For those interested in have a few more options beyond AdSense for monetizing a blog then its worth considering adding banner ads to your site. They can be a really nice additional revenue stream, but also a bit of a pain to manage on your own.

This is where OIOpublisher can come in handy. OIO is a Wordpress plugin that gives you a complete banner management system, which takes care of all the billing and timing for you. This makes adding banner ads to your site super easy, plus you can even add your site to their directory which makes it easier for people to find your site and advertise on it.

For me the banner management alone was enough to make OIOpublisher worth it, but it also opens up a number of other possible revenue channels. With the plugin you can also sell sponsored posts, text ads, inline ads or even customize other options (for example it could handle an ebook sale if you had one ready to sell). Again all of the billing and management is all handled by the tool so its a huge time saver. Unlike a lot of other crap tools out there, with OIO you keep all of the revenues that you generate, OIO doesn’t take any cut.

Even better yet you only need to purchase it once (for just $47) and you can use it on as many sites as you want.

I think you’ll find it quite useful and wouldn’t recommend it otherwise, so feel free to give OIOpublisher a try…

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As your blog grows in traffic it is essential that you continue to pump out quality content on a regular basis. But let’s be honest, blogging can (and will be) tedious work at times. To things a bit easier here are a few tips for writing blog posts quicker.

1. Install and Use Windows Live Writer

I can’t even begin to describe how useful Windows Live Writer has been in speeding up my blogging. Since its just a desktop app, Live Writer loads up a bit quicker than Wordpress does, but also has a bunch of really useful addons to speed things up even more.

First off be sure to use the Text Template add-on. This allows you to have a few different pre-formatted blog posts ready to go whenever you need them. Really helpful if your posts tend to have similar formats.

Also if you add pictures frequently, then the SnagIt add-on is an essential. With just a few clicks, Live Writer will add any image to the post and take care of uploading it for you. This has been HUGE for me on one of my other site because it means no more clunky Wordpress image uploads.

2. Set Aside Dedicated Writing Time
I’ve found it incredibly helpful to do all of my week’s writing all at once (for me usually on Mondays). By having a set aside time I can just start typing, spend a few hours grinding out a bunch of articles and be done for the week. For me this is BIG, because once all of the blog posts are setup then I can shift my focus to promoting the blog instead.

3. Make a Calendar and Stick to It
Going along with setting aside writing time, by having a planned out calendar of topics to write about you can save bundles of time and write blog posts a lot quicker. Take some time now to brainstorm a bunch of topics to write about over the coming weeks/months and get it down on paper. Then during your dedicated writing time you can pound those posts out quickly.

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If you do any article submissions for link building (which I strongly encourage you to) then you need to check out Article Submission Helper. Not only is it free, but its been a huge time saver for me getting unique articles out there with minimal effort.

With ASHelper you can quickly setup accounts with a few hundred article sites. Then anytime you have a new article ready to be published you enter the article text and submissions are rapidly done. Pretty sweet.

The software also allows you to “spin” articles which means placing a number of options for text in spots of the article and then the system will randomly pick one of the options for each submission. For example, if you had”{a lot|hundreds|thousands|tons} of {people|users}” in your article then one time it would submit as “hundred of users”, the next might be “tons of people” and then next perhaps “a lot of users”. This is huge for taking a single article and making it into many different ones.

Again Article Submission Helper is completely free so there’s no real risk in giving it a try. Let me know what you think.

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Really exceptional post over on ProBlogger details what you should do if your website rankings drop significantly and it of course also applies to your blog (since your blog is, after all, a website too).

I’ve had a few blogs in the past that have been hurt big time by sudden drops in my Google rankings and I think this posts helps understand the best way to approach that situation if it ever happens to you.

Read the article on ProBlogger…

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If you’re looking to ramp up your link building efforts I strongly suggest article submissions. The links you get from submitting the articles can really help you rank for less competitive keywords.

So here’s what you wanna do:

1. Write a good article on a specific topic. Pick 1 medium to long tail keyword and focus on that as you write.
2. Proofread and make sure the article is pretty solid.
3. Submit to EzineArticles and wait for it to be approved. EzineArticles is the best article site out there and only accepts unique articles so you have to publish there first.
4. Now use Article Submission Helper (free at http://www.articlesubmissionhelper.com) to ’spin” new versions of the article. By “spin”, what you do in Article Submission Helper is rewrite a few sections in the article to give various options for those sections. Then Article Submission Helper will randomly pick from the various sections and come up with a unique article.
5. Also in Article Submission Helper you can submit to a ton of different article sites and even rotate (“spin”) your bio to get different types of anchor text.

To give it a try head over to http://www.articlesubmissionhelper.com. Again, its total free and definitely worth a try.

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How to Treat your Blog like a Business – Title explains this one pretty well already…
30 Blog Improvement Tips to Increase Your Traffic – Some are pretty basic, but others are worth the read for.
Pro Blogger Daniel Scocco Shares his Internet Marketing Tips – A bunch of interesting and useful ideas.
Review of CrazyEgg – Ok, yea this is a post from this blog, but I think you should read it and give CrazyEgg a try. Definitely worth it.
How to Use Google’s Wonder Wheel to Find Topics to Write about – Was really excited to see this.
73 Ways to Become a Better Writer – Like all list posts, some are quite basic but the list as a whole is valuable in my opinion.

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