Is The Golden Age Of Tech Blogging Over?

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We are at a crossroads, who is taking us from golden age of blogging to the post-blogging era.

Among the various things that we will see changing in 2012, one is certainly blogging. This does not mean that blogs are dead,  but more generally, is web publishing that is changing. It is the nature of the blog.

Some have already figured out. For instance, according to Jeremiah Owyang, the blog of the future will have these characteristics:

  1. An opportunity for new stars to emerge.
  2. Yet, the rise of personal brands will be harder.
  3. New models to emerge, long form content not the only way, and finally.
  4. A new mix of media will emerge.

Let’s dig even deeper to identify where we should expect to see innovation from.

Blog Today And Tomorrow

Blogs are usually the work of a single individual, often with only one viewpoint for each blog. But today the blog – at least those of a certain level – have a lot of collaborators, sometimes with very different views on individual issues.

The time to build the blog around a celebrity is over: look, for example, what happened when Engadget’s Topolsky and Patel left site last March. It’s true that traffic dropped down by a massive 10 per cent, but they’ve recovered it very fast.

Short or Longh Content?

People are always in a hurry today, and do not have time to read long post, so an 600-1000 words article might be considered too annoying(even if it’s good). Same goes for the video: 3-4 minutes is the maximum time we can devote to them.

Feed Are Changing

CNN:Tech, has placed 6 different feeds in the queue of its pages on technology blogs category. Certainly one of the main beneficiaries of the change was Mashable that now sees its contents on ABC News,CNN, Forbes, Metro, USA Today and Yahoo News. Expect to see similar things in the future.

Finally, there’s LinkedIn and Facebook with its feed and its many social media tools that allow you to personalize the news in different way.

Others

The last but not least, mobile and custom publishing. The first one, increased enormously in the last year, and this represents a challenge for content creators. The second one, pubblisher creates a series of white papers on request of the sponsors, which can become an excellent sources of revenue.

Conclusion

Bloggers and online publishers will be forced to permanently leave the clichés of the “text + photos posted on a web page” and experiencing new things. Personally, I bet on the “mobile + social + video”, and you?

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The Newbie Guide To Blogging, 5 Ingredients You Really Need To Know To Start A Business Online With Your Blog

Written by The3dtechnologies · 10 Comments

There comes a time in every publisher life when the throught is to start make money online. I often receive this email message: What do you do for a living? And when I answer that I’m a full time blogger, they ask me what do to start make money blogging.

Well, it is clear that this question has need to have more than one answer.

Everyone has to constantly educate themselves to create a business online. If you want to make money online, you have to prepare to change your mentality and move beyond the standard thinking.

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My overall recommendation is to don’t go for any niche to monetize. I always mentioned in my blog posts about how important it is to select a good niche or mass market topic for your blog. Often this factor could determine whether a blog is going to make money or not.

1. Stay Away From Your Competitors Marketing

If you choose the wrong niche it may do you lose your time, effort and better yet your money. Make the right choice for your topic is the best way to start better. For instance, If you create a blog about notebook, it will involve all the categories of notebook that are present in the market today.

Of course it is a large market, and as you could think you get a very general audience. While this may seem as a very good market, of having such a big audience visiting your blog, it is an extremely hard to convert all this general traffic into buyers. Visitors may simply visit other technology bloggers like you, and you lose money as well.

Alternatively, if you start a blog about the Acer Aspire TimelineX, then you will be targeting a much narrower audience. That is, all the people will only be interested in things concerning the Acer Aspire TimelineX, it’s features, it’s applications, etc.

2. Have I Need Of A Blog To Start A Business Online?

In my 4 year of experience like blogger I can attest that have a blog is become crucial today to start a business online. It can help you find new customers and convert it into buyers as bring a brand as well. I reccomend you to download my ebook “How to make money online”(link above) that explain you any step by step process to start a blog from scratch.

While Adsense, and direct advertising are one of my better ways to generate a strong revenue stream, I can say that affiliate marketing and especially email marketing also play an important role on my monthly income stream.

3. The Essential Rule For Creating A Strong Brand

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4. Building a strong website is only the first step, you have need that your visitors know who you are and what were your successes. In a nutshell, they need trust you.

If you only promoting crap products most probably once bought them, your visitors doesn’t come back to your site more. You can sell 10-20 or more crap products, but you sell only one time.

I tell you how I built my brand: First and foremost Create your ‘Story page’ or about me page, so people who visit your website, visit your Story page and know more about you, who you are, and what is your authority in your niche.

Of course, great content, also really help people and make sure before they leave your website that you are an expert in your niche and you have more chance that they come back.

5. A Cool Tactic To Build Relationships

When I started the3dtechnologies.com, I didn’t knew much about relationship. What I mean is that I have not a connection with authority blogger out there.

One thing I always reccomend if you want to gain authority is to contact some of gurus that have had successful in your same niche and try to interview them. Sharing this kind of content is by far the strongest and best content, because doesn’t requires a lot of effort, and you get lot’s of traffic as well. It will help you speed your chances of becoming a top blogger.

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The Four Recipes To Get A Successful Blog, 4 Lesson I’ve Learned In These 4 Year Of Blogging

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Right now are 4 years old that I write on my blog the3dtechnologies.com, and I remember not too long ago when my blog was just a baby going through the inevitable growing pains. Now I’m a full time blogger, I look back on that time when there was so much of things that I didn’t yet know.

Of course, I still have a lot to learn, but for those are starting blogging here a some of the main lessons I’ve learned about blogging in these years.

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4 Lesson I’ve Learned In These 4 Year Of Blogging

Whether you’re just starting out in the online blogging world or you’re a veteran, no matter what your business is you need to learn certain things.

Below, I’ve listed 4 important things that you need to concentrate if you were starting on blogging today.

1. Content – Blog’s isn’t not a blog really without some kind of content whether that be video or text or audio or image. Success depends upon what you put up on to it. Of course, that requires bit of effort in many ways. You need to focusing upon content.

Make sure do you know that your content is useful. Your content must match both experts and beginners and must relate to something your audience cares about or won’t get much use out of advanced discussions.

2. Community –  The second thing I’d focused on is the community. I admit that it was something I didn’t really focused on much for the first few years on my own blogging journey.

Forums and chat, and the rise of Facebook and Twitter are things that people use because they feel like they’re being noticed. Helping people who come across your blog to feel like they’re being noticed is the first thing to do. People don’t go online just to consume content any more.

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3. Connection - To keep the people connecting to you, really it’s about capturing people’s email addresses, and creating a place where you can continue to have that connection with them, it’s about getting them to subscribe to your blog in some way, it’s about connecting with them on Twitter or Facebook, wherever it might be that’s relevant for your niche.

4 – Money – The fourth thing I’d say is money. Of course this isn’t a goal for every blogger but for me that I’ve decided to monetising my blog is important, and however I think the most of blogger wish to pay at least the cost of the hosting as their wordpress theme as well.

Conclusion

So, here  are my four recipe of blogging, content, community, connection, money. They’re the most important, I think, these are the most important lessons that I’ve learned.

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Day 9 -10 Inspiring Blogs Helped Me To Blogging, Make Money, And Do What I Love…

Written by The3dtechnologies · 9 Comments

Today is Day 9 for the the 31 days for build a successful blog. In my 4 years like blogger there have been some blogs that regularly influenced my life and my business.

I followed over 100+ blogs in particular, through my rss reader as many that I followed via Twitter and Facebook as well. However, it take me a lot of time to keep up with many of them.

They caught my attention for obvious reasons. They are all expert in one or two particular topics, and I could to learn more about blogging, marketing, make money online as well.

Today, I would to share 10 of  what I think be the better blogs I’m following, and that I highly reccomend you to follow as well.

My Best Resources For Personal Finance And Save Money

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Ge Rich Slowly – Is written by JD. Roth, a guy that has developed quite a reputation by sharing personal knowledge. It was JD.Roth who turned me onto personal finance interest. It one of site I read frequently and one I take inspiration when I need to find something related personal finance.

The simple dollar – Is an online site written by trent Hassim, which started sharing personal finance knowledge. The site is similar to GRS, however I’ve noticed that talk about technology, software, Photo Diary and much more as well.

Zen Habits – Leo is always been a guru for me, and I highly reccomend to follow him if you have not done it yet. Look at Zen Habits Guided Tour.  Here you can find all-time most popular posts on Leo has put togheter.

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Problogger – Darren is one of my all-time favorite blogger. When I was a newbie blogger, one of the first sites I used to learn more about Domain name, WordPress  and most important to make money online was Problogger.net.

Copyblogger – Copyblogger is my main source when I need to know more about crafting landing pages, headline writing, and copywriting tips. Copyblogger is the best source to learn all these thing.

Dailyblogtips.com - Daniel is a well know blogger that has been making money online for quite some time now. His blog dailyblogtips.com is very popular blogger. He in the Technorati’s Top 100 blogs.

Shoemoney.com – When it comes to making money with Affiliate Marketing, Jeremy is one of the foremost authorities in the world. Every day he share different ways that any webmaster can make more money from their web sites and blogs.

Entrepreneurs-journey.com – Yaro is a young entrepreneur from Australia. Yaro has created, managed and sold several different Internet businesses since 1998 and currently teaches people how to make a full time income from blogging part time through his Blog Mastermind mentoring program

Johnchow.com – John  is one of the foremost authorities in the world when it comes to making money with Affiliate Marketing. With his sites Johnchow.com and The TechZone has made a lot of money from different source of incomes  such as affiliate marketing , direct advertising, and paid review.

Pronetadvertising.com - Neil Patel is the author of the Quick Sprout blog and the co-founder of Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics. Neil Patel is considered to be an expert on SEO and marketing, the attendance of his conferences attest to the fact that he is very good at what he does.

If you have not yet done, I reccomend you to create an Google reader account and start adding your favorite news sites and blogs for new content. Of course, if you wish can add my site too.

If you have any question feel free to ask.

To our success,

Nicola Deiana

Blogger, and affiliate marketer

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How To Become A Professional Blogger

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Back in 2006 when I started The3dtechnologies I had not thought of becoming anything such as a professional blogger. I wasn’t thinking about it… but there were already many bloggers making money from these new technology.

Two years after the idea of making money from my blog, possibly even work at home, became a reality. Google Adsense is become one of the most popular ways to monetize from a blog, and thanks to programs like this, for people is become easier to generate a steady income, and eventually blogging went mainstream.

Today, the number of those have a blog is big in comparison to the number of those have a common jobs. There are thousands of professional bloggers make money from their blog. Here I’ve put a list of the top 10 bloggers by monthly income:

 

  1. JohnChow $32,529.40
  2. Shoemoney $10,000.00
  3. Entrepreneurs-Journey $6,549.52
  4. BloggingExperiment $5,021.00
  5. GatherSuccess $4.080.42
  6. ZacJohnson $2,969.56
  7. MixedMarketArts $2,749.17
  8. AffiliateConfession 2,602.64
  9. ShaMoneyMaker $2,100.00
  10. TylerCruz $1,746.14

When I started my blog, my purpose was never to make money as a blogger. I just a few years later, as my traffic is increased and strengthed the visibility of my webpage in search engines, I’ve throught I’d would have had some opportunity to pursue this business.

Today my blog has allowed me to be independents and pay all that I need to be free from my old job.

Needless to say, I am extremely happy by what blogging has done for my life, so I decided that as a blogger is to share my knowledge with other people and teach how realize what I made thanks to blogging. Here, are some of the resources my friend Yaro offer me and that helped me to start my business.

So You Want To Become a Blogger – Here’s a Roadmap

If you want to create your own blog, one thing I recommend you to do absolutely is watch the free video training site Gideon Shalwick and Yaro launched for beginner bloggers called “Become A Blogger”. This ten free videos help you to setting up an optimized WordPress blog from scratch.

In the same page of the Become A Blogger site, you can also download the free report – The Roadmap to Become A Blogger – which is a great guide that help you to build a successful blog.

The Best Way to Grow Blog Traffic

Yaro Starak has been talked in his blog of a method he calls “Impact Marketing Techniques”. The techniques have allowed him to create traffic and his six figure income blog.  What he recommends as one of his best impact marketing techniques is releasing a free report.

How Get Traffic From YouTube Videos

While “Become A Blogger Premium 2.0” open today, Gideon Shalwick has launched another powerful X-Factor video that show the caliber of videos that members receive, this time focusing on the more practical training style from Gideon. If you want to know more about how to get traffic to your blog using YouTube videos, this example will be pretty useful for you.

Become A Blogger Premium 2.0 Is Live!……But Only Five Days

Today, June 29th, for a limited time(five days only), Gideon and Yaro just reopened the doors to their Become A Blogger Premium 2.0, the latest updated version of their video training program for bloggers.

While the first edition of Become a blogger was been a success with over 1,000 students registered, Yaro and Gideon are ready to begin training the next group of student. With the new updating, the full course includes over 60 videos with discussion on each video, a private forum for members only, plus all the additional resources like live group coaching calls twice a month with Yaro and Gideon, master the mindset audio series and more.

Inside Become A Blogger Premium, you’ll discover:

  • Clever tricks for getting top search engine results for your blof posts…. 
  • Exactly how to get images onto your blog in the right format, size and shape…
  • Easy-to-follow instructions for getting streaming audio onto your blog…
  • “Hold-you-by-the-hand” tutorials for producing professional quality videos and getting them onto your blog quick and easy, without any hassle…
  • Powerful content creation techniques for attracting hordes of daily new traffic to your blog…
  • Simple methods for driving multiple streams of highly qualified traffic to your blog…
  • Step-by-step instructions for making a consistent income from your blog using all the latest social media strategies…
  • And Much MUCH more…

Yaro and Gideon are masters at simplifying complicated “geek talk” and they been in the blogging game for quite a while now, so I’m sure you can learn a few things from them. For instance, Yaro, makes as much as $70,000 per month from his blogging ventures.

Join to Become A Blogger Premium 2.0

Price

The six month course will cost $47 per month, and considering the amount of video and information, this is an great price and I highly recommend it.

Reccomend: This program is for beginners who want taking their blogging efforts to the next level and to learn any step by step process on how to become a successful bloggers.

Remember: Become A Blogger Premium 2.0 close 5 july…….In alternative, you can start with Blogmastermind program.

How To Work At Home, And Make $5000 Per Month

I know a lot of people that would leave their annoying job and start a own business online, with hope to do a 5-figure income from their WordPress blogs, as Yaro Starak do.

That’s the purpose of Blogmastermind. Developed by Yaro Starak, Blogmastermind is a mentoring program that allows anyone to learn how to start an own business online and learn how to make 5000 dollars a month by doing something you love.

Join to Blogmastermind

 

Through Yaro’s advices, has never been so easy to start a business from scratch, without need to spend a dime, or even writing skills. Before say you the two main features of the mastermind course, let’s look at:

 

  • The Goal - Make money by working as little as 2 hours a day.
  • The problem - Initially, it take a bit of your time. Also, work on a regular basis is crucial to your success.
  • The Current Landing Page – www.blogmastermind.com
  • Option 1 (”Easy Monthly Payment”): Your initial charge will be $97. You will then be charged $97/month for 5 months after your initial charge has been made. You will have immediate access to the member resources and online community and receive one lesson per week until you graduate in six months.
  • Option 2 (”Blog Mastermind Premier Membership”): Pay $497 upfront and get access to ALL the course materials right away. You get instant downloads for all the lessons, the member resources and access to the online community.

1 – Organic traffic is not the only way to sell your products – Organic traffic is a great way to start becoming more visible, but not converting. 

Of course, you could think to use your blog as the landing page platform but if you’re interested in actually selling your products, you’ll need to design another way to drive your traffic to your sales landing page.

2 – Build your readership - I’ve been working 2 and a half years but, apart of hard work (and a bit of luck) there are many ways you can use to grow readership to a blog.

To summarised some of the many methods I’ve cited in my old articles on how to find readers for your blog page, viral content, networking, advertising and social media are a great place to start.

Here’s Your Chance To Make $5000 Per Month

Do you have a blog that is new or sitting there for years? Willing to work hard? Prepared to put a little of your own money in the game for Blogmastermind? Then, follow your click to Blogmastermind Landing Page for all the details.

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Having A Niche Blog Or Not, How To Make A Decision

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When you start blogging you’ve need to think and take a crucial decision about your niche. You can focus exclusively on one topic or cover several related subjects with the purpose to capture a larger share of visitors. After you’ve decided, then you can think how to profit from your new blog.

In brief, your decision depends by the amount of information about the subject you choose, as the amount of time you want to devote to it.

Here I put a few tip to help make your decision easier.

Before write high quality articles in your niche, you need not only have an interest in the subject, or just skim the surface on a topic, but you must provides detailed information without be afraid to go deep. Many of your competitors don’t goes too deep. In my view, uncover a little more on a subject and share it with your readers allow you to building trust with your target audience.

Once you thought about a possible titles and topics, the first thing to understand is if you have enough to say about the subject you actually consider, or after the first few months you do not have more to say nothing. Sketch out possible titles and topics for articles in order to see how much effort and time you can devote to this blog.

Now, there’s the question of insert banner ads or not. Consider to use sponsors that you think would help your readers, and let off companies are not allowed to advertise. If you want make money through focused ads, either way, no matter, you’ll need to prepare yourself to cultivate that niche blog.

Creating a blog that cover several topics can be a great ways to increase your site traffic, if you have knoledge on different topic. The3dtechnologies.com focuses on make money online, business, and marketing tips, but each of these branches off into their own niches as well, such as advertising, affiliate marketing marketing, and so on.

To summarize, choosing a niche blog depends largely on your purpose and which are your strategies with it. In my view, each niche has the chance to become a remarkable success if you work hard and with constance. Now, you can start blogging!

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Economic Downturn And Blogging Earnings

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Recently, my readers ask me how has the economic crisis impacted my blogging earnings. It’s actually a question that everyone is asking in the blogosphere but also a question everyone’s jobs at the moment.

As I’ve pondered the question I’ve realized that the answer to the question is not for all bloggers because each bloggers very differently and depending upon factors such as their traffics, their blogs topics and other factors.

Ad Revenue And Private Ad Sales, A Little Down

My biggest income comes from advertising revenue in particular from a combination of sources including AdSense and Infolinks and Private Ad Sales. I run these on the3dtechnologies, nickdeiana.com, and coupons.the3dtechnologies.com.

Many of blogger reporting that both ad networks(like Adsense) and ad space to private sales has decreased their earn due the economic downturn. I’ve noticed that my advertising income has decreased a little this month like other bloggers out there.

Compared others blogger that has had an decline of their income of 40%, I’ve seen my blog decrease only of the 15%. This means that adsense revenues aren’t impacted by economic downturn on all blogs.

Thus, I put it down a couple of reasons.

Traffic up – Despite the amount of money that companies are spending online with their advertising may be decreasing, I continued to increasing traffic to my site  and get a steady stream of people visit my website every day from search engine. This have impacted my Ad earnings very less. Remember, the more people that visit your website, the more opportunities you have to cash in on their visits.

The site niche -  The internet is the new Eldorado, and anyone want to learn how to make money online from this new technology. Also, more people will be online looking for work, and the better way to learn on how to make money online is through sites like this.

Affiliate Revenue, A Little UP 

Affiliate is my second source of earn. Affiliate sales are increased a little in the least month of febrary with mixed success.

1. Traffic is up – While my traffic is up, are also increased the potential  customer seeing my affiliate promotion.

There were a few quality affiliate programs that worked well, but I’m still looking for the perfect product that ‘fits’ with my audience.

Conclusion

I think that the internet will continue to grow, thus my tactics is to continue to spend my own time and energy into build my communities and large readerships, so when the advertisers return, my sites is ready.

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