Ranking your blog

Some of my friends have asked me on "How do my blogs get ranked on search engines so that I have viewers who would view my blogs and go ahead with clicking those AdSense ads and help me fetch some bucks."So here's my answer to that question..After having gone through my article on "Creating your first blog", "Placing the AdSense/search box/referrals", the next step for you would be to get dedicated viewers to your blog. The process of manually submitting your blog to the search engines is tedious enough and as I've mentioned earlier, you might even have to pool in some money to pay for their services. But no worries since I am giving you a better deal and listing some of the search engines that submit your blog for free!

1. Submit Express:
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Besides submitting your weblog for free to 40 popular search engines, this site also helps you generate META tags necessary for some robots or web spiders to crawl to your site, analyse the existing META tags in your web page, PageRank checker and lots more.
Link: http://www.submitexpress.com/

2. Fast Submit
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FastSubmit submits your web blog to over 100 search engines, in return for a piece of code (advertising their site) to be pasted in your blog. All free of cost..
Link: http://www.evrsoft.com/fastsubmit/

3. ADDpro
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ADDpro contains useful in-links that help you understand search engine optimization, search engine marketing, webmaster tools etc
Link: http://www.addpro.com/

4. QuickRegister
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Submit your site to 148 major search engines in one click and get instant access to Search Engine Ranking, Meta tags,Website Analyzer, Link Checker, Keyword Generator, Pay Per Click Tracker, Popularity Checker tools all for free!
Link: http://www.quickregister.net/np.html

5. StartRanking
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A step-by-step guide to help you get your blog ranked higher in the search engine page results.
Link: http://www.startranking.com/

How to turn your blog into a cash machine

In my previous article on "Getting started with blogs", I discussed on how to create your first ever free blog. In this article however, I would be giving some tips on how to make money out of your blog.
Fetching money from your blog would not be aneasy start ofcourse,but its not unachievable as well. If done in a proper manner, blogs can fetch you a decent enough earning to cover up even your living expenses!...COOL...isnt it? :)
Read through the following points that I have summarized and please let me know if you need any clarifications on any of them:

1. Content: The first thing that your viewers would be looking for is quality content. Even if you have your blog advertised well enough, but have a poor quality content, your blog listings will drop and so will your viewer's visit to your blog.
2. Google adsense: If you notice my blog, you will find google ads towards the right side of the page. Getting these ads are very easy and it costs you nothing. All you have to do is log into https://www.google.com/adsense/ and follow the simple instructions to get yourself registered. It is simpler if you have a gmail account, but even if you don't have one...who cares...its fine anyways. Upon registration and accepting the google terms andconditions, you will receive an HTML code. You then log into your blog, and paste this HTML code into the webpage (If you are using blogger for your blogs, then you can navigate to Dashboard->Layout->Add an element->Add an HTML/Javascript,and then paste your HTML code right here). Make sure to save your changes. That's it....all done! Oh and by the way, these are called "Pay-per-click " ads or PPC ads.
3. Google search: Just like google adsense, you can also incorporate google search box (just like the I have used in my blog, with the headline "Are you looking for something"). getting this search box is again very easy and is similar to the step 2 of google adsense above. You get an HTML code for this as well and all you need to do is paste this code into your weblog.
4. Google referral boxes: Close to google adsense and search boxes, are yet another money fetching blog ingredient - referrals. You get an HTML code by following a similar process as listed above and get commission for referring some products on your weblog. Whats more, you get to choose which products you wanna refer or promote.
5. Traffic: The next tiring and the most challenging step is to get traffic to your blog, else if you do not have visitors, then you have no one reading your blog, no one clicking those ads you have placed there and hence no money! AWeber is an excellent way to make use of an autoresponder. An autoresponder is that which sends you mail in your inbox without fail, if you have provided your email address on any of the sites that you were interested in. You get reminders and mails from these autoresponders and this is an effective way to drive visitors to your blogs. You could also use Get-Visitors-Now to get instant traffic to your website, though all these traffic providers will charge you some fee. Get visitors would charge you a one time fee of $49.95 but its worth it anyways.