We talked about what it means to be a Tapit Water Partner. We also talked about how Tapit uses technology from blogging, YouTube, iPhone and Twitter to spread their message of water bottle refilling.

Tapit is blogging 1-2x per day! And, they use The Super Blog, our exclusive blogging add-on that saves you time in marketing your website to your contigency.

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Cheers,
Richard

The Right Click

Some blogs do make money. Some internet sites pay bloggers for every post they make on their blog. However, these sites often lure bloggers in with high payment amounts and cut the pay amount once the bloggers has failed to produce astronomical page views. The companies that pay per post for blogs make money by placing relevant ads on the blog that the paid bloggers write. If you are looking to write for a pay per post blog site pick a topic that will draw lots of page views such as celebrity gossip or news.

The way most bloggers make money blogging is by affiliate marketing. What is affiliate marketing? Affiliate marketing is when someone posts an ad with a link to a product on their blog or site. The person who posts the link on their site is then paid for every click on that link or for every product that is sold from the link. The payment amounts can vary from a few cents to hundreds of dollars depending on the item sold.

The down side to affiliate marketing is that in order to gain your blog readers trust you have to recommend quality products that fit with the theme of your blog. For example if your blog is about raising children, a good affiliate link would be for a book your kids loved. A bad affiliate link would be for a power tool. Plus blog followers want to read more than ads, so you have to be sure to post relevant blog posts and not just affiliate links.

The major problem most bloggers have is maintaining traffic flow to their blog. Traffic can be generated in a few ways. Writing interesting, unique and relevant content is most important way to get traffic. However, every blogger should learn about search engine optimization to bring in traffic from search engines. Another great way to generate traffic to your blog is by participating in blog circles that share ad space and readers.

Years ago with the inception of the internet, the internet was fairly one dimensional. The only way to communicate in those days through the internet was through email and some early forms of chat rooms. The internet was not very interactive at that time, and for an individual to maintain an online presence with a website was fairly expensive also.

Web 2.0 basically denotes the amount of interactivity, or multi-dimensional aspects, of the internet today. Blogging was originally a way to make an online journal, but can now be used for interactive conversation and lively debates. With the introduction of YouTube as a video sharing site, people are able to share movie clips, vacation videos, etc. with one another — this could not have been done before.

Perhaps the most popular form of Web 2.0 technology that has taken the internet by storm is social networking sites. These are sites such as Facebook, Myspace, Twitter etc. Thousands of users are now able to come together, like never before, and share some of their most intimate details: videos, pictures, blog posts, websites, forum posts, bulletins, etc. In fact, with sites like Twitter and Facebook, you can actually tell your list of friends what you are currently doing right now.

Web 2.0 technology has actually helped police solve crimes and report emergency situations by using Twitter and Facebook instant messaging. These “tweets” or “wall posts” are updated instantly and can be done sometimes faster than a phone call. With Blackberry phones and Apple iPhones, which can access such Web 2.0 sites, reporting emergencies and crimes is simple.

The next time you hear the term “Web 2.0,” do not be intimidated by it or think you are missing out on anything. The fact of the matter is, you are probably experiencing it or using it everyday, and do not even know it.

Before the Internet, traditional forms of entertainment helped pass the time away for the jobless. In the 1930’s it was the movie theater. In the 1990’s it was the television. Today, it’s the Internet. And you can imagine what is being consumed! Everything from free videos at Hulu.com and WatchTVSitcoms.com to online game play at popcap.com to free porn at spankwire.com.

I can’t help but wonder how many of those people at the local Starbucks with their laptops are both jobless and writing their blogs or contributing to one. Or, are they simply doing nothing? The Net Potato, should they wrap their minds around this simple idea, can in fact become a NetPreneur. They can convert all that free time and caffeine-induced energy binges into blogs that have the ability, with the right content, to drive traffic to a website. That traffic can translate, after various creative endeavors, into sales. And those sales can translate into a happy existence. Imagine doing what you love to do, and getting paid for it. It’s also known as The American Dream.

Cheers,
Richard

The Right Click – Technology Update

Otherwise, take your exceptional observation skills and focus them upon your blog’s primary purpose, and not anything else. Your audience, your one-time audience, will appreciate it.

Looking out for your seo, one keyword at a time.

Love,
Richard