discusseconomics.com

I was surfin’ the blogosphere today, and I just so happened to stumble upon a really great economics blog. Already, Discuss Economics is an economics forum of information. It has over 15 pages of original content, which grows daily. I found some really interesting articles here that you may want to check out.

Top Ten Decisions for Your Personal Success in 2008 – A great article that can lead you down the right path to becoming financially well off. No scams or tricks needed.

Too Much Flexible Spending – What to do with your income – Sometimes we all just go out and blow our blogging bucks on something we don’t need. Why not use our money resourcefully. This article helped me understand what to do with my money instead of going out and spending it all.

Smart Financial Planning Steps for Beginners – New to personal finance. It is a topic that every person in the world should know about. This article describes financial steps we need to take so we can build a roof over our head.

While the design of the blog is lacking I am not complaining. If you are looking for some great information on Personal Economics I highly suggest you give Discuss Economics a whirl.

Amazon Affiliate Makes Bloggers Big Money

Amazon Associates?

Amazon Associates is an affiliate program from Amazon dot come. They provide plenty of ways to make money like adding a wishlist widget, or letting their widget search your content and display products that may be similar to what is offered in your blog or website.

Amazon is such a huge success on the internet, that its affiliate program is very well trusted. You will always get payout when they say they will pay you. Many bloggers make a lot of money selling products using this. I am working on my own new blog that will use amazon. I estimate it will make me about 500 dollars... a week.

Why is Amazon a bad affiliate?

Commission is considered low in comparison to other affiliate programs, however it may increase depending on your performance. It starts out at 4%. If you can sell one of those new electronic book thingys they got, that will nail you a cool 40 bucks though.

So its a great program overall. The draw backs are minor, but if you look past them, this can make you a lot of money on any blog, especially one on product review blog or something similar. I haven't been actively promoting this yet on any of my websites, but as of now, it makes me around 10-20 bucks a week. Pays for coffee! With heavy participation you can get a lot more money

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Get your readers to comment your blog

The key to building your blog readership is to remember that the blogosphere is a social network. You can buy ads on bigger blogs but the best way to get your readers to react is to get to know them.

There are two ways to do this. The right way involves actually researching until you find blogs which you enjoy it, and attempt to reach your audience. Read these blogs and add your thoughts to the conversations they start by participating in the comments.

Don't spam other bloggers. Try to be freindly. Start with an email if you have to to connect with people you want to visit your blog. This has great results for me. Especially if I notice they aren't using an affiliate program I have. I can trick them into signing up for me. Suckers.

Add your blog to directories and keep updating frequesntly. Keep it consistent, too. Readers and bloggers like to be able to read all their blogs at one specific time, so try to find that time