Blog Template Designs

Updated Version Now Available

2006-06-14T04:48:00.000-07:00

We have updated and improved Blog Template Designs once again. Now when you enter your Adsense publisher ID, your Adsense ads will show up across the top of the page as well as in the sidebar. Go to the Members Area to download the new version.

Change in Payment Processors

2006-06-04T07:39:00.000-07:00

Blog Template Designs has switched payment processors. We were having some problems with PayDotCom. First, they only accept payments from PayPal and PayPal has been a little unreliable lately. Second, everyone was being charged the fee for PayDotCom as well as the fee for PayPal. So we have now switched to Clickbank. Clickbank accepts all major credit cards, checks and PayPal. I am sorry if this is a big inconvenience for anyone. To change your affiliate links and to get signed up with Clickbank, go to http://www.blogtemplatedesigns.com/affiliates.html

We also have made the affiliate program open to everyone, regardless of whether they have purchased the software or not.

We anticipate that these changes will benefit everyone. Of course we want your feedback. Please post your comments and/or questions here.

Thank you for your continued support and cooperation during these changes.

Writing Your Blog

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Once you have a place to publish your blog, you will have to set aside some time each week to develop new content. When writing your blog:

•Write simply and clearly. Use small paragraphs and spell check before uploading. Your readers will trust what you have to say if you say it well.

•Go easy on the advertising. The idea of a blog is to give readers something fun and exciting to read and look at. You will have more readers if you comment on the world and are entertaining, rather than just hype your product. Consider writing about your day, the atmosphere your workplace has, and culture, rather than just your company.

•Consider many types of content. Blogs allow you to upload images, create links, and allow users to make comments. Your blog will have many more readers if you make your blog exciting with these pluses.

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Writing Your Blog

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Blog Content

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Give Your Readers What They Want

Studies suggest that as many as a quarter of Internet users tune into blogs. That means that if you can give your blog readers what they want, you can be reasonably sure of having a decent audience. Among the content that you may want to include in your blog:

•Tips and advice. Many successful marketing blogs are much like successful consumer magazines – readers tune in to read content that is useful. A computer company can offer computer tips and advice, for example, while a writing service blog can include daily ways to boost writing skills.

•Interest. If your personal or business life is fascinating, then great. There are many successful marketing blogs that detail the exciting lives of company presidents who are also hobby racecar drivers or skydivers. This sort of material can ensure a steady audience.

•Humanity. One of the things that blog readers are most interested to see is the face behind the company. Many blog readers like a company run by people who have similar concerns. Building humanity into your blog by detailing your company’s efforts to help the community, for example, is a great way to build credibility and customer loyalty.

•Style. Many readers just love to see a gorgeous, well-written blog. Plenty of marketing blogs simply provide interesting content and nice graphics and do quite well in drawing readers and customers.

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Adsense Blogs

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Only a few short years ago, the idea of intentionally constructing a blog for generating Adsense revenues was a shocking deviation from community norms. Blogging emerged in something of a community, and that group of individuals, who were primarily concerned with social networking and exploring self-expression, were taken aback by the first people to publicly indicate their intentions of building Adsense blogs.

With per click prices for keywords like “mesothelioma” soaring and the power of blogs to attract massive traffic flows becoming increasingly evident, it was only a matter of time before someone realized blogging for Adsense revenue was a credible way to generate an income. The initial reaction from those in the blogging community was less than lukewarm, but Adsense blogs did draw traffic and demonstrated real moneymaking power.

The official Terms of Service for Adsense prohibit the construction of a site with the sole intention of generating Adsense revenue. The content-rich blogs that popped up as a means of profiting via Adsense may have been motivated by revenue opportunities, but they did provide some level of relevant information and there are few recorded instances of Google actually attempting to divine bloggers’ intentions and shutting down Adsense blogs on that basis.

In only a few short years, the once reviled practice of creating Adsense blogs has become a norm. Every day, people search out underserved online markets and investigate the feasibility of developing blogs around those themes in order to generate Adsense earnings. The trick is to combine a paucity of competition with the potential for relevant advertising that pays at an adequate per click rate. One need not be a trailblazer today in order to start a successful Adsense blog. He or she must instead be an expert keyword and advertising researcher.

Adsense blogs are now ubiquitous. Their popularity stems from a few different factors. First, they are incredibly easy to set up and to fill with relevant content (the key to any Adsense-based approach). Secondly, they tend to attract a significant amount of search engine traffic and can often build a sizeable readership quickly. Third, the CSS design of most blogs allows for easy and consistent placement of Adsense ad blocks throughout the blog. Those three factors have produced an impressive track record of profitable blogs.

Is the Adsense blog market now so saturated that the glory days of significant revenue have passed? Although some naysayers may argue that the Adsense-supported blog is slowly on its way out, there are still great opportunities to earn a healthy income through a combination of blogging and Adsense. The market is, undoubtedly, more competitive. It can be tapped, though, with good content and great preliminary keyword research.

The Adsense blog has gone from being a source of outrage within a then tight-knit community to being a normal part of everyday online life in a short period. As long as smart bloggers can find underserved niches and produce the content necessary to attract their visitors, the Adsense model of blogging will remain profitable.

Promote Your Blog For Free

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You don’t need to spend alot of money promoting your blog. Here are some free
ways to promote your blog:

·Add the url of your blog to your email signature.
·Write a short ad for your blog and include it on every article that you write.
·Ask other blog owners to exchange text links with you.
·Put a link for your blog on your webpage.

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Writing For Your Blog

2006-05-10T18:12:00.000-07:00

You will have to set aside time each day to develop fresh content for your blog. When posting on your blog:

·Write simply and clearly, use small paragraphs and take the time to spell check your post. You want to appear professional.

·Go easy on the advertising. The idea of a blog is to attract customers using original content, in a more personal manner. Use your blog to develop a relationship with your readers.

·Consider different types of content to post on your blog. Blogs allow you to upload images, create links, and allow users to make comments. Your blog will have many more readers if you make your blog more interactive.

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Successful Blogs

2006-05-05T18:36:00.000-07:00

Successful Advertising Blogs: What Makes them Work?

As blogging has grown, so has the number of people who have found a way to produce profitable blogs. One of the most commonly used methods of blog monetization has been placing contextual advertising on one’s site. Every time a visitor clicks on one of these ads, the advertising broker pays the blogger who displays them. Google’s Adsense program has been the leading force behind contextual advertising programs, but other players have entered the picture, too, providing some additional options for those operating advertising blogs.

For every person who can boast of making several hundred (or more) dollars per month from each of his or her advertising blogs, there are countless thousands who are chagrined by their inability to generate more than a few cents per week with theirs. What separates the successful advertising blogs from their struggling counterparts?

Successful advertising blogs work for a combination of reasons. They combine the right content in the right niche. This generates targeted traffic that is “pre-qualified” to click on the advertising to which they will be exposed. In the most basic of terms, if you can drive enough people to the advertising blog and those people have a genuine interest in the topic being advertised, you will turn a profit.

That is, of course, far easier to say than it is to do. That’s because truly successful advertising blogs rarely happen by accident. They are usually the product of careful keyword and market research. A good for-profit blogger will try to isolate an underserved niche within thee marketplace by supplying it with a significant amount of related content (at least enough of it to get good enough search engine placement to create a regular flow of traffic).

A good advertising blog owner will also make sure to choose a subject matter that will serve up relevant contextual advertising. Targeting a hot niche won’t do much good if there aren’t related advertisers available to meet the niche’s member’s interests. The highest earning blog operators will also try to search out situations in which the advertismenets offered generate a reasonable amount of money per click.

Many people have heard that blogging is easy and that using Adsense is easy. They have also heard that there are people out there making a very healthy living operating advertising blogs. All of those statements are true. However, one cannot simply assume that because things are easy to do that making money will be just as easy.

Blogging is simple. Adsense is simple. Creating an advertising blog that makes a significant amount of money, however, is a bit more complicated. It requires keyword and advertising research, as well as solid blogging skills. If one can find the right market sector, supply it with good content, and have their blog serve up paying relevant advertising, they can turn their advertising blog into a legitimate moneymaker.

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Some Samples

2006-05-01T05:35:00.000-07:00

Here are some sample templates that the Blogger Template Designs software is able to create:

Blog Template Designs Comments & Questions

2006-04-29T18:35:00.000-07:00

The New and Improved Blog Template Designs !

You choose your layout from five layout designs.

You choose if you want the Blogger navigational bar.

You choose the colors for your background, text and links.

You type in your blog title and description.

You choose your font size and style.

You choose your header graphic.

Add your Adsense publisher ID number.

Generate Blogger template code.

Copy and paste the new code into your Blogger template area.

Please post your questions or comments here!

Blog Template Designs

Blog Template Designs Software Screenshot

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Blog Template Designs

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Please post your questions, comments, problems with Blog Template Designs software here.

Let's Go Blogging

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With the absolute explosion of blogs and the tools to create and maintain them, it's a pretty safe to say this trend is here to stay. So, let's examine what they are and what you can do with them.
What is a blog? Well, the word blog is a contraction of two words, web and log. In it's purest functional sense, a blog is a combination of an online journal and guest book. In a blog, the system administrator creates dynamic web pages using a web form.If allowed by the blog owner, visitors may add comments to blog entries.

How are blogs created? You can start your own blog for free.This is the easiest way to start blogging. The most popular blog creation service is Blogger.com, owned by Google.The advantage to this is that you do not need to have any special technical skills. Anyone can have their own blog up and running in minutes.

Will my blog look professional? Yes! Thanks to a new software at http://www.blogtemplatedesigns.com you have absolute control of every design aspect of your blog. You can add different color schemes, you can choose from over 50 header banners, you decideif you want a left or right side navigation bar and you can even add your own Adsense code.

What can you do with a blog? You can create personal or club blogs and have the goal of simply relaying information to family or members. Internet marketers are using blogs as niche sites for: adsense income, membership sites, newsletter administration, shopping carts, forums, email list building - just to name a few.Political campaigns are using blogs with their party members.Corporations are using blogs to keep customers, partners, and shareholders armed with new information. Universities are using blogs for capturing research data. All without the hassles of building and maintaining static web sites.

Why start a blog? Probably the biggest single reason for starting a blog is sharing your specialized information with like-minded individuals. There are secondary reasons; such as,compiling your warehouse of knowledge into a single location. With a blog, you can add an entry per day or an entry per week.It's all up to you - after you setup your blog.

So what are you waiting for, let's go blogging!

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Internet Marketing Blog

2006-01-15T01:21:00.000-08:00

Years ago, many teenagers resorted to blogging as an outlet for their emotions, a little online nook where they could blurt out whatever was on their mind. Now fast forward to 2004 and you see savvy marketers who have discovered that blogging is one of the best internet marketing methods that doesn't cost a dime.

What exactly is a blog? Blog is the widely used term that refers to web log. Basically, a blog is an online journal. A blog could be set up to no cost at all, and can be used for the fun of it or for business reasons.

Blogging for your internet business is one surefire way to boost the visibility of your products and services. Here are a few ways to boost your internet advertising with the help of a blog:

1. Keep your clients or customers aware of any changes to your website. Your new products and affiliate websites could also be announced through your blog.

2. Keep track of your business objectives and plans through open writing. Your blog content can be easily stored through archives. What could be better than searchable information that could be easily accessed by anyone browsing the web, right?

3. Air your opinions, advice or reviews on specific services or products that are related to your business. Publishing is a very easy process with blogging.

4. Include links that will fetch back links and subsequently improve your ranking on search engines. This could be better executed through putting well-written articles in your website. Affiliate links could also be included in your blog to earn more
extra income.

5. Collect response through the ability of blogs to fetch comments from your blog readers. You can learn and improve your products and services with the feedback from your readers.

6. Connect easily with other bloggers. When other bloggers notice that you have something good in your blog, they will put you in their favorite lists that will automatically link you to their blogs.

So, how do you set up a blog? Set up a free account at http://www.blogger.com
They provide you with easy set up instructions.
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Make Money With Your Blog

2006-01-14T23:56:00.000-08:00

If you are interested in making cash with your blog - Affiliate programs are the way to go. You set up a blog, include banners and text ads for affiliate programs that are related to your topic, write your blog entries and build a readership. It sounds very simple - but it is a bit easier said than done!

You can start in one of two ways. You can choose an affiliate product or service to write around, or you can choose a niche topic, and then find related affiliate products or services. Typically, finding related affiliate products and services after choosing your niche is the easiest way to get started.

Determining what your niche will be is the hard part. There are many ways to choose the overall topic for your niche - affiliate programs are available for almost any topic you can imagine. The smartest thing to do is to do some research and find out which keywords are most often searched for. If you cannot find a topic that interests you that way, try making a list of topics that do interest you, and use the tools at Yahoo Search Marketing to determine how popular those topics are. You want to find a topic that is popular.

Once you've determined which topic you will blog about, it is time to search for affiliate programs that offer products and services related to that topic. Again, this is easy. Sign up as an affiliate for Click bank at http://www.clickbank.com and also check out Affiliate Programs.com at http://www.affiliateprograms.com . If you don't find products or services through these two resources, try doing a search for products or services in a search engine that are related to your topic.

When you are trying to determine how much money you can make, affiliate program
details typically tell you a percentage that you will earn for each sale. Try to find programs that pay at least a 50% commission. Otherwise, the commission may not make the time you spend blogging worthwhile.

Use the affiliate programs in two ways. First, use available banners and text ads along the borders of your blog entries. This includes the top and bottom of the page, and the side borders where the navigation links are located as well. Try to find banners that are just the right size for these areas. Most affiliate programs provide creatives; however, you can make your own creatives in many cases, and submit them to the company for approval. Make sure that you check with the company before using any creatives that you produce yourself!

The second method for using affiliate programs to earn revenue is to promote the programs within the blog entries. Tell your readers why they should use a particular project. In fact, your entire blog could be about various ways to use products. It could also become a how-to directory for a wide range of products or services. Recommendations will be very powerful to your devoted readers. Of course, it takes time to build a following of devoted readers!

Be careful not to make your blog one big advertisement. That won't work, and any readers you do have won't be hanging around for long. It is important to provide your readers with information that will teach them something, keep them informed, or keep them entertained. Failing to do one of these three things will result in a blog with no readers - and that is useless.

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