and won’t ever get published. Before you submit any articles better search for the topic in there search box and see if there are already many articles related to your content. If that is the case than you must edit your article and deliver more unique content so that your article is easily accepted and published.

AC’s payment system promises $1.50 per 1000 views and that might feel to be less initially, but once you publish you will know that it isn’t the case. The traffic which AC has is huge and your article is bound to get the traffic which you deserve.

Go and start earning money at Associated Content