Make Money Blogging

Do you want to make money blogging? If you do – you’re not alone. More and more bloggers are finding that blogging is a profitable medium. Whether it be to earn a few extra dollars a week to feed their coffee habit, or making enough money to stop them having to get a part time job to get through college, or whether they’ve got it to a point where they are able to make a full time living from their blogging – there are tens of thousands of bloggers who make money blogging.

How to Make Money Blogging

In this page I want to share some information for beginners on how to make money blogging. For a very quick and broad visual intro – check out this Make Money Blogging MindMap which visualizes just SOME of the ways bloggers make money blogging.
Firstly – lets get our expectations right. Not everyone who tries to make money blogging becomes rich. In fact those who do well from blogging are in the minority. I’m sorry if this disappoints you – but I’m not here to hype this up or make any promises. It is possible to make money blogging – but it takes time and a lot of hard work – and it doesn’t happen for everyone!

Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites

The RSSTop55 is my personal selection of the best blog and RSS directories and search engines that you can find on the web. Over the years, I have spent so much time in updating and refining it that the original list has grown to feature almost 400 directories and search engines, which make up for a truly unique collection of venues that you can use to promote your website.

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Why this list is so valuable to you and what are its key advantages compared to other lists dealing with the same topic?

• The RSSTop55 is updated weekly. New directories are added and I check persistently whether some old directories have headed to the deadpool, changed topic of interest, become a spam site, etc., so that this collection remains always of high-value.
• All directories are briefly reviewed, so that you can have a quick glance at each one of them and evaluate immediately if a directory is a good promotional venue for your website or business, without spending extra time to go and check manually.
• Inside each review I provide a submission link that, by itself, makes up for half of the value of this guide. Submission links are in fact not always easy to find, and in some cases I was able to obtain them after hours spent on the directory.
• This collection is very focused, as it lists only English-speaking websites dealing with MasterNewMedia's topic of interest: publishing, marketing, advertising, SEO and other technology-related topics.
• RSS and blog directories remain a no-brainer for all those publishers who quickly need to generate backlinks for their sites and to reach an audience that transcends the limits of their usual readership.

All directories listed are presented in reverse chronological order (first up the most recent; down bottom what I have collected first) and NOT in an order of importance or relevance.

BlogsMonitor

http://www.blogsmonitor.com/

BlogsMonitor is a directory of blogs covering a broad number of categories and interests. Each blog submitted is reviewed manually and then displayed on the official directory alongside its name, thumbnail, category of interest and description, date of registration, and user ratings covering speed, information and design quality of the blog. Blogsmonitor is free to use.
To submit your own blog you need to first register yourself on the site, by clicking the Register button on the top menu, and then you will be able to submit your blog b using the right side column or by goine to the dedicated submission page
Click here to submit your website to BlogsMonitor

Blog Directory

• Top 50 Free Blog Directories

  No.	Blog Directory	PR	Alexa Rankings	Registration Required	Category Required	Reciprocal Link
  1	www.bloglines.com	9	2049	Yes	No	No
  2	www.boingboing.net	8	1818	Yes	Yes	No
  3	www.technorati.com	8	915	Yes	Yes	No
  4	www.blogcatalog.com	7	605	Yes	Yes	No
  5	www.bloggernity.com	7	32097	Yes	No	No
  6	www.blogs.com	7	1345	No	No	No
  7	www.globeofblogs.com	7	42354	No	Yes	No
  8	blogs.botw.org	7	4048	No	Yes	No
  9	www.blogdigger.com	6	29545	No

Top 10 Free Tools to Create RSS for any website

1. Feedity

Feedity is a simple online tool to create RSS feed for any webpage. In addition to the automatically generated feeds, you can add a small level of refining like adding a Start and End block, to notify the service where each post starts and ends. If you wish to, you can upgrade to premium account where advance features like data integration, RSS feed merging etc are provided.
2. Feed43

Feed43 engine converts free-form HTML or XML documents to valid RSS feeds by extracting snippets of text or HTML. This service is not simple like Feedity, but if you want complete control over your generated feed, this is a great tool.
3. FeedYes

With FeedYes, you can generate feeds for any website or specific page, you can syndicate those feeds and put the headlines on your own website. All you have to do is, give the URL of the page you wish to transform and a tag. Truly a great tool for beginners.
4. WebRSS