Recently I have been observing loads of comments and questions on many of non related blog posts by the NapIncome blog readers. The major reason to such comments are because most of the visitors are unable to ask their queries or questions to me directly.
Today I am glad to introduce this page dedicated to answering your queries on Blogging or Monetizing strategies irrespective of the topic under discussion. Please feel free to drop your comments or queries here and I will assure that they are all answered in detail. Thank you all for the continued support!
Your Live Blogging Helpline!
This page would act like a consulting page or a Live Blogging helpline for any budding or established blogger who might want to discuss or seek help regarding any technical or strategy related to Blogging. I would be more than happy to help you all with all that I learned from my years of Blogging. You may even want to let me know what you feel about Pro Blogging as I too could take this opportunity to learn from you as well!
Dear Joshu,
I have a Recipes Blog and has fairly good amount of traffic (200 – 400) pageviews per day.
I have installed Google Adsense on my blog, its sad to see that my monthly income never crosses more than 10 USD from adsense, what am I doing wrong?
The blog is 4 months old.
regards, Stacey
Dear Stacey,
Firstly congrats for sticking to blogging for the past 4 months. I wish you continue blogging in a dedicated and organized manner in the future too.
Regarding your question – 200 – 400 page-views per month isn't that great stats to start earning from your blog well and 4 months is not that long time either.
I would recommend you to avoid using or expecting much from Google Adsense at the early stages of your blog as it could slow down the growth of your blog as Ads at early stages with less traffic is not advisable. I haven't started using Adsense on this 6 months old blog for the same reason, I receive more than 4 – 5000 page views per day on this blog.
Continue blogging for few more months, build quality content in an organized manner and publicize your blog. Once you have got enough traffic, start installing methods to monetize your traffic.
regards
Joshu
Hey there..
Thanks for opening up this section.. I did email you regarding this question, hope to get it answered here.
I am planning to start few individual blogs for some high paying Google Adsense keywords, can you advice me on this?
regards
Mani
Hey Mani,
Bad Move! if you are new to blogging, its not a great idea to concentrate on starting multiple blogs on high paying adsense keywords. Believe me there are many established niche websites that rank high on the SERP already as high paying adsense keyword websites is not a new concept, its been there for years.
The best method is to identify a narrow niche of your interest or of demand with less competition and start one blog.
work on that blog hard and once it has enough traffic, start monetizing. You should use keyword research to identify high potential narrow niches. My ebook on keyword research could help you!
http://orangecopper.com/blog/free-ebook
regards
Josh
Dear Josh,
Firstly – Hats off to this awesome blog! I enjoy reading the archives as there are loads of useful information, thank you for being transparent.
My question is – how do feel about the idea about having a self hosted blog? Or is it a good idea to start off with a blogspot and later migrate it to a self hosted blog?
regards
Aaron
Hello Aaron,
You are welcome!
I feel great about self hosted blogs! That should be the correct approach to professional blogging.
It gives you and your blog more credibility and avoids the confusion when you want to migrate at a later stage. If you are serious about blogging, give it a good start, nowadays it does not cost much to buy a hosting.
regards
Josh
Joshu,
What all do you do from SEO perspective to make sure you are on the top of search engine traffic?
Thanks in advance for answering..
Anil
Dear Anil,
From SEO perspective, I use two plugins to do all the work for On page SEO:
1. All in one SEO pack
2. SEOpressor
both these plugins are awesome in making sure the on page SEO balance, density and keywords are placed appropriately.
To be frank when it comes to Off page SEO, I havent done any link building all the link juice I have received are from forum signatures, other blog comments and Guest posts.
Cheers
Josh
hey josh hope you doing good.josh i am a bit new to your blog but i am enjoying every minute of it.
are you getting all free traffic or you paying for some traffic.
i would appreciate if you give some numerics about your traffic source.
i-e how much you get from google,yahoo bla bla…..
thanks
stay blessed
Hello Saif,
I never recommend paying for traffic as it is a very foolish approach – similar to paying and forcing someone to enjoy a movie!
Almost 60% of my traffic are from Search Engines as I make sure I do keyword research before publishing an article, I use appropriate on page optimization on every new posts and best of all, along with the wordpress SEO advantage and super plugins, its easier to top the search engine listings.
Google sends me 90% of my search traffic as Google is the smartest search engine to find most unique content and reward the website. Make sure you continue to write articles in an organized manner accompanied with smart research.
regards
Josh
I got redirected from your orangecopper blog. Your blog is awesome and I like to spend my time in reading your article.
If you dont mind could you please share me your email id…
You can get my id through this comments…
Dear Programmer,
Glad you have landed here from my OrangeCopper Blog. I decided to start this blog 6 months ago to bifurcate the strategy related content from OC Blog as its basically a tech blog for webmasters.
My email ID is joshuthomas at gmail.com
Cheers,
Josh
You are rocking…
And your balance sheet is awesome…
frankly speaking im jealous on you…
ha ha ha…
Dear Sriram,
If I can do it, certainly you could also take up Blogging seriously. it should start with choosing a niche to blog about rather than wasting time by taking it as a mere hobby. If you are serious, start a blog on a self hosted web hosting and write frequently..
cheers
Josh
Hey there,
Although our website isn`t ready yet, we`ve launched our first WordPress theme.We think it`s a pretty awesome theme and we would love if you can review it on your website.It`s called Impressa and you can find more info about it over here http://impressatheme.com.
Please let me know if you like it and decide to review it so I can send you the theme and the affiliate link from eJunkie.
Regards,
Alex
Drop me an email to joshuthomas at gmail.com and I shall review it for you.
regards
Josh
Hi,
I read your guest post on Problogger and came here. You inspired me very much. The design of this blog is fantastic. I want to know more about you.
1. What is your educational qualification? What was your qualification when you got that 1000$ job in India?
2. How much you used to earn while creating websites for companies in your college days?
Hello Farhan,
1. Thanks for the kind words!
I have done my B tech – Electronics Engineering.I am 5 years experienced in Network Security and Auditing.
2. May be like..2k – 5k per website (of course Indian rupees)
regards
Joshu
Josh hope you ll be doinng good.
please clarify me whether links from yahoo,bing,google are of important.
and how to get links from google,yahoo,bing.
my blog alaxa rank is 7,95,000 my blog is about six month old as i earlier mention on this forum.
what about my alaxa rank
i love your kind response.
stay blessed
Hey there..
not sure what you mean by links from Google and Yahoo, we dont really get any link backs from these search engines, basically other websites link to yours and its important to improve your search engine rankings.
To improve alexa rank read my articles below:
http://orangecopper.com/blog/how-to-improve-my-we…
http://orangecopper.com/blog/20-best-quick-ways-t…
warm regards
Josh
Hi there, what if get million pageviews per month – how much i can make per day with adsense?
Hey neo..
As per my understanding one of my blogs with over 1million page views gives me around 20 usd per day
Regards
Josh
Hello Joshu,
I am a serious fun of your blog napincome.com. Could you guide me on how i can setup a landing page with option to subscribe on my website; http://uza.co.ke ?
I will really appreciate your help.
Kind regards,
Thomas Odol
Hi Thomas ,
Sure! Am here to help anyways!
Basically setting up a landing page is an easy task. First would be creation of the page just like any other WordPress new page and writing the content of the page. Regarding setting up the subscription optin, you could sign up for a mailchimp account for free at mailchimp.com to configure a newsletter service using the wizard they have. Obtain the HTML code for the optin and insert it in the page to have your optin service ready. Let me know if you are able to do it, if not – I will write an article on how to do it.
Regards
Joshu
Hi joshu,
i am sekar working in Logicshore as a SEO Engineer..,Usally i am reading ur blogs..,i need one help from ur part..,i want to delete all the comments under this link http://wikimapia.org/6920653/logicshore
i already posted correction support but no use.i hope u can help me..,plz reply me as soon as possible…
an one more i want sell my blog http://www.cjournalist.com/
help me where i can sell @ best price..,
one place where you could sell your blog is Flippa.com
There are several other marketplaces to sell your websites like on TycoonTalk forum or DigitalpointForums etc.
The price all depends on your earning from your blog and the traffic.
regards
Joshu
hi champ hope you will be doing great.
i have a question i am running a blogspot blog
pashto-arena.blogspot.com now i want to host it on blogger with custom domain.and i would register a different name from pashto-arena
so my question is if i do this will it effect my search engine traffic or ranking kindly guide me.
quick response will be highly appreciated.
Hi Joshu,
I am working as a s/w Engineer and i want some extra income.
So can u pls tell me how to start blogging and able to get some money out of it.
Thanks,
Sameer
http://www.napincome.com/new-to-blogging/
Joshu,
I used your link that you posted on OrangeCopper Network to buy a VPS package for $899. Please send me the rebate that you promised to send on OrangeCopper Network. I found no way to contact you via that site.
My transaction # is IMH-314-371346-1
Please contact me via the email so that I can send you my paypal email.
Thanks!
The discount has been transferred via Orangecopper blog topic
"Hi,
Are you the owner of : http://www.napincome.com
Im a fulltime webmaster from India looking for the blogs that get traffic from search engines.
While browsing, I just saw yur website and it looks interesting to me and i hope it can feed my needs.
Please do let me know if you have any plans of selling this website, I would like to buy it for a reasonable price.
Thanks
shiva sharma"
Nope buddy, this website is not for sale.
thanks and regards
Josh
waiting for your sep,oct,nov,dec 2011
Income report please inspire us
Certainly, I will post the income reports. Not finding time cos of managing too many projects and blogs 🙂
regards
Joshu
Joshu,
Im a regular follower of ur blog & provides excellent motivating articles.
I have a doubt regarding the adsense income since im also an Indian webmaster with few blogs.
My question is – Should we pay service tax for our adsense income if it crosses 8lacs/ yr?
I contactd few CAs but some say yes, while others say No.So thought of asking experienced people like you..
Your reply would help me in getting a view..
Dear Parul,
Yes. This income is taxable too. You shall file and pay tax as an additional income and also you can pay advance tax on a quarterly or half yearly basis. Every income is certainly taxable if its above the exemption limit.
regards
Joshu
hi joshu,
i created a funny picture blog in 2009 posted few picture and stopped it… now after 2yrs i again started posting pictures now my blog pageviews around 100,000 to 400000 per month but but earning only between 60$ to 120$… is there any way i can earn more from it other than adsense. CPC is very pathetic… 0.02 to 0.05$ only visitor from US pays more around 0.1 t0 2$. mostly orgainic search visitors.
http://funny-indian-pics.blogspot.com
Not sure if you can help me, but could you possibly point me to the person in your organization responsible for monetization decisions on your website?
Thanks,
Roderick
its me.
will adsense can be used on indiagetonline.in project?
please reply to my question
Dear sunny,
any website can use adsense as long as it inline with the Adsense TOS: https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms
regards
josh
Hai Joshu,
U r a great blogger!! i'm Tenz, from cochin. i hav sme doubts about SEO. Which tool is better for finding SERP results?
When doing International client site which are the methods to focuz for getting good results in their country based google search engine?
Thanks
Dear Tenz,
Thanks for your kind words.
For higher SERP, the first and best decision is in using WordPress as your framework as its very neatly coded and is highly search engine friendly. Then usage of good plugins like AIOSEOP, SEOpressor etc can boost up your chances of higher SERP positions.
Writing article should be done after proper Keyword research, learn more about all these at the page: http://www.napincome.com/new-to-blogging/
also link building, regular and frequent blog posting and usage of images, alt tags, H1, H2, H3, H4 tags and interlinking your posts are important. Also ensure you use canonical URLs with the help of permalinks..
do a lot of reading and you will easily find your rankings improving! all the best.
cheers
Joshu
excuse me..i want to ask you how housewives can make money by using accounting knowledge?other than mak a blog,business online?
HI JOSHU,
first of all thanx for creating such a great and interesting blogger help-desk.i am a professional bodybuilder and a GYM trainer, so i have created a blog 2 months ago, on bodybuilding,nutrition, health and fitness.The blog is purely based on my 15 years experience and knowledge.
my blog is
http://bodybuildingplaza.blogspot.in/
once i had applied for adsense but rejected. Now i manage to have 120-150 page viewers per day
1. Is it now right time to apply again for adsense ?
2. plz check my blog once, and provide me the suggestions to improve it and make it up to the level of adsense.
I'LL WAIT FOR YOUR REPLY…….
Dear Raj,
Thanks for your kind words. to start with congrats on your decision to take up professional blogging and with the kind of expertise and experience you have, you can go ahead in creating awesome content for your readers.
Firstly, i would recommend purchasing a domain name and starting a professional blog and then spending atleast dedicated 3 – 6 months in developing unique and quality content. Once you have an established blog with atleast a 1000 unique visitors a month apply for adsense and you will get it approved.
There is no meaning in having an approved adsense account without good traffic, its just waste of time and no earnings will be found, so first build a blog, build quality traffic and content then monetize it.
good luck and stay tuned.
read more here: http://www.napincome.com/new-to-blogging/
warm regards
Joshu
THANXS JOSHU,
for ur suggestions.
1 more query.
I have written 80 unique posts,
At what frequency,the posts should be published, to act as a good blogger ?
and what about CLIXSENSE..?
Is it better than ADSENSE..?
becoz, I often used to get pop up navigation messages, whenever i click to close my blog.
Raj,
80 unique articles are good to start with.
Frequency can be anything we cannot define it though. On a safe side note, try to keep it frequent and periodic. A safe and decent enough rate is atleast 2 – 3 articles a week. Adsense is the best. Again, think about monetization after you have built a niche precense and traffic. There are several options to make money like adsense, affiliate marketing by promoting body building products and supplimentaries etc. But first thing is Traffic.
cheers
Joshu
How old must be the blog from India, to get approved from adsense?
because now, I mange to collect good traffic per day but still didn't get their approval.
plz help JOSHU..
Hi Raj,
I guess this should help you!
http://www.orangecopper.com/google-adsense-approval-process-changes/5000/
regards
Joshu
HI JOSHU,
I found your name & website when I was looking into buying a classifieds script for a used auto site. What make you choose the script for your http://www.usedmobiles.in/ site. I read somewhere online that the script you chose tend to be very slow once the number of visitors get high (It took 2 whole minutes for me to load). Let me know about your experience with it.
Also, did you look into the below script?
1) xzero script (Good, easy to post, intuitive..but no longer supported..so I don’t recommend it) $49.00
2) http://www.premiumpress.com/classifiedstheme/ $79.99
3) Osclass Free https://code.google.com/p/osclass/
3A ) or http://open-classifieds.com/ free ?
4) Ilister standard $249 ( http://www.worksforweb.com/classifieds-software/iLister/editions/iLister-special/ )
5) http://sitemile.com/products/wordpress-classified-ads-theme/
6) Any other?
Thanks
Jean
Hi Joshu,
I want to build a SEO to find where joshu it located. Really appreciate if you could please help me with that?
Regards,
Vinay
Vinay Gummaddi..
Sorry yaar, I just saw this message, not very regular now online and all. I will email you, thanks for the message.
regards,
Joshu
Dear Joshu,
Do you remember me? I’m Ajith from Aluva. We’d contacted for a personel web site in the name-ajithn.com through your advt in Indian Express news paper. I tried to contact you for some web needs.Let me in touch with you soon. My mob no:9447586014.
with regards
Ajithn.com! One of my very first websites, how can I forget. Thank you for remembering and contacting. Will email you, let me check if I have your email ID, else can you please drop me a message here.
regards,
Joshu
Hi Joshu,
First and foremost, nice work on the OrangeCopper blog. We love what you’re doing, and your posts were engrossing. We’ve been reviewing literally hundreds of blogs about blogging, and we hand-picked yours as one that we thought would be a perfect fit with what we’re doing.
You can rest easy that we’re not here to ask you to review our latest innovation in gluten-free energy bars or wipe-warming technology. We actually don’t even make those things.
What we do make is Haiku Deck, a new free app that makes it incredibly easy to illustrate a blog post with style. Images are one of the best ways to engage readers, and with Haiku Deck you can create killer slideshows like this one (my story in Haiku Deck form), in no time flat.
Would you be game for giving the app a try on your blog and letting us know what you think? We would be honored to have you as part of our creative community, and we’d truly value your feedback.
I can get you started with everything you need and set you up with a premium theme — just let me know if we can count you in. You can reply directly to me or sign up for our blog club here (it’ll take less time than choosing a karaoke song, promise).
Thanks so much,
Erin Michael Vondrak
Community Manager, Haiku Deck
Join our creative community! Twitter | Facebook | Pinterest | Google+
P.S. If in fact you are already using Haiku Deck, Hai-5! I’d love to see what you’ve created with it and hear any feedback you have about the app.
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Sorry Erin,
I have not yet heard of the app, but will certainly check it out and revert back.
wishing you all the luck with the platform.
regards,
Joshu