A Few Money Making Tips

Here's a short checklist of things you can do to increase readership, traffic, and overall visibilty on the internet. These things are all must haves if you expect to make money!

• Write well and write often
• Write what you know and what you like writing about
• Stay with your general topic, and be informative
• Answer comments kindly and promptly
• Never make lame excuses for not updating
• Keep your site neat and orderly
• Your site should be easy on the eyes and easy to read
• Toss out the trash regularly by deleting and blocking spam comments
• Use social bookmarking icon links for Reddit, deli.cio.us and Furl and many others
• Use Technorati tags on keywords in your posts
• Make sure your readers can reach you by email or web form
• Don't have more than 2 or 3 posts showing on the front (index) page
• Make sure your site loads quickly with no major errors
• Frequently check your site in all major browsers for appearance and readability
• Leave relevant comments with your return link at other sites
• Good content is most important
• Don't distract from content with excessive buttons and blinkie ads in sidebar
• Use relevant images in posts, don't over do it

Those are the most important ones I can think of at the moment but I'll probably add more in the future.

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