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Some weeks ago I was starting a contest. 39 people entered but only 3. So here they are:

3) Third place: winning a 6 month link to my blogroll is Betshopboy with this entry.

2) Second place: winning a site review is Contestbeat with this entry.

1) First place: winning an Archos 504 40GB Media Player or $200 is Rfidonline with this entry.

Blogroll link and review will appear on the site in about 2 days. First place winner will be contacted to choose his prize.

And to all those who entered but didn’t win, don’t worry guys, there’s a new contest coming up in a 2 weeks.

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More and more people these days think they can make money blogging. This is a common misconception. Blogging is not something you can make money from (comparing it to other things). To make money blogging you must have visitors and readers. To get visitors and readers you must have promotion. To have promotion you must have money to pay for it. So this is where it all ends up. Blogging, just like any other business need money to start up. You can’t make money without spending money. If you invest $0 in a business you will get $0. With blogging this is a bit, but just a bit different - if you invest $0 you will probably get $100 after a year. You can’t live a whole year with $100.

This perception about bloggers that make loads of money is not completely true. Look at people like John Chow and Shoemoney. Because of people like them most people think that you can make a living from blogging. But the truth is JC and Shoe had some other sites before they started blogging. And most of their income is not from their blogging, it’s from the other sites. So if you see John Chow making $20,000 per month by blogging, you think that you can do it too. But the question is do you have $1,500 to pay for 3-4 paid reviews that will get your name out there? Do ya? And if you do, are yo willing to spend them on that? Do you have $80 to pay each month for private hosting (presuming that your blog will be famous and will have a large number of visitors)? People make money blogging by becoming a billboard, an interactive one. You create an image for yourself and for your blog, you make a statement, you become popular and only then advertisers will pile up to have their ads shown on your site and to promote their products. But becoming popular requires 2 things: 1) Lots of money or 2) A great idea - something that the world has never seen - and little money. However you try to do this you will still need money.

From my personal point of view. Blogging is the last thing to do if you wanna make money online. I own a real life shop, some affiliate marketing sites and this blog. Affiliate marketing earned me in 5 days what this blog earned me in a month (although the affilaite marketing sites needed advertising, while on the blog I didn’t spend anything).

So knowing this, If you had $5,000 would you invest it in a blog or in a real life business?

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Feed readers. Aggregators. Call them whatever you like. They help you keep track of all your favorite sites. All in one. Just like a magic device. There are numerous feed readers but the one that i like best (and i think it’s best for any webmaster) is Feedburner.

Here was the part where i had to explain you the importance of RSS subscribers and how important are they to a blog and how you subscriber count represents a very important stat for your blog.

If you don’t use Feedburner, you should start using it right now. Besides the fact that the stats that it can give you are very accurate and very diverse, Feedburner gives you the best monetization methods available for a RSS feed.

• Adsense. Feedburner allows you to integrate adsense ads into your RSS feed. Text based ad, banners or referrals, just like on a regular site. Easy to integrate and multiple setup options. You can place them at the top, bottom, after each post and more…
• Bidvertiser recently allows you to integrate their ads into the Feedburner platform, fact that demonstrates further the importance of the RSS feed. Also multiple positioning options and easy integration.

In terms of revenue, monetizing the RSS feed can give you a constant income stream because your RSS subscribers are your loyal readers and they will read your feed every day. Just imagine you have 1000 RSS subscribers that read your blog daily via a feed aggregator. This means that your ads are viewed by at least 1000 people per day, every day. And the thing is most of your RSS subscribers (75%) do not view your site. So this kind of readers don’t get to view the ads you display and that is why monetizing your RSS feed will increase your overall site income.

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Happy New Month!!!!

Domprofesor.com has been in the biz for 1 month and the outcome is very pleasing. This experiment was created to prove if you can or cannot make money blogging. Well of course you can, you can make money from almost anything but you first have to invest. The special thing about this experiment it that nothing was invested in it (just time). No money required. The only thing you have to pay for to get something like this is hosting (i already had paid hosting), tho you can use a free hosting service that let’s you use PHP.

The Grand Total for this month was:

$377

• Paid Reviews - $70
• Private Ad Space - $20
• Affiliate Commissions - $180
• Adbrite - $32
• Text Link Ads -$75

Traffic stats for Domprofesor.com for this month are:

• 22,000+ pageviews
• 14,000+ unique visits

Blog expenses for this months: $0 (although i must mention that the contest will cost me $240)

The bottom line is you can make money blogging. How much money you make depends on you. If you want to find out more about making money online, keep reading Domprofesor.com

P.S.: For all the people who asked why don’t i use Adsens, a new post (and a poll) will be online in a few days - keep reading.

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I am investing. I am investing in a contest. Contests are great because they bring in traffic (and subscribers). So with the help of my sponsors (AdBrite, TLA and UltraCoolHosting) i am able to host this great contest. So here are the prizes:

3rd place: a 6 month link in my blogroll

2nd place: a full review of your site (or a site chosen by you)

1st place: a Archos 504 40GB portable media player or $200 by PayPal

How to enter this great contest you may ask? Well at first i was thinking to pick someone(random) from the top commentators list. But that would would turn in a useless strig of useless comments so i had a better idea.

The winner will be selected via lottery but to make things more interesting we will also use a point system. This means that the more points you have the more chances you get at the price. And how will we get the points you may ask?

Well it’s easy. You get:

5 points for posting on your site a text containing 1 (one) link to http://domprofesor.com using the anchor text: marketing or monetization or make money and 1 (one) link to this GRRRRREAT contest. Here’s a quick example:

Domprofesor’s blog is helping you make money and now he made a deal with the devil and he’s givin you the chance to win an Archos 504 Media Player.

4 points for adding me to your blogroll.

4 points for adding me to your Technorati or Bloglines favorites.

3 points for signing up to TextLinkAds.

2 points for signing up to Adbrite.

2 points for DIGGING one of my posts.

2 points for STUMBLING one of my posts.

1 point for leaving a comment on another site telling them about Domprofesor.com or about this contest.

1 point for subscribing to my daily feed.

In total that’s 24 points giving you better chances to win. For your points to be taken into consideration you must leave a link to what you’ve done in the comments section of this post. Contest will be ending February 29. Winners will be announced on March 2.

Thanks to ContestBeat for supporting this contest.

Good luck to all.

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