Does it pay to have an opinion?

Can I say what I want, write about what I think is interesting, point to what I feel is cool, talk about what I want to talk about and actually bring in enough pennies to sustain this process. Is what I have to say, what you have to say, what you are interested in, what you want to read, actually worth any money?
Since I am in the process of making money, or better hoping to make money I will try not to spend any money.

Well here is my blogging Strategy

After creating a blog, this blog, I started snooping around for information, for advice and any kind of direction regarding what course of action I should take.

By reading one or two of the tons of sources of information that are widely available online, just google your question and u can pretty much find what you need, I came across many articles that pretty much suggest two things (to sum it up):

1. Write interesting- write often, and

2. Get the word out.

Regarding writing interesting articles… that’s something that I won’t take in consideration because of the nature of this experiment, which is:

Write what I feel like writing about!

However, I will suggest tips regarding compiling work for the novice blogger as I become more knowledgeable, hopefully in the near future.

Getting the word out

Here is what I have done so far:

I have suggested this blog to the directories of Yahoo and Google for free.

For yahoo visit yahoo.com and at the bottom of page click on “Suggest a Site” and follow the process.

And for Google follow this link:

http://www.google.com/addurl

What happens then is the search engine ‘crawls’ your site (your blog) and based on what kind of material you have on there, you get incorporated. I think I did. It takes a day or two.

However that is not enough because there are countless of other sites out there and even when you search in the engine your site won’t show up.

What is suggested by most blogging gurus out there is that you register your blog with the different databases-programs out there. What I have done successfully is register with:

technorati.com
dir.blogflux.com
blogrankings.com
bloggingfusion.com
globeofblogs.com
blogher.com
blogcarnival.com

For some of the above you will have to create and account. Also, for when submitting your blog you will be asked for the title, the url, key words, and brief description. You will be better off if you open a text or word file and have it all ready. That way you can copy and paste and thus do things a bit faster.

I tried some other ones as well but with no luck. I was turned down because I either didn’t want to pay their fees or because my blog is new and doesn’t have enough hits.
For example, Text link ads did not accept my site due to low traffic.


Setting things up for revenue

Then as you can see, if you scroll down my page, I registered with Google AdSense.
It is the service by Google that places related ads on your page and then pays you when people with different IP’s click on them.

So this is what I have accomplished by now. I am thinking that my next post should be about what else I have tried; ads affiliate programs to give this blog the potential to become profitable. At this point I am determined to try everything to make this work. Till next time….