How to blog effectively? Honestly, I’m not really in the mood to answer this question today. You see, I’m in dilemma. Something ‘interesting’ is about to happen and my mind can’t just snap out of it. Happy? Not really. Sad…definitely. Anyway, being your host in this blogging journey, I have a responsibility. To keep you reminded of the tenacity that is needed in building an effective blog, I made a point to myself to at least post an article once a week. These ‘lessons’ may not mean much to most of you but, I have to remind you about the marathon part and by being here with you at least once a week means that I’m still in the match.

Alrite, to be able to blog effectively, you need to do the following…

1. Set your blogging vision. Nobody knows this better than you. What do you hope to bring out from your blog? For instance, do you want your blogging to introduce your service globally, or do you want to directly make money blogging. If it’s about your service, for example, your law practice, what kinda customers do you target and where? Realize this…you can’t just target every Tom in the world! Maybe you just want to extend your reach to a certain part of the US…Los Angeles perhaps, Miami, etc. You could actually kill two birds with one stone…use your blog to reach your geo-audience and make money from it,even by putting Adsense. In this case, you would still have some earnings when your practice is still new. Remember, your blog is working 24 hours for you.

On the other hand, if you your main objective is to make money blogging, then determine a profitable niche. However, I have to remind you; blogging for money is just a small part of the domain of home-based online business and it is by no means the most lucrative. There are other online business that might bring in the dough faster. If you are interested, you could try this alternative whereby you will earn without having to wait too long.

2. Identify keywords. Do yourself a favor. Take 2 days to brainstorm on keywords to use for your blog. How about “LA lawyer”, “Los Angeles law practice” etc. Check the stats in Google Adwords Keyword Tool and determine at least 5 keywords that best describe your business.

3. Shop for a good domain name. Let me tell you something. Many lawyers would aim for their firms’ name…”Lee and Associates”, “Keever and Partners”…

Let’s put all these in proper perspective. An online presence is different from a brick and mortar setup. You can set up your firm in the center of Los Angeles and with the proper advertisement, potential clients will find their way to your doorstep.

However, the way you position your blog or website has to be different. The location in our world is synonymous with Search Engines in the net; prime location is equivalent to being in the first page of Google, Yahoo and Bing; real world advertising is synonymous to SEO, SEM, Social Media Marketing, Pay Per Click advertising, press release online. In summary, if you can get hold of LALawfirm.com, you will save yourself at minimum 3 years of hardwork paying an SEO firm to get your site found on the first page of Google for the keyword “LA Lawfirm”. The domain name may set you back by 10 grand today, but you will achieve near immediate exposure when people hit LA lawfirm in Google’s search box.

Therefore, put on your thinking cap as an online businessman when someone offers to sell you a domain like LALawyer.org, LALaw.net, LALawPractice.com, AttorneyInLA.net. He may be just be your Guardian Angel in disguise

4. Contents. Laser-focused contents with the right keywords. Get your partners to chip in an article once per week no matter how busy they all are. Put this in as the KPI (Key Performance Index).

5. Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Success is no guarantee even if you managed to get a killer category domain name. Candy.com was recently dislodged from the no.1 spot of Google by CandyWarehouse.com in certain locations. Work hard in building backlinks. Listen here, there are 3 SEO Tricks that must be done:

a. Keyword domain-name. Get a .com, .org or .net if possible if you are targetting the global audience. Recently, the .co is not bad too. If it’s just about Los Angeles, and if you can’t get the three tlds I mentioned, get the .us like LALaw.us. Try not to use .info and .biz though.

b. Topic focused contents.

c. Backlinks. You can do directories submission and also articles submission. If you have little time to do all these tedious work, you can opt for this to help you. Use your time for better use instead like writing unique contents and interacting with your readers.

6. Avoid linkfarms. There are firms online that offer ferocious link-buildings. Avoid them like a plague for God’s sake. I know of a fellow blogger who used to have a blog ranked highly in Googles with a few keywords about phones. His income…USD 4000 per month just from Google Adsense alone. Lately, Google did two things to punish his aggressive link-building pursuit. He lost the page-rank some 5 months ago, from PR 4 to PR 0. Then, the real nightmare came about a month ago. His blog got demoted from no. 2 for two powerful keywords to no. 50 to 60. Talking about an online limbo!!

Therefore, blog wisely. Know thyself and build on your knowledge for a profitable blogging experience.

Those of you who have started blogging for money for at least 5 months would understand what I’m talking about. The urge to start another blog project, but this time, you tell yourself it’s not going to be just a Google Adsense blog. Something else…

Even for those of you who prefer to stick to adsense, you may want to start blogging on another niche, this time it’s a money maker. ‘Mesothelioma’!! It costs an advertiser around $200 on this keyword alone so what can go wrong?

Your Latest Ambition
5 months down the road when you actually did survive the dreaded 190 days of blogging, you might start seeing earnings coming from Google Adsense. Even a trickle convinces you that your effort is indeed real and this blogging thing may one day bring you out from your dreaded 9 to 5 job. Now, ever wondered what another blog would be able to do to your PPC income from Google Adsense?

There are people who make money flipping domain names. Business model is simple enough. They try to register pretty good domain names and resell them for a profit. Some sell enough to afford them into buying higher value ‘generic’ domain names and try to resell them at premium prices. Think Blog.com or Blogging.com. In other words, they sell thoroughbreds.

We bloggers are but a small part of the so called domain developers. Blogging for money involves putting renewing contents about a certain niche topic and then try to earn income from this,  Adsense PPC or  in the active selling of tangible and intangibles. The beauty about blogging is you don’t actually need a beautiful name for a domain to see early success. Just buy any name, put in relatively sufficient contents, SEOs and you will be able to turn a donkey into a horse. However, the key in this is about focus and concerted efforts. Don’t forget the keywords in your domain name though.

I got this idea from a domainer cum blogger called Tia Wood. Imagine drops of water hitting at the same targetted point of a mountain for perhaps a hundred years. No matter how soft the effort, after a hundred years, a dent will form. Now guess what would happen if these same amount of droplets scattered in a 100 meter radius for 100 years…forget about a dent, not even a weed would grow.

If you are alone, working on your blog for 2 hours a day because you have a full time job, you should see minor results within 5 months of blogging. I’m talking about fairly worthwhile niche with pay per click advertising at around $2 to $6. With super competitive niches similar to mesothelioma, it’s a different ball game. Gosh…you might need a small team to work on one single blog in this kind of niches…asbestos poisoning, asbestos cancers etc.

Resources
All businesses need a business plan. If you don’t know how to do a business plan, just keep this in mind. How much resources do you want to allocate to your blogging effort in terms of time, manpower and money?

Free CMS systems like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal have put a lot of webdevelopers out of job for the last 5 years. But for those of us who build money blogs, WordPress is a gift from heaven. Let’s put this in perspective:
Previously, you will either need to learn html or hire a freelance web designer to put up a blog template for you. With a logo design, this could easily set you back by $ 3000 to $ 4000.

Now, you can totally forget about hiring a web developer. Therefore all you need for your first blog is:
domain name (hand-registered) – $ 9.00
Web-hosting – $ 7.00 x 12 = $84
your time – 2 hours every night for research and blogging

The game change when you start your second blog or a third blog. It’s still cheap in the domain registering and web-hosting. Multiple blogs and websites can be used in one web-host(unless your website turned into a Facebook or twitter). But your knowledge and time is the limiting factor. Most of you will tell me to get some freelancers to do the research and writing for you. Now, you have to really think business at this stage. How do you want to finance these latest efforts of yours? From your first blog’s earnings?

I wouldn’t advise you to dig into your savings just yet at this point. Try to finance your effort from a portion of your monthly salary if you can. Find out how much a good writer will cost you in Freelancer.com or elance.com. From here, calculate how much you would have to fork out per month if you want to put in 2 to 3 posts per week to boost your blog’s standing.

This is no rocket science when it comes to building money making blogs. It’s all about calculating how much can you stretch yourself in this marathon business . Good luck!

What do you want for yourself or for your family? Are you ambitious and yet you feel that good lives are only meant for a priviledge few? Now, blogging is for you if

1. You are short on capital

How many times have people been telling you that one way to get out from the rat race is via owning your own business? But do you have the capital? To start a blog, you just need a pc, an annual fee of $ 10 for domain leasing and around $ 100 for hosting. I don’t think you need financing for this right.

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2. You don’t know what business to start

Imagine yourself an ornamental fish enthusiast. How much do you think needed to set up a shop catering to fish lovers? You don’t even know whether hobbyist will even come to your shop and would they spend enough to help you break even?

Start a blog….about goldfish, fighting fish etc. After a year, decide whether the niche is profitable.

3. You have only the next dvd to look forward to after work

We are tired and we need that relaxation after a hard day work. Unless you just want to lead remnants of what you are capable of, start blogging while watching your favourite movies.

4. You start to feel envious about your friends who are entrepreneurs

They have lots of time at their disposal. They send their kids to school in the morning and go for dimsum afterwards. Great life isn’t it? Don’t just settle for wishful thinking. Take action and start blogging.

5. You realize life is short

There is a saying in cantonese. “How many 10 years do you have in your lifetime?” Take action ladies.

6. You can write pretty decent English

You know when to use past tense and when to use present tense. In addition, you have ample vocabulary in our arsernal to construct a decent sentence.

7. You enjoy seeking and building on your existing knowledge

When you blog, you want to share what you know to your readers. In order to do that, you must expand your knowledge…to apoint where you start exceeding what you already know. Slowly but surely, you break the tipping point of your current efficiency.

8. You take pride in building on your effort

Building a blog business is difficult and the process slow. The rule of thumb is to be targetted. Again I have to repeat this. Focus on your niche and topic. Try not to sway from your niche. For example, if your blog is named ‘ How To Blog ‘, don’t write about ‘How To Cook”. That’s bad for SEO.

Good news for you. I have got Mr Shane Cultra of DomainShane.com to be a guest for the next post. The first step in make money blogging is to register a top notch domain name and Shane would be here to tell you that.

Happy New Year to all bloggers out there. Today is 2nd January 2011. Have you taken action yet? Have you started to make money blogging?

Ok, ok. It’s not my style to pester you into blogging if you really don’t want to because the choice is yours. However, if you are interested in making one of those simple money making blogs like a Google Adsense Blog, here are some suggestion for you in 2011:

1. Blogs about women’s beauty care

Like brick and mortar, it’s the easiest to make money from women. The fairer sex can skim on food and health but when it comes to beauty care, they are possesed. If you happen to be an expert in skin care, teeth whitening, breast enlargement…these are lucrative market. As women get more affluent and web-savvy, it’s about time to start an information site about important body parts of ladies that can be spent ‘renovating’.

2. Baby Care

Parents around the world will usually give the best thing in lives to their little ones. As a parent myself, I’ve spent a fortune on diapers, child care, health insurance, study funds and education on my boys. Again, as families grow smaller in size and both parents going out to work supporting the family, start a blog about babies and childcare. Are you still wondering why Amazon would buy up Diapers.com for USD 545 Million?

3. Dogs

Not all pet niches are lucrative and worth your time and resources. I’m not talking about your personal pet dog’s blog by the way. I’m refering to niches on ‘Dog’s Care’. Let’s face it, some of us actually treat our pet Labrador better than the way we treat our parents. Just go to Bangkok or Taipei one fine day and see for yourselves how doggy care centers have spruce up in these Asian metropolitans; from doggy bath, doggy nail care to doggy wellness. Time to give Lassy some well-deserved attention.

4. Healthcare

Diseases and disorders have been haunting mankind since the beginning of time. Human is fascinated with the elixir of life. If you happen to be a healthcare worker and is somehow familiar with diseases, you have got yourself a great niche. Cancers, autism, treatments….

5. Financial Products

Ever heard of Madoff and the story of how this guy fleeced the Global public on billions of hard earned retirement funds? Fear and greed have always been playing a part on our life. Fear of not having enough for retirement, greed for more, fear of sickness and not having enough to pay for the hospital bill… Yes. Google adsense blog about finance like insurance, investment vehicles, forex are all but some of the financial niches that command great premiums from PPC payment. If you happen to be an investment banker or insurance broker who understand your products, start a blog about your expertise. One day, your money making blogs about auto-insurance will still make you money after you have give your boss the boot.

6. Green Technology and Green Technologies

The green movement is getting stronger as our Mother Earth is showing signs of fatigue from pollution.  Energy preservation is a market growing exponentially at this moment. Wind energy, solars, green building…. Make a list and maybe if you have enough passion about these topics, you can start to make money blogging out of one of the niche.

7. Auto-care

If women are all about beauty care, we men will be in droves on our cars. If you are a man, ask yourself, what sets your eyes roving. For me, ….it’s that V-6 Turbo that zoomed by my Nissan Sentra. Car care, car insurance should be your call if you love drifting.

8. DON’T WASTE TIME ON SEX

Yes, sex sells but if you happen to be just a newbie, for get about this fiery niche. Unless if you happen to have your own dildo shop, don’t start a sex blog. Google loath it.

9. Home Business

Everybody, including you n me are waiting for that faithful hour when we can fire our boss. If you think you have a knack for certain activities that can make money from home…don’t wait. Traffics would be all over you in several short months

10. Latest Technologies

The craze on iPhones and iPads, games , latest phones. If you are a geek of technologies, you are in luck. Tech niche is one of the most followed topic by the global audience and therefore, a blog about the latest mobile phones will definitely attract audience.

These niches maybe lucrative only if you have the stamina to grow your blog. Go into one of these not because I said they are profitable, because all profitable niches are highly competitive. Identify the topic you are passionate of, buy a keyword rich domain name and start your adventure blogging for money. Good luck from now on…

From my interaction with fellow bloggers and my own blogging experience, many new and even seasoned bloggers have these misconception when talking about how to make money blogging. Blogging is big business and like all business, you need effort and intelligence when building it. People blog for various reasons; Google adsense blogs, business blogging, affiliate marketing and among others. Dream would just remain dream to many bloggers. A small percentage (around 1 %) will make it and the rest would just fall off like …. moths. Anyway, here are some myths that you should know:

1. It Is All Dependent on Effort. Hard work is an absolutely necessity, but not sufficient, condition for starting and growing a business. If all your efforts are merely that, all your work will just come out empty handed. The world is stuffed with over-worked, over-stressed, and not terribly prosperous small time personal bloggers who struggle not because of inadequate effort, but for the lack of suitable planning and focus.

2. Should You Blog Frequently enough, traffic will beat its way To your homepage. Really? Can you make a promise to yourself that you can continue your blogging for 3 years or 4 years down the road. Check out Problogger’s archive. HowToBlog.org is nearly 1 year old now but how long is considered long enough?? I have no idea really. I would say, just let your determination carry you through.

3. Just Put An Affilate Banner In your Blog and money will flow in. Correction again. The one best way to sell the affiliates is via reviews; solid reviews. Just like an expert reviewing a new gadget, prior to this, you have to gain trust and build some sort of following.

4. Your Blog Should Be All About You. The myth from the charismatic, “do and be everything” blogger is just that — a myth. People put on different hats when they take on different tasks…including shopping. We are different when we walk into a departmental store as compared to when we are searching for information online. The thing is, we ‘shut off ‘ everything when we surf…e.g. when you type ‘How To Blog’ do you think about handsome hunks or pretty chicks? And one more thing. If you want your personal blog to become profitable, you have to be famous first.

5. You Can’t Rely On Google. Look here. Google is your friend and you gotta believe me. Where would we be if there is no Google? Boy…the net will be owned by Microsoft and Yahoo and I dread to even imagine what would happen if that happened. No ‘Back To The Future’ for me regarding this. I just suck up to Google.

6. Get to The First Page Of Google And You Are There. Sorry to disappoint you. My HowToBlog.org is already in the first page of Google and somehow, my job is still not done!! Someway or another, HowToBlog.org would have to fight her way to the no. 1 spot of Google.com, Google.com.sg, Google.co.uk, Google.co.nz, Google.au, Google.whatever, Yahoo.com, Bing.com….And later, I have to work on other keywords and the cycle just repeat again and again. The work needed, depending on the competitiveness of your keyword.

7. You Have To Become The NExt Google. Google was once very much smaller than Yahoo, so small that it was practically begging for links from the Big Brothers of the nineties….Yahoo, AOL, Netscape… Size is just relative. You don’t have to be as big as Google to quit your job and who says you can’t be bigger than the O’ Mighty One. Look at Facebook and there are thousands of bloggers out there those who are earning enough to turn the wheel of the online economy. Just like the Small and MEdium Industries vs the likes of WalMart, Sony, Procter n Gamble etc.

Therefore, there are some truth in every myth and vice versa. Just continue what you are doing, be it blogging for money, e-commerce, affiliate marketing, small business. Kampate!!

2011 is near and most of us into making money blogging and other online business will be asking ourselves, what changes when it comes to SEO tricks. In the world of online business, we have not witnessed any major upheaval this year. Great niches remain where they are in 2010.

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Probably the most interesting area to take a look forward to is the latest trend in Search engine optimization (SEO) without which usually no website under the sun passes the conditioning test. The SEO domain has acquired a tremendous boost in the growing popularity from Social Networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and different improvements in search technologies; most notably Google Caffeine and Google Instant search. In this article and the subsequent one, I will give you some of the SEO fad or trend that you can look forward to in 2011.

SMM or Social Media Marketing

If you are into e-commerce, you cannot just ignore marketing your online business or blog in the domain of Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. In other words, you cannot just ignore SMM (Social Media Marketing) for pure SEO. Bloggers especially should not think about SMM as a distraction from their standard SEO efforts; nevertheless this new activity should be deployed to enhance a site’s already in place SEO tricks and focus. Social Media Marketing (SMM) activities may include back-links from individual social media marketing sites, development of a credible profile on these sites, and focusing on towards real time search. The more vortex you can stir up in  social networking sites, the more your Search engine optimisation prospects will improve in the next 12 months.

The Speed your Money Making Blogs load

There are a few webmasters who count on off-page optimization rather than on-page optimization. But in 2011, you must give equal, or even more, attention to on-page optimization. Most significantly, the site load moment is going to be the litmus test. Google, in its hard work to improve website performance, has decided to punish those sites that have a lengthier load time. Additionally, improper use of Meta data in website programming will have a negative influence on site rankings inside major search engines within the coming year.

The Web Is Going Mobile

Apple’s iPhone and other mobile phones are getting more and more prominent and people have started surfing websites on their mobile phones more than ever. This trend is going to increase in 2011. FYI mobile Internet users already touches 90 trillion and the figure is growing like a plague. The need for improving your site for mobile users will naturally be pressing. Your site should be optimized for pertinent mobile applications, for instance Google’s Mobile Search Services and cell keyword tool throughout AdWords. Google itself has stated that mobile search results take priority over desktop serp’s when it comes to mobile seeking. This underscores the need to make investments your time and money in mobile SEO in the coming year.
You Tubes and other Online Videos

Online Video is the buzzword right now. Your site needs to be driven with YouTube movies, one of the most popular advertising on the web today. If you upload a video online for a particular keyword, your site gets an improved chance to be “visible” by primary search engines like Google for that search term. One cannot disregard the growing popularity of Metacafe. It has surpassed Google! to become the second largest google search in the U. Ersus. Therefore, putting up videos on YouTube not only enhances your site’s Search engine marketing prospects in Google, yet boosts its Search engine optimisation prospects in Metacafe itself.

However, there are still people like me who just love reading from articles as compared to listening to some ‘gurus’ trying to sell us some new softwares that boast about making thousands per day. Irritating is the word.

Google Caffeine And Personalized Search

One of the hot trend in online search features is individualized searching. This development will be even more prominet in 2011 and beyond. Search engines, the global search leader, has in fact created personalized search the particular default option. To me, it’s a way for powerful search engines like Google to stay ahead of Social Medias. Therefore until users drop out of this default option, they are likely to experience only personalized search functions from Google. Customized search results are based on the user’s web surfing habits. The probability of your web site showing up in the serp’s is going to diminish unless of course your site is one that is regularly accessed by customers. If your site is widely popular and users access it usually, you are likely to enjoy much better search positioning dads and moms ahead. Otherwise, you should build up your web site’s branding (by various other means) and attract users to access the website.

Localized Search

Experiments together with local search were affecting 2010 and the craze is likely to continue nicely into the next year. Leading search engines like Google have began depending on local search entries. As a webmaster, you ought to focus more on giving you better site’s ranking inside local search engines. Dominating the local listings is easier since there are a lesser number of avid gamers. Then when the major search engines incorporate the top neighborhood listings into their search engine results, you’ll receive programmed positioning. The outcome can be debatable if you have located your site in a diverse country. Generally, it is advisable to host your site within the same country where your business operates in purchase to take full benefit from local search listings.

Therefore, start incorporating your SEO tricks and efforts in accordance to the 6 trends mentioned above. There comes a time when even our money making blogs may look ‘prehistoric’ but your up to date know-how in SEO tricks will likely to see your effort in make money blogging bear fruit.

What is Wikileaks? Have you ever imagined yourself having a blog as popular as WIkileaks, but for the right reason I mean. Read the story and maybe all of us can get some insights on how to make a blog like this notorious Whistle Blowing site.

Wikileaks is a self-described “not-for-profit press organization,” launched in 2006 with the purposes of disseminating original documents from confidential sources and leakers. Their website says: “Wikileaks will accept restricted or censored content of political, honourable, diplomatic or historical significance. We do not accept rumor, opinion, other varieties of first hand accounts or maybe material that is freely available elsewhere.”

More-detailed details about the history of the group can be found on Wikipedia ( with all the caveats that apply to the rapidly changing Wiki theme). Wikipedia incidentally has nothing regarding Wikileaks-both share the word “Wiki” in the title, but they are certainly not affiliated.

Who is Julian Assange, and what is his role in the Wikileaks organization?

Julian Assange is an Aussie citizen who is believed to have served since the editor-in-chief and spokesperson for Wikileaks due to the fact its founding throughout 2006. Before that will, he was identified as an advisor. Sometimes he could be cited as its originator. The media and also popular imagination currently equate him along with Wikileaks itself, with unstable accuracy.

In 2006, Assange wrote a series of essays that have recently been utilized as an explanation of his political school of thought. A close reading these essays shows that Assange’s particular philosophy is in weight to what he message or calls secrecy-based, authoritarian conspiracy governments, by which category he incorporates the US government and many others certainly not conventionally thought of as authoritarian. Hence, as opposed to espousing a philosophy of radical transparency, Assange is not “about letting sun light into the room so much as about tossing grit in the unit.” For further investigation, check out Aaron Bady’s original writing.

Why is Wikileaks so much in the limelight today?

At the end of The fall of 2010, Wikileaks began to slowly release a trove associated with what it says are 251,287 diplomatic cables acquired through an anonymous origin. These documents came on the heels from the release of the “Collateral Murder” video clip in April 2010, and Afghan and Irak War logs in July 2010 as well as October 2010, which totaled 466,743 documents. The actual combined 718,030 are told originate from a single origin, thought to be U. Azines. Army intelligence analyst Pfc. Bradley Manning, who was arrested inside May 2010, but that’s not confirmed.

Wikileaks released classified materials in the past?

Yes, below an evolving pair of models.

Berkman Fellow Ethan Zuckerman offers some interesting ideas on the development of Wikileaks and its techniques over the years, which will be described in greater fine detail when the Berkman Center podcast concerning Wikileaks is released later this week. In the meantime, here’s a capsule version.

Wikileaks providers moved through 3 phases since its founding in ’06. The first phase, during which it introduced several substantial troves associated with documents related to Nigeria in 2008, Wikileaks operated very much with a normal wiki model: people readership could make an effort to post and edit materials, and it has a say in the sorts of materials that were recognised and how such resources were vetted. The paperwork released in that first phase were approximately a straight get rid of to the Web: almost no organized redacting occurred by Wikileaks.

Wikileaks’s second phase seemed to be exemplified with the release of the “Collateral Murder” video in Apr 2010. The video was a highly curated, produced and packaged political declaration. It was meant to show you a political mindset, not merely to inform.

The next phase is the one particular we currently see while using release of the diplomatic converter cables: Wikileaks working in close addition to a select number of news organizations to evaluate, redact and release your cables in a curated manner, rather than dumping these individuals on the Internet or with these to illustrate one political point of view.

What news organizations get the diplomatic cables and how do they get them?

In line with the Associated Press, Wikileaks provided four news companies (Le Monde, El Pais, The Guard and Der Spiegel) all 251,287 labeled documents before anything was released to the community. The Guardian consequently shared its chest with The New York Situations.

So have all 251,287 files been released to the public?

No. Each of the five news agencies is hosting the written text of at least some of the documents in various forms together with or without the relevant metadata (country involving origin, classification levels, reference ID). This Guardian and Der Spiegel possess performed analyses of the metadata of the whole trove, excluding our bodies text. The Guardian’s evaluation is available for down load from its website.

Wikileaks itself has released ( adjusted December 7, The year 2010) 960 documents out of the overall 251,287. The Associated Press has reported which Wikileaks is only releasing wires in coordination while using the actions of the several selected news agencies. Julian Assange made similar claims in an interview together with Guardian readers with December 3, 2010. Cables are being launched daily as the a few news organizations post articles related to the content.

Is each of the 5 news organizations web hosting all the documents which Wikileaks has released?

Zero. Each of the five reports organizations hosts another selection of the produced documents, in different forms, which may or might not exactly overlap. It’s not clear the amount of they’re coordinating upon releasing new paperwork, since each seems to have a full established and normally papers would be eager to deal one another.

How would be the five news agencies releasing the cabling?

Le Monde has created a credit card applicatoin, developed in conjunction with Linkfluence, which hosts the retrieveable text of several $ 100 or so cables. The text may be searched by the emailer (country of beginning, office or official), date range, persons of curiosity cited in the written documents, classification status, as well as any combination of the aforementioned. Only the untranslated, English text message of the cables could be accessed and cut-and-paste is not available.

El Pais offers use of more than 200 converter cables, available in the original British or in Spanish translation, searchable by country associated with origin and key terms and subjects ( for instance “Google and China”). These looks also return El Pais posts written on a offered subject, often inserted ahead of the cables within the search listings. The paper also offers some sort of “How to read a diplomatic cable” feature, explaining what every one of the abbreviations and technical vocabulary mean in simply speak, posted upon November 28, The year 2010.

The Guardian affords the cable data in many forms: It has done an analysis involving metadata of the total 251,287-document trove, and made the item available in several forms (spreadsheets hosted on the internet Docs and in online form) as well as infographics.

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This Guardian also serves at least 422 cables in its website, searchable by subject, coming initially from country, and countries referenced.

The New York Occasions hosts what it phone calls a “selection of the docs from a cache of the quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables that WikiLeaks intends to create public starting upon November 28. The webpage goes on to state “A small number of names in addition to passages in some in the cables have been taken off by The New York Occasions to protect diplomats’ confidential options, to keep from diminishing American intelligence work or to protect the particular privacy of regular citizens.”

Your documents are not searchable and are organized by means of general subject.

That is responsible for redacting the files? What actions does Wikileaks take to ensure that people were not put in danger by publication from the documents?

According to the Linked Press and phrases released by Wikileaks and Julian Assange, Wikileaks is currently relying on the expertise of the five news businesses to redact the cords as they are released, and it’s following their redactions mainly because it releases the documents on its web page. (This cannot be approved without examining the original documents, which we’ve got not done-nor are we relating to them here.) Based on the BBC, Julian Assange approached the U.S. State Team for guidance on redacting the documents prior to their own release. One can think about the State Department’s dilemma at this time there: assist and risk legitimating the enterprise; really don’t assist and possibility poor redaction. In a community letter, Harold Koh, legal agent to the Department of State, declined to assist the organization and needed the return in the documents.

Are the documents hosted anywhere else on-line? What is the “insurance” file?

In late July 2010, Wikileaks is considered to have posted for you to its Afghan War Firewood site, and to the torrent site a encrypted file together with “insurance” in the name. This file, which seemingly can still be found on a variety of peer-to-peer networks, is 1.4 gigabytes and is encrypted with AES256, an incredibly strong encryption standard which would make it nearly impossible to open devoid of the password. What is inside the insurance file just isn’t known. It has been theorized that it contains the unredacted cabling provided by the original supplier(s), as well as other, previously unreleased information held simply by Wikileaks. There is further rumours, which has been ultimately boosted by Julian Assange, that the key to the record will be distributed in the instance of either the loss of life of Assange or the exploitation of Wikileaks as a performance organization. However, probably none of these things may be known. All that is known for confident is that it’s a really big file along with heavy encryption that is certainly already in a number of folk’s hands and boating for others to get.

What the results are if Wikileaks gets power down? Can it be shut down?

This will depend on what’s intended by “Wikileaks” and what is considered meant by “shut decrease.”

Julian Assange has made transactions suggesting that if Wikileaks gets nonfunctional as an organization, the important thing to the encrypted “insurance” record will be released ( the important thing itself is not a major document and could most probably fit into Twitter announcements). The actual machination of precisely how such a “dead man’s switch” would release the key is unfamiliar. If the key were released, and if the actual encrypted insurance data file contains unredacted and unreleased secret documents, then individuals decrypted files would be accessible to many people nearly instantaneously. Wikileaks claimed in June that the insurance data file had been downloaded over 100,000 occasions.

Wikileaks apparently maintains a smaller paid staff-who and where is not exactly with a “people” page, though at this time there used to be a physical S.O. box australia wide where documents may very well be sent-and is additionally supported by volunteers, suspected to be at most several thousand. So, would it not be possible for any motivated organization to be able to disrupt its real-world commercial infrastructure? Yes, probably. Even so, at this point, it is not useful to recover the information the business has already distributed ( which include the entire trove connected with diplomatic cables to the click as well as whatever is within the encrypted insurance file), as well as any other undistributed data the organization might seek to release. So in terms of the recovery of released information, the downfall of Wikileaks as an organization could matter little.

Additionally, there appear to be currently more than 1, Thousand sites mirroring Wikileaks and its written content. Wikileaks has made available downloadable files containing it’s entire archive involving released materials up to now.

On a more specialized level, the Wikileaks web page can come under strike, and its means of collecting money can be made additional difficult.

Therefore, not only we do we learn how to make a blog that is powerful, we will also learn what not to do to keep ourself on the favorable radar of all those authorities. You want a long and fruitful life when you make money blogging right?

Source: Technology Review

It’s all in the crystal ball. You will going to make money blogging, no doubt about it!

You have what you think a killer domain name at your disposal. And the best thing is, you know you are going to love this niche, maybe not passionate but you don’t mind learning more about it so that you won’t run out of ideas for your blog. Therefore, the little gungho newbie started doing everything listed in HowToBlog.org…getting a great web host; installing WordPress…. If you happen to be new to this blog, feel free to download my free eguide I created about 6 months ago for reference. Don’t expect perfect grammar ok

After 4 months, with a new post for at least every week, surprisingly you still find your visitors to hover around 10 to 15 a day. Oh oh… Ok let’s  go through a checklist of all things possible.

1. Your Domain Name

There are two possibilities here:

a. You have gotten yourself into a very competitive niche. Check the keyword. If it is “Mesothelioma” for example, you can see that the cpc in Google Adwords for this niche is around USD 200. Impressive but only God and Google will know how long you would have to slog before you see yourself in the first 20 pages of any search engine. Too much competition is bad for your staying power and mental health if your main intention is purely to make money blogging.

b. Your niche is too small. The niche may have a small following or it is so new that years maybe needed for it to pick up momentum. “Digital Amplifier” for example. Even if you make it to the top of Google, don’t party yet. 800 searches per month would only translate to about 10 visitors in the first 3 months and maybe another 30 in the following 6 months.  And it’s so easy to get to number 1 spot in Google if your domain happens to be DigitalAmplifier.com or DigitalAmp.com.

2. You Don’t do SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

The secret here is keywords. Produce articles with different keywords early in your blogging. For competitive niche, aim for long tailed keywords. On examples above, “mesothelioma prognosis”, write ten articles about this. Then another ten on other keyphrases ( the number of articles really depends on the competitiveness). By the way, “mesothelioma” or even “asbestos poisoning” are bloody fierce niches and I won’t advise you to start anything on these. For less competitive niches, it should be easier. Start targetting on other keywords like “auto digital amp” and more so that your visitors come in via various channels.

Keywords are branches in the brick and mortar world. In online business like money making blogs, you can branch out with only one single blog or if you have the resources, buy other domain names.

The next is backlinks. If content with proper keywords is king, building links is the queen. Forget about soliciting links from other bloggers if you don’t have the time. Just use directories with high page ranks and articles submission. Do it slowly.

3. Wrong Mentality

I could never coach you on “How To Make Money Blogging Overnight”. I doubt anybody could. It’s a marathon. Build it and it will come does not echo in blogging money. The little money I earn from affiliates and other cpc programs like Google Adsense, Infolinks are all hard earned cash. Some will make it faster, I don’t know but my advise to you is to be prepared for the long haul.

4. Bad Business Plan

Remember I shared with you once on free online blogging tools. Use these tools to determine what you wanna do for your niche. Some niches are highly commercialize, hence their strong potential in e-commerce. Others are more about information and service marketing. The rule of thumb here is, “Don’t Go Against The Trend”. If it’s meant to sell tangible goods, don’t divert yourself away from merely Chitika and Google Adsense.

5. Writing For Your Audience

Famous bloggers always preach about writing contents for your audience and not the search engines. Let me advise you about this. If you want to make money blogging, you have to write for your audience and at the same time keep your contents searchable in Google and Yahoo. You need both new visitors and old supporters. A good ranking in search engines would put you in a promising position to receive new clients. Therefore, if you just thought about your audience, you will fail.

6. Unfocus Topics

I preach this again and again. If your niche is about mesothelioma, don’t write things about carpentry and your dating conquest in the blog. You are wasting away the earning potential of your killer name domain. Google and gang do not look kindly on blogs that feature about all things under the sun. These are personal blog and they are what we call weblogs or online diaries. If money making blogs is in your mind, don’t waste your time and start focusing.

7. Burnt Out

This can be cause from various reasons. One primary reason is greed. A lot of newbies failed in their venture because they took on too may blogs at one time. Start with one blog and continue with the second only when you know what you can potentially do with the second one. Start thinking like a business man when you want to start the third blog. The question in mind is, why waste your grey matters by diversifying into so many niches. You can focus better when managing less.

8. Duplicate Content

Many new bloggers, who in their midst of enthusiasm decided to copy other bloggers’ contents, thinking that they can get their blog up Google search this way. True, they are all contents and you will have loads of them in no time. However, they are all junks in the eye of search engines. You might still get your site through if you are in a low-competitive niche. However, if you are in niches that are even fractions as competitive as “mesothelioma”, you are in for disappointment. And the last thing you know, you’ll be telling people that making money blogging is pure hoax.

A guru once said, only 1 in 99 bloggers managed to make money from blogging. Get one to two money making blogs running, and milk their income by hiring others to write for you. Now, we are talking business here.

There are various ways to make money blogging apart from merely building Google Adsense Blog. Fortunately, we have bloggers among us whom are blessed with business acumen, and found different ways to build true blue money making blogs.

If you are keen to take your blogs to a different level, here are some suggestions that you may try out.

1. Seek Out Advertising

This is invariably the most common means of utilizing a blog to create income. If you happen to own a popular blog that commands growing traffic, or one that is well-received inside a particular niche, it certainly is possible to sell advert space on your own. With regard to Bing Blogs as well as services such as Google’s AdSense or BlogAds, writers can establish advert programs. AdSense’s – that lets you select a number of ads that are consistent with the content of your weblog – pays a person based on how many visitors click on the ads for more information. Even better, it is free. BlogAds, on the other hand, barbs bloggers up with would-be marketers and levies the commission in return for any kind of ad placements which result.

2. Join Affiliate Programs

Here is another way to milk the online traffic. Affiliate programs enable your blog to serve as a business platform between solution hungry visitors and online value providers offering numerous goods and services. There are Clickbank, Amazon, Commission Junction and many others.

For example, you offer e-guide reviews or even  mention a book within a page in your blog, the affiliate program will offer an affiliate link from your blog page to the service provider. If sales happen, you get a commission via the provider.

3. Solicit donation for your effort

Not every money making blogs entails hawking goods or selling services. Look at StevePavlina.com. He makes a lot of money by getting readers to donate to his blog. All you need is to open your mouth and request.Request contributions. If, for example, your small-business blog facilitates a cause or concern in some fashion — say you frequently mention tax reform, health care or another topic – you could ask for reader assistance. Even if you’ve drawn a group of regular fans who simply appreciate reading what you need to say, they may be prepared to pledge their loyalty with some financial help. You can use PayPal to create a simple collection button for your site. Just realize that people are prepared to contribute to worthy ’cause’ blogs due to the value added extras injected by these blogs to these individuals’ lives.

4. Market your service using your blog

Blogs are a perfect venue to share your ideas with others, but do not overlook their capability to generate new business too. When used effectively, it can work as a global reference to your profession or expertise and, in turn, this may be able to pull in potential clients for you, sort of like an online retail.

This kind of business blogs work best if you are an attorney, insurance professional or even real estate negotiators. Offer your advice FOC via your blog and good karma will follow.

5. Use your blog for PR

You can use microblogging platforms (also known as Social Medias) like LinkedIn, Facebook and even Twitter for this purpose. For me, I prefer my own blog. By using a blog to regularly keep in touch with existing clients along with other potentials, you can make use of the opportunity to fully inform them about everything your company does. You want to serenade your customers into having deeper relationship with you and what better way than to keep them updated on your company’s activity and latest offering. You might be interested to find a way to compile their email addresses so that you can bring the relationship to a higher level by using an email management system or an autoresponder.

So you see, there are really unlimited ways to put your blog into a money generating machine that suits you. Your avenue or shall I say, our avenues are only limited by our own creativity. Therefore open up your horizon and see what you wanna do.

How to make a blog in profitable niches? A niche like “mesothelioma”. Come on, type in this keyword in Google Adwords Keyword Tool and see how much the cpc cost.

Choosing a profitable internet marketing niche is essential for achieving the best results in creating money making blogs. Many newbies started by blogging about their pets, children, about themselves…Let me assure you, the pet niche is one of the most searched topic online but unfortunately this crowd is also the most stingy. They don’t like to pay for advertising and therefore, you’ll be wasting your time if you insist on blogging about your pet Chihuahua instead of mesothelioma. Why do I know? Guess!!

Here are some blogging tips that you can consider when choosing the best internet marketing niche:

Blogging Tip 1 – Stay clear of Obscure Subjects and Short-Lived Issues Like Micheal Jackson

Stay clear from short-lived news topics, trends, small genres such as kids, animals, daily life, or unknown pastimes, avoid obscure subject areas, state policies, and religion. While these topics can sometimes attract filthy large traffic due to the niche following. You get traffic fast because they are not competitive commercially and Google just don’t give a damn. These blogs will often be over quickly and you will simply waste your funds and time if you get too persistent in running them.

However, money making blogs frequently give useful suggestion to daily life. Some do so well that they even affect opinion in political  or religious landscape. More often than not, personal websites concerning the private affairs of the religion, family, pets, or perhaps young children will not do well other than among close friends.

Blogging Tip 2 – Make a List of Niches, And Go Over Them Twice

Before you start spending your lifelong savings in building money making blogs, make a list of subject areas you are personally passionate about which include money management, financing, search engine optimization, personal development, fitness, weightloss, going on a diet, health concerns (but not your medical illnesses), natural medicine, cosmetic, draperies, crafts, cooking, gardening, or possibly other hobbies or work.

There are certain niche topics that are suitable to be built into Google Adsense Blogs and there are others which are more suitable for e-commerce websites. Get some advice and remember blogging tools like  Adlabs to strategise on your next step.

Blogging Tip 3 : Perform An In-Depth Analysis On Your Niches

Research everything about your niche by comparing against popular blogs in similar keywords. You will require to work quite a bit if you are really serious to make money blogging. Again employ blogging tools such as Google Adwords, keyword finders, niche blog finders, and the daily top blogs in blogging platform sites such as Drupal, WordPress, or Typepad to get the primary keywords for your niches. Compare the site visitors pertaining to these and choose one market for yourself that you feel might offer you the best chance once you start to build your money making blogs.

Blogging Tip 4 — Broad or Long-Tail Keyword Niches?

Choose how wide or thin your chosen niche is, for instance, should it be Pet.com or PetFoodForDog.com (ok…this is a lousy domain name). Remember, a broad keyword will no doubt bring you a lot of visitors if you perform your Search Engine Optimization properly. However, there is a catch. These visitors to your site all carry different search motives. Therefore, what we are looking in visitors is about quality and not quantity.

Avoid duplicate contents and identify the best business model.  If you have a passion for health supplements, house brewed drinks, stitching designer dresses, following trends with the season, or even following financial market, decide which position and direction you want for your blog. Do you want to take the similar pathway as other popular blogs, or do you have other ideas.

There are different school of thoughts when deciding on how to make a blog for a living. You can get advise from different experiences but what you really need to develop is your own insights on what is best. Work in synch with your own strength.