Happy First Birthday iftiSEO: Journey So Far

IftiSEO Turns 1!!!

One year, One Community, One Family, it all started with you!! 21st January 2014, well this date is very special for me as it marked the beginning of this very blog iftiSEO.com. Yes guys, iftiSEO is now 1 year old and this post it to share my journey of blogging through iftiSEO over the past 1 year. All credit goes to MY READERS who always supported me. 

Post by Iftekhar Ahmed.

iftiSEO - Your Benefit Our Happiness !!! Well the name was kept after my nickname �ifti� and SEO was added as I my main aim was to share SEO related content through it. To be honest the name sounded quite odd for like 2 months and then I got used to it and now I really love my choice.

Started without a custom domain on November 2013 with absolutely no knowledge about blogging or SEO, the main aim was to teach others about the various SEO techniques and online earning methods along with my own learning. And by 21st January 2014 I was confident enough to take a custom domain and mark the real beginning of my blogging journey. I still remember I had no source (paypal/Credit card) to buy the domain and my friend Rohit Chugh bought the domain for me. I would like to thank him for his support during my initial stages.

I really had no idea of SEO, blogging, Internet Marketing or anything related but I had the interest & Passion and that�s what kept me moving, I started reading various blogs under my niche and that helped me learn a lot.

I cannot name the blogs as there were many which I followed regularly. By March-April I was very well aware of all these terms related to blogging and I statrted understading SEO. And now it's the most interesting thing for me. 

One more thing that kept me and iftiSEO alive was facebook, I saw various bloggers uploading their success reports, income screen shots and traffic stats regularly and that really kept me up every time. hehehe!!!

Within 5 months the blog was very well established under the eyes of Google and I started sensing authority of my blog as my posts started ranking for many top keywords with high number of searches. This in turn increased my blog traffic and ultimately my Alexa rank.

I know Alexa ain�t any factor to determine a blog's success, but its what advertisers look for and with an Alexa under 100k I started getting mails for guest posts and sponsored posts as well.

Do read: Complete guide to earn through Sponsored Posts

So sponsored posts and paid reviews brought the first income of iftiSEO, though the first was for just 35$ but later it increased upto 200$.

Here's my first Sponsored post payment snap. :)

You might be thinking about adsense on iftiSEO, well it was banned in the very first month which I was never ready for. Google called it �INVALID ACTIVITY� which I never understood as I never tried to violate any of the Google Adsense Rules. Moreover they banned my domain which meant I can never use AdSense on iftiSEO again but it wasn�t an end for me. This opened up various other opportunities for me and I started focusing & learning Affiliate Marketing, Freelancing, etc etc and that helped me double my income in less than a month.

Today the stats of iftiSEO are quite good, getting a good traffic, Alexa under 30k, Regular Advertisers etc

Well blogging on iftiSEO wasn�t the only thing I did in 2014. I tried many other money making techniques from affiliate marketing to YouTube CPA. Many tests and experiments failed while many were a charm for me.

iftiSEO Achievements in 2014

The first year was really phenomenal for iftiSEO and for me as it came up with many achievements and rewards. I would Like to list some of my individual and my blog's achievements.

Firstly, this whole journey brought a massive change in me. Improved my writing skills, communication skills, technical skills and as a whole I improved my overall skills. With a powerful community of bloggers around, I was always supported by everyone and it helped me build relationships with the people of my community. I made many new friends from around the globe an it really makes me feel good. 

• iftiSEO Facebook Page got 3048 Likes. 
• iftekharrm twitter profile has 2836 followers
• Google+ Profile now have 834 Followers
• Facebook Profile now contains 197944 Followers

The numbers are increasing daily and I'm really happy to see the rise. Moreover iftiSEO.com also got featured on many blogs under various titles. I'm listing out some of them. 

• 7 Outstanding Bloggers to Follow in September 2014
• Top Blog Quotes by best Bloggers
• Top 23+1 Bloggers to Follow in 2014
• Learn Blogging for Earning with Pro-Bloggers
• Some Intelligent bloggers I know Across the world
• Top 20 + 1 Upcoming blogging Rockstars from India in 2014
• Most Popular and Interesting Tech Blogs sites
• Top 10 Most Popular and Interesting Tech & Tricks Blogs

I also got interviewed by many bloggers and that was again a big achievement for iftiSEO.

• An Exclusive Interview With Iftekhar Ahmed: Successful Blogger
• Interview with Iftekhar Ahmed from iftiseo

Many of you would still ask me about my earnings last year through iftiSEO and other blogs, well I can't reveal it completely but yes all I can say is its a 6 Figure income in Indian Rupees. 

Event Based Blogging

One thing that I always wanted to try was �EVENT BLOGGING�, as I saw some of my blogging friends making huge amount of money through it. So I decided to give it a try and the event I picked was �FIFA World Cup 2014 Brazil�, Karan Wyas from itechcolumn a very good friend of mine was my partner for the event.

Since we both were die hard football fans, it was not a tough task for us to make a blog on it. Writing content was no big deal for us while the off-page work did needed some hard work. But ultimately the hard work and dedication paid off and we ranked globally in over 100 countries with many keywords like

�FIFA World cup Live�

�World Cup Live Streaming�

�FIFA world cup 2014 live streaming�

And many more!!! We got over 30 million page views from the event and this made us a very huge amount from AdSense, Infolinks, Direct Advertisers and some other ad networks. 

Some of the snaps from the event: 

Analytics Report of FIFA world Cup blog excluding Final

Traffic Snap just before the Start of the World Cup Final

The link to our domain was: www.fifaworldcup2014brazil.com

So in all, fifa event being my and Karans� first was a huge success.

We then also covered some other sporting events throughout the year and made a good amount money. So Event Blogging was a huge success for me and my event partner Karan Wyas.

Moreover we are also doing some more events this year and January itself has brought me over 2000$ :) 

"Premium Tricks by iftiSEO" - Facebook Group

Another important thing I did was to launch a Premium blogging group on Facebook. Yes I�m talking about �Premium Tricks by iftiSEO� a secret yet a free to join group where me along with many other bloggers share their secrets to success and some really quick tips and tricks that can boost your overall figure.

Premium Tricks by iftiSEO group LOGO

The group is really a success with many people taking their blogs to whole new level, moreover I many bloggers earned over 1000$ through events after constantly following all the tips shared in there.

I have already posted 5 Open invitations to join the group and on this occasion I will be posting one more invitation on facebook. (Check my facebook profile on 22nd January 2015)

Must Read on iftiSEO

Talking again about the site!! Well the blog has 98 posts with 12 guest posts. Most of the posts did really well for my readers and for me as well. But I would like to list 10 posts of iftiSEO.com that will really help you in your blogging journey.  

1. 10 Overlooked Techniques for Generating High Quality Traffic
2. 8 Insane Ways to Boost Your Social Media Traffic
3. 10 Mistakes You're Probably Making On Social Media
4. Beginners Strategy Guide to Make Money from Fiverr
5. 5+ Brilliant Websites To Do Social Media Marketing (SMM)
6. Beginner's Guide To Make Money Selling eBooks
7. Trick to get Unlimited Google Plus Votes to your Blog Posts
8. Trick to get Unlimited Google Plus Followers
9. 10 Tips for Guest Posters: What Content Will Be 100% Accepted?
10. Things To Remember Before Starting A Blog

So these were some of the best posts of iftiSEO from its first year. My aim was always to help my readers and newbies to get started with their blogging and SEO journey effectively with less obstacles. And I believe our tag �YOUR BENEFIT OUR HAPPINESS� suits it well.

Plans for 2015

There are many plans that I already have made for iftiSEO, first and foremost I will be increasing the number of posts by taking it to atleast over 10 articles a month.

One more thing that I have planned is, to get into affiliate marketing in deep and try to increase my affiliate revenue.

The most improtant of all is, to post QUALITY and Unique content for you (my readers). I will try to post more secret strategies, case studies and tricks to increase the overall performance of your blog.

Final Thanks

Well thanks again for being a regular visitor of iftiSEO.com

I guess with a great first year full of achievements and success, its time to celebrate with the Penguins (Not the google Penguin, I mean the Penguins of Madagascar) hahaha!!!

Enjoy the video ;)

Do leave your thoughts about our one year journey :) and thanks for being a regular reader of my blog. Subscribe us for regular updates from us. :) 

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Make Stunning Images for Blog Posts in Just 3 Minutes

Hi Friends, so here I�m with yet another short tutorial. Well I never thought of making a post on this before I got many messages asking for it. Yes, I�m talking about Post Images.  The different questions that I received by many of my readers were like;

�Man, How do you make your Blog Post Images? �

�How much Time does it takes for you to make your blog images?�

�How do you make such awesome images for your blog posts?�

Here's a usual FB Post that I do before writing an article. Got good response ;) 

Post by Iftekhar Ahmed.

Though I answered them all, about how I make such images but still to answer all these questions at once so that it never remains a mystery in their minds, I have come up with this post �How do I Make my Blog Post Images�

One thing I would like to add here is that I myself don't think that my images are the best but yes I always try to do my best to keep it simple, unique and attractive, And I feel I'm doing well! Am I ?? 

I don�t do anything special, Neither I'm a photoshop expert nor I spend hours making my post pic. All I do is something so damn easy that you will feel funny after reading this. So let me dig up the hole so that you can have a read at it.

Also Read: 10+ Overlooked Techniques of Generating High Quality Traffic to Your Blog

How to Make Stunning Post Images for Blog

Well, first question that you might want to ask is �How do you take/from where do you pick images for your blog?� So to be very honest and frank, I just do a simple google image search related to my post keyword and pick the most powerful image keeping in mind about the fact that I have to add my own text and effects into it.

The second thing that you all might be wondering about would be �Which Software/Tool iftiSEO uses to make such awesome post images�. 

So first let me take a deep breathe coz what I�m about to type or what you�re about to read might not sound true or might sound as a joke. :P

Breathe :P 

Hmmm!! So friends I use the Microsoft's Built-in image processing tool named �Paint�. You all must have used it sometime in your life, but for me it�s a must have tool as all my images are being made/processed through that piece of software. It takes me only 10 minutes at max for making my image (This includes searching picture from Google and then making it on Paint)

How to Make Cool & Stunning Blog Post Images

To make it simple to understand I decided to just randomly show some snaps of how I use that tool to make things look cool. 

Let me show you how I made my previous image of my post "Bypass Adsense 6 Month Restriction: Monetize 1 Day Old Blogspot Blog"

• Get a Relevant Image related to your keyword from Google Image Search

• After picking/saving up your desired image open it up using Paint software. 

• Now Comes the main part!! What I do in all of my images is, I first give a border to the image with a dark border color.I then add Post Title text onto the picture and then add border to the text as well. Moreover, Using color variations and size variations make the image look more classy and attractive. Here's what you can make up with this simple image. 

• The most important of all is the Font selection and the Font Color you choose. I only use a single font family for all of my new post images. The Font family I used is named as "@Kozuka Gothic". There are around 10 fonts that come under this name, and can be easily be found on the internet. So my recommendation is to get these fonts and start making use of them in your blog post images. 

Example 2  

Above I have showed you a basic example of how I make an appealing post image from a simple image. Now let me finish this thing up by showing the example of making the image for this post itself. 

• Opened up the selected image on paint. As Seen in snapshot below

• Added A Black Color Rectangular Border and then Added another Rectangular Shape inside the image, but this time selected FILL as "Maker". This added the white blurry box in the image as shown below. You can also change the color of the Fill by changing Color 1 to any color you like. 

• Added Text in that box by using the Text tool. I used my desired font (@kozuka Gothic Pro in this case) and changed the font size, color and property (Bold) accordingly 

• Added the final Text "iftiSEO" at bottom, using the same font as shown in the screenshot.  

• This way the final image is being made in just 3 minutes without facing any difficulty. The final image is on top of this post, scroll to top to view the final image. 

Also Read: Funny Google Tricks 

So you guys have seen how easy it was for me to make a cool post image. This is how I made all my previous post images. This will be easy for you too and I'm sure you'll be producing some of the best post images from now onwards. I hope you liked this simple tutorial. The tutorial that might not make sense to many but the results can be very much effective as we all are very well aware of what role a Post Image play in your blog. 

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Google AdSense Stuck? Try These 5 Robust Alternatives

And yet, it was another pleasing day as it be usually, until a dreaded e-mail was shoot towards your inbox; namely "Google AdSense Disabled". 

All struggles you made, all experiments you did, all placements you done, and after all what happens is - It's no more.

It hurts, a lot. But it's not just you, and your friend's. But. Everyday thousands of AdSense accounts are being banned, smashed and crushed mercilessly. But can't be really predicted for what reason was AdSense banned for.

Maybe you might have triggered anything that Google TOS doesn't wanted to or sometime there maybe something wrong you have opt for while placements of AdSense ad.

Or scenario maybe something else. You are stuck with AdSense and is looking for something else, that may worth off.

Also Read: 6 Best Ways To Monetize Your Blog & Make Money Blogging

5 Best Google AdSense Alternatives of 2015

If you're the one, here's the perfect Google AdSense alternatives:

1. Qadabra:
2. Chitika:
3. Media.net:
4. Infolinks:
5. BuySellAds:

Qadabra 

If you're looking for AdSense alternatives, then Qadabra is the best option for you, if you want to maximize your profits by showing highly qualified and relevant ads.

Qadabra is a performance based robust advertising network that is created for publishers to show ads and monetize their blog and traffic. A good number of ads size is been allowed to use, that also have a popup ad that makes higher chances of maximizing the profits.

As compared to AdSense who's threshold is $100, Qadabra's is $0, for paypal and $500 threshold for wire transfer. It's registration is fast, and sites get approved very quickly; unlike AdSense which take weeks. It be the best option for displaying relevant ads, and withdrawing money quickly.

Click here, to register at Qadabra. It takes around 2-3 minutes to get your site approved, yeah, it's super-fast.

Media.net

Collaboration of two biggest search engine, Bing and Yahoo, together serves ad that publishers are benefited from by displaying them on their site and monetizing it. It's a contextual ad network that displays ad based on the content you create on your blog. For instance, if your content is about cooking recipe then it would should ads related to that.

Advantage of using Media.net is, it help to customize the ads more, as compared to Google AdSense. However, on contrary to Qadabra, it's approval process is slow.

We at iftiseo are using Media.net from the past 5 months. 

Infolinks

Infolinks, an another PPC (Pay-per-click) advertising network, that helps it's publishers monetize their site by showing ads on non-traditional places in the site. 

Infolinks system crawl your site's contexts, and pick up some keywords that has been fetched during the crawling process and show the ads upon the content and is fully customization that makes it a good AdSense alternative. However, it's disadvantages are: It works on a selected language.

Chitika 

Chitika is another adsense alternative but is very similar to Google AdSense. However it only shows contextual ads and is based on search query i.e. it shows ads only when the visitor lands on a page - of yours - from any search results. Chitka's threshold is $10, minimum. Check payout method is also available for which you require to cross $50, to avail it.

However, unlike Qadabra or Google AdSense itself, Chitika's ad performance is low and is required to have a high traffic to see improvement in concern to ad revenue.

BuySellAds

BuySellAds is another form of Google AdSense alternative, and is for those who have a great traffic to monetize. It's biggest disadvantage is you can't get approved in it if you are having low traffic to your blog. However, it's good if you've space to sell for advertisement in your blog which receives a good traffic in it. All you require to do is to, join it, add your site, and wait for someone to purchase the site's ad space.

Wrapping it Up

Though Google AdSense is good for publishers to monetize their site, it's really crap sometime and people do urge to throw it off. However if circumstance is different, Don't get sad if you're kick-off from Google AdSense, cause there's these site like Qadabra, Chitika, Infolinks, etc. However if you ask, and is now quite confused with what to go with, I'd highly recommend Qadabra.

•  It's suitable for any blog, be it new or old.
• It's registration and get's approval really fast.
• It's payout threshold is low as $1.

Do Read: Complete Guide to Make money from PAID REVIEWS

What's your plan for monetizing your site's traffic now?

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5+ Brilliant Websites To Do Social Media Marketing (SMM)

When it comes to blogging, it is every dream of a blogger to get huge traffic to their blogs and earn more. Read "How to create blog - A complete guide" if you are very new to blogging and confused on how to create one.

Normally many newbie bloggers use various methods to promote their blogs rather than spending more time on it. But, the result would be nothing. This is a very frustrating issue faced by almost all the bloggers during their starting period in blogging. Social media marketing has always played an important role for the promotion of sites. When I talk about Social media marketing, many newbies just think of Facebook, Twitter and Google but nothing else. This is where every newbie goes wrong. There are also many other Social media sites where you could promote your blog and earn enough traffic from them. All you need to do is, just publish great content with correct keywords.

Also read: Using Adwords Keyword Planner for SEO"

BEST WAYS OF SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING

Let me be straight from this point. I'll give the best ways of social media marketing (SMM) where one could just follow them and drive huge traffic to your blog/site. Before getting into that, you need to know what exactly does "Social Media Marketing" mean. "Social media marketing is promoting your product or website or blog through social media by advertising or publishing your content link or URL in various social networking sites. " You just publish your content where you find more number of active users engaged with topics. So, now you are done with Social media marketing and let us now see on promoting your website/blog.

Also read: 10 Mistakes You're Probably Making on Social Media

How to Promote a Website/Blog ? 

This is a very normal question, in fact a FAQ asked by many newbie bloggers on various platforms. And they find answers which they couldn't understand. But here in this post, you can get clear idea on "How to promote a website?".

Promoting a website or blog is a very simple task. You can advertise it by spending money or you could post your content on various platforms for free. Social media sites are very large in number out of which Twitter and Facebook are very famous with vast number of active users. So, promoting here would be the best option to gain traffic. Also remember, you do not get a single backlink if you promote here. You could just gain Link popularity by this.

Social Media Sites

Let me list some social media sites where you could try your own social media marketing strategies and drive some decent traffic to your website/ blog.

1. Twitter
2. Facebook
3. Google+
4. Stumbleupon
5. Reddit
6. Quora
7. Tumblr
8. Viral Content Buzz

The above mentioned are more than enough for promoting your blogs. Everybody will have idea on promoting their blogs on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. So, I need not tell more about them. But, a simple suggestion is to have a page on the blog name of yours and post in it daily. And when coming to Facebook, join various groups and post content there.

Also read: "How to invite all Facebook Friends in New Page Layout"

Social Media Promotion

You were given list of Social media sites where you could post your content using your own social media marketing strategy. Now, we will move on to the ways of promoting your blog using other 5 sites mentioned above other than the top 3 sites.

Using Stumbleupon For Social Media Marketing

Many of here must've heard about Stumbleupon by now, but not sure on using it. Believe me, it is a great platform to drive traffic to your blog. All you need to do is, just submit your blog URL in it and wait for traffic. But before that, be active on Stumbleupon for some days and research on the options available in it. Get some good number of followers. Later, when you know how it works, you could submit your post in "YOUR LIKES" page. Just click on your profile and you could then see "YOUR LIKES" page. Submit it and you are done.

Using Reddit For Social Media Marketing

Reddit is another great source to drive traffic to your source. But, using Reddit is very tricky and to be frank, I've failed in using it. You'll have karma points in reddit which shows the users engagement on your posts. You should try to entertain them and get more Upvotes for every post of yours. Your karma points count will be increased slowly and once you reach 150+ karma points, you can post your blog URL. And trust me, you will be surprised to see the increase in traffic once you post your URL. And unlike other social media sites, you should post only ONE post a day in Reddit. Reddit can also be used to research on keywords. Isn't it helpful?

Using Quora For Social Media Marketing

Quora is another best way to promote your blog and personally, I love it. Quora is where you would not find any ads and where you could post any question that comes into your mind. People will answer your questions very fast and in the best way. There is also an option to Anonymously add a question and wait for answers. If you answer for a question, you get some credit points. If you are asked to answer some question, you get more credit points. 

But, how this could help you in promoting your blog? It surely does. If you come up with a question for which you've already given an answer in your blog, you could just put up your blog URL for reference. The chances of people visiting are more. Also make sure that you do not put any links on the question. That is against the rules of Quora. Each and every single question is scanned and edited by Quora. So, never misuse. 

Also read: "7 Advanced SEO Tips"

Using Tumblr For Social Media Marketing

Tumblr is another source to get traffic to your blog. But, you should concentrate on building up followers and also the design of your Tumblr blog. You may find it little boring at the beginning, but once you are used to it, the chances of you getting good number of followers increases.

Using Viral Content Buzz For Social Media Marketing

VCB ( Viral Content Buzz) is one great social media site. In VCB, you first link up your Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin accounts. You'll have 10 credits on your sign up. Once you start sharing content that is available on it to your profiles, you earn some credits.

Suppose if you have around 1000+ people on your Facebook page, you earn 4 credits on sharing an article. Once you earn some good count of credits, you can click on "ADD PROJECT" available there and simply give your article's URL and post it. You've to put good amount of credits you earned to that article so that others could share it. In simple words, others get credits you put up for that project. It's like a money transfer in your banking services.

Round Up

Last but not least is Guest blogging and also Blog commenting. These are helpful in creating backlinks for your blog.

The above are the best possible ways that one could promote their blogs effectively to gain huge traffic. Feel free to comment if there are any other sources you use to promote your blog. Happy Blogging.

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6 Best Ways To Monetize Your Blog & Make Money Blogging

Now a days, owning a blog or starting a blog is nothing great, but earning from a blog is something big. So, today I am going to concentrate on the different ways that you can monetize your blog for higher profits. Many newbies are aware of adsense only, but there are lot of opportunities out there.

Blogging is nothing but creating your own opportunities. So,why to stop with adsense? Just explore other options and alternatives. I have seen many people who stopped blogging after their adsense account got disabled.

To be frank, many probloggers are not earning huge from adsense. In a practical view, if I am writing about the blog tips, then obviously my visitors are bloggers. So, they know why the ads are getting displayed and what happens if they click on the ads. So,stop looking at adsense approvals and customizing your blog for adsense. There are many people out there who will keep on customizing templates,changing templates and removing some links for adsense approval. For those people, stop trying and start reading this.

Also Read:- Online Money Making Tricks For Students

Affliate Programs:

I hope these are the best programs through which we can earn more money from. Affliates are nothing but displaying an advertisement and asking visitors for a sale or signup. Just research on the companies in your niche and contact them about the business and set a deal with them like "I will bring more registrations for you and I will charge $2 per registration".

There are many ways to get affiliates on your blog and this is one of them, Try something new and one day you will stand at the top.

For example, consider problogger Imran, he is not depending much on adsense, he is mainly targeting on affiliates, if you see his blog, there will be a hard disk advertisement which is bringing him more profits. So, start it out today.

If you are in tech niche, yes obviously you have a better edge than others.

How To Start:

Just go through some famous network networks like maxbounty, commission junction and register your website. Once you get your account setup, find differect products under your niche that you can promote on your blog and potentially make some sales.

Pros:-

1. No need to make your blog loaded with advertisements
2. Your blog's design will be good without the ads
3. Your blog loading time will be reduced
4. The main point is your users will never get irked by the advertisements
5. One single advertisement with good CTR can make more money than adsense- I can Gaurentee This

Cons:-

1. You may not find more clicks on your advertisements.
2. Your CTR will be very low,for this switch ads from one place to another place on your blog and try it out

Also Read:- Trick To ACCESS Your School Wifi

Sponsored Reviews:

There are many new products coming up daily. Many people will try to read some reviews before going to buy them. So,there are many products which will pay for writing a review. If you don't want to contact any company or services, try to join in some networks like sponsored reviews and weblogads. This is also one of the best way to make money.

How To Start:-

You can read the Complete Guide on Sponsored Posts to learn how to attract different advertisers and earn money. 

Pros:- 

1. No need of placing ads on your blog.
2. One review can make handful of income.
3. Your client will also promote your review and post, so ultimately you are going to be blessed with traffic too.

Cons:-

1. OftenVery difficult to find sponsors.
2. Sponsored Posts must be of high quality and with Do-follow links.

Offer Services:

"If you are good at anything, Never do it for free."  Yes, you read it right,why you should do it for free? 

Sell your knowledge and make some money out of it. There are many people who are trying to learn, find them, teach them and charge them. Offering services will even bring you more clients to your blog.

Try this service by just adding a page of services on your blog.

How To Start:-

Just add an attractive page to your blog explaining your services and promote that page on facebook and other social media sites.

Pros:-

1. Very easy to start, just create a page and leave it.
2. Handful of income for the same work

Cons:-

1. Hard to get clients
2. Heavy competiton as they are many probloggers offering same services. So,add some extra features and bonuses to your services which will attract more clients

Advertisements:

There are many ad networks which can and will work for you. In this one, you need to just paste the code in your blog and leave it. Adnetworks will work for you and display advertisements relavent to your blog. This is the most outstanding option for many bloggers. During inital days of blogging, this will be a better option for you.

The best adnetwork I suggest you is google adsense, but the approval for this network is bit difficult.

Try this out and earn more.

How To Start:-

Just sign up for ad networks like adsense, media ads or any other famous networks, get approved and place the ad code on your blog. You will earn according to your traffic and many more factors.

Pros:-

1. Have many methods like Cost per click (CPC), Cost per mile (CPM), etc.
2. Shows an advertisement relavent to your site and niche.
3. Very easy to set up.

Cons:-

1. Very low earnings,if you don't get good CTR and if you have low traffic
2. Earnings may vary day to day. So,you can't completely depend on these.

Direct Ad Sales:-

Direct advertisements are the ad deals you set with the company or advertiser. In this method, you are going to benefit a lot by avoiding the commissions for networks like adsense, mediaads.

There are many ways to approach advertisers, but the best suggested method is shoot up a mail regarding your blog and service you are offering.

How To Start:-

Just type your keywords in google and find relavent advertisements on the side bar and top bar.Visit their website and contact them through the contact form. Read our previous posts to know more.

Pros:-

1. Pays more than adsense and other ad networks.
2. You can cut a deal on your desired price and they will sign for 3 months or 5 months.

Cons:-

1. Very hard to get approval,unless your blog has good alexa and traffic
2. Need some good CTR rate for their continued interest in your blog

Auction Your Blog/ Selling Blogs:

There are many people who create blogs for selling. Popularise your blog and sell it for huge profits. Make a good authority of your blog, maintain a consistent traffic and then you can easily sell your blog at good rates.

How To Sell:-

There are many networks like Flippa which will sell for you. Register your domain in their network and they will intimate you if they are any good offers

Pros:-

1. You can invest $ on your blog and sell it for $$.
2. Huge income at a time can be used as an investment for some other businesses.

Cons:-

1. Takes lot of time for beginners to popularise a blog.
2. Your blog should be very much attractive and contain some great quality posts

Conclusion:

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Affiliates, Sponsored reviews and Blog services are the most amazing features apart from ad networks. Try all these and don't get disappointed if you didn't get one, try for another option. There are many options waiting for you, just go and grab them.

Feeling Confused?? Drop your comments below,we are ready to take your questions

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Complete Guide on Sponsored Reviews and Paid Posts

Hello Friends, Firstly it's good to be back writing posts on iftiSEO after a small break. So today I have come up with a very effective way which will help you get sponsored posts for your blog. It has been seen that most of the blogging/seo niche or even tech niche blogs are failing to make money through adsense or other ad networks, so the next thing that comes is Sponsored Reviews. 

But wait!!!

Most of us even after having good traffic stats, Alexa rank and even DA are unable to get advertisers for sponsored post. There are many more questions which will be answered in this post as I bring you the   Complete Guide on Paid Reviews and Sponsored Posts 

Note: By advertisers I mean the persons or the companies who pays us to write about thier product/service

And by the way this post is again based on what my readers wanted. I just did a small survey of what post they would like to have first at iftiSEO and this was their pick. Hurray for them!!!

What are Sponsored Posts/Reviews? 

Well, a Sponsored post is just an article or blog post published on your blog on a request of an advertiser for some fee. 

So it's basically like an advertiser comes to us asking for promoting his/her product by a blog post on our blog and pays us some amount. The amount may vary from 10$-500$ depending upon your website stats (Analytics, PR, DA, Alexa, etc.).

Many blogs make half of their monthly income by just posting sponsored content, so don't overlook this earning source.

When can we start getting advertisers for Sponsored Posts?

Hmm!! A very Common question. Well, yeah there are some criterias that the advertisers look for before approving any blog for a sponsored post.

Since the advertisers REALLY want to promote their products or services among thier audience they only look for blogs that:

• Can satisfy their needs, 
• Blogs that can help them build trust among the users
• Blogs that can meet upto thier expectations, 
• Blogs that can help them make sales, 
• Blogs that can gain them subscribers, 
• Blogs that can even bring them "TRAFFIC", 
• Blogs that can expose them to different audiences and a lot more...

So, the advertisers look for many things before coming up with a proposal and if your blog satisfies any of their needs you will get approved by them. 

Wait a sec!! There's one more question that may come in your mind!!! Is it ??

I mentioned some of the key points that the advertisers look for in your blog, but how ?? What do they check?? What stats do they prefer to analyse??? 

What stats does the advertisers look for in your blog

The advertisers don't have your blog's analytics stats or traffic stats, so they always go for checking up some external sources and analyse it. Let me list some: 

• Alexa Rank- This is probably the first and the most important thing an advertiser look before accepting your blog.

• DA and PA- Domain authority and Page Authority by Moz also explains a lot about your website/blog and due to this very reason most of the advertisers check these stats. 

• Social Stats- Big advertisers do focus on a blog's social following as they want their product review to get exposed everywhere on a blog network.

• Competition- Advertisers also look for blogs that already have posted sponsored reviews/posts before as this thing gives them a sense of relief that the blog is already trusted by other advertisers. 

• Ranking- I don't know whether advertisers check for this or not, but if I would be an advertiser I would definately check up a blogs ranking. By ranking I mean that I would just check up the blog's post and see where it got ranked (First page, second page or so on). 

I know that after reading till this point your mind still have some questions!! Ahh!! Let me try guessing them and answer them as well. So you might be thinking that what are the preferable stats a blog must have so that it can easily get approved by advertisers?

Aslo Read: 8 Insane Ways to Boost Social Media Traffic

Recommended Stats to get Sponsored reviews

Well the answer to this cannot be straight and simple but I will answer it according to my experience and I guess it will help you a lot, since I do get a lot of requests by advertisers. 

• Alexa Rank- Under 100k and you will start receiving requests or you can try sending requests. My first sponsored post on this blog came when my site was ranked 73000 in the world as per Alexa. Under 50k Alexa rank will never turn away the advertisers from your blog and such rank can even get you 100$ per post. My blog ranked at 23k brings me an average of 30-100$ per post depending upon many other things.

• DA and PA- Get a DA above 15 and 50% of advertisers will be ready to accept your blog. PA in this case matters less. 

• Social Stats- As mentioned above, this thing is just looked up by top advertisers who are willing to pay a good amount, so the social stats must be good enough to impress them. 

• Competition- Try to get some low rate reviews initially (like 1-2 posts) since it will show your blog's trust to future advertisers. 

• Ranking- Well if your blog follows the above 4 points, then it is obvious that your posts are getting indexed and ranked well on search engines. 

And now here comes again!! What??? I mean some more questions that might have come in your mind. So How to get advertisers once we fulfill all the above points ??

Once your blog gets some good stats, I mean once it fulfills the above points then it is obvious that your blog is creating a buzz in your niche and thus it will not be a difficult task for advertisers to reach your blog. So, once you get good stats you will automatically start getting advertisers mails in your inbox and thus you will be easily making like 20-100$+ per post.

But WHAT IF YOU DON'T GET ADVERTISERS FOR SPONSORED REVIEWS ??? Well yeah this thing is very common these days due to the increase in the number of blogs in your niche. Tech and Blogging/SEO niche bloggers face this thing a lot and believe me I have along got 40+ messages and mails asking on how to get sponsored reviews or posts for our blog.

No problem!! I have written this guide specially for you all who face this problem and thus I've got a solution to this thing. Excited?? Well I guess you are now liking the post as by now you have read 1000 words. So why not LIKE and SHARE this post on your network and help me spread the word. 

Hmm! Coming back to point now, I will be explaining you all 3 different & effective techniques of getting Advertisers for Sponsored Reviews or you can say PAID POSTS as others say. 

If something can't reach you, then try to reach to that thing yourself.

True isn't it!! Well this is what you will be doing now inorder to get advertisers. We will reach to theam by ourself using some techniques. 

3 Most Effective Methods of Getting Sponsored Reviews on your Blog?

I've already given you the idea above on what we will be doing, So lets get started!!

• Sponsored Posts Marketplace- 

One of the best ways to get Paid posts or Sponsored Review is by signing up on different Marketplaces and get your blog listed in it. Many advertisers still prefer to give Paid reviews through such sites as these marketplaces becomes a source of trust between the publisher and the advertiser. Moreover no cheating or scams can take place through it. 

Some top Sponsored Posts Marketplaces are: 

• SponsoredReviews.com - One of the best and the most trusted site where you can easily get advertisers who can pay upto 200$ per post. I got 50$ once through this site by just adding a link of advertiser in any one of my post.  Join this site now. The only con of this site is that they keep 50% of what the advertisers pays. 

• PostJoint - This is a small marketplace but still effective if your blog stands on top with the stats. Join PostJoint.

• PayPerPost- One more site, which I just found out googling last week. Do give it a try, join now

• BuySell.reviews- This is just a new site started by my friend and me, its still in the intial stages but once we get completed with everything you can earn upto 100$ per post using this site. Join it now

There are many more marketplaces that can be found up by googling. I've just listed out the one's which I used. Here is a list of 10 more such sites that pay you for writing posts on your blog.

• Google Search 

Well you must be confused?? Hmm!! But wait, its true that we can use Google Search to get Paid posts on our blog. Let me explain you the whole process.

First of all you have to find new advertisers under your niche, this can be done very easily by just performing a Google Search. Let's for example search for a keyword "Email Marketing". 

You can see that some ads of different companies/sites will be coming in google search results. Now all you need to do is target these companies. So just select some 3-5 NEW companies from the ads and open up their links, find their contact page/id and shoot them with a mail asking for a paid review of their service. 

My Friend Abid Omar have already explained the process completely on his blog with all the steps including "how to write the mail and send them". Check out his post: How to get sponsored reviews

There are 80% chances that these sites will pay you for a sponsored review on your blog since they are already investing in Google Adwords. 

• Competitor Blog

Again a new thing!! You might be confused again?? Are you ?? Well its natural since these things are quite new. So what do I mean by this Competitor Blog? 

Note: By Competitor Blog, I just mean a better blog of someone else (maybe your friend) under your same niche.

Lets come to the point directly!! No matter what niche your blog is on, you will always be having some competitor blogs. So in this technique we will take advantage of their blog.

How to do this: 

• First off, make a list of all top blogs under your niche in a notepad file.
• Now open each blog one by one and check if that blog have posted any sponsored post  recently or not, if YES just note down the advertiser/company/product name that your competitor blog have reviewed. 
• Repeat this for all of your competitor blogs and within just 10 minutes you will be having a list of around 15 different products. 
• Now what you have to do is just open up these product sites, get their contact id and mail them asking for writing a paid review of their service. 
• There are 80% chances that you will be approved. 

This method works like a charm as in this way we are directly going to contact only those advertisers who firstly have their product/service that fall under your niche and then secondly they have already paid other blogs for writing a review for their service. So it is obvious that they will pay you as well for writing one review. 

How much you Can Earn From A Single Review?

This heading ain't that much important in this post but I still prefer to make things look cool and I want you all to know the power of Paid reviews. 

Basically a good ranked website (as per ALEXA)  like iftiSEO.com can get upto 200$ per post, but to be frank I get an average of 60$ per post which is a good amount for a single review.

If you just write 4 sponsored reviews per month which is really an easy task then you can easily make 50*4=200$ minimum per month only through sponsored posts. Isn't it good ?? Many top blogs with such ranks even get 200$ per post and they are easily making 500+$ per month only through sponsored reviews and paid posts. So with this, you might have understood the power of it. 

Also Read:  Is your Blog on Right Track ?

One of my paid post payment proof

Some Important Points to Remember before Getting Started

So, I have explained you everything in the guide and I guess you understood and liked it so far, but wait!! Before you get started I want you to keep some points in mind. 

• Only accept Paid posts and reviews that comes under your blog category/niche to maintain your readership and subscribers.
• Don't compromise with regular posts, continue with regular posting of fresh quailty articles.
• Don't write fake reviews. 
• Don't give excess do-follow links. 
• Don't promote illegal stuffs/ sites/ products even though you get huge offers for it.

Final Verdict

Hmm!! So at this point I don't have questions in my mind regarding anything and I guess you are clear with everything as well. Are you ??? 

By the way you have reached like 2000 words and I guess I've explained a lot in these words. Why not share it or like it or tweet it or even stumble it. That's how a blog's social network works. If you still have any query regarding any method or anything just comment below and I will answer your questions. 

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