Day 5 – Sticky Blog and Community creating
By adding value to your blog and make your website sticky will drive the traffic and price up.To make your website “sticky” means to use techniques to ensure your readers come back day after day!
Adding Value To Your Blog
A profitable blog isn’t just about making more money while you sleep then from your day job. It is also to create an asset you can sell it one day. You just want to feel financially safe when you can retire on day. You can usually sell your website for 12 months revenue. if you are making $50 a month, you can then sell it for $600. You should Have the target in mind and make sure every day you are working towards it. For example if you are starting a tech review blog then you may consider selling it to Microsoft one day.
The best type of competition is your own and so once you have mastered one successful blog you may want to consider launching another blog related to your first. Someone who has done an amazing job with this is Collis Ta’eed, he first launched a freelance blog, less than a year later he found his readers also wanted to learn more about Photoshop so launched a new blog for that and with in a couple years he now has over a dozen blog’s earning up woods of a million dollars a year. He was only able to do this so successful because they were all related and so every time he launched a new blog everyone jumped on board and started reading it.
Another alternatives is to reinvest your money into your projects. It is good to have multiple sources ofincome.Many blogger’s earn thousands of dollars from their blog’s and never put anything back into it. Your blog might not earning somedays and can’t improve much further without you investing some of your money.
Adding a Forum to Your Blog
Adding a forum to your blog can be a great way to make your website sticky and to add value to your blog. Usually by adding a forum you can double your revenue and by doing that you double the value of your site. A few other benefits include:
* Readers Write The Content
* Readers Reply To Questions
* Membership fees when getting popular.
* Building a Community helps you Build a Larger Readership
FREE OPTION: WordPress has launched a blog plugin that allows you to add a forum to your blog. The benefits are, customizations aren’t required because its built straight into your blog, its FREE and installing is easy. The software is called bbPress.
PAID OPTION: The software is vBulletin and it does blow you away each time you use it. Don’t use another software which wasn’t secure, not SEO friendly and customizing created a lot of issues. We all want our forum and blog to look a like and styling your vBulletin theme is a lot simpler then any other paid software. vBulletin costs ~$100 which although sounds a lot, it will make a huge difference to your blog. Once purchased, to install unzip the folders and rename the file “upload” to “forums” and upload the folder in your Public HTML folder. Then proceed to this page and follow the simple instructions http://yourdomainname.com/install/install.php. Replace yourdomainname.com with your actual domain name.
Making Your Blog Sticky- contiune to part 2
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